Our Lady of the Snow Catholic Church

Our Lady of the Snow
Catholic Church
175 Blue Point Avenue
Blue Point, New York 11715
Telephone: 631-363-6385
July 26, 2015
Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
The hand of the Lord feeds us; he answers all our needs (Psalm 145)
MASS SCHEDULE
WEEK DAY MASSES:
Monday—Friday
8:30AM in Mother Church
WEEKEND MASSES:
Saturday 5PM in Large Church
Sunday 7:30AM in Mother Church
9AM, and 11:00AM in
Large Church
SACRAMENT OF
RECONCILIATION:
Saturday 4PM—4:30PM
in Large Church
Monday 6:15PM—7:15PM
in Mother Church
EUCHARISTIC
ADORATION:
Monday 6PM—8PM
in Mother Church
MIRACULOUS MEDAL NOVENA &
BENEDICTION:
Monday 7:30—8PM
In Mother Church
Visit us online!
www.OurLadyofTheSnowBluePoint.com
Some believe it is only great power
that can hold evil in check. But
that is not what I have found. I
have found it is small everyday
deeds of ordinary folk that keep
the darkness at bay: small acts of
kindness and love.
--from The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
Tolkien,
quoted
here
before, was a devout Catholic and one of the greatest
writers of the twentieth century. If you’re not a fan,
the prospect of wading into
the fantasy world’s he creates might seem daunting.
But you can get a sense of
his imagination and style,
not to mention his faith, by going to your computer and searching “Leaf by Niggle”. You’ll be able to access the entire short
story. Maybe make it your beach reading.
†The Pastoral Team Clergy†
Rev. Edward R. D’Andrea, Pastor
Rev. Msgr. Charles Fink, Parish Administrator
Rev. John Amoah, Associate Pastor
Deacon Frank Hartmann
Deacon Edward Karan
Deacon Robert Gronenthal
Faith Formation for Adults:
363-2416
Mrs. Beth Rivalsi,
Director of Faith Formation for Adults
[email protected]
Religious Education: 363-6394
Mrs. Patricia Bartoldus,
Rite of Christian Initiation (R.C.I.A.)
Persons interested in becoming Catholic and
adults who have not received Confirmation
or First Eucharist, please contact
Beth Rivalsi at 363-2416.
Marriage:
Arrangements must be made at least six
to twelve months in advance. It is
advisable to call the church prior to
arranging the reception.
Baptisms
Are celebrated on the second Saturday and fourth Sunday of most
months. Please visit our website at
for complete information
Director of Faith Formation, 1-9
Mrs. Eileen Mulry, Secretary, ext. 15
Mrs. Susan Gressler, C.R.E., ext. 14
Office hours: Monday – Thursday
9:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. &
1 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
[email protected]
Parish Outreach: 363-2417
Mrs. Diana Mongan, Director
Mrs. Patricia Fulco, Outreach Assistant
Office hours and food pantry
10 a.m. - 1 p.m.
Monday - Thursday in the cottage
Evening Hours Available
by Appointment
[email protected]
Director of Music
Mrs. Theresa Martin
Parish Office: 363-6385 — Fax: 363-7394
Mrs. Lindsay Butler, Parish Asst., ext. 11
Mrs. Loraine Gonzalez, . Asst., ext. 10
Hours: Mon -Thurs 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
Friday 9 a.m.-2:30 p.m.,
Saturday 9 a.m.-12 p.m.
[email protected]
New parishioners
Please register at the
parish or call 363-6385,
ext. 10 for information.
Communion for the Homebound:
To make arrangements to have Communion
brought to the home, please call the parish
office at 363-6385, ext. 10. For emergency sick
calls, please call the parish at any time.
Catholic Marriage for couples
married
outside the Church
If you have a civil marriage but now
desire a Catholic sacramental marriage, call the Rectory for more information about a Convalidation .Convalidation
is having a couple’s marriage recognized and
blessed by the Church through the Catholic
Rite of Marriage
Respect Life Ministry
Coordinator : Jean Delaney
For more information or to join please call
631 472-0033
A Message from Father Charles Fink
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July 26, 2015
My dear parish family,
Recently, at a family gathering (not my own but a family I grew up next door
to), one of the guests, after being introduced to me, decided to share that, having
taken a comparative religion course in college many years before, he realized that
all religions were fundamentally teaching the same thing. I was reminded of Msgr.
Ronald Knox’s witticism: “The study of comparative religion tends to make one
comparatively religious.”
Of course the gentleman at the party was on to something. What he said does
contain a kernel of truth, but only a very tiny kernel. It really won’t bear much
scrutiny, its positive impact depending on our leaving a whole lot out of the picture,
like Jesus Christ being truly God and man, like sin and redemption, the sacraments,
the historicity of the gospels, devotion to saints, and a host of moral issues on which
different religions flat out contradict one another.
