THE CHURCH OF ST. JOHN THE EVANGELIST 71 Murray Avenue, Goshen, New York 10924 www.sjegoshen.org - Tel: 294-5328 - [email protected]

The Calling of Saint Matthew, by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio St. Matthew’s feast day is September 21.

Each year, a special collection is taken for the support of St. Joseph’s Seminary and the archdiocesan seminary system; this year’s collection will be taken in October. (Because of an error by the envelope company, the envelope was in the packet for last week; we’ll take up a collection the first weekend in October, and will include what was received last week.) In preparation for that, seminarians are sent for a weekend visit to different parishes throughout the archdiocese. Next weekend, we will welcome two seminarians, Michael Ugbor and Joseph Dutan; one will speak briefly at each Mass about the seminary and the appeal. Please join me in welcoming them! +++

TWENTY-FIFTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME - SEPTEMBER 18, 2016

Clergy and Staff Rev. George Hafemann, Pastor Rev. Jeffrey Pomeisl, Parochial Vicar Rev. Joseph Komonchak, Weekend Associate Deacon James Faulkner School Principal: Lisa Ferraro School: 294-6434 Religious Education Coordinator: Cathy Fife Religious Education Office: 294-6847

THE TWENTY-FIFTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME MASSES FOR THE WEEK

Parish Office SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 2016 8:00 AM Andy Pickaney, Jr. 4:00 PM Confessions 5:00 PM James Patrick Sullivan, 9/11 Responder 6:30 PM In Loving Memory of Francesco Carcione and Maria Teresa Calandi

73 Murray Ave. Monday - Friday: 9:00a.m. to 4:00p.m. Phone No. 294-5328 Fax No.: 294-2577

Mass Schedule Saturday 8:00 a.m. Sunday Vigil 5:00 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. (Spanish) Sunday 8:00 a.m., 10:00 a.m., 12:00 noon, 5:00 p.m. Weekdays Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday 6:30 a.m. Weekdays Wednesday 5:15 p.m. Adoration - Wednesday 6-9 p.m. and First Friday - 7:00a.m. - 7:30a.m. Saturday

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 2016 8:00 AM Anthony and Hilda Ellert 10:00 AM Frank J. Cifuni 12:00 PM Barbara Rysinger Matuszewski 5:00 PM Deceased Members of the Leddy Family MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 2016 6:30 AM

Sacrament of Reconciliation Saturday 4:00 to 4:45 p.m. Thursday before every First Friday 4:00 to 4:30 p.m.

Sacrament of Baptism The sacrament of Baptism will be celebrated in English on the first and second Sundays of the month at 1:30pm, and in Spanish on the fourth Sunday of the month at 1:30pm. Couples who are awaiting the birth of a child may call the parish office to schedule an appointment with one of the priests.

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 2016 6:30 AM Mark Irons 10:00 AM Mass at Valley View WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2016 7:35 AM Mass at Burke Catholic High School 10:00 AM Mass at Elant Adult Care 5:15 PM William Carberry

Sacrament of the Sick Please call the parish office if you or your loved one are in Orange Regional Medical Center, a Health Care Facility or Homebound so a priest may come and visit.

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2016 6:30 AM Irmgard O’Connell 1:00 PM Mass at Orange County Jail

Parish Membership

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2016 6:30 AM George Gisselbrecht and Pothen Philipose

Every family in the parish should be properly registered. If you move to another parish, or change your address, please notify the rectory and give the old as well as the new address.

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2016 8:00 AM Roger A. Pikul, Sr. 4:00 PM Confessions 5:00 PM Joseph and Elizabeth Brown 6:30 PM Adela Epinoza, Catalino Ramirez and the Special Intention of Rosalina Ramirez SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 2016 8:00 AM For the Parishioners of St. John’s 10:00 AM Sean Coyle - Interpreted Mass for the Deaf 12:00 PM Lucy Cifuni 5:00 PM Pat Canterino

