Saint Joseph ROMAN

973-383-1985

Schedule of Masses Weekdays: Monday-Friday at 12:05pm Weekends: Saturday (Sunday Vigil) at 5:00pm Sunday at 8:00am, 9:30am, 11:30am

Sacrament of reconciliation Saturday at 4:00-4:30pm or by appointment seventh Sunday of Easter - june 2, 2019

Our Family is Served By Weekly Mass Intentions

Father ST Sutton, Pastor Saturday 6/1 5:00pm Cynthia Buffi 973-383-1985 - [email protected] Lexi Faye

Father Alexander Londono, Migrant Ministry Sunday 8:00am William Kerwick Sr. nd Fr. [email protected] June 2 9:30am Anne Lundgren Father Edward Davey, Pastor Emeritus Seventh Sunday Kevin Herrmann of Easter 11:30am Edward Moran Thomas Zayac, Deacon June Komorowski [email protected] 5:00pm Karen Glowatski, Office Administrator NO MASS 973-383-1985 - [email protected] 12:05pm Lucy Amalfitano Monday 6/03 Doreen Zimmerman, Administrative Assistant Tuesday 6/04 12:05pm Father Vernon DeCoteau 973-383-1985 - [email protected]

Nunzio D’Elia Wednesday 6/05 12:05pm Christine Shell, Director of Food Pantry Robert H. Glowatski 973-383-1985 - [email protected] Thursday 6/06 12:05pm Conor Mullanaphy Kelly Lynch, Director of Music Ministry [email protected] Friday 6/07 12:05pm Edwin Mathesius Jr.

Sharon Eltzholtz, Bulletin Assistant Saturday 6/08 5:00pm June Komorowski [email protected] JoAnn Williams Sunday 8:00am Eugene & JoAnn Williams Robert Lasser, Finance Administrator th “Red” Fowler June 9 973-383-1985 Pentecost Sunday 9:30am Gail Leiser TRUSTEES OF THE PARISH Anne Lundgren Dorothy Bosi, George Hayek 11:30am Mary Travisano and Gerard Woodring James Finan, Sr.

5:00pm NO MASS

Weekly Remembrance

“Oremus Pro Invicem” The Sanctuary Lamp,

which burns near the Tabernacle Let us pray for all those in our as a reminder of our Lord’s presence parish family in need of the in the Most Holy Eucharist, Lord’s healing hand, especially:

burns this week in loving memory of:

Gary Arvary, Gene Belcher, Bill Bender, Fred Bender, Donald Charette, Louise Crann,

Father Angelus Croce, Alex DeMartino, Derya Demirtas, Jennifer DiNardo, John Fedash, Anthony Flora, Linda Flynn, Theresa Fusco, Mark Giordani, And the hosts and wine, John Greed, Joy Grenewicz, Suzanne Hammond, which will become the Holy Jessica & Hannah Joseph, Susan Kadar, Jessica Kirby, Body and Precious Blood Kerri Knight, Stanley Kozlowski, Valerie Landell, of our Lord, were given Shirley Lavin, Elaine LeFever, Bill Matulewicz, in loving memory of: Joe Mazzarella, Deirdre Metzger, Jake Michael Miraldi, Virginia Morville, Mike Palumbo, Cheryl Piritz, Michael Porfido, James Proulx, Jack Rhinesmith, Joan Riccardi, Alexia Russ, George Scarpa, Crystal Siro, Francis Siro, Ben Sellitto, Ernest Sprague, Gloria Steets, Evelyn Strauss, Joni Strauss & Rita Zimich.

May they now be resting in the peace May the Lord continue to bless them of the Lord’s heavenly kingdom! with health in mind and body.

seventh Sunday of Easter - June 2, 2019

PARISH WEEKEND DONATIONS This week’s events May 26, 2019 Sunday, June 2 Collection $7,884 CHWC Bracelets after all Masses Online Giving $561 7:00pm Boy Scouts (Library) Total: $8,445 Monday, June 3

No More Second Collections $6,674 7:00pm Columbiettes (Community Center) Weekend Mass attendance: 610 Wednesday, June 5

We still are so close to our 10:00am Prayer Shawl Ministry (Parish Center) weekly goal of $10,000! 7:00pm R.C.I.A. (Parish Center) 7:00pm FINAL Faith Formation Registration (School library)

Thursday, June 6 Weekend readings 1:00pm Legion of Mary (Parish Center) June 9, 2019

Acts of the Apostles 2:1-11 Corinthians 12:3b-7, 12-13 Volunteers needed Saint John 14:15-16, 23b-26 VOLUNTEERS NEEDED FOR

