Saturday, 10 May
Vigil of Pentecost
4:30 p.m. - LILLIAN CAPPETTA KEVY
by her daughter, Phyllis, and family

Sunday, 11 May
Pentecost Sunday
7:45 a.m. - SALVATORE ALFONSI
by Harry and Rosa Lilley
10:45 a.m. - IN THANKSGIVING TO GOD for JOHN D. WEISS (80th birthday)
by his wife, Frances, and family

Monday, 12 May
SS. Nereus and Achilleus, martyrs; St. Pancras, martyr (OptMems)
12:05 p.m. - PAUL CHISICK
by Angelo and Kay Barone

Tuesday, 13 May
Our Lady of Fatima (OptMem)
12:05 p.m. - JOSEPH WILLIAM LEONARD IV
by his parents, Joseph and Josephine
7:00 p.m. - NATALE and ROSA (Cappella) BUTERA
by their daughter, Mary, and family

Wednesday, 14 May
St. Matthias, apostle (Fst)
12:05 p.m. - ANGELO and GERALDINE (Downey) FOLINO
by their sons, Jack and Tom, and their daughter, Gerry

Thursday, 15 May
St. Isidore the Farmer (OptMem)
12:05 p.m. - RACHEL ANN SNINSKI
by her family
7:00 p.m. - ED and NANCY COOK
by Patty Feeley Garland

Friday, 16 May
Weekday
12:05 p.m. - JAMES A. COYLE
by Jim and Cindy and family

Saturday, 17 May
Weekday
8:00 a.m. - In Thanksgiving to SAINT THERESE LISIEUX
by Cognita Deo
Vigil of Holy Trinity
4:30 p.m. - LENA TRANQUILLO PICCIONI
by John Chiodo and Mary Chiodo

Sunday, 18 May
Holy Trinity Sunday
7:45 a.m. - PAUL and CAMILLE (Foti) TEGANO
by their son-in-law, Jack
10:45 a.m. - JOYCE CHRISTINE CHIPLONIA
by her cousin, Carol Kramer

Saint Joseph Parish
$1,511.00 from the envelopes and $133.00 from the plate. Thank you.
When one deducts from the sum of these two figures, $1,644.00 the parish's weekly financial obligation to the Diocese, i.e. assessments, $410.08 plus the weekly premiums for property and liability insurance, $160.01, the sum of which is $570.09, plus its weekly obligation to All Saints School, $941.06 the sum total of which is $1,511.15, one sees that $133.85 of this collection is available for operating the parish.

Saint Francis deSales Parish
$159.00 from the envelopes and $63.25 from the plate. Thank you.
When one deducts from the sum of these two figures, $222.25 the parish's weekly financial obligation to the Diocese, i.e. assessments, $46.15 plus the weekly premiums for property and liability insurance, $60.67, the sum of which is $106.82, plus its weekly obligation to All Saints School, $188.21, the sum total of which is $295.03, one sees that ($72.78) of this collection is available for operating the parish. This is a deficit!

FAT THEOLOGY

And God populated the earth with broccoli, cauliflower, spinach and all manner of green and yellow vegetables, so that Man and Woman would live long and healthy lives.
And Satan created McDonald's. And McDonald's brought forth the 99-cent double-cheeseburger. And Satan said to Man, "You want fries with that?"
And Man said, "Super size them." And Man gained pounds.
And God created the healthful yogurt, that Woman might keep her figure that Man found so fair.
And Satan brought forth chocolate. And Woman gained pounds.
And God said, "Try my crispy fresh salad."
And Satan brought forth ice cream. And Woman gained pounds.
And God said, "I send unto your hearts healthy vegetables and olive oil with which to cook them."
And Satan brought forth chicken-fried steak so big it needed its own platter.
And Man gained pounds and his bad cholesterol went through the roof.
And God brought forth running shoes and Man resolved to lose those extra pounds.
And Satan brought forth cable TV with remote control so that Man would not have to rise up in order to change the channel from ESPN to ESPN2.
And Man gained pounds.
And God said, "You're running up the score, you Devil, you!"
And God brought forth the potato, a vegetable naturally low in fat and brimming with nutrition.
And Satan peeled off the nutritious skin and sliced the starchy center into chips and deep-fat fried them. And he created sour-cream dip also.
And Man clutched his remote control and ate the potato chips swaddled in cholesterol.
And Satan saw and said, "It is good."
And Man went into cardiac arrest.
And God sighed and created quadruple bypass surgery.
And Satan created Physicians and HMO's.

