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SACRAMENT OF PENANCE

Saturdays: Msgr. Ryan Hall - 3:45 p.m. to 4:45 p.m.

Also by appointment

SACRAMENT OF MATRIMONY The Church provides certain times and preparation for

weddings. Please contact the Rectory at least six months

in advance to begin the process.

REGISTRATION Every family and person within the parish is encouraged

to register with the Parish.

SACRAMENT OF BAPTISM Celebrated on the 2nd Sunday of the month at 1:30 p.m. In

July and August Baptism will be celebrated at 12:30 p.m.

A required Baptism preparation meeting for parents meets

on the first Monday of the month at 8:00 p.m. Godparents

are welcome. Please register in advance for the class and

Baptism. Godparent Pre-Requisites: Godparents must be

practicing Catholics in good standing, 16 years of age or

older, Baptized and Confirmed Catholic.

ON BECOMING A CATHOLIC Those seeking information about the Catholic Faith are

invited to contact Fr. Valentine at the Rectory at 621-

2222.

CARE OF THE SICK Please notify the Rectory and Human Concerns Ministries

if there is anyone seriously ill so that we can provide

spiritual care.

THE MASS INTENTIONS FOR THE WEEK

Sunday, August 2: EIGHTEENTH SUNDAY IN

ORDINARY TIME

7:30 a.m. Marcella Blewett

by Diana Collins

9:00 a.m. People of the Parish

11:00 a.m. Vito & Angelina Abbondandelo

by Thomas & James DiNapoli

Sr. Kieran Hartigan

by Dolores & Richard O’Hara

Debra Hawkins

by Roseann McMahon

Monday, August 3: Weekday

9:00 a.m. Desmond Gallagher

by Annette Gallagher

Tuesday, August 4: Saint John Vianney, Priest

9:00 a.m. Madeline & Vincent O’Hara

by Dolores & Richard O’Hara

Wednesday, August 5: Weekday

9:00 a.m. Billie Combs

by Her Family

Thursday, August 6: The Transfiguration of the Lord

9:00 a.m. James Whelan & Family

by The Grau Family

Friday. August 7: Weekday

9:00 a.m. Frances & Victoria Bosch

by Anne Krukowski

Saturday. August 8: Saint Dominic, Priest

5:00 p.m. Harry Maccarrone- 2nd Anniversary

by Roseann McMahon

Sr. Eileen & Sr. Agatha Shanahan

by Family

Sunday, August 9: NINETEENTH SUNDAY IN

ORDINARY TIME

7:30 a.m. People of the Parish

9:00 a.m. Deceased Sisters & Associates of St.

Dominic

by St. Mary’s Sisters and

Associates

11:00 a.m. Barney Murtagh Jr.

by The McVeigh Family

The Shanahan Family

by Family

Special Intention

Bob Boeshore Lillian Boeshore

Kathleen Capuano Barbara Coe

Rebekah Cole Kevin Cronin Paul Cronin

John Damiano Linda De Stio

John Paul DiNonno James Dougherty

Eric DuBois Natalie Finamore

Noel Glen Kamlesh Gupta

Ida Kelly Christine Kenney

Maria Kim Douglas Knehr

Anne Krukowski Frank Krukowski

Richard Malon Jonathan Mannina Stuey Manzione

Tom McCormack Brendan Miles Freida Navarro Victoria Oxer

Justin Paradine Marion Prendergast

Jenna Reggio Anna Sambucci Elizabeth Stein

Charles Strecker Clotida Vecchione Jacqueline Verde

Anne Wright Mary Wybaillie

PLEASE PRAY FOR THE SICK

...AND FOR THOSE WHO HAVE DIED

Kenneth J. Larow

Christa Nagel

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READINGS FOR SUNDAY, AUGUST 2, 2020 EIGHTEENTH SUNDAY IN

ORDINARY TIME

First Reading: Isaiah 55:1-3

Second Reading: Romans 8:35, 37-39

Gospel: Matthew 14:13-21

FOCUS: Christ gives us all we need to feed those he

calls us to serve.

Today’s readings call us, like the disciples, to feed others

– but only after having been nourished ourselves. We are

invited to delight in rich fare, feasting on the love of God

that is stronger than death. In responding to God’s call,

we can trust that Christ will give us all we need to carry

out his commands.

LITURGY OF THE WORD

The Lord speaks through Isaiah, exhorting his people to

come to the water and be renewed by the everlasting

covenant. Paul tells the Romans that nothing can separate

them from the love of Christ. In the Gospel, after hearing

of the death of John the Baptist, Jesus heals the sick and

feeds the 5,000 abundantly.