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RELIGIOUS EDUCATION Today is Catechetical Sunday. We commission the catechists to commit themselves to the very important ministry of Catechetics as they go forth and spread the Good News of Jesus Christ. We offer our prayers and best wishes to Connor Edward Green and Laura Claire McCloskey Who will be married at St. John’s on Saturday, October 1, 2016 St. John’s School need volunteers to help in the cafeteria and for recess from 11:30am to 1:00pm, Monday through Friday. If you can assist on one of those days please call 294-6434. BAPTISM We welcome Caleb Alexander Zedek to the Catholic community of St. John the Evangelist SPONSOR CERTIFICATES Please remember your must be registered for at least six (6) months in order to receive sponsor certificates. Thank you. RECTORY MEETING ROOM Mon, Sep 19 Salesians Wed, Sep 21 Separated and Divorced

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Pray for the safe and speedy return of our men and women serving overseas, especially Specialist John Donovan, SGT. Shawn Jamieson, SGT. Steven Marasco, SGT. Timothy Marino, CPL. Gerard Scparta, and Corey Seipp On Thursday, September 22nd in McCaffrey Hall, doors open at 5:45pm and games start at 6:45pm. Team # 2

40 DAYS FOR LIFE From September 28 through November 6, you’re invited to join other Christians for 40 Days for Life 40 days of prayer and fasting for an end to abortion. You’re also invited to stand and peacefully pray during a 40 day vigil in the public right-of-way near Goshen Planned Parenthood, 7 Coates Drive. St. John’s Church sponsors every Friday during the campaign from 7:00 a.m. - Noon. During these hours we try to get a minimum of two prayer volunteers per hour. Sign up sheets are in the back of the church if you’re available to pray at Goshen Planned Parenthood OR you can sign up to pray and select a day of the week by going to the website 40daysforlife.com/Goshen. If you’d like more information, and especially if you’d like to volunteer to help, please contact Dawn at 845-325-4823. 40 DAYS FOR LIFE KICKOFF RALLY Please join us as we kickoff the 40 Days for Life campaign at Goshen Planned Parenthood on Wednesday, September 28th at 10:00 a.m. on Coates Drive. Due to limited parking, we will be meeting at Goshen Christian Reformed Church (Route 17A) at 9:40 a.m. to shuttle down to the vigil location. LIFE CHAIN You are invited to join the 29th National Life Chain on Sunday, October 2nd, from 2:00 - 3:30pm, as we stand for LIFE on Route 211 in Middletown, near Middletown Honda. The Life Chain is a peaceful, prayerful public witness of over 58 million lives lost to abortion. Please join us as we pray for our nation, people in crisis situations, conversion of all those working in the abortion facilities and for and end to abortion. For more information please contact Adoration takes place every Wednesday evening from 6:00-9:00pm in the Chapel. Please come to spend some time with the Blessed Sacrament.

Schedules for the Week of September 24/25 5:00 p.m. 6:30 p.m. 8:00 a.m. 10:00 a.m. 12:00 p.m. 5:00 p.m.

Extraordinary Ministers M. Albanese M. DeLeon N. Carey M. Lundy M. Martin D. Missalidis

Lectors R. Palmer G. Roeder W. Miller N. Krebs J. Navilio Page 3 - 446 St. John

In your prayers please remember all of the souls in Purgatory.

COLLECTION FOR SEPTEMBER 11, 2016 1ST $ 7,551

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The Catholic Daughters Court Genevieve Walsh #918 proudly announces the names of the winners of our annual Greta Foley Scholarship. Each of the following students were awarded $500.00. Congratulations! Goshen High School Senior Stephanos Tzouganatos Burke Catholic High School Diana Mancilla St. John’s School 8th Grader going to Burke Catholic Nicolas Castro Separated and Divorced Catholics will meet on Wednesday, September 21st at 7:00pm in the Rectory Meeting Room. Please call Helen Piltman at 563-0604 for more information. Music is an important part of the Church’s liturgy. We are blessed to have a dedicated Senior Choir singing each week at the 10:00am Mass. The choir is looking for new members, especially ones who can sing tenor and bass. Rehearsals are Thursdays from 7:00 to 8:30pm. If you are interested, please see Dr. Hubbard after Mass, or phone her at 845-373-6144. The Children’s Choir is also welcoming new members from among the parish children in grades 3 and up. Rehearsals are Thursdays from 6:00 to 6:45pm. Please see Dr. Hubbard after Mass if you would like more information or give her a call at 845-373-6144. Please come and pray the Rosary every Sunday at 7:30 a.m. before the 8:00 a.m. Mass.

