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Are you discerning a vocation to the Diaconate?

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The Office of Diaconate Formation will be conducting THREE INFORMATION SESSIONS for men and their wives. WEDNESDAY, September 5 ~ 7:00 pm FRIDAY, September 7 ~ 7:00 pm SUNDAY, September 9 ~ 7:00 pm If you and your wife would like to attend one of the meetings CALL 631-423-0483 Ext. 179 or E-MAIL diaconateformation@drvc.org Seminary of the Immaculate Conception, 440 Read More

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A Diocesan Young Adult Retreat

A CONCERT UNDER THE STARS WITH THE WEST POINT CONCERT BAND

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THE LONG ISLAND STATE VETERANS HOME PRESENTS A CONCERT UNDER THE STARS WITH THE WEST POINT CONCERT BAND Date : Thursday, August 16th, 2018 from 6:30-10:00 PM  Place: Outdoors at the Longs Island State Veterans Home 100 Patriots Road, Stony Brook (Campus of Stony Brook University)
6:30 PM Opening Performer: Tommy Sullivan from Johnny Maestro and the Brooklyn Bridge
7:30-9:00 PM West Point Concert Band 9:15PM Laser Light Show
Arrive early! This is a FREE outdoor concert, open to the public. Bring your blankets and chairs. Food vendors will be on-site. For more information visit Concert Under the Stars,
call 631-444-8606 or visit www.LISVH.org

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Assumption of the Blessed Virgin

A timely reflection.

FLU INJECTIONS

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Flu injections will be given at St. Matthew’s on two Sundays:  SEPTEMBER 23rd and SEPTEMBER 30th Rite Aid will administer the Flu Injections.  Time: Beginning at 8:00 AM – 1:30 PM Place: Mirror Room – 1st floor of the Parish Center Cost: $30 cash only without insurance Most insurances are accepted at no cost to you.
Please bring a copy of your insurance card.  Please click here for more information.

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Gift Shop

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St. Matthew’s Gift Shop is open Monday through Saturday 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.  Closed 12:30 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. for lunch.  Many items reduced! Unique religious gifts, rosaries, books, fonts, statues, picture frames, wedding unity candles, vestments and so much more…  The Gift Shop is located in the Parish Center, across from the Receptionist area. All Proceeds Benefit Our Parish Ministry!

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RELIGIOUS EDUCATION The Place for Learning and Praying

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RELIGIOUS EDUCATION
The Place for Learning and Praying
Our Family/Children’s Mass is Sunday at 9:30AM
Mary Donaldson, Director, Rita Minder, Assistant
Religion Office Phone 864-3321 Fax 499-1530 maryccd@smrcc.org

LOOKING AHEAD
Registration forms for the upcoming Winter Program (September 2018 thru April 2019) are coming in at a slower pace for students in grades two through eight. It is important that you return those blue forms as soon as possible either by dropping them off or mailing them in. If you don’t have the registration form, you can come into the Religion office and we will give you one. Applications cannot be processed if we don’t have them and your first and second choice may become compromised. When registering a new student, 1st thru 8th grade, you must come into the Religion Office, on the second floor of the Parish Center, Monday through Thursday, between 11:00AM and 4:00PM. Please be sure to bring a copy of the child’s Baptismal Certificate when you come. The fee of $175.00 per child is
due at that time.
TEACHERS
While I realize that it is still summer, we are looking ahead to the 2018-2019 Winter Program
that begins October 1, 2018 and runs through the end of April 2019. Teachers are always needed. If you
would like to teach, please contact the Religion Office. We would love to have you.

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Mommy n Me Class

CALLING ALL SINGERS!!!! ADULTS AND CHILDREN!!! WE NEED YOU!!!!

Trivia Night

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Knights of Columbus, ARCHBISHOP FULTON J. SHEEN COUNCIL, No. 7479, Invite you to Come Test Your Knowledge at Trivia Night October 13, 2018 6:00pm in Goggin Hall.  $20.00 incl. Dinner, Beer, Wine, Soda,  Coffee & Dessert.  50 – 50 Raffle, Prizes for First and Second place teams
For more information contact Kevin Bertolini at 631-254-0087
13 years of age and older please

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Walk with Us! Help End Poverty on Long Island

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Society of St. Vincent DePaul, FRIENDS OF THE POOR® 5K WALK/RUN, Saturday, September 29, 2018 (rain or shine) Bethpage Community Park (1001 Stewart Avenue, Bethpage, NY 11714 7:30 AM Registration/Check-in
EVERY DONATION GOES TO HELP PEOPLE IN NEED IN OUR COMMUNITY
To support us through a donation, checks may be mailed to: Society of St. Vincent de Paul, St. Matthew Conference, Att: Friends of the Poor Walk, 35 N. Service Road, Dix Hills, NY 11746
Questions? Call Michael Brennan 631 499-8520 x 118

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The Day before and the Day after

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The day before and the day after

 

I write this on the evening of September 11.

For us the shorthand “9/11” has entered into our lexicon.

This fifteenth anniversary of all that 9/11 means leads me to reflect on the days before and after in our Liturgical Calendar. If we examine those dates we see an interesting theme.

 

September 10th was until 1969 the feast throughout the Roman Catholic Church of St. Nicholas of Tolentino, a medieval Augustinian Friar who spent many years preaching and celebrating the Sacraments. A feature of his life and spirituality was a deep devotion to the Souls in Purgatory and the need of the faithful on earth to pray earnestly for the release of those caught by death suddenly and unexpectedly into the joys of Heaven. He also preached about preparing for a good and holy death. He was graced with the foreknowledge of the date of his death and for days heard Angels singing as the day approached and arrived.  He died on September 10, 1305 and was canonized in 1446.  In the liturgical reforms of 1969 he was regarded as not being “of universal significance” and his feast was removed from the General Calendar. However, he is STILL a canonized Saint and venerated in Tolentino in Italy and in churches and institutions named in his honor.

 

September 12th was, and still is, the feast of the Most Holy Name of Mary. Like the feast of St. Nicholas of Tolentino the feast was removed from the calendar in 1969 but happily restored by Pope Saint John Paul II in 2002. As we all know, that Pope had a deep love and veneration for Mary. The feast is of course devotional and part of the Church’s extolling of the Blessed Virgin. However, the date, September 12th, is no accident. It was on that date in 1683 that a Christian army under the leadership of the King of Poland, John Sobieski, and Charles Duke of Lorraine attacked and routed a vast Turkish army that had been besieging the city of Vienna. The army of the Sultan had come to destroy the capital of the Habsburg Holy Roman Emperor and to begin the long-awaited Islamic conquest of Christian Europe. The crushing defeat of the Turks marked the high water mark of Ottoman jihad against the Catholic Church and Papacy. Not again for over 400 years would militant Islamism pose a serious threat to the culture and religion of the West.

It has been said that there are “no coincidences for a believer”.

Surely these to feasts, before and after September 11th, give us food for thought and prayer. A declining and increasingly desiccated and religionless West seems not to know how to meet the latest challenge today.

Let us fall back on the powerful “weapons” of our ancient and enduring Faith.

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The St. Vincent de Paul Society 2018 Coat Drive Sunday, October 21st


A timely reflection.

Anniversaries

Knight at the Races

2018 Holiday Craft Fair

All Saints Day and All Souls Day

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