Rev. Msgr. Thomas Derivan, Pastor!

Rev. Joseph Ligory, Parochial Vicar!Rev. Thomas D’Angelo, In Residence!Rev. Edmundo Gomez, Retired, !Rev. Robert Imbelli, Weekend Associate!Rev. Charles Szivos, Parochial Vicar!

Mrs. Josephine Fanelli, Principal!Mrs. Marie McCarrick, Dir. of Religious Education!Nadia Papayani, Dir. of Music!

RECTORY: 718!892!1900/1901 WEBSITE: www.sttheresachurchbronx.org SCHOOL: 718!792!3688�FAX: 718!892!1146 E!MAIL: rectorystc@aol.com � RELIGIOUS EDUCATION: 718!792!8434�

Church of St. Theresa!A Caring Community Reaching Out To One Another in Christ!

SUNDAY MASSES!Saturday at 5:00pm, !Sunday at 7:30am, 9:00am(Italian), !10:30am(Family Mass) 12:15pm , !1:30PM(Spanish) & 5:00pm!!WEEKDAY MASSES!Monday thru Saturday 8:00am & 9:00am!!DEVOTIONS!Miraculous Medal & St. Theresa Novenas!after Monday morning Masses!St. Anthony Novena after Tuesday !morning Masses.!!Thursday 12 Noon Mass !& Eucharistic Adoration!!Exposition & Benediction of the !Blessed Sacrament First Friday 6:00PM !!

2855 St. Theresa Avenue, Bronx, New York !

CONFESSION!Saturdays from 4:00pm to 5:00pm !and by appointment!!BAPTISMS!Baptisms take place most Sundays !after the 1:30pm Mass.!We ask parents to attend the Baptism !preparation meeting. Register at the !Rectory for the meeting. !The date of the Baptism will be discussed at the Baptism meeting.!!MARRIAGES!Call the Rectory at least six months in!advance of the wedding date to make an !appointment with parish clergy. !

CHURCH OF ST. THERESA, BRONX!

FROM THE DESK OF FATHER DERIVAN�� There are certain readings from the Gospel that always bring complete silence when they are read in church. One of them is the Christmas story, the story of the Lord Jesus being born for us and every time we hear that blessed gospel, we are silent in awe of the love of the Son of God. Another is the story of the Crucifixion and, as we listen to it, we are reduced to silence as we remember that the Lord Jesus suffered and died for our sins. Or perhaps you think of the Lord’s parable of the Good Samaritan, the foreigner who helps the wounded man, or the Parable of the Prodigal Son, in which the father forgives his wayward son and welcomes him home, and as we listen to those parables, again and again, we are silent as we hear the mercy of God.! But certainly one of the passages of the Gospel that brings a church to silence is today’s gospel reading, the story of how it will be at the end of time. Our Lord, in effect, is giving us a glimpse of the Final Judgment, of how He will judge every person at the end of time. How will He judge us? What will be the criteria, the standards of goodness, the marks of a good life and a good person? What will be the test? Our Lord puts it simply: we will be judged by how well we have treated the least of Christ’s brothers and sisters. Who will be the blessed of the Father? Who will receive the Kingdom prepared for all eternity? Our Lord’s answer is simple, “When I was !hungry, you gave me food. When I was thirsty or in need of clothes or shelter or a visitor, you were there for me.” And notice the righteous in the gospel are surprised. In effect they are saying, “Lord, we never saw you hungry or thirsty or in need. All we did was help our neighbors in need.” And then the Lord will explain, “Whatever you did for the least of my brothers and sisters, you did for me.” Our Lord is giving us a “divine equation”: helping our neighbor equals helping Christ. It is as simple as that. Words are not what is important; action, loving service, mercy, and compassion are what counts. He is telling us quite simply that doing these works of mercy is our ticket to eternal life.! Today’s Feast, the feast of Christ the King, ends the Church’s Year of Grace. When we come to church next Sunday, we will begin a new Church year with the First Sunday of Advent. And appropriately the Church ends her Year of Grace with this feast and with this gospel. Who are we? We are servants of Christ the King. And what kind of king is He? He is a King who wants us to serve the least of our brothers and sisters, Christ’s brothers and sisters, for in serving them we are serving the Kingly Christ. The world we live in at times is very selfish. So many people unfortunately think only of themselves. That should not come as a surprise. So many people today have forgotten about God and, if they forget about God, then they quickly forget about their neighbor. The Lord Jesus is telling us that love of God and love of neighbor are two sides of the same coin. Only when we let Christ rule our hearts, only when we make our heart a throne for Christ the King, only then are we ready to serve the least of our brothers and sisters in His name. Thirty�seven years ago this month, a woman went home to God, a woman who served Christ the King and her neighbor in a beautiful way. Her name was Dorothy Day, now Servant of God Dorothy Day, on her way to being declared a saint. We should all know about her. For a good part of her life, she lived in New York City. And for a good part of her life, she did not allow God into her life. She was a writer, reporter, socialist, a person who! admitted that she was far away from Christ the King. And yet she had a particular concern for the poor. In fact the works of charity brought her to Christ Himself. She said that two things brought her into the Catholic Church�the birth of her daughter and her !realization that the Church was the Church of the poor. Despite the opposition of her friends, she became a Catholic. She founded the Catholic Worker movement dedicated to helping the homeless and the abandoned. People called her the conscience of the Catholic Church. In her own quiet way, she summoned people to the works of charity and in the process summoned them to make Christ the King of their lives. Someone said that she comforted the afflicted and afflicted the comfortable. Dorothy Day died at one of her houses of hospitality, Maryhouse in New York City on November 29, 1980. She died among the poor who she had served so well.! Let Jesus Christ be the King of your life. Let Him be the King of your heart. And do that by serving the least of our brothers and sisters, as Dorothy Day did. And if we do, then we may not change the whole world at once. But at least we will change our little part of the world and bring it closer to Christ. May we do our work for Christ by serving the least of our brothers and sisters in any way we!can. And one day may the Lord say to us those beautiful Gospel words, “Come, blessed of my Father. Inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.”!!

