PARISH OFFICE HOURS: Monday to Friday, 9 AM. to 4:30 PM (Closed for lunch, 1:00-2:00 PM) HORARIO DE LA CASA CURAL: Lunes a Viernes, 9 AM a 4:30 PM (Cerrada, 1 - 2 PM)

ANOINTING OF THE SICK/UNCIÓN DE ENFERMOS: Call anytime/llamar a cualquier hora.

SPECIAL DEVOTIONS/DEVOCIONES ESPECIALES: Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament with Benediction, Fridays, after the 7 PM Mass / Exposición del

Santisimo Sacramento con la Bendición : Viernes luego de la Misa de las 7 PM The Miraculous Medal Novena, on Mondays after the Mass./Novena de la Medalla Milagrosas, los lunes

luego de la Misa.

Charismatic prayer meeting, Tuesdays, after the 7 PM Mass/Grupo de Oración Carismática, Martes, luego de la Misa de 7PM.

BAPTISMS & MARRIAGES: By appointment only. Please call the Parish Office well in advance.

BAUTISMOS & BODAS: Hacer una cita de antemano.

SACRAMENT OF RECONCILIATION/SACRAMENTO DE LA RECONCILIACIÓN: 9:45 AM on Saturdays/ Sabado a las 9:45 AM. Any time by appointment / O llamar para una cita.

COMMUNION FOR THE HOMEBOUND: Any one who cannot attend church because of illness or age, please contact the parish office so that arrangements can be made to bring communion to you. /

COMUNION PARA LOS ENFERMOS: Llámanos para que uno de nuestros ministros te lleve la Sagrada

Comunión.

WELCOME, NEW PARISHIONERS! Please visit the Rectory so that we may formally register you as

members of the parish.

CHURCH OF ST JOSEPH

141 Ashburton Avenue, Yonkers, New York 10701

914 963 0730

E-mail: stjosephchurch8@optonline.net + Website: www.stjosephyonkers.org

Priest, Rev Joe A Francis

Deacon, Rev Mr Abraham Santiago

Ms Carmen Ureña, Parish Secretary

Mr Frank Dietrich, Cemetery Superintendent 914 963 0780

Ms Iris Flores, Director of Religious Education 914 457 4776

MASS SCHEDULE / HORARIO DE MISAS

Sun./Dom. 9 AM (English), 11 AM (Español)

Mon./Lun. 8:30 AM (English)

Tues./Mar. 7 PM (Español)

Wed./Mier. 8:30 AM (English) & 10:30 AM at Regency Ext. Care Center (English)

Fri./Vier. 7 PM (Español)

Sat./Sab. 9 AM Mass for Children / Families (English)

Readings for the Week of June 11, 2017 Lecturas para la semana del 11 de junio del 2017

Sun./Dom.: Ex 34: 4-6, 8-9, 2 Cor 13: 11-13 / Jn 3: 16-18

Mon./Lunes: 2 Cor 1: 1-7 / Mt 5: 1-12

Tues./Mar.: 2 Cor 1: 18-22 / Mt 5: 13-16

Wed./Mier.: 2 Cor 3: 4-11 / Mt 5: 17-19

Thurs./Juev.: 2 Cor 3: 15— 4: 1, 3-6

Fri./Vier.: 2 Cor 4: 7-15 / Mt 5: 27-32 Sat./Sab.: 2 Cor 5: 14-21 / Mt 5: 33-37

Next Sun./Próx. Dom.: Dt 8: 2-3, 14-16; 1 Cor 10: 16-17 / Jn 6: 51-58

“Ignorance of Scripture is ignorance of Christ” - St. Jerome “Ignorancia de las Escrituras es ignorancia de Cristo” - S. Jerónimo

Flowers, Sanctuary Lamp & wine/bread

Remember your loved ones by dedicating, in their honor, the weekly Flowers, Sanctuary Lamp and Bread & Wine.

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Date/Fecha Time/Hora Intention/Intención Sunday/Domingo, June 11th - The Most Holy Trinity 9 AM James T. Meade†

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Monday/Lunes, June 12th - 8:30 AM Available

Tuesday/Martes, June 13th -

St. Anthony of Padua

7 PM Available

Wednesday/Miercoles, June 14th - 8:30 AM Frank & Veronica Kegan ††

10:30 AM (Mass at Regency)

Friday/Viernes, June 16th - 7 PM Jose Agustin Polonia †

Saturday/Sabados, June 17th -

9:00 AM Available

Sunday/Domingo, June 18th - The Most Holy Body & Blood of Christ (Corpus Christi) 9 AM James T. Meade†

11 AM Sixto DeJardins,Esteban DeJardins †† Jose A. DeJardins, Panfilo Lopez† †

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Collection of June 4 Colecta del 4 de junio

Collection, Church Property Fund Colecta, Fondo del Complejo Parroquial

Collection, Church in Africa Colecta, Iglesia en Africa

Thank you for your generous support and for all that

you do for St Joseph’s Parish. / Gracias a todos por

su generosidad y por todo lo que hacen por esta Igle-

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Saint of the Week

St. Anthony of Padua, Feastday: June 13

Saint Anthony of Padua, born Fernando Martins de Bul-

hões, also known as Anthony of Lisbon, was a Portuguese

Catholic priest and friar of the Franciscan Order. He was

born and raised by a wealthy family in Lisbon, Portugal,

and died in Padua, Italy.

