October 2, 2025

📰 News

Pope's Monthly Intentions for October

For collaboration between different religious traditions:

Let us pray that believers in different religious traditions might work together to defend and promote peace, justice, and human fraternity.

Welcome to Brian Wong!

This past Sunday the Oratory Parishes welcomed Mr. Brian Wong as the new Director of Music Ministry at Assumption. A graduate of Juilliard, Brian comes to us most recently as Music Director of Good Shepherd Lutheran Church in Weehawken, NJ. Well-trained on both the organ and piano, Brian is also excited to begin working with the Assumption Choir and continue the good work begun by Maureen Kelly. Welcome, Brian!

Virtus Training

There will be training for those involved in ministries with children and vulnerable adults on the prevention of sexual abuse on Saturday, October 4 from 9:30am to 12:30pm in Assumption Hall. Click here for registration instructions. If you have trouble registering online, please come anyway and we’ll get you set.

Volunteer Opportunity: Family Faith

Are you or someone you know interested in helping out with Family Faith Formation? Helping out with F3 is a great way to get involved with the community, meet new people, and enrich the lives of children and parents alike. If you are interested, please reach out to Mr. Joe O’Brien at jobrien@oratorychurch.org

Registration for Confirmation Is Open!

Click here to register for first and second year confirmation.

🗓️ Upcoming Events

Saturday, October 4, 9:00am, Assumption

⛪ First Saturday Mass

Saturday, October 4, 9:00am, Assumption Hall

📖 Virtus Training

Sunday, October 5, 8:15am, Assumption

🙏 First Communion Class

First Communion class will meet in the Church.

Sunday, October 5, following 9:30am Mass, Assumption

☕ Coffee Hour

Sponsored by our dedicated hospitality team: Kathy, Camille, Meghan, Francisca, Elizabeth, Denise, Jane, Serena, and Coleen.

Sunday, October 5, following 11:15am Mass, St. Boniface

☕ Coffee Hour

Sponsored by the Sister Parish Committee and Friends to learn about and support St. Mark’s Parish, our Sister Parish in Turkana, Kenya.

Sunday, October 5, 1:00pm, Assumption Hall

🐶 Blessing of Animals

Join us as we celebrate our care of creation, expressed in our relationships with our pets. You are invited to bring your family, friends, and animal companions for this prayer service.

Monday, October 6, 6:15pm–7:15pm, Assumption Hall

🙏 Oratory Evening Prayer

Tuesdays, October 7, 21, and November 11, 7:30–9:00pm, Zoom

✍️ Adult Faith Formation (AFF): Writing Spirituality: Finding God in the Stories of our Lives

This three-part online series, offered by the Jesuit Media Lab, will be led by Eric Clayton, who will guide participants through exercises and discussions to help discover and articulate the workings of God’s Spirit in the story of our lives. Fr. Anthony and Virginia Navarro will be coordinating this activity. Cost is $50 per participant, and the group is limited to 15 people. Click here for registration and more information.

Thursday, October 9, 7:00pm, Assumption Hall

✝️ Annual Baronius Lecture: "John Henry Newman: Why a Doctor of the Church?" by Sr. Kathleen Dietz, FSO

John Henry Newman: Why a Doctor of the Church? by Sr. Kathleen Dietz, FSO

Sr. Kathleen will explore what she sees as Newman’s specific contributions to theology and the life of faith, which prompt the Church to declare him a Doctor of the Church.

Sr. Kathleen has been a member of the Spiritual Family The Work since 1993. Click here for more information.

Sunday, October 12, 11:15am, St. Boniface

🙏 Baptisms

Sunday, October 19, 9:30am, DeKalb Market

☕ LGBTQ Faith Sharing Coffee Klatch at Cafe D'Avignon

Contact John Linder at jhelpato@gmail.com for more information or to RSVP.

Saturday, October 25

⛪ Pilgrimage to the National Basilica

In this Jubilee Year of Hope, Fr. Mark Paul and Jim Connell will join the Brooklyn Diocesan Pilgrims in leading a group of Oratory Parishioners on a day trip to the National Basilica of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, DC on Saturday, October 25. The day will include opportunities for sacraments, prayer, and fellowship. There will be a $50 per-person cost for the bus transportation, and meals are on our own. More details to follow. If you are interested in joining us, please complete this form.

Sunday, October 26, 11:15am, St. Boniface

🙏 Let's Celebrate Mass Together!

St. Boniface and Assumption will have a joint celebration of Mass on Sunday, October 26, at the 11:15 am Mass at St. Boniface Church, 190 Duffield Street. In observance of this, there will be no 9:30am Mass at Assumption on October 26.

November 19, 7:00pm, Assumption Community Room

📖 Adult Faith Formation: Scripture Study

We invite you to join us for a monthly Lectio Divina and Scripture Study series led by Fr. Kishore Nagothu, focusing on the Gospel of Matthew, which will be the main Gospel for the upcoming liturgical year (Year A). All sessions meet on the third Wednesday of each month from 7:00–8:00pm in the Assumption Community Community Room, from November 2025 through May 2026. You are welcome to attend as many sessions as you are able. Please save the dates: November 19, December 17, January 21, February 18, March 18, April 8, and May 20. Please click this link to register or email Fr. Anthony Balakishore Nagothu at knagothu@oratorychurch.org

Saturday, January 24, 2025, 9:00am, Assumption Hall

🗓️ Ministry Morning: Save the Date

⛪️ Weekly Mass Intention Schedule

Twenty-Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time

Weekly Readings:

https://bible.usccb.org/readings

ASSUMPTION

10/4	5:00pm	Pio Banogon
10/5	9:30am	People of the Parish
10/6	8:00am	Keith Glascoe
10/7	8:00am	Personal Intentions: Maria Pluchinotta
10/8	8:00am	Dick Morgan
10/9	8:00am	Patricia Mary Lane
10/10	8:00am	Maria Gracia Curti

ST. BONIFACE

10/5	11:15am	Intentions: Gabrielle D’Amato
10/5	6:00pm	People of the Parish
10/6	12:10pm	Philomena Marino
10/7	12:10pm	Kjell Heggstad
10/8	12:10pm	Deceased Members of Foley & Roche Families
10/9	12:10pm	Merina Colageo
10/10	12:10pm	Patricia Mary Lane

Mass Intentions

It has been a long tradition in the Church to offer Masses for people to pray, especially for the dead, seeking God’s grace, mercy, and spiritual benefits through Christ’s sacrifice. Usually a modest donation is given for this. In the coming weeks we have several Masses with no particular intentions. If you would like to have a Mass offered for someone (living or deceased), email the parish office at info@oratorychurch.org or click here.

🙏 Prayer List

Please keep the sick of the community in your prayers

Lucille Gould, Maria Gracia Curti, Julie Lewis, Ella Gryski, May Danielle Santos, Alyson Hui, John Baer, Lucy Vincent, Zhiguang Gao, Jeannie Tindor, Elizabeth Hooper, Eileen Acheson Bohn, Mary Cella, Janice Clarke, Alice Mulholland, Mary Simon Charles, Kim Manzi

Rest in Peace

W. Richard Rohde, Frank Pizzo, Marie McNamara, Brandon Warden, Richard Legnini, Marie Turley, Arlene Vinicombe, Antonio Lisboa

If you would like to add someone to the prayer list, email the parish office at info@oratorychurch.org or click here.