Epiphany Young Adult Ministry

06/23/2026

TONIGHT, June 23, 7:00 P.M.
The Church Jesus Had in Mind
What kind of Church did Jesus actually envision — and how close are we to it?

This presentation will trace the story of the Church from its fiery beginnings in the Acts of the Apostles, through the centuries when alliance with power and rigid clericalism dimmed its original light, to the renewal called forth by Vatican II and the ongoing work of the Holy Spirit in our time.

We'll look at how Epiphany parish has been in the process of becoming a missionary church, following the charter Jesus gave his followers in Matthew 28: Go. Make disciples. Baptize. Teach--which is the vision of Pope Leo and our new Archbishop Hicks.

Come to the parish hall Tuesday June 23rd at 7pm for a delicious home-cooked meal by Chef Samuel Newton, and then hear Fr. Jim Mayzik S.J.'s presentation, followed by a synodal discussion about the kind of Church we hope to build at Epiphany.

Location: 373 2nd Avenue, New York, NY.
Enter through the red doors to the Parish Hall.

Church of the Epiphany
Epiphany Millenn-X
Archdiocese of New York
Divine Renovation Ministry
Divine Renovation - USA
Alpha
Alpha USA Catholic Context
Ignatian Young Adults (NYC)
Catholic Underground NYC
Hispanic Catholic NY - Católico Hispano NY

06/17/2026

Wednesday, June 17, 7:00pm.

Join Fr. James Mayzik, S.J., former Fairfield University film professor for “Meeting God in the Dark” - ALL ILLUSIONS MUST BE BROKEN.

A visually stunning and spiritually searching documentary, All Illusions Must Be Broken confronts the deepest question we avoid: what are we running from when we fill our lives with noise, ambition, and screens? Drawing on the landmark thought of Ernest Becker — whose Pulitzer Prize-winning Denial of Death revealed how the terror of mortality drives nearly everything we do — the film is a rare act of cinematic courage.

Beautifully photographed and tenderly observed, it follows a child from birth into adolescence and asks what kind of world we are handing on, and whether we have the honesty to face our own fragility. In it's spiritual exploration, this film speaks to Pope Leo's recent encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas: both urge us to stop building towers of Babel--proud, self-sufficient, forgetful of God--and to begin living earnestly in the world God made.

Join us for the screening of the film and a conversation about our faith!

Location: 373 2nd Avenue, New York, NY

Church of the Epiphany
Epiphany Millenn-X
Alpha
Alpha USA Catholic Context
Hispanic Catholic NY - Católico Hispano NY
Fairfield University John Charles Meditz College of Arts and Sciences

06/16/2026

Join us tonight Tuesday, June 16th, 7pm for Connect!

EVERYONE IS INVITED
EVERY TUESDAY 7PM PARISH HALL
EVERYONE is welcome at CONNECT!

Our weekly Tuesday CONNECT program is Epiphany’s year-round space to grow in our Catholic faith, in friendship, and service. Together with fellow parishioners, you’ll explore church teaching, theological perspectives, and the rich spiritual traditions of our Catholic heritage.
CONNECT brings together three dynamic groups:
IGNITE – Epiphany Young Adults
MILLENN-X – Millennials & Gen-Xers
SEEKERS – Our senior wisdom sisters & brothers
Each evening begins with fellowship around a delicious, free, home-cooked meal. Then, the groups rotate through one of three experiences:
Prayer, faith-sharing, or worship.
Faith formation presentations with synodal discussion, led by Fr. Jim Mayzik, S.J., Faith Formation Director Samuel Newton, or a guest speaker.
Member-led presentations, where participants share their own insights and experiences
At CONNECT you’ll enjoy community, deepen your faith, and open yourself to the surprising ways the Holy Spirit works in our lives. Join us at 7PM every Tuesday in the parish hall! As always, dinner is served and fellowship is shared!

For more information, contact Samuel Newton. [email protected].

