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Parish life The Most Holy Trinity

May 30, 2021

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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 Associates: ...............................................Rev. Tony Ciorra Pastoral Associate: Ms. Maryann Tyrer ........ mtyrer@stelmo79.org Pastoral Associate: Ms. Jasmine Gomez ..... jgomez@stelmo79.org Parish Manager: Mr. Michael Ward ............. mward@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 ............................................................. 9am - 5pm Tuesday - Thursday ....................................... 9am - 7pm Friday .......................................................Closed Saturday ................................................. 10am - 2pm Sunday ..................................................... Closed Closed for Lunch Weekdays......................1pm - 2pm

Mass Intentions

Saturday, May 29th Vigil 5:30pm Paulo Valero Sunday, May 30th The Most Holy Trinity 8:00am Carmen Santiago 10:00am John Lynch 12:00pm All Parishioners 5:00pm Vito Nicola Palumbo

The Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary 9am

Michael Walsh

Tuesday, June 1st St. Justin

12:00pm Fr. Richard Baker (58th Birthday) Wednesday, June 2nd Weekday 12:00pm Fr. Joe Francis (Living)

Thursday, June 3rd St. Charles Lwanga 12:00 pm Souls in Purgatory

Friday, June 4th Weekday 12:00 pm Jose & Aura Gutierrez

Visit us at: www.STELMO79.org Follow us on social media by searching STELMO79

Saturday, June 5th St. Boniface

12:00pm

Mass Schedule

Daily Mass: Mon-Sat, 12 noon Saturday Vigil: 5:30pm Sunday: 8am, 10am, 12pm & 5pm Confessions: Saturdays at 5pm or by appointment

Monday, May 31st

John Lynch

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

Sanctuary Lamp This Week’s Sanctuary Lamp Intentions for The Mackessy Family Offered by Kitty O’Donoghue

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 Gabrielle Cione, Rev. Patrick Curly, Joshe Jose, Robert Wiegand, Frank Simanca, Roseann Seacur, Joshe Jose, Anu Jorno, Michael Berry, Zita Zilverman, Nancy Dorsinville, Andres Rodriguez, Robert Atkinson, James Mooney, & all those ill with or recovering from the COVID-19 virus and all Victims of Military Activities

Today’s Readings First Reading — The Lord is God in the heavens above and on earth below (Deuteronomy 4:32-34, 39-40).

Psalm — Blessed the people the Lord has chosen to be his own (Psalm 33).

Second Reading — You received a Spirit of adoption, through whom we cry, “Abba, Father!” (Romans 8:14-17) Gospel — Baptize them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit (Matthew 28:16-20).

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: Zep 3:14-18a or Rom 12:9-16;

Is 12:2-3, 4bcd-6; Lk 1:39-56 Tuesday: Tb 2:9-14; Ps 112:1-2, 7-9; Mk 12:13-17 Wednesday: Tb 3:1-11a, 16-17a; Ps 25:2-5ab,

6-7bc, 8-9;

Mk 12:18-27 Thursday: Tb 6:10-11; 7:1bcde, 9-17; 8:4-9a;

Ps 128:1-5; Mk 12:28-34 PRAYERS FOR THE DECEASED Friday: Tb 11:5-17; Ps 146:1b-2, 6c-10; Rosemarie Lane, Pearl Arbouin, Joseph & Carmela Mk 12:35-37 Pisani, Wesley Grima, Sr. Leonia & Sr. Maria Saturday: Tb 12:1, 5-15, 20; Tb 13:2, 6efgh-8; Aquilina, Tina E. Gaviola & Willin Saenz.

Mk 12:38-44 Sunday: Ex 24:3-8; Ps 116:12-13, 15-18;

Heb 9:11-15; Mk 14:12-16, 22-26

St. Stephen of Hungary School Pre-K through 8th Grade Catholic Parochial School

408 East 82nd St., New York, NY 10028 (212) 288-1989 Fax: (212) 517 – 5788 Principal: Ms. Kelly Burke www.saintstephenschool.org Interested in admissions to our parish school?

admissions@saintstephenschool.org

Congratulations Class of 2021 on your impressive High School acceptances!

