ST. STANISLAUS PARISH PLEASANT VALLEY, NY NOVEMBER 23, 2014 CHRIST THE KING WWW.SAINTSTANISLAUS.NET **BIRTHDAY GREETINGS** ANNOUNCED MASSES Saturday, November 22 5:30pm Richard Silvernail – Silverrnail family Sunday, November 23 7:30am Edith Gallo 9:00am People of St Stanislaus Kostka 11:00am George Leutz – Dale Dydo Monday, November 24 9:00am Bart and Myrtle Oakes Tuesday, November 25 9:00am Florence Dunn - Family Wednesday, November 26 9:00am Communion Service Thursday, November 27 Thanksgiving Mass at 10am Friday, November 28 9:00am Towers Family – Maryanne Towers Saturday, November 29 5:30pm Trudy Fedor - John and Johanna Hudak ST. STANISLAUS IS A TITHING PARISH God’s Plan for Giving In return for the Lord’s generosity, our people returned to His Church the following November 16, 2014 + Parish Pay $6168.00 Thank you for your continuing generosity that enables us to continue to serve the people of God SECOND COLLECTION THIS SUNDAY Campaign for Human Development November 23 Barbara Kurdziel, Elizabeth Boyle, Cyndi West, Lynsey Senchak, Kristen Schaeffer, Caroline Kiernan, Domenick Cuccia, John Hicks, Leonard Fanelli, Beatrice Allen, Jake Sinclair, Maureen Nelson, Mateo Hadderman, Rachel Nazak November 24 Michael Burke, Jessica Burke, William Diehl, Edith Myers, Katherine Muir, Kristopher Riley, Anthony Sierra, Michael Strazza, Allen Diehl, Jay Hiesel November 25 Hans Klein, Denise Ofca, Danielle Cussick, Leonard Lacken, Carol diPalo, Linda Ferolito, Michael Olivier November 26 Matthew Hayes, Vincent Donatelli, Laura Cannella, Deborah Geraci, Darren Schucker, Brendan Donnelly, Anthony Moustakas, John Suppa November 27 Timothy Wolfe, Stephen Olenik, Linda Fasolino, Adam Hoolihan, Heather Harmuth, Laura Kelly, Dylan Zocchi, Emilia DeLorenzo, John Cassidy November 28 Brianna Konyn, Scott Cussick, Karli Leinweaver, Christie Sablinski, Mary Ann Julia, William Avezzano, Kellen Knittel, Dylan Jimenez, Sondra Cepeda, Albertina Manzo November 29 William Baker, Sarah Carbone, Darlene Smith, Kenneth Wallace, Jr., Austin Dupilka, Michael Gatto, David Neziri, Nicole Kelly, Sandra Martinez, Marc Daudier, Randy Greco FEAST OF ST STANISLAUS POT LUCK SUPPER We wish to thank all the parishioners who volunteered their time and talents as well as their delicious food contributions that helped make our pot luck supper a success. We were so moved by how everyone came together and became part of the celebration in whatever way they could. The Spirit was palpable, and we are so grateful to be a part of the St. Stanislaus “family”! Beatrice Simoni and Diane McCarron FR. PERRY’S NEW ADDRESS Rev. Francis Perry Azah St. John Chrysostom Parish 985 East 167th Street Bronx, NY 10459 FEAST OF CHRIST THE KING THANKSGIVING DAY MASS Thanksgiving- a true American holidayhas taken on a very religious dimension which we would love to see grow. There are two ways of saying “Thanks” to God as we get ready to celebrate Thanksgiving. Consider starting a tradition in your family of coming to morning Mass before you sit down for food and football. Find time to join us at the 10am Mass, before you travel or get caught up in the day’s celebrations. Coming to Mass that day (when it is not required) is a great way to say “Thank You” to God who is the source of all our blessings. We really hope you will join us. Please note that this 10am Mass will be our ONLY on Thanksgiving. It is late enough for those who want to sleep in and yet early enough to travel if you are visiting someone else for your turkey. Come and give thanks and make Mass on Thanksgiving a tradition of your own ADOPT A FAMILY Bringing the Christmas Spirit to Families in Need Catholic Charities Community Services of Dutchess County serves many of the families from throughout the county who are in need. We are inviting you to “adopt” a family or individual and provide them with some basic Christmas gifts for their family that they are not able to afford this year. If you or your family, friends or co-workers would like to Adopt-a-Family, please call the Catholic Charities Community Services of Dutchess County at (845) 452-1400 x4217 to speak with Mary Marshall or email at: [email protected] or 452-1400 x4905 for Michelle Metelski. CHRISTMAS WREATH FUNDRAISER The teen club will be selling Christmas Wreaths for the Holidays this weekend and next. The cost for a beautiful, fresh, decorated 22” Wreath is just $19.00 Plan on getting one for each of your doors! All the proceeds will help our teens with the cost of our Annual Conference in December. Thank you in advance for your support. MILLSPAUGH FURNITURE Millspaugh Furniture sponsors a program wherein they award $1000 each month to a local non-profit organization. We have enrolled the St. Stanislaus Nursery School in this program for the month of November. The organization that receives the most votes will win the award. We are hoping for your support and ask you to follow the steps listed below to cast you vote. We want to assure you that the monies received, if we were chosen to receive the award, would be used to purchase some much needed equipment for the children. 