Rev. Tom Kunnel, C.O. Administrator

frtomkunnel@gmail.com

Deacon John Cunningham Deacon Robert Pang

Kathleen Dunn Religious Education Director

May Pang Parish Admin: admin@stjohnspiermont.org

MASSES

Saturday: 5:00 PM Sunday: 8:00 AM, 10:30 AM

1:00 PM (Spanish) Weekdays: 8:00 AM Saturday: 9:00 AM

Holy Days: As Announced

Rectory

Mon – Fri 10:15 AM – 4:00 PM

Sat 10 AM – 12 AM (Spanish)

August Sponsor: the D’Auria Grandchildren

Happy 60th Wedding Anniversary

Mr. & Mrs. Joseph D’Auria

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Dear Parish Family, Our Human Life revolves around FOUR LIVES, which are intertwined - our work life, our love life, faith life and our food life. Within this context, it is fascinating how much of our lives is linked to the food

part. We are indeed what we eat; physically we become what we con-sume. Our family and social relationships are most frequently experi-enced around meals, and summer time is particularly significant be-cause of our meeting to eat! For many of us, much of our work life—from farming, through processing, packaging, shopping, advertising, retailing, to cooking and serving—is food-related. And the physical side of this food life is a natural symbolic expression of our mental and spiritual life. Disorders related to the need to please others or to take charge of one's life can result in anorexia and bulimia. Going deeper, religious literature speaks easily of our appetite for wis-dom and understanding as a ‘hunger and thirst of the spirit’, satisfied only by a fitting relationship with the source of all, God. Many of the Psalms allude to this, so too the ultimate longing and promise of an Eternal Banquet. The rabbis drew on this tradition when they interpret-ed the deeper meaning of manna of Exodus as symbolic of the Torah, the word of God which satisfies the hunger of the human spirit for wis-dom and understanding. These realities of human food life and biblical imagery help us grasp the power of Jesus’ assertion that he is the true bread from heaven. This is not first of all a reference to the Eucharist. It is first an application to Jesus of the wisdom understanding of the manna tradition. It is he—known through faith as the Word of God made flesh and revealed most fully in his death and resurrection—who can satisfy our deepest hunger to know what life means and who we are in order to live it. Understood that way, the further application to Eucharist means even more. The miracle of the Eucharist in some way challenges our tendency and power to control everything as the result of our human ingenuity and skill. Again the miracle of the Eucharist baffles our intellect as it cannot be grasped fully by our rational sensi-bilities. How does Divinity reside in the bread and wine or how do we become one with Divinity when we consume the Bread and Wine, now become the Body and Blood of Christ? Christian de Cherge, the Trappist Abbott who was martyred in Algeria in 1996, tells this story of his first communion. He grew up in a Roman Catholic family in France and on the day of his first communion he said to his mother: “I don’t understand what I’m doing.” She an-swered simply: “It’s okay, you don’t have to understand it now, later you will understand.” “I am the bread of life. No one who comes to me shall ever be hungry; no one who believes in me shall thirst again.” This is not easy to be-lieve, to say the least. It demands a great effort for us to let go of the illusion that we can ultimately feed or save ourselves. But this faith is precisely what Christ requires of us. The Sacred Eucharistic Liturgy is not just a meal we have made, not just fellowship, not something we have artistically dreamed up. Its reality does not depend upon our inge-nuity or virtue, our expertise in preaching or singing. It is fundamental-ly an act and gift of God. Our act and gift in return is to receive it, to be nourished by it, to believe it.

Fr. Tom Kunnel. C.O.

Please remember in your prayers the Sick and/or Homebound of our Parish Family. Thomas Mooney, Molly Robinson Cameron Robinson, Ron Rebers, Anne Bazala, Helen Koza, Madlen Moson, Marge Culletto, Bill Loftus, Carolyn, Margaret O’Bri-en, Joe Dennerlein

As a Parish Family, let us remember in our prayers all our beloved departed members of our Parish Community, Elaine Morrissey, mother of John Mor-rissey, Javier Monzon, Antoinette Galella, Ted Simone’s aunt, Clarita Silva, mother of Freida So-riano, Kevin Ramsay, son of Richard Ramsay, Charles Pane, John Set, uncle of Dcn Rob, Mark Pietro, Charles Smith, brother of Kathryn Smith, Sue Ann Esposito, Eileen Carley, Marie Berardi, Louis Berardi, John Luckie, Evelyn Wenke-Daly, sister of Carol Gibbs, Harry Gibbs, Barbara Murphy, Louisa Palermo ,PLEASE ADVISE THE RECTORY (359-0078) WHENEVER A PARISHION-ER BECOMES HOMEBOUND, ILL, OR HOSPITALIZED SO ARRANGE-MENTS CAN BE MADE FOR A PRIEST, DEACON OR EUCHARISTIC MINISTER TO VISIT AND BRING COMMUNION TO THEM.