Academy of Mount Saint Ursula

Iona Preparatory

Ravenscroft School (North Carolina)

Archbishop Molloy High School

LaSalle Academy

St. John's Preparatory School

Cathedral High School

Loyola School

Saint Vincent Ferrer School

Carey Academy (North Carolina)

Maria Regina High School

The Bronx High School of Science

Convent of the Sacred Heart

Marymount School

The Brooklyn Latin School

Dominican Academy

Mount Saint Michael Academy

United Nations School

Dwight School

Notre Dame Academy of Manhattan

Xaverian High School

Fordham Preparatory School

Xavier High School

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Of course, Central Park is not wilderness, but it is full of the beauty of nature and offers us a chance topray and reflect on our common home and why the work we're doing is important. We would love to see you! If you're interested please RSVP to greenteam@stelmo79.org. It would be helpful for us to know how many people would like to attend.

The whole event should take about an hour, and will be a great way to celebrate both the re-opening of

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K-8 Parish Religious Education:

Religious Education continues to meet online each Sunday morning at 10:15am. Zoom links are emailed each week to all registered families. Remaining sessions for this catechetical year are June 6, and June 13.

(No sessions on May 30, Memorial Day Weekend.)

Our final K-8 Religious Education session for the year will be on Sunday, June 13, and it will be a Family Faith Formation event via Zoom. Save the date for the whole family!

Adult Faith Formation:

June 6 is our final Sunday morning Adult Faith Formation session, an informal discussion of the Sunday Scriptures, led by a facilitator, and is open to all. We meet on Sundays 10:15 to 11:30am, in the Parish Center. Social distancing and face masks are required. Please join us! (No session May 30.)

Adult Sacraments of Initiation (RCIA):

If you have ever thought about becoming Catholic, or if you are a baptized Catholic who has not yet celebrated First Communion or Confirmation, please contact Maryann Tyrer at mtyrer@stelmo79.org to discuss our adult initiation process (commonly known as the RCIA). You can begin this process at any time throughout the year, and options are available for face-to-face or Zoom meetings.

Congratulations: We celebrate the following (pictured with their sponsors standing behind them) who completed their Christian Initiation on May 23!

• Merrill Healy, Lauren Basit, and Brandon Bush – Reception into Full Communion in the Catholic Faith, Confirmation, and First Eucharist • Jeison Diaz – Confirmation and First Eucharist • Ruth Diaz and Juliette Shoukry Confirmation

Spring Choir Concert:

Saturday, June 12 at 8pm - $5 tickets available in the Parish Center

Five Minute Jesus

Using the Gospel for Prayer – Solemnity of Corpus Christi, June 6, 2021

It’s simple. 1. Read the Gospel for the following Sunday slowly, reflecting on the story it tells. 2. Reflect on the questions suggested for each day. 3. Make some resolution about how what you read can be lived that day, 4. Then thank God for speaking through this reflection.

Gospel Mark 14:12-16, 22-26 On the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread, when they sacrificed the Passover lamb, Jesus’ disciples said to him, “Where do you want us to go and prepare for you to eat the Passover?” He sent two of his disciples and said to them, “Go into the city and a man will meet you, carrying a jar of water. Follow him. Wherever he enters, say to the master of the house, ‘The Teacher says, “Where is my guest room where I may eat the Passover with my disciples?’” Then he will show you a large upper room furnished and ready. Make the preparations for us there.” The disciples then went off, entered the city, and found it just as he had told them, and they prepared the Passover. While they were eating, he took bread, said the blessing, broke it, gave it to them, and said, “Take it; this is my body.” Then he took a cup, gave thanks, and gave it to them, and they all drank from it. He said to them, “This is my blood of the covenant, which will be shed for many. Amen, I say to you, I shall not drink again the fruit of the vine until the day I drink it new in the kingdom of God.” Then, after singing a hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives.

