st-anns.com http://st-anns.com Fri, 13 Apr 2012 18:41:05 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Position available http://st-anns.com/2012/04/13/position-available/ http://st-anns.com/2012/04/13/position-available/#comments Fri, 13 Apr 2012 18:41:05 +0000 admin http://st-anns.com/?p=202 Continue reading →]]> St. Ann’s Parish seeks team member for Religious Education program to coordinate the K-3 rd grade part of program. A fundamental requirement for filling this position is an equal sensitivity to the needs of all cultural and language groups that belong to our parish. Bilingual English/Spanish preferred. Solid theological background and active faith life required. Part-time
position. Must be available to start mid-summer. Please send letter of interest and resume to stanndata@gmail.com,no later than May 15 th . A detailed job description available on request.

]]> http://st-anns.com/2012/04/13/position-available/feed/ 0 7 Churches Pilgrimage http://st-anns.com/2012/04/03/7-churches-pilgrimage/ http://st-anns.com/2012/04/03/7-churches-pilgrimage/#comments Tue, 03 Apr 2012 13:30:24 +0000 admin http://st-anns.com/?p=199 Continue reading →]]> Please join us Holy Thursday Night  for a prayerful journey and nighttime vigil through seven churches around the Local area.We will be meeting up at St Ann’s immediately after the 7:30pm Mass of the Lord’s Supper, and car pooling to the area churches.  For more information please contact the Rectory at 914-941-2556.

]]> http://st-anns.com/2012/04/03/7-churches-pilgrimage/feed/ 0 BAPTISMS http://st-anns.com/2012/03/23/baptisms/ http://st-anns.com/2012/03/23/baptisms/#comments Fri, 23 Mar 2012 13:11:34 +0000 admin http://st-anns.com/?p=187 Continue reading →]]> We remind you that durring Lent we do not celebrate the sacrament of Baptism.  The Lenten season is a time of preparation for the renewal of Baptismal promises at Easter for all Christians.  Therefore we will not have Baptisms until April 14 in Spanish and and in English starting April 15.

]]> http://st-anns.com/2012/03/23/baptisms/feed/ 0 Employee Networking/Support Group http://st-anns.com/2012/01/15/employee-networkingsupport-group/ http://st-anns.com/2012/01/15/employee-networkingsupport-group/#comments Sun, 15 Jan 2012 18:29:10 +0000 admin http://st-anns.com/?p=181 Continue reading →]]> The RDC Center for Counseling and Human Development in White Plains is offering a free 6 week employee networking/support group on Monday evenings from 6:30-8pm January 23rd through February 27th.  A variety of topics will be discussed including, but not limited to the following:

Managing stress
Interviewing skills
Resume writing
Job searching via the internet

For more information or to register call, Pat Sheridan, LCSW (914) 798-1103 or psheridan@divinecompassion.org

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]]> http://st-anns.com/2012/01/15/mens-cornerstone/feed/ 0 2011 Contribution Statements http://st-anns.com/2012/01/15/2011-contribution-statements/ http://st-anns.com/2012/01/15/2011-contribution-statements/#comments Sun, 15 Jan 2012 18:09:44 +0000 admin http://st-anns.com/?p=168 If you would like a statement of your contributions for 2011 please call the rectory @ 941-2556, Mon-Fri, 9am-4:30pm, and provide us with your name and address.  Your statement will be mailed to your home.

]]> http://st-anns.com/2012/01/15/2011-contribution-statements/feed/ 0 The God Who Comes (12/4/11) – st anns http://st-anns.com/2011/12/05/the-god-who-comes-12411-st-anns/ http://st-anns.com/2011/12/05/the-god-who-comes-12411-st-anns/#comments Mon, 05 Dec 2011 02:12:26 +0000 admin http://st-anns.com/?p=156 Continue reading →]]> Each of today’s sacred texts communicates a similar mystery.  Ours is a God who comes.  God does not avoid humankind, but comes to be in our midst.  In the first reading Isaiah comforts his exiled contemporaries with good news that God is coming to their rescue.  God will gather them and lead them home.  This vision of God’s future intervention on their behalf strengthened the exiles with the awareness that even in the pain and shame of their struggle, God saw and cared and was near.  They for their part, were to hold fast to their faith and that the prophets words would be realized.

When the second and third generation believers in Jesus began to question his second coming among them, the author of the second reading encouraged the doubting and hopeless that even though the delay might seem untenable, God would indeed come to them in Jesus.  They, for their part, should make the most of the delay by using the time at hand to prepare themselves for welcoming God.  If you read between the lines, you might hear the ancient author say, “if you knew for certain that Jesus was coming tomorrow, what might you do to get ready?”  Take that agenda and make it your own today. These same words invite our serious, conscientious preparation for the God who comes.

In today’s Gospel, John the Baptizer is featured as one who took the necessity of being prepared very seriously.  John exercised a ministry that purposefully alerted others to the coming Jesus and urged them to prepare a way for him in their hearts and lives.  By his words, by his wardrobe and by the witness of his life, John became a living lesson in being prepared.  His example prompts us to consider our own level of preparedness for the God who comes.

When she considered the mystery of the coming of God, Teresa of Avila said in The Interior Castle  That even when we are engaged in worthy pastimes and business and pleasures and haggling, even when we are falling into sins and rising from them again, God comes to be in our midst.  God comes to us, said the mystic, through the conversations of good people, through sermons, through the reading of good books.

God also comes through wickedness and trials and in prayer, however feeble it might be.  God comes to us through the life of someone in whom we can see beauty and truth.  God comes in the love of another who loves us so deeply and unconditionally that we dare to accept our own lovableness. There is no limitation in the ways in which God comes and for that reason, every juncture of our lives can be a place of encounter with the divine.

During the season of Advent and Christmas, believers celebrate in a special way the ultimate encounter with God in the coming of Jesus.  The late Carlos Carretto (1910-1988), an Italian born member of the Little Brothers of Jesus, gave all of his adult life over to the contemplation of this mystery.  In  The God Who Comes, Carretto insisted that nothing could have replaced Jesus and his mission.  Through Jesus’ words and works, we come to know God’s will and God’s ways: in Jesus we see God’s holy face.

-Fr. Ed

]]> http://st-anns.com/2011/12/05/the-god-who-comes-12411-st-anns/feed/ 0 Expectant Families of St Anns http://st-anns.com/2011/12/04/expectant-families-of-st-anns/ http://st-anns.com/2011/12/04/expectant-families-of-st-anns/#comments Sun, 04 Dec 2011 23:05:04 +0000 admin http://st-anns.com/?p=150 Continue reading →]]> As we prepare to celebrate the Birth of Jesus the Savior, we invite all families who are “EXPECTING” to receive a special blessing, Sunday, December 18th, at the 10:30am Mass.  Please Call St Anns Rectory @ 941-2556 so we may include you in this special blessing of families.

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