7TH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME—FEBRUARY 23, 2020

ST. JOHN PAUL II REGIONAL SCHOOL 631-727-1650 sjp2regional.org Mrs. Abby Swiatkowski, Principal

RELIGIOUS EDUCATION 631-727-2114

stisidorefaithformation@gmail.com Mrs. Adrienne Dillingham

ST. ISIDORE R. C. CHURCH

MUSIC MINISTRY Margaret & Elizabeth Kane

Valentina Danowski John Dautzenberg

631-727-2114

Our Mission Statement Lord, God, all creation is yours, and you call us to serve you by caring for the gifts

that surround us. May the example of St. Isidore urge us to share our food with the hungry and to work for the salvation of mankind. We ask this through our Lord, Jesus Christ, your son, who lives

and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God for ever and ever. Amen.

622 PULASKI STREET RIVERHEAD, NY 11901-3038 PHONE (631) 727-2114 FAX (631) 369-3566 EMAIL: sisidore@optonline.net www.saintisidoreriverhead.org

LITURGY OF THE EUCHARIST

WEEKDAYS 7:00 AM

SATURDAYS 8:00 AM

SATURDAY EVENINGS VIGIL MASS 5:00 PM

SUNDAYS 8:00 & 9:15 AM

10:30 AM (Polish) 12:00 Noon

RECTORY HOURS

WEEKDAYS 9 AM to 12 Noon & 1 PM to 4 PM

SATURDAYS By Appointment Only

EUCHARISTIC ADORATION

W/ BENEDICTION Tuesdays 12:00

to 1:00 PM

Novena—MonMiraculous Medal days following 7 AM Mass Morning Prayer—Monday thru Friday 6:30 AM, Saturday 7:30 AM

Altar Rosary Society—First Wednesdays 7 PM Respect Life Group—Every Wednesday 2 PM

in front of Planned Parenthood, Riverhead

REV. ROBERT KUZNIK, PASTOR REV. PIOTR NARKIEWICZ, ASSOC. DEACON MICHAEL A. BONOCORE

REINA BONOCORE, OFFICE DIANNE MASSIELLO, SPIRITUAL

AND SOCIAL MINISTRIES

SACRAMENT OF BAPTISM

SECOND & FOURTH SUNDAYS 1:15 PM ENG 2:15 POLISH

Please arrange the date of baptism through the Rectory office after the birth of your child. SACRAMENT OF MARRIAGE

Please call the Rectory for an appointment at least six months prior to the desired date. SACRAMENT OF RECONCILIATION

SATURDAYS 4:00 to 4:45 PM THURSDAYS BEFORE FIRST FRIDAYS 4:00 to 5:00 PM Other times by appointment.

MASS INTENTIONS

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2020

5:00 pm + Edward Sadowski /+ Bruno Madzelan + Robert Doremus / + John F. Troyan, Jr.

7TH SUNDAY IN ORD TIME, FEB. 23, 2020

8:00 am + Deceased Members of the Zielinski Family 9:15 am + James Hawley 10:30 am + Jadwiga Suchta / + Antoni Karwowski (POLISH) + Tadeusz Zakrzewski + Teresa Szuścicka (1st A) + Jerzy (A), Irene and Malgorzata Aleksandrowicz and Family 12:00 pm + Emil Fossa

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2020

7:00 am + Bertha Stepnoski (A) and Special Intentions of the Stepnoski Families + Harvey Machinist

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2020

7:00 am + Deceased Members of the Cichanowicz, Valek, Donahue and Zilnicki Families + Helen Strebel (5th A)

ASH WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2020

7:00 am Intentions of the Bonocore Family Prayer services: 12:30, 3:30, 5:30 7:00 pm (PL) + Msgr. John Mirecki

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2020

7:00 am + Antone and Frances Zambrzyski & Family

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2020

7:00 am + Linda Malloy Health & Healing for Marty & Linda Keller

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 29, 2020

8:00 am + Jan Harasimowicz Healing for Mary Poolt & Maureen Tighe 5:00 pm + Albert Stepnoski and Special Intentions of the Stepnoski Families + Hilda Inzalaco / + Mary Patalano

