PARISH ADMINISTRATION Parish Bookkeeper, *Tara Dahill Program Manager, *Colleen Glazer Parish Secretary, *Catherine Jestice Parish Plant Manager, *Victor Zambrano PARISH ADVISORY COUNCILS Pastoral: Charles Casiano (Singles) Peter McGhee & Jeanne Dennison (Marrieds) Ramona Garcia (Spanish speakers) Carol Joyce (Seniors) Valentine de Villeneuve (Teenagers) Financial: Michael Donofrio, Vincent Pascal Norma Ytuarte, Sheila Mullan (Trustees) WORSHIP Acolytes, Kevin McKenna Devotions, Private, Adoration / Daily Evening Rosary, Ellen Valko Legion of Mary, Blanca Bulit Sagrado Corazon, Yolanda Pardo Lectors, Stephanie Miller Floral Decorations, Mia Kravitz Sacred Music, *Andrew Yeargin, Director Cantors,*Andrew Yeargin Contemporary Ensemble, Phelder St. Germain Misa in Espanol, *José (Cheito) Guevara Schola Cantorum, *Andrew Yeargin Sacristans,*Victor Zambrano III, James Hulak COMMUNITY BUILDING Bulletin, Parish Weekly, *Catherine Jestice Calendar, Master Parish, *Catherine Jestice Concert Series GUEST, *Andrew Yeargin PARISH, *Andrew Yeargin CRC (Contemporary Roman Catholics), James Hulak Scouting Programs, Bob Deaver Trinity Counters, JoAnne Pollio FORMATION / EDUCATION Adult Faith Formation, *Colleen Glazer Lectio Divina-Young Adults, *Fr. Gary Mead Christian Meditation, Donald Main RCIA (Christian Initiation), *Msgr. Sandi Religious Education,*Colleen Glazer OUTREACH Blood Drive, *Catherine Jestice Breakfast Line, *Colleen Glazer Food Pantry, *Colleen Glazer Guest Clergy Hospitality,*Msgr. Sandi Holy Trinity/Ascension Homeless Shelter, Mike Griffin Making All Things New (MATN), Kenneth Craig Twelve-Step Programs, *Catherine Jestice * indicates parish employee * * * * * * * *

Please keep our sick in your prayers: Lois Mazzitelli, Kate Concannon, John Muratori, Steve Manfredo, Marie DeTullio, Dianne Mastrorocco, Alice Mayer, Graziella Piciulo, Kelsey Kruse, Shannyn Craig, Karen Murphy, Anne Lia, Edward Haggerty, Keira Maloney, Antoinette Durso, Alexandra Leake, Ralph Esposito, Devinee Worrell, Gloria Frucht, Fr. Peter Colapietro, Augustine Waters, Regina & Joe Rywelski, Harry Wagner, Ruey Tzuen Lin, Bill McCarthy, Sharon Johnson, Adorjan Aszalos, Oscar Batista, Sr., Dennis Joseph, Mary Haggerty, Elizabeth Minicozzi, Helen Elsheikh, John Quigg, Christine Pawlakto, Maria Grace Uy, Jacob Tiger (14 years old) Names will remain on our prayer list for one month. If you would like us to carry a name longer, please contact the Rectory.

OCTOBER 15, 2017

Twenty-eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time

“The king said to him, ‘My friend, how is it that you came in here without a wedding garment?’ But he was reduced to silence.”

THIS WEEK AT HOLY TRINITY SUNDAY Religious Ed. – Pre-K-Grade 5 – Center – 10:30 AM Comunidad Coffee Hour – Center – 1:30-3:00 PM Italian Dinner Night – Center – 6:30 PM MONDAY DA Meeting – Rectory – 12:30 PM Rosary – Church – 5:10 PM Religious Ed.– Grades 6 & up – Center – 6:00-7:15 PM NA Meeting – Center – 7:30 PM Legion of Mary – Rectory– 7:30 PM TUESDAY Rosary – Church – 5:10 PM Lectio Divina (Spanish) – Rectory – 7:00 PM Christian Meditation – Rectory – 7:00 PM Fr. Gary YA Lectio Divina – Rectory – 7:30 PM WEDNESDAY Rosary – Church – 5:10 PM NA Meeting – Rectory – 5:30 PM 1st Eucharist Parents’ Meeting – Church – 7:00 PM R.C.I.A. – Rectory – 7:30 PM THURSDAY Al Anon Meeting – Rectory – 12:15 PM Rosary – Church – 5:10 PM Cub Scout & Boy Scout Troop 1 – Center – 7:00 PM AA Men’s Meeting – Rectory – 7:00 PM FRIDAY Rosary – Church – 5:10 PM AA Women’s Meeting – Rectory – 8:15 PM SATURDAY Baptism Preparation Class – Rectory – 10:00 AM Altar Server Training – Church – 10:00 AM * * * * * * * *

YOUR DONATIONS

Last week’s collection: $3,708.00 THANK YOU!

In response to the numerous requests from our parish-ioners, Holy Trinity will take up a special Disaster Relief Collection the weekend of Oct. 29th.

MASS INTENTIONS FOR THE WEEK / 10/14 SATURDAY 10/14 5:30 Ruben Rosa SUNDAY 10/15 7:30 HT Parishioners 9:30 Vincent Jennings 11:15 Robert Morini 12:30 Renée Elizabeth Kaplan & Marina & Angel Suárez Fernández 5:30 The poor whom we serve MONDAY 10/16 Hedwig/Margaret Mary Alacoque 9:00 World Peace 5:30 Care of God’s good earth

TUESDAY 10/17 Ignatius of Antioch, martyr 9:00 Our neighbors 5:30 Annette & Dennis Woods

WEDNESDAY 10/18 Luke, evangelist 9:00 Vincent Pascal (living) 5:30 Alfredo Moschella

THURSDAY 10/19 John de Brébuf & comps, martyrs 9:00 Seminarians/those in religious training 5:30 Religious Sisters & Brothers, living & deceased 7:00 Children of the parish FRIDAY 10/20 Paul of the Cross 9:00 Children of the parish 5:30 Elderly of the parish SATURDAY 10/21 9:00 Benefactors of the parish

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IMPORTANT! Parish Pay Online Donations

Our electronic “giving service”, Parish Pay, has been acquired by Liturgical Publications (LPI). It will become WE SHARE on October 19, 2017. ALL CURRENT, 150 PARISH PAY SUBSCRIB-ERS WILL AUTOMATICALLY BE TRANSFER-RED to the WE SHARE system on that date. We have been assured by the Archdiocese of New York that this process is very easy and very safe. All current Parish Pay subscribers will receive an e-mail from WE SHARE, notifying them of the change. The e-mail will include simple instructions for verifying your account information on the WE SHARE system. You will be asked to: log in to the site via the Parish Pay link on the home page of the Holy Trinity Church website [htcny.org] and follow the prompts to verify your account information. Please be on the lookout for the e-mail, and thank you for using this online system, which provides a steady stream of your (generous) donations throughout the year. What a parish!

* * * * * * * * A Word from Our Music Director

October marks both the 119th Anniversary of the founding of our parish as well as the 20th Anniversary of the installation of the Monsignor Thomas P. Leonard Létourneau pipe organ here at Holy Trinity. We are blessed to have one of the finest pipe organs in the northeastern U.S., and our beautiful organ has led us in song and prayer for the past two decades. The anniversary will be commemorated with special music at the 11:15 Mass this weekend. Please note: for those who wish to make a donation, you may do so at any time by simply putting a check in any collection or sending to the Church Office with “MUSIC” in the memo line.

Mission Sunday Collection We will have a second collection next week for World Missions Sunday, part of the Propagation of the Faith

Altar Server Practices Kevin Mc Kenna and Msgr. Sandi will continue the practices for boys and girls, Grade 5 through High School Seniors, who have decided to be Holy Trinity Acolytes (altar servers). We shall meet on every October Saturday at 10:00, and every October Sunday at 4:00 in the church. They must attend three sessions in no special order. Remaining practice dates are: 4:00 PM, Sunday afternoons, Oct 15, 22 10:00 AM, Saturday mornings, Oct 21, 28

Sophia, ChurchMouse Reporting unseen works of faith, hope and charity to uplift you.

