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Welcome to Apreiškimo Parapijos English Language Bulletin
APRIL, 2011
YEAR OF THE DIVINE MERCY
April 3 – Fourth Sunday in Lent, Laetare Sunday – Annual Meeting, Brooklyn-Queens Chapter
Following 10:00 AM of the Lithuanian American Community Mass, Parish Hall
April 7 – Panel Discussion about Catholic Outreach Mt. Carmel Hall To the Lesbian and Gay Community 7:00 pm
Organized by Msgr. Calise
April 10 – Passion Sunday – Kavine. VERBOS WORKSHOP, Parish Lower Hall
April 17 – Palm Sunday – Kavine, Easter Egg Workshop, Parish Lower Hall
April 21 – Holy Thursday. No Lithuanian Services
April 22 – GOOD FRIDAY. No Lithuanian Services
April 23 – Holy Saturday. No Lithuanian Services
April 24 – VELYKOS EASTER SUNDAY. Mass at 7:00 AM. Parish Community Breakfast Immediately after Mass
April 29 – May 1 – Traditional WOMENS WEEKEND. Immaculate Conception Convent, Putnam, CT
April 30 – DIOCESAN MARRIAGE CELEBRATION. NERINGA Fundraising Concert, Putnam, CT
May 1 – Divine Mercy Sunday, Beatification of Pope John Paul II.
Maironis School Lithuanian Mothers Day Party, Mt. Carmel Hall
May 7 - ATEITININKIAI 100th Anniversary Celebration 1:45 PM, Annunciation Church and Hall
April Showers may indeed bring May flowers, but this year, April brings Easter Sunday, the great Feast of the Resurrection of the Lord…Velykos. It is the most important feast in our faith. Easter reminds us that we are Children of the Great Promise… the promise God made that he would send a savior, a redeemer, who would become Man like us, and who would offer to purchase our salvation with the human blood, sweat, and tears in the form of the God-Made Man, Jesus Christ. The Resurrection Mass will be at 7:00 AM Easter Sunday. April 24. The traditional Breakfast will follow (see below). Come and celebrate Our Lord‘s Resurrection…….and the firm and certain hope of our own salvation that it provides! Sadly, though, we will not be able to commemorate the Lord‘s Supper (Holy Thursday), the “Mass of the Presanctified”, as it was traditionally called, on Good Friday, nor will we be able to celebrate the Easter Vigil (Holy Saturday) in Lithuanian. Services those days will be at 7:30 pm at Mt. Carmel parish in English.
Annunciation Parish and the Lithuanian Folk Art Institute, New York Chapter, will provide a workshop in making the traditional VERBOS on Sunday, April 10, at Kavine. Lithuanian people carry the VERBOS in the Palm Sunday procession and then often bring them to the cemetery to mark the graves of loved ones. They will be blessed Palm Sunday, and are free to parishioners.
Lithuanian Easter Egg making for adults and children will take place Sunday, April 17. Please consider donating a dozen hard boiled eggs. If YOU are an expert marguciai maker, please feel free to bring a few to show. They will go into the basket that will be given Msgr. Calise for Easter!
Did you know, our Parish Administrator has resumed writing a column for THE TABLET? He has!
HELP! Joe will need some bodies for decorating the church for Easter. Call him at 718-438-4649 .
Sunday, April 3, after 10:00 am Mass, the Brooklyn-Queens Chapter of the Lithuanian American Community will hold its Annual Meeting. Reports of the Chapter‘s committees‘ activities will be made, election of officerw will take place, and future plans will be discussed. Chapter President Vida Jankauskas says that there will be refreshments available immediately after Mass, in the hall.
Sunday, March 6 was LAY MINISTRY SUNDAY, a day set aside for parishioners to say a great big AČIU to their fellow parishioners who volunteer week in and week out for the parish. At Annunciation this March 6, parishioners attending the Kavine found a real treat awaiting in the parish Lower Hall…a surprise “MARDI GRAS” party! Rimas Kezys and his wife Kelly delivered Kugelis and Koldunai for lunch! There were hot dogs for children, and an anonymous donation of macaronis and sauce, bread, and sauerkraut to round out the meal. Thanks go to Rimas and Kelly, (and the chef at THE AVENUE restaurant!), Pat Sidas. Tracey Slizys, Matas Slizys, and Aldona Marijosius, who did the serving, and Ray Slizys, who made sure there was something to drink besides coffee! New Choir member Arthur Wilson helped clean up! What a nice surprise.
