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Church: 854 Midland Avenue, Yonkers, 10704 Phone: 914-965-1555 Fax: 914-965-0678 Webpage: www.stannsyonkers.org

School: 40 Brewster Avenue, Yonkers, 10701 Phone: 914-965-4333 Fax: 914-965-1778 Webpage: www.stannschoolyonkers.org

MASSES Saturday Evening: 5:00 PM Sunday: 8:00 AM, 10:00 AM Solemn Mass with adult & children’s choirs, 12:00 Noon Monday - Friday: 7:15am and 8:30am Saturdays: 8:30am Holy Days: As Announced

CONFESSIONS Saturdays from 4:00pm to 4:45pm in the Church except Holy Saturday

DEVOTIONS • The Rosary is recited daily at 8:10am before the 8:30am Mass • Miraculous Medal Novena: every Monday after the 8:30am Mass • Novena in honor of St. Ann: every Tuesday after the 8:30am Mass

EXPOSITION OF THE BLESSED SACRAMENT Every Friday at 9:00 AM and ending with Benediction at 8:00 PM

CATHOLIC BIBLE STUDY

Every Tuesday from 7:30-8:30 PM in Fr. Anthony Hall

SERVED BY

Rev. Andrew P. Carrozza, Administrator

Rev. John P. McDonagh, Parochial Vicar

Rev. James Annor-Ohene, Parochial Vicar

Mr. Michael P. Vicario, Principal/D.R.E.

Mrs. Peggy Foley-Pagano, Parish Secretary

Mr. Paul Loman, Director of Music

PARISH ACTIVITIES

Adult & Children’s Choir • Altar Servers

Bereavement Support Group • Fishers of

Men Society • Golden Agers

Homebound Visitation & Ministers

Lectors • Sports Programs •

Teen Club • Ushers

COMMITTEES

Parish Council • Respect Life Committee

BAPTISM Baptisms are held on Sundays at 1:00 PM in the chapel. To arrange a baptism, please contact the Rectory.

MARRIAGE Arrangements should be made a minimum of six (6) months in advance. A marriage preparation program is required.

SERVICE TO THE SICK If someone is homebound or in the hospital, please call the Rectory. Arrangements will be made for the person to be visited and to receive the Sacraments.

R.C.I.A. Adults seeking to Enter the Catholic Church or complete their Christian Initiation should contact the rectory.

MEMORIALS Anyone wishing to remember a deceased friend or relative in a special way is urged to contact the Rectory.

PARISH MEMBERSHIP All new families are welcome to the parish, and every new family should be properly registered. If you move or change address, please notify the Rectory.

March 15, 2015 • 4th Sunday of Lent

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St. Ann’s Parish 4th Sunday of Lent March 15, 2015

Priests Schedule for next Sunday, March 22, 2015,

5th Sunday of Lent

Church

Saturday 5:00pm - Fr. McDonagh

Sunday 8:00am - Fr. McDonagh

10:00am - Fr. Annor

12:00 noon - Fr. Carrozza

SUNDAY COLLECTION

Last Week: $4650

Weekly Automated Giving: $643

Total: $5,293

Last Year: $6,366

2015 Weekly Operating Budget: $10,641

Sunday, March 15, 2015 - 4th Sunday of Lent

5:00pm Sat. evening Vito, Philip & Emily Derasmo

8:00am Dominic, Catherine &

Elio Rubeo

10:00am For St. Ann’s Parishioners

12 noon Luisa Massimi

Monday, March 16, 2015 - Lenten Weekday

7:15am Dominick Pate

8:30am Intentions of Celebrant

Tuesday, March 17, 2015 - St. Patrick

7:15am Cathy Desmond Abbondola

8:30am Janellen Ascone

Wednesday, March 18, 2015 - St. Cyril of Jerusalem

7:15am Ignazio & Antonina Castellano

8:30am In honor of St. Joseph

Thursday, March 19, 2015 - St. Joseph

7:15am Anthony X. Panella

8:30am Michelangelo Circosta

Friday, March 20, 2015 - Lenten Weekday

7:15am Angela Raiano

8:30am Dominic Mercando

Saturday, March 21, 2015 - Lenten Weekday

8:30am Charles Maccarone

Sunday, March 22, 2015 - 5th Sunday of Lent

5:00pm Sat. evening Charles Sehring &

the Holy Souls

8:00am Gaetano, Giulia, Fernando

& Vincenzo Poggiogalle

10:00am Mariano & Carmela

DeLaurentis

12 noon For St. Ann’s Parishioners

Stations of the Cross will be prayed every Friday of

Lent at 8:00pm in the Chapel.

50th Wedding Anniversary Mass

Couples celebrating their 50th Wedding Anniversary

anytime during 2015 are invited to attend the Annual

Golden Wedding Jubilee Mass with Cardinal Dolan at the

Cathedral of St. Patrick, Saturday, June 20th or Sunday,

June 21st at 2:00pm. Pre-registration is required. Please

contact the rectory for registration. The closing date to

register for the Mass is Tuesday, May 19th, 2015. This

event is sponsored by the Family Life + Respect Life

Office of the Archdiocese of New York.

Catholic Charities: Feeding Our Neighbors

Thank you for your participation in this year’s Feeding

Our Neighbors Campaign to replenish food pantries and

soup kitchens. The final tally is not in yet. However, I

am delighted with the enthusiasm shown again this year.

Preliminary results indicate nearly 500,000 additional

meals raised. Once all tally forms are submitted I am

confident we will get to our goal of 1 million meals.

Thanks again for making this Campaign a success.

