Office Hours Parish Staff

Our Offices are open:

Mo. 9am – 5pm

Tu.-Th. 9am – 7pm

Fri. Closed

Sat. 10am -2pm

Sun. Closed

Our offices close for

lunch:

1pm – 2pm daily

Pastor Rev. Donald C. Baker frdcab@stmonicanyc.org

Associates: Rev. Msgr. Leslie J Ivers msgrlivers@stmonicanyc,org

Rev. Joslin K. Jose frjoslin@stmonicanyc.org

Pastoral Associate: Ms. Maryann Tyrer mtyrer@stmonicanyc.org

Parish Manager: Mr. Michael Ward mward@stmonicanyc.org

Interim Music Director: Ms. Lora Cohan lcohan@stmonicanyc.org

Cantor: Mr. Joseph Neal

Wedding Coordinator: Ms. Debbi Burdett DBweddingsnyc@gmail.com

Mass Schedule

Saturday: 12:00pm Saturday Vigil: 5:30pm

Sunday: 7:30am 9:00am 10:30am 12:00pm 5:00pm

Monday – Friday: 7:30 & 12:00pm

Confessions:

Saturday 5:00 – 5:30pm and by appointment

Our church is open: 7am – 4pm daily for private prayer

St. Stephen of Hungary School

Pre-K through 8th Grade Catholic Parochial School

408 East 82nd St., New York, NY 10028

(212) 288-1989 Fax: (212) 517 – 5788 Principal: Ms. Caroline Walker

www.saintstephenschool.org Interested in admissions to our parish school?

admissions@saintstephenschool.org

Church of Saint Monica

Saint Elizabeth of Hungary

Saint Stephen of Hungary ———————————————————————————————————————

413 East 79th St., New York, NY 10075

Church Offices and Parish Center:

406 East 80th St., New York, NY 10075

(212) 288-6250 Fax: (212) 570 - 1562

Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe– Sunday, November 26th, 2017

First Reading -- I will rescue my scattered sheep (Ezekiel 34:11-12, 15-17). Psalm -- The Lord is my shepherd; there is nothing I shall want (Psalm 23). Second Reading -- As in Adam all die, so too in Christ all shall be brought to life (1 Corinthians 15:20-26, 28). Gospel -- Whatever you did to the least ones, you did to me (Matthew 25:31-46). The English translation of the Psalm Responses from Lectionary for Mass (c) 1969, 1981, 1997, International Commission on English in the Liturgy Corporation. All rights reserved

READINGS FOR THE WEEK

SATURDAY November 25th Vigil 5:30 PM Antonia Krass

SUNDAY November 26th Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe 7:30 AM Mario Belardino 9:00 AM Suzanne Reardon 10:30 AM Pedro Ant. Litrenta, Jr. 12 NOON Parishioners of St Monica, St Elizabeth of Hungary, St Stephen of Hungary 5:00 PM Joseph Binetti

MONDAY November-27th Thirty fourth Week in Ordinary Time 7:30AM Alice Ford 12 NOON Anne Corra

TUESDAY November-28th Weekday 7:30 AM Lawrence Brady 12 NOON Mary & Walter Ferber

WEDNESDAY November-29th Weekday 7:30 AM Margaret Ryan 12 NOON Rosa Betancourt de la Rosa

THURSDAY November 30th St. Andrew 7:30AM Kevin McCarthy 12NOON Andrew Joseph FRIDAY December 1st Weekday 7:30AM Barbara Kennedy 12 NOON Marzella, Mary , Michael Flenning & Grandparent

SATURDAY December 2nd Weekday 12 NOON Olga Rosa Litrenta

TODAY’S READINGS

PRAYERS FOR THE DECEASED

If you wish to add the name of a loved one to the prayer list, please notify the parish center: (212) 288-6250

SAINTS AND SPECIAL OBSERVANCES

PRAYERS FOR THE SICK

Please remember in your prayers Fr. Peter Colapietro, Fr. Jim Gavin, Rosemary

Catalano, Sotero Matta,James Baker, Kathleen Reddington, Guida Lana & Megan Driscoll, Bette

Dewing, Pasquale Ionta, Ed Lucas, Benjamin Soleo, Roger & Franklin White, Manuel Cuenca, Edgardo

Halagao, John Healey, John Shegina, Odette Karagheutoff, Tobias Bustamante, Victor Worizid,

James Leung AND ALL VICTIMS OF MILITARY ACTIVITY

Sunday: Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe Monday: Thirty-fourth or Last Week in Ordinary Time Thursday: St. Andrew Friday: First Friday Saturday: First Saturday; Blessed Virgin Mary

