PARISH ADMINISTRATION Parish Bookkeeper, *Tara Dahill Program Manager, *Colleen Glazer Parish Secretary, *Catherine Jestice Parish Plant Manager, *Victor Zambrano PARISH ADVISORY COUNCILS Pastoral: Alicia Javier (Singles) Don and Maureen Drew (Marrieds) Odelia Ramirez (Spanish speakers) William Quinn (Seniors) Victoria Vulaj (Teenagers) Financial: Michael Donofrio, Vincent Pascal Carol Joyce, Emily Cho Roache (Trustees) WORSHIP Acolytes, Kevin McKenna Devotions, Private, Adoration / Daily Evening Rosary, Ellen Valko Legion of Mary, Blanca Bulit Sagrado Corazon, Yolanda Pardo Lectors Floral Decorations Sacred Music, *Andrew Yeargin, Director Cantors, *Andrew Yeargin Contemporary Ensemble, Phelder St. Germain Misa in Espanol, *José (Cheito) Guevara Schola Cantorum, *Andrew Yeargin Sacristans, *Victor Zambrano III, James Hulak, Hans Ramirez, Patrick Machado COMMUNITY BUILDING Bulletin, Parish Weekly, *Catherine Jestice Calendar, Master Parish, *Catherine Jestice Concert Series GUEST, *Andrew Yeargin PARISH, *Andrew Yeargin CRC (Contemporary Roman Catholics), James Hulak Scouting Programs, Bob Deaver Trinity Counters, JoAnne Pollio FORMATION / EDUCATION Adult Faith Formation, *Colleen Glazer Lectio Divina-Young Adults, *Fr. Gary Mead Christian Meditation, Donald Main RCIA (Christian Initiation), *Msgr. Sandi Religious Education, *Colleen Glazer OUTREACH Blood Drive, *Catherine Jestice Breakfast Line, *Colleen Glazer Food Pantry, *Colleen Glazer Guest Clergy Hospitality, *Msgr. Sandi Holy Trinity/Ascension Homeless Shelter, Mike Griffin Making All Things New (MATN), Kenneth Craig Twelve-Step Programs, *Catherine Jestice * indicates parish employee * * * * * * * *

Please keep our sick in your prayers: Kate Concannon, Anne Lia, Edward Haggerty, Devinee Worrell, Gloria Frucht, Regina & Joe Rywelski, Sr., Mary Haggerty, Harry Wagner, Blanca Bulit, Marita Whelihan, Jennifer Goldman, David Ray, Gloria Harris, Yolande Irizarry, Michael Cammistrace, Dennis Joseph, Patricia Raleigh, Jonathan Denham, Mimi Lawrence, Giselle Stevens, Agnes Britto, John Buttermark, Marci Cruz, Teresa Roa, Rose Sathyarajan, Angela Velasquez, Bob Gray, Vicki King, Angela Farino, Florence Rivezzo, Michael Waters, Mary Watson, Merily McLaughlin, Kristin & Adelaide Lappetitto, John Herndon, Connie Myers, Carol Thompson, Diana Pinover Names will remain on our prayer list for one month. If you would like us to carry a name longer, please contact the Rectory.

FEBRUARY 23, 2020 Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time

“But I say to you … when someone strikes you on your right cheek, turn the other one as well. If anyone wants to go to law with you over your tunic, hand over your cloak as well.”

THIS WEEK AT HOLY TRINITY

SUNDAY Holy Trinity In-House Fuel Collection Religious Ed. – Pre-K-Grade 5 – Center – 10:30 AM 1st Eucharist Workshop – Center – 12 N-2:00 PM Confirmation Class – Rectory – 4:45 PM MONDAY DA Meeting – Rectory – 12:30 PM Rosary – Church – 5:10 PM Religious Ed.– Grades 6 & up – Center – 6:00-7:15 PM NA Meeting – Center – 7:30 PM Legion of Mary – Rectory– 7:30 PM TUESDAY Rosary – Church – 5:10 PM Lectio Divina (Spanish) – Center – 7:00 PM Christian Meditation – Rectory – 7:00 PM WEDNESDAY Rosary – Church – 5:10 PM NA Meeting – Rectory – 5:30 PM R.C.I.A. – Rectory – 7:00 PM THURSDAY Al Anon Meeting – Rectory – 12:15 PM Rosary – Church – 5:10 PM Boy Scouts – Center – 6:30 PM AA Men’s Meeting – Rectory – 7:00 PM FRIDAY Rosary – Church – 5:10 PM AA Women’s Meeting – Rectory – 7:00-8:15 PM SATURDAY Eucharistic Adoration – Church – following 5:30 Mass * * * * * * * *

YOUR DONATIONS (collected in church)

Last week’s collection: $4,877.00 THANK YOU!