(I am taking the risk of trusting that readers of this parish bulletin are smart enough to recognize irony when they come across it. But, just so you know for certain, please know that the words printed at the top of this page are not meant to be taken seriously! They are meant to be taken the opposite of seriously! They are meant to catch your attention, so that you read the rest of the article! Okay? Everybody got that? Let us proceed!)
We have often said in this bulletin that Planned Parenthood is one of the most wicked organizations on Planet Earth (or words to that effect). No Catholic - actually no Christian, actually no one who believes in God, actually no one who respects human personhood - could possibly support Planned Parenthood!
However, persons who call themselves "pro-choice" are big supporters of PP. These persons (and all of us) should know that PP has a special affinity for bumping off black babies. This should not be surprising. The founder of Planned Parenthood, Margaret Sanger, was a world-class bigot. In her book, The Pivot of Civilization, Sanger called for "the elimination of human weeds". She advocated "the segregation of morons, misfits, and maladjusted" and the sterilization of "genetically inferior races."
If you go to youtube, you can listen in on a call from a pro-life gentleman who was running a sting operation on a PP facility in Washington DC. The man started off by saying that he wanted to make a donation to PP in honor of his newborn son. Here is a transcript of part of that conversation.

Caller:                 I want to specify that abortion to help a minority group, would that be possible?
PP Receptionist:  Absolutely.
Caller:                 Like the black community for example?
PP Receptionist:  Certainly.
Caller:                 The abortion - I can give money specifically for a black baby, that would be the                            purpose?
PP Receptionist:   Absolutely. If you wanted to designate that your gift be used to help an                                                    African-American woman in need, then we would certainly make sure that the gift was                           earmarked for that purpose.
Caller:                 Great, because I really faced trouble with affirmative action, and I don't want my kids                            to be disadvantaged against black kids. I just had a baby; I want to put it in his name.
PP Receptionist:   Yes, absolutely.
Caller:                 And we don't, you know we just think, the less black kids out there the better.
PP Receptionist:  (Laughs) Understandable, understandable.
Caller:                 Right. I want to protect my son, so he can get into college.
PP Receptionist:  All right. Excuse my hesitation, this is the first time I've had a donor call and make this                           kind of request, so I'm excited, and want to make sure I don't leave anything out.

WORDS YOU MIGHT WANT TO "FILE AWAY" IN YOUR BRAIN - to be quoted, perhaps, at some crucial time, e.g. when arguing with (excuse me, I mean "having a spirited discussion with) someone who is pro-choice, aka pro-abortion, especially when he / she says that the unborn entity is anything less than a human person..

PRIOR TO THE PENNSYLVANIA PRIMARY (22 April), Barack Obama was giving a campaign speech in Johnstown. The subject of making abortion and contraception available to teenagers came up during the Q &A. Here is what Senator Obama said:

"Look, I got two daughters - nine years old and six years old. I am going to teach them first about values and morals, but, if they make a mistake, I don't want them punished with a baby. I don't want them punished with an STD at age sixteen, so it doesn't make sense to not give them information."

My response
Let me tell you, dear Senator - and I tell you with all the respect due to your distinguished office - that what you just said is pure, unadulterated hogwash. Senator, the older I get the more persons I have come to count among my acquaintances - and, in some cases, friends and maybe even relatives - whose conceptions, if the truth be told, occurred under considerably less than ideal circumstances. Some of these persons were conceived by two silly but fertile teenagers who were in a house unsupervised and with ready access to a couch that no one was using at the time, or by a man and a woman who had never plighted their troth to one another but who did have a few too many drinks together, or by a married man who had wandered away from the embrace of his lawful wife into the unlawful embrace of a paramour.
As a Catholic priest, I truly believe and heartily preach that intercourse is appropriate and morally permissible exclusively within the bonds of marriage. However, I don't consider any human being's existence, under any circumstances, to be defined as a "mistake" and I don't consider any human being's existence to be a "punishment" and if you do, then I respectfully inform you that I shall vote for you to be the chief executive officer of my country when pigs fly, shrimp whistle and hell freezes over.

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It is unusual for Pentecost and Mother's Day to coincide on the calendar. This is due to the very early Easter date this year. So, we pray for a special outpouring of the Holy Spirit on all of the mothers of our two parishes and on all mothers everywhere.
May our mothers manifest in their lives the fruits of the Spirit:

I remember that, as a child, I was a BIG HELP to my mother in her efforts to manifest in her life two particular Fruits of the Spirit: Patience and Long Suffering.
I hope Mom appreciated how I helped her grow in holiness!