Text Box: A WONDERFUL OPPORTUNITY!! Please, consider the following: We need two teachers for next Year’s Religious Education Program: for grades pre-K and the 4th Grade. To be involved in this ministry, is very rewarding, indeed! Please call Sister Maria or Father Carrano at 625-1161. Thank you! HELP NEEDED We need more group leaders for the Children’s Liturgy of the Word on Sundays which will resume again in the Fall. This is indeed, a very meaningful ministry. For any questions, please call Sister Maria or Father Carrano at 718-625-1161. Text Box: JULY 4TH HOLIDAY Friday, July 4th, Independence Day the parish office will be closed. Enjoy your holiday plans. HOLY HOUR Our parish will celebrate our monthly Holy Hour on Saturday, July 5th after the 8:00 A.M. Mass. All are invited for this special devotion which takes place during Morning Prayer. SUMMER SCHEDULE Our Summer Mass Schedule has begun. For the summer we will have the 5:00 P.M. on Saturday and just the 10:00 A.M. Mass on Sunday. Thank you for your cooperation Text Box: Sts. Peter and Paul, Apostles Text Box: BVM Text Box: Assumption Text Box: From the Pastor’s Desk Dear Friends: What do apostles have to offer? Not something built by humans or that typically even makes sense to humans. The apostles’ message speaks of a new life with God, but that is very much something given by God, not by the apostles. What does that mean? What does that look like? It is put into human hands. Christ builds his Church out of human stuff. What do his apostles have to work with? Peter has enthusiasm. He is given the insight to see that Jesus is the Christ. Does Peter know what all that means? What we see of Peter’s story shows a mixture of success and failure. Still, he is made an apostle. He is promised he will have responsibilities, and he is promised that the Spirit that led him to recognize Christ will stay with him. Paul is a fighter. He has tremendous fervor for God—enough to grapple with and try to destroy the upstart group he sees threatening the work of God. At the end of his life, he is used up from battling—but by then he has been fighting to spread the same Gospel, preaching the same Christ that grabbed him and drove him to bring the message to everyone he could find. Yours in Christ, Rev. Michael A. Carrano