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Church of

St. Patrick

in Armonk

P.O. Box 6,

29 Cox Avenue,

Armonk, N.Y. 10504

(914) 273-9724

28TH SUNDAY IN

ORDINARY TIME

OCTOBER 9, 2016

MASSES: oct. 8—OCT. 16, 2016

Sat 10/8 9:00

5:30

Edna J. Davis (D)

Michael Dannals (L)

Sun 10/9 8:30 Virginia Capossela (D)

10:30

12:00

Guy Scavone (D)

People of the Parish

Mon 10/10 8:30 ——

Tue 10/11 8:30 Christian Wilson (L)

Wed 10/12 8:30 John Daly (D)

Thu 10/13 8:30 Frank & Claire Finnan (L)

Fri 10/14 8:30 ——

Sat 10/15 9:00

5:30

——

Charles Tryoler (D)

Sun 10/16 8:30 William Callaghan (D)

10:30

12:00

Frederick & Catherine Fuss (D)

People of the Parish

Calendar:

Collection October 1-2: $3,303.00 in 83 envelopes

Maintenance Collection: $822.00 in 47 envelopes

Collection next weekend for St. Joseph Seminary

ParishPay for August Regular Collection: $8,027.00

Please consider using ParishPay

Thank you for your generosity

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 9th, 28TH SUNDAY IN ORDI-

NARY TIME FOOD FIRST —Each Sunday the food collected goes

to support a local food pantry.

No CCD today

Mon, October 10 — Columbus Day

No CCD classes today

Tue, October 11 — St. John XXIII

Contemplative Prayer Group: 12:30-1:30

Wed, October 12 — Weekday

No CCD classes today

Thu, October 13 — Weekday

Fri, October 14 — St. Callistus I

Contemplative Prayer Group: 1:00-2:00

Sat, October 15 — St. Teresa of Jesus

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 16, 29TH SUNDAY IN ORDI-

NARY TIME

FOOD FIRST —Each Sunday the food collected goes

to support a local food pantry. CCD: 9:20-10:20

Teen Life Mass

Music Ministry

The Music Ministry is looking for singers for our "Music

At St. Pat's" Ceremony of Carols service scheduled for Sunday, December 11th @ 3:00 p.m. If you like to sing, are over the age of 12, and can commit to just 5 rehearsals and the performance on the 11th, we need your help. The rehearsals are Wednesday, October 5th, 19th, November 16th, 30th, and De-cember 7th starting at 7:30 p.m. in Wallace Hall. We are also looking for volunteer readers with good speaking voices to read one of the nine lessons/readings for the service. Additionally, we need volun-teers to help with organizing the coffee reception fol-lowing the service as well as people to help with ad-vertising the event. If you are interested please email us at : [email protected]

St. Patrick’s 50th Anniversary Dinner Saturday, October 22nd - 6:30 pm St. Francis Hall

Sign-up sheets located at church en-trances, or you can call the Parish office.

Please sign up soon, so that we know how much to order for the dinner.

OCTOBER – IN HONOR OF OUR LADY

AND THE MOST HOLY ROSARY

“Pray the Rosary every day, in order to obtain peace

for the world, and the end of the war.”

These are the words of Our Lady to the three children of

Fatima on May 13, 1917. They are just as relevant to-

day as they where back then. May has traditionally

been a month in which we honor Mary, as is the month

of October. The visits of Our Lady to the three children

of Fatima began in May and ended in October. Mary

never identified herself to the three children until Octo-

ber 13, when she said, “I am the Lady of the Rosary.”

Although October is dedicated to Our Lady, it is done

so under the title of Our Lady of the Rosary. However,

this is not because of what took place at Fatima in 1917,

but what took place on the first Sunday of October,

1571.

In the late 1500’s Europe was being threatened by the

advancement of the Ottoman Empire. The Ottoman

Empire was rooted in Turkey and in the Islamic faith.

Islam had already made headway into Europe long be-

fore this. Already by the 700’s much of Portugal and

Spain was under the occupation of the Moors, which

lasted until the middle of the 13th century. It was be-

cause of this occupation that the little hamlet in Portu-

gal, Fatima, was named after the sister of Muhammad,

the founder of Islam. However, the Ottoman Empire

was a much more serious threat to Christendom. The

Christian West had taken up arms to hold them back,

but was losing terribly. There was one major battle, yet

to be fought, that would be decisive. If the West lost, it

would fall to Islam, and if the West won, Christianity

would be preserved. This battle is known as the battle

of Lapanto. It was a naval battle in which the Western

fleet was greatly outnumbered by the Turkish fleet and

had little chance of success. In fact, as the battle en-

sued, the West was losing badly. To bring peace and an

end to the war. Pope St. Pius V called upon the Chris-

tian world to pray the Rosary. The date set was October

7, 1571, the first Sunday of October. On this day, the

tide changed in favor of the Western forces and the

Turkish fleet was soundly defeated. St. Pius V attribut-

ed the victory to the praying of the Rosary and estab-

lished the feast in honor of Our Lady of Victory, but

today known as Our Lady of the Rosary, on October 7th.

