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OUR LADY OF THE SACRED HEART CHURCH

120 Kings Highway/Tappan, New York 10983

Parish: 845-359-1230 • Fax: 845-359-1410 Religious Education: 845-365-2141

Web Site: www.olshtappan.com [email protected] Office Hours: Monday - Friday 9 AM - 3PM

December 24, 2017

Fourth Sunday of Advent

December 25, 2017

Feast of the Nativity

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 16, 2018

Gaudete Sunday

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Mass Intentions for the Week

Saturday, December 15

5:00 PM Billy Kayser

Sunday, December 16: Third Sunday of Advent

8:00 AM Zelko & Stanko Grbic

10:30 AM Heidi Tocco / Barbara Spear

12 Noon Rich Martin & Dorothy McLoughlin

Monday, December 17

8:00 AM Joseph G. Shannon / Joan Fowler

12:30 PM Agnes Cacciola 7:30 PM Healing Mass: People of the Parish

Tuesday, December 18

8:00 AM Brianna Bunyan

12:30 PM Calogero LaGreca / Irene Napoli

Wednesday, December 19

8:00 AM Robert Grycvka / Matthew O’Brien

12:30 PM Moss-Cunningham Family

Thursday, December 20

8:00 AM Theresa Conway / Joan Fowler

12:30 PM Marian Peters Weber

Friday, December 21: St. Peter Canisius, Priest, Doctor of the Church

8:00 AM McCann & Baldes Family / Connie Marks

12:30 PM Matthew O’Brien / Daniel dennehy

Saturday, December 22

9:00 AM Rose Cipriano

5:00 PM Anne Healy

Sunday, December 23: Fourth Sunday of Advent

8:00 AM Francis & Florence Brady / Vincent Salerno

10:30 AM Francis Maloney / Patricia Mastrotiero

12 Noon Kenneth Hillert 20th Anniversary / Camille

Missale

Angela Aguirre, Geraldine Armetta * Br. Anthony Bechner, Sr. Maureen Bradshaw, Marie Brady, Hadley and Connor Burns * Ga-briella Carney, Gwen Cinquemani, Anne Marie Dwyer Cirrilla, James Cody, Virginia Colby, Francis Conka Sr., Maria Conka , Kiera Cunningham * Austin DeGiorgio, Dorianne DeLise, Lara DeNonno, Baby Edward Dolan, , Denise Dornbush, Michael Doyle, Baby Dionis Francis Conce Durso * Dorothy Ehmsen, Joe English, Arielle Ernau * John Ferri, Sr., Rena Ferri, Dan Flannery, Sharon Foley, * Charles Geraldi, Jacqueline Grasso, Shaun Green, Lucille Grippo * Barbara J. Gruen, E. Ann Hayden, Eric Hayden, Donald Higgins * Jerry Hunt, Guen Incigeri, Robert Incognoli, Roger Isidro * Daniel Keywork, Peg Koleduk, Matthew Kozak, Eileen Kunkel * John LaGreca, Brooke Lefevre, Aguilino Lemus, Grace Leon, Rachel Lerch, Jack Lynch, Tere-sa Lynch * Catherine Mackenzie, Kevin Maher, John Masterson, Eliza Mazariego, Patty Mazza, Courtney Mazzella, Erica McCauley (child) , Gina McConville, Liam McGuire, William McGuire, Tommy McGuire, Patrick McKenna, Gerry McKeon, Mary Theresa Kiely McMullin, Kevin McSweeney, Dawn Mennillo, Eddie Merrigan, Em-ma Monahan, Maureen Moyse, Alaina Muckell, Daniella Murphy * Anna Napoli * John & Eileen O’ Grady, James & Suzanne Oates, Al-ice Orisino, Emilia Orona * Iluminada Pagayunan, Toddler Chris-tian Perez, Marie Piazza, Deanna Prosciutto * Maeve Quinn * Lukia Rios * Presley Rios * Sylvia Rodriguez, Kathy Rywak * Gloria Santia-go, Joseph Scanlon, Theresa Schrettner, Ben Scott, Joseph Smith, Tom Smith, Ann Soto, Hunter Sterling (child) * Dawn Taggart,* William Urban * James Webster * Deana Wilkins* Dionisio P. Zac-arias (new names in blue)

Please join us in prayer this week for :

Third Sunday of Advent Our Lady of the Sacred Heart Church December 16, 2018

From the Pastor:

Are you getting that overwhelmed feeling? Christmas is com-ing and you are not ready? Stop thinking, though, so much about presents and parties and decorations. What is the state of your heart? Are you any closer to Jesus than you were at, say, Thanks-giving time?

If the answer is “no,” make a commitment to our Lord today -- this very minute. You will prepare the way for His coming, with His help. Promise to give Him some time – every day this week, maybe a little more the following week.

Can you give Him ten minutes? Ten minutes of silent time today and tomorrow and each day throughout the week. If you already give Him ten minutes a day, consider adding another ten.

