Saturday, 05 August
Vigil of the Transfiguration
4:30 p.m. - CAROL KREMER TAMBURELLI (8th anniversary)
by her husband, Herb, her daughter, Dannette, her son-in-law, Bob (+), and her grandsons, Ryan and Nick

Sunday, 06 August
The Transfiguration of the Lord
7:45 a.m. - FLORETTA MACCARONE CONYETTE
by Jack and Flo McGovern
10:45 a.m. - CATHERINE CARESTIA RINALDO
by Edward and Domenica LaSelva

Monday, 07 August
St. Cajetan, priest; St. Sixtus II, pope, and companions, martyrs (OptMems)
12:05 p.m. - SAM SILBERT
by Salvatore and Mary Modesto

Tuesday, 08 August
St. Dominic, priest (OblMem)
12:05 p.m. - JOSEPH A. LAPLACA (47th anniversary of marriage to Marie Ritz)
by his mother, Julia
7:00 p.m. - LENA TRANQUILLO PICCIONI
by Leonard and Roberta Sumoski

Wednesday, 09 August
St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, virgin, martyr (OblMem)
12:05 p.m. - LEO M. PLUSWICK (31st anniversary of wedding)
by his wife, Rose Marie

Thursday, 10 August
St. Lawrence, deacon, martyr (OblMem)
12:05 p.m. - MARIE SCHWARTZ CATALINI (34th anniversary)
by her daughter, Rose Marie Catalini Pluswick
7:00 p.m. - ANTHONY J. LUPPINO
by Angela LaPlaca Deramo and Debra Deramo McDonald

Friday, 11 August
St. Clare, virgin (OblMem)
12:05 p.m. - ELANORE TEGANO FOLINO
by her husband, John

Saturday, 12 August
Weekday
8:00 a.m. - MARY TUCCI GARBETTI
by Carmela Evolo Palko and daughter, Patricia
Vigil of Sunday
4:30 p.m. - ANTONIO DeMATTEO (anniversary of birth)
by his daughter, Frances, and family

Sunday, 13 August
19th Sunday in Ordinary Time
7:45 a.m. - ANGELO and AMELIA PASCUZZO
by Albert and Martha and family
10:45 a.m. - JOSEPH A. PALKO
by his wife, Carmela, and his daughter, Patricia

Saint Joseph Parish
$1327.00 from the envelopes and $-0- from the plate. Thank you.
When one deducts from the sum of these two figures, $1327.00 the parish's weekly financial obligation to the Diocese, i.e. assessments, $358.85 plus the weekly premiums for property and liability insurance, $149.20, the sum of which is $508.05, plus its weekly obligation to All Saints School, $987.21, the sum total of which is $1,495.26, one sees that ($168.26) of this collection is available for operating the parish. This is a deficit!

Saint Francis deSales Parish
$152.00 from the envelopes and $-0- from the plate. Thank you.
When one deducts from the sum of these two figures, $152.00 the parish's weekly financial obligation to the Diocese, i.e. assessments, $55.15 plus the weekly premiums for property and liability insurance, $56.72, the sum of which is $111.87, plus its weekly obligation to All Saints School, $197.44, the sum total of which is $309.31, one sees that ($157.31) of this collection is available for operating the parish. This is a deficit!

HERE WE GO AGAIN!
In last weekend's bulletin (30 July), we found it necessary to correct the Dear Padre answer that appeared on the cover of the 23 July bulletin.
Now we find it necessary to correct the Dear Padre answer that appeared in the 30 July bulletin!
As you know, we receive these bulletin covers by virtue of a contract that we have with a certain company. We do not have editorial responsibility for the Dear Padre feature.
Here it is in a nutshell:
Someone wrote to Dear Padre and asked whether or not Church law permits a person to receive Communion twice a day.
Dear Padre replied "yes" but on condition that the second reception of the Holy Eucharist be at some "special event" Mass, viz. a wedding or a funeral or some other such "special" celebration.
This is not the correct answer.
Here is the correct answer: A person is permitted to receive Holy Communion a maximum of twice in one calendar day. The only condition is this: The second reception of Holy Communion must be within the context of a Mass. In other words, if a person were to receive Holy Communion at a morning Mass and, later in the day, were to attend a Communion service or were present when the Holy Eucharist was brought to a sick person, the person is not eligible to receive Communion a second time. But if, for example, he received Communion outside the context of Mass and, later on that same day, were to attend Mass, he is permitted to receive Communion at the Mass.
This is the authentic answer.
It is not a matter of opinion.
I vouch for this answer.
It is based on Canon Law and on an official response given by the Roman commission entrusted with the authentic interpretation of the Code of Canon Law.

