Second Sunday of Lent 3/5/2023

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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 familya 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

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

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:

Note: Please go to page 10 for our Holiday Schedule

Monday & Wednesday................................. . 9am - 4pm

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

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

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

Sunday ..................................................... Closed

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

Visit us at: www.STELMO79.org

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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

Mass Intentions

Saturday, March 4th Vigil

5:30pm Thomas Mehrtens

Sunday, March 5th

Second Sunday of Lent

8:00am Nine Souls of Lima

10:00am Salvatrice & Pietro Mandara

12:00pm All Parishioners

5pm Jozsef Tomahatsch

Monday, March 6th Lenten Weekday 12pm John O’Donoghue

Tuesday, March 7th Lenten Weekday 12pm Roberta Chapey (Living)

Wednesday, March 8th Lenten Weekday 12pm Josephine & Carmel Xuereb

Thursday, March 9th Lenten Weekday

12pm Antonio Soliven Reyes

Friday, March 10th Lenten Weekday 12pm Remberto Dacanay

Saturday, March 11th Lenten Weekday

12pm Sheila Mackessy (Living)

For Mass Intentions come to the Parish Center

PRAYERS FOR THE SICK

Joanna Jack, Rev. Thomas Fenlon, Rev. Peter Bonventre, Cindy Garnica Castro, Angelica Zarate, Hasmi Hiftari, Constatine Lyons, Shane Black, Hawke Lindberg, Constastine Lyons, Jennie Marmo and all those ill with or recovering from the COVID-19 virus and all Victims of Military Activities

PRAYERS FOR THE DECEASED

Aniello Oriello, Catherine Ferro, Joan Ryan, Mike Ward, John Crowley, Robert Casper Lewis, Kevin John Shields, Bishop David O’Connell, Eric Hemphill & Fr. Peter Colapietro

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.

Weekly Readings & Observances

Readings for March 5, 2023

Sunday: Gn 12:1-4a/Ps 33:4-5, 18-19, 20, 22 (22)/2

Tm 1:8b-10/Mt 17:1-9

Monday: Dn 9:4b-10/Ps 79:8, 9, 11 and 13/Lk 6:36-38

Tuesday: Is 1:10, 16-20/Ps 50:8-9, 16bc17, 21 and 23/Mt 23:1-12

Wednesday: Jer 18:18-20/Ps 31:5-6, 14, 15-16/Mt 20:17-28

Thursday: Jer 17:5-10/Ps 1:1-2, 3, 4 and 6/Lk 16:19-31

Friday: Gn 37:3-4, 12-13a, 17b-28a/Ps 105:16-17, 18-19, 20-21/Mt 21:33-43, 45-46

Saturday: Mi 7:14-15, 18-20/Ps 103:1-2, 3-4, 9-10, 11-12/Lk 15:1-3, 11-32

Next Sunday:Ex 17:3-7/Ps 95:1-2, 6-7, 8-9 (8)/Rom

5:1-2, 5-8/Jn 4:5-42 or 4:5-15, 19b-26, 39a, 40-42

Observances for March 5, 2023

Sunday: 2nd Sunday of Lent

Monday:

Tuesday: Sts. Perpetua and Felicity, Martyrs

Wednesday: St. John of God, Religious

Thursday: St. Frances of Rome, Religious

Friday:

Saturday:

Next Sunday: 3rd Sunday of Lent, Daylight Saving Time begins.

©LPi

Sanctuary Lamp Bread & Wine

This Week’ Sanctuary Lamp

In Memory of

Iren Kovecses

Offered by Atilio Leonardi

This Week’s Bread & Wine

In Memory of Iren Kovecses

Offered by Atilio

Leonardi

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

KENTTRITLE Organ Concert

March 10, 2023

7 PM

MeettheArtist

Called “a superb organist” by The New York Times, Kent Tritle performs regularly across the United States and in Europe, and is the organist of the New York Philharmonic. He is also Director of Cathedral Music and Organist at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City, where he leads the Great Music in a Great Space series.