This Week’s Sanctuary Lamp Intentions for Mary E. Flanagan

Offered by Kitty O’Donoghue

Monday: Dn 1:1-6, 8-20; Dn 3:52-56; Lk 21:1-4 Tuesday: Dn 2:31-45; Dn 3:57-61; Lk 21:5-11 Wednesday: Dn 5:1-6, 13-14, 16-17, 23-28; Dn 3:62-67; Lk 21:12-19 Thursday: Rom 10:9-18; Ps 19:8-11; Mt 4:18-22 Friday: Dn 7:2-14; Dn 3:75-81; Lk 21:29-33 Saturday: Dn 7:15-27; Dn 3:82-87; Lk 21:34-36 Sunday: Is 63:16b-17, 19b; 64:2-7; Ps 80:2-3, 15-16, 18-19; 1 Cor 1:3-9; Mk 13:33-37

This Week’s Bread & Wine Intentions for Terry Hanharan

Offered by Kitty O’Donoghue

Donald Fitzgerald,& Gerhard Goede

Please pray for our deceased parishioners and family members

No K-8 Religious Ed or Adult Faith Formation on Nov. 26 (Thanksgiving!) Sunday, Dec. 3, 10, & 17 – K-8 Religious Education and Adult Faith Formation 10:15-11:45am.

Confirmation – Last Call!! If your teenager wishes to be receive the Sacrament of Confirmation in the Spring of 2019, he or she must be currently enrolled in either a Catholic School, or in our Parish Religious Education program. We will take registrations for 7th & 8th grade only until December 1st!

Catechist Assistants and Greeters Needed – Can you give us two hours of your time a couple of Sundays a month? We need some extra adults to help with our larger classes, and to mind the front door of the parish center during Religious Education. Safe Environment training will be provided.

Youth Ministry – The next Youth Night will be on Friday, December 1, 7-9pm – Jesus is Coming – How Do We Get Ready? All 8th-12th grade teens are welcome to this Advent Evening of Reflection. Light refreshments will be served. Have you invited someone to consider becoming Catholic? Have you invited some one to complete their Catholic initiation through Confirmation? Accompany them to one of our Inquiry sessions on the 2nd or 4th Thursday of each month at 7pm! Young Adults – Save the Date! On New Year’s Eve, we will have a champagne reception fol-lowing the 5pm Mass. Let’s worship together, and then toast the New Year before heading out to holiday parties.

All events are held in the Parish Center, 406 East 80th Street, unless otherwise specified. Contact our Pastoral Associate, Maryann Tyrer, with questions or to sign up for any of these events or programs.

E-mail mtyrer@stmonicanyc.org

The Feast of Christ the King Our Church’s liturgical calendar ends this Sunday with this feast day on which we are invited to reflect on two things:

Is Christ truly the King of my life? Do I give first priority to following Christ? How does this affect how I live my life? How comfortable am I with today’s Gospel, where Jesus identifies with the hungry, the thirsty, the stranger, the naked, the ill, and the prisoner? “Whatever you did for the least of mine, you did for me.” (Mt. 25:40) Where do I see Jesus today? How do I treat Him?

The 4 Sundays of Advent - December 3, 10, 17, 24 Family Mass – Saturday, December 2, 5:30pm Advent Evenings of Reflection - led by Msgr. Ivers – 7-8:30pm, Monday, December 4 through Thursday, December 7, Modugno Room of the Parish Center Feast of the Immaculate Conception of Mary (a Holy Day of Obligation) – Masses Dec. 7 at 5:30pm, and Dec. 8 at 7:30am and Noon Celebration of Our Lady of Guadalupe – Tuesday, December 12 - Holy Hour, 7-8:30pm in the Church, to include Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament and Benediction, led by Msgr. Ivers Holiday Benefit (for AC in the Church) – Cocktail Hour, Silent Auction, Musical Entertainment – Saturday, December 16, 5:00pm, Angelo Room in the Parish Center (purchase tickets in the parish office in advance) Sacrament of Reconciliation (Confessions) – Every Saturday at 5pm, and on Reconciliation Monday, De-cember 18, from 4-8pm Young Adult New Year’s Reception – immediately following the 5pm Mass on Sunday, December 31 – toast the New Year before leaving for holiday parties! Holiday Mass Schedules Masses for the 4th Sunday of Advent: Saturday, Dec. 23 at 5:30pm, and Sunday, Dec. 24 at 7:30am, 9am, 10:30am, and 12noon. Masses for Christmas (a Holy Day of Obligation): Sunday, Dec. 24 at 5pm (Family Mass), Monday, Dec. 25 at Midnight, 7:30am, 9am, 10:30am, and 12noon Masses for the Feast of the Holy Family (the Sunday after Christmas): Saturday, Dec. 30 at 5:30pm, and Sunday, Dec. 31 at 7:30am, 9am, 10:30am, and 12noon Masses for the Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God (a Holy Day of Obligation): Sunday, Dec. 31 at 5pm, and Monday, January 1 at 9am

Advent and Christmas at the

Church of St. Monica – St. Elizabeth of Hungary St. Stephen of Hungary

Watch and Prepare!

