Finance Committee Corner Last Sunday $6,462 was received in the offertory
baskets at Mass and $3,389 was received through Parish Pay, for a total of $9,851. However, the weekly operating costs to run our parish, such as salaries, benefits, utilities, office and program expenses, etc., are approximately $20,000. This means
we had an operating deficit of $10,149 this week.
Our second collection in support of the Soup Kitchen totaled $1,388. Thank you.
Please try to increase your weekly gifts so that we can eliminate our operating deficit. And please consider signing up for Parish Pay There is no cost to participate in the program. You may log onto
www.parishpay.com or call 1866-727-4741 ext.1 to sign up.
SOLITARY CONFINEMENT AWARENESS EVENT
The Justice, Peace and Integrity of Creation Committee of the Holy Name of Jesus Parish invites you to learn more about issues and problems in the use of Solitary Confinement in New York State jails and prisons. Please join us
Tuesday, July 19 @ 7:00PM @ Our Lady of the Angels Chapel (air-conditioned) located on West 96
th Street between Broadway and Amsterdam Ave. Speakers include Zachariah Presutti, SJ, LMSW who is active in prison ministry and NY State Senator Bill Perkins, a sponsor of the Humane Alternatives to Solitary Confinement (HALT) Act. Question and answer period to follow. Please RSVP to Jackie Espinal @ 212-749-0276, Ext 112 or
[email protected].
FOOD FOR THOUGHT South Carolina Republican Tim Scott, the US Senate's only African-American member, gave a speech in which he revealed that he, too, has been targeted by police.
Politico: "[A]s recently as last year he was stopped by a Capitol Police officer who did not recognize him as a senator even though he was wearing his member’s pin. 'The pin, I know. You, I don’t,' Scott recalled the officer saying with 'a little attitude.'
"... Scott said that in the course of one year as an elected official, he was stopped seven times by law enforcement. And while in some of those instances he was speeding, Scott said the 'vast majority' of those encounters were the result of 'nothing more than driving a new car in the wrong neighborhood or some other reason just as trivial.'
"'... I simply ask you this: Recognize that just because you do not feel the pain, the anguish of another, does not mean it does not exist,' he said. 'To ignore their struggles, our struggles, does not make them disappear. It will simply leave you blind and the American family very vulnerable.'”
SUNDAY SCHOOL Sunday School Classes will begin Sunday, September 11 with the 10:00 Family Mass in the Church. Religious instruction is held in the school immediately after the Family Mass. Registration Deadline is August 1. Some Classes were overfilled last year. We may have to place your child on a waiting list after August 1. You will not be able to register your child on the first day of class.
Re-registration forms and information will be mailed to current students. Registration Packets for new students can be picked up at the parish office or found on the Sunday School website
www.blessedsacramentsundayschool.org