MASSES - St. Columbanus

Saturdays: 8:30 a.m. & 6:00 p.m. (6 p.m. satisfies Sunday Obligation) Sundays: 8:00 a.m., 11:45 a.m. & 3:00 p.m. Traditional Latin Mass (TLM) Weekdays: Mon 9:00 a.m. T - F 7:30 a.m. & 9:00 a.m. Eve of Holy Day: 6:00 p.m. Holy Days: 7:30 a.m., 12:00 p.m. & 7:00 p.m.

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St. Columbanus School Ms. Carole Arbolino, Principal Mrs. Margaret Roche, Administrative Assistant Phone: (914) 739-1200 Fax: (914) 739-1109 Website: www.st-columbanus.com

Church of the North American Martyrs MISSION: Lake Peekskill, New York 55 Oscawana Lake Road, Putnam Valley, NY Phone: (914) 737-4705

MASSES Saturdays: 5:00 p.m. (satisfies Sunday Obligation) Sundays: 11:00 a.m. Holy Days: 10:00 a.m. & 5:30 p.m.

CONFESSIONS 1/2 hour before each Mass

Religious Education

Isabel Arroyo, Coordinator (914) 739-2441 stcolumbanusre@gmail.com Sat. 8:50 a.m.-10:30.a.m.; Sun: 10:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. then Children’s Mass 11:45; Mon 7:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.

September 16, 2018

24th Sunday in Ordinary Time

RECTORY:

914-737-4705 / 914-736-7476F Rectory Office Hours: M-F 9:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.

Saturdays 4:30 - 5:30 p.m. after the 6:00 p.m. Mass. Mondays during Holy Hour: 7:00 p.m.- 8:00 p.m.

Arrangements must be made at least six months in advance of desired wedding date.

BAPTISMS: Call rectory as soon as possible.

Rev. Edwin Nwabugwu, Parochial Vicar

Rev. Msgr. Patrick J. Keenan, Retired Priest in Residence Christopher Mendoza, Deacon

Bulletin Team, stcolumbanusbulletin@gmail.com Lauren Lazzari, Music Director

St. Columbanus Parish 122 Oregon Road, Cortlandt Manor, NY 10567

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MASSES FOR THE WEEK

SUNDAY ~ SEPTEMBER 16

8:00 a.m. Claire Costantini 11:00 a.m. 11:45 a.m. Intentions for Parish and Parishioners

MONDAY ~ SEPTEMBER 17 St. Robert Bellarmine, Bishop & Doctor of the

Church 9:00 a.m. Jeanne Carboy (living)

TUESDAY ~ SEPTEMBER 18 7:30 a.m. Nunzio Joseph Ricottilli 9:00 a.m. Rose Barber

WEDNESDAY ~ SEPTEMBER 19 St. Januarius, Bishop and Martyr

7:30 a.m. 9:00 a.m. Jonathan Ruggles

THURSDAY ~ SEPTEMBER 20 Sts. Andrew Kim Tae-gon,m Priest, and

Paul Chong Ha-sang, and Companions, Martyrs 7:30 a.m. 9:00 a.m. Rose Barber FRIDAY ~ SEPTEMBER 21

St. Matthew, Apostle and Evangelist 7:30 a.m. 9:00 a.m.

SATURDAY ~ SEPTEMBER 22 Blessed Virgin Mary

8:30 a.m. Ronald Powe 5:00 p.m. Daniel and Marie Roche (living) 6:00 p.m. Donna Tetro Vance

Every First Friday by Priests and Deacons. Special visitation by Eucharistic Ministers by request.

CONGRATULATIONS! We welcome into our Catholic faith and St. Columba-nus family Julia Regalado, daughter of Darwin and Maria, who was baptized here at St. Columbanus Church on September 8, 2018. God Bless, Julia!

MARRIAGE BANNS Daniel Roche & Marie Perry (III)

SUNDAY’S READINGS 24th Sunday in Ordinary Time

1st Reading: I gave my back to those who beat me. (Isaiah 50:5-9a)

Psalm: I will walk before the Lord, in the land of the living. (Psalm 116:1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 8-0)

2nd Reading: Faith, if it does not have works, is dead. (James 2:14-18)

Alleluia: May I never boast except in the cross of our Lord through which the world has been crucified to me and I to the world.

Gospel: You are the Christ...the Son of Man must suffer greatly. (Mark 8:27-35)

WINE, HOST, AND

TABERNACLE CANDLE

A donation of $25 will provide for the weeklong burning of the tabernacle candle in memory of loved ones. A like donation for the hosts and wine offered at Mass may be given as a memorial as well. Please call or stop by the rectory if you’d like to honor your loved ones in this holy manner.