In 1917 the whole world was immersed in a far more

serious war. Our Lady asked the three Children of Fati-

ma to pray the Rosary every day to bring peace to the

world and an end to the war. The children faithfully

heeded her message and on October 13 they were prom-

ised “The war is going to end, and the soldiers will soon

return to their homes.” Once again, Our Lady of the

Rosary was victorious. However, she warned that if her

message was not heeded a worse war would come

about. History speaks for itself.

The answer is simple. Pray! Pray! And Pray! But most

particularly, pray the Rosary every day to obtain peace

and an end to the war. Real prayer must be backed up

with conversion of heart, a turning away from sin, and a

turning to God. We should pray the Rosary every day,

throughout the whole year, and not just for October.

In Jesus and Mary,

P.S. I will return to my series: “Pillars of Holiness” in

November.

Once again I repeat what Our Lady of Fatima told the

three children:

“Pray the Rosary every day, in order to obtain peace

for the world, and the end of the war.”

Please keep the Following in your Prayers

Lillian Ward Jeannie Morris

Eileen Sullivan Katerinna MacNeil

Jaspare Miranda Perinna Ruggerio

John Puttre Isabel D’Onofrio

Joy Lichten Teresa D’Onofrio

Patricia Tkach Isa D’Onofrio

Mario & Gloria Guiliano Caroline Pizzorusso

Sal & Barbara Grasso Nancy Mahoney

Paul Benfari Francis Roy Sedore

Katherine Dubiell Mike Gagliardi

Mario J. Guiliano, Sr. Josephine Campagna

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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 Archdio-cese of New York is asked to contact Sr. Eileen Clifford, O.P. at 212-371-1000 x 2949 or Deacon George J. Coppola at 917-861-1762. Both may also be reached via-e-mail at [email protected]. Information can also be found on the Archdiocesan website, www.archny.org. In keeping with the Archdiocesan policy regard-ing sexual abuse of minors, this information is provided to ensure that our children remain safe and secure. —————————————————————--

Join Teen Life:

Any teens who have been confirmed and have not already joined teen life are encouraged to join by going to the St Patrick's website and filling out a registration form. When registering, teens should be sure to provide cell phone numbers to receive important text mes-sages, and it is best to use either your Byram Hills email address or a gmail address so that you can regularly check the St. Patrick of Armonk Google Plus Community. So...how do you do that? You must provide a gmail address (students school email works!) asap. We will then send you an Invitation to join the google plus community you must "accept invitation". In or-der to find the invitation, you must have a google account, or gmail account. In your gmail make sure you check "All Mail" and/or "Social" or "Categories" to find your invitation to join. Sometimes it does not show up in the standard Inbox. It is important that you do this asap as we would like to use Google Plus as a means of communicating. AOL, Verizon and others do not work with Google plus. Parents are welcome to join our Google Plus Teen Life Community but you too must provide us with a gmail address. _________________________________________

CYO Registration is now OPEN Please go to https://leagueathletics.com/

Default.asp?org=Stpatrickarmonkcyobb, or

St Patrick’s website

at www.stpatrickinarmonk.org & select Youth /

CYO BB & then ‘Click here to Register for

2016/2017 season” & follow instructions.

We are using a new registration system.

Make sure you complete all requested fields and

checkout process/payment.

Registration Fees:

Sept 1 - Sept 25th : $275 for first child / $170 for

each additional child.

Sept 26th - Oct 10th : $375 for first child / $270 for

each additional child.

Registration closes after October 10th.

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Children’s Masses

I try to rotate the grades 1-7 for a homily directed at

them. Also, the children will sponsor the Mass by doing

the readings, handing out bulletins, and their parents set-

ting up the coffee social after Mass. (Please, parents,

volunteer for your child’s grade level –Thanks.) The

dates of these Masses are as follows:

Oct. 2...……1stGrade & Blessing of the Mothers

Oct. 16 ….….Teen Life Mass

Oct. 23 ……..Grade 2

Oct. 30……..Grade 3

Nov. 6 ……..Grade 4

Nov. 13 …….CYO Mass

Nov. 20 ……..Grade 5

Dec. 4 ………Grade 6

Dec. 11 ……..Grade 7

Jan. 8 ……….Grade 1

Jan 22 ………Grade 2

Jan. 29 ……...Grade 3

Feb. 5 ……….Grade 4

Feb. 12 ………Grade 5

Mar. 5 ……….Grade 6

Mar. 19 ………Grade 7