Church of the Epiphany
Epiphany Millenn-X
Archdiocese of New York
Young Catholics Archdiocese of New York
Ignatian Young Adults (NYC)
Alpha
Alpha USA Catholic Context
Divine Renovation Ministry
Divine Renovation - USA
Catholic Underground NYC
Catholic Underground NYC Fans
NYC Churches
NYC Churches
Brooklyn Catholic Young Adults

06/16/2026

GOD CONTINUALLY INVITES US TO BE PART OF THE COVENANT OF LOVE. WHAT DO WE SAY?

The title struck me. It was an article in a newspaper which read: “What to do when a wedding invitation looks like an invoice.” I thought this was a clever way to introduce something that many people feel. And invitation can seem like an imposition. Whether it’s dinner at a friend’s house or a destination wedding in the Caribbean, we can feel like others are asking too much of us. We just want to say “no.”

Our scriptures introduce us to the idea of covenant. We have several words for the idea of “covenant” all the way from “understanding” to “expected obligation.” The scene takes place right after the Jewish People were able to escape from a life of slavery in Egypt because God acted to free them. Now Moses climbs the mountain of God because that’s where the Jewish imagination thought that God lived. God gives Moses a message to take to the people God just freed: “Go tell my people,” God begins, showing the special relationship God formed with the Jews.

But this is a relationship that creates obligation. “If you hearken to my voice and keep my covenant, you will be my special possession.” God was offering a relationship of protective love; what did the Jews think of that? We can understand almost all of Jewish revelation as a commentary on this invitation: as often as there was a desire to say “yes,” just as often the answer was “no.”

We are people of what Jesus calls “the new Covenant.” In this covenant, Moses does not go up the mountain to talk to God. Rather, God comes into our midst in Jesus Christ. This is how God gives himself completely to us. The disciples of Jesus are beginning to understand this, so Jesus shows his followers what is involved in following him. He sends them out in his name, to proclaim hope and bring healing to others, just as he was doing in his own ministry.

He calls his disciples by name, as if he is showing then the terms of the new covenant: it is one of direct and personal relationship. But it is not one of exclusive relationship. The love God has shown the disciples in Jesus God wants to show everyone. “Go out and proclaim, ‘The Kingdom of God is at hand.’” The new covenant does not stay with one exclusive group or people; the new covenant is for the world.

We see the basis of this covenant in the second reading from the letter of St. Paul to the Romans. Even when we were still sinners, Jesus died for us. God has taken the initiative and filled us with his grace and mercy; we respond to God by serving others with the same love that God has shown us.

So who is waiting for us? Who is waiting to hear of God’s new covenant, God’s unconditional love, in our own lives? For we have all been called by name in our baptism. We have all been made part of God’s new covenant, not to keep to ourselves but to share with all.

06/16/2026

JESUS TAKES THE BREAD, BREAKS IT AND GIVES IT. What does this Eucharistic gesture say to us? A short reflection:

No matter how much a person may talk, a single gesture may say much more. As a child the adults in my life would talk about Babe Ruth, how at a baseball game he gestured to the area where he would hit the ball. Then he hit it. And aren’t we used to Presidential gestures, particularly when they depart in an airplane? Aren’t we also so jealous of Italians who, with the movement of their hands, can say so much?

As we celebrate the Feast of the Body and Blood of Jesus, we rightly focus on the bread and wine that become his Body and Blood. A large part of our devotion to the Eucharist revolves around the way we come forward to the altar, receive the host, and then eat it. So much of our devotion includes honoring Jesus’ Eucharistic presence as we honor the consecrated bread.

Yet what Jesus did at the Last Supper was something that he often did throughout his ministry. Whenever he ate with his apostles, he would perform the same gesture: Bless his Father in thanksgiving, take the bread and break it, and give it to his disciples. Today, on this feast, it is the gesture of Jesus giving bread that absorbs my attention.

