Church of St. Joachim St. John the Evangelist October 4, 2015 Vigil: Twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time 4:30 p.m. Meaghan Murphy Bonnie Sablinski Sun. Oct. 4 Twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time 7:30 a.m. Anthony Pettorossi Andrea Harris 9:00 a.m. Gloria Rega Susan & Pat Lambert 10:30 a.m. Madalena Tighe Rafaela Ducasse Spanish 12:00 p.m. The People of the Parish 12:00 p.m. Ralph A. Collins Mary, Robert, Gary, & Cathy Collins 6:00 p.m. Frances Carbonaro Cathy & Ed Stokes Mon. Oct. 5 Weekday 7:00 a.m. Lucy Orsini Nina and Jim 8:00 a.m. John & Elizabeth Antalek Rose Farrell Tues. Oct. 6 St. Bruno, Blessed Marie-Rose Durocher 7:00 a.m. Betty & Bob Murphy The Family 8:00 a.m. Kiernan Maloney Kathleen Tobin Wed. Oct. 7 Our Lady of the Rosary 7:00 a.m. Augustine Arquilla Clara Lou Gould 8:00 a.m. Josephine & John Valentino John Valentino Thurs. Oct. 8 7:00 a.m. Anne Hall Her Husband 8:00 a.m. Ann McCullough Fri. Oct. 9 St. Denis and Companions 7:00 a.m. Mary M. Williams Clara Lou Gould 8:00 a.m. Rose & Frank Fredericks, Sr. C. F Todd Sat. Oct. 10 The Blessed Virgin Mary 8:00 a.m. Agnes Sablinski The Family 9:00 a.m. Craig Duva Rose Pucino Vigil: Twenty-eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time 4:30 p.m. Michele Stella (fourth anniversary) Peggy & John Stella Sun. Oct. 11 Twenty-eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time 7:30 a.m. Geert Louis Westerhuis Charlene & Gus 9:00 a.m. Jay Walsh His Family 10:30 a.m. Melissa Nussbickel The Family Spanish 12:00 p.m. Edith Sepulveda Her Children 12:00 p.m. Edna Pettorossi Mr. & Mrs. Patrick Fredericks & Family 6:00 p.m. Robin Reis John & Maureen Darcy Sacramentals Sanctuary Lamp: St. Joachim s Casimir & Karol Dokurno, Joseph Kochay Sanctuary Lamp: St. John s Lee Ann & Simon Lee Antalek, Richard Pendleton Sr. Bread & Wine: St. Joachim s Bread & Wine: St. John s Altar Candles: St. Joachim s Thomas Gros Altar Candles: St. John s Rose for Life: St. Joachim s Barbara & Michael Scoba, Sr., Steve Wiercinski, Kevin Ninnie, Mary &William Fischer, and The Arquilla Family Rose for Life: St. John s Rose & Francis Donnelly, Joseph Romanelli, Fran Riley, Capt. Martin Kerr & Family
Our Paths are Guided by the Beacon of Christ s Love Revenue Sharing Program Collection Report Week 14: John Darcy, Sr. Sept. 27, 2015 Sept. 28, 2014 $7,952 $7,551 Attendance Sept. 27, 2015 Sept. 28, 2014 934 899 Coming Events Save the Dates Bible Study continues Oct. 6 Garage & Rummage Sale, Oct 22, 23, & 24 Pancake Breakfast, Oct. 25 Christmas Fair, Dec. 12 & 13 Pancake Breakfast Trinity Council, 445, Knights of Columbus, will hold a pancake breakfast on Sunday, Oct. 25 from 8 am until 11:30 am in St. John s lower hall. All are invited to attend. Make A Difference Day St. Vincent de Paul Society will be collecting nonperishable items on Saturday, Oct 24 and Sunday, Oct. 25 for the area food pantry. To change the world, we must be good to those who cannot repay us. Pope Francis Bible Study This year we are studying the Gospel of St. Matthew. St. Jerome writes that ignorance of Scripture is ignorance of Christ. It s through a prayerful reading of Scripture that we come to know Jesus in a deeper way. We meet each Tuesday from 7:30-8:30pm in the meeting room at St. Joachim. Please come as your schedule allows, all are welcome at any time! Please bring a Bible we have some Bibles available for sale at the Parish Office for $5 each. Respect Life October is Respect Life month. Love one another as I have loved you. Please join us for a weekday Mass at 7 a.m. or 8 a.m. and our Rosary for Life following 8 a.m. Mass To serve your needs better, our pastor would like to know: - Of any parishioner who is hospitalized - Of anyone in need of prayer - Of anyone who would like a pastoral visit Our parish priests and the Special Ministers of Holy Communion bring the Eucharist to our ill parishioners. The Sacraments of the Sick and Reconciliation are also available from our priests on their visits. If you or someone you know is in need of the Sacraments, please call the parish office. Through the Outreach Program Parish Volunteers provide supportive and practical services for seniors and other persons who are in need. These include friendly visiting, telephone reassurance, shopping, and local medical transportation/escort. Drivers are needed for the Outreach Program for doctor s appointments. If you are able to help, please call the parish office. Pray for the Sick and Homebound: Catherine Adams, Cathleen Adams, Minoo Aibara, Rasika Aniff, Gary Arquilla, Ruben Arroyo, Dominic Bettina, Deborah Bonnell, Joseph Bradford, Alexander Burguiere, Coleen Cherry, Bill Coatney, Christine Connelly, Ramona Concessao, Noah Corey, Christina DeDonato, Maria del Rosario, Hilda D Silva, Jeffrey Dolan, Lucia Eustace, Christine Ferguson, Valarian Fernandes, Russell Fullen, Brian M. Furey, Marie Ann Gama, David Gonzalez, Lillian Gonzalez, Jean Guarneri, Mary Holloway,l