Masses and Special Intentions

Stephen Sheehan

Sandy Pittman

Moira Feely

Kristin O’Shea O’Keefe

Jaxson Rivera

Ronald Grubert

Josephine Arkwright

Masses for the Week

Monday, June 19th

St. Romauld, Abbot

2 Cor 6:1-10, Mt 5:38-42

9:00 AM | Father’s Day Novena

Tuesday, June 20th

Theresa Fallon

Christine Marchese

Thomas Hyland

Nina Marie

Maria DeAngelis

James McCabe

Chuck Sockett

Marguerite Barone

Vincent Nicky O’Donnell

Laarni Melliza

Donna Chesney

Erica Klock

Jacob Rivera

Anna Forte Dr. Michael O’Grady

Names will remain on the list for three months. Please email bulletin@stmary.ws if you would like to continue with the listing

Thomas Yakovac

Joseph Labella

Angelo Iannacci

Hussey, James M., GySgt, USMC Jones, Scott B., LT, USN Jones, Katherine L., LTJG, USN

LaManna, Vincent S., Jr., PVT, USA

Landolphi, Michael, ENS, USN

Lanza, Anthony E., LtCol, USMC

2 Cor 8:1-9, Mt 5:43-48

9:00 AM | Father’s Day Novena

Wednesday, June 21st

St. Aloysius Gonzaga, Religious

2 Cor 9:6-11, Mt 6:1-6, 16-18

9:00 AM | Father’s Day Novena

Thursday, June 22nd

St. Paulinus of Nola, Bishop

Ss. John Fisher, Bishop, & Thomas More, Martyrs

2 Cor 11:1-11, Mt 6:7-15

9:00 AM | Father’s Day Novena

Friday, June 23rd

2 Cor 11:18, 21-30, Mt 6:19-23

9:00 AM | Father’s Day Novena

Saturday, June 24th

The Nativity of St. John the Baptist Is 49:1-6, Acts 13:22-26, Lk 1:57-66, 80

9:00 AM | Father’s Day Novena

5:00 PM | Vincenza Bonventre

Dario Zovich

125th Brigade Support Battalion

23rd Marine Regiment

25th Marine Regiment

2-4 GSAB Task Force Mustang

2-211th GSAB Task Force

War Horse

51st Security Force Squadron

75th Ranger Regiment

82nd Expeditionary Rescue Squadron

Alacqua, Alexander, 1LT, USA

Amerson, Jason, CPT, USA

Anderson, Michael, 1LT, USA

Arnold, James, LCpl, USMC

Avasthi, David, Capt, USAF

Baber, Joseph, Maj, USAF

Broderick, Evan, SGT, USA

Broderick, Steven, SN, USN

Brodie, Virgina H., 2ndLt, USMC

Brown, Jason, SGT, USA

Fontanetta, Joseph, Maj, USMC

Hayes, Andrew, Capt, USMC

Hernandez, Steven, SSgt, USAF

Higgins, James, GySgt, USMC

Hilton, Justin, SGT, USA

Hilton, Nathaniel, SGT, USA

Horner, Brian G., 1stLt, USMC

Howard, Edward, PV2, USA

Madden, Michael E., Major, USAF

Major, A. Edward, III, MAJ, USA

Marine Medium Tilt Rotor Squadron 161

Marine Transport Squadron 352 McGorry, Patrick F., HM2, USN

McKievear, Gary, LT, USA

Millau, Jeffrey, PFC, USMC

Morris, Jr., Brian J., MAC, USN

O’Leary, Jason, SSgt, USAF

Petracca, Evan L., LTJG, USN

Quinn, Anthony, Jr., SGT, USA

Richardson, Timothy, PV2, USA

Radman, Paul Cpl, USMC

Rodi, Caroline G., CAPT, USN

Sharkey, John J., LtCol, USMC

Spivak III, Edmund, Capt, USAF

Sweeney, Timothy, CPT, USA

Swersky, Roberto, Capt, USMC Tafone, Samantha, SGT, USA

Ullrich, Kenneth C., HN, USN Unger, Matthew J., SPC, USA

Vachris, Madison LTJG, USN Wood, Kelly, BMSR, USN

Thomas J. Flynn, Sr.

Aldo Diminich

Robert Swanson

Tadeusz Arkadiusz Bedkowski

Sunday, June 25th

The Twelfth Sunday in Ordinary Time Jer 20:10-13, Rom 5:12-15, Mt 10:26-33

7:30 AM | Margaret Deasy

9:00 AM | Father’s Day Novena

10:30 AM | People of the Parish

12:00 Noon | Anthony Buzzitta

Tadeusz Arkadiusz Bedkowski

Vincent Cordi

Nicholas Pasciuto

Leonard Martino

Hope Della Ratta

Cover: Calling of the Apostles.

Artist: Domenico Ghirlandaio (1449-1494).

If you have a service member that you would like to add to this list please e-mail bulletin@stmary.ws. Please include name, rank and branch of service.

Novena of Masses

Please hand in the names of those you wish to be remembered in the Father’s Day Novena of Masses by TODAY

June 18th, Father’s Day.

