SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2017

The Reverend Myles P. Murphy, S.T.L. ,Pastor The Reverend Teodoro Cortezano, Parochial Vicar

The Reverend Roshan Sovis, Parochial Vicar The Reverend Edward Owusu-Ansah, In Residence

Deacon David Ciorciari, Weekday Assistant

OUR LADY OF VICTORY PARISH OFFICE Monday-Friday: 8:30am-5:00pm

ST. ANDREW’S PARISH OFFICE Monday-Friday: 9:00am-5:00pm

OUR LADY OF VICTORY MASSES

Saturday (Fulfills Sunday Obligation): 5:15pm Sunday: 7:30, 10:00am, 12:15pm Mon. - Fri.: 7:15, 8:00am 12:15, 1:05 (lower Chapel), 5:15pm Saturday & Holidays: 12:15pm Holy Day Vigil: 4:40, 5:15pm Holy Days: 7:10, 7:40, 8:10, 8:40,11:40am 12:10, 12:40, 1:10, 1:40, 4:40, & 5:15pm

CONFESSIONS Mon. - Fri.: 8:00-8:30am, 12:45-1:30pm, 5:00-5:30pm

Sat.: 4:50-5:15pm

DEVOTIONS SERVICES: Each day at 12:45pm Monday: Miraculous Medal Tuesday: St. Anthony Wednesday: St. Jude Thursday: The Holy Spirit Friday: The Rosary Saturday: The Rosary 1st Friday: Sacred Heart Novena Fridays of Lent: Stations of the Cross

ALL DEVOTIONS FOLLOWED BY: Exposition & Benediction of the Most Blessed

Sacrament until 5:00pm.

BAPTISMS Sundays 1:00pm

ST. ANDREW’S MASSES

Sunday: 12:10pm, 5:10pm Monday - Friday: 12:10pm, 1:10pm

CONFESSIONS 15 minutes after each Mass

DEVOTIONS Rosary and Novenas after 12:10 weekday Mass

PARISH ACTIVITIES Monday: 5:45pm – Legion of Mary (Our Lady of Victory) 4th Friday: 5:45pm – Patrician Catholic Discussion Group (Our Lady of Victory) As Announced: FiDi Catholic Young Adults

Church of Our Lady of Victory 60 William Street

NY, NY 10005 PH: 212-422-5535, FAX: 212-785-4457

Church of Saint Andrew 20 Cardinal Hayes Place

NY, NY 10007 PH: 212-962-3972

The Catholic Faith Community of

Our Lady of Victory and the

Church of St. Andrew

Website: www.olvsta.org

TODAY’S READINGS

First Reading — God allows us to make choices, but we are not to choose injustice or sinfulness (Sirach 15:15-20). Psalm — Blessed are they who follow the law of the Lord! (Psalm 119). Second Reading — God’s wisdom is mysterious and hidden (1 Corinthians 2:6-10). Gospel — Jesus has come not to abolish but to fulfill the law and the prophets (Matthew 5:17-37).

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

TREASURES FROM OUR TRADITION

By the early 1950s some scholars were calling for the restora-tion of Communion of the faithful on Good Friday, since by then only a priest received, consuming the host from the Holy Thurs-day repository. In 1955 the new Good Friday liturgy was timed to begin at three o’clock everywhere, and included the option of Holy Communion, but without the Precious Blood that had originally been part of the liturgy. Today, there is increas-ing debate among theologians. Some feel that it would be better to fast from the Eucharist on Good Friday, focusing on the mystery of the cross and highlighting the Easter Communion. Others say that this Communion infuses the sadness of the day with awareness of Christ’s victory. It is not a day of mourning, of course, and the Passion according to John grounds the liturgy in a sense of Christ’s victory over death and the triumph of the cross. The tradition is rich and varied, and we are still in the early stages of recovering an ancient way of doing things. Why do we call the day “good”? The English and Dutch languages share this name, and its origin stems from the name “God’s Friday.” The traditional name for the day in Latin is Feria VI in Parasceve, which translates as “The Sixth Day of the Week of Preparation.” Other languages make do with “Holy Friday.” In another part of England, as in Denmark, the people used to call it “Long Friday,” a good description for a quiet day without work and no chance for play or a good meal! —Rev. James Field, © J. S. Paluch Co.