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CHRIST THE KING: ALPHA AND OMEGA�� As a metaphor�an image that stands for or represents something else�”king” as a way of describing Jesus may sound a bit strange to residents of a democracy. Christ the President? Would citizens of a democracy find that a better image for the Lord of heaven and earth?! On the other hand, the image of Christ as King, though quaint and a bit foreign to our ears, reminds us that no political system, no social organization, no economic arrangement can ever substitute for the kingdom of God. Nor can any government claim the authority over our lives that Jesus does as our Lord and Savior.! The Feast of Christ the King marks the last Sunday of the liturgical year. Pope Pius XI established the Feast in 1925 to be a “spiritual weapon” against what he saw as two destructive forces of the age secularism and atheism. Featuring the Gospel story of Jesus standing before Pontius Pilate, Christ the King reminds us of the demands of justice and the judgement of Christ.! As the “Alpha” and “Omega,” Jesus was present in the beginning as the Word and will come at the end to establish the Kingdom. The feast also marks the end of the liturgical year. Known as the Church year, the new liturgical year begins with the first Sunday of Advent. Consequently, a new cycle of Sunday Mass readings, drawn from a different Gospel, will begin.! The three cycles of Mass readings expose us to a broad sampling of Scripture. The Gospel of Matthew is featured in year A, Mark in year B and Luke in year C. John’s gospel is featured on various Sundays throughout the year in each cycle.!

FEAST OF CHRIST THE KING �

MANY THANKS��

We are most grateful to all our wonderful parishioners who have sacrificed so generously by increasing their weekly Sunday !Contributions. Please know that your weekly increase is for the betterment of St. Theresa Parish, for the building up and !improvement of our parish. We are most grateful to all of you who have helped to make a difference in our community. !Please continue to help us in order to keep St. Theresa Parish the vital, growing parish that it is.!

The Miraculous Medal devotion is one of the most popular !traditions in the Catholic Church. The oval medal portrays Mary standing on Earth, her foot crushing the head of a serpent and her hands outstretched to all who ask her assistance. She !reminds us that no one who seeks her intercession will be left !unaided. Yet few are aware that the medal came to us through a modest French nun who was visited by the Blessed Mother three times.! Catherine was twenty�four when she entered the novitiate of the Daughters of Charity in Paris. A few months later, while praying in the chapel she experienced a vision of the Blessed Mother. She instructed Catherine to create a medal showing her as she appeared in the chapel, and she promised that all those who wore this medal would receive special graces. Catherine told her spiritual director, Father Jean Marie Aladel, but he !remained skeptical. Mary appeared to Catherine twice more.! Catherine kept after Father Aladel until he consulted the !archbishop of Paris who ordered the medal struck. The first two thousand were distributed in June 1832. Soon millions of people were wearing the medal and attributing so many favors to it that it became known as the Miraculous Medal.! Catherine spent the next forty�six years working in obscurity in a hospice for the aged. Her connection with the Miraculous medal was revealed to the public only after her death. She now rests under the altar in the chapel where she experienced her three visions. A million and a half people visit the chapel every year. Millions more around the world wear the Miraculous Medal, and its feast day is on November 27th. !Catherine Labouré’s feast is observed on the following day.!

