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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, September 1: TWENTY-SECOND SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME 7:30 a.m. People of the Parish 9:00 a.m. Stephen Yadvish by Genevieve & Jonna DeBlasio 11:00 a.m. Ann DiPasquale-1st Anniversary by Phyllis & Andrew For the Intentions of Tainesha & Gladys Govin by Gladys Govin Madeline E. Pecquex by the Murphy Family Ida Samberg by her Daughter

Monday, September 2: Weekday 9:00 a.m. Norma Lucarelli by Michael Lucarelli

Tuesday, September 3: Saint Gregory the Great, Pope and Doctor of the Church 9:00 a.m. Edward Cleary by Dolores & Richard O’Hara

Wednesday, September 4: Weekday 9:00 a.m. Brendan Cronin by Patti & Fred

Thursday, September 5: Weekday 9:00 a.m. Ann Sparozic by the Cerrito Family

Friday, September 6: First Friday; Weekday 9:00 a.m. Daniel Reilly by the DePietro Family

Saturday, September 7: First Saturday; Weekday 9:00 a.m. Roberto Crispino by the Nardine Family 5:00 p.m. Linda M. Fahrer by John & Bridget Mahoney Evelyn Kern by the Deluca Family Maryann Scotti by Gary & Ester Gallo Sr. Eileen Shanahan & Sr. Agatha Shanahan by Family

Sunday, September 8: TWENTY-THIRD SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME 7:30 a.m. People of the Parish 9:00 a.m. Thomas Maniscalco by his Children 11:00 a.m. Joseph Galea by Lina & Klarisa Galea Isabel Herrera by John & Theresa Nardine Paul Saitta & Jerry Cifarelli by Dolores & Richard O’Hara Philip Tiberio, Jr. by Kate Baker 12:15 p.m. Ryan J. Powell by Lorraine & Larry Porto

Josephine Banno Bob Boeshore

Lillian Boeshore Kathleen Capuano Joseph Carbonaro

Barbara Coe Rebekah Cole Kevin Cronin Paul Cronin

Linda De Stio John Paul DiNonno

Eric DuBois Natalie Finamore

Julia Green Pasqua Grippo

Hazel Hill Russell Hill

Christine Kenney Douglas Knehr

Anne Krukowski Frank Krukowski

Richard Malon Jonathan Mannina Stuey Manzione

Tom McCormack Brendan Miles Dieter Nagel

Freida Navarro Victoria Oxer Jenna Reggio Trevor Rogers

Anna Sambucci Charles Strecker

Elizabeth Sympson Clotida Vecchione Jacqueline Verde

Anne Wright Mary Wybaillie

PLEASE PRAY FOR THE SICK

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READINGS FOR SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 2019 TWENTY-SECOND SUNDAY IN

ORDINARY TIME

First Reading: Sirach 3:17-18, 20, 28-29 Second Reading: Hebrews 12:18-19, 22-24a

Gospel: Luke 14:1, 7-14

FOCUS: Everyone who humbles himself will be

exalted.

Baptism is our invitation to the eternal banquet of the

kingdom. But like all invitations, it comes with an RSVP.

Our response is found in the way we live our lives, in our

gratitude for all that God has done, in our desire to serve

God by serving others, and in our life of prayer and

worship.

LITURGY OF THE WORD:

Sirach describes humility as the hallmark of those who

find favor with God. The Letter to the Hebrews reminds

the community that Jesus is the mediator of a new

covenant. In the Gospel, Jesus uses a parable to convey

the importance of humility for his disciples.

Readings for next week, September 8, Twenty-Third

Sunday in Ordinary Time: Wisdom 9:13-18b; Philemon

9-10, 12-17; Luke 14:25-33

From Liturgical Commission Publishing, Lansing, MI

PARISH SACRIFICIAL GIVING

In today’s readings, we learn a lesson about being humble.

Being a humble steward for God pleases Him. “My child,

conduct your affairs with humility, and you will be loved more

than a giver of gifts.”

