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When: Every 3rd Sunday of the month at 2pm.
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Parents Requirements: Parents are invited to call the Rectory to make an appointment with one of our parish priests. At this meeting the parents will be asked to complete a "Registration of Baptism". Parents need to attend a pre-Baptismal Preparation Session on the proceeding Wednesday at 7pm.
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Documentation Needed: A Birth Certificate
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Godparent Requirements: Godparents must be baptized & confirmed Catholics who receive the Eucharist & live a life of faith. A baptized person, who is not Catholic, may be a Christian witness if the other godparent is Catholic. (Canon Law 872-874)
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When: Saturday 1-2pm for parish; First Reconciliation is celebrated in the winter
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Requirements: Each child is required to have received Baptism in order to take part in their first Reconciliation. Each child is required to attend the weekend liturgies with their family and attendance at all the Religious Education classes are mandatory.
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Additional Information: During Lent, Confessions may be heard at a Cluster Reconciliation Service. Please check with the Rectory during this Holy season.
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When: Confirmation is usually in the spring on a date given to us by the bishop. |
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Requirements: The Sacrament of Confirmation is celebrated in the seventh grade. Each candidate is required to have received Baptism, Reconciliation and Eucharist and have completed all grades previous most especially the Pre-Confirmation class.
A Confirmation Enrollment and Parent Commitment Liturgy is celebrated in the fall where parents present their child to the Christian Community. This is a mandatory component as also is attendance at weekend liturgies and parent/sponsor meeting; Confirmation Retreat and a parent/sponsor meeting is also a requirement. There is also 30 hours of Christian service.
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Additional Information:Please contact Sr. Gina Piazza in the Religious Education Office at 718.232.7733.
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Requirements: Couples are invited to call the Rectory at least 6 months before their Marriage to make an appointment to meet with one of our parish priests.
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Pre-Cana Requirements: Log onto www.pre-cana.org for completed information
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Documentation Needed: Varies by Couple. At the initial meeting with the parish priest, he will discuss all necessary documentation.
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Requirements: Please contact the Rectory if you wish to be anointed. Emergency sick calls are welcome anytime. Call 718.837.3401.
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- November 1st - All Saints Day
Solemnity celebrated on the first of November. It is instituted to honor all the saints, known and unknown, and, according to Urban IV, to supply any deficiencies in the faithful's celebration of saints' feasts during the year.
- December 8th - The Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary
This feast emphasizes primarily the extraordinary fullness of grace granted to Mary in the first moment of her conception. We likewise celebrate her exalted prerogative of being the only person who through the merits of Jesus Christ was preserved from every stain of original sin.
- December 25th - Christmas
This one line is the entire Christmas story. The entire message of the birth of Christ. The Word, God's fullness, the second Person of the Trinity, sent by God as a message, the message of love and goodness and God's real presence in the world, sent to dwell in flesh, sent to be human, to live among us and speak our language so that we might receive Him and understand what God wants us to hear from God.
- January 1st - The Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God
On New Year's Day, the octave day of Christmas, the Church celebrates the Solemnity of the Holy Mother of God. The divine and virginal motherhood of the Blessed Virgin Mary is a singular salvific event: for Our Lady it was the foretaste and cause of her extraordinary glory; for us it is a source of grace and salvation because "through her we have received the Author of life"(127).
- 40 days after Easter - Ascension Thursday
Forty days after Easter, Christians commemorate Jesus' ascension into heaven.
- August 15th - The Assumption of Mary
This feast has double meaning (1) the happy departure of Mary from this life, and (2) the assumption of her body into heaven.
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