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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, January 12: THE BAPTISM OF THE LORD 7:30 a.m. People of the Parish 9:00 a.m. Emanuele Abbondandolo by Nick & Cait Yohe 11:00 a.m. Jim Berry by the Clausen Family Rose Della Ratta by her Daughter, Kathy & Angelo Grande Bart Lore by Joanne & Charles Brackenridge 12:15 p.m. Fred Dimino by Jo Dimino

Monday, January 13: Weekday 9:00 a.m. Che Yu Joseph Li by Maria Han

Tuesday, January 14: Weekday 9:00 a.m. Venturino Stefanucci by the Reed Family

Wednesday, January 15: Weekday 9:00 a.m. Raymond McCleary by the Sheerin Family

Thursday, January 16: Weekday 9:00 a.m. Fr. Edward J. Shanahan by Family

Friday, January 17: Saint Anthony, Abbot 9:00 a.m. Mark Trantel by the Carbonaro Family

Saturday, January 18: Weekday 5:00 p.m. Helen Byrne & Clara Barber by Carolyn O’Neil & Family Greg Hensas by Celine Cornelia Massimo by her Daughter Clifford Sharkey & Peter Zuccaro by the Sharkey Family

Sunday, January 19: SECOND SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME 7:30 a.m. Roy J. Friend by Kathleen & Michael Friend 9:00 a.m. Adeline & Frank Di Spigno by Ann & Anthony Bastardi 11:00 a.m. Jennifer Harding McGeown by Fay & Frank Tucholski 12:15 p.m. People of the Parish

Bob Boeshore Lillian Boeshore

Ted Burger Kathleen Capuano

Barbara Coe Rebekah Cole Kevin Cronin Paul Cronin

John Damiano Linda De Stio

John Paul DiNonno James Dougherty

Eric DuBois Natalie Finamore Kamlesh Gupta

Hazel Hill Ida Kelly

Christine Kenney Maria Kim

Douglas Knehr Anne Krukowski Frank Krukowski

Richard Malon Jonathan Mannina Stuey Manzione

Baby Eleanor Marvullo Tom McCormack

Brendan Miles Freida Navarro Victoria Oxer Jenna Reggio

Anna Sambucci Charles Strecker

Elizabeth Sympson Clotida Vecchione Jacqueline Verde

Anne Wright Mary Wybaillie

PLEASE PRAY FOR THE SICK

...AND FOR THOSE WHO HAVE DIED

Francis G. Califano

John Moramarco

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FOSTERING STEWARDSHIP AS A WAY OF LIFE

PARISH SACRIFICIAL GIVING

In today’s Gospel reading, we see Jesus become equipped for

His ministry by the Holy Spirit as He is baptized by John the

Baptist. In the second reading, Peter tells an audience that after

Jesus’ baptism, He “went about doing good and healing all

those oppressed by the devil.”

Parish Sacrificial Giving Summary

Thank you for your continued sacrificial gifts to St.

Mary’s.

Christmas Offertory to Date $44,582.00*

Christmas Last Year $53,692.00**

Mass Attendance for Christmas 1,737

Christmas Last Year 1,660

Sunday Offertory ~ December 28/29 $7,004.00*

Same Week Last Year $8,360.00*

Mass Attendance for December 28/28 801

Same Week Last Year 705

Sunday Offertory ~ January 4/5 $7,502.00*

Same Week Last Year $8,617.00*

Mass Attendance for January 4/5 808

Same Week Last Year 940

* Does not include Faith Direct

**Includes Faith Direct

Lumen Christi Missal

Weekend of January 11/12, 2020 The Baptism of the Lord - Year A

Readings: Missal, p. 81

The Ordinary of the Mass begins on Page 804

READINGS FOR SUNDAY, JANUARY 12, 2020 THE BAPTISM OF THE LORD

First Reading: Isaiah 42:1-4, 6-7 Second Reading: Acts 10:34-38

Gospel: Matthew 3:13-17

FOCUS: Through our baptism, we are called to a life of

discipleship.

The Spirit of God descends upon Jesus at his baptism,

and marks the beginning of his public ministry. At our

baptism, through water and the Holy Spirit, we are

sanctified and made children of God. By the grace of this

sacrament, we are awakened to the power of the Spirit in

our own lives.

