S T . A NTHONY OF P ADUA
C HURCH
Founded in 1892
Served by the Order of Friars Minor, Franciscan Province of the Immaculate
Conception, since 1926
OFFICE
28 STATE STREET, TROY, NEW YORK 12180
PHONE: 518-273-8622
FAX: 518-273-2731
OFFICE HOURS
Monday – Thursday: 8:30 to noon & 1:00 to 3:30
(Closed noon to 1:00 for lunch)
Friday: 8:30 to noon – summer months closed on Fridays
Closed Saturday, Sunday & holidays.
NEW PARISH WEBSITE
www.stanthonystroyny.com
PASTORAL STAFF
Father Mario F. Julian, OFM – Pastor
Email: marioj1054@aol.com
Brother Philip Hira, OFM – Hospital & Parish Ministry
Father Jun Segura – Hispanic Apostolate
Deacon Jerry Christiano
Deacon Moises Gutierrez – Hispanic Apostolate
Deacon Charles Z. Wojton
Christopher Lohr – Sacristan
Email: sacristan4@aol.com
Denise Mahoney – Finance Director
Email: churchdenise@aol.com
PARISH PASTORAL COUNCIL
President: Paul Dellio
PASTORAL FINANCE COUNCIL
Kelly Salerno – Trustee
Dr. Frank Lanzillo – Trustee
Rich LaRose – President
Gene Sestito
ROARKE CENTER
107 Fourth Street, Troy
Phone: 273-8351
An outreach for people in Troy; offering its members
crisis intervention and advocacy.
PARISH REGISTRATION
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ADDRESS:____________________________________________
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LITURGY OF THE EUCHARIST
Saturday 4:30 pm
Sunday 9:00 am
10:00 am – Spanish
12:00 noon
5:30 pm
There is no 5:30 Mass on the following weekends: New
Years, Easter, Mother’s Day, Memorial Day, Father’s Day,
July 4th, Labor Day, Thanksgiving & Christmas.
Monday through Thursday: 7:15 am & 12:10 pm
Holy Days: as announced
RECONCILIATION
Monday – Thursday: from 11:30 am to 12:00 noon
Saturday: from 3:00 pm to 4:00 pm
PASTORAL CARE
Please call to arrange for pastoral visitation including
Anointing of the Sick and Communion calls to the
hospitalized and homebound
BAPTISM
Please call to schedule Baptism.
MARRIAGE
Arrangements must be made at least six months in
advance. Couples must attend a one- day Pre-Cana
Marriage Preparation program.
PERPETUAL NOVENAS
St. Anthony of Padua: Tuesday, after daily Masses.
Our Lady of Lourdes: Wednesday, after daily Masses.
St. Anne: Wednesday at 4:00 pm.
St. Jude: Thursday, after daily Masses.
ST. JOSEPH’S CHURCH
416 Third Street, Troy
LITURGY OF THE EUCHARIST
Saturday 4:00 pm
Sunday 8:30 am
10:30 am
12:00 noon - Latin
Monday through Saturday: 8:00 am
Monday, Wednesday & Friday: 12:00
The mission of St. Anthony of Padua Church is to minister
spiritually, sacramentally and physically to all who enter
our door.
Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time
February 16, 2014
SATURDAY, February 15
4:30 Bill Warren (b’day) – Grace & Pam
Anthony Morin (b’day) – wife & family
Rev. John Minkler – Family
Gennaro LaPietra – Wife, Concetta
Helen Murray – Lou & Rachel Perfetti
Dennis Carroll – Catherine Houlihan
Charles Hewitt – wife, Linda
Catherine Cioffi – Family
Christopher Burchell (anniv.) – Barth Family
SUNDAY, February 16
9:00 Pat Hartman – Wife
Anne Radliff – Janet Matusie
Thomas Schermerhorn – friend, Michael Dinova
Michael Esposito (64th anniv.) – Michael, Nancy & Carmela
Anne Radliff – Jack Lowe
James Laird (30th anniv.) – son, James
10:00 Spanish
12:00 Justine Francese - Family
Anthony & Josephine DeFazio – Grandchildren
Frank Julian – Joe & MaryAnn Julian
Amelia Cossack – Family
Joseph Schillaci – daughters, Rosemaire & Cecilia
5:30 Frank Julian – Mary Turino
MONDAY, February 17 President’s Day – Office & Church Closed
TUESDAY, February 18
7:15 For the parishioners of St. Anthony’s Church
12:10 Special intentions to St. Anthony – Anthony Clemenzi
WEDNESDAY, February 19
7:15 David Skiba (anniv.) – Mother & Father
12:10 Sophia Jacques (b’day living) THURSDAY, February 20
7:15 For the sick & homeless
12:10 Karen Campana – Mary Turino
FRIDAY, February 21 - NO SERVICES
SATURDAY, February 22
4:30 Charles A. Hewitt – Mr. & Mrs. George Smith
Rose & Saverio Gori – Family
Janine Fazioli (living b’day) – Lorraine
Denny Carroll – Yolanda & Ransen Caola
Kay Kane – daughters, Pat & Bonnie
David Skiba – Family
Margaret Miller – Deacon Chuck & Dolores Wojton
Mary & Louis Cocco (anniv.) – Family
Catherine Cioffi – Bill & Rosemary Fagan
Ray Darling (1st anniv.) – Ann Marie & Bob Coulombe
SUNDAY, February 23
9:00 Thomas Schermerhorn – friend, Michael Dinova
Anne Radliff – friends & co-workers @ DSS
Charles E. Radliff - Family
Evelyn T. Laird – Son, James
Angelo Corina – Anthony & Doris Corina
Charlie & Mrs. O’Neil – Anthony & Doris Corina
Anthony & Vincent Cavallo – Jean Cavallo
10:00 Spanish
12:00 Epifiano & Mary Nora Jacques – son, Richard & family
Francis Agostina – Buddy & Michele McAvoy
Blessed Mother favor rec’d - Katherine
5:30 For all assemble here this evening
New Bishop for Roman Catholic Diocese of
Albany
Rev. Msgr. Edward B Scharfenberger, a priest of the
Diocese of Brooklyn, New York has been appointed by
Pope Francis to be the tenth bishop of the Roman Catholic
Diocese of Albany, New York.
Bishop-elect Scharfenberger succeeds Bishop Howard J.
Hubbard who has led the Diocese of Albany for 37 years.
Bishop Hubbard reached the mandatory retirement age of
75 on October 31, 2013 and submitted his letter of
retirement to Pope Francis at that time. He was instructed
to stay on until the appointment and installation of a new
bishop.
Bishop-elect Scharfenberger was born in the Bushwick
section of Brooklyn on May 29, 1948. He is the son of
Edward and Elaine (Magdal) Scharfenberger of Warwick,
New York. His parents are 93 years old. He has four
siblings: Miriam Muse (Glenn) of Warwick; James
Scharfenberger of Warwick; Dr. Dennis Scharfenberger,
MD (Anna) of Warwick, and Lois Sheptuck (Deacon Paul)
of Edison New Jersey. He has four nephews and two
nieces. One nephew, Jonathan, is deceased.
Bishop-elect Scharfenberger attended Our Lady of the
Miraculous Medal Elementary School in Ridgewood and
graduated from Cathedral Preparatory Seminary High
School, Elmhurst in 1965. He entered Cathedral College
of the Immaculate Conception in Douglaston and
graduated as an English major in June of 1968. The
following fall he was assigned to study theology at the
North American College in Rome, Italy where he earned a
Bachelor’s Degree in Sacred Theology (S.T.B. summa cum
laude) from the Pontifical Gregorian University in 1972.
Bishop-elect Scharfenberger was ordained a priest on July
2, 1973 in St. Peter’s Basilica, Rome, by Bishop James A.
Hickey, later Cardinal-Archbishop of Washington DC. He
served as Parochial Vicar (Associate Pastor) at St.
Stanislaus Church (Maspeth) and St. Ephrem Church
(Dyker Heights) until 1976. He then was assigned to
return to Rome for further studies. In 1977 he earned his
S.T.L., summa cum laude, in Moral Theology from the
Academy of St. Alphonsus. He was then assigned to the
Catholic University of America where, in 1980, he earned
his J.C.L. summa cum laude in Canon Law. He then
served in a number of capacities in the Diocesan Tribunal
of Brooklyn for 20 years. Between 1986 and 1990 he
attended Fordham University School of Law where he
earned his J.D. in May of 1990. He is admitted to the bar
in New York (1991). Between 1993 and 2002 he served as
the Judicial Vicar for the Diocese of Brooklyn. A Judicial
Vicar usually oversees the Diocesan Marriage Tribunal and
serves as chief canonical advisor to the bishop. During his
years at the Diocesan Tribunal he also exercised pastoral
ministry at Our Lady of Mercy Church in Forest Hills and
at St. Matthew Church in Dix Hills. He has been the
Administrator of the Diocesan Board of Mediation and
Arbitration for the past 15 years as well as chaplain of the
Kings County Catholic Lawyers Guild. He has served as
instructor in Moral Theology at the diocesan Pastoral
Institute and as an Adjunct Professor at St. Joseph’s
College.
