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Church: 854 Midland Avenue, Yonkers, 10704
Phone:
914-965-1555 Fax: 914-965-0678
Webpage: www.stannsyonkers.org
School: 40 Brewster Avenue, Yonkers, 10701
Phone: 914-965-4333
Fax: 914-965-1778
Webpage: www.stannschoolyonkers.org
MASSES
Saturday Evening: 5:00 PM
Sunday:
8:00 AM,
10:00 AM Solemn Mass with adult & children’s choirs,
12:00 Noon
Monday - Friday: 7:15am and 8:30am
Saturdays:
8:30am
Holy Days:
As Announced
CONFESSIONS
Saturdays from 4:00pm to 4:45pm in the Church except Holy Saturday
DEVOTIONS
• The Rosary is recited daily at 8:10am before the 8:30am Mass
• Miraculous Medal Novena: every Monday after the 8:30am Mass
• Novena in honor of St. Ann: every Tuesday after the 8:30am Mass
EXPOSITION OF THE BLESSED SACRAMENT
Every Friday at 9:00 AM and ending with Benediction at 8:00 PM
CATHOLIC BIBLE STUDY
Every Tuesday from 7:30-8:30 PM in Fr. Anthony Hall
SERVED BY
Rev. Andrew P. Carrozza, Administrator
Rev. John P. McDonagh, Parochial Vicar
Rev. James Annor-Ohene, Parochial Vicar
Mr. Michael P. Vicario, Principal/D.R.E.
Mrs. Peggy Foley-Pagano, Parish Secretary
Mr. Paul Loman, Director of Music
PARISH ACTIVITIES
Adult & Children’s Choir • Altar Servers
Bereavement Support Group • Fishers of
Men Society • Golden Agers
Homebound Visitation & Ministers
Lectors • Sports Programs •
Teen Club • Ushers
COMMITTEES
Parish Council • Respect Life Committee
BAPTISM
Baptisms are held on Sundays at 1:00 PM in the chapel. To arrange a baptism,
please contact the Rectory.
MARRIAGE
Arrangements should be made a minimum of six (6) months in advance.
A marriage preparation program is required.
SERVICE TO THE SICK
If someone is homebound or in the hospital, please call the Rectory.
Arrangements will be made for the person to be visited and to receive the
Sacraments.
R.C.I.A.
Adults seeking to Enter the Catholic Church or complete their Christian
Initiation should contact the rectory.
MEMORIALS
Anyone wishing to remember a deceased friend or relative in a special way
is urged to contact the Rectory.
PARISH MEMBERSHIP
All new families are welcome to the parish, and every new family should be
properly registered. If you move or change address, please notify the Rectory.
February 15, 2015 • 6h Sunday in Ordinary Time
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St. Ann’s Parish
6th Sunday in Ordinary Timer
Sun., Feb. 15, 2015 - 6th Sunday in Ordinary Time
5:00pm Sat. evening
Salvatore Labruzzo
8:00am
Giovanni & Maria Cioffi
10:00am
For St. Ann’s Parishioners
12 noon
Christina Gorman
Monday, February 16, 2015 - Weekday
7:15am
Philip Marian
8:30am
Joseph Fazzolari
Tuesday, February 17, 2015 - Weekday
7:15am
Giovanna, Teresa & Rosa Pate
8:30am
Rosalind Marianni
Wednesday, February 18, 2015 - Ash Wednesday
7:15am
Felix Palermo - Living
8:30am
Kevin J. Crotty
12 noon
Prayer Service
4:00pm
Prayer Service
7:30pm
Stephen V. Brooks
Thursday, February 19, 2015 - Lenten Weekday
7:15am
Dominick Pate
8:30am
Bernardo & Irma Sangalli
Friday, February 20, 2015 - Lenten Weekday
7:15am
Thomas Ruane
8:30am
Giuseppe, Carmela, Rosetta &
Marianna Badami
Saturday, February 21, 2015 - Lenten Weekday
8:30am
Joe, Eileen & Kathleen Cassidy
Sunday, February 22, 2015 - 1st Sunday of Lent
5:00pm Sat. evening
Deceased members of the
Sehring, Kenny, Flynn & Smith
Families and the Holy Souls
8:00am
Maria Castellano
10:00am
Ezio Massimi
12 noon
For St. Ann’s Parishioners
Protecting our Children
Anyone who needs to report an alleged incident of
sexual abuse of a minor by a priest, deacon, religious,
or lay person serving in the Archdiocese of New York
is asked to contact Sr. Eileen Clifford, O.P. at 212-3711000 x2949 or Deacon George J. Coppola at 917-8611762. Both may also be reached via email at
[email protected]. In keeping with the
archdiocesan policy regarding sexual abuse of minors,
this information is provided to ensure that our children
remain safe and secure.