The Genius of Catherine Labouré:� “Whenever I go to the chapel, I put myself in the presence of our good Lord, and I say to him, ‘Lord I am here. Tell me what you would have me to do.’ If he gives me some task, I am !content and I thank him. If he gives me nothing, I still thank him…. And then, I tell God everything that is in my heart. I tell him about my pains and my joys, and then I listen. If you listen, God will also speak to you… God always speaks to you when you approach him plainly and simply.”!

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NOVEMBER 28�ST. CATHERINE ZOE LABOUR�

b. May 2, 1806, Fain!les!Moutiers, Dijon, France�d. December 31, 1876, Paris, France�

LOVE IN ACTION!!!!!!!

God dwells in us.!It doesn’t matter where you are as!

long as you are clean of heart.!Clean of heart means openness, !

that complete freedom,!that detachment that allows you to!

love God without hindrance, !without obstacles. When sin comes!

into our lives that is a personal!obstacle between us and God.!

Sin is nothing but slavery.!!

When we have nothing to give,!Let us give him that nothingness.!

Let us all remain as empty as !possible, so that God can fill us.!

Even God cannot fill !what is already full.!

God won’t force himself on us.!you are filling the world !

With the love!God has given you.!

!The very fact that God has placed!

a certain soul in our way!is a sign that God wants us to do!

something for him or her.!!

It is not chance;!it has been planned by God.!

We are bound by conscience to!help him or her.!

!There is no limit,!

because God is love and love is God.!And so you are really!

in love with God,!and God’s love is infinite.!

And that’s why it’s not!how much you do, !

But how much love you put!into the action.!

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PRAYER TO CHRIST THE KING!

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Christ Jesus, I acknowledge You King of the universe.!All that has been created has been made for You.!

I renew the promises I made in Baptism and Confirmation!when I renounced Satan and all his works and all his empty

promises and I promise to live a good Christian life and to do all in my power to serve You and Your Church.!

Divine Heart of Jesus, I offer you my efforts in order to obtain that all hearts may acknowledge your Kingship, and that thus the

Kingdom of Your peace !may be established throughout the world. Amen.!

NOVEMBER 26, 2017!

DEATH A CHRISTIAN VIEW�

Fr. Richard Scheiner, C.P.��

Death, as the dictionary defines it, is “the complete and permanent cessation of all vital functions in a living creature, the end of life.”!Though accurate, this definition is coldly clinical and hardly sensitive to this most important moment of a person’s life. What it lacks is precisely what interests us most as people destined to die. As persons, we are composites of both mind and body, of spirit and matter; we neither asked to be born nor, once born, do we ordinarily ask to die.! As Christians, we look upon death as our definitive introduction to God, the defining moment of our life, and the only inevitable thing in life. The goal of a Christian life is a Christian death. This sounds like an oxymoron; it may well be. But, to put it another way: !dying well � which we all want to do � means in reality, living well with God. And living well with God is realized in the efforts we make daily to grow in intimacy with the Lord and, thus, live one’s life well.! How then, do we live spiritually in the hope of dying well? The rich young man in the gospel asked Jesus a very similar question:!“What must I do to gain eternal life?” An answer, certainly, to both questions can be to say that a happy death comes at the end of a life lived in dedication to love of God and love of neighbor. For a Christian, death should always be a time for birth into eternal life with God.! St. Cyprian, who lived in the third century and ended his life as a martyr, had this to say to the Christians of his time who prayed for the coming of the kingdom, but resisted God’s call to enter that kingdom: “How unreasonable it is to pray that God’s will be done, and then not promptly obey it when he calls us from this world.” St. Cyprian’s aim, of course, was to encourage Christians facing !martyrdom.! We face a somewhat similar situation today. We may not be asked to be martyrs, but we are called and encouraged to live spiritual lives in and almost completely materialistic culture; a culture that is completely clueless about the spiritual meaning of death and the need to live one’s life with eternity in mind. Listen again to St. Cyprian: “Be single minded, firm in faith, and steadfast in courage, ready for God’s will, whatever it may be. Banish the fear of death and think of the eternal life that follows it… We ought never to !forget that we have renounced the world. We are living here and now as aliens and only for a time. When the day of our homecoming puts an end to our exile, frees us from the bonds of the world, and restores us to paradise and to a kingdom, we should welcome it.”! We may find welcoming it hard to do; after all we have our fears to contend with; that, in itself, is no small task. But it certainly makes sense for us to think about and pray over our lives as Christians remembering that living well in Christ is the best way we have that leads to dying well. We may not have the courage of a Cyprian nor the heroism of the early martyrs, but we can strive to live in Christ, for the love of Christ is what dying is all about.!!

