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HOLY CHILD CHURCH
SATURDAY VIGIL, DECEMBER 22, 2018 5:00 PM Joseph & Catherine Calia 7:00 PM Luigi, Joseph & Carlo Masella SUNDAY, DECEMBER 23, 2018 6:30 AM People of Holy Child 8:00 AM Denise Ingrassia 9:30 AM Richard Leone 11:00 AM Joyce Forte 12:30 PM John & Gertrude Coniglione 5:30 PM Robert, Alice & Ralph Zurlo MONDAY, DECEMBER 24, 2018 9:00 AM Salvatore DiRe & Antonio Berlingieri
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 26, 2018 9:00 AM Peter Tomasino THURSDAY, DECEMBER 27, 2018 9:00 AM Carmello Fiumefreddo FRIDAY, DECEMBER 28, 2018 9:00 AM Stephen Kubinski SATURDAY, DECEMBER 29, 2018 9:00 AM Joseph Catinello SATURDAY VIGIL, DECEMBER 29, 2018 5:00 PM Jennifer Marie Parisi 7:00 PM Joseph Tartaglia
FOURTH SUNDAY OF ADVENT - PSALTER IV
MORNING PRAYER MON-SAT 8:30 a.m.
www.divineoffice.org/www.universalis.com
SECOND TIME:
Dominick Benedetto & Brianna Brady
FAMILY MASS - Next Sunday, December 30th, there
will be a Family Mass at 12:30 p.m. All are welcome.
Carmela “Millie”DelGaudio
Paul Internicola
Joseph Piliego
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In observance of Christmas,
the rectory office will be closed
Monday, Christmas Eve, December 24th
,
Tuesday, Christmas Day, December 25th
& Wednesday, December 26th
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The office will re-open
Thursday, December 27th
at 11 a.m.
4:00 PM CHRISTMAS VIGIL MASS — Church 4:00 PM FAMILY MASS — Forum
Preceded by Carols @ 3:30 PM
12:00 PM MIDNIGHT — MASS in the Church
Preceded by Carols @ 11:30 PM
Bell Choir at Midnight Mass
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 25, 2018
CHRISTMAS DAY MASSES
8:00 AM Fr. Emmanuel & Sponsors of Children in Africa 9:30 AM Anna Bartolotta & Joseph Colabella 11:00 AM Stephanie & Samantha Hare 12:30 PM For the Recently Deceased Members of Holy Child
NO 6:30 AM OR 5:30 PM MASS ON CHRISTMAS DAY
PRESENTING STE. JEANNE D’ARC
As a personal Christmas gift to the parish Father
Travers has augmented the shrine area with an
image of St. Joan of Arc.
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STATEN ISLAND, NY
WE ARE GRATEFUL FOR THIS WEEK’S DONATIONS
THE NAMES ON THIS LIST WILL BE ON UNTIL JANUARY 6 AND THEN WILL BE REMOVED UNLESS WE HEAR FROM
THE FAMILY TO CONTINUE.
Adoration Chapel Candles
In Loving Memory of My Husband, Thomas Scarpati
Offered by Anne Marie Scarpati
Sanctuary Lamp
In Loving Memory of Stephanie Marie Hare & Samantha Marie Hare
Offered by The Hare Family
Bread & Wine
In Loving Memory of Jim Ursillo, Elaine Passante, Joe Marciniak, J & V Ursillo, S & A Lacagnino
Offered by Rosalie L. Ursillo
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We are happy to welcome the following newly baptized members into our Holy Child Family:
Joseph John Desiderio
Mason Vincent Panczyszyn
Benjamin David Plantz
Giovanni Francis Scudero
The Sacrament of the Sick Quarterly Communal Celebrations at
Holy Child
The Sacrament of the Sick is administered quarterly during the 9 o’clock Saturday Mass on the last Saturday of March, June, September, December.
The next administration of this Sacrament will be on
Saturday 29 December 2018
This Sacrament is intended for those with serious or chronic illness, those who have been diagnosed with or who are undergoing treatment for grave disease and for those who are bearing the burden of advanced years.
The Lord Jesus is operative with his graces of spiritual comfort and psychological consolation if not outright physical healing (always a possibility) in the divine gift of this Sacrament.
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Vincent Amadeo
Lisa Becker
Michael Capolongo
Jillian Cannon
Bridget Cassidy
Lisa Conrad
Mary Grace D’Alliegro
Anthony Del Re
Ronald Dick
Anthony Dimesa
Carol Flannery
Baby Guiliana Geller
Doris Gillis
Joanna Gorgoglione
Debbie Gurreiri
Jimmy Hammill
Erik Lipke
Natalia Lupia
Theresa Major
Antonio Mandara
Frank Morano, Jr.
Lauretta Paradiso
Gayle Pickhart
Sebastian Rao
Lisa Romano
Ann Ronan
Billy Sherwood
Dorothy Sinatra
Frank Sinatra
Felix Stanton
Stephanie Traicoff
LEGION OF MARY NEWS
Christmas Week:
No meeting on Monday 24 December
No meeting on Wednesday 26 December
New Year’s Week
Meeting on Wednesday 2 January
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The Legion of Mary usually meets:
Monday evening in the church
immediately after the Miraculous Medal Novena at 7 p.m.
For those who find night travel difficult,
there is another session on Wednesday afternoon at
1:30 p.m. in the Rectory Conference Room.
For more information, please call Angela Di Benedetto 347-896-2307
There will be no Healing Mass for the month of December.
Get Well Soon!
