pentecost sunday may 23 , 2021
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Pentecost Sunday May 23rd, 2021
ND-V Church, 18 Pearl Street, Schuylerville NY 12871 (518) 695-3391
Mass Intentions for the Week SATURDAY 5/22 4:00pm
William Bull-Brown, birthday remembrance
~By his family
SUNDAY 5/23 11:15am
Mr. & Mrs. Joseph H. Drew, Jr.
~By Mr. & Mrs. Harold S. Pechette, Jr.
For the healing of Terry & Charlotte Running
~By The McGloine Family
Liturgical Ministries Saturday 5/22: Lector- Anne Petersen
CM- Kerry Lawson
Sunday 5/23: Lector- Karen Tyler
CM- Chuck Cadwallader
READINGS FOR THE WEEK May 24- Gn 3:9-15,20 & Jn 19:25-34
May 25- Sir 35:1-12 & Mk 10;28-31
May 26- Sir 36:1,4-5a,10-17 & Mk 10:32-45
May 27- Sir 42:15-25 & Mk 10:46-52
May 28- Sir 44:1.9-13 & Mk 11:11-26
May 29- Sir 51:12cd-20 & Mk 11:27-33
May 30-Dt 4:32-34,39-40 & Rom 8:14-17 &Mt 28:16-20
FAITH FORMATION
Faith Formation Facilitator: Stephanie Andrejcak
CONGRATULATIONS to Gian-Luca Ubillo who has
completed his preparation and will be confirmed
this week. Please keep him in your prayers.
THE PARISH OFFICE WILL BE CLOSED ON MAY 27th and MAY 31st. Beginning June 1st, the Parish Office will be open “summer hours:” Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays from 9am to 2pm, CLOSED on Mondays and Fridays. If you need assistance outside of those hours and days, please call and we’ll set up an appointment that’s convenient for you! I’m flexible. I’ll be checking email from home and I can be reached by cell phone. The number will be on the answering machine message when you call the office.
$$$ DOLLAR –A-WEEK CLUB $$$
1st: $25 Betty Viger
2nd: $15 Linda Stover
3rd: $10 Joan Bielkiewcz
CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR WINNERS!
Our Gifts of Treasure Reg. collection: $1248.05
Maintenance: $20
Cemetery Care: $105
Newspaper: $10
Ascension: $45
Central & Eastern Europe: $60
The total from Thursday (Ascension) was $144. The
total from Saturday was $654. The total from Sunday
was $475. The total mailed in/dropped off was $250.
Online giving was $106.05.
MASS ATTENDANCE
THURSDAY, May 13 (Ascension)- 27
SATURDAY, 5/15- 43
SUNDAY, 5/16 – 45
SPECIAL COLLECTION: CENTRAL & EASTERN
EUROPE This weekend, we will take up the Collection
for the Church in Central and Eastern Europe. This
collection supports the Church in over 20 countries that are
still struggling to recover in the aftermath of communist
rule. Funds from this collection support pastoral care,
catechesis, building renovations, and seminary formation.
Your support restores the Church and builds the future in
this region. Please give generously to this Special
Collection.
Birthright extends a sincere “Thank You” to all
parishioners who helped make our Mother’s Day
Carnation Sale a great success. Your generous
outpouring of love and support enables us to continue
assisting pregnant women and families who desperately
need help. If you know someone who is pregnant and
needs assistance, please have her call Birthright at
518-885-4117. All services, including self-administered
pregnancy tests, are free and confidential.
PENTECOST SUNDAY May 23
Pentecost Sunday May 23rd, 2021
CDA NEWS Speaking of the BIRTHRIGHT carnation
sale, the total from the sale is as follows: $127 from St.
Joseph’s Church and $167 from ND-V. Thank you for
supporting BIRTHRIGHT!
On to the pie sale! The following is from Lois Patrick,
Vice-Regent: Our Court received 122 orders for various
pies. Some of the members decided to make a total of 10
extra pies. So that brought us up to 132 pies. Everything
went! All 132 pies were sold! We also received monetary
donations. Between selling 132 and donations our Court
raised $2,023.00. We are so fortunate as a Court to have
such support from you. Thank you to all who bought, sold,
donated and helped make pies. You are the best! Thank
you to our office managers in the Rectories of Salem,
Cambridge, Greenwich and Schuylerville for posting in
our Church bulletins. With such a wonderful amount
raised, we can help those in need. Such as: offering
scholarships, Birthright, Adopt-a-Soldier, Seminarians,
Catholic Relief Services, etc.
Again, thank you all from the bottom of our hearts for
being so thoughtful and supportive.
FROM THE INTERIM PARISH ADMINISTRATOR Let the Spirit work through you This weekend we celebrate Pentecost, a movable
feast celebrated on the fiftieth day (the seventh Sunday)
after Easter. It commemorates the descent of the Holy
Spirit upon the Apostles and other followers of Jesus
Christ while they were in Jerusalem celebrating the Jewish
Feast of Weeks, as described in chapter 2 in the Acts of the
Apostles. Modern Catholics tend to assume that the Church
started with Jesus and that the preceding centuries don’t
really count. Heck, we frequently refer to Pentecost as
being “the birthday of the Church”. But the first
Christians, those we read about in the Acts of the Apostles,
recognized that our Church’s roots extended deeply into
the past. When God told Abram to pull up stakes and set
out “for a land which I will show you”, this was already a
step toward the founding of the Church. But, to get to the
very beginning of the Church we must go all the way back
to the first moment of creation. Since then, it has
continued through the unfolding of salvation history,
through the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus, and
extends far into the future, beyond our present day. Of course, as an organized, community of faith,
we can also say that the Church was founded by Jesus
during the period of his public ministry when he gathered
a group of people into a community and gave this
community a certain structure which he intended it to
possess for all time. He taught them and he also
commanded them to go forth, proclaiming the Good News
and baptizing in the name of the Father, Son and Holy
Spirit. But what happened after his crucifixion and his
ascension? His top followers were afraid, confused, and
disorganized. God knew that when Jesus ascended to
Heaven that his followers would need more than Jesus
spoken words to enable them to spread the Gospel and win
new souls for the Kingdom. They were going to need
powerful help. And on Pentecost we commemorate when that
help arrived. The helper, the Holy Spirit, promised by
Jesus, entered the upper room, and descended upon the
apostles. And on that first Christian Pentecost, they were
no longer afraid. They were empowered to do God’s work
in their world. To be his hands, eyes, ears, and voice to
help the poor and oppressed, to care for the sick and to
tend to those in need. And that help didn’t just stay with
the Apostles and early disciples. It is still with us today. As we begin to emerge from the twilight of the
coronavirus and the myriad of restrictions, we have lived
with over the past fourteen or fifteen months, are we ready
to do our part, to be Church, to be Christ to others today?
Come, Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of your faithful, and
enkindle in them the fire of your love. In closing, just a quick shout out to the teens who
will be confirmed Pentecost afternoon at St. Joseph’s.
What a wonderful day upon which to be fully initiated into
the Catholic Church and to receive the gifts of the Holy
Spirit. May God inspire you to do great works and mighty
deeds both now and in the future. - Stephen Mawn, Interim Parish Administrator
The Visitation of The Blessed Virgin Mary, May 30th
Almighty ever-living God, who, while the Blessed Virgin Mary was carrying your Son in her womb, inspired her to visit Elizabeth, grant us, we pray, that, faithful to the promptings of the Spirit, we
may magnify your greatness with the Virgin Mary at all times. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of
the Holy Spirit, God, for ever and ever.
ND-V Church, 18 Pearl Street, Schuylerville NY 12871 (518) 695-3391