Bread & Wine are offered this week in loving memory of Joseph Marino

Readings and Questions for Faith Sharing on the

Twelfth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Reading I: Jeremiah 20:10-13

“Sing to the Lord, praise the Lord, for he has rescued the life of the poor from the power of the wicked!”

Reading II: Romans 5:12-15

Children’s Liturgy of the Word at the 9:00 AM Sunday Mass

Next Sunday, June 25th,will be our last week before we take a break for the summer.

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For if by the transgression of the one the many died, how much more did the grace of God and the gracious gift of the one man Jesus Christ overflow for the many.

Gospel: Matthew 10:26-33

Everyone who acknowledges me before others I will acknowledge before my heavenly Father.

Question for Adults:

How does my faith and trust in God help me when I face ridicule for believing in Jesus?

Question for Children:

Do I call upon Jesus to help me when I am afraid?

This Is My Body

by Frank De Lucia

My first article on March 12, 2023 explained the Catholic dogma of the Real Presence of Jesus Christ in the Eucharist, the transformation from ordinary unleavened bread and wine during the consecration into the Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity of our Lord. In the March 19th and April 16th Bulletins, I shared three occasions where God saw fit, miraculously, to remove the veil of the appearance of the bread and wine and reveal to the faithful that the Eucharist is truly His Body and Blood. However, some may wonder why God chose consuming the Body and Blood of His Son as the way in which we can share in His eternal life. After all, even the first century Romans considered this practice tantamount to cannibalism.

The story begins between 1,500 and 1,200 years before Christ, when it is estimated that the first five books of the Bible (the Pentateuch) were written. In the great drama of Genesis, God asked Abraham to sacrifice his only son Isaac as a burnt offering. In a foreshadowing of Jesus’ Passion, Isaac hauled the sacrificial wood up to Mount Moriah, and asked his father where was the lamb they were to offer up to God. Abraham answered, “God will provide the sheep for the burnt offering.” As Abraham bound his son to the wood to be sacrificed, an angel stopped Abraham from bringing down the knife (Genesis 22:1-19). Here was the first prophesy that God the Father would allow His only son, the Paschal Lamb, to freely substitute Himself on the wood of the cross for our salvation. This sacrifice is made present again on the altar at each Mass.

The drama continues in the Book of Exodus. As Dr. Scott Hahn puts it in chapter 2 of his book The Lamb’s Supper, “…the pivotal sacrifice in

Israel’s history was the Passover… [when] God instructed each Israelite family to take an unblemished lamb without broken bones, kill it, and sprinkle its blood on the doorpost. That night, the Israelites were to eat the lamb. If they did, their firstborn would be spared. If they didn’t, their firstborn would die in the night… (see Exodus 12:1-23). The sacrificial lamb died as a ransom, in place of the firstborn of the household. The Passover, then, was an act of redemption, a ‘buying back.’” Here again, we see a foreshadowing of the sinless (unblemished) offering, which must be consumed for us to have eternal life. As Jesus told us, “Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him on the last day.” (John 6:54)

Fast forward to the time of John the Baptist. As he was baptizing his followers in Bethany, across the river Jordan, John “…saw Jesus coming toward him and said, ‘Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world…’” (John 1:29). To the ears of a first century Jew, the phrase Lamb of God was easily recognizable as a reference to the Passover Lamb in Exodus, and it was at this time during which John the Baptist foresaw of the Passion of Our Lord. As the Catechism of the Catholic Church states, John the Baptist “… reveals that Jesus is at the same time the Suffering Servant who silently allows himself to be led to the slaughter and who bears the sin of the multitudes, and also the Paschal Lamb, the symbol of Israel’s redemption at the first Passover. Christ’s whole life expresses his mission: ‘to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.” (CCC 608).

Three years later, Jesus celebrated the Passover Seder with His disciples one last time, concerning which apologist Karlo Broussard, in chapter 23 of his book Meeting the Protestant Challenge, states, “For the ancient

Jews, the Passover meal wasn’t merely a theoretical or abstract remembrance of God’s past-saving deeds. They viewed themselves as participants in the events the meal recalled because they viewed those events being mysteriously made present in their liturgical commemoration.”

During the Last Supper, Jesus used the haunting phrase “…This is my body, which will be given for you; do this in memory of me.” (Luke 22:19). This phrase was not lost on His disciples. They knew that Jesus was somehow making Himself a new Passover Lamb. In this new covenant, which replaces God’s covenant with Abraham, Jesus directed His disciples, and their successors, to remember (make present) His sacrifice from that moment on. And in that sacrifice, the Gospels harken back to the Passover feast; “But when they came to Jesus and saw that he was already dead, they did not break his legs…For this happened so that the scripture passage might be fulfilled: ‘Not a bone of it will be broken.’” (John 19:33-36).

When the bread and wine are consecrated during Mass by the priest, remember that Jesus Christ, the unblemished Lamb of God, is present at that time, and gives us His actual Body and Blood to consume, so that “Believers who respond to God’s word and become members of Christ’s Body, become intimately united with him” in the “…Eucharist, by which ‘really sharing in the body of the Lord, . . . we are taken up into communion with him and with one another.’” (CCC 790). Blessed be God forever!