The National Shrine of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel in Middletown, NY will host a Young Adult Pilgrimage to Holy Doors on Saturday, September 24 from 1:00-8:00pm. The day includes featured speakers Father Justin Cinnante and Father Francis Amodio; the celebrant of Mass will be Bishop Peter Byrne. The day includes talks, confessions, Vigil Mass, barbeque, bonfire and musical performances. Sponsored by the Orange County Catholic Young Adults. For more information or to RSVP, please contact Luigi Manente ([email protected]). The Feast of St. Therese of Lisieux will be celebrated at the National Shrine of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel, 70 Carmelite Drive, Middletown, NY beginning Friday, September 30th at 7:00pm with Solemn Evening Prayer and Saturday, October 1st at 10:00am with Morning Prayer, followed by Confessions, Solemn Feast Day Mass, Blessing of the Roses and Veneration of her Relics, Lunch and afternoon conference by Rev. Robert Traudt, O. Carm. Please call Carol Bezak, Shrine Director at 845-343-1879, Ext. 22 for registration information. SICK LIST REQUEST—To all those who have a family member on the sick list, Please update your request. The forms must be up-dated every six (6) weeks . THANK YOU BULLETIN SICK LIST: PLEASE NOTE: We will place names in the list for a period of six (6) weeks. If you wish the name repeated you must submit a new form. Requests will be accepted only from the sick person or an immediate family member, also, include the relationship with said person. Detach and return: I would like my name entered in the Bulletin Sick List and give my permission to do so. NAME (Print) ________________________________________

In your prayers please remember, Barbara Jean Brancato, James Bruno, Bob and Patricia Frederick, Abby Furco, JoAnne Gale, Evelyn Glynn, John Kennedy, Agnes Gertrude Keough, Kim Martin, Florence Navarro, Thomasina Nelson, Mary O’Brien, Susan O’Brien, John Patane, Sr., Linda Pedersen, Marie Ramirez, Gianna Rose, Lisa Shina, Karen Taphorn, and all those in need, that they may recover through the healing power of Our Lord.

DATE: _________________ __________________________________________

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SIGNATURE & RELATIONSHIP (MUST BE A FAMILY MEMBER)

As previously announced, the first youth group meeting of the new school year is this evening from 6:00 to 7:30pm in the parish house (67 Murray Avenue). All teens in grades 8 through 12 are welcome. We’ve prepared a schedule of meetings, apostolic works, and events for the fall; this is available on the parish website, and is included in my weekly Flocknote. Our principal goal in gathering our teens together, as with everything we do, is to help them grow in their own relationships with Christ. That’s why the catechetical component of the monthly meetings is the centerpiece. To that end, I’ve asked Rebecca Loomis to lead the meetings, at least for the fall. Becca is known to many at St. John’s; she and her family are longtime parishioners. After graduating from Benedictine College in Atchison, Kansas, Becca spent the last three years working for an organization called St. Paul’s Outreach (www.spo.org); she spent one year at Arizona State University, and two at Texas State University. While there, she essentially served as a missionary — quite successfully — to college students. We’re sometimes led to believe that twenty-something’s are a “lost cause” as far as the Faith goes, though nothing could be further from the truth. In any event, it’s vitally important that our teens see and hear from someone not much older than they, who loves Christ and the Church and takes the gospel seriously. Please continue to pray for our teens, their parents, their teachers and coaches, and all who work to help them see how much God loves them, and the great things He has in store for them!