Readings for nest week, August 9: Nineteenth Sunday in

Ordinary Time: 1 Kings 19:9a, 11-13a, Romans 9:1-5,

Matthew 14:22-33

From Liturgical Commission Publishing, Lansing, MI

Celebrants for the Weekend of

August 8/9

Celebrants* Lectors

Sat 5:00

Fr. James Mwangi P. Kirk

9:00 Fr. Paul Matisya A. Guevara

11:00 Fr. Paul Matisya N. Toal

* Subject to last minute changes.

FOSTERING STEWARDSHIP AS A WAY OF LIFE

PARISH SACRIFICIAL GIVING

The Second Reading for this week is so powerful. Let us

encourage our brothers and sisters by reminding them that

nothing can separate us from the love of God.

Parish Sacrificial Giving Summary

Thank you for your continued sacrificial gifts to St.

Mary’s.

Sunday Offertory ~ July 25/26 $4,738.00*

Same Week Last Year $6,562.00*

Mass Attendance for July 25/26 191**

Same Week Last Year 834

*Does not include Faith Direct

**Mass Attendance at 50% capacity under Covid19

guidelines

A note of thanks to all the parishioners who,

despite the present circumstances, continue to

send in their contributions for the support of St.

Mary’s. Your generosity, while not surprising,

is greatly appreciated.

Besides the upkeep of the Church we would like

to add a note of gratitude to those parishioners

who have given so generously to our Human

Concerns Ministry. Your goodness has

contributed greatly to alleviating the needs of our

neighbors.

Thank You!

Fr. Valentine

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Dear Friends:

We who live in the shadow of New York City appreciate both the prestige and the paradox of life in what many

call the capital of the world. The center of commerce, culture, art, science, and international politics, New York

has an electricity that exists nowhere else, and yet there is a palpable sense of loneliness that so many people feel

in the city. Our high school teachers had us discuss the thoughts of Nick, the narrator of the novel The Great

Gatsby:

This disparity between people’s great desires and their shortfall is echoed everywhere. In the old movie, Auntie

Mame says: “Life is a banquet, and most poor souls are starving to death.” Mick Jagger puts it this way: “I can’t

get no satisfaction,” and Bruce Springsteen tells us: “Everybody’s got a hungry heart.” And if country music is

more your style you remember the song “Lookin’ for Love in All the Wrong Places.” Whether we put it down to

human concupiscence or compulsion or just another bad hair day, we know deep down that we often work against

ourselves in the search for happiness. St. Teresa of Avila puts it best: “We go infinitely astray from what we truly

desire.” The Scriptures teach us that Christ knows, and fulfills, our deepest longings, even when we cannot say

what they are. We turn to the readings.

Modern Americans have to make something of an adjustment to appreciate the power of the reading from the

book of the prophet Isaiah. But let me speak for myself: I have never had to worry about my next meal. By

contrast, most people in the ancient world were scarcely more than one harvest, even one rainfall away from

starvation. And so, an invitation to eat rich fare of meat and wine and milk seems almost too good to be true.

Little wonder, then, that heaven itself is often described as a wedding banquet.

In the Gospel, St. Matthew says that a crowd of about 20,000 people come to Jesus, who in turn teaches them and

heals their sick. Even when he directs our hearts to heaven, our Lord is not “above” the needs of the body, and so

he feeds the people with five loaves and two fish.

Friends, we Catholics recognize that people are body and soul; we come the Lord in our entirety. Like the crowd

today, we may not be rich or powerful or famous, but we instinctively turn to Christ in our search for happiness

and well being. As we approach the Eucharist today, let us make our own the words of St. Augustine, who knew

the answer to human longing: “You have made us for yourself, O Lord, and our hearts are restless until they rest

in You.”

Faithfully,

Fr. Valentine

THE PASTOR’S PAGE

I began to like New York, the racy, adventurous feel of it at night, and the satisfaction

that the constant flicker of men and women and machines gives to the restless eye. I

liked to walk up Fifth Avenue and pick out romantic women from the crowd and imag-

ine that in a few minutes I was going to enter into their lives, and no one would ever

know or disapprove. Sometimes, in my mind, I followed them to their apartments on

the corners of hidden streets, and they turned and smiled back at me before they faded

through a door into warm darkness. At the enchanted metropolitan twilight I felt a

haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others – poor young clerks who loitered in

front of windows waiting until it was time for a solitary restaurant dinner – young

clerks in the dusk, wasting the most poignant moments of night and life.