Worry less and pray more. Make this the season you let the Christ Child be born in your life in a whole new way. Make this the year that Christmas bursts on the scene with a newfound love in your life for the Incarnation. It will make all the difference to you and to the people who you spend time with – your family, your friends, your co-workers, and even the people you encoun-ter in passing.

Have you thought, too, about adding a work of mercy to your life? If not in these weeks, making a commitment for the new year? Have you thought about reaching out beyond your duties to give of yourself more, in love, to a person or people in need – someone who may be lonely or despairing?

As Jesus comes to us at Christmas, bring His love to others. This isn’t a time simply about material gifts and celebrations. It’s about the joy of eternity come down to earth for our redemp-tion. Share that joy. You can’t share that joy without knowing that joy, by having a real relationship with our Savior. Give God more time this Advent and let it only continue.

With love and prayers, Fr. Francis

Readings in the Glory & Praise

Missal: Third Sunday of Advent 791 C

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Liturgical Ministers for December 22-23

TIME LECTORS EUCHARISTIC MINISTERS ALTAR SERVERS

Saturday 5PM Anne Swann Eleanor Klepper, Kay Mastropolo, Trudy

Smith

Catherine Gorton, Sarah & Lucas Machado, Logan Lenihan

Sunday 8:00 AM Bernadette Vero Dennis & Michael Kiely, Abraham Thalal-

lappilil

Catie & Emma O’Keefe

10:30 AM Keith Buterbaugh Mary Dornbush, Jen Korn, Anna Vero Joaquin & Isabella Santander, So-phie Korn

12 Noon Mary Caporal Sarah Hunt, Blanca Ocasio, Anna Young Ronan Hunt, Olivia McCarthy


Parish:

Reconciliation Monday: December 17: Confessions will be heard in the church from 4 PM—8 PM. There will be a Healing Mass at 7:30 PM. An Examination of Conscience which may be helpful in preparing for re-ceiving the Sacrament of Reconciliation is found on pg. 6. Please take advantage of this special opportunity

to prepare for Christmas. OLSH 2019 Lottery Calendar Fundraiser: Fran Dillon will be in the church lobby after all Masses 12/15 & 12/16 if you would

like to purchase an OLSH 2019 Lottery Calendar. Donation is $25 per calendar. Please make checks payable to Our Lady of the Sacred Heart. For any questions about how this fundraiser works, please email her at [email protected] or speak to her in the lobby. It’s a great gift for the hard-to-buy-for people in your life!

The Mass Book for January, February and March 2019 is now open. Please stop by the parish Office to request Masses, espe-

cially if there are dates that are significant for you.

Community: “Sing Joy”, by the Mark Howell Singers, a Gospel Choir from the Bronx. Sunday 12/16: Come to an afternoon of beautiful

and heartfelt Gospel Choir singing in the chapel at the Sisters of St. Dominic, 496 Western Highway, Blauvelt, NY, 10913. To or-der tickets ($20 adults and $10 children, 12 and under), please call 845-359-8893 / email: [email protected] .

Albertus Magnus HS Car Raffle: Win a 2019 Mercedes Benz CLA 250 4 MATIC Coupe provided by Mercedes Benz of Nanuet $50 per ticket – only 2000 tickets will be sold! www.albertusmagnus.net or call 845-623-8842 Drawing to be held Dec 19th at 10am at AMHS. Winner need not be present

Date Gift In honor/memory of Requested by

12/15-12/22 Altar bouquet Conor Grant The Dornbush Family

12/15-12/16 Tabernacle candle (church) Jerry Hunt Friends

12/10-12/14 Tabernacle candle (chapel) Sylvia Peters Loos Marion Weber

12/8-12/15 Bread and Wine Conor Grant The Dornbush family

New notices are in blue

Your donation for Christmas

flowers enables us to bring the spe-

cial beauty of the season to Our

Lady of the Sacred Heart. Please use

the envelope provided in your pack-

et. Additional envelopes can be

found at the back of the church and

chapel. Thank you!

Christmas Giving to our Parish

Our special, annual Christmas Collec-tion, fills a very important role in the financial health of our parish. Just as is the case with your own home, the Christmas Collection provides the resources needed to support major maintenance projects in our parish home, Our Lady of the Sacred Heart, as well as allowing us to have a reserve of funds available for unexpected and often costly emergencies.

Christmas envelopes may be found in your packet or in the back of the Church and Chapel. If you donate on-line, be sure to add Christmas Donation to your on-line contributions and be as generous as you can.

God Bless You !

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Religious education Classes will meet during the week of December 16-19. Christmas recess begins Sunday, December 23-Wed. January 2 . Classes resume Sunday January 6

The Religious Education Office, in the Parish Offices, is open daily M-F, 9 AM—2PM. After hours, you can call and leave a message on 365-2141 or email [email protected] and we will respond to your message ASAP.

Weekly Quote from St. Philip Neri

"If the servant of God would fain walk with more security through so many snares scattered in every place, he should have our Blessed Lady as his medi-atrix with her Son."

Nov. 25, 2018: $7494. Nov. 26, 2017: $7133.

On-line giving is quick and easy ! Join the increasing num-ber of parishioners who use it!

