St. Aedan Catholic Church

Sunday Masses: 
Saturday Evening -  5:30 PM | Sunday 8:00 AM,  10:00 AM, 12:00 PM
[No 7:00 PM for Summer hrs]

Daily Mass:
Monday through Friday -  9:00 AM and 12:10 PM | Saturday 9:00 AM

Holy Days of Obligation: 
5:30 PM on the Eve of Holy Day
9:00 AM, 12:10 PM, 7:00 PM on the actual Holy Day

Nocturnal Adoration Schedule
Tantum Ergo Sacramentum, veneremur cernui.
(On bended knee, let us worship so great a Sacrament.)

Nocturnal Adoration will be held on Friday, July 3, 2020 at St. Aedan’s Church,
from 8 to 11pm. Please come and spend some time with Jesus.

[Currently Streaming Sunday Masses only - recorded at the 5:30pm Vigil - join our FlockNote group below to be added to the Notification List for when Mass is "Live"....]

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OLSH Tappan Streams 8am (live at 7:45am)

St. John's Piermont Streams at 10:45 am.

 

     The St Aedan's Food Pantry wishes to thank all who so generously contributed to our Easter Food Drive.  While this food drive has concluded, we are not stopping our regular collection and distribution of food to our needy client families, now known affectionately as 'Drop & Run', in this difficult time. People ask, "Who are those masked men?"  So, we still need your contributions of non-perishable foods, especially juices, boxed milk, cooking oil, coffee, soap and dish detergent and PAPER products.  And all the stuff your families eat!  Supermarket Gift Cards, Cash, Checks can be dropped in the Rectory Mail Slot.  In the name of our Patron St. Vincent dePaul and our Blessed Mother,  HAPPY EASTER and I hope to see you all soon!   Dcn. Jim
 

We entrust ourselves to you, Health of the Sick.

At the foot of the Cross you participated in Jesus’ pain,

with steadfast faith.

You, Our Lady of New York, know what we need.

We are certain that you will provide, so that,

as you did at Cana of Galilee,

joy and feasting might return after this moment of trial.

Help us, Mother of Divine Love,

to conform ourselves to the Father’s will

and to do what Jesus tells us:

He who took our sufferings upon Himself, and bore our sorrows to bring us,

through the Cross, to the joy of the Resurrection. Amen.

We seek refuge under your protection, O Holy Mother of God.

Do not despise our pleas – we who are put to the test – and deliver us from every danger, O glorious and blessed Virgin.

THERE ARE MANY INSPIRING ONLINE SERVICES

DURING THIS TIME OF SEPARATION

     If you would be interested in "attending" any of these, here would be a good place to start.  Just visit this PAGE.  We will update it regularly as things get sent to us for recommendation... stay safe!! and trust in God!!! 

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In order to save some space, we have moved these older complete stories to another page.  Please just click here - to go - there.
 

July 1, 2020

Even the Bible Is Full of Flawed Characters
 
The destruction of monuments only impoverishes our sense of history.
 
By Timothy Cardinal Dolan
June 28, 2020   Wall Street Journal
 
   U.S. Park Police stand guard after protesters attempted to pull down the statue of Andrew Jackson near the White House, June 22.
 
   Years ago I was dedicating a new parish to St. Peter. A woman wrote to protest: “Why would you name a Church after such a coward, a sinner who denied even knowing the Lord when Jesus needed him most, at the hour of His arrest and crucifixion?”
 
   Knowing her and what parish she was from, I wrote back, “But you’re a proud parishioner at St. Mary Magdalene Church. She was sure not a paragon of virtue for a chunk of her life. Yet, by God’s grace, she became a radiant, inspirational saint. If we can’t name churches after sinners, the only titles we’d have left would be Jesus and His Mother!”
 
  Isn’t the same true of America’s historical personalities? All of them had flaws, yet all of them still contributed a lot of good to our nation’s progress.
 
   Defacing, tearing down and hiding statues and portraits is today’s version of Puritan book-burning. Our children need to know their country’s past, its normative figures and their virtues and vices. That’s how we learn and pass on our story. Is there any more effective way to comprehend America’s history of racism than reading “Huckleberry Finn” or one of Flannery O’Connor’s short stories, works of literature now ominously on the chopping block?
 
   My own mom kept a photo of her parents hanging on the wall of our house. Her dad, my grandfather, was an abusive drunk who abandoned his family. I’m glad we got to know of him, the good and the bad.
 
   The same is true of the church I love and am honored to serve. Yes, there are scandalous parts of our history, and countless episodes when popes, bishops, priests and others—including some who are now saints—didn’t act as they should have.
 
   God forbid we’d go through a cultural revolution as China did five decades ago. Beware those who want to purify memories and present a tidy—and inaccurate—history. And who’s to say which statues, portraits, books and dedications are spared? Remember when some objected to raising the status of the Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday to a national holiday, citing his self-admitted flaws?
 
   If literature that depicts prejudice, or words or scenes that are today rightly abhorred, is to be banned, I don’t know if even the Bible can survive. If we only honor perfect, saintly people of the past, I guess I’m left with only the cross. And some people would ban that.
 
  As a historian by training, I want to remember the good and the bad, and recall with gratitude how even people who have an undeniable dark side can let light prevail and leave the world better. I want to keep bringing classes of schoolchildren to view such monuments, and to explain to them how even such giants in our history had crimes, unjust acts and plain poor judgment mixed in with the good we honor.
 
     With prayerful best wishes for you and your loved ones, I am,
 
Faithfully in Christ,


Timothy Michael Cardinal Dolan
Archbishop of New York

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