As far as receiving Holy Communion more than twice a day is concerned, the only exceptions I can think of are these:
1) A priest celebrates three Masses in one day. Because he must receive Holy Communion if he celebrates Mass, then he is permitted to receive a third time.
2) A person has received Communion twice and then suffers some life-threatening accident or illness. If he is in danger of death, he may receive the Holy Eucharist a third time.

RIVERBOAT RELIGION
This past Monday (31 July), in Pittsburgh (PA), twelve women went through a ceremony that, according to them and their supporters, made them Catholic priests. This ceremony was held on board a boat that had been chartered for the occasion.
The Diocese of Pittsburgh, exercising admirable courage ever since its new leader, Bishop Sede Vacante, took office, minced no words. To the everlasting credit of the Diocese of Pittsburgh, it pronounced the dreaded "E" word upon the twelve women and upon all who participated in the ceremony. Yes, believe it or not, it pronounced them EXCOMMUNICATED!
Because of the fact that these faux-ordination ceremonies are becoming more frequent and because there are more and more women going around claiming to be Catholic priests, it is important for all of us to understand some basic truths:
#1 - No woman has ever been ordained to the Catholic priesthood. No woman ever will be ordained to the Catholic priesthood. This is an absolute and immutable truth. Put it in the bank.
#2 - It is impossible - please chew on that word "impossible" and get the full benefit of it - for a woman to be ordained to the Catholic priesthood.
It is not merely illicit (illegal), it is impossible! Impossible means "not possible". Impossible means "never was, is not now, never will be". Impossible means not merely "is not allowed to be"; it means "could not possibly ever be, even if some misguided, corrupt or insane authority figure in the Church were ever to dare to 'allow' it to be!" Impossible means "ontologically contradictory". Impossible connotes "absurd".
#3 - Let us illustrate with an example: If a Bishop (a real honest-to goodness validly ordained Catholic bishop) were to attempt to confer presbyteral Holy Orders on a ham sandwich, would the ham sandwich be a priest? The answer, of course, is NO! Why would the ham sandwich not be a priest? Well, we won't insult your intelligence by trying to answer that question. The answer is self-evident. But the point is this: You can no more ordain a woman to the ministerial priesthood than you can ordain a ham sandwich!
#4 - Let me push this a little further. Let us suppose, for sake of ludicrous example, that Pope Benedict XVI were to attempt to ordain a woman to the Catholic priesthood. [A disclaimer here: By invoking the name of our Holy Father, I mean him no disrespect whatsoever. I love and respect the Holy Father. I am just reaching out to make a point. I know that the Holy Father would never do any such thing.] But I digress. Back to my ludicrous example: If Pope Benedict XVI were to attempt to ordain a woman to the Catholic priesthood, would that woman be a Catholic priest? The answer, of course, is NO! But you might say, "How can you say that any action of the Holy Father would be invalid?" My answer is this: "Our Catholic faith, contrary to what some naïve persons think, is not based on mere human authority. As powerful and as awesome as a Pope undoubtedly is, no Pope can use his office as Pope in order to undermine the Catholic Faith, and still remain Pope. If a Pope were ever to attempt to ordain a woman to the priesthood or if a Pope were ever to attempt to "give permission" for women to be ordained to the priesthood, he would immediately and ipso facto cease to be Pope. Why? Because he would be excommunicated. If a Pope were ever excommunicated from the Body, he could (obviously) no longer be the visible head of the Body. A Pope can no more authorize the ordination of women to the priesthood than he can declare that Jesus is not divine or that the Holy Spirit is not divine or that the Scriptures are not divinely inspired or that abortion is morally acceptable or that artificial contraception is morally acceptable or that murder is morally acceptable or that the Holy Eucharist is not the true and literal Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity of Jesus Christ.

P.S. If anybody reads this article and says (with great indignation) that the writer of the article is disrespectful to women, I wish to plead "not guilty". My ham sandwich analogy is meant to make you laugh. If you don't laugh, don't blame me! Trust me that I love and respect women. My mother was a woman! All three of my sisters are women! All of them are or were wonderfully competent and admirable human beings. I'm not married, but if I had gotten married, it would indubitably have been to a woman! So, there! So, lighten up and try to grasp the main point of this article, which is as follows: IT IS IMPOSSIBLE FOR A WOMAN TO BE A PRIEST!