Parish Sacrificial Giving Summary

Thank you for your continued sacrificial gifts to St.

Mary’s.

Sunday Offertory ~ August 24/25 $7,175.00*

Same Week Last Year $7,582.00*

Mass Attendance for August 24/25 804

Same Week Last Year 719

*Does not include Faith Direct

FOSTERING STEWARDSHIP AS A WAY OF LIFE

Faith Direct ~ August, 2019 $8,218.00

(4 Sundays at $2,054.50 per week)

Faith Direct ~ same month last year $8,888.00

(4 Sundays at $2,222.00 per week)

Lumen Christi Missal

Weekend of 31/September 1, 2019 Twenty-Second Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year C

Readings: Missal, p. 559

The Ordinary of the Mass begins on Page 804

In observance of Labor

Day, the Rectory Office

will be closed on

Monday, September 2nd.

There will be a 9:00 AM Mass.

Celebrants for the Weekend of

September 7/8

Celebrants* Lectors

Extraordinary

Ministers of

Holy

Communion

Altar

Servers

Sat 5:00

Fr. Valentine

Sun.

7:30 Fr. Valentine

9:00 Fr. Valentine

11:00 Fr. Lauder

12:15 Fr. Lauder

* Subject to last minute changes.

Schedule

not

available

as of

printing

deadline.

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Dear Friends:

With the Labor Day weekend, we mark the unofficial end of summer. Barbecues, friends and family, a

day at the beach, cool, crisp weather perfect for sleeping, and perhaps fireworks at night: all of these

help us remember the joys of vacation, even as we prepare for the return to work. We look forward with

great expectation to the new school year, the demands of family and professional life, and—as your

pastor, this is my special concern—our parish life here at St. Mary’s.

The balance between work and leisure has not only been a practical concern for most of my adult life, as

it is for anyone else. It has also been an intellectual one for me as a priest and as a student of philosophy.

Aristotle writes (in the Nichomachean Ethics): “happiness seems to consist in leisure, because we labor

in order to have leisure.” Amen, amen! My friends have always found it amusing when I describe myself

as a “man of leisure.” Leisure, of course, does not mean laziness or idleness or sloth. It means real

activity that is valuable for its own sake. The life of the mind, the joy of games and athletic competition,

the arts: all of these give meaning and purpose to human life. Indeed, Aristotle’s word for leisure—

σχολῇ, that is, skole—is the Greek term from which we get the word “school.” Parents, can you imagine

asking your children after their first classes, “So, dear, how was your first week of leisure”? What kind

of reaction would you expect? Sad, isn’t it, when we fail to associate study with the joyful attainment of

knowledge, truth, and wisdom. These things are valuable, not just when we “get an A,” or are accepted

into an Ivy League university, or score a six-figure job; those things will pass. The acquisition of

wisdom, however, is valuable because it makes human life better, richer, more worthwhile, and it

remains with us forever. Indeed, from the Catholic perspective, the leisure activity par excellence—

activity for its own sake—is the worship of almighty God.

That said, it is also true that work is the means by which human beings attain these higher goods. St.

Thomas Aquinas calls work a bonum arduum, a noble and worthwhile effort, with a dignity and

significance all its own. In his profound meditation on work, Laborem Exercens, Pope John Paul II

reminds us that work is uniquely suited to human nature. Through it, a person not only transforms the

environment, but “he also achieves fulfillment as a human being and indeed, in a sense, becomes ‘more a

human being.’” History teaches us that work can be misunderstood and misused, diminishing human

dignity as simply a means of production, and not as a spiritual end to be cherished and cultivated. Work,

like any habit, must have as its goal the perfection and happiness of the person who undertakes it, in

which case it results in moral excellence.