Timmy Johnson, Donna Juliano, Zofia Kochay, Jim Killeen, Edward and Anne Killmer, Michael Leonard, Virginia Letterio, Olga Lucas, Sarah Lugo, Evan Maher, Venita Martis, Eileen Malik, Eve Marhafer, Christine Moffitt, Anna O Dell, Jim O Donnell, Lorraine O Keefe, Loretta Oppitz, Sara Pellerin, Cayla Pignatello, Peter Podloski, Jane Pomarico, Rose Pucino, Hector Ramirez, Ivette Ramos, Mary Rivera, Maria Robillard, Danile Rohan, Pauline Russotto, Marcia Santovenia, Marie Sequinot, Ruth Snyder, Lawrence Solomon, Teresa Solomon, Robert Sugg, Nina Tagan, Jean Torrie, Thomas Trochan, Sr., James Turco, Kathleen Turco, Julio D. Vazquez, Laryssa Verna, Norman Waldron, and Taylor Weiss. Please pray for the men and women serving in the military and for their families. And also our friends in McClelland s, Elant at Fishkill, Wingate at Beacon, Forrestal Heights, Hamilton Fish, Hedgewood, Horizons, and Meadow Ridge II. Recently Deceased: We pray for the people who have recently died and ask God to grant their families and loved ones the strength to carry on until we all join God in the Resurrection:
Reflection By Sr. Kathy St. Francis 2015 October 4 is the Feast of St. Francis, and as I am a Franciscan sister, I would like to share a few thoughts about Francis of Assisi. I believe it is almost impossible to understand St. Francis without understanding that his adult life revolved around the experience of falling in love with Jesus, and with Jesus poor and humble. Francis became so enamored of the person of Jesus that he viewed everything within the framework of the Incarnation. Francis wanted everyone to understand the unfathomable mystery of the Word made flesh, God with us. So he acted it out with a crèche, a baby and the animals that were in attendance at the first Christmas. Jesus had become human, sharing our human nature, so all the human family became holy to Francis. He could embrace the leper, forgive the robber, seek out the poorest to share his food, reverence the townsfolk who called him a fool, accept women as equal followers of the Savior, find holiness in the laity and rejoice in the company of outcasts. Because Jesus had walked the earth and spoken lovingly of the fields, the wheat, the birds, the water and the sun, so too Francis delighted in nature and saw in it the reflection of the Creator. Because Jesus invented stories of everyday incidents to teach the truth of God s love, so Francis sang and played imaginary instruments to highlight the goodness of God. Because Jesus spoke repeatedly of peace, so Francis found the courage to act as peacemaker between the mayor and the bishop, and more daring still, to seek out the Sultan with the respect of a brother. The simple truth was that Francis was in love, and love compelled him to proclaim the goodness of God at every opportunity. He welcomed followers who shared the same passion, and sent them to preach. Their preaching was not to be with the learned words of the well educated, but with the sincerity of those who could be trusted by the poor. And so we come to today, to a world in need of the witness of Francis of Assisi. We can do so by respecting the immigrant, the laborer, the single mother, the incarcerated, the homeless, the unemployed and the handicapped. We can do so by seeking peaceful solutions to our own family squabbles and to the national hatreds that create war and famine. We can learn from Francis to respect our raped and ravaged planet by supported environmental efforts to clean our water supply and stop the mining techniques that ruin the soil. We can advocate a model of equality in our church by respecting the gifts of women. And we can preach the good news by opening our hearts and our table to those without resources. There is no magic in the following of Francis. His vocation was the vocation of every Christian- to fall in love with the person of Jesus and imitate him in his mission to manifest the loving mercy of a gracious and generous God. High School Youth Ministry Our High School Youth Ministry meets every Sunday night in the lower hall at St. John s from 6:45pm to 8:30pm. All high school teenagers are invited to Come, join us for food, games, discussion and prayer. Please pray for the young people of St. Joachim - St. John s! CAN YOU HELP? Every Sunday night, we provide our teenagers with dinner at our meeting. Can you help by preparing and dropping off a meal one Sunday night? Food can be very simple baked ziti, hot dogs, chili, etc. There are approximately 15 students. There is a sign-up sheet in the rear of church where you can sign up for a Sunday, someone from the youth ministry will contact you in advance to set things up. Thank you for supporting our teenagers in this way! Religious Formation Helpers Needed As we set into motion our Religious Formation ministry for the 2015-16 school year, I invite you to join me in preparing for the future of our children. To be a catechist you need to have the love of God and the love of children. If you have ever considered becoming a catechist or if you have heard God calling you to do something extraordinary within our parish, the time is now. We need your help with this special ministry, whether as a catechist or as a hall monitor. If you are of high school age, a senior citizen, or anywhere in-between and you have the love of children and God you fit the requirements. Please consider answering the call and become a vital gift to our Parish and children. Please contact our DRE, Albert, @ 845.447.1302.