THE SANCTUARY LAMP Is Being Offered this week for

Anthony Sassano Requested by

Angie Sassano & Family

Sat 8/4 5:00 PM Sue Ann Esposito By Mildred Oslica

Sun 8/5

8:00 AM Sue Ann Esposito By Ted Simon & Buzz Johnson

10:30 PM Patrick Cox By Armstrong Family

Mon 8/6 8:00 AM Sue Esposito Jean DeLongis

Tue 8/7 8:00 AM Harry Gibbs By Jean DeLongis

Wed 8/8 8:00 AM Jonathan Soriano (Intentions)

By Family

Thu 8/9 8:00 AM Jennifer & Family (healing) By Mildred Oslica

Fri 8/10 8:00 AM Andrew Oslica By Mildred Oslica

Sat 8/11

9:00 AM Sue Ann Esposito Ana Dumlao

5:00 PM Ralph Rispoli By Joe & Laurie Rispoli

Sun 8/12

8:00 AM Harry Gibbs By Lee McGarvey & Mike Keyes

10:30 AM Ellen Rodgers By Armstrong Family

It's that time again to get serious about registering your youngsters for 2018 - 2019. Sunday classes will begin just 6 weeks from to-day. Sunday, Sept.16 will be our OPENING DAY. It will also be our first FAMILY MASS for the new year. Monday classes will resume the following day - September 17. Here are some Information Highlights to help you better understand our Religious Education Program:

SUNDAY CLASSES English Grades 1 - 5 meet from 9 - 10:30 am Kindergarten is from 10:30 - 11:15 am Spanish Grades 1 - 5 meet from 11:30 am - 1 pm

MONDAY CLASSES All Grades 6 - 8 meet from 6:30 - 8 pm *** A Registration Form must be filled out for each child and returned to the Rectory or R.E. Office each year. A copy of the child's Baptismal Certificate must be included with the Registration Form even if he/she was baptized here at St. John's. All children are expected to participate in Mass every week. All Religious Education families are expected to take part in our monthly Family Masses.

Thank you for taking care of registration.

Readings No. 905 18th Sunday in Ordinary Time

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Liturgy Schedule August 11/12

Time Lector Eucharistic Minister Altar Servers Saturday 5:00 PM Pamela Pekar

8/11

Sunday

8/12

8:00 AM Catherine O’Brien Lynn Dennerlein 10:30 AM Barbara O’Brien Jeanne Sheehan Alanis Diaz

Emmanuel Nova 11:30 PM Santiago Nova Magdalena Maldonado Pedro Aguilar Erasmo Maldonado Emmanuel Nova Armando Guzman Alison Palma Marvin Vivar Jakie Mazariego

Anthony Diaz

Sun 5-Aug 11:30AM Legion of Mary

7PM AA Meeting

Mon 6-Aug

Tues 7-Aug

7PM Altar Server Prep

7PM Directiva Meeting

7PM Catholic Daughter Meeting

7PM Baptism Prep

Wed 8-Aug 1:30PM Piermont Sr Meeting

7PM Amigos de Jesus Choir Practice

Thu 9-Aug 7PM Mesajeros de Jesus Chour Practice

Fri 10-Aug 10AM Fri Renew Group

7PM Spanish Prayer Meeting

Sat 11-Aug 11AM Baptism

Congratulations to the parents and godparent of beloved child of God, may Baptism be the beginning of a life of faith and a heart full of good-

ness and love.

Will be reported next week

7/29 $3,545

TODAY'S READINGS GOD'S WORK We are so busy! Most of us have more than one job to do, and we never seem to have enough time. We are workers, volunteers, parents, friends, and most of us are more than one thing at a time. But which of these is the work of God? We seldom view our ordinary work as being the work of God. We may think that we have to be ministers or priests, missionaries or charity workers, engaged full-time in works formally identified as being "God's work." But everything we do with a faithful heart and with love for others is God's work. We each have our own role to fill in the world, and many gifts are necessary. We cannot always see the direct connection of our daily work to the plan of God. But we trust and we believe that God leads us to do what is needed, where it is needed. What is "God's work?" "This is the work of God, that you believe in the one he sent" (John 6:29).

