Both the Varsity and Junior Varsity Horsemen easily defeated Our Lady of the Assumption Monday night at home. Chris Colton had a game-high 18 points and was the only player on either team to score in all four quarters and to score in double digits, as the JV won 36-31. Likewise, Jordan Providence had an exceptional night for the Varsity squad, also being the only player on either team to score in double digits with 12, on route to a 34-18 Varsity rout of OLA. The Horsemen were one of six teams invited to participate in the Second Annual CSBA Ron Patnosh Memorial Shootout, held at the St. Raymond’s High School gymnasium. There, the Horsemen went up against the Lions of St. Francis Xavier in what would be the highest scoring and fastest paced game of the tournament. It looked like a high school game, and it was close, but missing too many easy layups combined with Lion’s shooter Carmine Castello’s game-high 31 points finally propelled the Lions past the Horsemen for the final 62-52 win. Three Horsemen scored in double digits: Francisco Mattei had points in every quarter with a team-high 17 points, Matt Manning hit for 15, and Jordan Providence scored 10 points. Sammy Lugo scored his five points in the final quarter; Soraya Morales hit a three in the third quarter, and Matt Rodriquez sank a two in the second quarter. The Lions were 5 for 10 from the free throw line, while the Horsemen were 8 for 10. Against OLA, Providence’s shooting earned him the position of number three scorer on the team; Mattei sank the only Varsity Horsemen free throws as part of his nine points. Sammy Lugo sank two threes in the third quarter for six points, and Matt Rodriguez sank a two in the third quarter. The Horsemen were 4 for ten from the line, while OLA was 1 for 8. The Horsemen now have a 7-1 season record. Ulises Paniagua sank his first two of the season for the JV in the third quarter. Jose Velez hit for seven points, Khalil Black nailed a three in the first quarter, and Antonio Martinez, William Manning, and Eric Cordero all hit twos. The Horsemen were 2 for 4 from the line, and OLA was 2 for 10 from the line. Nicky Callari with 8 points and Ryan Picard with nine points were the highest scoring JV shooters for OLA.
Are you missing your yearbook from your senior year? Or are you missing one of your favorite yearbooks? The Scanlan Alumni Office has extra yearbooks that they are looking to sell. The cost of a yearbook is $40.00 plus $6.00 postage. If you wish to find out if they have a particular yearbook available for sale, please send an e-mail - referencing which school you attended and what year(s) you are looking for - to the Scanlan Alumni Office at [email protected]. They will respond to you in a timely manner. They do not have much inventory for the 50's, 60's and 70's but there are many yearbooks available from the 80's, 90's & 2000's.
A bus will be leaving 2006 Westchester Avenue on Saturday morning at 6 am to attend the Black and Puerto Rican Caucus Meeting in room 204 at the Statehouse in Albany. They will discuss Parkchester's very own Peace December Movement at 10:30 am. Lunch is own your own. The bus will leave the capital at 4 pm and will return to Parkchester by 7 pm.
Chris Colton scored his 125th season point during Thursday’s 44-36 home win against the Eagles of Immaculate Conception. Both Colton and Justin Hernandez hit for game-high 16 points. The Horsemen led 31-17 at the half, and the starters sat out the entire fourth quarter, allowing more playing time for the younger members of the team. Antonio Martinez hit two free throws in the fourth quarter. William Manning sank a two in the first quarter, and Jose Velez nailed the only team threes, one in the first and another in the third quarter, for six total points. Khalid Black hit his two in the third. The Horsemen shot a disappointing 4 for 23 from the line. Isaiah Coston shot a team-high 14 points for the Eagles, hitting 11 points in the fourth along with a three in the first. Christian Melendez was also in double digits with ten. The eagles were 7 for 16 from the line. Both the Varsity and JV Horsemen will next play OLA at home on Monday, February 22, beginning at 5:45 pm. The Varsity Horsemen will play against St. Francis Xavier at 6:15PM on Friday, February 19 at St. Raymond’s High School as part of the CSBA Shootout, in honor of Ron Patnosh, the former St. Raymond’s Athletic Director who passed away unexpectedly a year ago.
Are you now or have you ever served in one of the many uniformed services of our cities, states, and federal government (police, fire, military etc.?) Then join the Scanlan Alumni Badge Association. To do so, contact the Scanlan Alumni Office (718) 430-0100 X13 for a Badges registration form or visit the Scanlan website: www.scanlanhs.edu
This is Pope Francis’ recent encyclical on the environment, and the lecture will take place on Sunday, February 28 from 2:30 - 4PM at the Maryknoll Mission Center, 55 Ryder Road, Ossining, given by Irish Columban Father Sean McDonagh. For more information, call 914-941-7590.
Goya Foods is offering four $20,000 scholarships to high school seniors planning to major in Culinary Arts or Food Science. Applications are due February 15 and are available at www.goya.com.
A rally opposing the staggering 15.8% Maintenance Fee increase will take place at 4 PM on Wednesday, February 10 in front of the Parkchester South Condo Management office, 2000 E. Tremont Ave.
