MEMORIALS The Sanctuary Candle this week is burning in loving memory of Jean E. Frisenda donated by Joseph M. Frisenda, Sr. The candle will burn from February 25th through March 3rd.

CHOIR REHEARSALS Children Easter Choir rehearsals will be held on Mondays, March 5th through March 26th, from 3:30 to 4:15 pm at the Church.

Adult Choir rehearsals are held on Wednesday evenings at 7:30 pm in the choir loft. New members are welcome at all weekend Masses. If you would like to sing, please come to a rehearsal or call Jeffrey V. Lutz at 228-5612.

PLEASE PRAY For the sick and suffering, especially

ANNOUNCED MASSES If you wish to bring up the gifts for a Mass being said for your loved one(s), please see the Usher before Mass.

Vigil (Sunday) Mass – February 24 5:00 PM Sharon Parchen Sunday, February 25 – Second Sunday of Lent 8:30 AM Robert and Dimon Nicolosi and the Cirillo

Family 10:15 AM St. Joseph’s – All the People of the Parish 12:00 PM Alex Dengler

Monday, February 26 – Lenten Weekday 8:15 AM All the People of the Parish Tuesday, February 27 – Lenten Weekday 8:15 AM Deborah Phillips Wednesday, February 28 – Lenten Weekday 8:15 AM Billy Villetto Thursday, March 1 – Lenten Weekday 8:15 AM All the People of the Parish Friday, March 2 – Lenten Weekday Day of Abstinence 8:15 AM James Mitchell 7:30 PM Stations of the Cross Saturday, March 3 – Saint Katharine Drexel, Virgin 8:15 AM All the People of the Parish

Vigil (Sunday) Mass – March 3 5:00 PM Frank Pidala, Jr. and Family Sunday, March 4 – Third Sunday of Lent 8:30 AM Edward, William and Terrance Mangan 10:15 AM St. Joseph’s – Josephine and Stephen

Genova 12:00 PM Betty Hynes

SECOND SUNDAY OF LENT I walk before the Lord, in the land of the

living. February 25, 2018

Lucy Abbatine Kelsey Berger Lucas Boesch Electra Bokanoski Nicole Bokanoski Robert Broughal The Brusco Family Kathleen Clements Christopher Hartly Joseph Hoda Parker Jane Holloway Joey Hyatt, Jr. Kaitlyn Jandrucko Dennis Klubnick Geoff Lyons Kathleen Manganello Mary Marion Paula Martino Merna Mendelson

Todd Morris Joseph Nowakowski Brian O’Keeffe Inelda O’Keeffe Luis Padilla Rosario Padilla Neilan Pierce Vivian Pisanelli Joan Rosado Phillip Rossignol Melissa Castro-Santos Miguel Santos Warren Schiele Sally Singh Ralph Torres Connie Tuomey Chris Ventura Frank Volkmann Lidia Watrud

"This is my beloved Son. Listen to him." Mark 9:7b

READINGS FOR THIS WEEK Monday: Dn 9:4b-10; Ps 79:8, 9, 11, 13; Lk 6:36-38 Tuesday: Is 1:10, 16-20; Ps 50:8-9, 16bc-17, 21, 23; Mt 23:1-12 Wednesday: Jer 18:18-20; Ps 31:5-6, 14-16; Mt 20:17-28 Thursday: Jer 17:5-10; Ps 1:1-4, 6; Lk 16:19-31 Friday: Gn 37:3-4, 12-13a; 17b-28a; Ps 105:16-21; Mt 21:33-43, 45-46 Saturday: Mi 7:14-15, 18-20; Ps 103:1-4, 9-12; Lk 15:1-3, 11-32 Sunday: Ex 20:1-17 [1-3, 7-8, 12-17]; Ps 19:8-11; 1 Cor 1:22-25; Jn 2:13-25; Alternate readings (Year A): Ex 17:3-7; Ps 95:1-2, 6-9; Rom 5:1-2, 5-8; Jn 4:5-42 [5-15, 19b-26, 39a, 40-42]

MONTH’S MIND Nicholas Budney – January 27th, 2018 Michelle Kempter – January 29th, 2018

We remember our loved ones who have died one month following their passing on to eternal life.

and for all our dearly departed, especially

Richard Tomlins

OUR LADY OF LORETTO PARISH RELIGIOUS EDUCATION

“Handing on the Faith” 845-265-3718 ✭ ollfaithformation@gmail.com

CLASSES THIS WEEK Wednesday, February 28th, 2018

Grade 1 – 3:30 to 4:30 pm Grades 2 to 5 – 3:30 to 5:00 pm Grades 6 to 8 – 6:30 to 8:00 pm

7TH GRADE FAMILY MASS Sunday, March 4th • 8:30 am Mass in the Church

MASS ATTENDANCE

Adults Children Total

Saturday, 5:00 pm 106 10 116

Sunday, 8:30 am 66 15 81

St. Joseph’s Chapel Sunday, 10:15 am 31 4 35

Sunday, 12:00 pm 107 17 124

Total 310 46 356

WEEKEND OF FEBRUARY 18, 2018REGULAR WEEKLY COLLECTION – $5,984

Thank you for your generosity.