Thank you for your generosity

Recent Collections

As the holiday season approaches

Remembering those we love….

During this coming holiday season, consider a Memorial Donation of Altar Bread and Wine, or

a Memorial Donation for Altar Flowers for a week. Flowers will be placed on the altar in the main Church for the week-end and then moved to the Chapel for weekday Masses. The name of your loved one along with the name of the person making the request will be printed in the Bulletin and they will be remembered in a special way by the Priests as they celebrate Mass. We will also continue to take requests for the Tabernacle Candle Memorials. Please call the Parish Office (359-1230) for more information


Consider a new tradition for Advent!

The parishioners of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart are gener-

ous, regular supporters of the Food pantry at People to People.

During this season of preparation for Christmas, instead of receiving a little treat on each day of Ad-vent, consider creating a food box or basket in your home with the addition of one non-perishable food item each day. Children would love to decorate the boxes, perhaps help you choose items when you shop, and contribute from their own allowance. Sharing the message of taking care of those in our own com-munity who are in need is a powerful lesson.

So many of us are blessed with so much! Your donations may be brought to the parish office or left in the Church lobby.

Remember the Sisters!

As is our tradition at OLSH, we remem-ber the service of the retired Dominican Sis-ters of Blauvelt with small gifts each Christ-mas. Please take one of the tags from the

Giving Tree in the Church lobby and place your gift beneath it.

Winter Survival Needs!

Project Coordinator Needed for one Month!

For the past two years, during the month of January, the parish of OLSH has sup-ported Helping Hands in Rockland County by

collecting warm new socks and gloves and laundry soap to help care for the homeless. While the shelter can now pro-vide laundry facilities, they do not have the budget for soap. OLSH’s donation covered their needs for almost the full year!

The parishioner who has coordinated this in the past has moved to NYC ! The responsibilities are simple: Provide a large box for the back of the church which is emptied week-ly, and transport the items we collect to the shelter at the end of the month. If you - a family—a group of friends or neighbors—can help we would be MOST appreciative!!!! Please consider being a part of this most generous ministry which brings blessings on all of us. Contact the parish office 359-1230 to volunteer or for more info. Thank you!!!!!

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Christmas Schedule 2018

Confessions

Monday, December 17: 4 PM—8 PM

(Reconciliation Monday) followed by

Healing Mass at 7:30 PM

Saturday, December 15: 4 PM—5 PM

Saturday, December 22: 4 PM—5 PM

Christmas Masses

Monday, December 24: Christmas

Eve

Family Mass: 4 PM

Vigil Mass: 6 PM

MIDNIGHT MASS: 12 AM

Tuesday, December 25: Christmas

Day

8 AM, 10:30 AM, and 12 Noon

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New Year’s Schedule

Confessions

Saturday, December 29: 4:30 PM—5

PM

New Year’s Day Masses

Monday, December 31: New Year’s

Eve:

5 PM Vigil Mass

Tuesday, January 1: New Year’s Day

10:30 AM, and 12 Noon

Why is one candle not

like all the others?

Advent is a season of prepa-ration and penitence. On the Advent wreath, the three pur-ple candles and one rose can-dle mark the preparation Christians undergo while awaiting the arrival of Christ on Earth. So, why do we need a remind-er to rejoice on the Third Sun-day of Advent, called Gaudete Sunday (Latin for “rejoice”) by

lighting a rose-colored candle on our wreaths and hav-ing priests wear rose-colored vestments at Mass? During a Mass at Casa Santa Maria in Rome, Pope Francis talked about the difference between happi-ness and joy: “To be happy is good, yet joy is something more. It’s another thing, something which does not depend on external motivations, or on passing issues: it is more profound. It is a gift. “To be ‘happy at all moments, at all cost,’ can at the end turn into superficiality and shallowness. This leaves us without Christian wisdom, which makes us dumb, naïve, right? All is joy … no. Joy is something else; it is a gift from the Lord.” If joy is a gift from the Lord, then the Lord Himself is our first and greatest gift, and the only one that will never tarnish or break or fade. Gaudete ( Gow-DAY-tay) Sunday reminds us that the gift has not yet ar-rived, but it’s very near. It takes its name from the first word of the Entrance antiphon “Gaudete in Domino Semper,” which is Latin for the introduction of Philippians 4:4, “Rejoice in the Lord always.” Gaudete Sunday is a moment to stop and reflect on the source of true joy. And if the Advent season has brought causes for stress and sorrow into your life, then lighting the rose candle is an opportunity to take heart and refocus on what the Mass of Christ is all about. Christ is coming. Prepare ye the way of the Lord. Excerpted from: https://www.catholicvote.org/turning-pink-with-joy-on-gaudete

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Welcome !!! Visiting for Mass or new to the

Family of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart

Parish????

We’d love to get to know you! Please stop and introduce your-self to the celebrant at this Mass…

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Monday 8:30 AM until just before the 12:30 PM mass is specially dedicated to :

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atonement on the part of those who actively or by their silence allowed these actions to take place

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