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SACRAMENT OF PENANCE Saturdays: Msgr. Ryan Hall - 4:00 p.m. to 4:45 p.m.
Also by appointment
SACRAMENT OF MATRIMONY The Church provides certain times and preparation for wed-
dings. Please contact the Rectory at least six months in ad-
vance 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 Bap-
tism. Godparent Pre-Requisites: Godparents must be practic-
ing 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 in-
vited 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
Bob Boeshore Lillian Boeshore
Kathleen Capuano Barbara Coe
Rebekah Cole Kevin Cronin Paul Cronin
John Damiano Linda De Stio
John Paul DiNonno James Dougherty
Eric DuBois Natalie Finamore
Noel Glen Kamlesh Gupta
Ida Kelly Christine Kenney
Maria Kim Douglas Knehr
Anne Krukowski Frank Krukowski
Richard Malon Jonathan Mannina Stuey Manzione
Tom McCormack Brendan Miles Freida Navarro Victoria Oxer
Justin Paradine Marion Prendergast
Jenna Reggio Anna Sambucci Elizabeth Stein
Charles Strecker Clotida Vecchione Jacqueline Verde
Anne Wright Mary Wybaillie
PLEASE PRAY FOR THE SICK
Sunday, December 13: THIRD SUNDAY OF ADVENT
7:30 a.m. People of the Parish
9:00 a.m. Charles Zollo
by his Daughter, Joanne Zollo
11:00 a.m. Jeffrey Hess
by Carol Haff
The Shanahan Family
by Family
Alberico Tansiongco, Jr. and the
deceased members of the Malabanan
and Tansiongco Family
by Dennis and Shirley
Tansiongco
12:15 p.m. Deceased members of the Muller and
McNichol Families
by Lorraine Muller
Monday, December 14: Saints John of the Cross,
Priest and Doctor of the Church
9:00 a.m. Nelson and Clara LaBoe
by the Lau Family
Tuesday, December 15: Advent Weekday
9:00 a.m. Beatrice Vogt
by her Family
Wednesday, December 16: Advent Weekday
9:00 a.m. Paul Echuryan
by Joe and Gina Tumminello
Thursday, December 17: Late Advent Weekday
9:00 a.m. Ellie Irish
by the Combs Family
Friday, December 18: Late Advent Weekday
9:00 a.m. Christian Ardito
by Timothy Cronin
Saturday, December 19: Late Advent Weekday
5:00 p.m. Mary and Carmin Dellavecchia
by Linda and Charles
Dellavecchia
Sunday, December 20: FOURTH SUNDAY OF
ADVENT
7:30 a.m. Frank Castiglione
by the Dussel Family
9:00 a.m. Thomas Maniscalco
by his Children
11:00 a.m. Frances and Rocco Belfiore
by their Daughter-in-law
Pasqulina and Rocco Calo
by their Daughter, Helen
Edith Monteserrato
by her Family
12:15 p.m. People of the Parish
I Mary Kate Sheehan and Daniel Edward Grabher
both of St. Mary’s, Roslyn
WEDDING BANNS
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READINGS FOR SUNDAY, DECEMBER 13, 2020
THIRD SUNDAY OF ADVENT
First Reading: Isaiah 61:1-2a
Second Reading: Isaiah 61:1-2a, 10-11
Gospel: Mark 1:1-8
FOCUS: Advent is a season of waiting in
joyful hope for the coming of the Lord.
Gaudete Sunday affirms the value of rejoicing and gives
reasons for our rejoicing: God has given hope to his people
waiting for redemption. We wait with rejoicing for what
God has already accomplished and will yet accomplish
through Christ.
LITURGY OF THE WORD:
In the first reading, Isaiah rejoices as he brings glad tidings
of God’s vindication for his people. In the second reading,
Paul encourages rejoicing as God prepares his people for
the return of the Lord. In the Gospel, John testifies to the
light and cries out in the desert to make straight the way of
the Lord.
Readings for nest week, December 20: Fourth Sunday of
Advent: 2 Samuel 7:1-5, 8b-12, 14a, 16, Romans 16:25-27, Luke 1:26-38
From Liturgical Commission Publishing, Lansing, MI
FOSTERING STEWARDSHIP AS A WAY OF LIFE
PARISH SACRIFICIAL GIVING
This week, be mindful of all the blessings in your life.
When you pray this week, thank God for something
different each day.
Parish Sacrificial Giving Summary
Thank you for your continued sacrificial gifts to St.
Mary’s.
Sunday Offertory December 5/6 $8,172.00*
Same Week Last Year $8,566.00*
Mass Attendance for December 5/6 315**
Same Week Last Year 893
*Does not include Faith Direct
**Mass Attendance at 50% capacity under Covid19
guidelines
A note of thanks to all the parishioners who, despite
the present circumstances, continue to send in their
contributions for the support of St. Mary’s. Your
generosity, while not surprising, is greatly appreci-
ated.