+++ It seems that my column last week led some to conclude that they shouldn’t “bother” me with various things, because Fr. Jeff and I are so “busy.” That wasn’t my intention – and I want nothing more than to be “bothered” for confession, spiritual counseling, sick calls, baptism interviews, teaching and the like! Those are what we do – and nothing brings us greater joy. When I was assigned to St. Mary’s in Port Jervis in 2007, I inherited a parish “business manager” – a retired executive, Jim Wilcox, who is a lifelong parishioner there. Jim was a godsend and spared me much administrative work, for which I have little aptitude and even less patience. His presence freed me up to do genuine pastoral work, and I will be forever grateful that he was on staff for all but the last few months of my tenure. I am working to introduce a similar position here. The administrative end of a pastor’s life has just become too complex for one person to manage it all. Even in the nine years that I’ve been a pastor, the demands have grown exponentially. There are financial protocols, insurance regulations, requirements for contractors, and a dozen other things that seem to change with dizzying regularity. There are plenty of lay people who are much better able to assimilate and administer those things than I’ll ever be. Faithfully your priest, Fr. George Hafemann

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This article appeared in Crisis Magazine online on August 11, 2016.

Nature’s Own Reliquary RICHARD UPSHER SMITH, JR. Have you ever imagined that a person could stand inside a martyr’s reliquary? This summer I did, and you can, too, at least as long as a courageous group of Catholic lay people are able to keep Our Lady of Martyrs Shrine at Auriesville, NY, open. This shrine, which is the location of the National Shrine of the North American Martyrs and birthplace of St. Kateri Tekakwitha, was established by Jesuits in 1885, and was a great pilgrimage site through much of the twentieth century. However, with the decline in the practice of pilgrimage in recent decades, the Jesuits struggled to maintain the shrine, and in 2015 handed it over to a newly organized non-profit called The Friends of Our Lady of Martyrs Shrine, Inc., the board of which is chaired by the Most Rev. Edward Scharfenberger, Bishop of Albany. Bishop Scharfenberger has declared his hope that the restored shrine will become a center of the new evangelization. However, the Diocese of Albany is not supporting the shrine financially. Therefore, it is up to concerned Catholics everywhere to begin to make pilgrimages and generous donations to this blessed site. Pope Pius XII called this shrine “nature’s reliquary—the verdant hill that slopes up from the quiet easy-flowing river of the Mohawks.” At the top of that verdant hill, there is now a shady, grassy square marked by exquisite mosaics of the Seven Sorrows of Our Lady, much in need of repair, which was the location of the Mohawk town of Ossernenon in the seventeenth century. To this town, in the summer of 1642, Mohawk warriors brought two captive Jesuits and several captive Christian Hurons, including a girl baptized Thérèse. The captives had already been badly tortured at the place of their capture, and on an island in Lake Champlain, where the Mohawk warband had stopped at a large encampment of confederated Iroquois warriors. They faced further torture at Ossernenon and neighboring towns, until it was decided to execute the notable Christian Hurons, but to enslave the others along with the Jesuits. Aside from administering savage beatings, cuttings, and burnings with coals, the natives had ripped out the prisoners’ fingernails with their teeth, and had gnawed the captives’ fingers almost to stumps. As leader, Fr. Jogues was treated worst of all, and his left thumb was sawn off with a clam-shell. Even as slaves, Fr. Isaac Jogues and René Goupil, a donné or lay apostle, whom Jogues had just admitted to the order, preached and healed and baptized as much as they could. However, Goupil was seen signing an Indian child with the sign of the Cross by the child’s grandfather, who suspected Goupil of sorcery. On the Feast of St. Michael the Archangel, while Fr. Jogues and Goupil were walking outside the palisade of the town saying their Rosary together, two young braves, incited by the suspicious grandfather, approached them. One drew a tomahawk from beneath his blanket, and split Goupil’s skull. Jogues quickly knelt beside Goupil to give him absolution, and heard his last words, “Jesus, Jesus, Jesus!” Jogues was hurried inside the town by the assassins, and Goupil’s corpse was dragged to the head of a ravine about 300 yards from the southwest corner of the palisade, where, one surmises, the refuse of the town was usually dumped to be eaten by animals and washed away by the stream, which is exactly what happened to the body of St. René—we may call him that now. To be continued. Page 6 - 446 St. John

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