August 5, 2012
Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Ex 16:2-4,12-15 Eph 4:17,20-24 Jn 6:24-35 (113)
“I declare and solemnly attest in the Lord that you must no longer live as the pagans do – their minds empty. That is not what you learned when you learned Christ! I am supposing, of course, that he has been preached and taught to you in accord with the truth that is in Jesus: namely that you must lay aside your former way of life and the old self, which deteriorates through illusion and desire, and acquire a fresh, spiritual way of thinking.”
With the hot, hazy, humid days of summer, we look for escapes - vacations at the shore with ocean breezes, the coolness of a mountain retreat with cool refreshing streams, or even the luxury of an air conditioned mall. We seek forms of relief. We seek refreshment.
St. Paul challenged the Christians of Ephesus, making sure they did not fall to complacency, or suffer certain dullness, but were to acquire a fresh spiritual way of thinking.
I ask myself if I have learned Christ, not just of Christ. Who is He for me today? Is He someone alive, directing and filling my life, or a figure of history who opened the way to the Father and little more? How different is my life because of the space I have created for Him.
Take time today to consider a fresh way to look at your faith. Can you make time to read the scriptures, pray a rosary, and make a visit to the Blessed Sacrament. Try something different so that the words of Paul will lead you to the person of Christ and not leave your mind empty.
HIS WORD TODAY by Rev. William J. Reilly
FOR OUR COLLECTIONThe collection for July 29nd was $4158.
Thank you.
We encourage you to enroll via the ParishPay website https://www.parishpay.com/ and click on the St Joseph West Village link. Use the paperless way to help our ministry.
PLEASE REMEMBER OUR PARISH IN YOUR WILL
No matter what the size of your estate, if you want to provide for relatives, friends and our Parish you will need a WILL. If you die without one, you lose control of the disposition of your assets. The state law in which you reside will tell your family where your money and property goes.
Naming our Parish as a charitable beneficiary in your Will is simple. Through careful review of this alternative you may save further income and estate taxes. For further information, you and/or your attorney may contact:
Director, Planned Gifts
The Archdiocese of New York
1011 First Avenue, SI400
New York, NY 10022
Telephone: 212-371-1000, E3317
ParisH PAY ENABLES PARISHIONERS TO MAKE THEIR REGULAR DONATIONS TO THE PARISH ELECTRONICALLY VIA AUTOMATIC DEDUCTIONS TO CHECKING OR SAVINGS ACCOUNTS, OR VIA CREDIT CARD. SOME OPT TO GIVE MONTHLY WHILE OTHERS ALSO TAKE THE OPPORTUNITY TO USE PARISH PAY FOR SPECIAL OCCASIONS LIKE CHRISTMAS AND EASTER. In whatever manner they have chosen to use ParishPay they have found the system to be very facilitating.
We encourage you to enroll the ParishPay website https://www.parishpay.com/ under St Joseph West Village link. The St. Joseph Soup Kitchen has also adopted ParishPay, we encourage you to think of the service the soup provides when giving.
ParishPay provides a steady stream of revenue for the parish, and enables funds to be collected, recorded, and deposited efficiently and effectively. Also, this revenue becomes a steady source of income, not subject to the fluctuations that our regular Sunday collections exhibit, and helps us plan and manage parish finances and activities more efficiently. It will also let the donor make and annual Parish gift and pay this gift over the entire year. It eliminates the need for writing a weekly check or making a cash gift through the offering plate each week. Parishioners may increase or decrease these gifts as their circumstances allow.
We know that many parishioners wish to give generously and regularly. ParishPay provides the vehicle for this faithful generosity
Please call the Rectory and inform us if you know of anyone who is homebound, feeling the effects of old age or is ill and not able to attend mass. We will be happy to visit them on a regular basis and provide them with the sacraments at home. Call 212 741-1274
Please note that we have a new listing Parish Activities. Please
visit our website washingtonsquarecatholic.org for the latest
news on the NYU Catholic Center, St. Joseph’s Parish, and links
to other Catholic organizations and interests.
Please send your announcements and events to be included I the bulletin and web:
Generous gifts made to today’s Collection will fund evangelization and catechesis projects in the Church in Latin America. Recently in El Pozon, Colombia, 770 children from St. Blaise Parish received first Holy Communion because of your generosity. The support you give today will provide opportunities for years to come. Keep faith with the Church in Latin America. Please be generous in today’s Collection.
Please join fellow parishioners on Sunday mornings at 10 a.m. for Scripture studies in the Parish House Library to discuss the readings for Sunday Mass. All are welcome.
