Church of St. Patrick in Armonk P.O. Box 6,

29 Cox Avenue, Armonk, N.Y. 10504 (914) 273-9724

24TH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME

SEPTEMBER 13, 2015

MASSES: SEPT. 12—SEPT. 20, 2015

Sat 9/12 9:00 5:30

Virginia Capossela (D) John Daly (D)

Sun 9/13 8:30 Laurette Provancher (D) 10:30 People of the Parish

12:00 Guy and Tina Scavone (D)

Mon 9/14 8:30 — Tue 9/15 8:30 — Wed 9/16 8:30 —

Thu 9/17 8:30 —

Fri 9/18 8:30 — Sat 9/19 9:00

5:30 — Lina Yanni (L)

Sun 9/20 8:30 Michael Walsh (D) 10:30 Michael Rocco (D) 12:00 People of the Parish

Calendar:

SUNDAY, September 13, 24TH SUNDAY IN ORDI-NARY TIME - Grandparents Day FOOD FIRST —each Sunday the food collected goes

to support a local food pantry. 11:30 Teen Life Meeting—Wallace Hall

Mon, Sept. 14 — The Exaltation of the Holy Cross

Tue, Sept. 15 — Our Lady of Sorrows

Contemplative Prayer Group: 9:30-10:30

Wed, Sept. 16 — SS. Cornelius and Cyprian

Thu, Sept. 17 — St. Robert Bellarmine

RC Women’s Retreat—9:00 –1:00

Fri, Sept. 18 — Weekday

Contemplative Prayer Group : 12:30-1:30 Sat, Sept. 19 — St. Januarius Confession: 4:30-5:15

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 25TH SUNDAY IN OR-DINARY TIME -

FOOD FIRST —each Sunday the food collected goes to support a local food pantry.

A Mass for Healing will be celebrated at Holy Rosary Church, Hawthorne, NY on Mon. Sept. 21, 2015 at 7:30 p.m.. Fr. Martin Njenga will be celebrant. This is an opportunity to bring your spiritual and physical needs to the Lord. Family Life + Respect Life –Do you know someone who is carrying the grief of a past abortion? Hope and healing are possible. Visit the Family Life/Respect Life Office—Project Rachel website at http://nyfamilylife.org/project-rachel where you can find details about the next “Day of Prayer and Healing” (Saturday, Oct. 24th). For confidential registration to this event , call the Sisters of Life at (866)575-0075 (toll free) or email hopeandhealing@sistersoflife.org. 3rd Annual St. Patrick’s Golf Outing—September 28 at Whippoorwill Country Club. Additional golfers and advertisers welcome. Contact parish office if interested.

September 5-6: $3,715 in 76 envelopes ParishPay for August was $9,707.00

Please consider using Parish Pay Thank you for your generosity

40 Days for Life—Sept. 23-Nov. 1, 2015 “40 days for Life” campaign is a peaceful highly-focused, non-denominational initiative that focuses on 40 days of prayer and fasting, peaceful vigil at abortion facilities and grassroots educational outreach with the goal of protect-ing mothers and their children from abortion. To learn more visit: www.40daysforlife.com. White Plains contact is Gerald Yeung 914-837-7008 broger8@gmail.com. Pre-Sales Announcement—Terry Sweeney from Litur-gical Publications will be in our office the week of Sept. 14th working on securing new ads for the advertisement section of our bulletin. Please consider purchasing an ad. Ads make our bulletin successful, and you attract custom-ers. Ads can be purchased for a business, a family, a char-ity, In Memory of a Loved One, or to support the church or a community service organization. If you would like to run an ad or would like more information, please call Ter-ry before his visit at (248)877-7769 or via email tsweeney@4lpi.com.

Mass Intentions A question regarding the purpose of Mass intentions came to my attention and I thought I might explain the meaning of having a Mass said for a particular individual. What is the intention of the Mass? The intention of the Mass refers to what we are praying that the fruits of the Mass be applied to. Since the Mass is none other than the perpetuation of the Sacrifice of the Cross, the fruits of the Mass are the fruits of the Sacrifice of Christ upon the Cross. Obviously the fruits are most fundamentally our salvation, but most abundantly an infinite “well” of grace. The Mass is the primary font from which we drink of this “well spring” of grace. All the sacraments draw from this well spring for their efficacy of grace in our life. It needs to be stated very clearly that Christ offered Himself upon the cross for the intentions of all and offers all suffi-cient grace for their salvation. Why then a particular intention? Offering the Mass for a partic-ular intention belongs to the authority of the Church to whom Christ has entrusted this infinite well spring of grace. As in the case of indulgences (see C.C.C. # 1471-1479) the Church, “by virtue of the power of binding and loosing granted her by Christ Jesus, intervenes in favor of individual Christians and opens for them the treasury of the merits of Christ and the saints.” Thus, although the Mass is offered for all, we can ask that the merits of Christ and the saints be applied to an individual or group of individuals for a particular intention. I like to use the anal-ogy of a body. If my toe is infected and I am ill and I take medicine to heal my toe, the whole body is helped as well. Thus it is a good and holy thing to ask that the Mass be offered for a particular intention but at the same time the whole of the Mystical Body of Christ benefits. The Mass can be offered for the living and the dead and also for intentions not specific to per-sons such as for peace or justice.

The Great Adventure: A Journey through the Bible - Acts of the Apostles Two years ago I began a bible study based on a DVD series published by Ascension press and presented by Jeff Cavins called The Great Adventure: A Journey through the Bible. The first year was the Bible Timeline which was a 24 session overview of salvation history as presented in the Old and New Testament. The second year was a 24 session journey through the Gospel of St. Matthew. This year I would like to continue the series and with a 20 session journey through the Acts of the Apostles. In the past I have had this on Tuesday night. However we will be having another bible study: Walking with Purpose on Tuesday mornings. Thus, I will move my bible study to Thursday night at 7:00 – 8:30 pm in Wallace Hall. While having par-ticipated in the previous bible studies would be helpful, they are in no way necessary to do this study of the Acts of the Apostles. The cost will be $35 and the first session will be Thursday, October 8th. Registration can be done on our website or you may us a registration form at each of the entrances of the church. In Jesus and Mary,

CHURCH NAME AND ADDRESS Church of St. Patrick #308179 29 Cox Avenue Armonk, NY 10504 TELEPHONE 914 273-9724 CONTACT PERSON Fr. Galens SOFTWARE MSPublisher 2013 Adobe Acrobat 11 Windows 7 Professional PRINTER Brother HL 5250 DN TRANSMISSION TIME Wednesday 9:00 SUNDAY DATE OF PUBLICATION September 13, 2015AD NUMBER OF PAGES SENT 1 through 4 SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS