31st Sunday in Ordinary Time 10/30/2022

Mission

Roman

Mass Intentions

Church

Saturday, October 29th Vigil

Joseph King

Sunday, October 30th

Sunday in Ordinary

Michael O’Donoghue

Syed Hussain

All Parishioners 5pm Christiane Ramirez (Living)

Monday, October 31st Weekday

James & Marie Lana

Johanna T.M Scanlon, Edward J. Scanlon, Sr., Edward J. Scanlon, Jr. & Katherine T.M Scanlon

Tuesday, November 1st All Saints

Adriana Belluci & Pietro Ciccaglione

Wednesday, November 2nd All Souls

Mila Juris Marcelo (Living)

Thursday, November 3rd Weekday

John & Adele Ivers

Friday, November 4th

Charles Barromeo

Paul Dieppa

Saturday, November 5th

Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament

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

Devotions

Today’s Readings

First Reading — LORD, you love all things that exist (Wisdom 11:22 — 12:2).

Psalm — I will praise your name forever, my king and my God (Psalm 145).

Second Reading — May the name of Christ be glorified in you and you in him (2 Thessalonians 1:11 — 2:2).

Divine Mercy

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

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Communion for the

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

Cindy Garnica Castro, Kathleen Roche, Gretty Beradin, Frances Tabeek, Jennie Marmo, Danielle Boros and all those ill with or recovering from the COVID-19 virus and

Victims of Military Activities

PRAYERS FOR THE DECEASED

Msgr. John P. Meier, Rev. Louis R. Gigante, Rev. Sam Matarazzo, Araceli Limongi, James Roche & Ron Beradino

Gospel — Zacchaeus, a tax collector, considered to be a sinner, is converted to the Lord (Luke 19:1-10).

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: Phil 2:1-4; Ps 131:1bcde-3; Lk 14:12-14

Tuesday: Rv 7:2-4, 9-14; Ps 24:1-6; 1 Jn 3:1-3; Mt 5:1-12a Wednesday: Wis 3:1-9; Ps 23:1-6; Rom 5:5-11 or 6:3-9; Jn 6:37-40, or any readings from no. 668 or from Masses for the Dead, nos. 1011-1016 Thursday: Phil 3:3-8a; Ps 105:2-7; Lk 15:1-10 Friday: Phil 3:17 — 4:1; Ps 122:1-5; Lk 16:1-8 Saturday: Phil 4:10-19; Ps 112:1b-2, 5-6, 8a, 9; Lk 16:9-15 Sunday: 2 Mc 7:1-2, 9-14; Ps 17:1, 5-6, 8, 15; 2 Thes 2:16 — 3:5; Lk 20:27-38 [27, 34-38]

Prayer of the Week

Thirty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time Almighty and merciful God, by whose gift your faithful offer you right and praiseworthy service, grant, we pray, that we may hasten without stumblingto receive the things you have promised.

Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, for ever and ever.

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Remembering the Deceased

Traditionally, our Church prays for our Faithful Departed throughout the month of November. Our Parish Bereavement Ministry invites youto participate in any of (or all)of the following parish ways to remember our loved ones.

St. Joseph Altar: Images and Names of Our Loved Ones

All are invited to place a framed photo of a deceased loved one on the St. Joseph Altar in St. Monica’s Church during the month of November. Simply bring your picture to the sacristy before or after Mass, and then you can take your picture home at the end of the month.Envelopes arealso available for offerings. List your loved ones on the envelope and drop it in the collection. The envelopes will remain on our main altar to be remembered in prayer throughout the month of November.

Memorial Mass: For our loved ones who have died in the past year

All Souls Day

Wednesday, November 2, 6:30pm St. Monica’s Church

If you have lost loved ones in the past year, please submit their names on the parish website, or to the parish office, by Friday, October 28. We will then include these names in a Litany of Remembrance during this Mass.

Morning of Reflection: Facing the Holidays

After the Loss of a Loved One

Saturday, November 19, 8:30am (Withcoffee and doughnuts) and concludes with Noon Mass St. Monica’s Church

If you are grieving the loss of a loved one, the Thanksgiving and Christmas holiday season can be especially painful. Expectations, seasonal events, and the celebration of those around us often collide with our loss and sadness. Join us for this morning ofprayer, reflection, and ritual. Find comfort and hope in our faith, and in practical suggestions for navigating the holiday season. If you haven’t already done so, you are welcome to bring a photo of your loved one to place on our St. Joseph altar during this event and leave it for the remainder of the month of November.Please RSVP by Tuesday, November 15so we have sufficient refreshments and materials.

Contacts: Parish Website www.stelmo79.orgParish Center Office: 212-288-6250 Pastoral Associate: Maryann Tyrermtyrer@stelmo79.org

Five Minute Jesus

Using the Gospel for Prayer – 32nd Sunday in Ordinary Time

November 6, 2022

It is simple. Read the Gospel for the following Sunday slowly, reflecting on the story it tells. 2. Consider the questions suggested for each day. 3. What conversion of mind, heart, and life is the Lord asking of you? 4 Make a resolution about how what you read can be lived that day 5 Thank God for speaking to you through this reflection

Lk 20:27-38

Some Sadducees, those who deny that there is a resurrection, came forward and put this question to Jesus, saying, "Teacher, Moses wrote for us, if someone's brother dies leaving a wife but no child, his brother must take the wife and raise up descendants for his brother. Now there were seven brothers; the first married a woman but died childless. Then the second and the third married her, and likewise all the seven died childless. Finally, the woman also died. Now at the resurrection whose wife will that woman be? For all seven had been married to her." Jesus said to them, "The children of this age marry and remarry; but those who are deemed worthy to attain to the coming age and to the resurrection of the dead neither marry nor are given in marriage. They can no longer die, for they are like angels; and they are the children of God because they are the ones who will rise. That the dead will rise even Moses made known in the passage about the bush, when he called out 'Lord, ' the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob; and he is not God of the dead, but of the living, for to him all are alive."

Monday, October 31

Was there something in this passage that spoke to you? Comforted you? Challenged you? What was it? Why did it influence you?

Tuesday, November 1

Central to Christian faith is the belief that at the end of history we will all rise from the dead, The Sadducees were the party of the High Priests, and were so conservative that they only believed that the first five books of what we call the Old Testament were truly Scripture. And since nowhere in those books is the resurrection of the dead mentioned, they did not believe in it. That is why, they use this belief to make Jesus look silly, implying that a woman cannot have 7 husbands at the resurrection. Have we ever been made to feel silly because of what we believe? When? Why? How did we react to it?

Wednesday, November 2

Jesus responded to their mocking by mocking them in return, implying that they did not understand the belief in the resurrection. It was not a resuscitation, but a transformation – people in the resurrection will be like the angels, and never die – thus there will be no more need for coupling, and reproduction. This was evidently new information for the Sadducees. What about us? What do I believe about the resurrection? Does it form any part in my faith, in my hope of eternal life? What does Jesus’ resurrection say to us about our own?

Thursday, November 3

Jesus proclaims the ones who will rise to be the “children of God”. We proclaim each baptized person to be a child of God. Yet Jesus is speaking at a time and a place where everyone was Jewish. Will only baptized Christians be raised on the last day? What do I believe about this?

Friday, November 4

The Sadducees say that the five books of Moses do not contain any reference to resurrection. Jesus uses a rabbinical argument to counter this, saying that since Moses called the LORD God the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Joseph, they must be alive, because the God of Israel is not a God of the dead, but of the living. This argument might not measure up to our modern standards of reasoning, but Jesus’ point was to proclaim that God is a God of the living, and that human life cannot end in some shadowy death but must be transformed through resurrection. Why? Why is resurrection so important to Jesus? Why is it important to all who have followed him ever since?

Saturday, November 5

The Belief in the resurrection of the dead is central to the Christian faith. Jesus’ resurrection was understood by the first Christians as the beginning of the general resurrection mocked by the Sadducees. It was a part of the answer Jews and Christians give to the question of how God could let bad things happen to good people. It proclaims that bad things do happen – God’s will is not done on earth as it is in heaven. But we pray that one day it will be. On that day the dead will rise, and justice will be done. What do I think about this?

Just a Word

All Saints- All Souls-Hallowe’en

Ask any kid what holiday is coming tomorrow, and they will scream, “It’s Hallowe’en!” However, they would be hard pressed to identify the holidays which happen in rapid-fire succession on the two days following: All Saints Day (11/1) and All Souls Day (11/2). And yet the very name Hallowe’en reveals its dependence on the other two – for it is a corruption of All Hallows Eve – the night before All Hallows or All Saints Day.

Hallowe’en has its roots in the pagan holiday of Samhain, celebrated on the 31st, which was the night the door to the underworld opened, and the dead spirits would walk the earth. People would placate them with offerings, disguise themselves as one of them, or in some way honor them so they would do no harm. Over the centuries those ancient pagan religious rituals became the childhood customs of dressing in costumes and “trick or treat”ing.

But Samhain was the reason the church established the other two festivals; All Saints, upon which the Church remembers all those who have died and who are in heaven – the Saints, and All Souls, where the Church prays for all those about whom we believe are on their way to heaven - the souls in purgatory. For even though we might be separated from one another by death, as members of the Body of Christ we are not divided. The saints pray for us, and we pray for the dead.

It is why we celebrate funeral masses for the deceased. It is why we have masses said for our deceased loved ones all year long (those are the “intentions” we mention at the start of mass, with the words, “The intention for today’s mass is…”) and it is why we offer the opportunity of prayer for all the deceased during the month of November, by placing All Souls envelopes on the altar, filled out with the names of our deceased loved ones.

We honor our beloved dead here in St. Monica – St. Elizabeth – St. Stephen with an altar of remembrance at the St. Joseph Altar. Feel free to bring (framed)pictures of your deceased loved ones and place them on the table provided. This altar will remain for the entirety of the month of November, as a symbol of our connection with all the members of the Body of Christ, living and deceased.

Daylight Saving’s Time Ends – the NYC Marathon Happens

And don’t forget, next Sunday is November 6th: Daylight Savings Time ends, and we gain that hour we lost in the spring. Also, it is Marathon Sunday! As the marathon runs up East 79th Street, and cuts our parish in two for hours, make your plans to attend mass accordingly!

Community Thanksgiving Dinner

This year for the first time since 2019, our parish’s Community Thanksgiving Dinner will be offered in the Cafeteria of St. Stephen of Hungary School at 409 E 82nd St. Doors open at 1:00pm.

This meal was conceived of over 12 years ago by Fr. Angelo Gambatese, OFM, pastor of St. Stephen of Hungary Church to be of service to the Yorkville community, especially for those who on Thanksgiving might not have people to celebrate with or places to go.

Tickets MUST BE PURCHASED IN ADVANCE FROM THE PARISH CENTER OFFICE. Tickets cost $5.00. They are limited and selling out QUICKLY. If you intend to attend, please buy your tickets this week.

Father Baker