MASS INTENTIONS FOR THE WEEK / 2/22 SATURDAY 2/22 5:30 DEACON BERNIE O’HALLORAN (living) SUNDAY 2/23 7:30 NORA & CHARLES CAVAGNETTA (living) 9:30 JOSPEH LOPES 11:15 VIOLA DAVIS-5th Anniversary R.I.P. 12:30 MICHAEL SMALLS 5:30 PAUL RUMELY MONDAY 2/24

9:00 Families at risk 5:30 Expectant couples TUESDAY 2/25 9:00 MRS. MARIE BISSMANN-16th Anniversary RIP 5:30 Families of the parish WEDNESDAY 2/26 ASH WEDNESDAY 7:30 Holy Trinity parishioners-living & deceased 9:00 Holy Trinity parishioners-living & deceased

10:30 Holy Trinity parishioners-liv. & dec. (en español) 12:15 Holy Trinity parishioners-living & deceased

5:30 Holy Trinity parishioners-living & deceased THURSDAY 2/27 9:00 Those for whom no one prays 5:30 Souls in purgatory 7:00 Our neighbors FRIDAY 2/28 9:00 Infirm of the parish 5:30 Priests of the parish SATURDAY 2/29 9:00 VINCENT PASCAL (living) * * * * * * * *

Ash Wednesday is THIS Wednesday Wednesday marks the beginning of Lent, a 40-day period of personal renewal undertaken by Christians to better themselves. (SEE the following paragraph.) Blessed ashes will be distributed after the homily at the scheduled Masses: 7:30 AM, 9:00 AM, 10:30 AM (Spanish), 12:15 PM, and 5:30 PM. SEE todays’ INSERT, “Ashes don’t DO Anything!”

LENT: 2020 Lent begins on Wednesday. So, what is your Lenten strategy? How might you improve your “spiritual self?” Here are the ancient, biblical suggestions: prayer (conversation with God) fasting (doing without a food you enjoy) and almsgiving (i.e., charity as an unselfish virtue) Here’s your chance, here and now, to enrich the meaning of the Faith you practice. Remember, as a baptized Christian, each of us is “another Christ.” Imagine that! Make your Lent, 2020, an actual “life altering” experience!!

Lenten LITERATURE for You! As announced last Sunday, there are FREE “Little Black Books” from the Diocese of Saginaw, Michigan for you at the back of the church. Please feel free to take them. Due to your support of the MAY Parish Literature 2nd Collection last May, we were able to purchase them (and many others) for you!

Sophia, ChurchMouse Reporting unseen works of faith, hope and charity to uplift you.

Ready or not Lent begins on Wednesday! “Lent is a time for discipline, for confession, for honesty, not because God is mean or fault-finding or finger-pointing but because he wants us to know the joy of being cleaned out, ready for all the good things he has in store for us.” Bishop N.T. Wright is an English New Testament scholar, Pauline theologian and Anglican bishop

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BANNS OF MARRIAGE ARTURO RODRIGUES & NANCY TORRES

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SECOND COLLECTION: “In House” Today, the second collection is for our own Parish FUEL. Thanks for making our Parish Family strong and dedicated to the welfare of all God’s People.

2020 Cardinal’s Annual Stewardship Appeal

Please prayerfully consider donating to the Appeal soon, especially if you have never done so before. Our parish monetary goal is $75,500. We hope to involve more parishioners. Bright white Appeal envelopes are stacked at the back of the Church. Because of your support our Archdiocese will be in a better position to do immense good in: sustaining numerous charitable offices, agencies, and programs to provide compassionate and effective assistance to those most in need. We are able to offer financial support to our parishes and schools that are struggling to serve people of all backgrounds in distressed communities. We are able to ensure excellent academic and spiritual formation in our schools, and the best of catechetical training in our parishes. And finally, we are able to care for our retired clergy and Religious men and women who have given their lives in service of the Church and to prepare our future clergy who will give theirs in the years to come.