LITURGY OF THE WORD:

Isaiah shares the Lord’s promise of a servant of the Lord

who will come forth and bring justice to the nations. In

the second reading, Peter tells those gathered that God

shows no partiality. All who fear him and act uprightly

are acceptable to him. In the Gospel, Jesus is baptized by

John, and the Spirit of God descends upon him.

Readings for next week, January 19: Second Sunday in

Ordinary Time: Isaiah 49:3, 5-6; Corinthians 1:1-3;

John 1:29-34

From Liturgical Commission Publishing, Lansing, MI

Celebrants* Lectors Eucharistic

Ministers

Altar

Servers

Sat 5:00

Fr. Valentine K. Ditrano N. Ditrano

G. Green

Sun.

7:30 Fr. Valentine

9:00 Fr. Valentine E. Guevara

11:00 Fr. Lauder A. Finnegan

C. Finnegan MHeffernan

12:15 Fr. Lauder

Celebrants for the Weekend of

January 18/19

* Subject to last minute changes.

Schedule

not

available

as of

printing

deadline.

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Dear Friends:

After the Christmas Masses one of our parishioners, Mrs. Marie Papiro, made a wonderful

observation (See? Sometimes I listen) as we enter into a new decade: “Maybe we should pray for

‘2020’ vision!” (Get it?) I couldn’t agree more; I only wish I could take credit for the line. Her point

is well taken: Catholics are not cockeyed optimists. We look at the world with neither naïveté nor

bitter cynicism. The saints were, if anything, fierce realists, but with one great qualification: they

beheld the world as if with the vision of our loving Creator. They acknowledge the fallen nature of

the world, but only “with an eye” to our re-creation in Christ. My spiritual director once advised:

“The Gospel will never make sense to us until we know what it means to have fallen in love.”

Over a decade ago, in his brilliant encyclical, Caritas in Veritate, Pope Benedict explains the

meaning of St. Paul’s letter to the Ephesians (4:15) wherein he reminds Christians to “profess the

truth in love and grow into the full maturity of Christ the head.” Returning to Ordinary Time after

the beautiful Advent/Christmas season often means plunging back into the routine of human

existence. And precisely because it occupies the majority of the year, Ordinary Time offers us the

greater opportunity to recognize and point out the loving presence of Jesus in the world he came to

save. The use of the word “plunge” is deliberate, because it underlies today’s Feast of the Baptism

of the Lord.

At the risk of appearing obsessed with his work, I would direct your attention to our bulletin cover,

and yet another image of Leonardo da Vinci, the famous Baptism of the Lord, c. 1475. This was a

further example of collaboration between artists, but in this case, the student (Leonardo) so far

surpasses his master Verrocchio that the latter (according to Walter Isaacson) “resolve(s) never

again to touch a brush.” As Isaacson points out, we behold an almost perfect marriage of scientific

precision with artistic imagination. It is a truly Catholic work, as it springs from a mind familiar

with the world of grace. There is the hair of the (far left) angel, whose loving gaze makes that of his

companion seem rather clueless; the more “true to life” body of Jesus (vs. John the Baptist), whose

glowing flesh shows no hard edges; the sfumato (“smokiness”) that connects the background

(heaven?) with the foreground (creation); and the limpid pool of water bathing the feet of Jesus,

descending as it does from the river behind it (the continuity between nature and grace).

Indeed, Catholics are neither fantasists nor cynics. Of course, we tell the truth about sin, which

disfigures the image of Christ in humanity, but “truth” must be tempered by love, so as not to cause

further damage. Indeed, we allow the grace of God to act through us, to heal and strengthen the

human condition, and ready it for its divine destiny. Let’s get back into the world of Ordinary Time,

and there make concrete the words of the hymn: “My Song is Love Unknown/My Savior’s Love for

Me/Love to the Loveless Shown that They May Lovely Be.”

Faithfully,

Fr. Valentine

THE PASTOR’S PAGE

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Through your generous donations, St.

Mary’s Human Concerns Center again

made Christmas joyous for more than

63 families in our community. Many

of the gift cards and food vouchers

were donated anonymously.

Thanks to one and all for your generosity and support.

HUMAN CONCERNS

ST. MARTHA’S GUILD

The St. Martha’s Guild of St. Mary’s is an

organization which helps care for the altar

linens. At this time there is a need for

additional help. If you can assist, please contact

the Rectory at 621-2222.