It’s good that we should emphasize what we share in common and do our best
to get along with those who don’t share our religious beliefs. I didn’t get into an argument with the man at the party. We parted amicably. But the next step after “all
religions are basically teaching the same thing” is “religion doesn’t really matter; all
that matters is being a good person.”
In fact, many of our Catholic people have already arrived at this conclusion
and have opted out of the practice of their religion, at least inasmuch as this entails
going to Mass each Sunday, a trend which has grievously wounded the Church. As
time goes by, we can only hope that some of them come to realize that not only is it
not so easy to be good apart from the practice of their Catholic faith; it’s not even
easy to know what it good.
God bless those of you who faithfully attend Mass at Our Lady of the Snow
and continue to support our Church. Let’s all pray for those who don’t. They may
be good, but not as good as God wants them to be, unless I completely misread the
third of the Ten Commandments and the first of the Two Great Commandments.
With love and prayers,
Fr. Charles Fink
Prayers & Intentions
† MEMORIALS FOR THE WEEK †
Altar Bread and Wine
In loving Memory of John and Joan Nolan
Sanctuary Candle in Mother Church
In loving Memory of John and Joan Nolan
MASS INTENTIONS FOR THE WEEK
July 27, 2015
Saints and Special Observances also indicated
Monday
8:30AM
July 27,
Rita Horan †
Tuesday
8:30AM
July 28,
Kathleen Donohue †
Wednesday July 29, St. Martha
8:30AM
John Devito †
Thursday
8:30AM
July 30,St. Peter Chrysologus
Valerie Schaffel †
Friday
8:30AM
July 31, St Ignatius of Loyola
Mary Ann Fox †
Saturday
5:00PM
August 1, St. Alphonsus Liguori
Elizabeth Tenes †
Sunday
7:30AM
9:00AM
11:00AM
August 2,
Parishioners †
Michael Higgins †
Dorothy Valentine †
Lt. Col Christopher Ederle
Major Meghan Ederle
Capt Kyle Brown
Capt. Tara Brown Gomez
Capt. Thomas Gomez
Lt. Jg Sean Brown
2/c Midshipman Shannon Brown
Army Specialist Justin Brown
E3/ACAN Connor Rooney USN
Capt. Dr. Kate Desmond-Baker
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July 26, 2015
Pray for Our Sick
We pray for all who are sick, for their healing in
both body and spirit….
Joann Auwaerter, Charles Edward
Steele & Joan Maio
In Sympathy
For all who have died this past week, that they rejoice in
the heavenly banquet…
Laurie Ward & Scott Lally
WEDDING BANDS
Joseph Balcuk
&
Kate Knoepffler
Special Collection for Persecuted Christians
The number of persecuted Christians in the
world has topped a staggering 100 million according to a recent report from Open Doors USA, an
organization that assists persecuted Christians. Paying homage recently to the courage of the Apostles
and that of the first Christian community. Pope
Francis referenced the “atrocious , inhuman and
incomprehensible persecutions, sadly present in
many parts of the world today, often under the silent gaze of all.”
Bishop Murphy urges us to reach out and
protect these victims who are suffering who are our
so often the targets of violence and murder, along
with other ethnic and religious minorities. To that
end, a special collection will be taken up in our parish the weekend of August 1-2, 2015 to assist those
who are suffering religious persecution in Syria ,
Iraq and wherever needed.
Please continue to pray for peace and if you
are able, to support this special collection to assist
for our brothers and sisters in Christ.
KNOWING OUR FAITH
XXVII. WHO IS SAVED?
Water is poured over the forehead of a child, or a person is immersed in water,
and the words, “I baptize you in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the
Holy Spirit,” are said. As we saw in our last lesson, miraculous things happen as
water and word are thus mingled. One is born again into a new kind of life. Having
been born once into human life, we are reborn into divine life through baptism.
But what of the billions who are never baptized? Are they cut off from participation in God’s own life? That question was answered by the great twentieth
century Catholic philosopher, Jacques Maritain, in words that prefigured the official
pronouncement of the Church at the Second Vatican Council. Here is how Maritain
put it:
We hold that every man of good faith and right will, provided
he does not refuse the grace interiorly offered to him, belongs,
as we put it, to the Soul of the Church, or, in other words, is
invisibly and by the motion of his heart a member of the visible
Church and partakes of her life, which is eternal life.
The Second Vatican Council, at greater length and in more detail, said precisely the
same thing in its Dogmatic Constitution of the Church (Lumen Gentium 16).