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2020/21 300 CLUB WINNERS

FIRST DRAWING MARCH, 2020

1st Prize $200 #456 Carol Doering

2nd Prize $100 #316 Linda & Charlie Dellavecchia

3rd Prize $75 #099 Carroll & Frank Banta

4th Prize $50 #795 Maryanne Durka

5th Prize $25 #077 Ellen DerAris

SECOND DRAWING APRIL, 2020

1st Prize $200 #022 Ann & Neil Cooper

2nd Prize $100 #368 Nellie & Bert Marino

3rd Prize $75 #333 Madeline & Mario Fischetti

4th Prize $50 #017 Anonymous *

5th Prize $25 #100 Judith May *This 300 Club member directed any winnings be given to the Human concerns Center to feed the poor.

THIRD DRAWING MAY, 2020

1st Prize $200 #112 Randa & Jeff Barrington

2nd Prize $100 #002 Charlie Hill

3rd Prize $75 #555 John Hill

4th Prize $50 #963 Meredith & Dennis Brosnan

5th Prize $25 #663 Cathy & Peter Vanatta

RELIGIOUS EDUCATION NEW FAMILY REGISTRATION

Registration for St. Mary’s Religious Education Program is now open for all new families and first graders

of registered families. Please call Nora Toal at (516) 621-6798 to schedule an appointment to register your

child for the program.

Please bring your child’s Baptismal Certificate to registration.

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REMEMBERING THOSE WHO SERVE

LCpl Caitlin Lyons LT Dennis Mackin

Cpl Tommy Mozer SGT Julio Ortiz II

LCpl Jonathan Peres

GSGT Jonathan Porto

LT James Raphael

PVT Michael Starczewski

SGT Luke Whitting

RCT Jordan J. Williams

CAPT Brendan Echausse

COL Daniel Friend

PFC Joseph M. Friend

LCdr Christian R. Foschi

LT. Daniel Grabher

PFC Steven Hyyti

CAPT David Jacobs

SK1 John D. Klick

PFC Michael P. Lanciki

MAJOR Eric W. Lipp

Lord, hold these men and women in your

loving hands and protect them as they

protect us and bless them for their self-

forgetting acts. We pray for peace in our

world and an end to war. Amen.

MASS SCHEDULE (Effective June 13, 2020)

Daily Mass in the Church:

9:00 a.m. - Monday-Friday

Weekend Masses at Msgr. Ryan Hall:

5:00 p.m. - Saturday

7:15 p.m. - Saturday (Spanish Mass)

9:00 a.m. - Sunday

11:00 a.m. - Sunday

The 7:30 a.m. and 12:15 p.m. Masses are

cancelled for the summer.

We will follow social distancing guidelines.

A mask is required, and please bring a

personal container of hand sanitizer with

you.

FOOD PANTRY:

The Human Concerns Food Pantry is in particular need

of the following items:

Gift Cards from Stop and Shop or other food stores will

also be helpful. Please bring your donations to Msgr.

Ryan Hall at 440 Round Hill Road, Roslyn Heights.

Those in need of food or other supplies may call Elsie

Calderone at 626-1097, or send her an e-mail to

outreachstmary7@gmail.com in order to sign up with

Human Concerns. After registration is complete, they

may come to Msgr. Ryan Hall to pick up supplies from

12:00 - 3:00 p.m.

We thank all of you who have donated,

and who continue to remember our Food Pantry

with your donations.

HUMAN CONCERNS MINISTRY

Soup

Peanut Butter

Jelly

Pasta

Pasta Sauce

Macaroni & Cheese

Tuna Fish

Cookies

Crackers

Cereal

Assorted Beans

Corn

Vegetables

Paper Goods

SUMMER RECTORY OFFICE HOURS

Effective Wednesday, July 1st, and through

September 4th, the Rectory Office will be open

from 9:30 am. through 4:00 p.m., Monday

through Thursday. Beginning on Friday, July

3rd, the Rectory Office will be closed on Fridays

through September 4th.

Kellenberg Memorial High School has advised us that the following young parishioners have achieved the Final Honor Roll:

Sienna Bonavita Sofia Bonavita Peter Sluka Thomas Sluka

Congratulations to these students both for their high standards of academic achievement and their commitment to their faith.

CONGRATULATIONS