SPECIAL DEVOTIONS

After all weekday masses

Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament Every Friday after the Noon Mass to 3 PM, with Benediction

following the Divine Mercy Chaplet

Devotions Miraculous Medal on Mondays after each Mass

Divine Mercy

The Divine Mercy Chaplet is prayed each Friday afternoon at 3 PM

Sacrament of Reconciliation:

5:00 PM on Saturdays Anytime by appointment

TREASURES FROM OUR TRADITION

BAPTISMS & MARRIAGES:

Please call the rectory office for more information.

COMMUNION FOR THE HOMEBOUND:

If you know of anyone who cannot attend church because of illness or age, and would like to have communion brought to

them, please contact the parish office, so that we can arrange for a Eucharistic Minister to bring communion to them.

Today we have a modern feast, less than a century old, and placed at the very end of the liturgical cycle of Sundays only in 1969. In 1925, the world was in a sorry state from the vantage point of Pope Pius XI. The winds of war had swept the map of Europe raw, and ancient Christian dynasties had fallen in Russia and Spain. Although the Great War had ended, wars were break-ing out everywhere. Fascism was already in control in Italy, and Nazism was on the horizon for Germany. The disorder making its claim on the human race was, the pope felt, an insult to the Divine Order. Pius XI designated the last Sunday in October as a day of universal recognition of the kingship of Christ. Creating this feast was an act of bravery by the pope, who was standing up against idolatry of the state and the dehumanizing forces of the modern world, things that are not hard to detect in today's world as well. In 1969 it seemed fitting to move the feast to a place of honor at the end of the year, a way of summing up the whole movement of the liturgical year toward the perfection of the Kingdom of God. In recent decades, many Protestant churches have adopted this day from the new Roman calendar, so it is shared now with the Church of England, the Episcopal, Presbyterian, and Lutheran churches, and others. -Rev. James Field, Copyright (c) J. S. Paluch C

III Matthew DeRosa &

Emily Bruno

II Theodore Ross Newman

&

Mary Elizabeth Baskerville

I Lucien Sproviero

& Anne Whitaker

Our next Family Mass will be

Saturday, December 2nd at 5:30PM

Saint Stephen of Hungary School is now accepting applications for students in grades

Pre K3 through 8th grade

For the 2018-2019 school year.

Visit our website at

wwwsaintstephenschool.org or

email admissions@saintstephenschool.org

for more information

Yoga Classes

Yoga classes taught by Betsy O’Neill (M.A. Dance Education NYU) are held in the parish center, gener-ally in 6-week sessions on Thursday Evenings from

7:00-8:15PM

Classes are held in the Parish Center, Msgr. Modugno Room, 406 East 80 Street

The Fall session has one last class available on No-vember 30th. Classes cost $20/each- Newcomers Wel-

come!!

For more information, including upcoming sessions,

call Betsy at 212-535-4235 or email at

betsea2000@gmail.com

BANS OF MARRIAGE

From Your Pastor October 1st,

2017

Christ the King Today is New Year’s Eve – kind of – The feast of Christ the King is the last Sunday of the Church’s year. The feast is not an old one. It was established in 1925 by pope Pius XI in the face of the Russian Revolution and the spread of Communism, which promoted a materialism which excluded any consideration of God. Over the years I have heard people advocate getting rid of this feast, saying that since the fall of Communism, it is no longer needed. But looking around our world at the growing list of leaders, who might not claim to BE God, but act as if there were not one, it strikes me that the reminder of Pius XI is more relevant than ever. Pius wanted the world to remember that no matter how important our leaders think they are, all of us, from the greatest to the least, will one day stand before Christ to give an account of our lives; and we will not be judged on what we have, how rich we were, what offices we have held or rewards we have received, but simply on how we have served “One of these least ones”, as it says in 25th Chapter of St. Matthew’s Gospel. Advent Advent comes from the Latin word Adventus which means “coming” or “arrival”. It is that period of the Church year where we focus on the coming of Christ – as a baby in Bethlehem, as the Messiah (chosen one) in his adult life, and as the Lord at the end of the world. Central to our observance of Advent is a wreath with four candles. The Advent Wreath originally comes from Germany and is a way to mark the passing of the season –The light grows the closer we get to Christmas. The color priests wear is purple - just like in Lent. That should clue us in that Advent, like Lent, is a time of preparation. You’ll also note that three of the four candles on the Advent wreath are purple as well. But the candle that get lit on the third Sunday of Advent is pink. This is a throwback to the ancient practice of fasting during Advent like in Lent. After two weeks of fasting, people needed a break! So the third week the fasting was lifted; pink is the color that symbolizes that “lighter” discipline. To this day priests wear “rose” vestments on that day. Due to the way that Christmas falls on a Monday this year, the season of Advent is as short as it can possibly be; Sunday, December 24th is the fourth SUNDAY of Advent in the morning, but by evening it is already Christmas Eve, which begins with the family mass. Also. . . Because of Thanksgiving publishing deadlines, I have had to write this column early – by the time you are reading it however, we will have completed our auditions for a new Director of Church Music – I will give you an update at masses this weekend. Fr. Baker

From Your Pastor November 26th, 2017