February 15, 2015
Priests Schedule for next Sunday, February 22, 2015,
1st Sunday of Lent
Church
Saturday 5:00pm - Fr. McDonagh
Sunday 8:00am - Fr. Annor
10:00am - Fr. Carrozza
12:00 noon - Fr. McDonagh
SUNDAY COLLECTION
Last Week: $4,230
Weekly Automated Giving: $643
Total: $4,873
Last Year: $4,378
2015 Weekly Operating Budget: $10,641
Stations of the Cross will be prayed every Friday of
Lent at 8:00pm in the Chapel.
Financial Wrongdoing Hotline
The Archdiocese of New York takes the stewardship of
your donations seriously. If you have knowledge of or
reason to suspect misconduct, please report your concerns
via a toll free hotline, at 877-820-0541, or on the internet
at http://www.reportlineweb.com/ADNY. Both are
available 24 hours per day.
Beginning Experience
Beginning Experience is offering a healing weekend from
March 20th-22nd, 2015 at the St. Lawrence Retreat
Center in Beacon, New York. This invitation is open to
men and women of all ages who have suffered the loss of
a spouse through death, divorce, or separation. It is a
time to heal and a time to begin anew. Reservations are
required. For information or registration please call Tom
845-462-6192 or Nancy 518-785-1351 x304 or email
them at [email protected].
Marian Pilgrimage to Medjugorie & Rome
Marian Pilgrimage to Medjugorie & Rome organized in
Italian by Radio Maria. Leaving May 13th and coming
back May 21st, with the opportunity to overstay in Italy.
Price all included is $2,800. For information call Radio
Maria at 718-417-0550.
Mass on TV for the Homebound - Instructional
Television of the Archdiocese of New York (ITV) offers
Worldwide Marriage Encounter - “If today you hear daily Mass Monday thru Friday at 1:00PM and at
His voice, harden not your hearts.” Open your hearts to 9:00PM. ITV can be found on ITV Channel 8,
each other on a Worldwide Marriage Encounter Cablevision Yonkers Channel 76 and Bronx Cablevision
of NYC on Channel 30.
Weekend. For information call 1-877-697-9963 ext. 3.
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LENT
This Wednesday is Ash Wednesday. It is a solemn day of prayer and
penance which begins the great penitential season of Lent, our forty days of preparation
for the celebration of the Lord's passion, death, and resurrection during the Easter
Triduum. We begin Lent by marking our foreheads with ashes. It is an ancient custom
which dates back to the earliest centuries of the Church, whereby we wear ashes as a
sign to ourselves and to others that we have sinned and are in need of repentance. Our
ashes are a call to others to please pray for us. In themselves, ashes have little meaning.
The "dust" into which we shall return, taken by itself can be perceived as just a morbid
reminder that one day we will die, and can even become an empty superstition rather
than a religious act. But received in the light of God's revealing Word, ashes take on
their proper meaning. God's Word reminds us that it is not the death of the body but the
death of the soul that is to be feared. Through the Scripture readings God calls us to
return to Him with our whole heart. It is for this reason that the Church has placed the
reception of ashes within the framework of the reading of Scripture. Therefore, in
accordance with Church norms, ashes will only be distributed at Mass or during a
scheduled prayer service. The Ash Wednesday schedule is as follows:
Masses: 7:15 AM
8:30 AM
Prayer Services:
12:00 PM
7:30 PM
4:00 PM
Canon 1250 of the 1983 Code of Canon Law states that all Fridays of the year and the
time of Lent are penitential days and times throughout the universal Church. On
Fridays outside of Lent, the traditional form of penance - abstinence from meat - may
be substituted by another form of penance if abstinence would cause an undue hardship.
All Fridays of Lent, however, are days of required abstinence from meat.
Abstinence forbids the eating of meat (including chicken and other poultry).