In choosing the cover art for today’s bulletin, I was torn between two beautiful images of Our Lady at

work, but ultimately thought: Why choose? Both depict the Blessed Mother performing corporal and

spiritual works of mercy: the first, knitting the “seamless garment” (Jn. 19:23) her Divine Son would

wear to the cross; the second, teaching the Boy Jesus to read. These works remind us Catholics that the

body and the soul are sanctified by Christ, and that care for both shows due reverence for the human

condition he assumed—and saved.

Faithfully,

Fr. Valentine

THE PASTOR’S PAGE

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III Robert Michael Snell, Holy Spirit, New Hyde

Park, NY and

Jennifer Marie Stoller, St. Mary’s Roslyn, NY

WEDDING BANNS

ST. MARY’S SCHEDULES

As the Summer is ending and we move into Fall, please note the following:

MASS: The 12:15 Mass at the Hall resumes on Sunday, September 8th.

RECTORY OFFICE HOURS: Beginning September 3rd we will resume our regular Rectory office hours:

Monday through Thursday from 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. and Friday from 9:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m. The Rectory office is closed on Saturday and Sunday.

BAPTISMS: September Baptisms have been moved to Sunday, September 15th at 1:30.

FIRST SATURDAY, September 7, 2019

Mass at 9:00 a.m. in honor of the Blessed Mother

Following Mass, recitation of the Holy Rosary,

followed by a meditation, and concluding with

the Litany of Loreto

FIRST SATURDAY MASS

Beans-canned

& dry

Canned Fruit

Cereal

Coffee

Cookies

Crackers

Jelly

Juice

Paper Goods

Pasta

Peanut Butter

Soups

Tuna Fish

HUMAN CONCERNS MINISTRY

FOOD PANTRY

The Human Concerns Food Pantry has a particular need

for the 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.

Registration is now open for St. Mary’s 2019-2020

Religious Education Program for all children who will

start first grade in September and all new families in our

parish.

Please call Mrs. Nora Toal in the Religious Education

office (516 621-6798) for an appointment to register your

child for the program. A copy of your child’s Baptismal

certificate is required at registration.

RELIGIOUS EDUCATION

THANK YOU!

Thank you to all our

Parishioners, and especially the

Korean Community, for their

generous donations of school supplies to the

Human Concerns Center. We are now fully-

supplied for the coming school year!

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The Office of Diaconate Formation will be conducting three information sessions for men and their wives:

If you and your wife would like to attend one of the meetings, call 631 423-0483 ext. 179 or e-mail diaconateformation@drvc.org.

Seminary of the Immaculate Conception

440 West Neck Road, Huntington, NY 11743

Are you discerning a vocation

to the Diaconate?

7:00 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 11 Friday, Sept. 13 and

Sunday, Sept. 15

Join us for our conference

Catholic Voices for the New Evangelization

Saturday, October 19, 2019

Kellenberg Memorial high School

1400 Glenn Curtiss Blvd.

Uniondale, NY

The conference will feature presentations

from Catholic Authors

Dr. Scott Hahn and

Jennifer Fulwiler

9 a.m. - 4 p.m.

(Concludes with Mass)

For details: Alex Basile at 516 292-0200 ext 342

or mrbasile@kellenberg.org

$25 includes lunch

Fr. Lauder Presents

The Catholic Novel & Friday Night Film Festival

The Catholic Novel Series - Rev.

Robert Lauder in collaboration with The

School of Evangelization will present

the “Catholic Novel” series for the Fall

of 2019. The series will begin on Monday, September

9, 2019 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: “58th Friday

Film Festival” beginning on Friday,

September 6, 2019 at 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.

CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY COLLECTION

The annual Diocesan collection for Catholic University will be taken up at all the Masses next weekend, September 7/8.

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.

CHURCH HANDICAPPED RAMP

There is a ramp for handicapped access at the

Church. It can be found off the parking lot, and

goes around to the back of the building. We

encourage you to use it if you have difficulty with

the front steps.

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A STUDENT’S PRAYER

A PARENT’S PRAYER FOR STUDENTS

Dear Lord,

As my children leave for school,

I pray that You will keep them in Your care.