San Antonio nació en Portugal, pero adquirió el apellido

por el que lo conoce el mundo, de la ciudad italiana de Pa-

dua, donde murió y donde todavía se veneran sus reliquias.

León XIII lo llamó "el santo de todo el mundo", porque su

imagen y devoción se encuentran por todas partes. Llama-

do "Doctor Evangélico". Escribió sermones para todas las

fiestas del año "El gran peligro del cristiano es predicar y

no practicar, creer pero no vivir de acuerdo con lo que se

cree" -San Antonio

"Era poderoso en obras y en palabras. Su cuerpo habitaba esta tierra pero su alma vivía en el cielo" -un biógrafo de

ese tiempo.

La Santísima Trinidad (Domingo, 11 de Junio) "Un sólo Dios, un solo Señor"

El dogma fundamental, del que todo fluye y al que to-

do en el cristianismo viene a parar es el de la Santísima

Trinidad. De ahí que, después de haber recordado uno

tras otro en el curso del Cielo a Dios Padre, Hijo, autor

de la Redención, y a Dios Espíritu Santo, autor de

nuestra santificación, la Iglesia nos incita hoy a la con-

sideración y rendida adoración del gran misterio que

nos hace reconocer y adorar en Dios la unidad de natu-

raleza en la trinidad de personas.

"Apenas hemos celebrado la venida del Espíritu Santo,

cantamos la fiesta de la Santísima Trinidad en el Ofi-

cio este Domingo, escribía San Ruperto en el siglo XII,

y este lugar está muy bien escogido, porque tan pronto

como hubo bajado el Espíritu Santo, comenzó la predi-

cación y la creencia; y, en el bautismo, la fe y confe-

sión en el nombre del Padre, y del Hijo, y del Espíritu

Santo."

Afirmaciones del dogma de la Trinidad, se ven conti-

nuamente en la Liturgia. En el nombre del Padre, y del

Hijo, y del Espíritu Santo, así empieza y termina la

Santa Misa y el Oficio divino, y se confieren los Sacra-

mentos. Igualmente A los salmos sigue el Gloria Pa-

tri ...; los himnos tradicionales acaban con la doxología

y las oraciones con una conclusión en honor a las Tres

Divinas Personas.

La devoción a la Santísima Trinidad se inició en el si-

glo X, y a partir de esta época se fue también difun-

diendo su fiesta litúrgica, entrando en el calendario

romano en 1331. Si bien desde el comienzo del cristia-

nismo la oración litúrgica se ha dirigido al Padre, por

mediación del Hijo y en el Espíritu Santo, y el mismo

Jesús habló de Dios como una comunión de amor y

manifestó el misterio de las tres divinas personas, lo

original de esta fiesta es el honrar específicamente a

Dios sin tener como motivo un acontecimiento salvífi-

co, ni la memoria de un santo. Se trata de "profesar la

fe verdadera, conocer la gloria de la eterna Trinidad y

adorar su unidad todopoderosa".

La antigua iglesia hispánica, en los siglos V al VII,

enseñó magníficamente la fe trinitaria, sobre todo en

los concilios de Toledo, y de su liturgia procede el pre-

facio propio de esta solemnidad. Es consolador saber

que nuestro Dios es "uno sólo, pero no solita-

rio" (Concilio VI de Toledo, año 638), amor puro que

sólo busca darse de forma creadora y llevarnos a parti-

cipar en su unidad vital eterna. (www.ewtn.com)

The Most Holy Trinity - Year of Matthew (A)- June 11, 2017

The Holy Trinity - (June 11, MMXVII) The feast of the Holy Trinity is the one major celebration in

the liturgical year that has its focus on a doctrine or teaching.

The word ‘Trinity’ is not in the Bible, nor the word ‘Triune.’

But, the teaching or revelation from God is very much there,

and we have to call it something. Tertullian, a brilliant 3rd cen-

tury theologian from Alexandria, Egypt was the first to coin

the word 'Trinity'.

De Trinitate, ‘On the Trinity’ is perhaps the most difficult

work that the great St Augustine ever wrote. We are also told

that St Patrick used the shamrock, to explain the Holy Trinity.

In other words, start to use your imagination - because words

fail us, when we try to explain, the nature of God. The doc-

trine of the Trinity is the unique way that Christianity talks

about God – it’s our very particular route map that we need to

have some familiarity with so that this special experience of

who God is can be shared with others.

The feast of the Holy Trinity deals with the nature of God:

who is He, what is He like? That, by definition has to remain

a mystery.

There‘s an ancient Hindu Sanskrit description of God - and the

phrase is ‘niti niti’. It can be literally translated as ‘not this,

not that’. That’s to say, whatever we can say or think of God,

he’s not that. He is beyond neat definitions.