Besides the upkeep of the Church we would like to
add a note of gratitude to those parishioners who
have given so generously to our Human Concerns
Ministry. Your goodness has contributed
greatly to alleviating the needs of our neighbors.
Thank You!
Fr. Valentine
Celebrants for the Weekend of
December 19/20:
Celebrants* Lectors
Sat
5:00 Fr. Valentine P. Kirk
Sun 7:30
Fr. Lauder N. Toal
9:00 Fr. Valentine J. Finnegan
11:00 Fr. Valentine L. Lofaro
* Subject to last minute changes.
Fr. Lauder’s Catholic Novel
Fr. Lauder’s Series of 50 lectures on the Catholic Novel, each 15 minutes long, are available on You-
Tube
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THE PASTOR’S PAGE
Father, I feel so beaten down; everything seems to be going wrong. Why does God let these things
keep happening to me? I pray, but he doesn’t respond. Have I failed even there? I think I’m losing my
faith.
Dear Friends:
If this sounds familiar, you’re in good company. Many individuals have expressed similar experiences
to me over the years, but perhaps never so frequently as over the past nine months with the onslaught
of the pandemic. Physical suffering is bad enough: being a “baby,” I have virtually no threshold for
pain, and would complain—endlessly—were I subject to chronic illness. God has perhaps been
merciful to the medical profession in that it hasn’t had to deal with me too frequently. Yet there is
another kind of pain, one which may or may not be accompanied by injury or illness. A crushing sense
of isolation may also come from emotional or psychological distress, financial problems, rejection by
loved ones, and perhaps most cruelly, “spiritual desolation”: the impression that God has deserted one.
Not for nothing does Jesus cry out from the cross: “My God, my God, why have you abandoned me?”
This week, the Church celebrates the feast of St. John of the Cross (1542-1591) the Spanish Carmelite
priest who gave heroic example to the spiritual life, reformed religious observance, was named the
Mystical Doctor of the Church and, along the way, set the standard of beauty for modern Spanish in a
way only rivaled by Cervantes decades later. Sounds great, right?
Truth be told, this is only half the story: the “sunny” half. Friar John underwent all of the tribulations I
mention above: born into poverty, in a family looked down upon because of its Jewish heritage, and
rejected—imprisoned!—by his religious community for daring to lead a more austere life in imitation
of our Lord. He also battled physical illness, no doubt by the near starvation deliberately imposed
upon him by his “brothers in Christ.” Even his mystical visions were derided by those who thought
him mad. Anyone else may rightly have become embittered by such things. On the contrary, the same
forces seem to have catapulted John to the very heights of the spiritual life. The same could be said of
his friend and mentor, St. Teresa of Avila, who convinced John to reform their order which had
become too comfortable. What for others would be an adversary to friendship with God—suffering—
became an ally, even a kind of “friend.” As best I can follow John’s counterintuitive logic, it works
this way: our attachment to things—even good things—keeps us bound in spiritual chains.
Suffering—of whatever kind—may, if we allow it, free us from our desire for things. Such freedom is
at the heart of genuine love. John writes: “Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great
detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.” Hence, the Cross is “crucial” to loving correctly, to
union with the divine. Having thus extinguished desire for anything but God, St. John sets out on his
spiritual journey in the classic work, The Dark Night of the Soul:
On a dark night, Kindled in love with yearnings
—oh, happy chance!—
I went forth without being observed,
My house being now at rest.
Faithfully,
Fr. Valentine
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Saint Mary Religious Education
Advent Project 2020
Hance Family Foundation
TOY DRIVE
This year’s Advent project we are asking for a donation of an unwrapped toy
for the Hance Family Foundation. These toys will be hand distributed to
poverty-stricken kids in New York area through the Hance Family Foundation
in memory of three beautiful angels – Emma, Alyson and Kate (their
daughters they lost on July 26, 2009). They will be handed out to children
who need them most; to families that are struggling and are not able to
provide a Christmas for their children.
Please bring your toy donation to St. Mary’s Religious Education office
at 440 Round Hill Road, Roslyn Heights by Wed., Dec. 16th please call the
office 516-621-6798 to arrange drop off.
Have a Blessed Advent and Christmas.
Mrs. Nora Toal
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ADVENT GIVING TREE
The Human Concerns
M i n i s t r y i n v i t e s a l l
parishioners to help families
celebrate Christmas.
Each year we find the need
for more gift certificates. Gift certificates can
be purchased in the amount of $5, $ 10, $15,
$20, $25. etc. and obtained at Target, T.J.
Maxx, etc.
The Giving Trees are set up in the Church
and Msgr. Ryan Hall. Please attach the gift
tag to the wrapped packages and return the
gift under the tree no later than Sunday,
December 13th or before. If anyone would
like to take a family please call Elsie at
626-1097
Thank you for your generosity.
HUMAN CONCERNS MINISTRY
FOOD CERTIFICATES FOR CHRISTMAS
For Christmas we would like to give
purchase power to those in need so that
they can buy the goodies they’d enjoy
for Christmas dinner. You can help by
purchasing food certificates from Stop
and Shop or other food stores, in the amount of $10 or
$20 and bring or mail them to the Human Concerns Of-
fice. The certificates will be given out with the presents.