1ST SUNDAY OF LENT, MARCH 1, 2020

8:00 am + Paul, Steven, Frank and Florence Podlas 9:15 am + Frank L., Bertha M. & Frank L. Jr. Ostroski 10:30 am Za Członków żywego Różańca i Rodzinę Radia Maryja (POLISH) + Janina Talma + Jozefa Wojcicka & Trzcinka, Machowski, and Zenowicz Families 12:00 pm + Fannie and Stanley Zoltowski

7TH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME—FEBRUARY 23, 2020

TODAY’S READINGS

First Reading — Take no revenge and cherish no grud-ge; love your neighbor as yourself (Leviticus 19:1-2, 17-18). Psalm — The Lord is kind and merciful (Psalm 103). Second Reading — You are the temple of God, and holy (1 Corinthians 3:16-23). Gospel — Offer no resistance; love your enemies (Matthew 5:38-48).

READINGS FOR THE WEEK

Monday: Jas 3:13-18; Ps 19:8-10, 15; Mk 9:14-29 Tuesday: Jas 4:1-10; Ps 55:7-11a, 23; Mk 9:30-37 Wednesday: Jl 2:12-18; Ps 51:3-6ab, 12-14, 17; 2 Cor 5:20 — 6:2; Mt 6:1-6, 16-18 Thursday: Dt 30:15-20; Ps 1:1-4, 6; Lk 9:22-25 Friday: Is 58:1-9a; Ps 51:3-6ab, 18-19; Mt 9:14-15 Saturday: Is 58:9b-14; Ps 86:1-6; Lk 5:27-32 Sunday: Gn 2:7-9; 3:1-7; Ps 51:3-6, 12-13, 17; Rom 5:12-19 [12, 17-19]; Mt 4:1-11

IN LOVING MEMORY

MISSALETTES

Adam and Helen Trubish

BREAD AND WINE Helen and John B. Zilnicki

PRAY FOR OUR SICK Claire Maffei Richard Okula Mary Poolt Denise Babinski Michael Alperti Edith Woods Roseanne Murphy Barbara Kozlowski Sr. Angelina Costano, O. Carm James West Agnes Economos Maurice Vianney Lauzier Louise Lejay Jimmy Blomberg Slawek Tom & Elizabeth Farrugia Cecilia Murphy Walter Bonczyk Kelly Wine Jimmy Temperino Virginia Todd Karen Reilly Frances Alec Mary Van Duesen Thomas DeGirolamo William Berenger Daria Quarlena Eileen Borchart Sheila Nolan Tom Wisniewski III Jean Reyes Carroll Lynn Markowski Thomas & Corinne Clark Grzegorz Radziwonski James Patrick Jaeger Karen Payet Ernest and Alex Aponte Helen Long Michael Miglionico Wieslaw Luniewski Theresa Mannuzza Krzysztof Olszowski Ralph Conforti The Barauskus Family Hope & Brittany Williams John Marion Mary Oleksiak Dan Massiello Emilia Andrychowski Helen M. Joan & Fred Meister Michael Kielkowski Lee Schoen Linda & Marty Keller Thomas Clark

Marie Pfaff Richard Fehr George Angle Mike Babinski Carol Block Marta Andreotta Melissa Alexandra Christian Vidal Reilly Butler Doris Donohue Suzanne Thompson Anna Grefe Joanne Iovino Julie Zotos Helen Condzella Anthony Mannino Chris & Susan Kane The Curry Family Marcella Frisen Vera Doroski Sister M. Alexeus George & Barbara Jaeger The Huntley Family Mark Raplee Theresa Puglia Brian Darmody Greg Alty Leigh Anne Brown Ann Mickaliger Carol Anne Livingston Dan Modjeska Judy Zakorski Marie & Greg Miley Marcjanna Stolarzewicz John Shuot Maureen Tighe Gene Esposito Patrick Murphy Alex Michaelson Mike Diem Brian Crowley Michael Barker Louise Pampinello Patricia Liebler Jim DeRosa Dee DeGirolamo Barbara Fenn Therese Gigante Johanna Benthal Barbara Kobielski Augie & Georgianna Lucente Theresa Jacobs Philip Schmitt Charles & Sharon Curry James Redmond