Monday, May 31 Was there something in this reading that spoke to me? Comforted me? Challenged me? Why did it have this effect on me?

Tuesday, June 1 On the day of our baptism, we were “immersed” not only in water, but in the mystery of the Trinity. Every time we make the Sign of the Cross, we call upon our God who is Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Trinity is not a way of thinking about or describing God, it is our way of knowing God. Our God is a God of relationships. In my spirituality and in my prayer, which of the three persons in God do I relate to the most, the best? Why?

Wednesday, June 2

Matthew tells us that the disciples present at Jesus’ Ascension back to the Father “…worshipped, but they doubted.”

We gather to worship each week, but don’t we also have our doubts at times? Is this a contradiction, or can we have faith but still have our doubts? What may some of your doubts have been? How did you move beyond doubt to faith?

Thursday, June 3

Jesus telling his disciples to “make disciples of all the nations” is often referred to as the Great Commission. Giving witness to the Gospel is a task for all Christians. How have you recently given witness to your faith? What feelings did you have when you did this? Did your giving witness help your own faith to grow?

Friday, June 4

Jesus assures his disciples that “I am with you always, even unto the end of the age.” Two millennia later this promise still is true. How do you experience the presence of Jesus in your life” Through God’s Word? In the sacraments of the Church? In people? In events? Think of a recent way you have encountered Jesus. Call to mind a person who has been an instrument of God’s presence in your life and offer a prayer of thanksgiving for her/him.

Saturday, June 5

The Church Fathers used the image of a dance as a way of describing this unique, mysterious bond between the Father who is our Creator, the Son who is our Redeemer, and the Holy Spirit, who is our Sanctifier. We are probably familiar with the Shaker hymn Lord of the Dance. Dancing is a joyful activity. Dancing brings two people close together as they move as one on the dance floor. Yet one person sets the pace and takes the lead, and the partner follows. Can we imagine ourselves in a “dance” with God? Do we let God take the lead?

From the Pastor 05.30.21 A Letter from the Cardinal The other day, the Cardinal wrote me. No, not about that! I still have not been reappointed or (hopefully not) transferred. I am told however, that that letter is coming soon.

No, he wrote me to thank me; or rather to thank you.

In this incredibly difficult year, with so many people hurting psychologically, spiritually and financially as a result of the pandemic, the Archdiocese of New York ran its Annual Appeal. As I said earlier this year, the Appeal goes to support the seminaries, the schools, the healthcare institutions and programs of the Archdiocese, it contributes to everything Catholic Charities does on behalf of the poor and supports our retired priests. In short, it funds how we minister to people, Catholic as well as non-Catholic, in New York.

Over the past several years the Appeal has taken its share of hits; recessions and scandals have called into question giving to the Church (it did for me!), and this past year, the Pandemic has turned our world upside down. It was completely understandable to take our families and head for the hills, or the beach, or wherever we could shelter in place until the nightmare was over.

Many of us did precisely that.

We began the Appeal in the depths of the Pandemic with a goal of $98,500. Last year we did not make goal, and frankly who could have expected it would be different this year?

And yet: I am glad to announce that to date our pledged goal is $113,325. Not only did we make goal but exceeded it. That is important because 60% of everything over goal comes back to the parish. Thus, anyone who pledges now not only helps the Archdiocese in this difficult time, but also gives the parish support in this time where attendance and thus collections are down.

If you intended to give but did not get the chance, it is still possible to give to the Appeal. You can give online. Go to our website, www.stelmo79.org and click on the appropriate button, there are also envelopes in the back of the church.

In his letter, Cardinal Dolan expressed his gratitude to you all for your support. Let me add my own thanks to his. I have heard that many parishes will not make their goals this year. That we did is a testimony to so many who, despite the mess the Church and the world are still in, believe in the charitable work of the Church on behalf the people of New York.

Thank you for all you do for the Church at large and the support you give our parish, Father Baker

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