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The Roman Catholic Church of OUR LADY OF MERCY 90 WHIPPANY ROAD • WHIPPANY, NEW JERSEY 07981 Served By We Invite you to CELEBRATE THE EUCHARIST ReverendRobertoAmador,Pastor [email protected] on the Lord’s Day ReverendManuelCuellar,ParochialVicar [email protected] SaturdayEvening --------------------5:30 pm VincentLoBello, Deacon SundayMorning--- 7:30, 9:30 & 11:00 am [email protected] ReverendFrancisDuffy, WeekendAsst. Weekdays------------------------------ 9:00 am LyndaAsea,ParishSecretary SaturdayMorning ------ 9:00 am (Novena) [email protected] HolyDayEve -------------- 5:30 pm (Church) EdwinPeterson,Trustee RectoryOfficeisopenfrom... Monday - Friday ------------------------ 9:00 am - 3:00 pm Rectory & St. Mary’s Phone ------- 973-887-0050 Fax-------- 973-887-0991 Cemetery Office EMail --------------------------------- [email protected] 9 Parsippany Road Web -------------------- www.ourladyofmercyparish.com Ministries Sacrament of Marriage AltarLinens Engaged couples should make arrangements with one of the priests one year in Debbie Finn, 973-464-9035 advance of the wedding date. [email protected] AltarServers Sacrament of Baptism Coordinator: Fr. Manuel Cuellar, 973-887-0050 [email protected] The Parish Community celebrates Baptisms on all Sundays of the month at ExtraordinaryMinisters 12:00 pm. One preparation session is required for first time parents. Parents Coordinators: Kathy Dittrick, 973-428-4996 should register by calling the Parish Office after the child’s birth. & Marilyn Kuehner, 973-386-1742 [email protected] HealthMinistry Sacrament of Reconciliation Coordinators: Marlene Peterson & The Sacrament of the Lord’s Forgiveness is celebrated Saturday afternoons at Kathy Dittrick, 973-428-4996 [email protected] 5:00 pm. Other times for Reconciliation are announced in the bulletin, and by Martha&MaryMinistry making an appointment with one of the priests. Patti Cobane, 973-386-1393 & Anne Roda-Farrell 973-884-2969 Sacrament of the Sick [email protected] MinistersoftheWord Coordinator: Kim Gigantino, 973-463-0327 [email protected] MusicMinistry Religious Formation 9 Parsippany Rd, Whippany, NJ 07981 [email protected] PreK-8th Grade Coordinator-------------------------------Karen Monda, 973-887-0767 PrayerShawlMinistry Email:[email protected] Coordinator: Janet Dodge, 973-887-2583 [email protected] Assistant Coordinator ------------------------------------------Lynda Asea, 973-887-0050 Usher/Ministers Coordinator: John Guido, 973-769-2528 9th & 10th Grade H.S. Confirmation [email protected] Program Coordinator---------------------------------Deacon Vincent & Majella LoBello Mass Calendar for the Week Pray for the Sick July 18th, 2021 Please remember in your prayers those in our parish and community who are Sixteenth Sunday of Ord. Time ill, especially: Saturday July 17th – Vigil Nick Agro, Giuseppa Casarrubea, Beverly & Blaine Fresco, 5:30 PM Joseph Leana (46th An) Arlene & Fred Gentile, Georgjean Huegler, Barney K., Audrey Segot Cesare & Esie Caprio Marge Keller, Nicholas Lacitignola, Anthony LaFerrara, John Eugenio Piasentin Lenox, Susan Nicoll, Bob Roberts, Agnes Ryan, Stella, Sunday July 18th – Sixteenth Sunday of Ord. Time Theresa Seleski, Kathryn Ullrich, Belarmino Viegas, Chuck 7:30 AM Maria Pia Agazio W. Antonio Azzinnari If you wish to have a loved one who is ill placed 9:30 AM Mary & George Gurchak on our prayer list, please call the rectory at Duane Ward 973-887-0050 and provide their name and your 11:00 AM Josephine Gallo contact information. Names will remain on the Monday July 19th - list for 3-months after which time they will be 9:00 AM People of the Parish removed, unless we are notified to retain them Tuesday July 20th – Saint Apollinarus on the list. 9:00 AM Deceased Members of the Parish Wednesday July 21st – Saint Lawrence of Brindisi Saint Mary Magdalene 9:00 AM In Thanksgiving On His journeys, Jesus Thursday July 22nd – Saint Mary Magdalene is accompanied by “the 9:00 AM Margaret & Louis Schuler Friday July 23rd – Saint Bridget Twelve and some 9:00 AM Mary Pilipie (21st An) women who had been Saturday July 24th – Saint Sharbel Makhluf cured of evil spirits and 9:00 AM People of the Parish infirmities,” among 5:30 PM Catarina Baracetti them “Mary, called Tony Piotrowski Angela Toechet Magdalene, from whom seven demons had gone out” (Lk 8:1-2). OPQROPQROPQROPQR Tradition in the West also links Mary Magdalene with the unnamed woman in the June Collections Pharisee's house who wets the feet of Jesus This Year $28,103.00 with her tears and dries them with her hair (Lk Last Year: $12,811.00 7:36-50). Following Jesus brings Mary to Thank You for Your Stewardship of Time, Golgotha, where she witnesses His death and Talent, and Treasure burial. She stands by the open tomb after the disciples have left, weeping. "She was still seeking the one she had not found, and while Remembering OLM she sought, she wept; burning with the fire of Just as we plan to ensure financial health for love, she longed for Him who she thought had our families, we should plan for the health of been taken away" (Saint Gregory the Great). our faith family. We have a wonderful Catholic Three days later, she meets Jesus outside the heritage. Pass it on! There is a way to be an empty tomb. She hastens to tell the disciples: “I angel for the OLM Parish Family by including have seen the Lord!” Tradition names Mary us in your Will. Magdalene “the apostle of the Apostles”: “just as a woman had announced the words of death When have I encountered God's healing to the first man, so also a woman was the first forgiveness? How did that experience change to announce to the Apostles the words of life” me? (Saint Thomas Aquinas). Thoughts from the Pastor grandparents of Jesus. The Holy Father has also granted a plenary indulgence to grandparents, My Dear Friends, the elderly, and all those who participate in a I believe I have mentioned on another occasion solemn celebration of this day as well as to in the bulletin the importance of Grandparents those who spend time (actually or virtually) in the religious formation of children. This past with an elderly brother or sister in need on this year we received wonderful feedback from day. some grandmothers who were involved with In today’s busy world, young parents also need the Religious Formation Program which was the support of their own parents in raising online. They felt they played a very important their children. For those who have become role in the Program since they helped their grandparents, this mission is a blessing which grandchildren to learn their prayers and to do renews their lives completely, even when some the homework. This year we will once again days they get exhausted keeping up with their need the help of the grandparents to support little grandchildren running around. Because our Program by helping their grandchildren at home. We also invite those who have the time we are so blest to have many grandparents who and the ability to teach our children to join the care for the formation of their grandchildren in our Parish Family, we would like to bless them Program and become a Religious Formation at the end of every Mass on July 25th Teacher. In doing this you will be helping us to with a continue the mission the Lord has entrusted to special blessing. us as a Church. It is a common responsibility May God bless you all, and a great challenge we all have to take in Fr. Roberto order to grow as a Parish Family and as Ask Him to reassure you that when you are Christian individuals. saying, “I can‛t,” He is saying, “Yes you can . I remember with wonderful memories my own . need some help?” grandmothers, both maternal and paternal. They truly played an important part in the development of my faith and my vocation. Their devotion and the faith and trust with which they lived their lives has been tremendously inspiring to me, especially at those times when I have to face difficulties in my life. I believe that we all have the opportunity to look back on our childhood and now see our past with more experienced minds, learning from every experience that we had growing up. To be able to remember the positive influences of our elders is a blessing Trip to Maine that nothing can take away from us and stays Join St. Ann’s Travelers for a 5-day – 4-night with us forever. Trip to Maine, October 4th – 8th including On January 31, 2021, Pope Francis Strawberry Banke (Portsmouth, NH); announced a World Day for Grandparents and lighthouses: harbor cruise; quaint villages; the Elderly to be celebrated every year on the outlets; all breakfasts and dinners including a fourth Sunday in July to honor all grandparents “Downeast” lobster bake. Total cost including and the elderly who are so important to our tours, gratuities and transportation is $699 communities and our Church. This new per/person double occupancy. Payment celebration will always fall near the Memorial deadline is August 26. For reservations: call of Saints Joachim and Anne (July 26), the Ginny at (973) 884-1986. Who were Saint Joseph’s Parents? Jacob but legally the son of Heli (Eusebius, Ecclesiastical History 1:6:7). Adoption was common in Jewish culture and it directly affected the genealogical line. So while a person may be born into one specific lineage, if they were later adopted, they would also take on the new lineage. Additionally, as Akin explains, “Adoption could take place posthumously.” This would mean that “If a man died childless, it was the duty of his brother to marry the widow and father a son on The parents of the foster father of Jesus raised behalf of his brother. This son then would be a "just man," who would guard the Savior of the posthumously ‘adopted’ by the dead man and world.