READINGS FOR THE WEEK

Monday: Gn 4:1-15, 25; Ps 50:1, 8, 16bc-17, 20-21; Mk 8:11-13 Tuesday: Gn 6:5-8; 7:1-5, 10; Ps 29:1a, 2, 3ac-4, 3b, 9c-10; Mk 8:14-21 Wednesday: Gn 8:6-13, 20-22; Ps 116:12-15, 18-19; Mk 8:22-26 Thursday: Gn 9:1-13; Ps 102:16-21, 29, 22-23; Mk 8:27-33 Friday: Gn 11:1-9; Ps 33:10-15; Mk 8:34 — 9:1 Saturday: Heb 11:1-7; Ps 145:2-5, 10-11; Mk 9:2-13 Sunday: Lv 19:1-2, 17-18; Ps 103:1-4, 8, 10, 12-13; 1 Cor 3:16-23; Mt 5:38-48

THE SIXTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME February 12, 2017, Year A

CHOICE “If you choose you can keep the commandments,” Sirach tells us. God “has set before you fire and water; to whichever you choose, stretch forth your hand” (Sirach 15:15, 16). This is a great mystery: God does not control us so completely that we cannot choose our own path. We have certain boundaries, of course, but no one but we can choose our way within those boundaries. In today’s reading from Matthew’s Gospel, Jesus reminds us of our freedom and

our responsibility for our lives. He calls us to look beyond the words of the commandments, all the way to their meaning. Look beyond the adultery to the selfishness that poisons our love. Look beyond the murder to the anger that eats away at our compassion. Look beyond the perjured testimony to the lies and deception that drive our behavior. Our vocation is to choose life for ourselves, and to choose a path through our part of the world that helps make life possible and more abundant for others as well. — Copyright © J. S. Paluch Co., Inc.

What's the best part about Valentines Day?

The day after, when all the chocolate goes on sale!

SAINTS AND SPECIAL OBSERVANCES

Sunday: Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time; World Marriage Day Tuesday: Ss. Cyril and Methodius; Valentine’s Day Friday: The Seven Founders of the Order of Servites Saturday: Blessed Virgin Mary

THE CURE

The only known cure for fear is faith.

—Lena K. Sadler

MARRIED FOR 50 YEARS IN 2017?

Couples celebrating their 50th Wedding Anniversary anytime during 2017 are invited to attend the Golden Wedding Jubilee Mass with Cardinal Dolan at the Cathedral of St. Patrick, Sunday, June 11th, at 2:00 pm. Pre-registration is required. Please contact your parish for registration. The closing date to register for Mass is Friday, May 12, 2017. This event is sponsored by the

Family Life /Respect Life Office at the Archdiocese of New York at: 646-794-3190.

TWO MEMBERS OF OUR CANONI CHOIR PRAISED FOR THEIR RECENT

PERFORMANCES IN THE MIKADO

From A New York Times review of ‘The Mikado’ (which played through January 8, 2017 at the Kaye Playhouse at Hunter College, Manhattan)

By Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim December 30, 2016

On Wednesday, the New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players presented a new production of “The Mikado” at the Kaye Playhouse at Hunter College that makes a solid case that, in the midst of the wreckage of political incorrectness, the work is a comic gem worth salvaging. …I found myself won over by the show’s handsome designs, sharp acting and …impressive singing.

Getting it right meant a lot to this company. Last year, the Gilbert & Sullivan Players convened an advisory panel, diversified its company by hiring more Asian-American actors and brainstormed ways to contextualize the show.

The main resulting innovation is a new prologue, written by Mr. Auxier, which frames the operetta as the fantasy of a Victorian librettist, caused by mild head trauma. The scene is the London office of the D’Oyly Carte Opera Company in 1884, where …the company’s impresario, Richard D’Oyly Carte (Matthew Wages), urges (Gilbert and Sullivan) to conceive their next joint venture.

