One mass will be celebrated on Columbus Day, October 9th at 12:10pm. The rectory will be open from 9:00am - 1:00pm
Finance Committee Corner Last Sunday $10,506 was received in the offertory
baskets at Mass and $7,465 was received through Parish Pay,
for a total of $17,971. Thank you for so generously giving to our regular collection. The second collection in support of St. Joseph’s Seminary totaled $2,466. Thank you!
October 8 – Second Collection Soup Kitchen. Blessed Sacrament’s Soup Kitchen meets every Sunday at 2PM on 70
th Street. Staffed by many wonderful parish volunteers, the Soup Kitchen prepares delicious meals for locals in need.
Thank you for your participation in ParishPay. Your generosity is greatly appreciated! Please note that ParishPay has recently been bought over by Liturgical Publications and that beginning October 9th the ParishPay online giving platform will be transferred to Liturgical Publication’s WeShare platform.
The next time you log into your account, whether through the ParishPay website or the new WeShare website, which will be posted at the end of the week on the parish site, you will be asked to review your contact information, address, payment method, and current giving for accuracy.
The WeShare website will be inaccessible from October 9th until about October 12th while the transfer is taking place. If you run into any issues accessing your account after the 12th, please contact Customer Service at 1-800-950-9952, Option One.
Thank you again for your help and for your commitment to our parish. We appreciate everything that you do for our community.
SUNDAY SCHOOL REGISTRATION HAS REOPENED.
SUNDAY SCHOOL CLASSESFOR 2017-2018 began on Sunday, September 10. Religious instruction is held in the school from 11:00 -12:15. Re-registration forms have been emailed to current students and posted on the Sunday School website. Students must register each year. For students who will be new to the program please send your email to:
[email protected] or pick up a packet at the rectory or go to the Sunday school website:
blessedsacramentsundayschool.org PLEASE DO NOT EMAIL THE COMPLETED FORMS BACK!!! Please send by postal mail or drop off completed forms with a $150 check per family at the rectory office.
The Sunday School Parent meeting will take place in your child's classroom on Sunday, October 1 after the Family Mass. This is an opportunity to meet the Catechist, learn about the Sunday School curriculum, class requirements, and to ask questions. VOLUNTEERS NEEDED Sunday School teachers and Assistants are needed to serve in this important Parish Ministry. Volunteers who work with children follow a screening process as required by the Archdiocese. Please call or email Tina Silvestro for more information. 212-877-3111 or
[email protected] .
RITE OF CHRISTIAN INITIATION OF ADULTS RCIA is the process designed by the Church for adults to receive the sacraments of Baptism, Confirmation and First Communion. The goals are to give a complete overview of Catholic teaching and practice and to begin to deepen a Christian spiritual life centered in the Sunday Scripture readings. The sacraments are received at the Easter Vigil Mass.
Inquiry discussions for adults will begin on Monday, September 25 at 6:30 pm. If you (or anyone you know) are interested in learning more about our program or registering, please call Tina Silvestro at 212-877-3111.
Sponsors are needed for adults who are preparing for the Sacraments of Initiation. You must be Baptized, Confirmed, and regularly receive Communion. You will be needed to assist someone as s/he prepares for the Sacraments and present her/him for the Rites of Christian Initiation. Please call or email Tina Silvestro for more information: 212-877-3111/[email protected]
ALL ARE WELCOME! FREE COMPLETE SCREENING OF CLASSIC DEKALOG FILM SERIES
This acclaimed film series raises the great moral questions embedded in real life, often lived out in difficult circumstances. In his ten hour-long films, the late and legendary director and co-writer Krzysztof Kieslowski explores the theme and challenge of each Commandment through characters living in a typical Soviet-era housing complex.
Come join us starting October 11
th from 7:30pm – 9:00pm for this thought provoking series and for a discussion after each film.
MOM’S NIGHT Please join us for our Monthly Moms' Night – The Group meets every second Tuesday of the month at 7pm in the Rectory. The next meeting will be October 10
th. We share refreshments and help each other grow in faith and raise our children as committed Catholics. All details can be found on Meetup:
www.meetup.com/NYC-Catholic-Families/
CATHOLIC FAMILIES GROUP Please join our Blessed Sacrament Catholic Families Group! We offer a range of events to help each other in raising our children as Catholics and becoming better in our own practice of the faith. We also host a monthly moms' group. Sign up at
www.meetup.com/NYC-Catholic-Families/ - free to join and events are free.
FATHER WILLIAM MENINGER Please save the date for October 16th, 7 to 8:30pm. Trappist monk and best-selling author, Fr. William Meninger will present a talk on "The Loving Search for God in an Age of Discontent" at Blessed Sacrament Church
HAITIAN PRAYER GROUP The Companions of Jesus are a charismatic Haitian prayer group, and all are welcome to attend. The group meets every Friday in the Rectory from 7-9PM. Prayers are held in French, Creole, and English.
During this Season of Creation which concluded on Oct. 4
th with the Feast of St. Francis of Assisi, the focus was on fossil fuels. We need only look at the catastrophic events of the last month with wild fires, hurricanes and flooding to see the urgency of addressing the issue of fossil fuels. There is now a scientific consensus that our fossil fuel use is driving a rise in global temperatures and with it, the destructive consequences of that warming. Since carbon and methane emissions stay in the atmosphere for decades, things are bound to get worse.
We can take prophetic actions to change the course of events. We can reduce our carbon footprint in our personal lives by:
1) Modifying our personal daily habits to use less fuel/electricity
2) Making The SWITCH to household
renewableenergy or suggesting that our co-op do that either through Con Ed itself or through a reliable Energy Service Company (an ESCO) that works with ConEd, such as Green Mountain Energy or CleanChoice Energy and
3) Checking our personal investments to disinvest from fossil fuel-related industries (natural gas, oil, fracking equipment, pipeline companies etc.) and invest in renewables, which many financial advisors now consider less risky than investing in fossil fuels.
Regarding advocacy, we can push our elected officials to set higher targets for getting off fossil fuels as a city or state. We can push against infrastructure that brings fracked gas from neighboring states into New York, and against the construction of pipelines that bring dirty tarsands oil from Canada. We can advocate for the construction of wind and solar farms and greater tax breaks for those who install solar panels. And we can push our own institutions and the government entities to disinvest in fossil fuels and invest in renewable energy, which is growing at a fast pace.
Our future and that of our children and their children depend on our actions now.
As theologian Erin Lothes put it in her presentation here on the West Side two weeks ago, our sacrifice in making some of these changes is united with Christ’s sacrifice in the crucifixion. It is a sacrifice for the greater good of humankind, in keeping with what we are called to do by Catholic Social Teaching.
Theater of Light Inc Presents:
Three "Acts" of Grace a compilation of 3 original plays
*THE ART OF TEA by Daniel Damiano
Play ONE is a story of what one can do with a grievance resulting from one careless screw.
Can she forgive this most grievous offence? Will she choose to be gracious, ah here’s the suspense! More is brewing in this play than tea leaves, you may never sit down for a cup of tea in quite the same way. Director Benjamin Viertel
*MORE HUMAN by Emily Snyder Play TWO is a story of humanity and what it can learn from technology. How computerized will our future be? For better or for worse? You decide. Director Ernest Johns
*A HIT'S A HIT by Colette Silvestri Play THREE the writer can’t write....she’s as blocked as can be and the muse is so tipsy she hardly can see. What is the recipe for a good joke? You won't believe the answer. Director Paige Kiliany
Original music and lyrics Kathy Sillaway Ulrich
CAST Maureen Van Trease & Ellen DiStasi
Stage Manager/Understudy Penny Pollak
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