20th Sunday in Ordinary Time 8/20/2023

Mission Statement

The Roman Catholic Parish of St. Monica-St. Elizabeth of Hungary-St. Stephen of Hungary opens its doors to welcome and embrace all in our community. We strive through worship, hospitality and service to receive those seeking a spiritual home. In the midst of diversity of thought, life style, nationality, economic status & age, we endeavor to live as a community of faith and invite you to join our familya family seeking to know and love Jesus Christ.

Parish Staff

Pastor: Rev. Donald C. Baker ............................ frdcab@stelmo79.org

Weekend Associate: .................................... Rev. Anthony Ciorra, IVD

Weekend Associate:...............................................Rev. Edward Beck, CP

Pastoral Associate: Ms. Maryann Tyrer ........ mtyrer@stelmo79.org

Music Director: Mr. John Zupan .................... jzupan@stelmo79.org

Wedding Coordinator: Ms. Debbi Burdett.....dbweddingsnyc@gmail.com

Parish Manager: Jennifer DeSpirito.............................jdespirito@stelmo79.org

Plant Manager: Guillermo Vanegas .......... gvanegas@stelmo79.org

Sacristan: Pedro Pizarro ...................................ppizarro@stelmo79.org

Administrative Assistant: Gladys Tejada ..... gtejada@stelmo79.org

Mass Intentions

Saturday, August 19th Vigil 19th

5:30pm T hanksgiving to St Ag ata Thanksgiving to St. Agata

Sunday, August 20th 20th

Church Address : 413 East 79th Street, NYC 10075

Parish Center: 406 East 80th Street, NY, NY 10075

Tel: 212-288-6250 Fax: 212- 570-1562

Email: info@stelmo79.org

Our Offices are open:

Monday & Wednesday 9am - 4pm

Tuesday - Thursday ....................................... 9am - 7pm

Friday ....................................................... Closed

Saturday ................................................. 10am - 2pm

Sunday ..................................................... Closed Closed for Lunch Weekdays..................1pm - 2pm

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Mass Schedule

Daily Mass: Mon-Sat, 12 noon Saturday Vigil: 5:30pm

Sunday: 8am, 10am, 12pm & 5pm

Confessions: Saturdays at 5pm or by appointment

Twentieth Sunday in Ordinar y Time

Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time

8:00am Susanne LaChapelle

8:00am Susanne

10:00am Lar r y Pudvah 10:00am Larry Pudvah

12:00pm All Parishioners All Parishioners

5pm Mar y Die ppa Mary Dieppa

Monday, August 21st St Pius X

Monday, 21st St Pius X 12pm Michael Eg an 12pm Michael Egan

Tuesday, August 22nd Tuesday, 22nd

The Queenship of the Blessed Virgin Mar y The of the Blessed Mary 12pm Edith Costello Edith Costello

Wednesday, August 23rd Weekday August 23rd 12pm Jean Ste phens Jean Stephens

Thur sday, August 24th Thursday, August 24th St. Bar tholomew Bartholomew 12pm John J. Downes (Living) Downes

Friday, August 25th Weekday 25th 12pm Michael Ber r y Michael Berry

Saturday, August 26th Weekday 26th 12pm Jane Duffy

Sanctuary Lamp

This Week’s Sanctuary Lamp

In Memory of Michael Egan

Offered by Noreen Egan

Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament

Every Friday after the Noon Mass until 3pm in the church and live on-line

Devotions

Miraculous Medal on Mondays after Mass in the church and live on-line

Divine Mercy

Prayed every Friday at 3pm in the church and live on-line

Vespers (Evening Prayer)

Every Friday at 5:10pm in the Chapel and live on-line

Sacrament of Reconciliation

Saturdays at 5pm or by appointment

Anointing of the sick

Every third Saturday of the Month after the noon Mass.

Baptisms & Marriages

Please call the rectory office for more information.

Communion for the Homebound:

If you know of anyone who cannot attend church because of illness or age, and would like to have communion brought to them, please contact the Parish office, so that we can arrange for a Eucharistic Minister to bring communion to them.

PRAYERS FOR THE SICK

Jerry Schwegman, Judith Farber, Camille Madonna, Caroline Yurkutat, Christopher Elliot Lewis, Danielle Boros, Linda Clarke, Bruno Franco

Adame, Susan Bacerra, Michael Reilly, Dorothy Condon, Marcelle Ferrier, Joanna Jack, all those ill and Victims of Military activities

PRAYERS FOR THE DECEASED

Proceso Lopez, Thomas Acheson, Lorraine Vaccari, Michele Chigrinsky & Marie Sheridan

