MASS SCHEDULE

Monday - Saturday: 9:00 a.m. Saturday: 5:00 p.m. - Vigil Mass Sunday: 8:00 a.m. & 11:00 a.m. HOLY DAYS: 9:00 a.m.

SUMMER OFFICE HOURS

Monday to Thursday: 9:30 a.m. - 4:30 pm Evenings & Weekends: By appointment

SAINT VINCENT FERRER R0MAN CATHOLIC CHURCH

CHURCH: 925 EAST 37TH STREET, BROOKLYN OFFICE: 1603 BROOKLYN AVE., BROOKLYN, NY 11210 PHONE 718-859-9009 Fax: 718-859-9032

OUR STAFF Pastor: Rev. Fr . Antonius Peter Gopaul

Parish Secretary: Allison Gullap

Maintenance: Richard Mahabir Ricardo Dacosta

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School Affiliation: Midwood Catholic Academy (Pre-K - Gr. 8) 1501 Hendrickson Street Brooklyn, NY 11234 718-377-1800

Feast of the Transfiguration of the Lord, August 6th

Eucharistic Celebration In Honor

Survivors and Victims of the

COVID-19 Pandemic

The Ministry of Mercy will celebrate a Mass, in Honor of the Survivors and Victims of the Covid-19 Pandemic, on Saturday August 29th 2020, at 11:00 a.m. at Saint Vincent Ferrer Roman Catholic Church. Parishioners are asked to submit the names of loved ones (family and/or friends) who will be honored.

Please submit the names on or before August 22nd to any member of the Ministry of Mercy or drop them off at the Rectory or in the Offering basket at Mass.

Thank you. Marie Ange Bernier

EIGHTEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME AUGUST 2ND 2020

Jesus has pity on the crowd and miraculously feeds them. In his compassion, the Lord answers all our needs, thus renewing his covenant of love with us. Nothing can ever separate us from the love of Christ.

MASS INTENTIONS:

Saturday, August 1st 5:00 p.m.

Cecilia L. Wong - In memoriam, 16th Anniversary Requested by Mary Wong Henrietta Stewart - In memoriam Requested by Marjory Allard

Sunday, August 2nd 8:00 a.m. Michelle Williams - Birthday blessing 11:00 a.m.

The People of Saint Vincent Ferrer Parish Yranise Pierre - Blessing Fritz Torchon - In memoriam Requested by the Duplessy family Henrietta Stewart - In memoriam Requested by Marjory Allard Iris Lyken - In memoriam Requested by the St. Vincent Ferrer School of Religion Gwen Wilson - In memoriam Requested by the ‘In His Light’ Charismatic Prayer Group

Monday, August 3rd 9:00 a.m. Ann Marie Dickey - In memoriam Requested by Margaret and James Bambara

Tuesday, August 4th 9:00 a.m. Memorial of Saint John Vianney, Priest Justina Contreras - In memoriam Requested by Nydia Ruiz

Wednesday, August 5th 9:00 a.m. Memorial of the Dedication of the Basilica of Saint Mary Major Jean Charlot, Jr. - Birthday blessing Request by Marie Edouard

Thursday, August 6th 9:00 a.m.

Feast of the Transfiguration of the Lord Nesley Lubin - Birthday blessing

First Friday, August 7th 9:00 a.m. Memorial of Saint Sixtus II, Pope, and companions, Martyrs; Memorial of Saint Cajetan, Priest Jude and Genevieve Pierre-Charles - Birthday blessing Requested by the Pierre-Charles family Saturday, August 8th 9:00 a.m. Memorial of Saint Dominic, Priest Natasha Fenelon - Birthday blessing

