1200
S HIPPAN A VENUE, S TAMFORD, CT
06902
Parish Office: 203.324.4634
Office Hours: 9:30 am-2:30 pm, Tuesday-Friday
NOVEMBER 9, 2014
Pastor: Rev. Peter K. Smolik, [email protected]
Pastor Emeritus: Msgr. Edward Surwilo, [email protected]
Deacon: Gauthier Vincent, [email protected]
DIRECTORY
MASSES
Saturday Vigil
Sunday
Weekdays (Mon– Fri)
Holy Days
5:30 pm
9am & 11 am
8 am
8 am & 5:30 pm
Bob Unnold 203.359.8641
Parish Council: Joe Dineen 203.323.3219
Finance: Rich Kondub 203.357.8973
CONFESSIONS
Saturday
or by appointment
Trustees: Sam Cingari 203.324.5492
Gene Rusin 203.323.8096
4:30-5 pm
Parish Office: Natasha Papageorge 203.324.4634
BAPTISMS
Faith Formation: Dee Fumega 203.969.7778
Celebrated each Sunday after the 11 am Mass. Please
call the Parish Office to schedule. New parents must
attend a Pre-Baptismal class arranged through the
Parish Office.
MARRIAGE
Youth Ministry: Gauthier & Valerie Vincent
203.977.8691
School Principal: Phillip Adzima 203.348.1155
Please call the Parish Office before finalizing any
other arrangements.
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THIRTIY SECOND SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME
The Sanctuary Candle burns this week
For Favorable Outcome for Bill S.
MASS INTENTIONS THIS WEEK
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 8
Philippians 4.10-19; Luke 16.9-15
5:30pm Ginny Tiriolo (req. by family)
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 9
Ezekiel 47.1-2, 8-9, 12; 1 Cor. 3.9b-11, 16-17; John 2.13-22
9:00am Deceased Members of Masone Family
11:00am Zofia and Jozef Lemanski
(req. by Barbara and Wojciech Iwaszkiewicz)
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 10 ST. LEO THE GREAT
Titus 1.1-9; Luke 17.1-6
8:00 Anna and Frank Smith (req. by family)
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 11 ST. MARTIN OF TOURS
TITUS 2.1-8, 11-14; LUKE 17.7-10
8:00am Veterans for foreign war (req. by Kondub family)
WENESDAY, NOVEMBER 12 ST. JOSAPHAT
TITUS 3.1-7; LUKE 17.11-19
8:00am Jean Pierre Azima (req. by family)
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13
Philemon 7-20; Luke 17.20-25
8:00am Marie Sardone (req. by OLSS School Grade1)
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 14
2 John 4-9; Luke 17.26-37
8:00am Ronald DeCamp (req. by Irene DeCamp)
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 15
3 John 5-8; Luke 18.1-8
5:30pm Mary Mastropaolo (req. by family)
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 16
Proverbs 31.10-31; 1 Thessalonians 5.1-6; Mt 25.14-30
9:00am Michael Ciuffo(req. by family)
11:00am Alissa Ann Bigelow Smego (req. by Alicja and
Slawek Mateusiak)
WEEKLY SANCTUARY CANDLES
What better way to remember a friend or loved one
then with a candle? Till now Our Lady Star of the Sea
had only the Blessed Mother candles available, yet
they are lit for only an hour. Please notice that the
Church Sanctuary Candle burns the entire week for
individual intentions noted in our bulletin during the
week requested.
WEEKLY COLLECTION: YTD – 2.6 %
Last week 6,418 ; Last year 6,070 ;
PRAYER FOR VETERANS
May we remember that the freedoms we
enjoy did not come without price. May the
Lord bless those men and women who have,
in wartime or peacetime, sacrificed their
time, strength even their lives on this earth
to benefit ‘friends,’ known and unknown.
Lord God, Almighty Father,
by whose mercy
the faithful departed find rest,
look kindly on your departed veterans
who gave their lives
in the service of their country.
