In your charity please pray for the repose of the soul of Tai Nguyen, the mother of Rev. Peter (Vitus) Nguyen, parochial vicar of our parish. Mrs. Nguyen died suddenly July 19, 2010 in Orange, California where she lives, after a brief hospitalization. She is survived by her husband and numerous children and grandchildren. Fr Peter was planning to fly to California for a family reunion and a 60th wedding anniversary for his parents next week. May she rest in peace.

Please note our summer Mass time change: Sunday evening Mass is at 7:00 PM (not 5:00 PM) until Sept. 12. However,the Saturday night Mass remains at 5:00 PM.

We are very happy to announce a new addition to the pastoral Staff at Mount Carmel: Sister Barbara Buckbee of the Brentwood Sisters of St Joseph will be joining our staff part-time in September as the Catholic School Promoter for the parish. Her work will be to maintain the awareness and opportunity for Catholic school education among our parishioners. Her duties will include: supervising the parish mentors who assist families applying for Catholic schools and financial aid, working with the Mount Carmel School Alumni, and developing new avenues of financial assistance to encourage Catholic school enrollment here. We are delighted to re-establish an official parish connection to the Josephites who founded and staffed our parish school for over a hundred years. Welcome Sister Barbara.

In a similar vein, we are happy to announce the formation of an additional ministry here in our parish. “Jovenes de Valor” (“Valiant Youth”) is a diocesan bi-lingual youth ministry founded over ten years ago as an offshoot of the charismatic movement and flourishing in many parishes in Brooklyn and Queens, as well as in the TV program on Diocesan TV entitled “Too Blessed to be Stressed”. This forms an opportunity in addition to the already existing Jornada youth group on Friday nights, which has so enriched our parish these last two years. The JDV will meet at SMM on Saturday nights under the supervision of the diocesan staff and adult parishioners from our prayer groups, starting off with a retreat night on Sunday June 27 from 4 to 9 PM. We are happy to offer this opportunity for growth in faith to our young people, in keeping with the priorities outlined in our recent Parish Assembly and parish planning process.

Mount Carmel will host the Pastoral Institute's 10 week basic theology course for adults on Thursday nights starting Sept. 23 -- an excellent way to update, get back into parish, or try out the waters of ministry. See the brochure at the diocesan website:  http://www.dioceseofbrooklyn.org/pastoral_inst/lay.aspx (Tracks in English and Spanish).