Send Your Spirit to open their minds

to all that is true and beautiful and good.

Help them to see the gifts and talents

You have given them and to use them well.

Help them to grow in knowledge and wisdom.

Help them to be kind to others

and lead others be kind to them.

Give their teachers patience and understanding

and help them teach what is just and true.

Send Your angels to guide and guard my children

and to keep them from all harm.

Open their young hearts to Your presence

and enfold them in Your peace and protection.

Hold them in the palm of Your hand

and bring them home safely at day's end. Amen.

Dear Lord,

Help me to be the best student I can be.

Help me to study well and to study often,

especially when I don't feel like studying at all.

Help me to be honest when I'm tempted to cheat.

Help me to listen to my teachers and my coaches.

Help me to play fair and to play safely.

Help me to be kind to everyone at school

and especially to those whom others treat unkindly.

Help me to treat others as I would like them to treat me.

Help me to be a good friend to others.

Help me to help others who need my help.

Help me to do the best work I can do.

Help me to use all the gifts You have given me.

Help me to love and respect my parents.

Help me to trust in You, Lord, and in Your love for me.

Help me, Lord, I need You! Amen.

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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

WORLD WIDE MARRIAGE ENCOUNTER

Welcome All Marriage Encounter couples!

Come Join Us for a Day of Enrichment

Saturday, September 14, 2019

at The Shrine of Our Lady of the Island

258 Eastport-Manor Rd., Manorville.

The theme of this year’s enrichment is “Beloved” from the

Augustine Institute. No matter how long you have been

encountered, this event promises to be enjoyable. The day

begins at 8:30 a.m., with continental breakfast; Presentation

starts promptly at 9 a.m. The day concludes with the

Celebration of Mass about 4:00 p.m. Please bring your

own picnic lunch and something for the sharing table. $10

per couple will be collected to cover food and supplies. Be

sure to bring your dialogue books for the 10+10’s.

We look forward to seeing you no matter how long ago

you made your weekend. For further information or to

RSVP please call Chuck & Maria Reiss (631) 486-8607 or

Chuck.maria.reiss@wwwme.org.

Not Encountered? FALL in love again!! Go to

wwme.org and sign up for a weekend. It will change

your life!! The next weekends in our area are September

13-15 and November 8-10. Weekends are held at the

Seminary of the Immaculate Conception in Huntington.

Bereavement Counseling and Support Service

Fall, 2019 Schedule

General Bereavement Groups (meet weekly)

St. Bernard’s Parish, Levittown:

Thursdays, October 3-December 12

7:00 p.m. to 8:15 p.m.

St. Brigid’s Parish, Westbury:

Tuesdays, October 1-December 3

7:00 p.m. to 8:15 p.m.

Group for Bereaved Parents (Meets 1st & 3rd Monday

of the month):

St. Bernard’s Parish, Levittown

Mondays, September 16 - ongoing

7:00 p.m. to 8:15 p.m.

Group for survivors of Suicide (meets 2nd and 4th

Monday of the month)

St. Bernard’s Parish, Levittown

Mondays, September 9 - ongoing

7:00 p.m. to 8:15 p.m.

There is a one-time $25 registration fee for all groups.

Registration is required. For programs at St. Bernard’s,

call Sister Christine Sammons at 516 731-6074. For

programs at St. Brigid’s, contact Maria Piniero at 516

334-0021. Registration forms will be mailed home.

Visit www.empoweringthebereaved.com for updates on

all groups.

GIRL SCOUT PRAY AND PLAY DAY SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 2019

10:00 AM TO 2:30 PM

SHRINE OF OUR LADY OF THE ISLAND

EASTPORT , NEW YORK

Gather with Girl Scouts, (Daisies to Ambassadors),

for a day of prayer, handicrafts and fun.

Contact 516 678-5800, ext. 245 or

scouting@drvc.org

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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.