Sunday, March 20, the 20th Anniversary of Kovo 11, date of the Restoration of Lithuanian Independence, was commemorated with a gala luncheon, and a fine concert by Arvydas Vilcinskas, sponsored by the NY District Council and the local Lithuanian American Community chapters. A surprise to all was the announcement, by Consul General Valdemaras Sarapinas, of the awarding of two of Lithuania’s Independence Restoration Day Medals to Annunciation Parish Lithuanian Affairs Committee co-Chairman Raimundas Slizys, and to Committee member Pat Sidas, in recognition of their work in service to the New York Lithuanian Community and Annunciation Parish. Monsignor Calise accepted the medal on behalf of Pat Sidas, who was away that Sunday. He said very generous and kind things about Raimundas and Pat! The Consul General and Mrs. Sarapinas graciously returned to Annunciation on March 25 to join in the celebration of the parish’s titular feast, and to present the medal to Pat in person.
FRIDAY, MARCH 25, the Feast of the Annunciation, our parish’s Titular Feast, was celebrated. Monsignor Calise said evening Mass at Annunciation. A wonderful number of Lithuanian speaking and Spanish speaking people, as well as Italian speakers from Mt. Carmel, came. Stations of The Cross in Spanish took place at 6:30 pm, and in Italian at 7:00 pm. At Monsignor’s request, both the Lithuanian and Spanish Choirs sang, and a member of Annunciation Lithuanian Choir chanted both the PATER NOSTER and the MAGNIFICAT in Latin, symbolic of the Unity of Holy Mother, the Church. Astra Butkus sang the words of the Angel Gabriel when she sang Schubert’s Ave, Maria at the Meditation. Simas and Rimas Chakar-Palubinskas, Denise Garcia, Jonas Lukosevicius, Martin Pietrusiewicz, Matas Slizys, and Susana Tlapanco served as acolytes.
After Mass, everyone adjourned to the Parish Hall for coffee and cake. Baked goods honored all the ethnic traditions that have called Annunciation home. Thanks go to Vida Jankauskas for providing “ausytes”, aguonis (poppyseed cake), and babka to represent the Lithuanian tradition, to Pat Sidas for providing cookies and brownies, in the American tradition, and “stollen” and “kipflern” representing the German tradition, and Leticia Serrano, for providing two HUGE, wonderfully delicious cakes, representing the Latin American tradition. An anonymous donor provided daffodils for the tables and Italian cookies to honor the Italian tradition.
Others who must be thanked for making the evening special are, ALL THE CHOIR MEMBERS, who came to sing, Ray Slizys, who produced the beautiful Mass booklet we all used to follow the Mass, Paulius Sabalis and Margarita Duran, lectors, Antonio Arenas, who led the Spanish Choir and chanted the Responsorial Psalm, Asta Barkauskas, who, unable to be present herself, arranged for Loneda and Arturas Jautakas to provide the choir direction and organ music, and organized the Lithuanian music for the Mass. Thanks also go to Coffee Hour Committee members Pat Sidas, Tracey Slizys, Lidia Santos and her granddaughter, Leticia Serrano and her husband, Aukse and Robert Edwards, Arthur Wilson, Mara Vygantas, Monika Sabalis, and Ramute Zukas for organizing everything, including the clean-up!
REJOICE! He’s a BOY! Tristan Heery was born March 26 to Sean and Christina (Senken) Heery. Loving Grandmother is Josephina Senken. Tristan has a brother, Sean and sister, Karolina!
Diocesan News: The 2011 DIOCESAN WEDDING ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION for those couples celebrating 25th, 30th, 40th, and 50th anniversaries will take place Saturday, April 30. To register for the celebratory Mass and Reception, please call Ana Puente at 718-281-9540.
TEACHERS OF LIGHT program at Mt. Carmel has a FREE SAT preparation class at Mt. Carmel School Saturdays at 9 AM. IT IS FREE. This is a great opportunity for Annunciation Youth. TAKE ADVANTAGE OF IT! If YOU have children or young people needing tutoring in any subject at any grade level, go to TEACHERS OF LIGHT website at www.Teachersoflight.org , or call 347-342-8354.
RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION: Please contact LIT...@AOL.COM to arrange instruction for YOUR child. If you wish an English-only class for your child, please contact Rose Marie Walsh at 718-384-0223. Tell her you are from Annunciation’s Lithuanian Community. She will help you. There are HOME STUDY opportunities for Religious Instruction. Do not allow your children and grandchildren to be without the Sacraments and without instruction in our Holy Faith.
Are you an adult who has never received the Sacrament of Confirmation? Access to a CONFIRMATION CLASS FOR ADULTS (English or Lithuanian) can be arranged. (Contact Pat Sidas at Kavine or at SID...@AOL.COM) Should it happen that you or a member of your family has not been baptized, or received First Holy Communion, contact Pat or any parish religious instruction teacher. (See P. 6)
VAIKU LITURGJIA, Childrens’ Liturgy, is celebrated the first Sunday of the Month during the 10:00 AM Mass. ALL children are welcome. English-Only Children are accommodated, too!
ALL the usual sacraments are celebrated at Annunciation Parish: To arrange for Funerals, Baptisms, Weddings, or for the Sacrament of the Sick (anointing), or “Last Rites”, just call 718-384-0223.
Sick call list: Elvira Vilineskis, Phyllis Macenas, Liuda Gudelis, Vito Senken, Joe Levonas, and Anele Steponis are suffering the assaults of age. Gloria O’Brien, Richard Legeckas, and Laura Mc Carthy need prayers, as do Marie Strimaitis McCauley and Marianne Ward. Edward Diskevich is doing much better, but still in need of prayer, as is Simas Ulcickas. Jonas Cernauskas is recovering well from recent heart surgery. THANK YOU, God! May God bless them all with improved health!
KAVINE NEWS: A big Kavine THANK YOU to Aukse Edwards for a donation of coffee. Blessed candles are available at kavine. Every Catholic family should have a blessed candle at home to use when greeting a priest or Eucharistic Minister who might come bearing the Blessed Sacrament for someone homebound, to burn in times of great fear or suffering, to place beside the body of someone who dies at home. There is no charge for them, but a donation is appreciated. God Bless the KAVINE SET-UP AND CLEAN-UP COMMITTEE. To join it — it is NOT hard work!—contact Vida Jankauskas or Pat Sidas. HELP is needed for the Easter Breakfast! If you can donate some ham, or baked goods, Easter Eggs, or cheese, let Pat know at SID...@AOL.COM
Attention dancers ages 5 to 100! The 14th Lithuanian Dance Festival will be held July 1, 2012 in Boston. If you want to participate or would like information, contact Cheryl Milukas at milu...@sbcglobal.net. Facebook: TryptinisN.Y. http://www.nymaironiomokykla.org/ http://sokiusvente2012.org/
John De Vita, brother of Cecile Murgatroyd, Tekla Kerbediene, mother of Aukse Edwards, Regina Semeniene mother of Gitana Merkelis, Dr. Bernard Covalesky, father of Susan and Fran, Ray Kazlas, husband of Florence, father of Caroline and Melanie, and the father of Clemente Randon, all have gone home to the Father, May they rest in peace in the arms of the angels!
Like to play CHESS? Kazys Butkus, Matas Slizys , Milda Stanislauskas, Paulius Sabalis, and Antanas Bublis and others await challengers Sundays at Kavine! For those who might like a less exotic challenge, the Kavine Committee has CHECKERS!
News From New Jersey: Rev. Danielius Staniškis, whose first assignment was at our parish, has been named Administrator of the parish of St. Simon the Apostle in Green Pond, New Jersey.
Our Lady of Vilnius News: Sunday meditation and prayer continue at St. Patrick’s Cathedral, and in front of the closed church. Visit www.ourladyofvilnius.org or http://ausrosvartunyc.blogspot.com for more information. Contact the Save Our Lady of Vilnius Committee, Elaine Derso, Chair, PO Box 230253, NY, NY 10023. Email: olv...@gmail.com. Website: https://sites.google.com/site/ourladyofvilniusnyc.
News from Mt. Carmel: Serenity Sunday is an evening of prayer, fellowship and healing for people recovering from addictions, and for those who love them. Mass at 5:00 pm, “pot luck” supper after, followed by “meetings” according to the precepts of “AA”. Serenity Sunday will be April 3 (May 1).