What it all comes down to is this. God is love and desires the salvation of
everyone, offering His grace to all. Only those who knowingly and freely reject
God and the good are cut off from Him, and this by their own free choice. God’s
favored and most efficacious means of communicating a share in His life are the
sacraments, but He will not refuse His grace to those to whom, through no fault of
their own, the sacraments are not available.
Grace is everywhere because God and His love are everywhere. We receive
the sacraments not out of fear that without them we are lost but because we are here
to learn to love God and others, and we should be looking for the best way to do
that. The sacraments are the best way to be united to God and to receive the grace
to love as we should, which is more than enough reason to cherish them.
Believing with Joy! Stewardship - A Way of Life
Stewardship and Feeding the 5000!
What an image we have in today’s gospel, 5000
people wanting to be with Jesus, to be fed with his
words and actions. Little did they know they would
be participating in a miracle of such magnitude!
When Jesus sees the crowd his first question is “what
can we feed them?” Jesus knew what he was going
to do but he wanted his disciples to be part of this
miracle. He wants all of us to be part of his miracles.
Jesus’ actions exemplify stewardship. Jesus takes
the boy’s offering and he blesses his heavenly Father, acknowledging that all things come from God.
Pope Francis in his homily at the Fifth National Eucharistic Congress in Bolivia said, “Blessing has this
double aspect: thanksgiving and transformative
power. It is a recognition that life is always a gift
which, when placed in the hands of God, starts to
multiply.” Jesus takes this bread that has been
blessed and now shares it; he gives it to the people
and all were filled. Pope Francis tells us, “For it is
only in giving, in sharing, that we find the source of
our joy and come to experience salvation.”
Jesus is also leading us to the Eucharist, an ongoing
miracle that we experience at every Mass. He feeds
the 5000 with bread and fish; he feeds all of God’s
people with his body broken and his blood poured
out for us. Again Pope Francis states, “The Eucharist is a sacrament of communion, which draws us
out of our individualism in order to live together as
disciples. It gives us the certainty that all that we
have, all that we are, if it is taken, blessed and
given, can, by God’s power, by the power of his
love, become bread of life for all.” May we be
amazed by this miracle, may we be transformed by
this miracle.
Mary Queen of Peace, Pray for Us
Join us as we pray the rosary for peace on July 28 at
4:45 in the Mother Church. In honor of our feast
day, August 5, we will pray the rosary at 7 p.m. We
hope that parishioners will come to honor Our Lady
of the Snow, by praying the rosary with us.
If you would like a good book
to read this summer, members
of our Book Discussion Group
have offered to share their
books with you. In the front
vestibule is a basket of books
that we have read over this past year. If you take one
please read it and then return it to the basket for
someone else to read. We have had some great discussions with these books and we hope you enjoy
them as well!
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From the Diocese of Rockville Centre
Statement on Ticket Availability for
Holy Father’s Visit:
We prayerfully anticipate the visit of Pope Francis to
NYC. Tickets will be made available through
Diocese of Rockville Centre (not local parishes)
sometime after August 1st. We will keep you posted.
Catholic Ministries Appeal
***Pledges $68,710 (Over $810)***
**Payments received $ 60,270**
Thank You For Your Support
STEWARDSHIP FINANCIAL REPORT
For the week of July 19 , 2015
Mass
Attendance
5:00 pm
185
7:30 am
137
Envelopes
$
2383
2073
Loose
$
Total
382
2765
473
2546
9:00 am
158
1775
310
2085
11:00 am
188
1501
286
1787
Total
668
7732
1451
9183
Parish Outreach & Local Events
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Parish Outreach News
Several families in our community are in need of
school supplies. Can you help these children? We
are in need of the following items:
Tissues
Baby wipes
Glue sticks (not liquid)
3 and 5 Subject notebooks
Book covers
1”, 1 1/2”, 2” binders
Loose leaf paper and subject dividers
Post its—all sizes
3x5 index cards
Black permanent markers
Fiskar 5 inch scissors
Expo dry erase markers
Colored pencils
2 pocket folders—plastic or paper
Highlighters– assorted colors
Markers
Gift cards to Staples, Target and
Bob’s would be greatly appreciated!!
**PLEASE NO COMPOSITION
NOTEBOOKS, RULERS OR 1 SUBJECT
NOTEBOOKS.**
July 26 , 2015
ANNOUNCEMENTS
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The Log Island State Veterans Home Presents: Concert Under the Stars, featuring
the West Point Band.. Wednesday August
26, 2015 6:30 PM to 9:00PM rain or shine,
at Campus of Stony Brook Universality 100
Patriots Road Stony Brook. Bring blankets,
chairs and the whole family
The Association of Mary, Queen of All
Hearts– A Course in Spiritual Growth
and Devotion to Our Lady– An 8 Sessions
series of Prayer, Study and discussion August 6, 13, 20, 27 Sept. 3, 8, 17, and 24.
