Lord every nation
on earth will adore you.
The Epiphany of the Lord
My dear friends,
I first must thank Fr. Rafferty and Fr. Thumma for their generous service taking on the Christmas and Sunday Masses last week while my illness was running its course. Of all the weeks to go down! Know that I feel much better and very much appreciate your prayers and expressions of concern.
Thank you for your understanding as the Mass Intention 2022 Book is coming together. I have reviewed all initial requests and most of them have been assigned in our Mass Book. A number of you will receive follow-up calls to ask your wishes when your requested Masses are unavailable. We are in the process of automating this yearly request and beautiful act of devotion. If anyone is interested in some available Masses December 31st, 2021, January 1st, 2022 and after January 11th, please reach out to me or call the rectory.
While we live the 8-day Octave of Christmas and sing of the 12-days of Christmas to the Epiphany, this Solemnity of the Magi is transferred to the Sunday after January 1st of Blessed Mary, the Mother of God, in the Church in the USA. While some Holy Days of Obligation keep their exact day (for example, Christmas), Sundays are always our day to remember the Lord Jesus' Resurrection and our sabbath day to worship the Holy Trinity.
Happy Birthday to Fr. Thumma next week! As we begin 2022, Vincent Castaldi will complete 30 years of age! Congratulations!
A blessed New Year and prayers for health!
In Christ,
Fr. Luke
In this Edition:
- WeShare Donor Matching Program through Friday, December 31st
- Winter 2021 Special Edition Bulletin available at the doors of the Church
- IHM School 2021 Christmas Video
- Giving Tree Thank You
- Letter from Cardinal Dolan regarding The Catholic University of America and the Catholic Communications Campaign Second Collection
- Men's Retreat at the Don Bosco Retreat Center, January 28-30
WESHARE DONOR MATCH PROGRAM THROUGH DECEMBER 31st!
The holiday season is one of the largest giving seasons for our church. Our online giving provider WeShare is generously providing a donor match program to help us increase recurring giving. Online gifts help reduce costs and our time spent handling other forms of payment.
For every first gift from a new recurring donor that is added between November 1 and December 31, 2021, WeShare will match that first gift, up to $50, with a maximum match of $1,000 for our church. To be eligible for the matching gift, more than one installment must be set up and the first recurring gift must be transacted by December 31, 2021.
We appreciate your generosity and your support of our church. We prayerfully ask that you consider helping us meet this goal by creating your recurring online gift today.
Visit our WeShare site, ihm-parish.churchgiving.com, to set up your donation. If you need any help regarding WeShare or you have any questions, please use the button below to let us know. Someone from the IHM Rectory will contact you to assist.
WINTER 2022 SPECIAL EDITION
PRINTED BULLETIN IS AVAILABLE
AT THE DOORS OF THE CHURCH!
We prepared a Winter Special Edition printed bulletin for the parish. This serves as an update of the happenings around IHM over the past few months, and looking ahead.
The printed bulletin will be available at the doors of the Church while supplies last!
A digital copy is also available below and on our parish website.
WORD ON FIRE | ENGAGE
The Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God
Happy New Year, everyone! We made it to 2022!
With every new year comes a chance for new beginnings, new mindsets, and new graces that the Lord wants us to receive. How will this year be different in our walk with Christ?
The Church celebrates Mary as the Holy Mother of God. As the Ark of the New Covenant, the woman conceived without sin to bear the Body of Christ, Mary does not lord over the rest of us, but intercedes constantly and has been given to us by Christ himself from the Cross: "Behold your mother!" (John 19:27).
Feel free to watch this clip from Bishop Barron's award-winning Catholicism series to learn more about Mary's role as the Theotokos, the Mother of Jesus who is God himself:
"Being obedient, [Mary] became the cause of salvation for herself and for the whole human race."
Questions for Additional Reflection:
- Did you make a 2022 resolution?
- What concrete thing can you do to deepen your prayer routine?
- Who in your life can you invite to come back to Mass? Who can you intercede for?
We Three Kings (Feast of the Epiphany)
Why are the wise men important to the Christian story?
Jesus came for all people and all nations. From his birth, Christ is celebrated by heavenly angels, lowly shepherds, and even pagan astrologers from the East—the Magi. Jesus is already gathering the tribes of Israel and beginning his work of outreach to the world.
The Magi and their gifts—gold, frankincense, and myrrh—are foreshadowed from Isaiah's prophecy (Is 60:1-6). Gold for his royalty, frankincense for his priesthood, and myrrh for his death. Strange gifts for a baby, but these gifts point towards Jesus' destiny of facing down death and emerging victoriously.