Kent performed Saint-Saëns’s Organ Symphony with the Philharmonic in 2018 conducted by Antonio Pappano and David Robertson, and in 2010 conducted by Sir Andrew Davis. He has recorded Brahms’s Ein deutsches Requiem, Britten’s War Requiem, and Henze’s Symphony No. 9 with the Philharmonic, all conducted by Kurt Masur, as well as the Grammy-nominated Sweeney Todd conducted by Andrew Litton. He is featured on the DVDs The Organistas and Creating the Stradivarius of Organs. Recordings include The Romantic Organ; Kent Tritle at St. Ignatius Loyola; Kevin Oldham’s Organ Symphony No. 1; Duruflé’s Suite for Organ, Op. 5; and a disc of works played on the Noack tracker organ at the Old Dutch Church of Sleepy Hollow. He has performed recitals at such historic venues as the Leipzig Gewandhaus, Zurich Tonhalle, and Church of St. Sulpice in Paris, King’s College (Cambridge), Westminster Abbey, and St. Vitus Cathedral in Prague. Kent Tritle is one of America’s leading choral conductors. Called “the brightest star in New York's choral music world” by The New York Times, he is Music Director of the Oratorio Society of New York and of Musica Sacra in addition to his posts at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine. Kent founded Sacred Music in a Sacred Space, the acclaimed concert series at New York’s Church of St. Ignatius Loyola, in 1989, and led it for 22 years. www.kenttritle.com

Tickets

Available online at stelmo79.org

Or stop by or call the Parish Center during business hours. 212.288.6250 Click

Tickets$20

generalseating

Location

VIP Tickets $50

includes pre-concert wine and cheese. VIP seating in choir loft. [limited to 16 people]. Choir loft not handicap accessible.

Church of St. Monica - 413 East 79th Street - New York, NY 10075 - www.stelmo79.org

Five Minute Jesus

The Gospel according to John 4:5-15,

Just a Word

From the Pastor 03.04.23

Catholic Voices

What does the word Catholic mean? Anyone who has heard me preach knows that the word has its roots in two Greek words “kata” and “holikos” which means “with the whole” – hence universal. We use universal in the more general sense, but when we want to refer to that faith that is believed “everywhere, always, by all” (as St. Vincent of Lérins once said) we use the word “Catholic”.

But let’s be honest. When asked to define Catholic, most of us would fall back on that type of Catholicism we were raised in. Perhaps it was Irish Catholicism or the Catholicism that Italians brought with them from Europe. Maybe it was the Slovak or Czech piety that was practiced here but had its roots in the “old country”. Maybe it had its roots in the Caribbean or in central and south America. Or perhaps it is simply the diverse forms of Catholicism which have developed here, in our pluralistic, democratic country. Whatever. All faith is local, and often “Catholic” means what is most familiar to me.

The Catholic faith is lived in different ways. In America, those ways are lived cheek by jowl, creating tension, suspicion, and misunderstanding. Thus, as part of our Theology Thursday series, our parish is offering four nights during which we can hear from people who are Catholic and who speak to the experiences of people whose voices we don’t often hear in the Church – but should, for they are Catholic too.

This past Thursday, we heard from Fr. Michael Lynch, a priest of the Diocese of Brooklyn who grew up in St. Monica Parish. He spoke about his experiences with and ministry to the LGBTQ community in the Catholic Church. Some might believe that the only place in the Church for this community is the confessional. The LGBTQ community would beg to differ. And Fr. Michael gave voice to their hopes and expectations.

Our parish is predominantly white. Thus, so is our experience of the Church. What is it like to be black and Catholic? What does the African American Catholicism offer to and how does it challenge our understanding of Jesus and his Church? This coming Thursday, March 9th, Deacon Rodney Beckford, Director of the Lt. Joseph P. Kennedy Center in Harlem, and a deacon at St. Charles Borromeo – Resurrection – All Saints parish, will speak to his Catholic faith and life. What does it mean to be black and Catholic in a time where many of the achievements of the civil rights movement, rooted in the dignity of all human life, are threatened?

Most of us are the products of the middle class. We skew middle of the road to conservative. We might be dimly aware of Catholics who walked with Martin Luther King in Selma, who burned draft cards during Vietnam, who protested the Reagan Administration’s involvement in Central and South America and who advocated for the world-wide abolition of atomic weapons. All of it in the past. And yet it is not past. On Thursday March 16th, Joanne Kennedy, editor at Mary House and member of the Catholic Worker movement will share her story. She will speak what it is like to be part of that movement, founded by Dorothy Day to minister to the poor and disenfranchised working class in our cities, and which continues to advocate for peace and justice.

The Church in America is made up of people from all over the world. Most came here legally. Many, however, did not. These “illegal” immigrants come for many different reasons, however, most come for the same reason our ancestors came: to give their families better lives. What is it like to be Catholic and undocumented? Denisse Lebron is a case manager for the Immigration team for the US Court of Appeals 2nd Circuit. But she is also a Dreamer. On March 23rd she will speak about how her faith informs her life and work with the undocumented.

All the discussions will take place starting at 7pm in the Angelo Room at the Parish Center, 406 E 80th St. There will an opportunity to ask questions and to meet with the speakers after the event. If you are coming, PLEASE register on our parish website. www.stelmo79.org. We want to have enough seats for all.

Fr. Baker