READINGS FOR THE WEEK

First Reading -- I will rain down bread from heav-en for you (Exodus 16:2-4, 12-15). Psalm -- The Lord gave them bread from heaven (Psalm 78). Second Reading -- Put on the new self that has been created in God's way (Ephesians 4:17, 20-24). Gospel -- Whoever comes to me will never hunger, and whoever believes in me will never thirst (John 6:24-35).

Sat, 9/29 7PM

$40 / Ticket or Vote Tickets 1/$10 3/$25

BYOB BYOF

We will provide light snacks

and desserts.

Fundraiser—Proceeds to go towards build-ing a handicap bathroom in vestibule of the

church.

We must never forget that the Church is built around Christ and that, as Saint Augustine, Saint Thomas Aquinas and Saint Albert the Great have all said, following Saint Paul (cf. 1 Corinthians 10:17), the Eucharist is the sacrament of the Church's unity, be-cause we all form one single body of which the Lord is the head. We must go back again and again to the Last Supper on Holy Thursday, where we were given a pledge of the mystery of our redemption on the Cross. The Last Supper is the locus of the nas-cent Church, the womb containing the Church of every age. In the Eucharist, Christ's sacrifice is constantly renewed, Pentecost is constantly renewed. May all of you become ever more deeply aware of the importance of the Sunday Eucharist, because Sun-day, the first day of the week, is the day when we honor Christ, the day when we receive the strength to live each day the gift of God.

I would also like to invite the pastors and faithful to a renewed care in their preparation for reception of the Eucharist. Despite our weakness and our sin, Christ wills to make his dwelling in us, asking him for healing. To bring this about, we must do every-thing that is in our power to receive him with a pure heart, cease-lessly rediscovering, through the sacrament of penance, the puri-ty that sin has stained, "putting our soul and our voice in ac-cord," according to the invitation of the Council (cf. Sacrosanctum Concilium, No.11). In fact, sin, especially grave sin, is opposed to the action of Eucharistic grace in us. However, those who cannot go to communion because of their situation, will find nevertheless in a communion of desire and in participation in the Mass saving strength and efficacy.

The Eucharist is not a meal among friends. It is a mystery of cov-

enant. "The prayers and the rites of the Eucharistic sacrifice make the whole history of salvation revive ceaselessly before the eyes of our soul, in the course of the liturgical cycle, and make us penetrate ever more its significance" (Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, [Edith Stein], Wege zur inneren Stille Aschaffen-burg, 1987, p. 67). We are called to enter into this mystery of covenant by conforming our life increasingly every day to the gift received in the Eucharist. It has a sacred character, as Vati-can Council II reminds: "Every liturgical celebration, because it is an action of Christ the priest and of His Body which is the Church, is a sacred action surpassing all others; no other action of the Church can equal its efficacy by the same title and to the same degree " (Sacrosanctum Concilium, No. 7). In a certain way, it is a "heavenly liturgy," anticipation of the banquet in the eternal Kingdom, proclaiming the death and resurrection of Christ, until he comes (cf. 1 Corinthians 11:26).

In order that the People of God never lack ministers to give them the Body of Christ, we must ask the Lord to make the gift of new priests to his Church. I also invite you to transmit the call to the priesthood to young men, so that they will accept with joy and without fear to respond to Christ. They will not be disappointed. May families be the primordial place and the cra-dle of vocations. Pope Benedict XVI

LECTURAS DE HOY Primera lectura -- Voy a hacer que llueva pan del cielo (Exodo 16:2-4, 12-15). Salmo -- El Señor les dio pan del cielo (Salmo 77). Segunda lectura -- Revístanse del nuevo yo, creado a imagen de Dios (Efesios 4:17, 20-24). Evangelio -- El que viene a mí no tendrá hambre, y el que cree en mí nunca tendrá sed (Juan 6:24-35).

EL TRABAJO QUE DIOS QUIERE ¡Estamos tan ocupados! Muchos de nosotros tenemos más de un trabajo y parecería que nunca tenemos suficiente tiempo. Somos trabajadores, voluntarios, padres, amigos y la mayoría es más de una cosa a la vez. Pero, ¿cuál de estos es el trabajo que Dios quiere? Rara vez vemos nuestro trabajo común como el trabajo que Dios quiere. Quizás pensamos que debemos ser ministros o sacerdotes, misioneros o benefactores, que debemos realiz-ar trabajos de tiempo completo que se consideran como "las obras de Dios". Pero todo lo que hacemos con un cora-zón fiel y con amor por el prójimo es una obra de Dios. Ca-da uno tiene un papel que cumplir en el mundo y muchos dones son necesarios. No siempre podemos ver la relación directa que existe entre nuestro trabajo diario y los de-signios de Dios. Pero confiamos y tenemos fe en que Dios nos guía a hacer lo que es necesario, cuando es necesario. ¿Cuál es "la obra de Dios?" "La obra de Dios consiste en que crean en aquél a quien él ha enviado" (Juan 6:29).

