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SATURDAY, JULY 11TH
THE HOLY ROSARY SCHEDULED FOR 12PM IS CANCELED

SACRED HEART CHURCH
                                                                                                           July 2020

Dear Parishioners of Sacred Heart:
            It is with great sadness that I must inform you that as of July 9^th, 2020 our precious school is now closed.  We received word from His Eminence Cardinal Dolan that our doors are closed due to the many financial difficulties which affect the ability for Catholic Schools to flourish currently, along with the immense impact of the CoVid- 19 virus on us all.  
            For 109 years our school has been a part of the fabric of our community.  In September of 1910 the doors opened, how sad to think that in September of 2020 the usual excitement and joy of a new school year will not occur. 
The school was privileged to educate some of the founding members of our village and surrounding area.  Below is an excerpt from the school’s historical overview produced for their 100^th year celebration journal:
“The School opened in 1910 with fifty pupils taught by three Sisters of Charity from Convent Station in New Jersey, and in 1911 Sacred Heart School had its first graduating Class.  The graduates were Daniel Oldfield, Mabel Oldfield, Margaret Casey, Mary Courtney, and Rose Rothhaupt.  In 1913 the Sisters of St. Dominic from Sparkill, New York took over the teaching in the Parochial School.  The Sparkill Dominicans taught at Sacred Heart School for many years and were then followed by the Blauvelt Dominicans and a number of lay teachers through the rest of the century.  2008 was the last year that Religious Sisters taught in the school. “
 
From its humble beginnings with only 50 students to almost 500 students in its heyday and now to the closing of its doors, Sacred Heart School had been a place that educated the whole child.  Reading, writing, arithmetic yes, but also and most importantly our Faith.
 
We pray that all those who graduated from our school or who even spent just a few years with them came away with a love of our Lord and an education that has been a corner stone in their journey through this life.   God Bless Sacred Heart School!
 
To end, I wish to express my great thanks, and appreciation and of course my great sorrow in having to say goodbye to not only Mrs. Kathleen Grande our principal, but the loving, caring staff of Sacred Heart School.  May the good Lord be with you all and bless you for your goods works here at Sacred Heart and for all your years of service in His name.

 
                            In His Grace,
                                                     Fr. J. Michael Rafferty, OAR Pastor
           
 AN ACT OF SPIRITUAL COMMUNION
My Jesus, I believe that You are present in the Blessed Sacrament. I love You above all things, and I desire You in my soul. Since I cannot now receive You sacramentally, come at least spiritually into
my heart. As though You were already there, I embrace You and unite myselfwholly to You; permit not that I should ever be separated from You. Amen.

From the Office of the Cardinal
 

 Dear friends in the Lord:

Now that public Masses have begun to be celebrated once again after months of quarantine for the coronavirus, dioceses across the country are preparing to collect a mail-in or online offering for the Catholic Missions among Black and Indian People on the weekend of July 11.  I ask for your support for this important mission.

When we are told that the Lord calls each of us to be co-missionaries and co-evangelizers of the church, as was St. Paul and the other apostles, we do not often realize how much mission work there is to be done in the United States.  There is far more than you or I could ever imagine.  This offering enables the Church in the United States to provide desperately required pastopral, educational and spiritual assistance to some of the neediest of our brother and sisters in the Lord.  From the inner cities of the rural south to the deserts of the southwest to the wilderness of Alaska, grants from this annual appeal make it possible for the Church to assist our Black and Indian CAtholic communities.

Here in the archdiocese, through the Office of Black Ministry, our Pierre Toussaint Scholarship Program receives support, thus allowing us to provide mentoring to college students from our Harlem and Bronx parishes who are attending Catholic colleges and committed to leadership and service in their respective parishes and communities.

With this letter, I invite you to be generous as you possibly can be in making a sacrificial offering to this crucially important and necessar ministry of the Church.

With gratitude and prayerful best wishes,m and with a warm welcome as you return to Mass in church, I am,

                                                   Devotedly yours in Christ,
                                                   Timothy Michael Cardinal Dolan
                                                   Archbishop of New York

PHASE III

   Beginning July 1, we are moving the Mass to 9:00am.  This will be the only Mass of day for next month at least. Funeral Masses, Baptisms and Weddings are allowed, but we are still at 25% occupancy. Reconciliation will be administered by appointment only, please call the rectory office which is now open Monday thru Thursday from 9am to 5pm, and Friday 9am to 2pm.
All precautions are being taken (wearing of masks, maintaining a six-foot distance, no physical contact except for communion, frequent washing of hands, and sanitizing surfaces). Our first priority is the safety of the clergy and people, and self-care of all ministers.
Please remember, that because of the ongoing health crisis, the Cardinal has dispensed everyone from the Sunday Mass obligation, so if you are uncomfortable about being with a group, watching Mass and a spiritual communion is still in effect.
Please observe the following when planning to attend:
  + If any member of your household has a fever, or is feeling ill, please remain at home.
  + If you have any pre-existing health conditions, you should remain at home at this phase.
  + Pews have been premeasured for seating with appropriate 6’ social distancing in-between.   Members of the same household may sit together. Available seating is marked with a green X.
  + Since seats will be filled-in as people arrive, there will be no choice of seating location.
  + Facial coverings (masks) must be worn to Mass.
  + To avoid contact, there will be no offertory procession or exchange of peace during the Mass.
  + The Sacred Host will be distributed in the hand only.  For those who feel that receiving in the hand is unacceptable we ask that you wait to receive until the celebrant asks those who wish to receive on the tongue come forward.  Please form a single line and observe the 6’ social distance as you proceed down the center aisle.  Disabled persons may remain seated.
  + Hand sanitizer dispensers are available on the walls of the church, and at the entrance
+ Entrance into the church is on the awning side of our building only.
Due to the need to disinfect between Masses our Mass schedule for the month of July is as follows:  Saturday Vigil Mass at 5:30pm, Sundays 8:30am, 11:30am and 5:30pm.   If you attend Mass, please note the new layout for seating in the Church.  These measures have been implemented to assure as best we can the health and safety of all.  Blessings to All,
 
Fr. Michael Rafferty, OAR, Pastor
Fr. John Gruben, OAR, Assistant

FACE MASKS AND SOCIAL DISTANCING MUST BE OBSERVED

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