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[ The author C. S. Lewis was grieving the death of his wife when he wrote the following:] It is hard to have patience with people who say “There is no death” or ‘Death doesn’t matter.’ There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn’t matter. I look up at the night sky. Is anything more certain than that in all those vast times and spaces, if I were allowed to search them, I should nowhere find her face, her voice, her touch? She died. She is dead. Is the word so difficult to learn.”!!

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ST. VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY�FOOD & COATS��

The St. Vincent de Paul Society is grateful to all our !parishioners who have contributed food for our Food Pantry. Over forty people benefited from your generosity at the last distribution. We ask you continued help, particularly with !cereals and pasta.!!

The Society also is grateful to the many coats contributed of our recent Coat Drive on November 18th. Over fifty coats were!given to the needy on that day.!!

We will have another coat distribution on Saturday, December 9th from 11:00AM to 12:00PM in the school cafeteria. Good, usable coats (men’s, women’s and children’s) may be brought to the baskets in the church vestibule or to the rectory.!Thank you for remembering those in need particularly during the winter season.!

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The Sisters, Servants of Mary�Bronx, New York�

Invite You to a Special Viewing��

LUZ DE SOLEDAD�

(LIGHT OF SOLEDAD)!!

Friday, December 1, 2017!Concordia College!

Sommer Center, Recital Hall!171 White Plains Road, !Bronxville, NY 10708!

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Doors Open at 6:00PM / Screening at 7:00PM!

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Refreshments will be served. Parking Available on Campus!!

Suggested Donation: $10 Adults/$5 Students!Tickets to be purchased at the door.!

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Checks can be made payable to the !“Sisters, Servants of Mary”!

Cash & Credit Cards also accepted!

MAKING END!OF!LIFE DECISIONS�AS AN INFORMED CATHOLIC�

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“In many places, quality of life is primarily related to economic means, to ‘well!being,’ to the beauty and enjoyment of physical life, forgetting the other more profound, interpersonal, spiritual and religious dimensions of existence. In fact, in the light of�Faith and right reason, human life is always sacred and always has ‘quality.’ As there is no human life that is more sacred than another: every human life is sacred!”�(Pope Francis, speech to the Italian Physicians Association November 15, 2014)��

Life is always inherently good, and is a sacred gift from God. We have to cherish and preserve every human life, regardless of age or !condition. We need to address all the suffering that comes with sickness � physical, emotional, psychological, familial, and spiritual.!Those who are sick should always be given basic care � food, water, pain control, and physical comfort, as well as emotional and !spiritual assistance. They should feel our compassion and unconditional love.! Out of deep respect for life, a person has a moral duty to use ordinary and proportionate treatments to preserve life and to deal with suffering. Ordinary treatments offer a reasonable hope of benefit and do not impose an excessive burden on the patient, their family, or the community. In principle, providing a patient with food and water (including medically�assisted nutrition and hydration) is !ordinary care and is morally required.! We are not morally required to use extraordinary and disproportionate treatments. These do not offer a reasonable hope of benefit, are excessively burdensome, or impose excessive expense on the family or the community. Declining disproportionate treatment is not the same as killing a person � it is accepting the inevitability of death by natural causes.!!

“Euthanasia and assisted suicide are never acceptable acts of mercy. They always gravely exploit the suffering and desperate, �extinguishing life in the name of the ‘quality of life’ itself.” (United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, Living the Gospel of Life).!�

Failing to give ordinary care with the intention of causing death is euthanasia. Physician�assisted suicide (PAS) means to !deliberately take your own life by using drugs prescribed by a doctor. It is always wrong to deliberately cause the death of an innocent person in these ways, or to assist anyone to do so � it violates the Fifth Commandment (“Thou shall not kill”) and our duty to “love one another.” ! Making medical decisions at the end of life can be complex and very sensitive. We have to form our consciences according to the teachings of our faith, and use the virtue of prudence to weigh burdens and benefits. In difficult situations, we should seek guidance from someone who knows Church teaching and has experience in applying it to specific cases, such as a priest, deacon, hospital !chaplain, or an expert in medical ethics.! Likewise, caring for a sick person can be very challenging and difficult. Care�givers should pay attention to their own physical, !emotional, and spiritual health. We should not hesitate to seek help from health care professionals and spiritual advisors.!!

