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St. John the Baptist R. C. Church 895 Piermont Avenue, Piermont, New York 10968
www.stjohnspiermont.org [email protected] 845-359-0078
June 5, 2016, Tenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Rev. Tom Kunnel, C.O.
Administrator
Deacon John Cunningham
Deacon Robert Pang
Kathleen Dunn
Religious Education Director
May Pang
Parish Admin: [email protected]
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 Noon (Spanish)
Dear Parish Family,
Everyone in some point in their life has to deal with the problem of pain, suffering, and death in the form of personal illness, death of a loved one or a natural calamity that claims
innocent lives. We need to go back to the genesis of it all and take a look at the story of Adam and Eve. We see that God did not create us to suffer and to die. Human life began in the Garden of Eden. We were made for happiness and for eternal life with God in a beautiful world like a garden. But it was human rejection of God’s plan, which brought about suffering and death. The Serpent planted the seed of doubt in our human hearts and like an infectious disease that has weakened us the rejection of God’s ways spreads. Cain kills Abel. Subsequently the disease spreads to others reaching the point where God has to start out all over again. He commands Noah to build an ark to save a precious few from the Flood. But God continues to love us in spite of our rebellion. Perhaps He loves us even more. With that realization we can see that one of the things that most often bring us to God is the adversity of sickness. Through the power of healing many people strengthen their faith and get a stronger belief in God. We find that truth in today’s first reading. The widow who has taken Elijah into her home is a good woman, a woman of faith, but one who has suffered adversity, similar to the woman of today’s Gospel account. Her husband had died, leaving her with a child, a cursed state in Hebrew times because women were so dependent on men. When Elijah is able to take the child and ask God for a cure and the child is cured her reaction is belief. “Now I know,” she declares, “that you are a man of God and that the word of the Lord in your mouth is true.” Elijah’s belief is strengthened, as we should well note. When Elijah first talks to God, it is in a questioning way, a way that almost takes God to task for the affliction of this woman who has been so hospitable to him. In fact, as in all our lives, God has not caused anything evil. The course of nature is such that people get sick. People die all the time. But like us, Elijah wants to see a cause, and he blames God. The cure comes with prayer of faith.
The Gospel reading for today reveals to us that God’s love is infinitely compassionate. In Christ, God’s healing compassion and love conquers even death itself. In the Gospel Narrative two processions of life and death meet at the gate of Nain. Jesus is entering the town with his en-tourage and a funeral cortege is leaving it. The Lord of life cannot let death overtake him. The principal aim of Jesus’ ministry was to pro-claim the triumph of life over death. So the Lord had to act at this in-stant. He was moved with a great compassion. In the gospels, there are three stories of Jesus raising the dead. In all the three he was moved with compassion. In one story, Jesus is moved by the pleading of Jairus (Lk 8:41-56); in the raising of Lazarus, Jesus is moved by the crying sisters and the crowd and he himself weeps (Jn 11:1-44), and in the story of today he is moved by the scene of the weeping widow who had lost her only son. All these stories have something very dramatic about the command for new life: “young man get up – young girl rise – Lazarus come out!” In Christ there takes place ‘New Creation’. Here lies the final answer to pain and suffering, human weakness and even-tual death. No serious seeker for answer can ever brush over the defini-tive plan of God in Christ to bring humanity to paradise and life with-out pain.
Fr. Tom Kunnel C.O.