ALL MASSES

May crowning ALTAR SERVERS th The Columbiettes, joined by the Knights, Must be going into 4 Grade this fall and older. parishioners and Father ST, for a May READERS & EXTRAORDINARY crowning ceremony in the Marion Garden on MINISTERS OF HOLY COMMUNION th May 19 . The service was dedicated in Requirements: Memory of Patricia Fitzpatrick, a Columbiette - Must be Confirmed who recently passed away from our Parish. - Must attend Church regularly (every Sunday) - Must be a registered parishioner One of this year’s First Communicants, Claire - Must not be excommunicated by the Church Meyler, was overjoyed and honored to crown the statue of our Blessed Mother Mary this NAME: ______year. PHONE: ______

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adoration

Adoration will be suspended for june, july and august.

Parish council One last opportunity Are you interested in serving your parish family There is ONLY one more opportunity to in the capacity of being on the Parish Council? register your child/ren for Faith Formation classes for Grades 1-10:

The Parish Council Members have completed their three (3) year term. They may choose to run again, th but will need to be re-elected. We are looking for Wednesday, June 5 new and fresh faces to help assist the pastor in the at 7:00pm in the School Library “on-goings” of the parish and offer their opinions and input. There will be 10 elected spaces and 2 appointed spaces. Father ST will host this last meeting. It should last approximately one hour. Father asks that you please Purpose: To assist the pastor in his leadership be respectful to others who are present by being at role of planning, organizing, initiating, promoting, least 15 minutes early to complete the necessary coordinating and reviewing the evangelization, paperwork! Every family who has children of Faith worship, Faith Formation and service activities Formation age, is required to reregister all their within the parish. children. If you have missed the other meetings and cannot make this last one, it is your obligation to call Objectives: To assess adequately the needs of the the Faith Formation Office. You also need to attend whole parish and its members, and to develop and if you are new to our parish (please bring a copy of implement a pastoral plan which will promote the your child’s Baptismal certificate). common good of the parish. To foster unity and a sense of community in the If you have any questions, please contact the parish and to coordinate all parish activities in a Faith Formation Office at (973) 383-8413. manner that will best serve the interests of the Thank you for your cooperation!

parish.

If you think you might be interested in being put on Food pantry this year’s ballot for the parish to vote on, please As summer is soon upon us, most children will be email your name to Father ST at out of school and eating all their meals at home. [email protected] or call the Parish Center at:

973.383.1985. We would like to be able to offer our clients some different items for them to serve their children Thank you for your continued desire during the summer months when the children are to serve your parish family. home from school and are looking for lunch.

Items such as yellow American cheese, hot dogs, pizza bites, frozen pizzas and refrigerated Columbiettes lunchables, these items require refrigeration and freezer space which we have. On Saturday, May 18th the Columbiettes hosted an Applebee's Flapjack Breakfast. Thanks to all Obviously, these items will not be able to be dropped off at Mass like we usually collect our food. who came out for breakfast to support our They will need to be brought to the Parish Center fundraiser. during the week. The other way would be to purchase a Grocery Store gift card and tell us what you would like us to buy. The gift cards could be for any amount.

Right now, the Food Pantry needs the following items: Juice boxes, hamburger helper (all varieties) Spam, ketchup, paper towels, toilet paper, tooth paste and adult toothbrushes.

Remember look for those sales!!! Thank you for your continued support of this important ministry.

Acceptable or Arrogant?