Monsignor Kevin Sullivan

Executive Director, Catholic Charities

Memorial This week the

altar bread and wine are offered

in loving memory of

Romano Grieco

The 60th Annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade

on McLean Avenue

Saturday, March 21, 2015 - Starting at 1 PM

The Yonkers St. Patrick’s Day Parade is proud to

announce that Timothy Rooney, Jr., General Counsel for

the Empire City Casino at Yonkers Raceway, has been

selected Grand Marshal. The Aides to the Grand

Marshal for the 2014 Parade are Lawrence Dunn, Mary

Hoar, Orla Kelleher, Patrick McCormack, Scott

McGowan, David McIntyre, Patrick Murphy and

Rosaleen Tallon. Before the Parade, at 11:30 am, a Mass

will be celebrated in the St. Barnabas High School

Chapel. All are welcome.

Please join your friends and neighbors at the parade,

either as a marcher or a spectator. Free parking and

shuttle buses to the parade will be provided by the

Empire City Casino beginning at 9 am, and return trips

from the corner of Hillview and Kimball to the Casino

parking lot continue until 5 pm. Please enter on Yonkers

Avenue.

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Saint Ann’s Parish 4th Sunday of Lent March 15, 2015

From time to time it is helpful to brush up on some of our Catholic beliefs. Today I’d like to talk about receiving Holy

Communion.

By receiving Holy Communion, the Body and Blood of Christ, we become physically one with God. As St. Athanasius

so aptly put it: “God became man so that we could become as God.” We are actually physically uniting with Jesus on His cross.

It is as if we are truly there with Him hanging on His cross, dying, and rising again. His suffering, death and resurrection

become ours! Not only do we become one with Christ, but also we become one with each other. We become the very Body of

Christ continuing the work begun by our Head two thousand years ago. Thus, when we receive the Eucharist, we are showing

that we are united in what we believe and how we practice those beliefs. Some people wonder why we don’t share Communion

with non-Catholics. Being able to share Communion with them is the goal we are working for, not a means to some greater end.

Until we are united with them and no longer consider ourselves separate denominations, we should not offer them Holy

Communion, especially if they don’t believe in the Real Presence of Jesus in the Eucharist! We must be united in what we

believe in order for receiving Holy Communion not to be a contradiction. To receive Communion with those with whom we are

not sufficiently united would be to proclaim a union that in fact does not yet exist, and for which we must work and pray.

At the same time, Catholics, in order to receive Communion worthily, must be in regular practice of the beliefs we

share in common; in other words, we go to Mass every Sunday and Holyday of Obligation and are attempting to follow

everything Jesus teaches us through the Church. We don’t have to be perfect – no one is – but we must be free from grave or

mortal sins. While venial sins are forgiven in the Eucharist, more serious sins must be forgiven in the Sacrament of

Reconciliation (Confession) before we receive Holy Communion. That includes missing Mass on a Sunday or Holyday of

Obligation without a reason that the Church teaches relieves us of our obligation: the physical inability to come to Mass due to

advanced age, true sickness, extreme weather, or bona fide emergencies. “Being too busy,” “being too tired,” “not feeling up to

it” or “forgetting” are not sufficient and must be brought to confession first, even if it only happened just once. If we are

married, our marriage must be recognized as valid by the Church. We must also not be living in any situations that contradict the

call to holiness, such as living together with someone not our valid spouse in any sexual capacity.

Next week we will discuss the proper way to approach to receive Holy Communion.

Beginning Experience

Beginning Experience is offering a healing weekend from

March 20th-22nd, 2015 at the St. Lawrence Retreat

Center in Beacon, New York. This invitation is open to

men and women of all ages who have suffered the loss of

a spouse through death, divorce, or separation. It is a

time to heal and a time to begin anew. Reservations are

required. For info or to register call Tom 845-462-6192

or Nancy 518-785-1351 x304.

Please remember in your prayers the following who are ill: Mateo Arlia, Maria Cadacia, Grace Capasso, Josephine

Cistica, Gregory Crotty, Josie Esposito, Geneen Grassia,

Susan Hessney, D. Hoer, David Lowry, Adam Martin, Susan

Nagle, Marisa Palermo, Robert Peterson and Sgt. Edward

Ryan. And those who recently died, may they rest in peace.

Way of the Cross over the Brooklyn Bridge

On Good Friday, April 3, 2015, Communion and

Liberation will sponsor the Way of the Cross over the

Brooklyn Bridge. Participants will congregate for the

first station at St. James Cathedral, Brooklyn, at 10:00

am. The procession will cross the Brooklyn Bridge to

Ground Zero and St. Peter’s Church, on Barclay Street,

concluding at 1:30 pm. At each station, there will be

readings from the Passion, a meditation, a reflection and

hymns. All are invited. For more information, please

call Communion and Liberation at 212-337-3580 or visit

its website at www.wocbrooklynbridge.org.

The Catholic Widows and Widowers of Yonkers will

hold its next meeting on Thursday, March 19, 2015 at

1pm in the afternoon at Fr. Anthony Hall, St. Ann’s

Church, 31 College Place, Yonkers. New members are

welcome. For more information please call 914-423-

5331.

First Scrutinies for RCIA

Last Sunday we celebrated the First Scrutinies for the

RCIA process. There were three “catechumens’ present,

who will be baptized at the Easter Vigil. Also present

were those who will complete their Christian initiation by

receiving their first Eucharist and/or Confirmation, to

complete their entry into the Church. Today we celebrate

the Second Scrutinies and next weekend the final

scrutinies. Scrutinies are rites for self-searching and are

meant to deliver the catechumens from the power of sin

and recognition of Christ as the savior. The gospels for

these Sundays are pertinent. Last Sunday’s theme was

Christ as the living water, today’s theme is Christ as the

light of the world. The petitions at Mass are also

pertinent for those in the RCIA process. Please continue

to pray for our catechumens and candidates as they

continue to grow in their lives as Christians.