If you would like to make a monetary donation, please
make your check payable to ST. MARY’S CHURCH,
with Human Concerns written on the memo line, and
place it in the collection basket at Mass.
CHRISTMAS FLOWERS
AND GREENS
St. Mary’s has the custom of a Flower Fund to
provide flowers for the altar and sanctuary in
the Church and Msgr. Ryan Hall at Christmas.
If you wish to make a donation to our
Christmas Flowers and Greens in memory of
a loved one, please return your envelope
to the Rectory or place it in the
collection basket. There are
extra envelopes available at the
doors of the Church and Hall.
St Mary’s Would Like to thank the following
Knights for their help assembling the Creche for the
2020 Christmas Season: Grand Knight Ed Escoffier,
Jim Stalarow, Bill Danielson, Phil Kirk, Jim Mozer,
Carl, Ring, John Little, John Dussel, Dan Garcia and
our Pastor Father Tim Valentine.
REMEMBERING THOSE WHO SERVE
LCpl Caitlin Lyons LT Dennis Mackin
Cpl Tommy Mozer SGT Julio Ortiz II
LCpl Jonathan Peres
GSGT Jonathan Porto
LT James Raphael
PVT Michael Starczewski
SGT Luke Whitting
CAPT Brendan Echausse
COL Daniel Friend
SGT Joseph M. Friend
LCdr Christian R. Foschi
LT. Daniel Grabher
PFC Steven Hyyti
CAPT David Jacobs
SK1 John D. Klick
PFC Michael P. Lanciki
MAJOR Eric W. Lipp
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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Processional Hymn O Come, O Come
Emmanuel
Responsorial Psalm
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Offertory Hymn
Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence
Communion Hymn
Creator of the Stars of Night
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Recessional Hymn
O Come, Divine Messiah
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RETIREMENT FUND FOR RELIGIOUS COLLECTION
This weekend, December 12/13, we will take up the annual Diocesan Retirement Fund for Religious
collection.
Support the Retirement Fund for Religious. A donor writes, “Your flyer touched my heart--seeing the
retired religious, such memories surfaced.” Do you remember the sisters, brothers, or religious order
priests who made a positive difference in your life? Today many are elderly and need assistance. Their
religious communities struggle to meet retirement needs while continuing to serve the People of God. Please
give to next week’s collection.
CHRISTMAS MASS SCHEDULE:
CONFESSIONS
Each Saturday
4:00 PM - 4:45 PM - Msgr. Ryan Hall
MASSES
Thursday, December 24th - Christmas Eve
4:00 PM - Msgr. Ryan Hall
6:00 PM - Msgr. Ryan Hall
10:00 PM- Church(in lieu of Midnight)
(Pre Mass Program Beginning at 9:45 PM)
Friday, December 25th - Christmas Day
7:30 AM - Church
9:00 AM - Church
11:00 AM - Msgr. Ryan Hall
12:15 PM - Msgr. Ryan Hall
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St. Mary’s Church Financial Report
Comparative Financial Reports for the Years Ended: 8/31/2019 8/31/2020
Revenue
Regular Collections (Including Sundays, Christmas and Easter) $ 617,595 $ 521,916
Fund Raising (net of expenses) 30,819 25,429
Parish Programs (Religious Education, Outreach) 31,206 37,055
Auxiliary Revenue (School, Convent Rent, Catholic Ministries Appeal Re-bate) 287,420 186,592
Special Collections on Behalf of Others (pass through - see below) 27,140 27,007
Non-Operating Revenue: Fidelity Insurance Claim 4,928 -
: Bank Interest 268 161
Total Revenue 999,376 798,160
Expenditures
Salaries, Liturgy and Music Ministry Payments $ 239,234 $ 295,515
Fringe Benefits (Medical, Retirement Fund) 91,866 77,923
Parish Programs (Religious Education, Outreach) 24,250 16,665
Subsidy to Regional School (15% of our regular collection) 94,316 80,288
Office Expenses & Printing 83,892 56,050
Auxiliary Expenditures: Diocesan Assessment - 8% of our regular collec-tions sent to Rockville Centre for the running of the Chancery Office, dona-tions to charity, missalettes & liturgical expenses, LI Catholic and insurance premiums sent to the Diocese) 109,691 80,407
Rectory Office/Household Expenses 2,901 13,599
Special Collections of Behalf of Others (pass through - see above) 27,140 27,472
Utilities & Maintenance 276,350 216,135
Capital Expenditures 16,035 136,984
Total Expenditures 965,675 1,001,038
Excess Revenue (Deficit) $ 33,701 $ (202,878)
A Summary of the Sacraments Celebrated at St. Mary's Church
2018/2019 2019/2020
Baptisms 45 32
First Communions 31 22
Confirmations 34 31
Marriages 9 8
Funeral Masses & Services 45 31
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