“What a sick person needs, besides medical care, is love, the human and supernatural warmth with which the sick person can and ought to be surrounded by all those close to him or her, parents and children, doctors and nurses.” (Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Declaration on Euthanasia).��

Death can be the gateway into eternal life. It can be a time of great hope and consolation, as well as sadness and loss. Our church community is there to help us, and we can always draw on the graces God bestows through the Sacraments (especially the Eucharist and the Anointing of the Sick), and in answer to our prayers and the prayers of those who love us.!!

WHERE CAN I LEARN MORE?��

If you want more information, the NY State Catholic Conference has a new website and video to inform Catholics of our teachings about the end of life: http://www.CatholicEndofLife.org. Also, visit the Archdiocese of New York website: http://www.archny.org/pastoral/public!policy/.� �

THE GIVING TREE��

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Our parish observes the beautiful custom of the Giving Tree. Beginning this weekend the tree is placed near the statue of !St. Joseph with angel ornament tags on the back of which there is a request for toys or other items. Gifts will be distributed in the name of St. Theresa Parish to the following charities:!

• HOPE FOR US�a program started by Bronx college students to help children (particularly those affected by sickle! cell anemia) who are in hospitals or other social service programs.!

• HOUR CHILDREN�a program to help children in needy families and neighborhoods to enjoy Christmas presents.!

• DOMINICAN SISTERS OF SPARKILL�to assist retired sisters in their infirmary. The Sparkill Sisters faithfully ! started our school and staffed it for many years. We are happy to give these Christmas gifts as our thanks to them.!

Gifts may be returned unwrapped and placed by the Giving Tree by Sunday, December 17th.��

SATURDAY NOVEMBER 25, 2017�

5:00PM! Carmine Zeppieri! ! ! !SUNDAY NOVEMBER 26, 2017�

7:30AM! Parishioners of St. Theresa Parish! ! !

9:00AM! Francesco Fernicola, Filomena Parisi & !

! Francesco Paterna! ! ! ! !

10:30AM! Louis DeLuca!! ! !

12:15PM! Al & Mary Orrico! ! ! !

1:30PM! Julio Herrera! ! ! ! !

5:00PM! Joseph & Josephine Lurgio! ! ! !MONDAY NOVEMBER 27, 2017�

8:00AM! Shan Haxhari! ! ! !

9:00AM! Rosa, Luigi, Luigina & Dameano Greco! ! !TUESDAY NOVEMBER28, 2017�

8:00AM! Luicia, Francesco & Maria Quizphi! !

9:00AM! Rose Anne Loparrino! ! ! !WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 29, 2017�

8:00AM ! Pietro Cipollone! ! ! !

9:00AM! Fannie Moscato! ! ! !THURSDAY NOVEMBER 30, 2017�

8:00AM! Antoinette Polichetti! ! ! !

9:00AM! Joan Herlihy! !

12NOON! William Scanno! ! ! !FRIDAY DECEMBER 1, 2017�

8:00AM! Patricia Moeller! ! ! !

9:00AM! Angela Berger!! ! !SATURDAY DECEMBER 2, 2017�

8:00AM! Irene Zuccarello! ! !

9:00AM ! Angela, Joyce, Luigi, Nick & Giovina Napolitano!!

5:00PM! John DiStefano! !SUNDAY DECEMBER 3, 2017 �

7:30AM! Ann Hope Santora! ! !

9:00AM! Parishioners of St. Theresa! ! ! !

10:30AM! Mary Poidomani! ! ! !

12:15PM! Giovanni Reda! ! ! !

1:30PM! Mario Antonio Vasconcellos! ! !

5:00PM! John DiStefano! ! ! ! ! ! ! !

THE SANCTUARY LAMP BURNING NEAR THE! TABERNACLE THIS WEEK IS IN LOVING MEMORY!

OF!AL & MARY ORRICO!

LOVE, FRANK & FAMILY!!

THIS WEEK’S ALTAR BREAD IS IN HONOR !OF!

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LOVE, CAROL & FRANK!

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