St. Margaret Mary Church Ocean Ave. & Oriental Blvd. Manhattan Beach NY Mass Schedule: Sunday: 11:00 AM Wednesday: 9:00 AM Email: stmarkbrooklyn@gmail.com Website: www.stmarkbrooklyn.org

St. Mark Church 2609 E 19th St. Brooklyn, NY 11235

Mass Schedule:

Saturday: 5:00 PM Vigil Mass Sunday: 8:00, 10:15 AM, 12:30 PM Weekdays: 8:30 AM Holy Days: 7;30 PM Vigil Mass 8:00, 10:00 AM Phone: 718-891-3100 Fax: 718-891-9677

“With God all things are possible”

Parish Office: 718-891-3100 Ms. Angela Scannapieco Ms. Jacqueline Biagioni St. Mark School: 718-332-9304 Mrs. Carol Donnelly, Principal Mrs. Lori Ryan, Secretary St. Mark Religious Education: 718-769-6311 Ms. Jo Ann Pino Youth Ministry Coordinator: 347-574-1828 Mr. Michael Davis St. Mark Choir: 646-319-0897 Mr. Jim Trainor, Director of Music St. Vincent De Paul Group: 718-891-0443 Mr. Tom Scalese, President Ms. Jean Hogan, Vice President Homebound Ministry: 718-332-2663 Ms. Maureen Genoversa, Coordinator Ministers of Hospitality: 718-891-3100 Mr. Tom Scalese Extraordinary Ministers of the Eucharist: 718-769-4514 Mrs. Geraldine Kubat, Coordinator Lectors: 718-743-5338 Ms. Stephanie Rizzo, Coordinator Rosary Society: Ms. Kathy Fackovec, President 718-934-7964 Mrs. Maria Mansuroglu, Vice President 718-332-3843 Golden Age Society: Mrs. Joan Belt, President 718-646-2176 Ms. Josephine Bonnano, Vice President 718-934-2650

Devotions: Miraculous Medal Novena every Wednesday after the 8:30 AM Mass Litany of the Sacred Heart every First Friday 8:20 AM Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament every First Friday from Noon to 3PM

Baptism: Fourth Sunday of each month at 2:00 PM. Required Baptism classes take place on the third Sunday of each month at 9:30 AM in the Rectory Conference Room. Call the Rectory during office hours to make an appointment with a priest two (2) months prior to the Baptism.

Marriage: Please make arrangements by calling the Rectory at least 6 months in advance. Please log on to www.pre-cana.org for complete information about marriage preparation in the diocese, according to diocesan regulations.

Anointing of the Sick: First Saturday of the month at the 8:30 AM Mass.

Confessions: Saturdays, 3:30 PM to 4:30 PM.

Appointment to see a Priest: If you desire an appointment to meet with a priest, please call the parish office. Office hours are Monday through Friday from 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM.

ST. MARK ROMAN CATHOLIC PARISH Pastor: Very Rev. Robert V. Mucci Parochial Vicar: Rev. Sergiy Emanuel Parochial Vicar: Rev. Michael Panicali In Residence: Rev. Joseph P. Quigley Deacon: Rev. Mr. Paul Morin In Residence: Rev. Joseph Zwosta

St. Mark Church

Saturday, June 2 5:00 PM Living & Deceased Members of the Chille & Cione Families

Sunday, June 3 Most Holy Body & Blood of Christ 8:00 AM The People of the Parish 10:15 AM Catherine Mercogliano 12:30 PM Gerard Gagliardi

Monday, June 4 8:30 AM Josephine Kunik (birthday)

Tuesday, June 5 St. Boniface 8:30 AM Victor & Mildred Mucci

Wednesday, June 6 St. Norbert 8:30 AM Theodore & Grace Mucci

Thursday, June 7 8:30 AM Martin & Signe Egeland

Friday, June 8 Sacred Heart of Jesus 8:30 AM Jack Marie Smith

Saturday, June 9 Immaculate Heart of Mary 8:30 AM Dr. Adolph Bartoli 5:00 PM Robert Caragher