1. Go to www.Millspaugh.com 2. Look for the “Strengthening the fabric of our community” icon and click on it. 3. Hit ENTER. This will take you to a screen where you will be asked to “Like” Millspaugh Furniture on Facebook. Hit okay. 4. You will then be brought back to the entry page where you will be asked to enter the St. Stan’s Nursery School code : SSNS1023. 5. Click the box to accept terms and conditions and then click on Finalize. Your vote has been cast! POPULAR FUNDRAISER – NOVEMBER 26 Just go to lunch or dinner, eat in or take out, at Pizzaria Uno’s on Wednesday, November 26th. After preparing all that food for Thanksgiving why not give yourself a break and let Uno’s do the work….and you will be helping the children of our Nursery School too. Use the coupon’s below. Give one to a friend. SOME THOUGHTS ABOUT ADVENT (WHICH IS COMING VERY SOON ) This very beautiful time of the year, this time of expectant waiting for the coming of Christmas , is tragically falling out of the lives of many Christians, including many Catholic Christians, because we are listening to the worldly voices around us to hurry up and get ready for Christmas. While it is hard not to be tempted, our Catholic faith celebrates the season of Advent to try to slow us down and to encourage us to remember that we should forget that there is a whole Christmas season after the 25th where we could continue to celebrate. Ever since Christmas Eve in 1967 when I was coming home from Midnight Mass and saw the tree, with tinsel, that someone had thrown out since “Christmas was over”, I decided I was going to try not to give in to that thinking----and I hope you will try too. I would ask that you consider these reflections, entitled “Why can’t we sing Christmas carols during Advent?” and see if it might explain things a bit better, keeping in mind the fact that our Catholic belief about the season of Advent is not necessarily shared by all Christian churches, but that you are reading it here because you are Catholic. It seems like the Catholic Church is so out of step, not singing them (carols) when they are on the radio, but singing them after Christmas when we don’t hear them anywhere else. But the need to wait, and the experience of singing them in a new way on the great feast of Christmas, are both good reasons not to jump the gun. We wait for the carols in the same way we wait for Jesus. The lofty answer to this question and many like it is that the liturgical year ( of the Catholic Church) is a counter- cultural force. When the world wants to anticipate Christmas and does not want to wait, the Church insists that we do just that. When people want to celebrate the Easter Vigil at the usual time of the Saturday evening Mass or want to celebrate it in the space of one hour, the Church insists on waiting until night falls and taking as long as it takes. To break it down a little further, liturgy does not look at time in the same way as we do in the rest of our lives. The liturgy celebrates the basic reality that all time belongs to God. We are called into existence and born into time, but it is God’s choice. We live our lives in time, but how long will that be God’s choice. So when we answer God’s call to come to celebration, it is participation in that basic call that God constantly makes to us. Our response is to respond to God’s call, to participate in whatever God has called us to do , whether it be the waiting of Advent, the joy of Christmas, or the challenge of Ordinary Time, and to use every season or celebration as a springboard to our mission in the world. ----Monsignor William Belford, Excerpted from Parish Liturgy Basics, Revised Edition (ocp.org/6143) Some more ideas to keep the spirit of Advent alive in your family and in your home this year *Begin the season on Sunday, November 30th by coming to the Hall at 3:00PM and watching the movie Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, a fun afternoon for young and old alike… *Having an Advent wreath, and Advent Calendar or Jesse Tree in your home *Delay your lights and carols until the Fourth Week of Advent when the Church “shifts gears to a more Christmas-y” theme… *Get to Confession… *Wear some purple… *Read the daily Mass readings… *Slow down…