FINANCE COMMITEE CORNER

Last Sunday $6,812 was received in the offertory baskets at Mass and $5,058 was received through WeShare, for a total of $11,870. Thank you for so generously giving to our regular collection. The second collection in support of the church in Latin America totaled $1,982.
 

RELIGIOUS EDUCATION

Sunday School will begin again on September 8. Registration Packets were emailed  to the parents of current  students and posted on the Sunday School website. Paper copies will also be available at the rectory. You must register your child each year.  Please register by August 1.

If your child is not a current student please email me at [email protected] so I can send you a packet via email ….or you can pick up a registration packet at the rectory office.

We are so very grateful for the 20 Classroom Catechists, 8 Youth Assistants, several substitutes and event coordinators, and 3 Team members who monitor the school door, halls, and logistics. Without these generous and dedicated volunteers we would not be able to have our Religious Education Sunday Program for children.

If you have questions about Religious Education  classes for children  or wish to volunteer please call Tina Silvestro at 212-877-3111.

Women’s Group

Please join us for our next monthly meeting, Tuesday, June 25th at 7pm in the rectory. 
Contact Jackie ([email protected]) or Elizabeth ([email protected]) for additional details.
 

Pax Christi Metro New York

“I’ll be with you in spirit.” Have you ever said that to someone? Has someone ever said it to you? Usually it comes when someone can’t make a special occasion in person. It can be comforting, though we’d rather have the person with us in the flesh. It seems Jesus knew that feeling well. Providing us with himself in bread and wine makes it possible to have him with us not just in spirit, but in a tangible way. We can touch him, taste him, be nourished by him. This is what we celebrate in Sunday’s Feast of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ. And what’s more, we can all partake equally. In the Eucharist we do as Jesus asked us to do—we do this in remembrance of him, the one who fed the 5,000 and left no one hungry. The challenge for us today is to carry this forward. When Jesus says, “Give them some food yourselves,” he is also talking to us. We may not be able to multiply five loaves and two fish, but we can share what we have. Rather than ask, “Why does God allow this to happen” (hunger, destruction of farmland, investment in weapons rather than nutrition programs…), we need to remember what Jesus said: “Give them some food yourselves.”