ST. MARY’S CATHOLIC

NOVEL

We will resume our book discussions with the title

Deep River by Shusaku Endo on February 5, 2020.

The meetings will be in the lower Church at 1:00

p.m. and 7:30 p.m.

Future book discussions will take place on March

11th and April 15th.

“Endo has written so many wonderful novels

that it would be patronizing to suggest that one

is better than the others. But surely Deep River,

this moving story about a pilgrimage of grace,

must be rated as one of the best of all of

them”….Andrew Greeley

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Processional Hymn

Worship II Hymnal - G.I.A. Publications

The Baptism of the Lord

January 12, 2020

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Psalm Response Gelineau Gradual 9c

Presentation Hymn

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COMMUNION HYMN

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Recessional Hymn

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BIG EVENT

GET TOGETHER

Sponsored by the

John Mackay

Council

Prizes are:

$1250 - final

$250 - halftime

$190 - 1st and 3rd breaks

plus 3 chances in 50/50 raffle -$625, $250,$125

Complimentary pasta dinner (BYOB/dessert)

at the Parish Center for participants

one week before The Big Game,

Sunday January 26th, 4-7 p.m. at Msgr. Ryan Hall

Please RSVP if attending the dinner.

$50 per pool box plus 1 50/50 chance –

pool boxes assigned by hand selection or proxy.

Boxes numbered 1-100 (left to right and down)

Participant does not have to be present for drawing.

50/50 drawing will be held at Jan. 26th event.

To purchase boxes- see a Council member.

Please email Mackay2310@yahoo.com or phone 917 658-9012 with questions.

Winners based on score digits at the end of the 1st, 2nd, 3rd breaks and the end of

The Big Event (including overtime). Good luck !

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TELEVISED MASS FOR THE HOMEBOUND - Each

week through television, Passionist Communications brings

The Sunday Mass to the sick and homebound. It can be

seen in the New York area (Long Island) on WLNY - Ch. 10

or 55 at 9:00 AM on Sunday; WNYW - Ch. 5 at 5:30 AM

on Sunday. Closed captioning is available for each Mass. In

addition to this Mass schedule The Sunday Mass is now

airing on ABC from 6:30 a.m. to 7:00 a.m. each Sunday

morning. For information consult the website at

www.TheSundayMass.org.

COURTESY ANNOUNCEMENTS

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.

Fr. Lauder Presents:

The Catholic Novel &

Friday Night Film Festival

The Catholic Novel Series - Rev.

Robert Lauder and the School of

Evangelization will present the “Five

Classic Catholic Novels Revisited”

series for the Spring of 2020. The series will

begin on Monday, March 16, 2020 at 7:30 p.m. at

the Immaculate Conception Center in Douglaston.

The cost of the series is $40.

Friday Night Film Festival - Fr.

Lauder and The Secretariat for

Evangelization and Catechesis

presents: “59th Friday Film Festival”

beginning on Friday, March 20, 2020 7:30 p.m. at

the Immaculate Conception Center in Douglaston.

The cost is $25 for the series or $6 for a single

film. Flyers containing additional information and

registration forms are available in the back of the

Church and Msgr. Ryan Hall.

St. Paul’s Centerstage

Presents:

“Centerstage as You’ve Never Seen Before”

A cabaret featuring musical numbers never performed in full-length Centerstage shows

January 24-26, 2020

Costa Memorial Hall - St. Paul’s Church

2534 Cedar Swamp Road, Glen Head

General Performances:

Friday, January 24 at 8 p.m.

Sunday January 26 at 2 p.m.

General Admission $15

Seniors & Children 12 & under - $12

Dinner Theatre Performance:

Saturday, January 25 at 8 p.m.

(Doors open at 6 p.m.)

All Tickets $40

(includes Dinner, Drinks, Dessert & Show)

For Ticket Information and Reservations

Call 516 754-4293 or

e-mail Centerstageministry@gmail.com

FATHER LAUDER’S LECTURES

Fr. Lauder’s Catholic Novel lectures are being shown on

the Catholic Faith Network (formerly Telecare) on

Mondays at 7:15 p.m. and Wednesdays at 9:00 a.m. The

Catholic Faith Network channels: 29/137 for Optimum

and 296 for Verizon FiOS. All 40 lectures are also on

U-Tube.