St. Margaret Mary Church

Sunday, June 3 11:00 AM Ronald Danner

Wednesday, June 6 9:00 AM Frank & Teresa Vitanza

Sunday, June 10 11:00 AM Gaspare Pizzo

Miraculous Medal Novena Wednesday after the 9:00 AM Mass Homebound in Manhattan Beach: If you or someone you know would like to have a Eucharistic Minister visit and administer Holy Communion; please call Gilda at 718-769-1312. Also, please advise Gilda of any sick parishioner who wishes to be included in the Prayer of the Faithful at Sunday Mass.

June 3, 2018 Most Holy Body & Blood of Christ

The Blood of Christ is the source of the new and eternal covenant. This covenant is sealed by

Christ’s Blood mingling with our own.

Today’s Readings: Exodus 24:3-8 Psalm 116:13 Hebrews 9:11-15 Mark 14:12-16, 22-26

Gifts are available to honor a loved one, bread & wine, candles, flowers.

Please call the rectory for details.

St. Mark welcomes our Ukrainian & Russian speaking parishioners:

Mass in Ukrainian –1st Sunday of the Month There will NOT BE a mass in Russian on June 17

Please pray for the sick: Olivia Lopez, Tina Cook, Daniel Paluszek, Jimmy Grillo,

Lisa Lovbosco, Laura Durant, Hope Schwartz, Al Comodo, Georgette Scalese, Steven Lentini, Marie Giannotti,

Carissa D’Alba, Kimberly Palmo, Alfred DeMola, Walter Brady, Catherine Staren, Jennifer Costa, Kaitlyn Rose Bernhardt, Romilda Zambelli, John Angelo Buccheri, Raymond Fazio, Mark Aragona, Olivia LaSpina, Saul

Godinez, Maria Calise, Rachel Marin, Linda DeFrancesco, Joseph John Buccheri, Sally Frances

Buccheri, & Diane Camacho who is in need of a kidney donor: 718-284-0704.

Please join our Pro-Life group as we pray the rosary after daily Mass.

DEVOTIONS FOR THIS WEEK: The Sacred Heart of Jesus represents Christ's divine love for us. A human element of who Jesus is. The devo-tion especially emphasizes the com-passion and long-suffering of the heart of Christ towards humanity. The Sacred Heart of Jesus is not only radiant with love for us, but it is a wounded heart, encircled by thorns,

and pierced—the heart we tried to kill, a love we tried to extinguish. Devotion to the Immaculate Heart of Mary focuses on Mary’s love for God, her maternal love for her son, Jesus, and encourages us to imitate her humility, gratitude, obedience, and adoration. The roses surrounding Mary’s heart represent her sinlessness and purity, sweetness, and new life. The sword piercing the top of the heart represents her redemptive suf-fering as a “spiritual crucifixion.”

This weekend we celebrate the Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ, also known by its Latin name, Corpus Christi. This feast dates back to the year 1263 when a Eucharistic miracle was wit-nessed in the town of Bolsena, Italy. A priest named Peter of Prague, who was having problems believing in the real presence of Jesus in the Eucharist, was celebrating Mass. He had barely uttered the words of Jesus spoken at the consecration, “Take this, all of you, and eat of it, for this is my Body … Take this, all of you, and drink from it, for this is the chalice of my Blood …,” when real blood began to trickle from the consecrated host onto the white cloth called a corporal which is on the altar. He immediately went to see Pope Urban IV who was in the neighboring town of Orvieto at the time. The Pope ordered the host and corporal bearing the stains of blood to be brought to him. With archbishops, cardinals and other Church dignitaries in attendance, the Pope met the procession and, amid great pomp, had the relics placed in the cathedral, where they continue to be reverently enshrined and venerated to this very day. The next year Pope Urban IV issued a papal bull instituting the Solemnity of Corpus Christi, and instructed the great St. Thomas Aquinas to compose the liturgy and music for the feast, which continues to be celebrated with grand Eucharistic processions in Orvieto and Bolsena and around the world.