EUCHARISTIC ADORATION At Our Lady of Loretto • Every Monday • 7:00-8:00 pm

Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament remains as it is with individual prayer time, but specific groups are being identified for certain Mondays so they can come together to focus in prayer for a specific intention...

Feb 26 – The Respect Life Committee Mar 5 – The unborn and persecuted Christians Mar 12 – Archbishop Dolan and all bishops Mar 19 – His Holiness, Pope Francis

KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUSLoretto Council #536

St. Patrick’s Day DinnerSaturday • March 17th (see above for details)

Philipstown Food Pantry DeliveryToday • February 25th

The Knights of Columbus are collecting food and other items, including diapers, toothbrushes, toothpaste, soap, shampoo, cleaners and paper towels, for the Philipstown

Food Pantry this weekend. Please leave donations in the cry room. Thank you for your generosity!

Grand Knight – Bob Murphy

To join, email our Membership Director, John Hackney: johnhackney@hotmail.com.

Information can also be found at KofC536.com.

IN SOLIDARITY WITH OUR PRIESTS We support our Catholic Church, families, community

and our country. Charity – Unity – Fraternity – Patriotism

Children’s Easter Choir The Children’s Easter Choir will practice on Mondays, March 5th through March 26th, from 3:30 to 4:15 pm at Our Lady of Loretto Church. The choir will sing at the 8:30 am Easter Sunday Mass on April 1st. All children are invited to join – show up at practice or call Jeffrey Lutz at (845) 228-5612.

ST. PATRICK’S DAY DINNER Put on by Loretto Council of the Knights of Columbus

Saturday, March 17th 6:00 to 9:00 pm In the Parish Hall

Menu Corned beef, cabbage, Irish soda bread and more!

Children’s menu available

Tickets on sale after Mass during the March 4th and March 11th weekends.

“If you’re bored stiff, crush (boredom) with good works.” – Pope Francis

Stations of the Cross

Fridays during Lent 7:30 pm at Our Lady of Loretto Church

FIRST SATURDAY DEVOTION This Saturday, March 3rd, is the first Saturday of the month. On December 10, 1925, Our Blessed Mother promised to assist at the hour of death all those who on the first Saturday of five consecutive months shall confess, receive Communion, recite five decades of the Rosary and keep her company for fifteen minutes while meditating on the mysteries of the Rosary, with the intention of making reparation to her.

FRENCH BISHOP PROCLAIMS 70TH HEALING IN LOURDES A MIRACLE

A Roman Catholic nun, disabled for almost 40 years, recovers after a pilgrimage to the Marian sanctuary.

Aleteia.org, Daniel Esparza – The French bishop Jacques Benoit-Gonnin of the Beauvais diocese declared the healing of a Roman Catholic nun, Bernardette Moriau (79), miraculous. She was disabled for almost 40 years of her life.

In a video published at the diocese website, Sister Moriau declared that as she returned home after a pilgrimage to Lourdes, she heard a voice telling her to remove her leg braces. Immediately after that, she was able to walk on her own again.

This has now been officially proclaimed the 70th miraculous recovery attributed to divine intervention in Lourdes.

On February 11th the Church commemorated the Immaculate Virgin Mary who appeared to Saint Bernadette Soubirous at Lourdes, France, 18 times between February 11th and July 16th, 1858. The memorial of Mary under the title of “Our Lady of Lourdes” was extended to the Universal Church by Pope Saint Pius X in 1907.

The apparition of Our Lady at Lourdes is one of the most celebrated events in the Catholic Church in the 19th century. In fact, the popularity of this devotion contributed to a renewal of the Catholic Faith in France and the shrine at Lourdes remains one of the most popular destinations for pilgrims in the world.

THE MASS By Bishop Robert Barron

The Mass is a privileged encounter with the living Christ. Christianity is not a philosophy, ideology, or religious program; it is a friendship with the Son of God, risen from the dead. There is simply no more intense union with Jesus than the Mass.

Consider for a moment the two major divisions of the Mass: the liturgy of the Word and the liturgy of the Eucharist. When we meet with another person in a formal setting, we typically do two things. We get together and talk, and then we eat.

Think of the first part of Mass as an exchange, a conversation, between the Son of God and members of his mystical Body. In the prayers and interventions of the priest, and especially in the words of the Scriptures, Jesus speaks to his people, and in the songs, responses, and psalms, the people talk back. There is, if you will, a lovely call and response between the Lord and those who have been grafted onto him through Baptism.

In the course of this spirited conversation, the union between head and members is intensified, strengthened, confirmed. Having talked, we then sit down to eat, not an ordinary meal, but the banquet of the Lord’s Body and Blood, hosted by Jesus himself. The communion that commenced with the call and response during the first part of Mass is now brought to a point of unsurpassed intensity (at least this side of heaven), as the faithful come to eat the body and drink the lifeblood of Jesus.