7:00 pm—8:30 pm at Shire of Our Lad of
the Island , call Shrine Office to register 325
-0661
Stepping On- Have you fallen in the past
year? Take this free work shop to help with
balance , improve strength and build confidence. Mastic Moriches Shirley community
library . Call 399-1511 for more information.
Worldwide Marriage Encounter- Come
join us for a day of enrichment Saturday
August 29, 2015 at The Shire of Our Lady
of the Island. Day starts at 8:30am. For further information or to RSVP please call Bob
and Jean Payne 886-2256
Live in Concert Kathy Troccoli—
Wednesday , September 23 7 PM St Mary’s
Auditorium. Kathy Troccoli’s soulful vocals
and passionate styling’s have resonated with
all generations Get tickets at the St Mary's
rectory office or online 581-4266
The pantry is located in the lobby of the large
church. All donations can be left outside the pantry
door or at the Outreach office.
Thank you for your continued support
Save the Date, Blood Drive
Monday, October 5, 2015
2pm—8 pm
OUR LADY OF THE SNOW RELIGIOUS EDUCATION OFFICE
363-6394 [email protected]
Office Hours: Mon. to Thurs. 9:30—4:30 or by appointment
The ministry of Religious Education strives to bring all into a closer relationship with Jesus
Week of July 26
REGISTRATION
You can still drop your
registration forms off at the Religious
Education Office. Forms can be found on
the parish website or hard copies are on
the back stairs of the Religious Education
Office.
Children
Entering
1st Grade
Sept. 2015
Children entering
1st grade in Sept
2015 should be registered in the Religious Education Program.
Participation in Level 1 is the first level of the
Diocesan mandated 2 year preparation program
for the Sacraments of Reconciliation and
Eucharist. Registration forms should be returned to the Religious Education Office as
soon as possible.
FYI—The
Religious Education
Office is closed for
vacation.
We will reopen
Mon. Aug. 16
“If God can work
through me, he can
work through
anyone.” _
St. Francis of
Assisi
Who are our Catechists???
Parents—Mothers & Fathers
Grandparents & Godparents
High School & College Students
Parishioners
CATECHISTS
Catechists are still needed. Please call or
email the Religious Education Office if you
are interested in sharing your faith.
Level 3 & 4 on Wednesday at 4:30 to 5:30
or 6 to 7
GOLF OUTING
Our Lady of the Snow’s
19th Annual
Father D’s Golf Outing
Wednesday , October 14, 2015
Rock Hill Country Club
Golf, Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
and Open Bar
9:00 am Registration, 11:00 am Shotgun Start, 5:00 pm Dinner and Raffle
Sponsorship/Costs
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Eagle Sponsor….$1000, Includes; Sponsorship for dinner, halfway
house BBQ, breakfast, driving range and hole sponsor.
Birdie Sponsor….$500, Includes; Sponsorship of Dinner, Cocktails,
halfway house BBQ and hole sponsor
Par Sponsor….$250 Includes; Sponsorship of halfway house BBQ,
and hole sponsor
Tee Sponsor…$100
Individual Player….$150 Includes; Reservation for Day of Golf, with
Continental Breakfast, Barbeque at the turn, Cocktails and Dinner.
Dinner Only ….$50
All /sponsorships will be prominently displayed
during the entire day.
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WHAT’S YOUR CATHOLIC IQ?
OUR LADY
OF THE SNOW
ANNUAL
PARISH PICNIC
Sunday
September 13, 2015
3:00pm-6:00pm
Please join us as we
come together as a parish
community
Tickets on sale soon….
Bring the children
for pony rides.
This educational self-assessment is a
fun way to help you see how much you
know about your Catholic faith. Answers can be found on the bottom of
this page.
1,
The Easter Vigil can take place at
any time of day.
True/False
2,
The liturgical color for Easter
is______.
a) blue b) gold c) white d) magenta
3,
How many days are in the Easter
season?
a) 40 b)1 c)8 d)50
4,
“Thanks be to God who gives us
the ____through our Lord Jesus Christ!
a) victory b) victim c) seasons d)
voyage
5,
Miracles are ______.
a) magic tricks b) only for those who
deserve them c) signs that what God has
revealed is true d)fake
Answer key 1, false 2, c; 3, d, 4, a; 5, c
A little humor from Father Fink:
A man went to confession and
asked the priest if it was a sin to
golf on Sunday. The priest,
recognizing the men’s voice,
said, “The way you play golf,
it’s a sin any day.”