THE SANCTUARY LAMP Is Being Offered this week
In Memory of
Vincent Koza
By Helen, Tony , Kathy Koza
Please remember in your prayers the Sick and/or Homebound of our Parish Family. Bill Stein, Ginny Tercer, Marcelo Giuliante, Caroline Kelly (M.Oslica’s niece), Nick Bruni, Mary & Joseph Lorio (Lee Garvey’s Parents), Isabelle Fenton, Tom Lynch, Antoinette Naglieri, Catherine Wright, Tebby DeMaio, Maureen O’Connor, Ralph Pilla, Anna Hickey, Ann Ely, Ella Beckerich
As a Parish Family, let us remember in our prayers all our beloved departed members of our Parish Community, Peggy McCann, mother of Cathy McCartin, John Brown father of Tom Brown, Ca-mille Petrilyak, mother of Geralyn O’Rouke
PLEASE ADVISE THE RECTORY (359-0078) WHEN-EVER A PARISHIONER BECOMES HOMEBOUND, ILL, OR HOS-PITALIZED SO ARRANGEMENTS CAN BE MADE FOR A PRIEST, DEACON OR EUCHARISTIC MINISTER TO VISIT AND BRING COMMUNION TO THEM.
6/4 5:00 PM Peter Wozniak by Helen, Tony, Kathy Koza
6/5
8:00 AM May & Charles McQuaid by Bark Family
10:30:AM Michael & Mary McLaughlin by Armstrong Family
6/6 8:00 AM Rozalia Kremlova by Mildred Oslica
6/7 8:00 AM Marie Belford by Ana Dumlao
6/8 8:00 AM Francis Taulman by Keith Taylor
6/9 8:00 AM Louis Corcino by CDA
6/10 8:00 AM Juan Agubelo by Diane Gensel
6/11
9:00 AM Ann Hennion by Mildred Oslica & Betty Keyes
5:00 PM Deacons 5th Anniversary by Deacons
6/12
8:00 AM James Murray by Eileen Murray
10:30 AM John Zahn by Family
Liturgy Schedule June 11/12
Day Time Lector Eucharistic
Minister Altar Servers
Saturday 6/11
5:00 PM Carol Conklin-Spillane Aishling Cavanaugh
Patrick Cavanaugh
Sunday 6/12
8:00 AM Fran Loftus Diana Gensel Michaela Duggan Freddie Steiffel
10:30 AM Christine Mooney Marge Olsen Gerry Caltagirone
Robert Royston
1:00 PM Arelis Martinez Marleni Lemus David Ortiz
Gloria Trinidad Justin Recinos
Alfredo Martinez April C. Matute
Elmer Mazariego
REGISTER FOR 2016-2017 St John's has classes for the following ages: Pre-Sch/Ktgn (Must be 4 years old) Grade 1 (English) Grade 1 (Spanish) Grade 2 (English Communion) Grade 2 (Spanish Communion) Grade 2 for older Hispanic Children (Communion) Grade 3 Grade 4 Grade 5 Grade 6 Grade 7 Grade 8 (Confirmation)
Class Times Sundays (9:00 - 10:30) Grades 1, 2 (English), 3, 4 & 5 Also Pre- Sch/Ktgn (10:30 - 11:15 am) Sundays (11:30 am - 1:00 pm) Spanish Classes Mondays (6:30 - 8:00 pm) Grades 6. 7 & 8 Registration Forms are available from the Church vestibule, the Rectory & from the table outside the Religious Education in the Church Hall. Please registered ASAP so materials and supplies can be ordered.
WE NEED YOUR HELP Volunteers are needed as Catechists and Office Helpers for the coming year. Remember, God doesn't call the qualified, He qualifies the called! Contact Kathleen Dunn at (845)942-2908 or [email protected]. Thank you.
6/5
8AM Blood Drive 11AM Baptism Prep Spanish 11:30AM Legion of Maria 7PM AA Meeting
6/6 1PM CDA Knitting 7:30PM Hispanic directors Meeting
6/7
10AM Lecture Class 6PM CDA Mass & Dinner Mtg 7PM Altar Server Prep and Practice 7PM Baptism Prep 7PM Spanish Scripture Study Group 7PM Bible Study Spanish
6/8 1:30PM Piermont Sr Meeting 7:30PM Spanish Choir Practice
6/9 1PM CDA Knitting 7PM Rios de Agua Viva Group 7PM Spanish Choir Practice
6/10 10AM Fri Renew Group 700PM Spanish Prayer Group 7:30PM Youth Group
6/11 10AM Youth Retreat
6PM Wedding Rehearsal
5/29 Collection: $3,751
Cardinal:s Appeal Pledged: #34,062
May 15 # 162 Anna Marchese
May 22 #21 George O’Shea
May 28 #86 Chris Aimi
SAVE A LIFE—
DONATE BLOOD TODAY
SUNDAY - 6/5 8:45AM—2:45PM
25th & 50th
Anniversary Couples
A special Mass celebration on
June 12 at 10:30 AM.