I cannot emphasize enough how important is our belief in the real presence of Jesus, his Body and Blood, Soul and Divinity, in the Eucharist. It is a belief which distinguishes us and sets us apart from many of our Christian brothers and sisters in the faith who view the Eucharist and the reception of Holy Communion to be just a symbol. But as the great Catholic writer Flannery O’Connor, when told by a well-meaning associate trying to make conversation at a party what a lovely symbol the Eucharist is, responded, “If it is only a symbol, then I say, to hell with it!”

No mere symbol, not just a remembrance, when a validly ordained priest calls down the Holy Spirit and, speaking in the person of Jesus, says the words of consecration at Mass, ordinary bread and wine becomes transformed into the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ. We know this because this is what Jesus said. Jesus is God, and what God says, is. As one of the great communicators and theologians of our day, Bishop Robert Barron, explains, words have power and can effect reality. He uses the example of a baseball umpire who, when he pronounces a runner to be out, whatever the players or fans might think, that runner is indeed out (or at least that was the case in the days before video replay). Bishop Barron also uses the analogy of a Police Officer who if, as a duly deputized officer of the law, says to a person, “You are under arrest,” that person is under arrest, no matter how much he or she might protest. That being the case, how much more can the words of God who said, “Let there be light,” and there was light, or who said to the paralytic, “stand, pick up you mat, and walk,” and the paralytic stood up and walked, turn ordinary bread and wine into his Body and Blood by saying, “This is my Body …This is my Blood.”

Although the bread continues to look and taste like bread and the wine continues to look and taste like wine, we believe that once the priest utters those words first spoken by Christ at the Last Supper during the consecration at Mass, those substances truly become at the deepest level of reality the Body and Blood of Christ. St. Thomas Aquinas called this miracle transubstantiation. That is why we must receive the Eucharist so reverently, reserve it in the tabernacle so securely, and purify the vessels which hold our Lord’s Body and Blood so carefully. That is why coming to Mass each Sunday is so important, so that nourished by Our Lord’s Body and Blood in Holy Communion, we too can be transformed.

– Fr. Bob

Pastor’s Column June 2-3, 2018 "Take it; this is my body."

Upcoming Events

Generations of Faith: # Donors Pledged Paid St. Mark 171 $626,122 $308,330 St. Margaret 17 $69,490 $31,953 Mary Final Annual Catholic Appeal 2017: THANK YOU! St. Mark St. Margaret Mary Goal: $40,125 $2,354 Received: $55,040 $6,655 Annual Catholic Appeal 2018: THANK YOU!! Goal: $40,125 $2,354 Pledged: $71,903 $8,238 Received: $47,883 $6,083

Sunday Collection: May 27, 2018 St. Mark Church 1st Collection: $2,774.00 2nd Collection: $858.00 Attendance: 541 Envelopes Returned: 122 St Margaret Mary Church 1st Collection: $444.00 2nd Collection: $85.00 Attendance: 48 Envelopes Returned: 9

Meets Thursday nights 7:00 in “The “Upper Room” St. Mark Academy

Use 18th St. entrance

Bishop Robert Barron’s Video Series Wednesday June 6th at 7PM The Lion’s Den

Michelangelo

Save the Date: Saturday, June 16th 8:30 to 4:00

Rosary for Life Retreat with Fr. Michael Resurrection Church Cost: $30.00

Lunch included. For info & registration form contact:

Wyn Powers 718-377-6920

IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD:

Parish Outing to MCU Park Friday, July 6th

Field Box seats in section 9 Tickets $15.00

Fireworks after the game. Everyone in our group receives a free

Brooklyn Cyclones Baseball Cap For info and reservations

please call the rectory 718-891-3100

Annual Lena Cymbrowitz Health Fair Sunday, June 24th 1:00 PM

Emmons Ave. & Sheepshead Bay Rd MOBILE MAMMOGRAPHY

FREE SCREENING MAMMOGRAM All insurance accepted copayments & deductibles waived.