If you're going to fast from anything this Lent, Pope Francis suggests that even more than candy or alcohol, we fast from indifference towards others. In his annual Lenten message, the pope writes, “Indifference to our neighbor and to God also represents a real temptation for us Christians. Each year during Lent we need to hear once more the voice of the prophets who cry out and trouble our conscience.” Describing this phenomenon he calls the globalization of indifference, Francis writes that “whenever our interior life becomes caught up in its own interests and concerns, there is no longer room for others, no place for the poor. God’s voice is no longer heard, the quiet joy of his love is no longer felt, and the desire to do good fades.” He continues that, “We end up being incapable of feeling compassion at the outcry of the poor, weeping for other people’s pain, and feeling a need to help them, as though all this were someone else’s responsibility and not our own.” But when we fast from this indifference, we can began to feast on love. In fact, Lent is the perfect time to learn how to love again. Jesus—the great protagonist of this holy season—certainly showed us the way. In him, God descends all the way down to bring everyone up. In his life and his ministry, no one is excluded. “What are you giving up for Lent?” It’s a question a lot of people will get these next few days. If you want to change your body, perhaps alcohol and candy is the way to go. But if you want to change your heart, a harder fast is needed. This narrow road is gritty, but it isn’t sterile. It will make room in ourselves to experience a love that can make us whole and set us free. Now that’s something worth fasting for.
We are now in the great penitential season of Lent. If we live the season as we ought, we will invariably think a good deal about sin — how we can avoid it, repent of it, get it forgiven, root it out of our lives, and pay the temporal penalty for it. As the great spiritual masters remind us, mortal sin rarely arises suddenly, with no habitual dispositions favoring it. True, our disordered concupiscence can sometimes catch us by surprise and we fall into grave sin without an obvious path to it, but most of the time, the way to mortal sin is paved with lots of venial sins, which make us accustomed to a little bit of this or that bad behavior, weaken our resistance, and lead us astray. If one tells a lot of small lies, one is paving the way for the big lies. If one eats and drinks a little too much again and again, one is laying a foundation for gluttony. And so on, with all the deadly sins. It’s spiritual common sense. This being so, it is just common sense that we should strive to discover how best to avoid venial sins; how best to rid ourselves of them and their bad effects; and if habituated to them, how to break the habit. Fortunately, the Church in her age-old treasure chest has gathered for us many means by which our venial sins can be remitted and prevented, and our charity enkindled. St. Thomas Aquinas, known as the Angelic Doctor observes: “There are many remedies against venial sins; for example, beating of the breast, sprinkling with holy water, extreme unction, and every sacramental anointing; a bishop’s blessing, blessed bread, general confession, compassion, the forgiveness of another’s faults, the Eucharist, the Lord’s Prayer, and all sorts of light penance.” Perhaps we should actively practice some of these during this Lenten season.
Cardinal Dolan’s visit to the East Bronx for the Jubilee Year of Mercy will take place at St. Raymond’s Parish on Saturday, February 20 from 2:30 - 7 pm. The program begins with a welcome at 2:30PM, followed by several conferences in both Spanish and English,confessions, a bi-lingual Mass at 5:30 PM, and light refreshments in the gym at 6:45 pm. Everyone is welcome to attend.
The varsity Horsemen trampled over St. Ignatius School, 43-29, Tuesday evening at home. Matthew Manning had a game-high 13 points. Poor shooting contributed to the JV Horsemen’s, 29-35, loss. Chris Colton had a game-high 21 points. The varsity team jumped out to an early 12-8 lead and kept Ignatius scoreless throughout the entire second quarter, finishing 29-8 at the half. Ignatius rallied in the second half but was never able to make up the difference. Jordan Providence hit for 12 points, including the only team three and was the only player on either team to score in three quarters. Francisco Mattei had eight points; both Matthew Rodriquez and Soroya Morales had four points, and Kameron Carrisquillo rounded out the Horsemen scoring with two. The team sank an impressive 6 for 7 from the free throw line. Eight players scored points for Ignatius, and Connor O’Driscoll was the high scorer with eight. His team sank three threes and was 8 for 14 from the line. In the JV game, the two teams switched the lead back and forth for the first three quarters, and Ignatius had only a one point lead, 25-26, at the end of the third, but Ignatius had a run in the final quarter, while the Horsemen could only put up four points, which resulted in the final St. Ignatius win. Only Colton and Justin Hernandez, with 8, scored for the Horsemen, while five Ignatius players, led by Alex O’Donnell, with 11, hit for Ignatius. Interestingly, both teams were 3 for 7 from the line.
Stations of the Cross will take place at St. Helena’s Church every Friday during Lent following the 12:15PM Mass and again at 6:30PM in English and 7:30PM in Spanish, beginning on Friday, February 12. The Stations refers both to a series of 14 images arranged in numbered order around a church nave or along a path depicting Jesus on the day of his crucifixion and also to the prayers said when contemplating these images.ons there, the actual places the events occurred. The tradition of moving around the Stations to commemorate the Passion of Christ began with St. Francis of Assisi. They originated in pilgrimages to Jerusalem. In 1686, Pope Innocent XI granted to the Franciscans the right to erect stations within their churches. In 1731, Pope Clement XII extended to all churches the right to have the 14 stations, provided that a Franciscan father erected them, and in 1862 it became no longer necessary to have them erected by a friar.