Please let the Rectory know if you
are celebrating your silver or gold
anniversary and can be with us on
that day.
Volunteers Needed for Summer Hospitality
Contact [email protected]
or text 596-0459 to sign up or
Sign up sheet in kitchen
DOMINICAN CONVENT 175 ROUTE 340 SPARKILL, NY 10976
In “ Return of the Prodigal Son: A Story of Homecoming” (Image Books), Henri
Nouwen reflects on the well-known parable through the lens of Rembrandt’s classic de-
piction of it. Over the course of the book,
Nouwen sees himself in the waywardness of
the younger brother, he sees himself in the self-righteousness of the
elder brother, and ultimately, he sees that’s he’s called to become like
the compassionate, welcoming Father in his grief, his forgiveness and
his generosity.
Near the end of the book, having reflected on the many ways in which
we are all the younger brother who squanders what’s entrusted to us,
and how we’re all the elder brother standing aloof, thinking ourselves
better than our brother, he turns to the wonderful truth that even so
we’re invited to the Father’s embrace and celebration. Our world is
marked by much that is not right, much that is broken. But the Christian
hope is that one day all things will be made new, and that will be cause
for some real joyful celebration. In the meantime, however, there are
small joys. “I don’t have to wait until all is well,” Nouwen writes, “but I
can celebrate every little hint of the Kingdom that is at hand.” We live
simultaneously in the already and the not yet.
When Jesus speaks about the world, he is very realistic. He speaks about
wars and revolutions, earthquakes, plagues and famines, persecution and
imprisonment, betrayal, hatred and assassinations. There is no sugges-
tion at all that these signs of the world’s darkness will ever be absent.
But still, God’s joy can be ours in the midst of it all. It is the joy of be-
longing to the household of God whose love is stronger than death and
who empowers us to be in the world while already belonging to the
kingdom of joy. This is the secret of the joy of the saints. From St. An-
thony of the desert, to St. Francis of Assisi, to Frere Roger Shultz of
Taize, to Mother Teresa of Calcutta, joy has been the mark of the people
of God. That joy can be seen on the faces of the many simple, poor, and
often suffering people who live today among great economic and social
upheaval, but who can already hear the music and the dance in the Fa-
ther’s house. I, myself, see this joy every day in the faces of the mental-
ly handicapped people of my community. All these holy men and wom-
en, whether they lived long ago or belong to our own time, can recog-
nize the many small returns that take place every day and rejoice with
the Father. They have somehow pierced the meaning of true joy. (pp.
116-7)
Father’s Day Prayer Card Requests are available in the Vestibule.
Save the Date June 25, 2016
After 5:00 PM Mass
International Celebration
Fr. Tom’s Birthday
Pot Luck International Dinner
Bring your Best Ethnic Food
Let’s celebrate our diversity!
Sign up after Mass.
