The Brooklyn Oratory Parishes
Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary and St. Boniface
November 30, 2021
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From Your Pastors
Our parishes are rightly known for their charity. Over the Thanksgiving/Christmas season we provide a number of opportunities to express that charity. We are supporting food pantries, coat drives, and toy collections. But we are also encouraging participation in the Brooklyn/Queens wide Annual Catholic Appeal. Thank you to all who have supported this good work thus far.
Assumption recently went over goal and St Boniface still has some way to go.
Assumption goal $25,587.00–received to date: $26,666.00 from 44 donors. THANK YOU FOR HELPING US REACH OUR GOAL.
St Boniface goal $58,829–received to date–$34,911 from 69 donors.
On Sunday December 12 we will take up second collection at both Parishes to see if we can bridge the gap at St. Boniface and provide one last opportunity for all of us in 2021 to support this effort.
In his annual World Day of Peace message Pope Francis spoke of “A Culture of Care as a Path to Peace.” He called on Catholics to care for one another as we promote human dignity, seek the common good, develop solidarity among people and nations, and care for and protect creation itself. We can be part of this “Culture of Care” by participating in the 2021 Annual Catholic Appeal and directly impacting thousands of lives in Brooklyn and Queens. Our donations will allow address the present needs of those in our communities, which no one parish or parishioner can do alone.
As an example of the impact our donations can have the demand for services from Catholic Charities services this past year during the height of the pandemic rose 1000% (one thousand percent!). This short video speaks to that effort.
Thank you to all who donated food and money to the recent food drive for Hour Children and Second Harvest. The generous response will feed numerous families relying on food pantries to make ends meet. We have also collected and $1,350.00 through ABVM and $3,387 through St Boniface. THANK YOU.
This coming weekend, December 4 and 5, the Chairs of the Parish Finance Committees will issue their annual reports. Transparency and accountability are vital to our continued growth as communities of faith and charity. Please let us know if you have any questions or concerns.
THANK YOU to all for making charitable giving a hallmark of our Oratorian identity.
Fr. Mark Lane, c.o. and Fr. Michael Callaghan, c.o.
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Prayer Service at Birthplace of Dorothy Day.
In anticipation of the next stage of the canonization process of Servant of God Dorothy Day, join in a brief prayer and remembrance with her granddaughter Martha Hennessy who will be reading from her grandmother’s writings.
Dorothy Day's pilgrimage on earth began in Brooklyn when her mother Grace Satterly Day gave birth to Dorothy on November 8th, 1897 at 71 Pineapple Street. After living here in Brooklyn Heights and later in the Bath Beach section of Brooklyn, she and her family moved to Oakland, California in 1904. While Dorothy Day is known for spending much of her life on Staten Island and especially the Bowery section of Manhattan as co-founder of the Catholic Worker Movement, her journey to sainthood began in Brooklyn.
Dorothy Day's local investigation towards her cause for canonization has been completed. On December 8th, 2021, (Feast of the Immaculate Conception) all relevant documents for sainthood will be sent to the Vatican who will then complete the work towards her canonization.
The prayer service at Vineapple Cafe is sponsored by the Brooklyn Oratory Parishes and the New York City Catholic Worker Community.
Also, on December 8th, 2021 St. Patrick's Cathedral at 7:30pm will be hosting a special Mass for the Feast of the Immaculate Conception that will include celebrating the documents being sent to the Vatican towards Dorothy Day's canonization.
Prayer and Remembrance, Wednesday, December 8 at 3:30pm at Vineapple Cafe, 71 Pineapple Street in Brooklyn Heights
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Feast of the Immaculate Conception - December 8
Holy day of obligation
Assumption
Vigil Mass on December 7 at 6:30pm and 8:00am.
St. Boniface
Masses at 12:10pm and 5:30pm.
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Assumption Advent Giving Tree
You can help make Christmas brighter for a child in need by joining Assumption’s Annual Giving Tree project. We will collect gifts through Sunday, December 19. We hope to provide at least 125 gifts to children and youth served by Hour Children. Gifts will be picked up by Hour Children on December 22.
Ways to participate:
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Purchase a gift for a boy or a girl, ages 3 through 14. Bring your gift, unwrapped, and leave in the narthex of the church, or at the Oratory Residence, 64 Middagh Street Brooklyn, NY 11201.
- Order a gift online, and have it shipped directly to the Oratory Residence at Assumption, noting that the order is a gift in the recipient line: Fr Michael Callaghan – Hour Children Gifts, 64 Middagh Street Brooklyn, NY 11201. If the shipping directions require a phone number, please use the parish office number, 718-875-2096.
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St. Boniface Social Justice Action Toy Drive
Social Justice Action is partnering with Families, Fathers, and Children, a ministry of St. Augustine/St. Francis Xavier in Park Slope that supports families impacted by incarceration. We are collecting toys and food for their 14th annual Christmas Party on December 18th. This year, we will take the party “on the road” into Brownsville.
We need your help! We need toys for 40 children of all ages. We need many kinds of toys, for example: cars, trucks, Legos, art supplies, building blocks, teddy bears, and culturally responsive dolls for Black and Latinx children. Toys should be new and unwrapped.
You can donate in the following ways:
- Bring toys to Sunday Mass at St. Boniface on 12/5 and 12/12 (an SJA member will collect them each Sunday).
- Call 718-789-5321 or 718-789-4435 to arrange to drop off toys directly to the event organizers.
- If you’re interested in donating a prepared food dish, contact Ellen Edelman at 718-789-5321 for more information.
Many thanks for your generosity and love for children and families!
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By your generosity to the Poor Box, we were able to help Yanika and Eliana with two months’ rent. They are extremely grateful.
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Brooklyn Ballet brings The Brooklyn Nutcracker back to the majestic King's Theater in Flatbush. Our production fuses traditional ballet with hip hop, Native American hoop dancing, and more, to create a one-of-a-kind culturally inclusion version of this holiday classic. Brooklyn Ballet is thrilled to help lead Brooklyn's post-pandemic cultural resurgence.
Saturday, December 11, 2pm and 7pm
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Christmas Flower Offering in Memoriam and Best Wishes
If you would like to dedicate Christmas flowers in memory of a loved one or in honor of someone, please send in the name(s) to info@oratorychurch.org or write the names on your parish giving envelopes. We will print the names and remember them at the 10am mass on December 26 at Assumption and the 9am at St. Boniface. The donation for flowers is $20.00.
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The Brooklyn Oratory Parishes
Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary and St Boniface
Roman Catholic Communities in
Downtown Brooklyn and Brooklyn Heights
Both parishes operate from one office:
64 Middagh Street
Brooklyn, NY 11201
718.875.2096
718.625.1161
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