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SACRAMENT OF PENANCE

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

Eves of Holy Days: Msgr. Ryan Hall - 3:45 to 4:45 p.m.

First Friday: Church - 5:30 p.m. to 6:45 p.m.

First Saturday: Church - 7:45 a.m. to 8:45 a.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. McCartney 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, March 4: THIRD SUNDAY OF LENT 7:30 a.m. Rita Friend by Elsie Calderone 9:00 a.m. People of the Parish 11:00 a.m. Peter Barcia by the Dussel Family Nicholas Martone by his Loving Family Bryant Piontkowski by the Children Frank Zerilli by Don & Pat Weil 12:15 p.m. Deceased Members of the Muller & McNichol Families by Lorraine Muller Monday, March 5: Lenten Weekday 9:00 a.m. Mary & Stanley Krukowski by Anne Krukowski Tuesday, March 6: Lenten Weekday 9:00 a.m. For the Intentions of Andrew Hamilton by Alice & Chris Gunther Wednesday, March 7: Lenten Weekday 9:00 a.m. Danielle Clair Gunther by Alice & Chris Gunther Thursday, March 8: Lenten Weekday 9:00 a.m. For the Intention of Kristen DeGiovine by the Monteserrato Family Friday, March 9: Lenten Weekday 9:00 a.m. Rose Guiragos by Barbara & Joe Nakelski Saturday, March 10: Lenten Weekday 5:00 p.m. Salvatore Berritto by Mary Lou Berritto Ann & Anthony Stavola & Helen & Robert Lipp by Jean Stavola Jake Whitting by Otto & Marie Niebler Sunday, March 11: FOURTH SUNDAY OF LENT 7:30 a.m. Julie Freno by Peggy & Michael Carillo 9:00 a.m. Biagio Verderame by Pia Pavlowich 11:00 a.m. Eileen Calamari by the McCormack Family Taylor McGrath by the Dellavecchia Family Maurice Murphy - 100th Birthday by the Kate Murphy & the Murphy Family 12:15 p.m. People of the Parish

Baby Jack Josephine Banno

John Bertrand Kathleen Capuano Joseph Carbonaro

Barbara Coe Rebekah Cole Kevin Cronin Paul Cronin

John Paul DiNonno Anthony Ferro

Natalie Finamore Tony Grau

Jeremy Hogan Christine Kenney Douglas Knehr

Anne Krukowski

Frank Krukowski Mary Loftus

Richard Malon Jonathan Mannina Tom McCormack

Dieter Nagel Victoria Oxer Trevor Rogers

Anna Sambucci Vincent Scalavino Charles Strecker

Clotida Vecchione Jacqueline Verde Joseph Williams

Anne Wright Mary Wybaillie

PLEASE PRAY FOR THE SICK

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READINGS FOR SUNDAY, MARCH 4, 2018

THIRD SUNDAY OF LENT

First Reading: Exodus 20:1-17 or 20:1-3, 7-8, 12-17

Second Reading: 1 Corinthians 1:22-25

Gospel: John 2:13-25

FOCUS: Jesus performed many signs, but it was in his

death and resurrection that God’s glory was fully

revealed and made manifest.

When Jesus drives the money changers and animal

vendors from the Temple, the Jews demand a sign to

prove his authority. They do not have the faith to see

what is in front of them. Later, when Jesus dies and is

risen, his disciples remember his words, and they

understand and believe. Do we have the faith to see what

is revealed right in front of us, in this Eucharist?

LITURGY OF THE WORD:

In the first reading, God presents the Ten

Commandments to Moses. In the Letter to the

Corinthians, Paul declares Christ as the power and

wisdom of God for Jew and Gentile, alike. Today’s

Gospel displays Jesus’ zeal for his Father’s house, as he

drives the money changers and animal sellers out of the

Temple.

Readings for next week, March 11, Fourth Sunday in

Lent: 2 Chronicles 36:14-16, 19-23; Ephesians 2:4-10;

John 3:14-21

From Liturgical Commission Publishing, Lansing, MI

Lumen Christi Missal

Weekend of March 3/4, 2018

Third Sunday in Lent - Year B

Readings: Missal, p. 121

The Ordinary of the Mass begins on Page 804

Celebrants for the Weekend of

March 10/11

Celebrants* Lectors

Extraordinary

Ministers of

Holy

Communion

Altar

Servers

Sat 5:00

Fr.

McCartney P. Ditrano

D. Ditrano

D. Marvullo K. Ditrano N. Ditrano

Sun.

7:30 Fr.

McCartney D. Sheehan

9:00 Fr.