Gospel Plays All children beginning in 1 st grade, are invited to participate at the 4:30 Mass at St. Joachim s on Saturdays; reading, being in a small play, bringing up the gifts at the offertory or helping to pass out bulletins. We have been involving children in these capacities for over eight years at the 5:30 Mass and hope to continue offering this truly unique way for your children to learn the Gospels and teachings of Jesus. If interested, please call: Nina Cahill, 831-9905 or Mrs. Darcy, 831-1881. Thank you. Evolution, Creation, and the Catholic Church. Do you have questions about how Christian belief relates to modern scientific theory? Our parishioner, Dr. William Carroll, will be speaking on TUESDAY OCTOBER 13 th at 7:30pm in the lower hall at St. Joachim s about the relationship between faith and science. In the talk he will examine common assumptions about the alleged incompatibility between evolutionary biology and the Christian doctrine of creation. Dr. Carroll will show how the thought of Thomas Aquinas on the relationship between the doctrine of creation and the natural sciences can help to eliminate much of the confusion in contemporary analyses of the philosophical and theological implications of evolutionary biology. Dr. William E. Carroll is Research Fellow in Theology, Philosophy, and Science at Blackfriars Hall, Oxford and a member of the Faculty of Theology and Religion of the University of Oxford. He is a European intellectual historian and historian of science. He is the author of: Aquinas on Creation; La Creación y las Ciencias Naturales: Actualidad de Santo Tomás de Aquino; Galileo: Science and Faith; and Creation and Science. His published work has appeared in 12 languages. Music Notes Now is a good time to join the choir! Summer is over and we are back to a routine. Meet Cathy Crocco, music director, after all Masses on Oct. 3 and 4 at the back of church after the final hymn for information. The adult Choir rehearsals are moving to WEDNESDAY night's at 7pm at St. Joachim. We sing at the 9am Mass each week and are preparing for Advent and Christmas season at St. John and St. Joachim. We have heard some great voices in the congregation! We would like to invite you to help us grow. High school and college students are welcome. We need the men of the parish too. Youth choir is forming! We meet Wednesdays from 6 to 7pm at St. Joachim church in the choir loft. Jr. High and H.S. students are welcome! We sing at the 4:30 Mass each week and are preparing for the Christmas Pageant. For more information contact Cathy Crocco at Cathy.crocco@gmail 2015-2016 CYO Basketball Registration Travel Team tryouts will be held on 10/5, 10/6, and 10/7 at the GYM. Grades 4, 5 and 6 will be held 6:30 7:45 and 7 th and 8 th grade will be 7:45 to 9:00. From The Women s Parish Club The Fall Garage & Rummage Sale will be held October 22, 23 and 24 in the gym at St. Joachim. Collection dates for donations will be October 19 and 20. More information to follow in a few weeks. Thank you for all the jewelry donations for the Christmas Fair received so far. If you have any jewelry you would like to donate, please give Virginia Norman a call @ 831-3348. The Christmas Fair will be held December 12 and 13 at St. John the Evangelist. For information regarding the Women s Club or its activities, please call President Joanne Smith @ 831-5143. Come Join Us For RCIA (Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults) If you have been coming to Mass for a while and are not Catholic or would like to receive the remainder of your Sacraments, we invite you to join us and others on their journey of the Catholic Faith. Our Parish will soon begin a new cycle of adult formation to share the truths of the Catholic Faith and the fellowship of our Church family in an open and welcoming environment. These sessions are also opportunities for you to ask those difficult questions that you may have about the Catholic Faith. We will begin in the middle of September. Please call the Parish office (838-0915) for more information and if possible to register. Thank you and may God Bless you, Deacon Marty.. Boys Day-By-Day-Agape (DDA) Retreat Fri. Oct 9- Mon. Oct. 12 for boys (15 & older). days before retreat). All paperwork & non-refundable $70. deposit must be returned by Registration deadline, Tues. Oct. 6, 2015. For info and application contact CYFM or visit our website: www.cyfm.org and click on events.