Jesus is the Bread of Life, and we are to be sharers in and of His life-giving bread. Nuclear weapons desecrate life. Pax Christi Metro New York invites you to celebrate life and join in its efforts to abolish nuclear weapons, as our Church advocates. Come to “Nuclear Lies/Nuclear Truths: From Hiroshima to Iran.” Pray, listen, discuss, and witness. Historian David Watt will provide a historical critique of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and Leila Zand, Middle East Program Director from Fellowship of Reconciliation, will share a contemporary look at the nuclear threat with Iran. Following their presentations, there will be a short procession to Fr. Demo Square, where we will stand in silent vigil. This memorial will take place on Sunday afternoon, August 5th, from 2:30 to 4:30 PM, starting in Casserly Hall below St. Joseph’s Greenwich Village Church, Waverly Place off Sixth Avenue. Light refreshments will be available. Free will offering welcome.
~Pax Christi Metro New York
If anyone is interested in owning a polo shirt with St. Joseph’s logo they are for sale in the Narthex after all the Masses, sizes SM-XXL for $30.
The profit from these pima cotton polo shirts is helping us in our attempt to raise funds for the building of an elevator for the disabled. This will enable them to join us for worship.
Many diocese right here in the United States do not have enough priests to serve poorer parishes. These dioceses, classified as home missions, cannot provide for the unique needs of their parish communities. The Catholic Home Missions Appeal supports these diocese by funding essential ministries, including seminary education and lay ministry training. Please be generous in this Appeal and help strengthen the Church at home.
The Dominican Friars of the Province of St. Joseph
Joyfully announce the Simple Profession of
Brother Daniel Pier Giorgio Dengler
Brother Lucas Luke Hoyt
Brother Brian Alan Piper
Brother Paul Leo Joseph Camurati
Brother Timothy Danaher
Brother Edmund Mary McCullough
Brother Christopher Aquinas Beale
Brother James Mannes Matous
Brother Brian Henry Stephan
Brother Christopher Peter Joseph Gautsch
Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Wednesday, the fifteenth of August,
In the year of our Lord two thousand twelve,
at half after eleven o’clock in the morning
Saint Gertrude Church
Madeira, Ohio
Bother Edmund Mary McCullough and Brother Paul Leo Joseph Camurati are both from our community here at St. Joseph’s Church.
FEAST DAYS, SCRIPTURES CITATION S & SPECIAL INTENTIONS
Saturday, August 4 - St. John Vianney
Jer 26:11-16,24 Mt 14:1-12 (406)
12:10 PM Susan Dougherty
5:30 PM
Sunday, August 5
Ex 16:2-4,12-15 Eph 4:17,20-24 Jn 6:24-35
9:00 AM Ryden Family-living
11:30 AM
. 6:00 PM
Monday, August 6--Transfiguration of the Lord
Dn 7:9-10,13-14/2 Pt 1:16-19 Mk9:2-10 (614)
12:10 PM Kathleen Dolan
5:30 PM Thomas M. Mulry-14th Anniversary
Tuesday, August 7-- St. Sixtus ll, St. Cajetan
Jer 30:1-2, 12-15, 18-22 Mt 14:22-36 or 15:1-2,10-14 (408)
12:10 PM
5:30 PM
Wednesday, August 8—St. Dominic
Jer 31:1-7 Mt 15:21-28 (402)
12:10 PM
5:50 PM
Thursday, August 9 St..Teresa Benedicta of the Cross
Jer 31:31-34 Mt 16:13-23 (410)
12:10 PM Cesar Veronica
5:30 PM Gloria Lucero-Monzon
Friday, August 10 St. Lawrence
2 Cor 9:6-10 Jn 12:24-26 (618)
12:10 PM
5:30 PM
Saturday, August 11 St. Clare
Hb 1:12---2:4 Mt 17:14-20 (412)
12:10 PM
5:30 PM Marie DeGiglio
MONTHLY PARISH ACTIVITIES
Sunday10:00 AM / Children’s Religious Studies / Casserly
10:00 AM / Scripture Discussion / Library
2:30 PM / Roman Forum Lectures / Casserly
7:00 PM / Grad Law / Casserly/Rectory
Monday
6:30 PM / Centering Prayer / Church
7:00 PM / YACHT Club for Young Adults / Casserly/Library
Tuesday
7:00 PM / Aquinas Circle of Undergraduates / Casserly/Library
Wednesday
6:30 PM / Korean Catholic Students / Casserly/Library
7:30 PM / Lenten Confirmation Class / 1st Floor Back Parlor
Thursday
6:30 PM 1st /mo / Pax Christi Bd Mtg / PCMNY
7:00 PM / Newman Club / Casserly/Library
7:00PM / Scripture Study / 1st Floor-Back Parlor
Friday
6:00 PM 1st/mo / Novena/ Sacred Heart / Church
Saturday
10:00-3:00 PM / Soup Kitchen / Casserly
12:30 PM 1st/mo / Blessing of the Sick / Church
6:00 PM / Alcoholics Anonymous / Casserly