McCartney C. D’Souza

D. Dawson

P. Doran E. Guevara

11:00 Fr. Lauder S. Chin L. Lofaro J.T. Canton

M. Heffernan

12:15 Fr. Lauder Sr. Dorothy L. Nassiri

*subject to last minute changes

FOSTERING STEWARDSHIP AS A WAY OF LIFE

PARISH SACRIFICIAL GIVING

“You shall not covert” is a difficult commandment to keep in

our consumer society. But as Christian stewards, we know that

we are the recipients and caretakers of God’s many gifts. May

this realization that all is gift help us to be less resentful of the

gifts of others.

Parish Sacrificial Giving Summary

Thank you for your continued sacrificial gifts to St.

Mary’s.

Sunday Offertory ~ February 24/25 $8,078.00*

Same Sunday Last Year: $8,576.00*

Mass Attendance ~ February 24/25` 850

Same Sunday Last Year 875

*Does not include Faith Direct

CHANGE IN THE

CONFESSION SCHEDULE

FOR FRIDAY, MARCH 9th

Please note a change of time

and location for confessions

this Friday, March 9th only.

On Friday March 9 confessions will be held

from 8:30 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. in the Hall.

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My dear people of St. Mary’s:

Recently, I read a number of articles in the secular media about Ash Wednesday and the season of Lent, which

attempted to explain our religious practices to an increasingly secular and religiously uninformed society. One piece

detailed various accounts of people approaching strangers on Ash Wednesday, to helpfully inform them they had

dirt on their foreheads. How you can be an adult living in the United States of America in the 21st Century and have

never even heard of Ash Wednesday? Shortly afterwards, I received an e-mail from a parishioner with a question

about Lent. He wrote: “I would like to know why, if you are fasting, you are not supposed to show it to receive

any acknowledgements or brownie points with other people; so, [then] why do all the items that were donated to the

church have the names of the people who donated it to the church.”

His question hits on something that is often misunderstood by Catholics and non-Catholics alike about when

we are to do spiritual things in public and when we are to do them in private. His question likely references the

Gospel account where Jesus says: “Take care not to perform righteous deeds in order that people may see them …

When you give alms, do not blow a trumpet before you ... When you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, who love to

stand and pray in the synagogues and on street corners so that others may see them … When you fast, do not look

gloomy like the hypocrites ... And your Father who sees what is hidden will repay you.” [Mt 6:1-6]

It would seem, when we read this passage, that every spiritual thing we do should be done privately and

anonymously, or it will be displeasing to God. But, this shows the danger of pulling one passage out of its context in

Scripture and, without properly understanding it, making a broad rule from it. If we were to do that with this text, it

might seem that Jesus is condemning the practice of our receiving ashes on Ash Wednesday, because they are meant

to be seen by others. But this is clearly not the case, since the Church actually chooses to read this Gospel passage

every year at the Mass on Ash Wednesday itself!

First, a little background. Ashes were a well-known religious symbol in the Old Testament. The books of

Genesis, 2 Samuel, Esther, Job, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Daniel, Jonah, and 1 Maccabees, all speak of the Jewish custom of

ashes used as a public sign of penance, grief or mourning. In the Old Testament there were also public days of

penance that would be observed collectively by all the people, like the great Day of Atonement, Yom Kippur, which

is still observed by Jewish people to this day. Jesus celebrated many of these holy days publically with His family,

and later with His Apostles.

What our Lord was speaking of in the sixth chapter of St. Matthew’s Gospel was a criticism of the Jewish

religious leaders of His day who were making a public show of their practice of religion, though their hearts were

actually far from God. Jesus wants everything we do as part of our spiritual lives to be from a genuine love of God

and not from a sense of pride, or to impress other people. And, it is true that sometimes people may do things with

mixed motives. Jesus’ injunction is meant to put us on guard about this human tendency, so that we root it out when

we see it manifest itself in our spiritual lives.

However, the Church has never understood this to mean that we cannot do public religious things. We are

required to come together on Sundays for Mass and to worship together. Public feast days or days of penance and

fasting are called for by the church in order to unite everyone together in prayer. Ash Wednesday is meant to be a

public reminder to all of the beginning of this holy season, of our sinfulness and need for repentance, and of our

mortality, that “to dust we shall return.” This enable us as a Catholic people to collectively begin the season of Lent,

where we then are expected to continue our particular practices, privately.

Therefore, the same is true about memorials in churches. Weekly donations are the ones that are made privately.