“Take this, all of you, and eat of it.” This gesture of Jesus speaks of unlimited generosity. His mission in life it to give. When he gives the bread, what do you imagine the apostles were thinking? Not only of all the other previous times they ate with him, but also of the countless wonders he did for the sick, the impaired, the isolated, and the sinner. Again and again, Jesus gave people what they needed, all as a way of helping us see everything that God gives us in our lives.

“Do this in memory of me,” Jesus says. Is he not telling his disciples that their role in life is to be givers too? After we have received Jesus’ bread, do we not also have to share it with others? Priests and deacons do this sacramentally when the gesture of Jesus is repeated at Holy Communion. But all of us are called to do this by the way we live in service to others. Discipleship means not only receiving from God but also giving in God’s name.

We often reflect that Jesus, on ascending to heaven, gave us the Eucharist as a way to continue abiding with us. But he also gave us the Eucharist so that each of us might be gestures to others, that each of us might realize and reflect the self-giving which was the essence of his ministry with us. As he gave himself completely, he bids us, who receive and become his Body, to continue that self-giving in the way we live.

06/13/2026

Join us TONIGHT Saturday June 13, 5:00pm, in fellowship with a sampling of fresh garden salads and a personal tour of our native flowers and plants garden, led by our St Brigid Garden Ministry, curated by Jack Coen, our Music Director!

Location: Epiphany Church plaza, 375 2nd Avenue, New York, NY. Corner of 22nd Street.

Program to follow 4:00pm Saturday Vigil Mass.

Church of the Epiphany
Epiphany Millenn-X
Archdiocese of New York
Office of Family Life of the Archdiocese of New York
Ignatian Young Adults (NYC)
Divine Renovation Ministry
Divine Renovation - USA
Catholic Underground NYC
Hispanic Catholic NY - Católico Hispano NY

06/09/2026

Join us tonight Tuesday, June 9th, 7pm for Connect!

EVERYONE IS INVITED
EVERY TUESDAY 7PM PARISH HALL
EVERYONE is welcome at CONNECT!

Our weekly Tuesday CONNECT program is Epiphany’s year-round space to grow in our Catholic faith, in friendship, and service. Together with fellow parishioners, you’ll explore church teaching, theological perspectives, and the rich spiritual traditions of our Catholic heritage.
CONNECT brings together three dynamic groups:
IGNITE – Epiphany Young Adults
MILLENN-X – Millennials & Gen-Xers
SEEKERS – Our senior wisdom sisters & brothers
Each evening begins with fellowship around a delicious, free, home-cooked meal. Then, the groups rotate through one of three experiences:
Prayer, faith-sharing, or worship.
Faith formation presentations with synodal discussion, led by Fr. Jim Mayzik, S.J., Faith Formation Director Samuel Newton, or a guest speaker.
Member-led presentations, where participants share their own insights and experiences
At CONNECT you’ll enjoy community, deepen your faith, and open yourself to the surprising ways the Holy Spirit works in our lives. Join us at 7PM every Tuesday in the parish hall! As always, dinner is served and fellowship is shared!

For more information, contact Samuel Newton. [email protected].

Church of the Epiphany
Epiphany Millenn-X
Archdiocese of New York
Young Catholics Archdiocese of New York
Ignatian Young Adults (NYC)
Alpha
Alpha USA Catholic Context
Divine Renovation Ministry
Divine Renovation - USA
Catholic Underground NYC
Catholic Underground NYC Fans
NYC Churches
NYC Churches
Brooklyn Catholic Young Adults

06/02/2026

Happy Trinity Sunday! Join Epiphany Millenn-X tonight, Tuesday, June 2, 7:00pm, for a reflection on St. Joan of Arc, as we celebrate her feast day!

Dinner, free as always, begins at 7pm with the larger group in the Parish Hall, followed by a smaller, discussion-based activity.

Location: 373 2nd Avenue, New York, NY

Church of the Epiphany
Epiphany Millenn-X
Archdiocese of New York
Ignatian Young Adults (NYC)
Divine Renovation Ministry
Divine Renovation - USA
Alpha
Alpha USA Catholic Context
Hispanic Catholic NY - Católico Hispano NY