Free for uninsured women 40 and older. An appointment is necessary call: 1-800-564-6868 Sponsored by Assemblyman Steven Cymbrowitz

Listening Sessions on Racism: Since the tragic & horrific events of Charlottesville, Virginia just one year ago, we have seen the effect &

impact that racism has had on our society. The Bishops of the United States have formed a committee to focus

& address the sin of racism. Here in the Diocese of Brooklyn, Bishop DiMarzio has formed a commission on Racism & Social Justice. The goal is to deal with social & religious problems that racism in all of its form presents to us. The commission would like to hear from all the faithful of the Diocese. We will be hosting two open listening sessions in Brooklyn &

Queens for all the faithful to attend. These sessions are meant to be an opportunity for us to share how racism

has impacted our parishes & the church as a whole. The sessions will be: Sat., June 16 at 11:00 am at St. Francis of Assisi/ St. Blaise, 319 Maple St.,

Brooklyn, 11225 and Sat. June 23 at 11:00 am at St. Clare School, 137-35 Brookville Blvd.,

Rosedale, 11422. All are invited.

Annual Diocesan Wedding Anniversary Celebration

June 9, 2018 with Bishop DiMarzio Immaculate Conception Center, Douglaston

All couples are invited to attend with their families & renew their wedding vows. To register:

Martha Hernandez 718-281-9540

Office of Faith Formation Office Hours:

Monday: 1 PM–5 PM Wednesday & Thursday:

9 AM—2PM 718-769-6311

religiouseducation1@verizon.net

***REGISTRATION FOR NEXT YEAR’S RELIGION CLASSES HAS BEGUN***

Registration forms were sent home on the weekend of May 20. Please remember your child’s faith formation is ongoing. Once they receive First Holy Communion does not mean they stop attending religion classes. There continuation of their faith formation is ongoing toward the Sacrament of Confirmation, which they receive in the 8th grade. Please contact Ms. Pino for more information at 718-769-6311.

ATTENTION -- Newly confirmed: Sunday, June 3 at the 10:15am mass we will celebrate the Rite of Sending - which is the last ceremony for the newly confirmed. Parents and sponsors please attend. Please bring your confirmation gowns to put on in church. Your will receive your certificate on this day.

THE LAST DAY OF CLASSES for Religious educa-tion is Sunday, June 10. After mass we will gather in the cafeteria for a farewell party. Also at this time,

PARENTS WILL HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO REGISTER THEIR CHILDREN FOR NEXT

YEAR IF THEY HAVE NOT DONE SO.

The end of the school year is rapidly approaching. There is still lots of

learning to do. Registration for our Summer Programs is also

underway. If your child’s last Progress Report indicated the need for

Summer School, it is most important that you register as soon as possible.

Congratulations to all our students who have brought in sponsorships for

our Sixth Annual Walk-a-thon. We have raised over $12,000.00 towards

our goal to purchase new cafeteria tables and chairs for our students.

Our Eighth Graders will be leaving us soon. Their last day of classes is

next Friday, June 8th and their Graduation Ceremony will be on Friday,

June 15th at 9:30 a.m. in the church.

ATTENTION : 6th, 7th, 8th graders : You are invited to join us in the Lion’s Den of St. Mark Academy

6:30-9:00 pm - Next mee ng - June 15th

ADULT VOLUNTEERS 18+ GREATLY NEEDED Michael Davis, Youth Minister 347-574-1828

APPRECIATION DAY FOR OUR DEANERY SATURDAY JUNE 9TH 9AM TO 2PM

ST. BERNARD For info & to reserve your spot:

Michael Davis 347-574-1828

St. Mark Alumni: Save the Date: HOMECOMING

Saturday November 3rd Please check out our website: smcaonthebay.org

Update your contact information & keep us informed of your news & happenings.