Maironis School News: For information about Maironis School, including adult education classes, please contact school principal Fausta Sinkunas at dire...@nymaironismokykla.org. HEADS UP! On May 1, the traditional Lithuanian Motinos Diena, Mother’s Day, Maironis School will have its fundraising luncheon after 10:00 AM Mass, at Mt. Carmel Parish Lower Hower Hall. Tickets are available at Kavine: $15 adults, $5 Students 5-18. (No charge for children under 5.)
ANNUNCIATION SCHOOL CLASS OF 1963 wants to reunite! Larry Kiceina would like to be in touch if you were a member of the class. He can be reached at azfl...@yahoo.com. So does the CLASS OF 1973, the LAST Annunciation School Class. Ed Santiago is looking for: Clara Francese, Salvatore Vassallo, Vincent Murphy, Lisa Bergamo, Joseph Boccia, Antonio Pellolino, Nicky Sodano, Joann Gass, Anthony Carfagno, Patrick Forlenza. Contact him through ZINIOS. Sharon Azar is looking for her friend and classmate Georgina Antonowich…can anyone help?
How does ŽINIOS find these folk who are “searching”? Via COMMENTWILLIAMSBURG.ORG, that’s how! http://commentwilliamsburg.org/?p=64 offers net surfers a place to reminisce about Williamsburg in general, and about our parish in particular. WORTH A VISIT! You never know what former parishioners or school classmates you will find “blogging” there!
LAK News: Adult Basketball takes place at Mt. Carmel Gym (275 North 8th Street) at 7:00 pm Friday nights. For information contact Jonas Jankauskas, LAK president, at kopu...@gmail.com BASKETBALL FOR YOUTH takes place Saturdays from 2-3:30 pm at Redeemer Lutheran School, 69-26 Cooper Avenue, Glendale, not far from THE AVENUE restaurant. Boys and girls from the age of 6 are invited to join! Joe Milukas is the coach. (jmil...@sbcglobal.net)
Interesting websites:
New Online Magazine! www.vilnews.com
Apostolate of Lithuanian Catholics Living Outside Lithuania has a website, www.sielovada.org.
http://www.versme.lt/sav_a.htm is a link to the Lithuanian Army’s 1918 list of Volunteers.
Try www.lacgifts.com for the best in Lithuanian Culture Internet Shopping!
www.theessenceoflithuania.com (www.dalelelietuvos.lt ) also has Lithuanian items for sale.
LITUANUS is a Lithuanian Academic Journal (in English). Visit the website at www.lituanus.org.
ANNUNCIATION’S website is now being administered by Arūnas Tirkšliūnas. He takes over the work of posting and site maintenance from website founders Jonas and Denise Jankauskas and Joe Milukas. Because of the generous donations of time, talent, and even treasure of these three younger parishioners, Annunciation Parish found a place in the immense world of the Internet. Working on the strong foundation laid by the site founders, Arunas has taken the site trilingual: nyapreiskimo.com will take you to the Lithuanian Language pages of the site. To find parish information in Spanish, there is a spot on the site’s front page to click! The site will now be regularly updated with the parish bulletin, with the current ŽINIOS, and with photos and text describing life at North 5th and Havemeyer, Brooklyn, NY, USA. Go visit! And when you meet Arunas, THANK HIM! (http://www.annunciation-ny.com/ brings you to the English portion of the site.)
CAMP NERINGA NEWS: The Camp Session Dates are available on the Neringa Website: www.neringa.org. HEADS UP! WORK WEEKEND, June 3-5. WOMEN’S WEEKEND will be held April 29 – May 1. Dr. Kristina Maciunas and Kerry Secrest will facilitate the event. For more information go to www.neringa.org. BENEFIT CONCERT IN PUTNAM Saturday, April 30, 2011 to benefit Neringa. Performers will be musicians Kestutis Daugirdas, Simona Jakubenaite, and Liutauras Janusaitis.
News From Immaculate Conception Convent, Putnam, CT: There will be an Easter Retreat April 8-10. For information about the retreat, please contact Sister Igne at sesi...@gmail.com or 860-928-7955.
You can ask a Mass be said in Annunciation Church. Joe Rudis has the Mass Book Sundays after Mass in the Parish Hall. The usual stipend is $50. You can also have a Mass said via the MASS INTENTIONS PROJECT. Your Mass intention will be placed with a Lithuanian priest in financial need. The usual stipend is $15. Send your check, payable to Msgr. A. Bartkus, to him at 64-25 Perry Avenue, Maspeth, NY 11378.