Names of the sick are listed for six months from the date of the initial request. Contact the rectory if you wish to have someone added to the list. Ann-Marie Barber-Montlouis, Patricia Barber-Cronin, Ceil & John Bowdren, Dorothy Chartier, Justin Fedele, Abina Furnari, Frank Gaglione, John Grogan, Barbara Gorbecki, Robert T. Gulley, Alex Hetsko, Marvin Keeler, Tom Kemple, Kerry Ken-nedy, Arlene Kolosky, Kevin Kolosky, Vincent McKenna, Robert McLoughlin, Roselea Megna, Howard Olsen, Vivian Pabon, Rich Pettersen, An-na Pollack, Mia Reggina, Doreen Robinson, Robert Salvador, Fr. Frank Samoylo, John & Cathy Samoylo, Patrick Scelza, Robert Schiavo, Evan Shiels, Kelly Small, Rosemary Soboleski

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FOOD+REFRESHMENTS+BINGO=FUN Bingo is canceled for Friday, September 21.

STEWARDSHIP—A WAY OF LIFE Tithing: God’s Plan for Giving

September 9, 2018 ~ $5,917.90 September 10, 2017 ~ $8,749.40

ST. COLUMBANUS SCHOOL

We are in Open Enrollment for our school for Pre-K3 thru grade 7. Our school offers a faith based, fully academic curricula, plus music, art and Spanish classes. We offer before and after care. In addition, our Pre-K program offers a five half-day program and a five full day program. Please call us at 914-739-1200 for more information.

FOOD COLLECTION TODAY Donations of non-perishable food items will be collected at today’s Masses. Please place your items in the bins located in either of our Churches’ vestibules. Thank you for your generosity to this much needed cause.

RCIA Rite of Christian Initiative for Adults

RCIA is for: 1) Those not Baptized. 2) Those Baptized in another religion, but now

wanting to be Catholic. 3) Catholics who were Baptized, but have not

received Confirmation. Classes (informal) begin now and will be held in the Church Library. Please call the Rectory to Register: (914) 737-4705.

USHERS MEETING - DATE CHANGE The Ushers Society will meet in the School Library on September 23rd after the 11:45 a.m. Mass. All ushers are asked to be there to facilitate our reorganization.

HEALING AFTER ABORTION

Have you suffered an abortion? Experience God’s love and mercy and begin the journey of healing. Please call the Sisters of Life: 866-575-0075 or e-mail: hopeandhealing@sistersoflife.org. For men, call Theresa Bonopartis at Lumina: 877-586-4621 or e-mail: Lumina@postabortionhelp.org.

SACRED MUSIC WORKSHOPS Reading Music 101 Saturday, September 22, 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. St. Joseph’s Seminary, Yonkers

Presenter: Dr. Jennifer Donelson, DMA, Professor of Music at St. Joseph’s Seminary

Registration fee: $10

KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS COUNCIL #14991 AID FOR THE NEEDY RAFFLE

Only 300 tickets are sold. Each ticket is $100. $15,000 to charity and $15,000 in prizes:

1-$5000, 1-$3,000, 7-$1,000.

Only 50 tickets are left. Please help us have another SELL-OUT.

Grab a flyer at the back of the church or call Bobby Sellazo at 914-497-0253 or Ed Crane at 914-433-2866 so we can secure your ticket today.

Thank you for your support.

EWTN

The New EWTN T.V. schedule is available at the Church exits. Please take one for a friend.

HEALING MASS

A Healing Mass, with a free flow of the Gifts of the Holy Spirit, will be held Tuesday October 2, 2018 at St. Kateri Tekekwitha Parish, 1925 Rte 82, LaGrangeville, NY 12540. Praise and Worship begins at 7:00pm; mass at 7:30. Individual prayers for healing follow mass. Details call Pat or Joe at 845-440-3519.

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~PASTOR’S NOTES~

We are still in need of teachers for our Religious Education (CCD) program on Saturday and Sunday morning and Monday evening. It is important that our children be formed in the faith. Classes are held once a week

and all materials and instructions will be provided. Couples can team teach and learn together as they instruct children in the faith. College students can earn service hours for passing on the faith. I taught religious ed. before I went into the seminary and while I was in the seminary. Because of my schedule and cur-rent bout with cancer I cannot teach regularly but I still visit both Rel. Ed. and St. Columbanus School classes. At the end of Mass we are commissioned to go forth to spread the Gospel. God will give the graces needed to accomplish any-thing. Contact Mrs. Arroyo and offer to teach a class. It is a way to both pass on and deepen our own knowledge of the true faith of Jesus Christ necessary to save our souls. The clean-up portion of Dillon Hall is completed. However, no one can go downstairs until all the work of retiling, waxing and re-carpeting the floors is completed. This work should be done in another couple of weeks.

