14th Sunday in Ordinary Time - July 3, 2022

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Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

07/03/2022

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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 family a family seeking to know and love Jesus Christ.

Parish Staff Pastor: Rev. Donald C. Baker .......................... frdcab@stelmo79.org Rev. Msgr. Leslie J. Ivers ........................... msgrlivers@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 Plant Manager: Guillermo Vanegas ......... gvanegas@stelmo79.org Sacristan: Pedro Pizarro ................................ ppizarro@stelmo79.org Administrative Assistant: Gladys Tejada ..... gtejada@stelmo79.org

Church Address: 413 East 79th Street, NY, NY 10075 Parish Center Address: 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

Mass Intentions Saturday, July 2nd Vigil 5:30pm Alice & Samuel Lopez Sunday, July 3rd Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time 8:00am Mitzi & Bernard Purk 10:00am Maria Mota 12:00pm For All Parishioners 5pm Censu Formosa Monday, July 4th Weekday 9am Christiane Ramirez (Living) Tuesday, July 5th Weekday 9am Bridget O’Donoghue Wednesday, July 6th Weekday 9am William La Borne Thursday, July 7th Weekday 12pm Thanksgiving Friday, July 8th Weekday 12pm Foley-Byrne Family (Living & Dec.)

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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

Saturday, July 9th Weekday 12pm Priests of St. Monica’s

For Mass Intentions, please visit the Parish Center

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

Nidia Torres, Danny Marmo, Kip Silverman,Anne Reilly, Martin Barbieri, Susan Baldwin, James Mooney, Cindy Garnica Castro and all those ill with or recovering from the COVID-19 virus and all Victims of Military Activities

PRAYERS FOR THE DECEASED Josephine Porcelli, Sheila O’Neil, Juan David Collazo, Michael Murphy, James McQuade, Catherine Lynch Husse & Vernon Lewis

Today’s Readings First Reading — Rejoice and be glad for I will spread prosperity over Jerusalem like a river, and the wealth of nations like an overflowing torrent (Isaiah 66:10-14c).

Psalm — Let all the earth cry out to God with joy (Psalm 66).

Second Reading — May I never boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ (Galatians 6:14-18).

Gospel — Jesus sends his disciples out in pairs to bring his peace and proclaim the kingdom of God (Luke 10:1-12, 17-20 [1-9]).

The English translation of the Psalm Responses from the Lectionary for Mass © 1969, 1981, 1997, International Commission on English in the Liturgy Corporation. All rights reserved.

Readings for the Week

Monday: Hos 2:16, 17b-18, 21-22; Ps 145:2 9;Mt 9:18-26; or, for Independence

Day, any readings from the Mass

“For Public Needs,”

nos. 882-889, or “For Peace and Justice,”nos. 887-891 Tuesday: Hos 8:4-7, 11-13; Ps 115:3-10; Mt 9:32-38 Wednesday: Hos 10:1-3, 7-8, 12; Ps 105:2-7; Mt 10:1-7 Thursday: Hos 11:1-4, 8c-9; Ps 80:2ac, 3b, 15-16;Mt 10:7-15 Friday: Hos 14:2-10; Ps 51:3-4, 8-9, 12 14, 17;Mt 10:16-23 Saturday: Is 6:1-8; Ps 93:1-2, 5; Mt 10:24-33 Sunday: Dt 30:10-14; Ps 69:14, 17, 30-31, 33-34, 36-37;

or Ps 19:8-11; Col 1:15-20;

Lk 10:25-37

July 6th, 2022

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K-8 Religious Education and Sacramental Preparation: • •

Participation in Sunday (or Saturday evening) Eucharist is an integral part of Religious Education in our parish. Don’t take a vacation from God this summer!

Registration for Fall 2022 is open. Register online at stelmo79.org, or at the parish center. We return to in-person sessions in the Fall.

Sacramental Preparation: •

Please remember that the Archdiocese requires two years of Religious Education or Catholic School prior to the celebration of First Penance/First Communion (2nd grade or older), and prior to the celebration of Confirmation (8th grade or older). New enrollments this fall will be eligible to receive sacraments in 2024.

Adult Sacraments of Initiation (RCIA): • • • •

Have you ever thought about becoming Catholic? Do you have a lot of questions about Catholicism?

Or are you a baptized Catholic who has not yet celebrated First Communion or Confirmation?

You, and your questions, are warmly welcomed! Come and share the journey with others.

Please contact Maryann Tyrer at mtyrer@stelmo79.org to discuss our adult initiation process (commonly known as the RCIA). While we will not have formal sessions on Sunday afternoons after May 22, until we resume in September, we will stay connected over the summer!

Help Wanted: • • • • •

Those who value their Catholic faith, and want to see the next generation value that faith also Those who are creative, energetic, enthusiastic, patient, and loving Those who can be available on Sundays (and occasionally Saturday afternoons) Those who are willing to be interviewed and submit to a background check to protect our children Those willing to answer God’s call to be catechists

If you would like to discuss how God might be calling you to serve as a catechist in our Pre-K-8 Religious Education program, or any of our Adult Faith Formation or Sacramental Preparation programs, please contact Maryann Tyrer at mtyrer@stelmo79.org.

FIVE MINUTE JESUS Using the Gospel for Prayer – Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time July 10, 2022 It’s simple. 1. Read the Gospel for the following Sunday slowly, reflecting on the story it tells. 2. Reflect on the questions assigned for each day. 3. Make some resolution about how what you read can be lived that day. 4. Then thank God for speaking to you through this reflection.