For information about the DIOCESE OF BROOKLYN OFFICE OF MIGRATION contact http://www.dioceseofbrooklyn.org/cmo.aspx This site can help you find vocational classes, English classes, and citizenship classes. Questionable immigration status does NOT bar you from the services of the Diocesan Migration Office, (718-236-3000), or the Lithuanian Apostolate. For information about the LITHUANIAN APOSTOLATE, contact Father Volertas at VOLE...@AOL.COM , or Advisory Committee members Vida Jankauskas, Malvina Klivecka, and Joe Rudis.
Welcome new readers: Loneda Jautakas, Mary Cangiano-Verdi (Class of 1960)
TO REGISTER yourself and your family at Annunciation Parish call 718-384-0223 or e-mail olmc...@yahoo.com . You can also register at Kavine. See Joe Rudis for a registration form. The more registered, the more secure our parish. NUMBERS COUNT!
COME VOLUNTEER FOR YOUR PARISH! Come help do His work on Earth!
Administrator:
Msgr. Joseph Calise – 718-384-0223
Associate Priest and Lithuanian Apostolate:
Rev. Vytautas Volertas – 718-326-2236
Parish Trustees:
Eric Arango, Raimundas Šižys
Lithuanian Affairs:
Vida Jankauskas – lcra@earthlink.net
Committee:
Raimundas Šižys – lithny@aol.com
Lectors, Ushers:
Bill Kumet – 718-846-3829
Choir:
Asta Barkauskas, Just Come to the loft!
Kavine:
Pat Sidas – 203-762-9726 sid100@aol.com
Parish Bulletin Editor:
Vida Jankauskas – lcra@earthlink.net
Parish Website Administrator:
Arūnas Tirkšliūnas – info@nyapreiskimo.com
Decorating the Church:
Joe Rudis – 718-438-4649
Acolyte:
Father Volertas, Dr. Algis Lukoševičius. See either one after Mass
Religious Education:
Dr. Milda Palubinskaitė – MildaPalubinskas@yahoo.com, Salvijus Kungys – SalvijusK@yahoo.com, Dana Račiūnas, Raimundas Šližys – lithny@aol.com
Ateitis:
Dr. Algis Lukoševičius – algirdas212@yahoo.com
Children’s Chapter:
Dr. Milda Palubinskas – mildapalubinskas@yahoo.com
Spanish Affairs Committee:
Leticia Serrano – arilet@aol.com
Annunciation Parish Spanish Choir:
Antonio Arenas – See him after 11:30 am Mass
Guadalupe Committee:
Clemente Randon – c12g4h9a6s@aol.com
Queen of The Rosary Academy:
Sr. Joan Losson, OP – 718-782-1110
Diocesan Migration Office:
718-236-3000
FATHER VOLERTAS IS AVAILALE TO HEAR CONFESSIONS BEFORE MASS. BLESS HIM, HE COMES EARLY EVERY SUNDAY!
Are you unable to get to Mass? Eucharistic Minister Vytautas Cereska will bring the Body and Blood of Christ to you. Call Vytautas at 646-246-8270. Father Volertas (718-326-2236) is, of course, also available to bring the Sacraments and anoint the sick and frail. Do not be without the Sacraments, or let your loved ones be bereft either!
If you want to schedule an event in the Parish Lower Hall, please do so as far in advance as possible. There are many, many demands on our limited facilities! (lithny@aol.com ) (For those organizations needing access to the Halls at Mt. Carmel, that calendar opens JUNE 1.)
IF ALL OF US CAME TO MASS JUST ONCE A MONTH, OUR BEAUTIFUL CHURCH WOULD ALWAYS BE FULL!
MASS IS SAID AT 10:00 AM IN LITHUANIAN,
AND AT 11:30 AM IN SPANISH
ANNUNCIATION PARISH IS ALIVE AND WELL AND LIVING AT
NORTH FIFTH AND HAVEMEYER.
COME BE A PART OF IT!
BLESSED VIRGIN MARY OF THE ANNUNCIATION, PRAY FOR US!
OUR LADY OF ŠILUVA, PRAY FOR US!
OUR LADY OF VILNIUS, AUSROS VARTU, PRAY FOR US!