THE CATHOLIC COMMUNITY OF ST. JOSEPH 120 HOBOKEN ROAD, EAST RUTHERFORD, NJ 07073

Pastoral Staff Fr. Joe Astarita, Pastor [email protected] Fr. Arokiadoss Raji, Vicar [email protected] Fr. Doss, Director of Formation 201-939-3441 [email protected] Marc Lamparello, Music Director 201-939-0457- ext. 311 [email protected]

Parish Office Hours Monday thru Thursday: 8:30am - 6:00pm Friday: 8:30 am- 3:00pm (Our office is closed 1:00-2:o0pm for lunch.) If you cannot make our office hours, please call and we will do our best to accommodate you. We are closed Saturday and . Schedule Saturday: 5:00pm Vigil Mass Parish Directory 8:00pm to 10pm Neo-Catechumenal Mass Parish Office: 201.939.0457 Sunday: 8:00am 10:00am 12:00noon Emergency Line: 201.939.0391 Monday thru Friday Parish Fax: 201.939.4196 7:30am and 12:05pm Faith Formation: 201.939.3441 Civic Holidays—8:30 am

Parish website: www.stjosepher.com of Penance Parish email: [email protected] Saturday — 11:00am - 12:00 Noon [email protected] is the e-mail address to use if you Other times by appointment please. wish to place an article in the bulletin. Articles are due Sacrament of Baptism the Monday before the published date. Fourth Sunday of the month — 1:30pm Parish Registration For information regarding baptisms Registration Forms are available at the Parish please contact the parish office.

office and at the Parish web site. Sacrament of Marriage Pastoral Care of the Sick Plans are usually made one year in advance to Please contact Parish Office for pastoral visits in prepare for marriage. Please call the Parish Office to schedule an appointment. the hospital or at home. Pastoral ministers are available to visit the sick and homebound. Devotions to follow the 12:05 pm Mass We offer a warm welcome to all our guests & St. Anthony —Every Tuesday newcomers! We at the Catholic Community of St. St. Joseph Novena—Every Wednesday Joseph are pleased to have celebrated liturgy Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament— with you and we hope you will join us again. Every Thursdays after noon mass. DIVINE SUNDAY

Dear Brothers and Sisters: We had 800 people at the 10 AM Mass for Sunday and over 2,200 for the four SATURDAY, April 6 Masses of the day, including 5:00 pm + Adolph & Joan Trause the Vigil. Let us pray that they

return or even ten percent of them. The Triduum SUNDAY, April 7 of Holy Thursday, and were well attended and many were moved by the 8:00 am + Pasquale, Luigi & Rosa beauty of those liturgical events. Half the people Carusone at the Vigil I did not recognize so let us pray that 10:00 am + Jerry Parise they are more than A&P Catholics (Ashes and 12:00 pm + Patricia Anne McGuire Palms). MONDAY, April 8 Also the words of the new Holy Father 7:30 am + Louis Boccia were very moving for me, especially his message 12:05 pm + to open the doors of the Church, not just the physical ones but to go out to the people, which TUESDAY, April 9 we have been doing. However, the devil is never 7:30 am + Nancy Skwiat (Healing inten) happy when we want to reach those who have 12:05 pm + Mrs. Catherine Ranne fallen away or for whatever reason have never come to the Church. WEDNESDAY, April 10 This year we are having an outdoor 7:30 am + Mission for Easter. Providentially, I was not able 12:05 pm + Bernadette McGehrin-Feeley to find someone for for a parish mission and then many parishes are doing an outdoor mission THURSDAY, April 11 for the Year of Faith. Many are not sure how to 7:30 am + Peter. J. Behan celebrate this Year of Faith and this ‘going out’ 12:05 pm + to Sesselman Park gives us something very concrete to do. I do hope and pray you can join FRIDAY, April 12 us. It is aimed at those who are far from the 7:30 am + Church so come and bring a member of the 12:05 pm + Douglas Garnham family or a friend. There will be music and dancing and fantastic witnessing by young SATURDAY, April 13 people, and from what I have seen in the 5:00 pm + James Donnelly preparations in is truly amazing.

SUNDAY, April 14 When a young person speaks about how God is helping in his/her life and how he helps 8:00 am + Gaetano & Sabina Marra them to overcome deep sufferings from broken 10:00 am + Joseph Scudese (1st Anniv) families, drugs, addictions, it is truly 12:00 pm + John Koob unbelievable. Come and listen! This is the way that Faith is transmitted, through the listening, the hearing of God’s action in our life.