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FOURTH SUNDAY OF ADVENT
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PERPETUAL EUCHARISTIC ADORATION CHAPEL
“Come and spend some time with me”
Please consider committing to one of these URGENT hours; ask for God’s guidance and see where he leads you.
We welcome everyone to be an Adorer; your presence before the Blessed Sacrament makes you just that!
If you are able to commit to an hour, please contact Joan Rochford at (718) 541-9532.
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Sunday
Monday
Wednesday
Wednesday
Saturday
3:00 AM
2:00 AM
1:00 AM
5:00 PM
3:00 PM
URGENT
URGENT
URGENT
URGENT
URGENT
LONGEST MARRIED COUPLE SEARCH
(based on the World Marriage Day Initiative)
The Search begins for the Longest Married Couple in the Archdiocese of New York!
To enter: Couples must be sacramentally married for a minimum of 65 years and reside in the Archdiocese of New York.
The longest married couples will receive commemorative certificates signed by His Eminence, Timothy Cardinal Dolan. The winning couple will be interviewed and featured in an article in Catholic New York. Winners are determined by how long the couple had been married as of World Marriage Day, February 10, 2019.
For further information, contact Joan Brisson at the Family Life Office at 646-794-3190 or [email protected]. Email entries can be sent directly to [email protected].
The deadline for entries is 5:00 PM on Thursday, January 24, 2019
Camps Bernadette & Fatima Camp Fatima for boys and Camp Bernadette for girls are now accepting registrations for the 2019 summer season. The camps, located in the Lakes Region of NH, offer 2-week overnight
sessions for children, ages 6-15. Round trip bus transportation is available out of Long Island. For more information or to request a brochure:
Contact Brendan Stackhouse at 603-364-5851 or email: [email protected], or visit and register online at www.bfcamp.com. Please don’t wait as sessions fill up quickly.
The gift of a summer camp experience could be the ideal Christmas present for your child or grandchild.
FRANCISCAN HANDMAIDS OF MARY ST. EDWARD FOOD PANTRY 6581 Hylan Boulevard Staten Island, NY 10309 (718) 984-1625 FAX (718) 966-0814 www.franciscanhandmaidsofmary.com
November 12, 2018
Rev Alan F. Travers Holy Child Church St. Vincent DePaul Society 4747 Amboy Road Staten Island, NY 10312
Dear Father Travers:
May Christ’s peace be always with you!
The Franciscan Handmaids of Mary, St. Edward Food Pantry would like to extend our heartfelt thanks and gratitude to you and your parishioners for the generous donation of food for the pantry.
Such an expression of kindness and generosity cannot be taken for granted or simply go unacknowledged.
Be assured that the sisters will keep you and the Vincentians and your parishioners in their prayers.
Sincerely yours in Christ,
Sr. Precilla Takuh, FHM
Sister Precilla Takuh, FHM Administrator
ROSARY MINISTRY
The Rosary Ministry is in need of Rosary Leaders to lead the congregation in the Sunday Pre-Mass Rosary. If you can offer your assistance, please contact Rosaria Incantalupo at 718-948-0128.
Do not hesitate or be afraid to come forward, but do as Mary did and give your “yes”. Remember, Mary was a teenaged girl when she gave her YES, and Joseph was many years her senior when he too gave his yes. Let Mary speak to your heart.
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DECEMBER 23, 2018
HOLY CHILD CHRISTMAS TOUR
A Pastoral Guide
The floor pattern of our church is fan shaped which allows a general view of the central axis from all angles.
Upon entering the baptistery, we behold the advent wreath that has been gradually illuminated over the four Sundays of Advent.
Generally, the ultimate lighting is that of a Christ Candle in its middle. Here, the purple candles of Advent have given way to bleached candles and, standing in the middle, we have an image of The Christmas Holy Child, The Light of the World, presenting an evergreen wreath, symbol of the gift he was born to give us: everlasting life.
Reverently proceeding into the worship space, we are graced by candle flames, appropriate to this season of lights, hovering above us who are illumined by the Light of Christ conferred on us at baptism. We may make an association, though pertaining to a different season, with that day when descending tongues of fire enflamed Jesus’ followers with the Holy Spirit.
Looking forward, the altar meets our gaze. It is fitted out, as usual, with its candles which recall Jesus’ redemptive sacrifice which brings us salvation. There on its face hangs a wreath, again symbolic of the circle of everlasting life, this time fashioned of bayleaves, traditionally used to celebrate victory and here proclaiming the victory of the Redeemer. It is a victory he shares with us in the Sacrament of his Body and Blood. It is at and from the altar that we receive the Living Bread Come Down From Heaven and have Holy Communion with Our Lord and each other.
Moving behind the sanctuary, we approach the manger in which is an image of the Holy Infant. Along with the angels depicted and positioned about it, we stand or kneel in veneration.
As stable creatures eat from mangers, we are bid to partake from this special manger - not only for physical survival but for life everlasting, a benefit unknown to any other creature on earth.
Looking up to the tabernacle, the ultimate point on the axis, veneration becomes adoration as we recognize the very presence of Jesus in The Blessed Sacrament. In the tabernacle bread consecrated at Mass is reserved as the abiding presence of Emmanuel, God With Us. The tabernacle is The House of Bread (which is the meaning of the name Bethlehem).
Every Catholic church is the House of Bread in which Jesus, The Living Bread Come Down From Heaven, manifests himself on the altar and abides with us.
“O come let us adore Him” as faithful communicants so that God may take effect in our lives as the miracle of our redeemed humanity.
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