St. Anthony’s Capital Improvements Campaign
Parish Information
Offertory Gifts
Last Week: 2/8/2014 & 2/9/2014
Mass
Attendance Collection
4:30
231
$ 1,429.00
9:00
157
$ 1,017.00
10:00
106
$ 216.52
12:00
165
$ 1,258.05
5:30
85
$ 478.40
Total Collection:
Candles:
Donations:
$ 4,398.97
$ 242.22
$ 125.00
Thank you for your continued generosity.
Thanks also to those who, for whatever reason, cannot
bring your envelopes to Church on a regular basis, but
who either bring them to the Friary or mail them to us.
Money counting team for Tuesday, February
18;
Tom & Janis Lumley, Nancy
Russomanno, Jean Cavallo, Betty Bott &
Michael Esposito.
EXTRA HELP FOR THIS GROUP PLEASE,
Thank you.
OFFICE & CHURCH CLOSED Monday,
February 17 – President’s Day holiday
Roarke Center Food Pantry
Blessings on each of you who so faithfully
remember your less fortunate brethren. We are
asking for your generosity to bring the following
items, canned meats like hash, beef stew,
chicken, Spam, turkey Spam, or canned fish
like tuna. Also pasta products with meat or
fish, like tomato sauce with clams. Always the
following can be used: pasta, spaghetti sauce
(meat sauce), coffee, toilet paper, personal
hygiene products of all types, laundry detergent,
dish soap, canned vegetables, fruit and soups in
cans with pull tops. There are boxes in the rear of
the church for your offerings, or you may bring
the foodstuffs directly to the Roarke Center.
Contributions to St. Anthony’s Church for 2013 are in
the entrance of the Church. If you have not picked
yours up – please do so; we will be bring them back to
the office next week.
Special Collections for February & March:
March 2
Monthly
March 9
Black, Native American & Latin Mission
March 30
Catholic Relief Services Annual Appeal
The Campaign will continue into 2014. Please
prayfully consider making a donation. There are
several ways you can make a donation: there are
envelopes in the Church you can mail in, put it the
collection basket, or hand it to Fr. Mario. Fr. Mario
has a square on his phone where you can use your
credit or debit card with a swipe of the card it goes
directly to the special account set up for this project
and we have a link to PayPal on our website.
www.stanthonystroyny.com
St. Anthony’s Capital Improvements
Campaign is ongoing! Updates will be
provided. We have raised
$ 29,984.75 our first goal is $100,000.00
Please prayerfully consider supporting your
parish’s Capital Improvements Campaign!
Brother Philip is looking for Eucharistic
Ministers who would like to volunteer some
time in the hospital-giving communion to
patients. Please contact him at the friary
273-8622.
VOLUNTEERS NEEDED “INN FROM THE
COLD” During the months of October – April,
Joseph House organizes a program at different
churches to provide shelter for the homeless in
the winter. We are looking for volunteers to take
care of homeless who come into this facility
during this time. If you are interested, please
contact Brother Philip at the parish house 2738622.
Activity of the Week
Choose one of the following activities as a way to
further reflect on the Sunday readings:
• Discuss what radical obedience might mean. What
does obedience require? How can one be
radical in practicing obedience? Then have
each person relate how he/she might
specifically practice obedience in a radical
manner.
Sirach lived in a culture that did not support his
religious values. Do your family members feel
supported in religious values by today’s culture? How
or how not? What is the solution? How can values be
upheld when the culture opposes them? How does the
domestic Church, or family, support its members?
Make a plan for supporting each other in times of
opposition to the culture.
ST. PETER’S CEMETERY is located on Oakwood Ave., Troy; it
has been in the care of St. Anthony’s Church since St. Peter’s Church
closed in May of 2009. Those of us working in Catholic Cemeteries
perform a ministry of service. The Cemetery is a sacred place, and
burying the dead is a corporal work of mercy. There are available plots
for sale. If you would like more information, you may call Denise in the
office 273-8622. Multiple plots sold will be discounted.