HOLY INNOCENTS PARISH 431 BEDFORD ROAD, PLEASANTVILLE, NY

“WE GATHER TO PRAISE, TO BLESS AND TO PROCLAIM.”

AUGUST 6, 2017

PARISH STAFF Fr. Hugh L. Burns, OP, Pastor

Fr. Daniel Davies, OP Fr. Frank Sutman, OP Fr. Gregory Doherty, OP (In Residence)

Maria Lamorgese 769-3297, x1 Director of Religious Education Joe DeSanctis 514-8731 Music Director Loretta Hotter 769-0025 Sacristan Eileen Bruehl 769-0025 x11 Parish Coordinator Thomas Conaty 769-0025 x30 Youth Minister Barbara Mackin 769-0025 x22 Business Manager afortino@hiparish.org Bulletin Editor

431 Bedford Road, Pleasantville, NY 10570 (914) 769-0025,FAX: (914) 747-2476

Website: www.hiparish.org

OFFICE HOURS Monday-Friday: 9am-3pm

Saturday: 11am-5pm Sunday: 9am-1pm

MASS SCHEDULE Saturday: 5:15pm Sunday: 7:30am, 9:00am Children’s Choir, 11am

and 5:15pm

Daily: 7:00am Monday to Saturday

12:15pm Monday-Friday during Lent

Our Lady of Pompeii, Saratoga Avenue Sunday: 10:00am

SACRAMENT OF RECONCILIATION: Saturdays: 4:30-5:00pm in the church; all other times by request.

Please call the office for an appointment.

SACRAMENT OF BAPTISM: Please call the Parish Office to make arrangements for our Baptismal Preparation Program, several weeks in advance of the baby’s birth.

SACRAMENT OF MATRIMONY: By appointment at least 6 months in advance.

A pre-Cana program is required.

SACRAMENT OF THE SICK: As scheduled, or anytime a priest is called. Please notify us when

a family member enters the hospital.

NEW PARISHIONERS: You are cordially invited to join our parish community.

Please stop in at the Parish Office.

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Evening Vigil 5:15 Robert & Paul Marino THE TRANSFIGURATION OF THE LORD 7:30 Our Parishioners 9:00 Florence Doyle 10:00 (OLP) Deceased of the Nicolai Family 11:00 Bill Caldera 5:15 Stephen Akalski

Monday, Weekday 7:00 Anne Blank

Tuesday, Saint Dominic, Priest 7:00 Joseph Stagliano

Wednesday, Weekday 7:00 Laurice Keyloun

Thursday, Saint Lawrence, Deacon and Martyr 7:00 Evelyne Cerrone

Friday, Saint Clare, Virgin 7:00 Marietta & Costanzo Spedaliere

Saturday, Weekday 7:00 Joan Carr

Evening Vigil 5:15 The Samborski Family 19TH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME 7:30 Our Parishioners 9:00 Mary Moran 10:00 (OLP) The Francioli & Cerri Family 11:00 Elena Braia 5:15 Bruce Thomas

Please visit the Parish Office to make arrangements

for Memorial Intentions

The Sanctuary Lamp at Holy Innocents burns

in Memory of Glen LaMonica

The Sanctuary Lamp at Our Lady of Pompeii burns in Memory of Joann Kramer

2017 FINANCE CORNER

Regular Maintenance July 2 $ 6,556.17 Church in Africa $ 1,675.00 July 9 $ 7,268.25 $ 2,381.00 July 16 $ 5,899.02 July 23 $ 6,578.49 July 30 $ 6,594.72

Please pray for the safety of our men and women in the military, especially those who are serving overseas.