THE WEEK AHEAD

Monday, February 24, 2020 Miraculous Medal Novena after 7 AM Mass

Tuesday, February 25, 2020 Adoration and Benediction 12 to 1 PM

Altar Server Meeting 5:30 PM Choir Practice 6 PM / RCIA 7 PM

Ash Wednesday, February 26, 2020 A Day of Fasting and Abstinence

Masses: 7 AM and 7 PM (Polish) Prayer Services with ashes: 12:30, 3:30 and 5:30 PM

Please keep all those serving in the military and their families in your thoughts and

prayers especially: 1st Lt. Nicholas Santorelli, Christopher Drowns, Thomas Gallo,

Jeffrey Heppner, James Fleming, Kevin Thomas, Michael Tagliareni, Justin Kruel, Peter and Shawna

Marie Clark, Cole Lamond, Jonathan Jacobs Brendan Fitzgerald, Thomas V. D’Auria,

Mateusz Marzec and Andre DeRosa

COLLECTIONS

This Year Prior Year

Feb. 16 $ 6,206 $ 6,078

This Week, February 23, 2020 Sunday Weekly / Debt Reduction

Next Week, March 1, 2020 Sunday Weekly / Church In Need

If you’d like your statement for last year’s donations for tax purposes, please call the rectory. If you put cash in the bas-ket, we do not know who donated it, so the best way to show

your yearly donations is to use the church provided enve-lopes or write a check.

BAPTISM

Bodhi Asher Ngo

PRAY FOR OUR DECEASED

Virginia Flannery

CENSUS 2020

Will my information be kept confidential? Strict federal law protects your census responses. Census

employees take a lifelong pledge of confidentiality to keep information private. The penalty for wrongful

disclosure is a fine up to $250,000 or imprisonment for up to five years, or both.

For more info, visit 2020census.gov

Stations of the Cross All Fridays in Lent

English 6:00 PM Droga Krzyżowa 7:00 PM

Rekolekcje po Polsku 1-3 Marca

Niedziela 10:30am Poniedziałek, Wtorek: 1pm, 7pm

Congratulations to the children of our parish and John Paul II Regional School who received the sacrament of First Reconciliation.

Throughout their lives may they always experience the peace of God’s forgiveness and mercy.

Samantha Algozzino Mila Mercado Lily Balcom Pawel Mioskowski Adelaide Boese Angelina Mosca Courtney Brennan Linley Noack Valentina Califano Rodney Parrish III Drea Cardi Olivia Pocwiardowski Giuliana Catarelli Mia Ranghelli Oliver Chrzanowski Hanna Regiec Natalie Claire Ashley Rodriguez Abigail Donovan Madelyn Rosso Maksymilian Drukarczyk Kennedy Schumejda Isabella Fiore Madison Tochman Ryan Flynn Ksavery Wasilewski Charlotte Haupt Aidyn White Jake Hunt Noah Woolley Justin Kenter Oscar Zaleski Dominik Krawczyk Michael Zambriski Machaela McGrady Daniel Zelayandia

Lenten Retreat with Fr. Paul Fagan, C.P. Passionist Preacher

March 9-11

Fr. Paul is a Passionist preacher from Pelham, NY. He will be preaching at all the masses starting with the 5pm Mass on March 7, and again on Sunday, March 8 at the 8, 9:15 and 12 noon masses. The Lenten retreat begins on Monday, March 9, Tuesday and Wednesday afternoons at 1pm and again at 7pm in the evenings of each day. There will be a closing mass on Wednesday evening.

Fr. Paul attended St. Louis University and received a BSSW degree in Social Work in 1976. He worked for 4 1/2 years for the Ill. Dept. of Children and Family Services as a Child Care Worker with abused and neglected children and their families and teenagers and was involved with specialized adoptions.

Fr. Paul entered the Passionist Novitiate in Pittsburg, and took vows in 1982. In 1986 he received his Masters of Divinity with a Word and Worship Specialization. He was ordained in 1986 and assigned to the Bishop Mallow Retreat House in Jamaica Queens for 8 years. He served on the Provincial Council and spent 11 years as the Director of the Passionist Spiritual Center. In 2012 Fr. Paul finished his Doctor of Ministry Degree in Preaching. In 2016 Fr. Paul was named the Director of the Passionist Communications and the Executive Producer and Host of the Passionist Sunday Mass television ministry that is televised every Sunday. Fr. Paul loves sports and is an avid marathon runner. With all he has accomplished, Fr. Paul’s greatest joy is preaching the Word of God.