However, from time to time, when there is a major renovation to a church, people will be asked to give special gifts,

which are generally memorialized to deceased loved ones or to families as a whole. The names which are inscribed

(without any ostentation in our church) are there to remind people to pray for the benefactors of St. Mary’s. Rather

than being there to impress, the presence of those names is a request for us to remember them in our prayers.

Certainly, it is true that it is never good for donations to be done merely to impress other people. In my experience

this is rarely the case. People make donations because they love their church, and they are grateful for the graces

they have received from God through her. Such parishioners want to insure that future generations are able to

encounter God in their church, in the same way that they have. So, let us pray for our benefactors, living and

deceased, who have given us our beautiful St. Mary’s! —Fr. McCartney

THE PASTOR’S PAGE

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St. Mary’s Invites You to our 2018 Lenten Mission:

“A Lenten Journey in the Footsteps of St. Peter”

St. Peter is one of the most profitable characters to meditate on during the season of Lent. Come to the mission and see how St. Peter’s example can teach you how to have a holy Lent, and become a better disciple of the Lord all year long.

Mission Schedule

Wednesday, March 7, 2018

St. Peter’s Call

1:00 pm in the Church & 7:00 pm in Msgr. Ryan Hall

Wednesday, March 14, 2018

St. Peter’s Fall

1:00 pm in the Church & 7:00 pm in Msgr. Ryan Hall

Wednesday, March 21, 2018

St. Peter’s Rise

1:00 pm in the Church & 7:00 pm in Msgr. Ryan Hall

The evening conference is a repeat of the afternoon conference. All sessions should last one hour and will be preached by Fr. McCartney.

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CHANGE OF LOCATION FOR THE 12:15 MASS NEXT SUNDAY,

MARCH 11th, 2018

NEXT SUNDAY, March 11th, the 12:15 p.m. Mass will be moved from the Hall to the Church to

allow the Fun-Raising Committee to decorate the Hall for the 2017-2018 300 Club year-end party

later that day.

YEAR-END TAX STATEMENTS

It‘s costly to send an end-of-the year tax statement to every household in the parish, and not everyone is interested

in receiving it. So if you’d like a statement reflecting your giving to St. Mary’s for 2017, please phone the parish

office at 621-2222 and someone will send one on to you. If there’s no one at the phones when you call, feel free to

leave a message on the machine with pertinent information: who’s requesting, address, and a phone number in

case verification is needed.

Juice

Soups

Coffee

Tea

Rice

Peanut Butter

Jelly

Cereal

Canned Fruit

Canned Vegetables

Cookies

Crackers

Macaroni & Cheese

Paper Goods

FOOD PANTRY

As we begin Lent and look forward to Easter, the Human

Concerns Food Pantry has a particular need for following

items:

Please bring your donations to the back of the Church or

Hall after Mass.

We thank all of you who continue to remember

our Food Pantry with your donations.

HUMAN CONCERNS MINISTRY

SPRING FORWARD

Daylight Savings Time begins at

2:00 a.m. on Sunday, March 11h.

Don’t forget to turn your clocks

ahead one hour!

CATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICES

COLLECTION

The annual Diocesan collection for Catholic Relief

Services will be taken up next weekend, March

11/12.

Fr. Lauder Presents

The Catholic Novel & Friday Night Film Festival

The Catholic Novel Series - Rev.

Robert Lauder in collaboration with The

Office of Faith Formation will present

the “Catholic Novel” series for the

Spring of 2018. The series will begin on

Monday, March 12th 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

Catehcesis presents the “55th Friday Film

Festival” beginning on Friday, March 16th,

2018 at 8:00 p.m. at the Immaculate

Conception Center in Douglaston. The cost is $25 for

the series or $6 for a single film.

For further information on the Catholic Novel Series call (718) 281

-9544 or the Friday Night Film Festival call (718) 281-9582.

Flyers containing additional information and registration forms

are available in the back of the Church and Msgr. Ryan Hall.

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The penitential Season of Lent began on Ash Wednesday and ends with the Mass of the Lord’s Supper

on Holy Thursday. Lent has six Sundays; the sixth of which is called Passion or Palm Sunday and

marks the beginning of Holy Week.

Abstinence from meat is to be observed by all Catholics (14 years and older) on Ash Wednesday

and on all the Fridays of Lent. Fasting means limiting oneself to one full meal on a given fast day.

Catholics who are between the ages of 18 and 59 inclusive are obliged to fast on Ash Wednesday and

Good Friday. On fast days, two additional smaller meals are permitted. However, the two smaller

meals together should not equal one full meal.

✟ ✟ ✟

The schedule of services for Lent is as follows:

Daily Mass

Monday through Friday at 9:00 a.m. ~ Church

First Saturday: March 3 at 9:00 a.m. ~ Church

Stations of the Cross

Fridays of Lent - following the 9:00 a.m. Mass ~ Church

Confessions

Fridays of Lent: 7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. ~ Church

Except Friday March 9: 8:30 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. ~ Hall

Except First Friday, March 2: 3:45 p.m. to 6:45 p.m. ~ Church

followed by 7:00 p.m. Holy Hour with Benediction

Saturdays of Lent: 3:00 p.m. to 4:45 p.m. ~ Hall

Except Saturday, February 17: 3:45 p.m. to 4:45 p.m. ~ Hall

Monday, March 26 - Diocesan Day of Penance: 2:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. ~ Church

Good Friday, March 30: 9:45 a.m. to 12:00 Noon ~ Church

Holy Saturday, March 31: 9:45 a.m. to 12:00 Noon ~ Church

✛ LENTEN SCHEDULE ✛

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REMEMBERING THOSE WHO SERVE

1LT Brendan Echausse

COL Daniel Friend

PV1 Joseph M. Friend

LT Christian R. Foschi

PFC Steven Hyyti

CAPT David Jacobs

SK1 John D. Klick

PFC Michael P. Lanciki

CAPT Eric W. Lipp

Cpl Caitlin Lyons

LT. Dennis Mackin

Cpl Tommy Mozer

SGT Julio Ortiz II

LCpl Jonathan Peres

SSGT Jonathan Porto

PVT Michael Starczewski

SPC Luke Whitting

RCT Jordan J. Williams

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.

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Name ____________________________________________________________

Address ____________________________________________________________

Email _____________________________ Phone __________________________

Choice of

1 Number From 305 to 999 (existing members can keep current number or request new one)

Number Choice: 1st

____ or 2nd

____ or Auto Pick ____ or 2016/2017 number____

Membership $100 for one year. Checks made payable to St Mary’s 300 Club

Place check & card in collection basket or mail to St Mary’s 300 Club,

Church of St Mary, 110 Bryant Avenue Roslyn, New York 11576

What

• 300 plus members

mmembers

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$100 each subscription

number

• Open to all St.Mary’s parishioners, friends & family

• FIVE Prizes awarded

monthly:

1 st $200

2 nd $100

3 rd $ 75

• Grand Prize at year end: $1,000

How

• Fill out and Submit application form below

- OR –

- Print out, fill in and submit the application from the website :

www.stmarysroslyn.com

When

• Enroll by:

March

2018

,

20

10

• First Monthly Drawing:

March

29

, 2018 29

22

29

27

• Grand Prize date:

March, 2019

fill out, attach check and mail

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COURTESY ANNOUNCEMENTS

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.

LENTEN DAY OF REFLECTION - Magnificat, a

Ministry to Catholic Women, cordially invites you to attend

a Lenten Day of Reflection - “”Journey to the Cross”, which

will enable us to have a deeper experience of reflection,

meditation and prayer, as we prepare for Holy Week - on

Saturday, March 24 at St. Agnes Cathedral, Ministries

Building, Rockville Centre, from 9:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. We

will begin with Mass at 9:00 a.m. in the Cathedral, and then

proceed to the Ministries Building. The cost is $20 per

person (bring your own lunch), and pre-registration is

required. Please make checks payable to “Magnificat’: and

mail to: Judy Murphy, 42 Pinehurst Street, Lido Beach, NY

11561. Checks must be received by March 19. Payment

will not be accepted at the door. For additional information,

please call 917 453-5750. Come and bring a friend, as we

prepare for Holy Week!

Relics of the Passion Sunday, March 18 ~ 2:00 p.m.

Our Lady of Mt. Carmel 495 North Ocean Avenue, Patchogue

This is an exclusive opportunity to venerate these holy relics and participate in a program that allows you to engage in a unique commemoration of Jesus’ walk to Calvary. This powerful program is a one-hour presentation supported with music and meditation followed by veneration.

A collection such as this is generally seen only in Rome in the Holy Land and included are a piece of the true cross of Christ as well as a piece of the crown of thorns. For more information, please call 631-475-4739.

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Dear Padre

&

Membership

PARISH REGISTRATION REQUEST I/we would like to register in the parish of St. Mary’s. Please send me a Parish Census to complete so I can become a parishioner of St. Mary’s. Please send my Census to: NAME:_______________________________________________ ADDRESS:___________________________________________ ____________________________________________________ PHONE:_____________________________________________

Please return to the Rectory Office or place in the collection basket.