A text precious to the Jews, which we can even call their creed

is the ‘shema Israel’ - from Dt 6 “Hear, O Israel: the LORD

our God, the LORD is One,”

And this creed is also precious to us. God is One. But at the

heart of the Christian faith is a further precious truth: there are

relationships within this One God, relationships between the

Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. The God who is abso-lutely One, has revealed himself as 3 persons. In John 16 Jesus

says - ‘I have yet many things to say to you, but you cannot

bear them now. When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide

you into all the truth. And ‘all that the Father has is mine’.

Whereas in the Western tradition of the church we have tended

to depict the Trinity as a triangle, the Eastern Church has al-

ways preferred a circle. The Trinity is like an ever-moving

circle of dance in which the 3 persons constantly and forever

move in and through one another in perfect bliss and harmony.

Greek theologians called it ‘perichoresis’, which means ‘to

dance around'. It’s the Divine Dance of the persons of the

Trinity. Perichoresis refers to the divine choreography by

which the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit have from all

eternity engaged in a Divine Dance of life.

St John of Damascus, an early Christian theologian, who was

influential in developing the doctrine of the ‘perichoresis’,

described it as a ‘cleaving together’. Such is the fellowship in

the Godhead that the Father, the Son & the Holy Spirit, not

only embrace each other, but they also enter into each other,

permeate each other, and dwell in each other.

There’s a profound biblical basis for this understanding - be-

cause Jesus says in John’s gospel, ‘all that I have is yours and

all you have is mine’. Elsewhere in John, he says, ‘the Father

and I are one’.

To that one God, the Father, the Son and Holy Spirit be all

honor and glory now and for eternity. Amen

La Santísima Trinidad -Año de San Mateo - 11 de junio 2017

Announcements/Anuncios

♦ ¡Mini-Retiro, Domingo, 25 de Junio! Nuestro Comité

Pro-Vida le invita a Ud., y a sus familiares y amigos a su

Mini-Retiro Anual Pro-Vida, el domingo, 25 de junio, des-

de 1 PM a 6 PM, en el auditorio escolar. Se presentaran

varios temas de la vida y dignidad humana. Informarse,

llamando a la Sra. Jesusita Rivera al 562-4195. Si puede

colaborar con comida, refrescos u otros aportes, favor de

coordinar de antemano con la Sra. Jesusita.

♦ Spread the Word and Save the Date of Sunday, June

25 from 1 PM to 6 PM. For our bilingual Annual Pro-

Life Day of Recollection in our school auditorium. Our

Pro-Life Committee could use your help with the Day of

Recollection (set-up, food, cleanup, expenses, etc.) If you

are able and willing, then kindly contact Ms. Jesusita Rivera

at 562-4195.

♦ RICA: Clases para los adultos que buscan entrar en la

Iglesia Católica o completar su Iniciación Cristiana; están

abiertas los domingos a las 12:30 PM a 1:30 PM, en el

salón de conferencia del edificio escolar. Para más infor-

mación contactar a la Sra. Yolanda Faña al 914-433-6390.

♦ R.C.I.A. Classes for adults seeking to enter the Catholic

Church or complete their Christian Initiation; Are open on

Sundays at 12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m., in the conference room

of the school building. For more information contact Ms.

Yolanda Faña at 914-433-6390.

♦ Eighth Annual New York Catholic Bible Summit

Saturday, June 17, 2017. New York Catholic Center

350 East 56th Street, Manhattan.

♦ ENCOURAGE is a Catholic Apostolate for those who

have family members with same sex attraction. A new

website has been created to help the faithful who are sear-

ching for information about Encourage, the Church’s tea-

chings on same sex attraction and spiritual support:

www.encourageny.com

Religious Education News Registrations 2017/2018: Registration fees will be: $85 for 1 child/ $130 for 2 children/ $170 for 3 children/ $180 for 4 children or more.

Registration forms for children currently in the

program and returning next year: all forms due by

May 13.

New students - Registrations will take place in person in the Religious Education office on the following dates: May 20 -- from 12pm- 2pm

June 10, 17, 24 -- from 12pm - 2pm

July 8, 15 -- from 12pm - 2pm

GOAL / META (2017) $19,000 Please help us reach our goal. If you would like to make

your gift, please fill out a pledge card located in the vesti-

bule and either mail it to the Appeal office or submit it to

the parish. You can also pledge online at

www.cardinalsappeal.org. Thank you for your support of

the Appeal and please pray for its success at

our parish. Thank you for the continued sacrifice!

Por favor ayúdenos a alcanzar nuestra meta. Si desea hacer

su regalo, por favor llene una tarjeta de promesa que se en-

cuentra en el vestíbulo y envíela por correo a la oficina de

Apelaciones o envíela a la parroquia. También puede com-

prometerse en línea en www.cardinalsappeal.org. Gracias

por su apoyo a la Apelación y por favor ore por su éxito en

nuestra parroquia. ¡Gracias por el sacrificio continuo!

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