LECTURAS DE LA SEMANA Lunes: Dn 7:9-10, 13-14; Sal 96:1-2, 5-6, 9; 2 Pe 1:16-19; Mc 9:2-10 Martes: Jer 30:1-2, 12-15, 18-22; Sal 101:16-21, 29, 22-23; Mt 14:22-36 o Mt 15:1-2, 10-14 Miércoles: Jer 31:1-7; Jer 31:10, 11-12ab, 13; Mt 15:21-28 Jueves: Jer 31:31-34; Sal 50:12-15, 18-19; Mt 16:13-23 Viernes: 2 Cor 9:6-10; Sal 111):1-2, 5-8; Jn 12:24-26 Sábado: Hb 1:12 -- 2:4; Sal 9:8-13; Mt 17:14-20 Domingo: 1 Re 19:4-8; Sal 33:2-9; Ef 4:30 5:2;

Para los cursos pre-bautismales llamar a: .Alex Aguilar 845-480-1502 y Natalia Lemus 845-480-1682. Los cursos se dan previa cita los martes 7pm y do-mingo 11am.

P A R I S H M I N I S T R I E S & C H A I R Buildings & Grounds Pat Miele, Alex Aguilar Eucharistic Adoration Dcn Robert Pang Health Mary Loftus Hispanic Community Mario Zamora, Marili Mendoza Palma Ministerios Marianos Luis y Aida Cachichabla Hospitality Robin Miller Men’s Club Bill Loftus. Ralph Olsen Ushers Jake Miraglia Music Elise Espinosa, Chris & Carolyn Yates, Ted Simone & Eileen Petersen Spanish Choir Carlos Cerna, William Martinez Outreach Maria Nest Parish Council Ralph Olsen Parish Worship Dcn John Cunningham Religious Education Kathleen Dunn RCIA Dcn Robert Pang, Jose Bolaños Catholic Daughters Marge Olson Right to Life Scott Giblin Social May Pang Spiritual Life Johanna Krumm St. Vincent De Paul Fr. Tom Kunnel

P A R I S H C O U N C I L Alex Aguilar, Kathleen Dunn, Jonathan/Dominika Fanning,

Lucia/Sal Caruana, Alex Flores, Andrew Lee, Maria Nest, Ralph Olsen, Marge Olsen, May Pang, Ray/Beverly Sambrotto

T R U S T E E S Phil McCartin James Pontone

Our Sacramental Life

Baptism: Please call the Rectory well in advance of the expected day of Baptism to arrange an appointment for an interview. Pre-baptismal meeting for parents is required. Godparents must be confirmed, practicing Catholics. Generally Baptisms are celebrated the third Sunday of each month at 12:00 pm.

Reconciliation: Confessions are heard from 4:30-5:00 pm on Saturday. You may also make an appointment with Fr. Tom. Spanish confessions is availa-ble from 12:30–1:00 PM on Sundays.

Marriage: Marriages should be arranged at least six months in advance. Participation in Pre-Cana is essential. Please call the Rectory to schedule an appointment with Fr. Tom.

Anointing of the Sick: Before you enter the hospital for elective surgery or other serious treatment, and for those who have need of spiritual healing. In an emergency, please call Fr. Tom’s mobile 845 608 9358.

Holy Orders: Any gentleman interested in exploring the question of vocation to the priesthood or the permanent diaconate should contact Fr. Tom Kunnel. We would also be happy to direct anyone interested in living their lives as Religious Sisters or Brothers.

Rite of Christian Initiation for Adults: For instruction for Baptism, Confirma-tion and Eucharist for adults and to learn about Catholic Faith. If interested please contact Dcn Robert Pang.

For more details and forms—www.stjohnspiermont.org

Parish Registration: All adults (over age 21) should register in the parish themselves and should use envelopes or parishpay.com. Tithing is 5% of income. This registration is our only means of certifying anyone as a member of the parish, especially for Baptism and Confirmation sponsorship letters and for scheduling Baptisms and Weddings.