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Rosary Altar Society PRAYER LIST... Our regular monthly meeting will be As a community of faith, we offer the support of tomorrow evening April 8th at 7:30 PM in our prayers for one another. cafeteria. Anyone who asks to be on this Plans will be made for prayer list will be listed for six weeks. After that time, his or our Baby shower to her name will be placed in our be held at our May Intention Book, which is in the meeting. All gifts will church on the altar rail in front be donated to several of the tabernacle. sources shelter in These people are in acute Ramsey, NJ. need of our prayers: Hostess for Hasan Mahmud, Patrick tomorrow’s meeting Chapman, Philip Smith, Stanley Sudol, Laura Izzo, will be Angela Gianna Dilemme, Lenore Papale, Daniel Leach, Claire Palmieri, Joe DiGradina, Kathy Szedlacik, Linda Cantalore, Carol Fay Judge, Bryan Consulmagno, Carol Gonda, Lourdes and Norma Gray. Taveras, Marianne Clancy, Geraldine Litter, Angie Rasmus, Rich Hirch, Nancy Skwiat and Eleanor Surowiec. NEW MISSALETTES (Please call the Parish Office @ 201-939-0457 if you ould PLEASE leave Missalettes in Church. like to add a name to our prayer list.) DO NOT take them home for any reason at all. New Missalettes are ST. JOSEPH FOOD PANTRY now here! Please Enjoy!! The pantry is short of many of the foods and supplies that are needed during the winter months. Our inventory has run extremely low. We PLEASE PRAY FOR OUR TROOPS are in urgent need of Cereal, Michael Brockway (Afghanistan) Soups, Tuna, Peanut Butter, Lt. Patrick Stevens (Iraq 2nd tour) Beans, Jam, Rice, Mac & Lance Corp. Kevin Murphy (Afghanistan) Cheese, Tomato Sauce, Canned Fruit, Chili, Condensed Milk, Coffee, Stew, Soap,

EASTER TRIDUUM COLLECTION Shampoo and Toothpaste.

Easter Sunday 2246 people attended Mass. If you would like to support Total: $24,622.00 the parish food pantry, please consider Holy Thursday $1,023.00 volunteering at the pantry during the week or Good Friday $1,045.00 purchasing a gift card in the name of “Food Easter $20,924.00 Pantry.” We thank you for your generosity and continued support of this ministry. May God Bless you and your family for your caring and kindness.

Easter Flowers Memorials $1,630.00 ST. FRANCIS INN Number of Envelopes 424 $15,787.00 During the month of APRIL we are collecting Cash received $8,835.00 SUGAR Your donations may be left at the Giving Tree. The Lord will bless you for your generosity! (For information please visit www.stfrancisinn.org) 3

ST. JOSEPH’S BEREAVEMENT St. Joseph's Bereavement support group will meet on Thursday, April 25, 2013, 7:30 P. M. in the basement of the rectory. Sessions will continue for six weeks ending May 30. If you are grieving the death The Sanctuary Candle will burn of a loved one, we invite this week in Memory of you to share your thoughts Bernadette McGehrin-Feeley, as and feelings. Hopefully, we can assist you requested by George & Mary Ann with some consolation for the difficult times that confront you. McGehrin. ______MEMORIAL MASS FOR Fr. BRENNAN The Acolyte Candles will burn There will be a Mass for Fr. this week in Memory of , as Brennan Connelly at St. Leo's in Elmwood requested by . Park, on Saturday, April 20th at 2 PM. ______The Wine and Host will be offered this week in Memory of Betty Panella, as requested by Tom & Helene Capone. TODAY’S READINGS

First Reading — A large number of people MASS BOOK gathered, bringing the sick, and all were The 2013 Mass Book is open. cured (Acts 5:12-16). There are numerous ways in which we can Psalm — Give thanks to the Lord for he is remember and pray for the deceased and/ good, his love is everlasting (Psalm 118). or a special intention for a family member

Second Reading — Do not be afraid. I am or friend. Please contact the Parish Office. the first and the last, the one who lives Mass $9.99 (Revelation 1:9-11a, 12-13, 17-19). Wine $24.99

Gospel — The risen Christ comes to his Hosts $24.99 disciples with peace and the Spirit. The Acolyte Candles $9.99 absent Thomas doubts (John 20:19-31). Sanctuary Candles $14.99 4

Faith Formation-Sunday Connection SCHOOL, LYNDHURST Prayer…talking and listening to God Annual Calendar Party—Scared Heart