When Gilbert is struck on the head by a falling object, the stage is set for an operetta in which a prince disguised as the minstrel Nanki-Poo (the very accomplished tenor Daniel Greenwood) vies for the hand of the lovely Yum-Yum (the pert soprano Sarah Caldwell Smith).

(What results) is a tightly choreographed comedy of manners with coolly precise slapstick and the requi-site helping of improvised winks at the New York audience.

Congratulations Daniel and Sarah! Keep up the great work!

Please join the FiDi YOUNG CATHOLIC ADULTS

for their first Reflection Wednesday, Feb 15th

7:30pm Our Lady of The Rosary/Seton Shrine. 7 State St, New York, NY 10004-1500

(212) 233-8355 The evening will address a pre-determined topic for Reflection & Open Discussion accompanied by pizza and drinks, followed by a social hour in a local bar.

Please RSVP, or for more information email Fidiyca@olvsta.org

Your cell phone already replaced your camera, your calendar, and your alarm clock . . .

Don’t let it replace your family.

MASS INTENTIONS

OUR LADY OF VICTORY

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 12 7:30 am: Jin Zhu Zhang 10:00 am: Halina Bozentka 12:15 pm: Joseph Pradelli and Lucy & Michael Criscitello

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 13 7:15 am: Ed King 8:00 am: James Gambardella 12:15 pm: Henryka & Eugeniusz Glogkowski

1:05 pm: Maria Simonetty 5:15 pm: Maria Lamar

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 14 7:15 am: Edwin Maher (L) 8:00 am: Rosemary Zahiten 12:15 pm: Fr. Werner Skowronek

1:05 pm: Peter Frattini 5:15 pm: Ronald Wentzlet

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 15 7:15 am: James R. Borut 8:00 am: Teodoro A. Belizario, Jr.

12:15 pm: Maria Tyniecka 1:05 pm: Blanche Heyman 5:15 pm: Eddie Petrosky

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 16 7:15 am: Dolores Macon 8:00 am: Ivan Melendez Cruz 12:15 pm: Maryann Fitzgerald 1:05 pm: David Levay 5:15 pm Kubicz Krzysztof

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17 7:15 am: Melissa Vergel-De Dios (L)

8:00 am: Harry Tassart 12:15 pm: Robert M. Donahue 1:05 pm: InThanksgiving 5:15 pm Holy Souls in Purgatory

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 18 12:15 pm: Joseph Masciocco, Jr.

5:15 pm: Josephine Romano

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 19 7:30 am: Charles Hendrickson 10:00 am: Anna Nika 12:15 pm: Charlene Graham

ST. ANDREW CHURCH 12:10 pm: Available 5:10 pm: Available

12:10 pm: Marion Renz 1:10 pm: Grazyna Nowakowski

12:10 pm: Nora Flanagan 1:10pm: Charles Lanzisera

12:10 pm: Emilia Delmonica 1:10pm: Michael Lanzisera 12:10 pm: Available 1:10pm: Stella Parisi 12:10 pm: Mrs. Eleanor Geist 5:10 pm: Anthony Sorrento No Saturday Mass at St. Andrew’s location 12:10 pm: Available 5:10 pm: John Costello

ST CYRIL, MONK ST METHODIUS, BISHOP

MEMORIAL: FEBRUARY 14 Cyril and Methodius were brothers, born in Salonika

about 825 and educated at Constantinople. They translated the Bible, and liturgical texts, into the

Slavonic language. Cyril died in Rome on 14 February 869. Methodius was made a bishop and spent many years preaching the gospel in Hungary, despite resis-

tance and hostility. He died in 885, in former Czechoslovakia.

PRAYER: Father, you brought the light of the gospel to the Slavic nations through Saint Cyril

and his brother Saint Methodius. Open our hearts to understand your teaching

and help us to become one in faith and praise. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son,

who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit,

one God, for ever and ever. Amen.