THE BEATITUDES AND THE MASS Presentation of the orderly progression of the beatitudes

in the Holy Mass… this extraordinary connection was made while studying the Holy Mass.

Speaker: Madonna (Donna) Motta Date: Thursday, March 15th

Time: 7:00 to 8:00 pm Place: Graymoor Spiritual Life Center

3rd Floor Seminar Room

POPE FRANCIS OFFERS A “WORKSHEET” FOR LENT: CHECK IT OUT!

Using the key words "pause, see, and return," pontiff recommends some concrete resolutions

Need some direction for your Lenten resolutions? Pope Francis is offering it in three words: Pause, See and Return.

Here is his homily from Ash Wednesday:

The season of Lent is a favourable time to remedy the dissonant chords of our Christian life and to receive the ever new, joyful and hope-filled proclamation of the Lord’s Passover. The Church in her maternal wisdom invites us to pay special attention to anything that could dampen or even corrode our believing heart.

We are subject to numerous temptations. Each of us knows the difficulties we have to face. And it is sad to note that, when faced with the ever-varying circumstances of our daily lives, there are voices raised that take advantage of pain and uncertainty; the only thing they aim to do is sow distrust. If the fruit of faith is charity – as Mother Teresa often used to say – then the fruit of distrust is apathy and resignation. Distrust, apathy and resignation: these are demons that deaden and paralyze the soul of a believing people.

Lent is the ideal time to unmask these and other temptations, to allow our hearts to beat once more in tune with the vibrant heart of Jesus. The whole of the Lenten season is imbued with this conviction, which we could say is echoed by three words offered to us in order to rekindle the heart of the believer: pause, see and return.

Pause a little, leave behind the unrest and commotion that fill the soul with bitter feelings which never get us anywhere. Pause from this compulsion to a fast-paced life that scatters, divides and ultimately destroys time with family, with friends, with children, with grandparents, and time as a gift… time with God.

Pause for a little while, refrain from the need to show off and be seen by all, to continually appear on the “noticeboard” that makes us forget the value of intimacy and recollection.

Pause for a little while, refrain from haughty looks, from fleeting and pejorative comments that arise from forgetting tenderness, compassion and reverence for the encounter with others, particularly those who are vulnerable, hurt and even immersed in sin and error.

Pause for a little while, refrain from the urge to want to control everything, know everything, destroy everything; this comes from overlooking gratitude for the gift of life and all the good we receive.

Pause for a little while, refrain from the deafening noise that weakens and confuses our hearing, that makes us forget the fruitful and creative power of silence.

Pause for a little while, refrain from the attitude which promotes sterile and unproductive thoughts that arise from isolation and self-pity, and that cause us to forget going out to encounter others to share their burdens and suffering.

Pause for a little while, refrain from the emptiness of

everything that is instantaneous, momentary and fleeting, that deprives us of our roots, our ties, of the value of continuity and the awareness of our ongoing journey.

Pause in order to look and contemplate!

See the gestures that prevent the extinguishing of charity, that keep the flame of faith and hope alive. Look at faces alive with God’s tenderness and goodness working in our midst.

See the face of our families who continue striving, day by day, with great effort, in order to move forward in life, and who, despite many concerns and much hardship, are committed to making their homes a school of love.

See the faces of our children and young people filled with yearning for the future and hope, filled with “tomorrows” and opportunities that demand dedication and protection. Living shoots of love and life that always open up a path in the midst of our selfish and meagre calculations.

See our elderly whose faces are marked by the passage of time, faces that reveal the living memory of our people. Faces that reflect God’s wisdom at work.

See the faces of our sick people and the many who take care of them; faces which in their vulnerability and service remind us that the value of each person can never be reduced to a question of calculation or utility.

See the remorseful faces of so many who try to repair their errors and mistakes, and who from their misfortune and suffering fight to transform their situations and move forward.

See and contemplate the face of Crucified Love, who today from the cross continues to bring us hope, his hand held out to those who feel crucified, who experience in their lives the burden of failure, disappointment and heartbreak.

See and contemplate the real face of Christ crucified out of love for everyone, without exception. For everyone? Yes, for everyone. To see his face is an invitation filled with hope for this Lenten time, in order to defeat the demons of distrust, apathy and resignation. The face that invites us to cry out: “The Kingdom of God is possible!”

Pause, see and return. Return to the house of your Father. Return without fear to those outstretched, eager arms of your Father, who is rich in mercy (cf. Eph 2:4), who awaits you.

Return without fear, for this is the favourable time to come home, to the home of my Father and your Father (cf. Jn 20:17). It is the time for allowing one’s heart to be touched… Persisting on the path of evil only gives rise to disappointment and sadness. True life is something quite distinct and our heart indeed knows this. God does not tire, nor will he tire, of holding out his hand (cf. Misericordiae Vultus, 19).

Return without fear, to join in the celebration of those who are forgiven.

Return without fear, to experience the healing and reconciling tenderness of God. Let the Lord heal the wounds of sin and fulfil the prophecy made to our fathers: “A new heart I will give you, and a new spirit I will put within you” (Ezek 36: 26)… Pause, see and return!