Dennis Catozella, Jimmy Fleming, Joyce Scholz Deborah Migliorini, Antonio Soto, Mary Pat & Jack McMahon, Betty Burns, Mary Renna, Barbara Walters, Juan Portillo, Jacques Padawer, Kathy FioRito, Bonnie Proudian, Jeanne Cibirka, Lucia Carlucci, Jennifer Schneider, Elsie Vernon, Richard and Maryann Colucci, Maria Provenzano, Lee Franco, Adele Casagrande, Joseph Drago, Gabrielle Sanchez, Olivia Bendus, Linda Iorizzo, Judy Chriss, Jane Chitty, Jean Balzone, Bernadette Harris, Angela Lynch, Beth Frankoviac, Rocco Zacarolli, Robert Sarro, Irene Ramirez, Eleanor Stockel, Nate Smith, Matthew Ryan Taylor, Nicholas Torres, Cathy Policastro, Mary Bachmann, Jaspare Miranda, Stephen Mercatili, Ray Aldes, Cissy Patane, Arthur Woods, Rose Cipriano, Hernan Rebagliati, Bridget Tidd, Jane Richardson (Dublin, Ireland), Helen Burton, Julia Sessa, Sean Murphy, Kathleen Shortall, Baby George Driscoll, Michael Garris, Kevin Keane, Barbara Brady, Gavin Brady, Tara Morstatt, Emma Murphy, Gina Linss, Jackie Mastrolillo, Brendan Lennon, Claudia Brooks, Lil DeCarlo, Gidget Jimenez, Nicholas Kochek, Brian Egitto, Walter Morris, Anna Hutchinson, Kathy McCann, Mary Sheehan, Dorothy Schnabel, Joseph DeSanctis, Kathy Lardaro, Lina Spedaliere, Emily Arceri

MEMORIAL INTENTIONS

OFFERTORY GIFTS Family members of those for whom a Mass is offered are welcome to present the Offertory Gifts to the celebrant at the Altar. Please identify yourself to one of the Ushers or the Celebrant before Mass begins.

CONDOLENCES We extend our sympathy and promise of prayers

to the family and friends of

Joann Kramer (Mother of John)

Robert R. Iovino (Husband of Maria, Father of Robert)

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Pastor’s Poetry Post-Its

“I AM NOT ITALIAN”

“25th & 50th” WEDDING ANNIVERSARY

CELEBRATION

Holy Innocents is planning a celebration on Sunday, October 15th for those parishioners who are celebrating their 25th or 50th Wedding Anniversary during 2017. Participants will be recognized at the 11am Mass followed by a reception in our Social Hall. If you are celebrating either Wedding Anniversary this year, please register with the parish office by calling 769-0025.

I am not Italian, technically speaking,

yet here I am leaning on a zinc bar in Florence

on a sunny weekday morning,

my foot up on the smooth iron railing

just like the other men, who,

it must be said, are officially and fully Italian.

It’s 8:40 and they are off to work,

some in offices, others sweeping the streets,

while I am off to a museum or a church

to see paintings, maybe light a candle in an alcove.

Yet here we all are in our suits and work shirts

joined in the brotherhood of espresso,

or how is it said? La fratellanza dell’espresso,

draining our little white cups

with a quick flourish of the wrist,

each of us tasting the same sweetness of life,

if you take a little sugar, and the bitterness of its

brevity, whether you choose to take sugar or not.

Billy Collins

(b. 1941, Poet Laureate 2001-2003)

The Parish Office is closed on weekends during the month of August.

A Mass sponsored by The Westchester Foundation for Autism

is celebrated on the second Sunday of each month at Our Lady of Pompeii at 1:30pm.

(Please note, the Church is not wheelchair accessible)

The next Mass will be celebrated on

Sunday, August 13th

“AUGUST” PARISH CALENDAR

Lectio Divina Tuesdays at 11:00am

Baptisms

August 13th & August 27th at 12:30pm

Holy Day of Obligation: August 15th

Masses

Monday, August 14th—5:15pm Vigil

Tuesday, August 15th—7:00am, 12:15pm & 7pm

Friday, August 18th

“Children’s Veggie Tale Movie Night”

RENEW AND REBUILD

The New York Archdiocese “Renew and Rebuild” campaign has begun at Holy Innocents. This is a major five year capital campaign which will address the infrastructure needs at our parish and support important archdiocesan objectives. Monies raised will be shared (26% to archdiocese, 74% to Holy Innocents) and the first year of this campaign will include the 2017 Cardinal’s Appeal. The archdiocesan Cardinal’s Appeal w i l l r e t u r n i n 2 0 1 8 . We have identified specific areas that are in need of attention at Holy Innocents. Replacing the HVAC is our number one financial obligation and repairs are underway. Other needs identified include improving the acoustics in the social hall, installing security cameras, and repairing the rectory roof. Projects will be scheduled based on the amount of money raised. I and parish volunteers have already begun contacting parishioners for this campaign and solicitations will continue by phone and by mail as "Renew and Rebuild i s r o l l e d o u t i n f u l l t h i s a u t u m n . I thank you sincerely for your prayerful support of this major financial initiative which will help sustain our parish.