The Magi don't return to the paranoid and murderous King Herod after they encountered Christ; "they departed for their country by another way" (Matt 2:12). When we have experienced the love and reality of Christ, we are forever changed and we all leave "by another way." May we all be pierced and renewed by this love of God!
Lord, every nation on earth will adore you!
Consider watching this video of Bishop Barron's on the Journey of the Magi:
"The Magi adored the divine Child and offered him symbolic gifts, becoming forerunners of the peoples and nations which down the centuries never cease to seek and meet Christ.”
IHM DONATIONS
If you plan to contribute online using WeShare for your recurring IHM contributions, and would like to discontinue receiving mailed envelopes, or if you have any questions or comments about envelopes or WeShare, please use the simple contact form above.
- Please join us in wishing our Fr. Thumma a Happy Birthday on Monday, January 3rd and our Seminarian, Vincent Castaldi on January 1st. Congratulations!
- IHM Christmas Offering Envelopes are available at the doors of the Church
- 2022 Calendars are also available at the doors of the Church. A heartfelt Thank You to Tom Di Carlo of Edwin L. Bennett Funeral Home, Scarsdale and Alan Benedict of Westchester Funeral Home, Eastchester for donating our 2022 Calendars.
On behalf of the Priests, Religious, Seminarian, Faculty and Staff of Immaculate Heart of Mary Church, School & Religious Education Program we wish our parish family a happy, healthy, and safe New Year!
And not to be outdone by last year's,
here is IHM's 2021 Christmas video!
Thank you to Mrs. Gorham for playing the guitar and singing, our faculty, staff and students for taking the best pictures and videos that capture the IHM spirit and the BIGGEST thank you to Ms. Botti for taking the time to plan and create this amazing video. Enjoy!
GIVING TREE THANK YOU
Thanks to all who purchased gifts for the Giving Tree. Over 1,000 gifts were collected for HOPE. The Dominican Sisters Family Health Services, Paradise House and several local families. Thanks also to those who helped organize and sort the gifts.
January 2, 2022
Month of the Holy Name of Jesus
Dear Friends in the Lord:
The Catholic University, in the heart of our nation's capital, is a truly unique institution of higher learning, founded by the United States bishops back in 1887, and chartered by the Holy See. In every way, the university belongs to each of us no matter where we live. And so, it is incumbent upon us to help with the education of future leaders of our Church and nation. Your contributions help to underwrite the university's financial aid office so that students, you and old from across the country will have access to quality academic and spiritual programs. Just within the past year, several thousand students, including those from our archdiocese, who otherwise would not have been able to attend CUA, were given an opportunity to do so, thanks in large part to your generosity.
Also, through the Catholic Communications Campaign, the conference of bishops is able to serve all the dioceses of our nation by providing educational and spiritual programs for radio and television. You should know that one half of your giving remains here in the archdiocese to assist with the ongoing and planned efforts of our communications and technology office such as with broadcasting, Catholic New York, social media, public relations and marketing.
My gratitude to you for your contribution to these two important collections, and for your past generosity of $156,769 last year; and my prayerful best wishes for a holy, healthy and happy new year.
Faithfully in Christ,
+Timothy Michael Cardinal Dolan
Archbishop of New York
Immaculate Heart of Mary Parish |
Annunciation - Our Lady of Fatima Parish
Men's Retreat
Living the Faith in Turbulent Times
January 28-30, 2022
at the Don Bosco Retreat Center
Stony Point, NY
All Catholic men are welcome. Spend a weekend in a time of restful retreat, quiet prayer, reflection, talks and God's grace. Time to recharge your spiritual batteries! The Retreat Chaplain will be Monsignor Luke Sweeney, Pastor of IHM. The retreat will also feature personal testimonies by husbands and fathers.
The Retreat will begin with dinner on Friday evening at 6:00PM at the Don Bosco Retreat Center and conclude Sunday at 12noon. The cost of the retreat is $250 and includes two nights of single occupancy rooms and all meals. Registration can be confirmed by mailing a $30 deposit (check to IHM Holy Name Society) or using Venmo ("@Damian-Wach") by January 15th to Damian Wach, 11 Stoneleigh Road, Scarsdale, NY 10583.
Please contact Bill Fraser at (914) 282-7918 or bfraser@aol.com or Damian Wach at dwachny@gmail.com for further details.
Sponsored by the Holy Name Society
Pro Life Corner
Help put God back into our lives. Promote His Commandments; bring back respect for all life from the womb to the tomb. Strengthen family structure that is the basic unit of our society, and bring Judeo-Christian morals back into our nation.