St. Joaquin-St. Juan, Beacon, NY Octubre 4-2015 27º domingo de tiempo ordinario. LECTURAS PARA EL DIA DE HOY: 1 Lectura: Gn 2,18-24: Y serán los dos una sola carne. 2 Lectura: Heb 2,9-11: El que consagra y los consagrados tienen todos un mismo origen. Evangelio: Mc 10,2-16: Lo que Dios unió, no lo separe el hombre. «Lo que Dios unió, no lo separe el hombre» Hoy, los fariseos quieren poner a Jesús nuevamente en un compromiso planteándole la cuestión sobre el divorcio. Más que dar una respuesta definitiva, Jesús pregunta a sus interlocutores por lo que dice la Escritura y, sin criticar la Ley de Moisés, les hace comprender que es legítima, pero temporal: «Teniendo en cuenta la dureza de vuestro corazón escribió para vosotros este precepto». Jesús recuerda lo que dice el Libro del Génesis: «Al comienzo del mundo, Dios los creó hombre y mujer». Jesús habla de una unidad que será la Humanidad. El hombre dejará a sus padres y se unirá a su mujer, siendo uno con ella para formar la Humanidad. Esto supone una realidad nueva: Dos seres forman una unidad, no como una "asociación", sino como procreadores de Humanidad. La conclusión es evidente: «Lo que Dios unió, no lo separe el hombre». Mientras tengamos del matrimonio una imagen de "asociación", la indisolubilidad resultará incomprensible. Si el matrimonio se reduce a intereses asociativos, se comprende que la disolución aparezca como legítima. Hablar entonces de matrimonio es un abuso de lenguaje, pues no es más que la asociación de dos solteros deseosos de hacer más agradable su existencia. Cuando el Señor habla de matrimonio está diciendo otra cosa. El Concilio Vaticano II nos recuerda: «Este vínculo sagrado, con miras al bien, ya de los cónyuges y su prole, ya de la sociedad, no depende del arbitrio humano. Dios mismo es el autor de un matrimonio que ha dotado de varios bienes y fines, todo lo cual es de una enorme trascendencia para la continuidad del género humano». De regreso a casa, los Apóstoles preguntan por las exigencias del matrimonio, y a continuación tiene lugar una escena cariñosa con los niños. Ambas escenas están relacionadas. La segunda enseñanza es como una parábola que explica cómo es posible el matrimonio. El Reino de Dios es para aquellos que se asemejan a un niño y aceptan construir algo nuevo. Lo mismo el matrimonio, si hemos captado bien lo que significa: dejar, unirse y devenir ANUNCIOS GRACIAS. Muchisimas gracias a todas las personas que participaron y ayudaron en el preparación y venta de comida en el día del espíritu de Beacon. A los que organizaron las mesas y carpa, los que marcharon en el desfile y a toda la comunidad en general. Dios les bendiga. FORMACION RELIGIOSA. Las clases de formacion Religiosa han empezado. La primera seccion comienza a las 8:30 y termina a las 10:00a.m. La segunda seccion empieza a las 10:15 y termina a las 11:45a.m. Seguimos registrando a las personas por el ano del periodo escolar. Si usted todavia no ha registrado a su nino/a, por favor acerquese lo mas pronto possible a la oficina de la parroquia, 2 Oak St. de 9:30 a.m hasta las 3:00p.m. o contacte directamente al senor Albert al tel: 845-4471302.