Weekly Readings & Observances

Readings for the week of August 20, 2023

Sunday: Is 56:1, 6-7/Ps 67:2-3, 5, 6, 8 (4)/Rom 11:13-15, 29-32/Mt 15:21-28

Monday: Jgs 2:11-19/Ps 106:34-35, 36-37, 39-40, 43ab and 44/Mt 19:16-22

Tuesday: Jgs 6:11-24a/Ps 85:9, 11-12, 13-14/Mt 19:23-30

Wednesday: Jgs 9:6-15/Ps 21:2-3, 4-5, 6-7/Mt 20:1-16

Thursday: Rv 21:9b-14/Ps 145:10-11, 12-13, 17-18/Jn 1:45-51

Friday: Ru 1:1, 3-6, 14b-16, 22/Ps 146:5-6ab, 6c-7, 8-9a, 9bc-10/Mt 22:34-40

Saturday: Ru 2:1-3, 8-11; 4:13-17/Ps 128:1b-2, 3, 4, 5/Mt 23:1-12

Next Sunday: Is 22:19-23/Ps 138:1-2, 2-3, 6, 8 (8bc)/ Rom 11:33-36/Mt 16:13-20

Observances for the week of August 20, 2023

Sunday: 20th Sunday in Ordinary Time

Monday: St. Pius X, Pope

Tuesday: The Queenship of the Blessed Virgin

Mary

Wednesday: St. Rose of Lima, Virgin

Thursday: St. Bartholomew, Apostle

Friday: St. Louis; St. Joseph Calasanz, Priest

Saturday:

Next Sunday: 21st Sunday in Ordinary Time

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St. Stephen of Hungary School (SSHS) offers a life changing education through a supportive, nurturing and faith-filled environment. Educating the whole child through a growth mindset, students are challenged to think critically and creatively while solving complex, real world issues in our everchanging global community.

Consider this:

Overall proficiency in Math and ELA as per the New York State Exams and in MAP Growth Subject Assessments (Kindergarten – Grade 8) ranks SSHS in the top 5 percent of schools in the Archdiocese of New York and the top 15 percentile nationally.

The Class of 2023 has received close to $1 million in merit scholarships at highly-rated high schools in the metropolitan area, including Regis High School, Convent of the Sacred Heart and Marymount School. Our dedicated and highly committed faculty work collaboratively in preparing students to be passionate leaders and life-long learners. Our campus features unique learning spaces including outdoor classrooms in our rooftop garden & turfed play yard. With a dedicated Parents Association and active SSHS Foundation, our community is truly a gem on the Upper East Side.

Choosing the right school for your children is one of the most important gifts you can bestow on them. For more information about applying to SSHS, your parish school, please email jdickson@saintstephenschool.org

The Preface

My mother was big on thank-yous. Most of her gratitude came in the form of baked goods—scrumptious edibles such as Italian wedding cookies or Polish chruscikis.

She offered these mouthwatering treats to people who constantly showed God’s kindness to us: the family doctor who never took a penny after our father died or the neighbors who plowed our driveway after the massive snowfalls. She recognized God’s goodness in the hearts of others and was eternally grateful. Focusing on the blessings of God rather than the pain of life often changed those potentially sadder moments into times of thanksgiving.

Like my mother, the Church continually reminds us through the liturgy to say thank you. The word Eucharist is derived from the Greek εὐχαριστία, which is translated as “thankfulness” and “gratitude.”

At the heart of the liturgy is the thanksgiving offered in the Eucharistic Prayer. That prayer begins with a dialogue that starts when the priest says, “The Lord be with you,” and the people respond, “And with your Spirit.”

This dialogue begins what is called the Preface, the prelude to the Eucharistic Prayer. The word preface comes from the Latin noun made from the verb fari, meaning “to speak,” and the prefix prae-, meaning “before.” The Preface is a prayer of utmost importance. Nearly one hundred Prefaces are in The Roman Missal, with each connected to a particular liturgical season, solemnity, or feast. Each Preface begins with a reiteration of the last part of the Preface dialogue: “It is truly right and just, our duty and our salvation, always and everywhere to give you thanks.”

Each line of the Preface draws on what God has done for his people, as Preface V of the Sundays in Ordinary Time, shows:

For you have laid the foundations of the world and have arranged the changing of times and seasons;

You formed man in your own image and set humanity over the whole world in all its wonder, to rule in your name over all you have made and forever praise you in your mighty works, through Christ our Lord.

After naming reasons to give thanks, the presider invites the assembly to join with the angels— indeed the whole company of heaven—in a song of praise and thanksgiving as they sing the Sanctus (Holy, Holy, Holy).

If we are truly attentive to the reminders of God’s goodness offered in the Preface and in other parts of the Mass, we will have no choice but to be so filled with thankfulness that, like my mother, we will have to pour out our gratefulness onto others.

Connecting the Liturgy with Our Lives © 2019 Archdiocese of Chicago: Liturgy Training Publications. 800-933-1800; www.LTP.org. Text by Kathy Kuczka.

Photo © John Zich. Excerpt from the English translation of The Roman Missal © 2010, International Commission on English in the Liturgy Corporation. Used with permission. All rights reserved. Permission to publish granted by the Archdiocese of Chicago on October 25, 2018.

The Eucharistic Prayer begins with the words of gratitude in the Preface that tell of the deeds God has done for his people.

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Just a Word

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