For Your Information Archdiocesan West Manhattan

DEANERY (West 14th Street through West 122nd Street)

DEAN: Monsignor Thomas Sandi EPISCOPAL VICAR: Bishop John O’Hara PRIESTS COUNCIL REP: Fr. Larry Ford, OFM

ASH WEDNESDAY & LENTEN REGULATIONS As we do every year at this time, we offer a few remarks and clarifications that may be helpful regarding Ash Wednesday and the Lenten season: In the Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy, we are informed that: “the two elements which are especially characteristic of Lent – recalling of baptism (or the preparation for it) and penance – should be given greater emphasis … It is by means of them that the Church prepares the faithful for the celebration of Easter, while they hear God’s word more frequently and devote more time to prayer.” The traditional practices include prayer, fasting and almsgiving as means of developing a more direct sense of the preparation for death. Many choose to make daily Mass a part of their Lenten routine. The Church obliges to fast all those between the ages of 18 and 59 years, and to abstinence all those over 14 years old. Fasting prescribes that only one full meal a day be taken; the other two meals should be smaller and not equal the main meal. Abstinence forbids the eating of meat. Note especially:

Ash Wednesday and Good Friday are days of fast and abstinence.

All Fridays in Lent are days of abstinence. Please bear in mind that these restrictions are not to be seen negatively, but as a uniquely positive way to prepare for the joy of the coming Easter.

+ Ash Wednesday and Abraham House + As we have done for the past several years, we will provide a special collection box for Abraham House at all the Masses. This is not an Archdiocesan collection, but one that Holy Trinity takes up to aid the brothers and sisters and lay persons who work so tirelessly in the Bronx with the families of the incarcerated, the “forgotten people.” This is the same group for whom we put up the Angel Christmas Tree each year. Put in a penny, put in a pound – look! You’ve started your Lenten almsgiving! * * * * * * * * Schola Cantorum – The Spring Concert

On Sunday, March 22nd, 7:00 PM, the Holy Trinity Schola Cantorum will perform A German Requiem (Ein deutsches Requiem) by Johannes Brahms. Brahms’s Requiem sets to music various passages of Scripture which concern not the actual dead, but those of us who are left behind to mourn the dead; those who are seeking comfort in a time of uncertainty. The Schola will be accompanied by orchestra, along with baritone Christopher DeVage and soprano Emily Moore. Spread the word – bring family and friends for this performance of an unforgettable classic masterpiece.

Como Dios nos ama…

Los israelitas entendían la palabra <<prójimo>> como el paisano y todo lo más como el de la misma razón y nación. Era algo así como no causar perjuicio a la propia sangre. De esta estrechez de miras surge el amor cristiano. Este no tiene espacios y no se circunscribe a lugares, ni a tiempos. Predominaba en aquellos días, mientras hablaba Jesús de un mundo nuevo, la ley del Talión:<<Ojo por ojo, diente por diente>>. Era la ley de la venganza. Quien no la llevara a cabo era un cobarde. Momentos difíciles para decir:<< Amarás a tu prójimo como a ti mismo>>. Parecían palabras insultantes contra siglos y siglos de tradición.

Jesús, en su Evangelio de hoy, avanzando más, nos propone:<<el no inferir daño alguno al que nos lo ha causado. El mal hay que ahogarlo con la abundancia del bien; no de otro modo. ¡Vaya criterio! Les resultaría extraño y hasta vergonzoso. <<La violencia engendra más violencia y desemboca en una espiral que sólo termina con la muerte de uno de los bandos- el vencido – y con el descrédito, a la postre, del vencedor, el otro. Con la no – violencia llegó a triunfar en la India el gran pensador y gobernante Gandhi contra Inglaterra. Luther King luchó contra el <<apartheid>> en Norteamérica y ganó la partida sufriendo la muerte. Muchas veces esta pasividad ante la violencia da más frutos que empleando el mismo estilo.

San Juan habla muy claro:<< La victoria que vence al mundo es la fe>>. Hay que dedicarse a anunciar la fe antes que llevar armas para derrotar al que me haga frente. En esto se demuestra la valentía, aunque para los cobardes sea un acto de cobardía. La venganza la hace cualquier fanático. El amor y el perdón están solamente a manos de un creyente.

NORMAS PARA LA CUARESMA En la constitución de la Sagrada Liturgia se declara: “los dos elementos que son especialmente característicos de la Pascuas – el recuerdo del bautismo o la preparación para el mismo y la penitencia – deben recibir el mayor énfasis en la liturgia. Es por medio de ellos que la Iglesia prepara a los fideleles para la celebración, el ayuno y la limosna en su empeño de llevar a cabo las obras de misericordia. En realidad, ellos son una preparación por la muerte. El ayuno es obligatorio, desda los 18 hasta los 59 años de edad. La abstinencia prohibe comore carne, y oblige desde los 14 años en adelante. El Viernes Santo este dia de a uno y abstinencia. Todos los viernes de la Curesma son dias de abstenencia. El ayuno pide que solamente se tenga una comida completa durante el dia. Se podrán tener dos comidas ligeres, pero ellos no deberán igualar a otra comida completa. Vamos a reconocer estas practices como oportu-nidades de jubilo en nuestra preparación para la Pascua.