Abstinence obliges from the 14th birthday on. In addition, the Church marks Ash
Wednesday and Good Friday as days of more substantial penance, which we mark by
fasting. Fasting prescribes that only one full meal be taken. Two smaller meals may be
taken to maintain strength, but these two taken together should not equal another full
meal. No solid food is to be eaten in between meals. Fasting obliges from the 18th to
the 60th birthday. Healthy individuals who are outside the required age brackets for fast
and abstinence are nevertheless encouraged to observe these disciplines if possible, or
else to perform some other form of penance. There is a serious obligation to observe
these penitential practices in a substantial way. Those whose work or health would
be impeded are excused from fast and abstinence. Individual conscience should decide
proper cause for excuse. A more serious excuse is required to excuse oneself from Ash
Wednesday and Good Friday fast and abstinence.
Ash Wednesday and Good Friday are days of Fast and Abstinence
All Fridays of Lent are days of Abstinence
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Saint Ann’s Parish
6th Sunday in Ordinary Time
February 15, 2015
This week we begin Lent. It is our forty day retreat that prepares us to celebrate the Paschal Mystery of Jesus’
suffering, death, and glorious resurrection. In its fullness, Lent is the final preparation for those who are to be baptized at
the Easter vigil. We join along with them in their final preparation by our own penitential works.
Have you ever gone through a Lent doing perhaps the same thing we do every year, only to discover at the end of
Lent that we haven’t really changed? If this is happened to you - and it has happened to me many times - then maybe what
we need to do is change our focus on Lent. Perhaps we should try not merely giving up something but finding of bad
habit, a vice, a weakness in our personality that would like to change during these forty days, and then tailoring a penance
to help us grow away from that sin and closer to Christ. Certainly, anything we do must always include extra time in
prayer.
I would like to suggest to all of us here at St. Ann’s Parish that we work this Lent on intentional discipleship, that
is, making a concerted effort every day to truly follow everything the Lord Jesus teaches us, to make sure that our faith is
not merely something we take off the shelf for an hour on Sunday at Mass, but that following the Lord Jesus occupies our
every thought, our every action, our every belief, our every decision, indeed, our entire being. A faithful Christian should
always be able to say with St. Paul, “for to me, life is Christ.” If we can tailor a Lenten penance that leads us towards
closer discipleship in the Lord we will indeed grow during these forty days.
We will be having a special Lenten presentation on one of the days of Lent, which is still in preparation, along
with the traditional offerings. This year, since we have begun Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament every Friday, we will
continue with Adoration in the chapel from 9:00 AM until 8:00 PM. Since we also always celebrate the Stations of the
Cross on Fridays of Lent, we will pray them immediately following Benediction in the chapel at 8:00 PM every Friday.
It is my most fervent hope and prayer that we will use our Lenten journey to truly grow closer to the Lord and
become better disciples of Jesus by the time we celebrate his suffering death and resurrection during the Easter Triduum.
Catholic Cruise to Caribbean
Come and sail away on a 7-night Catholic Caribbean
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of the Seas of the United States of America)
September 13th - September 20th, 2015 on Royal
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Daily Mass offered. Deposits of only $350 per person
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Archdiocese of New York Men’s Commission
Annual Men’s Conference
The Archdiocese of New York Men’s Commission is
hosting the First Annual Men’s Conference on Saturday,
March 21, 2015, at the Fordham Rose Hill Campus. With
over 500 expected to attend, this daylong event will
provide a unique opportunity for men throughout the
Archdiocese to recommit themselves to their spiritual lives.
The speakers will include His Eminence Timothy Cardinal
Dolan, Archbishop of New York, Damon Owens, a
renowned public speaker and strong proponent of the
Catholic faith, and Joe Klecko, former all-star New York
Jets defensive lineman. Admission is $45 and includes
breakfast, lunch and t-shirt. To register or for more
information visit www.nymensconference.com or call Kim
The Catholic Widows and Widowers of Yonkers Quatela at 646-794-3198. Registration is ongoing, spaces
will hold their next meeting on Thursday, February are limited, so act fast!
19, 2015 at 1 PM in the afternoon. The meeting will
be held at Fr. Anthony Hall, St. Ann’s Church, 31
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Regina High School Feb. 16th - Feb. 19th from 8:45amPlease remember in your prayers the following who are ill: 2:00pm and costs $199. If your daughter is not off for the
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Susan Nagle, Marisa Palermo, Robert Peterson and Sgt. Edward
Ryan. And those who recently died, may they rest in peace.
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