St. Robert Bellarmine, Patron Saint of Catechists

I wish to thank everyone for adjusting to the new Mass schedule. Since we have fewer Masses, it is nice to see more people at the Masses that we do have. I hope it will foster parish unity in our worship. Occasionally someone will ask about why I say Mass facing the tabernacle and crucifix. Before starting to say Mass ad orientem I wrote several columns on it. So I will cite two quotes from Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI (then Cardinal Ratzinger) from his book The Spirit of the Liturgy, “Despite all the variations in practice that have taken place far into the second millenium, one thing has remained clear for the whole of Christendom: praying toward the east is a tradition that goes back to the beginning. (pg. 75) The turning of the priest toward the people has turned the community into a self-enclosed circle. In its outward form, it no longer opens out on what lies ahead and above, but is closed in on itself. The common turning to-ward the east was not a "celebration toward the wall"; it did not mean that the priest "had his back to the peo-ple": the priest himself was not regarded as so important. For just as the congregation in the synagogue looked together toward Jerusalem, so in the Christian liturgy the congregation looked together "toward the Lord".... They did not close themselves into a circle; they did not gaze at one another; but as the pilgrim People of God they set off for the Oriens, for the Christ who comes to meet us.... [A]common turning to the east during the Eucharistic Prayer remains essential. This is not a case of something accidental, but of what is essential. Look-ing at the priest has no importance. What matters is looking together at the Lord.” (pp. 80-81) Cardinal Robert Sarah, prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, made the following comments during the keynote opening address of the Sacra Liturgia conference in London from July 5 to 8, 2016. “It is legitimate and conforms to the letter and the spirit of the Council. In my capacity as the prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, I continue to remind all that the cele-bration toward the East (versus orientem) is authorized by the rubrics of the missal, which specify the mo-ments when the celebrant must turn toward the people. A particular authorization is, therefore, not needed to celebrate Mass facing the Lord. Thus, in an article published by L’Osservatore Romano June 12, 2015, I pro-posed that the priests and the faithful turn toward the East at least during the Penitential Rite, during the sing-ing of the Gloria, during the Propers and during the Eucharistic Prayer.” In Jesus and Mary, Fr. Frank Samoylo

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THIS WEEK’S EVENTS

~ Rosary Recitation ~ Tuesday-Saturday: 8:00 a.m. ~ Divine Mercy Chaplet ~ Monday-Friday: 9:30 a.m.

Adoration ~ Monday, 7:00 p.m. Religious Ed ~ Monday, 7:00 p.m. Knights of Columbus Council ~ Monday, 7:30 p.m. Divine Mercy ~ Friday, 3:00 p.m. Religious Ed ~ Saturday, 8:50 a.m. Religious Ed ~ Sunday, 10:00 a.m.

FORMED Not on FORMED yet?Go to stcolumba-nus.formed.org. Click Register, then enter your name, e-mail address and desired password. You are now registered to enjoy the free parish subscription which gives you 24/7 access to over 300 quality Catholic on line programs, 99+ movies, 101+ audios, & 98+ EBooks. This week we celebrate the Feast of St. Matthew, Apostle and Evangelist. Study Lectio: Evangelization or watch Lost Gospels or False Gos-pels. You can also listen to the audio, The Gospel of Matthew or Proclaiming the Kingdom.

FAMILY DAY MAKING EVERY DAY SPECIAL

Family Day - Making Every Day Special is the Na-

tional Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse’s

initiative to promote simple everyday things par-

ents can do to build a strong, healthy relationship

with their kids that prevents future drug use. Fami-

ly Day will be celebrated nationwide on Monday,

September 24, 2018. To learn more about Family

Day visit www.CASAFamilyDay.org You can

also find Family Day on Facebook and Twitter.

HEALING WEEKEND

Beginning Experience of the Hudson Valley is

offering a healing weekend from October 5 to 7 at

the St. Lawrence Friary in Beacon, NY. This invi-

tation is open to men and women of all ages who

have suffered the loss of a spouse through death,

divorce, or separation. It is a time to heal and a

time to begin anew. Reservations are required.

For information call Margaret at 845-383-1746 or

Denise at 845-325-3147.