OUR DEEPEST NEEDS The word of God serves up a tremendous feast for us today. Isaiah beckons all who hunger and thirst to come to the Lord for satisfaction. The psalmist cries out, “The hand of the Lord feeds us; he answers all our needs” (Psalm 145:16). Saint Paul tells us that nothing can separate us from the love of God. Finally, in the Gospel, we hear the story of the miraculous feeding of over five thousand people from a mere five loaves and two fish. Most of us have our material needs met on a day-to-day basis. These scriptures, nevertheless, have much to say to the contemporary believer. We must ask ourselves, “Where are my deepest hungers? Where are my thirsts?” After material needs are satisfied and, in some cases, over-satisfied, many people still experience a deep longing for spiritual balance and well-being. As the loaves and fish are multiplied in today’s Gospel, perhaps our prayer can be a longing for the satisfaction of the deepest needs that only God can fill. Copyright © J. S. Paluch Co. TODAY’S READINGS First Reading — All you who thirst, come to the water! You without money, come to the feast! (Isaiah 55:1-3). Psalm — The hand of the Lord feeds us; he answers all our needs (Psalm 145). Second Reading — Nothing can separate us from the love of God in Christ (Romans 8:35, 37-39). Gospel — All ate until satisfied; they collected twelve baskets of what was left over (Matthew 14:13-21). The English translation of the Psalm Responses from Lectionary for Mass © 1969, 1981, 1997, International Commission on English in the Liturgy Corpora-tion. All rights reserved. READINGS FOR THE WEEK Monday: Jer 28:1-17; Ps 119:29, 43, 79, 80, 95, 102; Mt 14:22-36 Tuesday: Jer 30:1-2, 12-15, 18-22; Ps 102:16-21, 29, 22-23; Mt 14:22-36 or Mt 15:1-2, 10-14 Wednesday: Jer 31:1-7; Jer 31:10-12ab, 13; Mt 15:21-28 Thursday: Dn 7:9-10, 13-14; Ps 97:1-2, 5-6, 9; 2 Pt 1:16-19; Mt 17:1-9 Friday: Na 2:1, 3; 3:1-3, 6-7; Dt 32:35cd-36ab, 39abcd, 41; Mt 16:24-28 Saturday: Hb 1:12 — 2:4; Ps 9:8-13; Mt 17:14-20 Sunday: 1 Kgs 19:9a, 11-13a; Ps 85:9-14; Rom 9:1-5; Mt 14:22-33

“If abortion isn’t wrong, ...then nothing is.” Mother Theresa

The Eucharist Is The Heart Of Our Life In Christ

GIFTS AND INTENTIONS:

Bread and Wine:

Altar Flowers:

Altar Candle: Ashley Bernadine - In memoriam Altar Candle: Ashley Bernadine - In memoriam

Sanctuary Candle: The deceased members of the Aldridge family

Mary’s Chapel Candle:

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Please respond generously to the 2020Annual Catholic Appeal. The Annual Catholic Appeal supports the daily work of our Church in the Diocese of Brooklyn in ways no one parish can accomplish alone, through these key programs. - Catholic Youth Ministry Initiative, Catholic Charities; Hospital, College and prison Chaplains; Diocesan Vocation Office; Catholic Migration Services; Office of Faith Formation; Bishop Mugavero Residence for Infirmed Clergy; Futures in Education Scholarship Foundation. All donations above $55,000.00 are returned directly to our parish for operations and improvements.

Please pledge your gift to the 2020Annual Catholic Appeal and make monthly payments through December 31st. If possible, please include your first month’s payment when you pledge. Make checks payable to the “Annual Catholic Appeal.” Please mail your gift card in the envelopes provided.

For other forms of giving - credit cards, securities, stocks, mutual funds, IRA Distributions - please contact Father Gopaul at 718-859-9009.