LECTURAS DE HOY: 1 Reyes 17:17-24; Sal-mo 29; Gálatas 1:11-19; Lucas 7:11-17
LECTURAS DE LA SEMANA Lunes: 1 Re 17:1-6; Sal 121 (120):1bc-8; Mt 5:1-12
Martes: 1 Re 17:7-16; Sal 4:2-5, 7b-8; Mt 5:13-16
Miércoles:1 Re 18:20-39; Sal 16 (15):1b-2ab, 4,
5ab, 8, 11; Mt 5:17-19
Jueves: 1 Re 18:41-46; Sal 65 (64):10-13; Mt 5:20-
26
Viernes: 1 Re 19:9a, 11-16; Sal 27 (26):7-9abc, 13-14;
Mt 5:27-32
Sábado: Hch 11:21b-26; 13:1-3; Sal 16 (15):1b-2a, 5,
7-10; Mt 5:33-37
Domingo: 2 Sm 12:7-10, 13; Sal 32 (31):1-2, 5, 7, 11;
Gal 2:16, 19-21; Lc 7:36 — 8:3 [7:36-50]
Décimo Domingo del Tiempo Ordinario
ESPERANZA Y VIDA
Las Escrituras del hoy nos cuentan la historia de dos viudas. La primera lectura relata la difícil situación en la que vivía la viuda con la que el profeta Elías se quedó y el Evangelio cuenta la historia de la viuda de Naín, en cada una de es-tas historias a cada viuda el hijo único de ellas murió. En la cultura de esos países en ese tiem-po, el hijo era el sustento para la viuda y quien además continuaba la descendencia familiar que era igual a la inmortalidad. La viuda cuyo único hijo hubiera muerto perdía toda esperanza.
Elías y Jesús son los restauradores de espe-ranza; ellos devuelven la vida a sus hijos. San Pablo, metafóricamente hablando, revivió de la muerte a la vida cuando él se convirtió después de la llamada de Dios de la que él habla en la se-gunda lectura.
¿A qué están llamados los cristianos hoy en día? Quizá no podemos revivir de la muerte, pe-ro quizá podemos reanimar la esperanza de un padre o una madre soltera. Quizá no podemos convertir a un perseguidor como Pablo, pero si abiertamente hacemos vida el Evangelio en nuestras vidas, podríamos tocar una vida con la Buena Nueva.
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 domingos 11am.
LA PRESENCIA DE DIOS Date cuenta que por encima de todo estás en la presencia de Dios... vacíate por completo y siéntate a esperar, contento con la gracia de Dios, como un po-lluelo que no prueba ni come nada sino de lo que su madre le da.
El Sabado 29 de Mayo en el salón parroquial (Connell Hall), la co-munidad Hispana, tu-vo un concierto de ala-banza. Participaron Mensajeros de Jesús, Amigos de Jesús, Efeta, y Euridy. También hubo tiempo para rezar el Santo Ro-dario y para una pré-dica.
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, Paul Johnson Deanery Maureen O’Connell Eucharistic Adoration Dcn Robert Pang Health Mary Loftus Hispanic Community Micaelina Maldonado/ Geny Aguilar Hospitality Robin Miller Men’s Club Bill Loftus. Ralph Olsen Ushers Jake Miraglia Music Elise Espinosa,Chris & Carolyn Yates, Ted Simone Spanish Choir Carlos Cerna Outreach Maria Nest Parish Council Scott Giblin Parish Worship Dcn John Cunningham Religious Education Kathleen Dunn RCIA Dcn Robert Pang, Jose Bolaños Right to Life Scott Giblin Social Kelli Chilson Spiritual Life Johanna Krumm St. Vincent De Paul Fr. Tom Kunnel
P A R I S H C O U N C I L Kelli Chilson, Kathleen Dunn, Scott Giblin. Paul Johnson, Andrew Lee,
Martina Lynch, Cruz Molina, Maria Nest , Ralph Olsen, May Pang,
Amy Ramundo, Carolyn Yates, Janet Zahn
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
available on 1st Fridays of the month at 7 PM and 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, call Fr. Tom’s mobile 845 608 9358.
Holy Orders: Any gentleman interested in exploring the question of voca-
tion 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,
Confirmation 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
FromJoyfulNoiseletter.com Reprinted with permission of ©Harley L. Schwadron
“He claims it’s a form of ‘profiling’ by discriminating against the wicked.” “Christ laid down his life for us: we should be ready
to lay down our life for our brothers …” 1 Jn. 3:16