Father Hugh Burns, OP

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EVBS starts Monday, August 7th through Friday, August 11th at the Presbyterian Church. Many of our volunteers and children of our Parish will be participating. We are anticipating a spirit-filled week of worship, crafts, songs and activities.

Dear God, You fill Your world with a season of summer of summer delights. Sunshine, warm breezes, a

slower pace to enjoy Your creation. Fill us with the joy of this season.

We gather around Your Word in the midst of our

summer. May our days together lead to new friendships, new activity, new insights and a

strengthened relationship with You. May Your Spirit shower upon our teachers, leaders, and volunteers;

giving energy, creativity and patience. May Your love embrace the children and young people who

join us for Bible School so they may come to know you more deeply. May your people experience good

fellowship in these days as we study, create and play.

Bless us as we seek to learn from Your Word

And to share Your love. As you gather us in for Summer Bible School, send us out beyond this place to show the world what we have

come to know: that Your grace, welcome and wonder are for all!

Amen.

Maria Lamorgese, Director 914-769-3297 Ext. 1 mlamorgese@hiparish.org

The Music Ministry shares our parish’s sadness in the loss of Joann Kramer on Friday, July 28

th. Her son

John, is one of our Adult Choir cantors. We are all deeply saddened by this loss and extend our deepest sympathy to John, and his extended family. Joann was a great friend and supporter of our ministry and usually sat near the choir. While she greeted each of us and cheered our efforts, it was quite easy to see a mother’s love and pride each time she watched and listened to her son sing. She was a wonderful role model of faith and service to the parish, and was involved almost from the moment she joined in 1994. She had many friends within the parish and spent time getting to know new parishioners and welcoming them to Holy Innocents. Joann will be missed, but we pray with John, that she is at peace and happily reunited with her husband, Norman Charles. We are grateful for all she gave to the parish, and grateful to have John in our ministry. Today, August 6

th, the Feast of the Transfiguration of

the Lord, is John’s birthday. He continues his mother’s legacy of living the faith and serving our Lord. “To everything there is a season; a time to be born and a time to die. A time to plant and a time for harvest; a time to meet and a time to part.”

August Food Needs:

Cereal, Pancake Flour, Pancake Syrup, Brown Rice, Pasta, Canned Tuna, Canned Corn,

Chef Boyardee Products, Jelly

Holy Innocents' American Heritage Girls Troop is forming units for 2017-18. We invite you to gather your daughter and her friends, and join us! AHG gives girls a scouting experience that is not only fun and adventurous, but also based in faith and character-formation. AHG leaders can tailor their groups to their interests, with excellent program support and resources. No experience necessary; just a desire to help girls grow socially and spiritually, in life skills, leadership, and teamwork. AHG is for girls in kindergarten through high school. Units are based on age, and meet Fridays once a month 6:00-7:30pm, with occasional weekend service projects.

Anyone interested in leading an AHG unit and/or signing up a daughter, please contact Justine at pvilleahg@gmail.com.

PICTURES MISSING FROM Our Lady of Pompeii

Framed pictures are missing from the back shelf at Our Lady of Pompeii. We need these pictures for

our 100th Anniversary celebration. If any one has moved or borrowed them,

please return them to the church.

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The YG Returns

The Youth Group has returned from another amazing mission trip!

The high school teens in our youth group has once again represented Holy Innocents in a way we can all

be proud.

Our teens and chaperones served the migrant farm workers and their families in Eastern Shore Virginia for

six days.

We worked in a Kids Day Camp created for the children of these families. Each day the children were

picked up from trailer park locations, laughed and played with our youth though out the day, and were brought back home by our bus. We served the largest group of kids ever!

Thank you to all the parishioners who donated books, arts and craft materials, and more to the cause. We

brought so many fine-quality books from you that we could set up a small library for the children to enjoy though out the summer and beyond.

Our youth group also worked at a homeless shelter, thrift shop, food bank, brain trauma center, and an

elderly woman’s rundown home clearing, mowing, planting, and painting.

Staff members for Youth Works always comments on how our youth group comes eager to WORK!

I have mission trip t-shirts for parishioners who donated to our mission. Please stop by my office while

they last.

Thank you to our chaperones who once again gave an extraordinary effort in loving this community and

our own teens! They are: Wanda DeJesus Roseanne Fama Jolina Halloran

Jim Hickey

This was the first year we had youth group alumni participate as chaperones; So Gratifying! They are:

Michaela Brown Caroline Kavanagh

Emily Perrotti

Below is the list of our mission trip teens who served humbly and represented the love of Christ to so many; may God continue to bless Holy Innocents!