- High School of Religion: Our next meeting of IHM's High School of Religion (HSOR) will be by Zoom on Wednesday, January 12th from 7:30-8:10PM. After things calm down, HSOR normally meets in the Lower Church on Wednesday evenings from 7:30-8:45PM. We invite all high school students to come and see the HSOR is "A night out in the middle of the week!" Some of our activities are: prayers and pizza, scavenger hunt, annual Christmas Party, faith on film & more! Basketball will now be available in the gym after meeting!
- Forming a new parish young family group: Any father or mother of a young one who would be interested in some weekly prayer and socializing with other parents of young child(ren), please contact the rectory (ihmchurch@ihmscarsdale.org or 914-723-0281).
- Spread the word! IHM Class of 1976 Reunion: The Class of 1976 is starting to plan a class reunion for Saturday, April 23, 2022. The tentative agenda is to hold a Mass followed by a dinner/cocktail party with music and lots of reminiscing. If you or a loved one graduated IHM in 1976, please email Kathy LiCalzi Catanzariti or Theresa Vaccaro Nicholson through ihmchurch@ihmscarsdale.org.
- The College Evenings: After meeting for a discussion on prayer with some food after the Immaculate Conception evening Mass this past week, our next gathering will take place after students return from finals - date TBD! Please contact the group's Coordinator, Daniella Ashman, or the Co-Coordinator, David Pereira for more information (ihmchurch@ihmscarsdale.org). CLICK HERE to sign up for the email list.
- The Centering Prayer Group meets every Wednesday in the Parish Library from 1-2PM. Newcomers are welcome. For more information, contact Elise Kuhn at 914-725-4728.
Parishioners who attend DAILY MASS, can sign up to receive an email each day for the readings of the day. If you would like to subscribe to the emails for the daily readings, Click HERE
For THIS SUNDAY's Readings, January 1/2, 2022, Click HERE
Please be advised that you can print them out at home or you can use your phone or tablet to follow along with the readings in church or at home.
SUNDAY, January 2, 2022
Epiphany of the Lord
Epiphany of the Lord
7:30AM - The People of Immaculate Heart of Mary
9:00AM - Vlad Babii
10:30AM - Hugo Benschop
10:30AM - Hugo Benschop
12:00PM - Biagio Catalano
MONDAY, January 3, 2022
Most Holy Name of Jesus
6:45AM - Frances Lawton
Most Holy Name of Jesus
6:45AM - Frances Lawton
9:00AM - Laurence Broderick
TUESDAY, January 4, 2022
St. Elizabeth Ann Seton
6:45AM - Annette Zambetti
9:00AM - Rose DeBenedictis
WEDNESDAY, January 5, 2022
St. John Neumann
6:45AM - Rev. Richard Seagraves
9:00AM - Paulette Legrand
THURSDAY, January 6, 2022
6:45AM - John Patrick Didie, Jr.
9:00AM - Al Attisiani & the Attisani Family
FRIDAY, January 7, 2022
St. Raymond of Penafort
6:45AM -Frederick Wolff
9:00PM - Angelina Frusciante
SATURDAY, January 8, 2022
8:30AM - Giovanni Mastronardi
5:30PM - Margaret K. Sardella
Please Remember in Your Prayers
The Sick of Our Parish
Fr. Thomas Lynch
Fr. Patrick Curley
Sr. Danielle Baran
Louis Ranucci
Jason Bergen
Christopher Kesicke
Barbara Grossberg
Thomas Cori
Rose Kelly
Phil Pinto, Jr.
Suzie Irwin
Ven & Priscilla Parameswaran
Marine Corps Sgt. Tyler Andrews
Ven & Priscilla Parameswaran
Marine Corps Sgt. Tyler Andrews
Fabiola Rincon
For all those suffering from the Virus
The Deceased of Our Parish
Laura Hernandez
Elaine G. O'Regan
William Kugler
Elaine G. O'Regan
William Kugler
All Victims of the Virus
- As part of the Communion of Saints and members of the Body of Christ, it is important for us to pray for our sick members and for those who have died.
- If you wish to be included by name, please contact the Rectory (ihmchurch@ihmscarsdale.org or 723-0276).
- If you are calling for another person, please ensure his/her permission.
- Our parish will keep the name of a deceased parishioner or loved one for 2 weeks on our bulletin and Sunday Mass lists.
KIDS KORNER
Please see this week's "Kids Korner"
prepared by our bulletin publisher, Bon Venture.
EMAIL: IHMCHURCH@IHMSCARSDALE.ORG
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