Have you noticed … we are hearing on television, seeing online, and reading in print, about moral imperatives, moral leadership, moral respon-sibility, and even moral authority? How about that?! It’s been years since that powerful adjective was used so forcefully and earnestly, other than around the family table, and in churches, synagogues and mosques! See, when pushed against the wall by pervasive, irrational realities, most of us sense and desire something (dare we say, Someone) greater than us and our limited opinions. We’re onto something here! “Moral principles do not depend on a majority vote. Wrong is wrong, even if everybody is wrong. Right is right, even if nobody is right.” (Blessed [Bishop] Fulton J. Sheen

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+ The ABC’s of “Raising Kids Catholic – Pt. III +

By Bert Ghezzi Use the sacraments as a source of strength. Participating in the Sacraments brings the Holy Spirit into our daily lives. Value vocations and encourage them. The Lord may be in-viting one of our kids to be a priest, a sister, or a brother – or to serve Him in some other dedicated way. We should encourage our children to consider such service. Witness to your experience of God. Help your kids find a personal relationship with God by telling them about your own relationship. EXplore the truths of the faith. Study the faith not only for your own growth, but to be better prepared to pass on the faith to your children. Yield to the Holy Spirit. Yielding to the Spirit means doing what we can, but prayerfully depending on the Spirit to pro-duce the right outcome. We parents raise the sails. Then we let the breezes of the Spirit fill them and move things ahead. Of course there is no Z because we don’t know everything there is to know about raising our kids Catholic. But let’s pool our wisdom and help each other do a better job.

Pastor Away: This Week In a continuing effort to keep you informed, from Oct. 16th-20th, Monsignor Sandi and about 100 other Arch-diocesan pastors will meet at the Annual Pastors’ Convocation at the Breakers Hotel, Spring Lake, NJ.

“Los últimos serán primeros…”

Como el domingo anterior, con una pincelada magistral en forma de parábola, Jesús dibuja lo que ha sido la historia del Israel del Antiguo Testamento hasta el momento: el rechazo de unos (sumos sacerdotes, autoridades, ancianos del pueblo, escribas, fariseos, etc.) a la oferta salvadora de Dios (primero en sus mensajeros los profetas y luego en su propio Hijo) y la necesidad de Dios, de su salvación, de su poder y misericordia por parte de otros (los marginados, débiles, despreciados, pecadores, publicanos, adúlteras, prostitutas, mujeres, niños, enfermos, etc.). Por eso, frente al rechazo de los primeros, la invitación salvífica de Dios queda abierta a todos: buenos y malos, por todos los cruces de todos los caminos… La coyuntura histórica, social, política, económica y cultural que vivimos se caracteriza, entre otras facetas, por la lucha de grupos tradicionalmente marginados, postergados, relegados o minoritarios socialmente para ganar espacios en la sociedad y, aunque al respecto podemos constatar avances, al mismo tiempo continúan presentándose múltiples manifestaciones de discriminación, fanatismos, sectarismos, divisiones, violencia, estratificaciones, muros, odios, etc. entre los seres humanos que impiden la construcción evangélica de un mundo en fraternidad y paz. Por eso, el evangelio de hoy es una protesta y denuncia contra los que rechazan la construcción de un mundo de salvación para todos, en el que todos quepan, en el que todos tengan puesto en la mesa del banquete salvador que Dios nos ofrece en su Hijo y, al mismo tiempo, una propuesta y anuncio: “Dios quiere que todos los hombres se salven…” especialmente, los más necesitados del poder sanador y de la misericor-dia de Dios en Cristo. Porque “no necesitan de médico los sanos sino los enfermos…”, porque en el amor de Dios cabemos todos los hijos: los buenos y los malos, buenos y malos como somos todos, unas veces más trigo que cizaña y otras, más cizaña que trigo… Hoy preguntémonos: Con nuestras actitudes, hechos y palabras ¿qué tipo de mundo estamos ayudando a construir?, ¿un mundo donde caben todos? o ¿un mundo en el que unos tienen puestos de privilegio y otros quedan oprimidos, explotados, marginados, despreciados, excluidos?

Fuente: Blog del Rev. Mizael Roa: http://loshijosestanexentos.wordpress.com