Grant that through the passion, death,
and resurrection of your Son
they may share in the joy
of your heavenly kingdom
and rejoice in you with your saints forever.
Lord God, Almighty Father,
we ask you also to bless
all men and women who serve
in our armed forces now.
Give them courage, hope and strength.
May they ever experience
your firm support, gentle love
and compassionate healing.
Be their power and protector,
leading them from darkness to light.
To you be all glory, honor and praise,
now and forever.
Amen.
Let us pray for our dead and for those who no
one remembers: We must commemorate the
loved ones who are no longer with us, of course. But
we must not forget those who no one remembers
any more. We remember the victims of war and
violence; the many "little ones" of the world crushed
by hunger and poverty. We remember the anonymous who rest in common graves. We remember
our brothers and sisters killed because they are
Christians; and those who sacrificed their lives to
serve others. We especially entrust to the Lord,
those who have left over the last year /Pope Francis
THIRTIY SECOND SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME
CALLING ALL LITTLE
PILGRIMS AND I NDIANS
(up to 4th grade)
JOIN US FOR A SPECIAL
THANKSGIVING LUNCH!
Sunday, November 16th
11-12:30
Check the bulletin board In OLSS Meeting Room.
Pick a turkey or pumpkin and bring an item
to donate to a family in need.
Please e.s.v.p. [email protected]
by Wednesday, November 12th
(Moms, let us know if you are interested in helping out)
Let us give thanks for all we have!
Dee Fumega, Director of Religious Education
MASS AND BREAKFAST WITH THE BISHOP
Please notice that State Court of Connecticut
Catholic Daughters of the Americas has invited
members of all its Courts to our 9:00 a.m. Mass
and a Communion Breakfast with Bishop Frank
Caggiano on Sunday, November 23. For more information call: Mary Lou 203-324-4733.
IMMACULATE CONCEPTION NOVENA
St. Mary Church in Greenwich will celebrate a Novena in preparation for the Immaculate Conception from November 30th to December 8th. Each
evening a guest homilist will offer a meditation on
a different title from the litany of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Bishop Caggiano will celebrate the last
night of the Novena with Mass on Monday, December 8th at 7:30 pm.
FEAST OF SAINT LEO THE GREAT
On November 10th the Universal Church celebrates the Feast of St. Leo the Great (ca. 400-461).
St. Leo lived in a period of history of the Church
during which several controversies regarding the
nature of Christ erupted. Was Jesus a human person or a divine person, or both? Did He have a
human nature, a divine nature, or both? St. Leo’s
fame comes from keeping a straight course between the competing positions and achieving the
final definition of the Incarnation.
At one extreme was the heresy of Nestorius, who
denied the perfect union of the divine nature and
the human nature in the one Person of Christ.
Nestorius’ held that Jesus Christ was of two natures and two persons, and that Mary was the
Mother of Jesus (the human nature), but not the
mother of God (the divine, Second person of the
Trinity).
At the other extreme was the heresy of the monk
Eutyches, who insisted that the two natures of
Christ, divine and human, had fused into one saying that the humanity of Jesus was absorbed into
divine, so that He was no longer fully human and
fully divine. These definitions were important because they determined whether, and how our humanity was redeemed by Christ. If He were not
both fully human and fully divine, humanity and
divinity were not reconciled in his Person, God
did not die for us, and humanity was not redeemed by His sacrificial death. Condemned and
excommunicated at a synod held in Constantinople in 448, Eutyches still kept appealing to other
synods in favor of his views.
Finally, St. Leo to whom Eutyches had also appealed took a definite stand by correcting
Eutyches’ heretic views in dogmatic letter called
“Tome of Leo”. The “Tome of Leo” was immediately and universally accepted as a rule of faith.
When in 451 a general council for the entire
church was called at Chalcedon, St. Leo’s terminology and distinctions served as the basis to define the official Church doctrine of the two natures of Christ united in the second person of the
Trinity.
Follow the progress of
the Diocesan Synod!