For more information visit: www.annualcatholicappeal.org

SAINT JOHN MARY VIANNEY (1786-1859) August 4 A busy pastor jokingly suggests the secret of John Vianney’s holiness: “He died seventeen years before telephones!” Call they didn’t, but visit they did, keeping Vianney eighteen hours a day in the confessional. Stories abound of reading hearts and exorcisms, but Vianney’s first miracle was getting ordained. Difficulty with studies delayed him, prompting the rector’s apology to the bishop, “So far to ordain just one, especially this one!” The bishop, who could not know he was ordaining the future patron saint of parish priests, replied, “No burden to ordain one good priest!” In Ars, only an elderly handful attended Mass, “praying,” one told Vianney, “for a priest with brains.” But he stayed forty-two years, fulfilling the promise he made the day he arrived. In a sculpture just outside the village Vianney points skyward: “Show me the way to Ars,” he tells a boy, “and I’ll show you the way to heaven.” To someone who feared there was no heaven beyond the grave, Vianney smiled, “My child, it would have been heaven enough to have lived as Jesus’ disciple on earth.” —Peter Scagnelli, Copyright © J. S. Paluch Co.

The Eucharist Is The Heart Of Our Life In Christ

Dear Parishioners, help us to know who you are by becoming a registered member of the parish.

Please honor your pledges to Generations of Faith

If you are unable to fulfil your pledge or need to reduce your original pledge, please notify Father Gopaul.

Thank You We thank you for your generous support of last week’s second collection for the Pontifical Mission Societies. Their mission is to help bring the message of Christ to the world, especially where Christianity in new, young and poor. The societies care for and support the younger churches until they are able to be self-sufficient.

Memorial of Saint John Vianney, Priest August 4th

Memorial of Saint Sixtus II, Pope, and companions, Martyrs; August 7th

Memorial of Saint Cajetan, Priest August 7th

Memorial of Saint Dominic, Priest August 8th

Prayer to Overcome Racism

Mary, friend and mother to all, through your Son, God has found a way to unite himself to every human being, called to be one people, sisters and brothers to each other. We ask for your help in calling on your Son, seeking forgiveness for the times when we have failed to love and respect one another. We ask for your help in obtaining from your Son the grace we need to overcome the evil of racism and to build a just society. We ask for your help in following your Son, so that prejudice and animosity will no longer infect our minds or hearts but will be replaced with a love that respects the dignity of each person. Mother of the Church, the Spirit of your Son Jesus warms our hearts: pray for us.

Prayer of the Faithful As people of God’s holy word, let us pray for all who are in need.

For openness in the Church to God’s generous and life-giving word, let us pray to the Lord. For an end to hunger throughout the world through a generous sharing of the planting and harvesting from every nation, let us pray to the Lord. For those who suffer in the heat, for those who endure storms, fires, and floods, and for all who respond to their needs with generous hearts, let us pray to the Lord. For migrant workers and for immigrants as they strive for a better life for themselves and for their families, let us pray to the Lord. For the health and safety of all in our communities as we continue to reopen in the wake of the pandemic, let us pray to the Lord. For all those who are sick, for all who suffer from COVID-19, and for all who have died, especially N., N., and N., let us pray to the Lord. For all the prayers that we hold in the silence of our hearts; for all our intentions spoken and unspoken, let us pray to the Lord.

Gracious and generous God, your word of salvation has been spread over the whole world. Help it to bear fruit in our lives, and hear all these our prayers through your Son, our Lord Jesus Christ. Copyright © J. S. Paluch Co., Inc.

Lessons to be learned

The miracle of the loaves and fishes is one of the best known in the Gospels. When Jesus performs a miracle, he is not trying to show off his power. He always has a lesson that his action illustrates. This miracle can teach us many things. Let’s look at a few of them. One is the compassion of Christ. He has pity on the crowd and first shows his love by curing their sick. Then he sees they are hungry and feeds them. This reminds us that Jesus knows what we need and cares about us. The bread reminds us of Jesus temptation in the desert, where he said “man does not live on bread alone.” Just as the miracle satisfied the hunger of five thousand families, so his word will satisfy the spiritual hunger of millions. The miracle also reminds us that Jesus will give us himself as Bread and Wine to be our food and drink. So the question is, do we learn from this miracle? Do we trust the Lord to care for all our needs? Do we try to live by God’s word? And finally, do we take advantage of the great gift of the Eucharist? The miracle may have happened two thousand years ago, but the lessons are meant for us today. Tom Schmidt, Copyright © J. S. Paluch Co.

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