The Gospel according to Luke 10; 25-37

There was a scholar of the law who stood up to test Jesus and said, “Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?” Jesus said to him, “What is written in the law? How do you read it?” He said in reply, “You shall love the Lord, your God, with all your heart, with all your being, with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself.” He replied to him, “You have answered correctly; do this and you will live.” But because he wished to justify himself, he said to Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?” Jesus replied, “A man fell victim to robbers as he went down from Jerusalem to Jericho.

They stripped and beat him and went off leaving him half-dead. A priest happened to be going down that road, but when he saw him, he passed by on the opposite side. Likewise a Levite came to the place, and when he saw him, he passed by on the opposite side. But a Samaritan traveler who came upon him was moved with compassion at the sight. He approached the victim, poured oil and wine over his wounds and bandaged them. Then he lifted him up on his own animal, took him to an inn, and cared for him. The next day he took out two silver coins and gave them to the innkeeper with the instruction, ‘Take care of him. If you spend more than what I have given you, I shall repay you on my way back.’ Which of these three in your opinion, was neighbor to the robbers’ victim?”

He answered, “The one who treated him with mercy.” Jesus said to him, “Go and do likewise,” Monday Was there something in this reading that spoke to you? Challenged you? What was it? Why did it have this effect on you?

Tuesday Has a stranger ever helped you when you really needed it? What happened? Go out this week and help another remembering that acting with mercy is the first step to sharing the Good News.

Wednesday At the beginning of the gospel, Jesus tells us what we must do to gain eternal life. He gives us the law of love. What in this proclamation of love challenges you most?

Thursday Who is my neighbor? In the story of the Good Samaritan, Jesus implies that the God of all was for all, not some. How does this view enhance your perception of neighbor?

Friday In this gospel, the traditional concept of neighbor is reversed. The Samaritan is the neighbor which suggests that we be ready to rid ourselves of biases and ask, “To whom can I be a neighbor here and now? For whom can I be a Good Samaritan?

Saturday What other insights do you have into Jesus’ parable that can help people in everyday occurrences of need?

From the Pastor 07.03.22 With Liberty and Justice for All. . . . . . those are the final words of the Pledge of Allegiance. We teach them to the children in school. I think I learned them before I learned the Our Father. I can remember standing, facing the flag which hung in our classroom, with my hand over my heart, reciting them each day.

People think that memorizing things means to learn the words with no connection as to their meaning. But that is not true. Memorized words, be they prayers, poems, songs, or pledges of allegiance, are like tools that we can pull out of our kit at any time. Said together, they connect us (Whose heart doesn’t stir when singing the national anthem together at a baseball game?). Said alone, they can be powerful reminders of who we are. Maybe that is why we don’t just call it memorizing but learning by heart.

A couple of weeks ago at our school’s kindergarten graduation, they all stood and with their little hands over their hearts recited the Pledge of Allegiance. Their last words struck me: With Liberty and Justice for all. I remember saying them countless times, but that day I heard them differently, as perhaps all of us do these days.

For while the composer of the pledge put these two words together, connected only by the word “and”, in practice, those two words could not be farther apart. For, who has not heard these words bandied about for years? Justice has been called for by every protest group. Liberty has been the battle cry for every revolutionary. The BLM protests called for justice, as did the marchers in Charlottesville. Liberty was the battle cry of the men at Lexington and Concord; it was also emblazoned on the banners of the rioters and seditionists on January 6th.

And is that surprising? These words are part of our American toolkit. And yet, despite the ease with which the Pledge of Allegiance links them, liberty and justice resist that coupling in our modern world, like the north poles of two magnets.

What do we do, when justice means I can live how I want, but liberty means I don’t have to accept it (or you)? What do we do, when justice means fighting to end gun violence and liberty means the right to bear arms? What do we do when liberty means pro-Choice, and justice, Pro-Life? At times it can seem that the words spoken by the character Belize in Tony Kushner’s famous play Angels in America are all too true, “The founding fathers knew what they were doing: they set the word ‘free’ in the National Anthem to a note so high no one could reach it.”

The tension between liberty and justice is nothing new. But the violent way in which this tension is played out nowadays reveals a serious flaw in our understanding of these words. For we have come to understand liberty as the freedom from something. We have come to understand justice as getting what I deserve. That is not surprising. For over a hundred years we have lived in a culture where advertising has convinced me that I have a right to satisfy my hungers, slake my thirsts, have what I want and get what I deserve. This focus on the individual, on ME seems so basic to us as Americans that we forget its relatively recent roots.

Our Christian moral tradition offers a different way to see these words. Liberty is not freedom from something but freedom for something – namely our neighbor. And justice is not getting what I deserve, but what we all deserve. In short, Catholics believe that to bring liberty and justice together requires not an “and” but a “we”: a community. That is why the model of Christian life is a meal – the mass, and the biblical image of the kingdom is a feast where all are fed, and all have enough. And that is probably why the last words of the Pledge of Allegiance are “with liberty and justice for all”: To remind us that these words only have meaning when they are lived in a community; be that a family a city, a nation, church, or world.

This July Fourth weekend, take a moment and give thanks that as Catholics we are called to live as a community of respect, rather than a collection of consumers. As you picnic around tables and on blankets, remember that other table, where all are invited to join in that feast that never ends. And if you have the opportunity to recite the Pledge, maybe just once, instead of saying “I pledge of Allegiance”, say (to yourself) “we”. For without an understanding of the communal context of both liberty and justice we risk tearing ourselves apart as a people. We is an important word. It is the first word of our Constitution. And as they say, there is no USA without US. Happy Fourth!

Father Baker

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