Theme: “WALKING BY FAITH: A SPIRITUALITY FOR LIVING NOW”

Day 1—Opening: “What Do We Stake Our Life on? The Soil of a Faithful Person and a Good Parish Community” Reading: Parable of the Sower and the Seed—Luke 8:4-15

Day 2—”Are We Willing To Take A Risk?” Reading: Parable of the Ten Talents—Matthew 25:14-30

Day 3—Closing: “God Demands Our Life as Individuals, Families and Parish Community!” Reading: Parable of the Rich Food—Luke 12:16-21

LENT THE BASICS WHAT IS LENT? Lent is an annual preparation for Easter observance – calling us to reform our lives and to open our hearts to the blessings God has promised to bestow on us. Lent begins Ash Wednesday an ends on Holy Thursday evening when the Triduum begins.

WHAT MUST WE DO? According to the Church’s Canon Law, all healthy Catholics from age 18 to 59 are required to fast and abstain from meat on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday, and to abstain from meat on all other Friday’s of Lent. Fasting is a bodily way to remind ourselves that we need God above all things. Fasting is also a sacri-fice, a gift back to God of our heart’s intent to depend more completely on God.

WHAT SHOULD I DO? Take the necessary steps to get yourself on the road to conversion and spiritual renewal. To help you do this, the three main Lenten disciplines urges are: 1) prayer, 2) fasting and 3) almsgiving. We are invited during Lent to practice these disciplines often. But these aren’t just chores we must do because the Church strongly urges them; they are above all opportunities to grow in faith and in love for God. WHY PRAYER, FASTING AND ALMS? The Lenten basic practices of prayer, fasting and almsgiving are rooted in Jesus original guidance about how to be His disciples that we find in the Sermon on the Mount (Mt ch 5-7). The Catechism of the Catholic Church (#1966-1972) also reminds us that Jesus here outlines for us the new law which, if we embrace and implement it, will lead us more surely to the interior renewal and growth in holiness and perfection that Jesus expects of us as His disciples. SHOULD I SET LENTEN GOALS? Absolutely. Reflect prayerfully about your Lenten resolution before making them. Then make yourself a list. But be modest. You may be setting yourself up for disappointment if you set unrealistic goals. And doing a little with love and devotion is spiritually more beneficial than trying to do much but doing it half-heartedly.

EXPLAINATION OF FASTING, ALMSGIVING AND PRAYER FASTING: Express our desire to find happiness in God rather than in the satisfaction of our physical needs. The control we gain over our appetites helps us recognize more deeply that all true and lasting pleasure comes from God. Knowing this we are freed to gratefully accept food and savor it, or to avoid or limit foods that we know are unhealthy for us. Through fasting, our relationship to ourselves is reoriented toward God.

ALMSGIVING: Provides assistance to the poor among us and helps us recognize God as the true source of our security. Property and wealth exercise less control over us when we give away or share our wealth out of love for God and for others. Almsgiving is a way of bringing our relationship to others into the orbit of Christ’s love.

PRAYER Changes our relationship to God. Through prayer, we admit our need for a power that is greater than ourselves. We acknowledge our limitations and let go of the drive to control everything. In the process, we open ourselves to all that God has to offer us.

LENTEN REGULATIONS FOR FASTING AND ABSTINENCE The Church teaches that Catholics in good health are to observe the following practices during Lent unless for some serious reason they are unable to do so.

Catholics between the ages of 18 and 59 are obliged to fast on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday. In addition, all Catholics 14 years old and older must abstain from meat on Ash Wednesday, Good Friday and ALL the Fridays in Lent.

Fasting as explained by the US Bishops means partaking of only one full meal and two smaller meals that do not equal the main meal. Abstinence forbids the use of meat, but not to eggs, milk products or condiments made of animal fat.

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CHURCH NAME AND ADDRESS St. Isidore Church #022299 622 Pulaski Street Riverhead, NY 11901 TELEPHONE 631 727-2114 CONTACT PERSON Reina Bonocore SOFTWARE MSPublisher 2013 Adobe Acrobat 9.0 Windows 7 PRINTER HP Officejet J4580 Transmission Time Wednesday 11:45 SUNDAY DATE OF PUBLICATION February 23, 2020 NUMBER OF PAGES SENT 8 SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS