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Mission Statement
Our Offices are open:
Wednesday, September 14th The Exaltation of the Holy Cross 12pm Patrick Walsh
Wedding Coordinator: Ms. Debbi Burdett . dbweddingsnyc@gmail.com
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
Tuesday, September 13th St. John Crysostom 12pm William Keating
Saturday Vigil: 5:30pm
Sunday, September 11th Twenty-Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time 8:00am Marcela Akang 10:00am Catherine Dillon 12:00pm For All Parishioners 5pm Maria Reyes
Daily Mass: Mon-Sat, 12 noon
Mass Intentions
Saturday, September 10th Vigil 5:30pm Werner Hertzel
Sunday: 8am, 10am, 12pm & 5pm Confessions: Saturdays at 5pm or by appointment
Music Director: Mr. John Zupan .................... jzupan@stelmo79.org
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.
Visit us at: www.STELMO79.org
Thursday, September 15th Our Lady of Sorcrows 12pm Annette William
Pastor: Rev. Donald C. Baker .......................... frdcab@stelmo79.org Rev. Msgr. Leslie J. Ivers ........................... msgrlivers@stelmo79.org
Weekend Associate:...............................................Rev. Edward Beck, CP
Plant Manager: Guillermo Vanegas ......... gvanegas@stelmo79.org Sacristan: Pedro Pizarro ................................ ppizarro@stelmo79.org
Administrative Assistant: Gladys Tejada ..... gtejada@stelmo79.org
Mass Schedule
Weekend Associate: ................................ Rev. Anthony Ciorra, IVD
Friday, September 16th St. Cornelius & St. Ciprian 12pm Thanksgiving
Saturday, September 17th Weekday 12pm Nico Villafuerte (Living)
Pastoral Associate: Ms. Maryann Tyrer ........ mtyrer@stelmo79.org
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Monday, September 12th Weekday 12pm Adam Armetta
Parish Staff
For Mass Intentions, please visit the Parish Center
Monday & Wednesday................................. . 9am - 4pm Tuesday - Thursday ....................................... 9am - 7pm Friday ....................................................... Closed Saturday ................................................. 10am - 2pm Sunday ..................................................... Closed Closed for Lunch Weekdays..................1pm - 2pm
Every Friday after the Noon Mass until 3pm in the church and live on-line
PRAYER OF THE WEEK
Look upon us, O God, Creator and ruler of all things, and, that we may feel the working of your mercy, grant that we may serve you with all our heart. 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.
Ursula & Bobby Devine, Elizabeth McCormack, Elizabeth Flynn,Sandra Kenny, Bessie McKenna, Kiana O’Brien, Frank Tanzella, Dolores Kubera, Msgr. Leslie Ivers and all those ill with or recovering from the COVID-19 virus and all Victims of Military Activities
Second Reading — Paul expresses his gratitude for being appointed to the ministry (1 Timothy 1:12-17).
Twenty-fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time
First Reading — Because Moses interceded, the LORD relented and did not punish the (Exoduspeople 32:7-11, 13-14).
PRAYERS FOR THE DECEASED
11:17-26, 33; Ps 40:710, 17;Lk 7:1-10 Tuesday: 1 Cor 12:12-14, 27-31a; Ps 100:1-5;Lk 7:11-17 Wednesday: Nm 21:4b-9; Ps 78:1bc-2, 3438;Phil 2:6-11; Jn 3:13-17 Thursday: 1 Cor 15:1-11; Ps 118:1b-2, 16ab-17, 28;Jn 19:25-27 or Lk 2:33-35 Friday: 1 Cor 15:12-20; Ps 17:1bcd, 6-8b, 15;Lk 8:1-3 Saturday: 1 Cor 15:35-37, 42-49; Ps 56:10c-14;Lk 8:4-15 Sunday: Am 8:4-7; Ps 113:1-2, 4-8; 1 Tm 2:1-8;Lk 16:1-13 [10-13]
Readings for the Week
5pm or by appointment
Every third Saturday of the Month after the noon Mass.
Miraculous Medal on Mondays after Mass in the church and live on-line Prayed every Friday at 3pm in the church and live Everyon-lineFriday at 5:10pm in the Chapel and live Saturdayson-lineat
Sacrament of
Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament
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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
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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
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Reconciliation
Psalm — I will rise and go to my father (Psalm 51).
Anointing of the sick
Today’s Readings
Gospel — There is great rejoicing in heaven when a sinner repents (Luke 15:1-32 [1-10]).
Divine Mercy
Communion for the Homebound: Baptisms & Marriages
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Barbara Sova, Michael Pizzola, Archbishop Weakland, Sophie Twarog, Tommy Pino, Allan Kornblun, Maria De Lourdes DeMello, Carmen Rodriguez, Sophie Twarog, Tommy Olino, Allan Kornblun & Antonio Reyes
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408 East 82nd St., New York, NY 10028
Our concert series will return this month with a concert on October 23th at 3pm. Please check the bulletin, our website, and social media for information on upcoming concerts.
Pre-K through 8th Grade Catholic Parochial School
MUSIC MINISTRY INVOLVEMENT
St. Stephen of Hungary School
Interested in admissions to our parish school? admissions@saintstephenschool.org
If singing is not your thing, maybe you play an instrument? Anyone instrumentalist that is interested in sharing their time and talents please contact me.
Principal: Ms. Allyson www.saintstephenschool.orgGenova-Hall
The month of October is ministry month. Each week you will hear someone speaking on how they felt called to serve as a lector, eucharistic minister, minister of hospitality or altar server. You will hear them speak of their involvement in one of our ministries and how it has touched and enriched their lives here at our church. Maybe you like to sing? Maybe you feel the “call to serve”? If so, why not consider one our ensembles?
John Zupan - jzupan@STELMO79.org Director of Music
Children’s Choir sings at the 5:30 pm Family Mass on the first Saturday of each month and sings on the 2nd & 4th Sunday of the month at our new 10am Family Friendly Mass. The choir rehearses on Wednesdays from 4 5 pm in the church. They participate in the Xmas Concert and sing for Xmas Eve Mass.
SAINT MONICA CONCERT SERIES
(212) 288-1989 Fax: (212) 517 – 5788
Adult Choir sings weekly at the 12 noon Mass. The music repertoire ranges from Renaissance to Contemporary. Rehearsals are on Wednesdays from 7 8:30 pm in the church. No experience is necessary - just a love to sing.
Contemporary Ensemble sings at the 5 pm Contemporary Mass. This relatively new group started to grow before the pandemic shut everything down. We are hoping to restart this ensemble again. It is geared for our young adults. We rehearse on Sunday afternoons before the 5 pm Mass at 4:15 pm.
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September 11th, 21 years later
We find those values in his words. We see them lived out in his person. We learn from them that we CANNOT control the actions of others, we cannot stop their hate, their prejudice, their anger or aggression. But we CAN control how we react to them, and Jesus’ preaching and teaching offers a guide for envisioning a world where war, terror and death do not have the last word. God does. That is the promise of the resurrection. Our choice, our . . . reaction, if you will, is to decide how we wish to live our lives until that last word is spoken. What world do we want to live in? What world do we want our children to live in? If it is Jesus’, then do everything possible to live in it, and to encourage others to do the same. IN that way we make our lives, our church and our nation the embodiment of what we pray when we say, “Thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.” For the best way to remember 9/11 is to do everything in our power, to heal this world and to see to it that 9/11 never happens again.
Yet Jesus’ words were not a call to arms but a call to forgive. He did not advocate war. He proclaimed peace. He was not a “pacifist” or a “conscientious objector”; these terms would have had no meaning to him. He was the Messiah and challenged our temptation to react with violence to the world as it is, with a vision of the world the way it should be. The way it could be. The way God wants it to be. He called that world the “kingdom” or the “reign” of God. It was something that he believed would one day come in all its fulness, but that did not mean that it was not present here and now. It was, is always “at hand” whenever we practice the values of that kingdom.
Just a Word
More reason, as we remember September 11th and mourn our lost loved ones, that we dare not forget the words of Jesus. He lived in a time every bit as violent as our own. He was a member of a people who were oppressed by their Roman conquerors. Many people in his age reacted to this oppression with violence and revolution. It was one such revolution that led to the destruction of the state of Israel in 70 AD.
Father Baker
This weekend we remember the tragic events of September 11, 2001, when terrorists commandeered three airplanes and using them as weapons, flew them into the Pentagon in Washington and into the twin towers of the World Trade Center here in Manhattan. A fourth, destined for Washington as well, crashed into a field in ForPennsylvania.thoseofus
who remember this event, and the wars that followed, it incredible that so much time has passed. At times it seems like it was yesterday. But even as we remember these events, we dare not forget what led up to them: according to those who organized these attacks, they were reactions to American involvement in the Middle East, the stationing of troops in Saudi Arabia, and support of Israel. These “reactions” unleashed wars in Afghanistan and Iraq which lasted for years wrecked countries, killed hundreds of thousands, and only came to an end when President Biden withdrew American forces from Afghanistan, completing a plan begun during the Trump administration. That withdrawal was bitter and divisive, as was everything that came before. Our nation and our world continue to be affected by that sad day 21 years ago.
From the Pastor 09.11.22
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