Briana Braia, Carlos DeJesus, Ryan Drillock, Patrick Doherty,

Ali Fama, Kathryn Finnegan, Jacob Graj, James Grom,

Jack Halloran, Ciara Hickey, Emma Hickey, Jack Howe,

Melanie Ipyam, Thomas Kavanagh, Katie Keane

Caroline Kovatch, Jack Martin, Declan McDermott,

Charlie Mcphee, Aisling Mooney, Kiernan Moran,

Grace O’Hara, Caitlin O’Neill, Kaylei Raefski, Brian Reda

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Wednesday, August 23rd Holy Innocents Church—Social Hall

Please call toll-free 1-888-653-6450 to register for your screening and to receive a $10 discount or visit:

PARISH PAY TRANSITIONING Thank you for using online giving for your support of our parish. Online giving is safe, simple, and convenient. It benefits our parish by helping to streamline our administrative process and providing more accurate budgeting. Our current online giving provider, ParishPay, has been acquired by Liturgical Publications. All ParishPay accounts will be transitioned to WeShare, LPi’s online giving platform early in the fall. You do not need to do anything for this transition process. Your information will be transferred electronically following the strictest security protocol. Once the transition is complete, you will receive more information about how to login and manage your account on WeShare.

“What is a Mass Stipend?”

A Mass stipend is an offering given to a priest by an individual or a group so that a Mass may be said for the donor’s intention. The origin of this practice goes back to the early centuries of the Church. The faithful brought bread and wine and also other gifts to Mass. Much of these gifts were in the form of food such as crops from their gardens or even fish if they were fishermen. Some of the bread and wine was used during the celebration. The rest of the gifts were given to the priest for his sustenance because his ministry is to serve the people and he would hold no other job. Some of it was also given to the poor. Financial offerings came later and by the 1100’s money for Masses became common and remain so today. Does this imply a person can “buy” a Mass? Not at all! No amount of money can buy a Mass. It is a means of supporting the clergy who are called to minister to the people as their prime work. When a priest accepts a Mass stipend, he sets up a contract with that person to pray for their intention at a specific Mass. The priest contracts to pray for that intention specifically, but that does not nor can it preclude him from also praying for other intentions as well. All participants may and hopefully will not only pray for their own intentions at Mass, but also for the intentions of all present, as well as the needs of our world, Church, and local community. Each of the Eucharistic prayers have within them prayer for many intentions and the Prayer of the Faithful does likewise. Therefore, a Mass is never offered for a single intention. To avoid the appearance of trafficking in Mass stipends the Church as placed a limit of one stipend intention for Mass.

MENTORING PROGRAM

Volunteers (age 25 to 45) willing to donate a minimum of 4 hours per month are needed for a Mentoring Program at St Christopher’s Inc, a residential treatment center for adolescents aged 13 to 21 located in Dobbs Ferry. Training would be provided in early September and fingerprints along with additional paperwork would be required. The program would include on-campus visits and build up to walks, meals and activities in the community. Volunteers would need to commit to consistent visits from September through June. Anyone interested should contact Colleen Wagner at 914-330-

1906 or email cwagner@sc1881.org

“A-HOME” Our Partner in Charity

A-Home’s mission is to strengthen northern Westchester neighborhoods by providing people safe and affordable places to live - the foundation of a stable life. If you want to know more about them, have any household items, specifically vacuums, to donate or if you have any inclination of volunteering, please contact t h e m d i r e c t l y a t : 7 4 1 - 0 7 4 0 o r e m a i l info@a-homehousing.org or visit: a-homehousing.org

FEAST OF ST. DOMINIC AUGUST 8, 2012

St. Dominic was born in Calaruega in Spain around the year 1170. He studied theology in Palencia and was made a canon of the church of Osma. He worked effectively against the Albigensian heresy through preaching and good example. To carry on this work he gathered together companions and founded the Order of Preachers, commonly known as the Dominican Order. He died in Bologna on August 6, 1221. His feast day is celebrated on August 8

th.

Matthew 17:1-9

“...a bright cloud cast a shadow over them, then from the cloud came a voice that said, “This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased; listen to him.” When the disciples heard this, they fell prostrate and were very much afraid.

But Jesus came and touched, saying, “Rise and do not be afraid.” And when the disciples raised

their eyes, they saw no one else buy Jesus alone.