765 Co-Op City Boulevard Bronx, New York 10475-1601

Phone: 718-671-8050 Fax: 718-320-3776

www.saintmichaels-cc.org Parish Office Hours

Monday - Thursday : 9:30 AM to 4:30PM

Friday 9:30AM-1:30PM

Closed Saturday-Sunday Parish Staff

Reverend Peter Heasley, S.Th.D,

Administrator Reverend Benedict Paul, Ph.D.,

Parochial Vicar

Deacon Thomas Tortorella

Reverend Daniel Sabatos

Sunday Associate Reverend Akram Javid

Sunday Associate

Reverend Ernest Frimpong

Nursing Home Associate

Brian Freeman, Parish Secretary

Sarah Glassman, Music Director

Mass Schedule

Weekdays: 9:00 AM (Monday - Friday)

Saturday: 5:00 PM

Sunday: 8:30 AM, 10:00 AM,

(English)

11:30 AM (Spanish)

1:00 PM (English)

Sacrament of Reconciliation

Every Saturday: 4:00-4:45 PM

Baptism and Marriage

Scheduled by appointment after

meeting with one of the parish

priests. Please see the parish

website for more details.

PARISH MISSION STATEMENT

Saint Michael the Archangel Church is a multi-cultural Roman Catholic community seeking to live the faith hon-estly with courage, warmth, trust, love and hope. We are united together in fellowship as a family. The guiding

spirit of Christ enables us to serve the needs of others, thereby leading to peace.

OUR CHRISTIAN LOVE

Ash Wednesday is “fast” approaching (sorry, couldn’t help it), on February 26. Mass, with distribution of ashes, will take place at 9:00am, 12:00pm, and 7:00pm. Easter Sunday will be April 12, with the liturgies of Holy Week preceding: Mass of the Lord’s Supper on Holy Thursday at 7:00pm, Good Friday Stations of the Cross at 1:00pm and celebration of the Lord’s Passion at 3:00pm, and the Easter Vigil on Holy Saturday at 8:00pm. We’ll repeat the schedule as the time approaches.

Next weekend, a priest from Food for the Poor will come and speak to us at the Masses in order to raise money for their good work. Please be as generous as you can.

Beginning the weekend of March 1, we will be using a different company for our weekly tithing envelopes, the Cathedral Corporation. The new service promises to be more cost-effective and efficient. Your envelope numbers will remain the same. At that time, even if you still have envelopes from the Remey company (currently in place), please use the new envelopes. If, for some reason, you do not receive the new envelopes, please let us know in the office.

For the past few Sundays, we have been hearing from Our Lord’s Sermon on the Mount, as recorded in Matthew 5–7. The celebration of the Presentation of the Lord on February 2 took the place of our hearing the Beatitudes, but last Sunday we hear that we are the salt and light of the world. This Sunday, we begin to hear Jesus’ teaching on the law, in general and then specifically about anger, adultery, divorce, and oath-taking. Here, our Lord Jesus takes into the heart of the law. He imparts to us wisdom about the law. The law is not a simple matter of making lists about do’s and don’t’s, things that we could change if we wanted (to “keep up with the times,” for example). Rather, Jesus shows us that the law flows from God’s own eternal wisdom (a “mysterious, hidden” wisdom as St. Paul tells us today), the wisdom with which he created us and put the universe in order. Jesus cannot abolish the law because he wrote it. He fulfills it by revealing to us, through his teaching and his passion, death, and resurrection, the depths of the law’s wisdom, which is summoned up in the definition of God himself as love (1 Jn 4:8).

Fr. Peter

Saint Michael’s Roman Catholic Church

A Tithing Community

Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time February 16, 2020

CALENDAR FOR THE WEEK Sunday, February 16th Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time Monday, February 17th - Office Closed The Seven Holy Founders of the Servite Order; Presi-dents’ Day Tuesday, February 18th– No Events Wednesday, February 19th– No Events (Christian Meditation Group 1:30pm)

Thursday, February 20th– No Events

Friday, February 21st St. Peter Damian

Saturday, February 22nd The Chair of St. Peter the Apostle; Washington’s Birthday

Saturday February 22nd-23rd (5:00 pm) Stephen Perry 8:30 am Antonio Baptiste 10:00 am Michelle Tapper 11:30 am Iris Ortega 1:00 pm Cedric Hyde

CHRISTIAN MEDITATION GROUP Newcomers are always welcome to join the Chris-tian meditation group which meets every Wednes-day at 1:30 p.m. in the Meeting Room. This ancient form of prayer seeks God in silence and stillness without words or thoughts. The meeting includes quiet music, an instructional reading and tape, fol-lowed by 25 minutes of silent meditation. Discus-sion is encouraged. Come and find the teacher with-in. In the silence of the heart He speaks to us.

READINGS FOR THE WEEK

Monday: Jas 1:1-11; Ps 119:67-68, 71-72, 75-76; Mk 8:11-13 Tuesday: Jas 1:12-18; Ps 94:12-13a; 14-15, 18-19; Mk 8:14-21 Wednesday: Jas 1:19-27; Ps 15:2-4ab, 5; Mk 8:22-26 Thursday: Jas 2:1-9; Ps 34:2-7; Mk 8:27-33 Friday: Jas 2:14-24, 26; Ps 112:1-6; Mk 8:34 — 9:1 Saturday: 1 Pt 5:1-4; Ps 23:1-3a, 4-6; Mt 16:13-19 Sunday: Lv 19:1-2, 17-18; Ps 103:1-4, 8, 10, 12-13; 1 Cor 3:16-23; Mt 5:38-48

WEEKLY COLLECTION FOR FEBRUARY 9:

Sunday, February 9: $6,170 Peter’s Pence: $912 Building Fund: $468 Thank you for your generosity!

Sunday, February 16th 8:30am Vilna Halls 10:00am Vincent Mc. Donnell ( Special Intention ) 11:30am Alicia & Florencio Suarez 1:00pm Juanita Davis Monday February 17th 9:00am Rosemarie Masucci Tuesday, February 18th 9:00am Vertulie Felix Wednesday, February 19th 9:00am Robert Tossas ( Special Intention ) Thursday, February 20th 9:00am Thomas V. Herlihy Friday, February 21st 9:00am Berta Araujo Saturday, February 22nd 5:00pm Eraguia Escobar Cordero & Andres Dalmau Sunday, February 23rd 8:30am Rosemarie Masucci 10:00am Veronique Inanbine 11:30am Berta Araujo 1:00pm Berta Araujo

Sanctuary Lamp Leon Meredith

Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time February 16, 2020