On May 21st, Archbishop Wilton eighth Archbishop of . I remember this D. Gregory, 71 (the former date very well as I went “in the place” of my former bishop of Atlanta, Georgia) was bishop and attended not only the installation “in his installed as the seventh place” (which literally means to sit in his seat next Archbishop of Washington, D.C. to the other bishops, Archbishops and Cardinals) but and is the first African American also had the privilege of joining them for lunch prior to hold this post. to the installation ceremony. At this time in church Archbishop Gregory replaced the former history, the Archbishop of Boston, embroiled Archbishop Massachusetts, Cardinal Bernard Law who was the Archbishop of Washington was in the midst of his scandal of the from 2006-2018. If elevated to the rank priestly cover-up in Boston and rumors of Cardinal, Archbishop Gregory would had circulated that he would be be the first African American cardinal in uninvited to the installation of history. Archbishop Rigali since he would be the senior Cardinal in the United States His predecessor Cardinal Wuerl, on the other hand, and would be last (one of the most important was the former bishop of Pittsburg and was taken to positions) in the procession. Not giving in to public task after his horrendous handling of priest abuse outcries or having his name plastered on every cases as a result of the ’s Grand Jury’s newspaper, Cardinal Law came to the installation Report which identified over three hundred (300) anyway. The reason why I share with you this “Predator priests” who allegedly molested more than history is that in the past Cardinal Law (who was one thousand (1,000) children in six (6) in known as the “king maker” of the United States) Pennsylvania. would ordinarily be the center of attention, have the To make matters more convoluted, Cardinal Wuerl’s most prestigious seat at the banquet and everyone predecessor, was none other than the (former) would laugh at his jokes and hang on to his every Cardinal Theodore McCarrick who was the highest word. This was not the case however this time. ranking Catholic official to not only resign from the He seems to be almost ostracized by his brother , but also to be expelled from the bishops, having a less than prominent seat at the priesthood earlier this year as a result of allegations, reception and (get this) the only person that was confirmed by a Church tribunal, that he had abused found conversing with him was no other than your minors as well as young seminarians while he served pastor. He hid behind plants, room dividers and as the Archbishop of Newark. crowds as the procession began down the streets of During his installation as the new Philadelphia and I remember telling (everyone) how Archbishop of Washington, not only sad it was for the life of Cardinal Law that the only present was the former Archbishop person who had the courage to stand next to him and Cardinal Wuerl, but also the former speak with him was I. Archbishop of , Cardinal I digressed. The presence of Cardinal Mahoney and Roger Mahoney, who was barred from Cardinal Wuerl (who are currently under public ministry by his successor investigation for their handling of Archbishop Jose Gomez because of his alleged cases) at the recent installation of Archbishop failures to protect young people from sexually Gregory is quite honestly a slap in the face to the abusive priests (documented in court filings in recent American Church and in particular those victims years). To date the present Archbishop of Los and their families who have suffered beyond belief, Angeles as well as the Vatican have been painfully not only the sexual predation of Catholic clergy, silent on the disposition of Mahoney’s life as a retired but as bad, if not worse, the cover up and silence by Cardinal. Today, he lives in a parish in North their superiors (bishops, Archbishops and Hollywood and for all practical intents and purposes, Cardinals). Evidently and most particularly the his life has not changed with the exception that he presence of Cardinal Mahoney is at best arrogant does not celebrate the Sacrament of Confirmation in and at worse egotistical to think his presence was a the Archdiocese but does continue to celebrate Mass good idea. His presence only focused the attention in a local parish. of the faithful on the failures of the Church in the Back on July 15, 2013, John Paul II appointed past and in particular his own Archdiocese of Los Archbishop the twelfth bishop and Angeles and the Church in the United States.

Volunteers needed Secular Franciscans Do you have extra time in your day? INFORMATION NIGHT

Please consider volunteering at our: The Order of Franciscans Secular are lay people who strive to follow the Gospel more intensely and Saint Mother Teresa Food Pantry develop a deeper relationship with Christ in the If your interested in volunteering, please call the spirit of Saint Francis of Assisi. We are women and men of all ages and walks of life that engage in Parish Office at 973-383-1985 the same struggles as everyone else. We attempt and ask for Christine Shell to focus on daily conversion and rely on the Holy Spirit to guide us and our local community of Franciscans to pray for us as we support each Thrift Shop other. The Secular Franciscan vocation is a Morning or afternoon shifts of 3 hours. challenge. However, the grace, love and joy which Shifts are 10:00am until 1:00pm we experience and share is beyond awesome. We or 1:00-4:00pm would love to share that with you too, but most especially provide an opportunity for you to grow We are open Thursdays and Fridays from closer to Christ - even if you are not called to join 10:00am until 4:00pm the Franciscan family. If you’d like to learn more, please join us at an Information Night. and Saturdays 9:30am until 12:30pm When: Wednesday, June 12th from 7:30-9:00pm Where: Sacred Heart Center Sacred (+) Linens The washing and ironing of the Contact: Hugo Bader 973.579.1430 sacred linens used at the altar (every 3 months). or JoAnn Jenson at [email protected]

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“If any person may have been abused by any priest, they should immediately contact their local County Prosecutor’s Office and the ’s Victims Assistance Coordinator: Dr. Ken McNiel at 973-879-1489. You may also be in touch with either of the Diocesan Response Officers:

Monsignor James T. Mahoney Vicar General and Moderator of the Curia 973-777-8818 Ext. 205 or

Sister Joan Daniel Healy, S.C.C., /Delegate for Religious 973-777-8818 Ext. 248.

The entire text of the Policy of the Diocese of Paterson in Response to Complaints of Sexual Abuse is available on the diocesan website: www.patersondiocese.org.

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May they now be resting in the peace of God’s heavenly kingdom. Dr. Francis A. Siro, OFS Father Michael Burke WE TREAT YOUR PET LIKE FAMILY! Gone but not forgotten! Dr. Maria M. Cruz Dr. Carlos A. Abdul-Chani

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