Home School Assoc. is sponsoring their annual These days there is never enough time for Calendar party on Friday, May 3, 2013 at Sacred us to accomplish the many chores and items on Heart School, 620 Valley Brook Avenue, our list of things to do. After one list is completed Lyndhurst. You will be sitting at a themed party we barely have enough time to start a new one. table and raffles will be held. Tickets are $20 per That’s life? (Or so the people say) person (non-refundable) and include: Sandwich, Slow down! Enjoy life! potato salad, beverage, dessert, coffee/tea. Make time to take time. Put it on Seating is limited. No one under 18 will be the top of your list. Even God admitted. Ticket deadline: April 17th. Call Patty at rested on the seventh day. Could 201-803-9580 or 201-939-4277. we do any less? Speaking of God what part of the day do we share Update from Dan Grossano - FOCUS (Fellowship of Catholic with him in prayer? Our lives are University Students) Campus Missionary at The George filled with all the “have to or being too busy…” If Washington University in Washington, D.C. you can’t take a block of time try small breaks. From January 2-6 FOCUS hosted its national conference entitled SEEK. It was beautiful to see what the Lord has Think of a time during the day when you been doing among young people as evidenced by the many are least busy (a real time 2, 3, 6:30, 7 o’clock, (any gathered to seek the truth and grow in faith. We brought 17 current students from GW and it was great to see them have time morning, afternoon or evening) every day at a deeper conversion to Christ as well as grow closer to one that time take 5 minutes to speak to God. Thank another. Our group brought together not only students him for something; ask for blessings for a person who normally come around the Newman Center’s events, or group of people in need of help. Is there but also helped to introduce those not as involved. Here is anything you would like to share with God at this what Sloan Dickey, a senior at GW, wrote about his experience at SEEK: time? Stay quiet for a moment, listen to God. Try I arrived at the conference with little understanding of what this for a week and see how you feel. I would experience. I had no idea that the conference would

“Be still and know that I am God.” be so large, so in-depth, and so inspiring. I had an idea about what 6,000 people looked like in one room, but Psalm 46: 11 experiencing 6,000 men and women striving to know Christ was amazing. Praying and celebrating Mass in a room with MAGNUS MACFARLANE-BARROW 6,000 others, especially youth, was a moving experience. Magnus Macfarlane-Barrow, founder of Just to know that so many other college students were the international Mary’s Meals, will speak going through exactly the same conflicts, celebrations, at Caldwell College on Tuesday April 9 at 7 p.m. in struggles and as myself was extremely uplifting. Often at my university, it is difficult to see others who are Werner Hall. Macfarlane-Barrow has been attempting to live out their faith, but attending SEEK gave featured as a CNN Hero for the work that Mary’s me lots of hope. . .Of course, I knew the conference would Meals does in providing a simple solution to in some way inspire or change me, but I had no idea the hunger. A short award-winning documentary on degree of impact it would leave with me. Whether it was the Mary’s Meals will be shown at the beginning of encouragement from the students I met, or the speakers who had so much insight while still making each point the program. Admission is free and open to the relatable, the conference gave me the fuel to let my fire of public. For more information, please contact faith burn and the courage to share it with others. During Colette Liddy at [email protected] or 973-618- the last homily, Bishop John Noonan of Orlando charged 3209. each student to live our faith without fear and to share it with others. The students, at the center of the New Evangelization efforts of the , were sent into the world with a new flame of hope and a stronger unity to stand up for their faith in their community. Thank you to the parishioners of St. Joseph’s for your prayers and support! You can contact Dan at [email protected] or (201) 952-6655. 5

CLERGY APPRECIATION BEEFSTEAK GREAT MISSION Come support your parish and clergy. The CARLSTADT—EAST RUTHERFORD Knights of Columbus St. Mary’s council 1688 Rutherford; Most Sacred Heart of council 3644 Wallington; St. Joseph’s council 4524 East Rutherford; and The Santa Maria Assembly 663 Color Corps. will host a beefsteak with all the trimmings catered by Giresi Caters of Lodi N.J. It will be held at Most Scared Heart of Jesus (great hall) 127 Paterson Ave Wallington N.J. on April 27th 2013 from 7:30 to 11:30 pm. The price is $40.00per ticket and tables of up to 12 may be accommodated Get your group together and come out and have a good time. Seating is limited so get your tickets early. Chicken maybe substituted for beefsteak; however, you must request it when purchasing your ticket. Beer and soda are included in the price and you may bring your own bottle. There will be door prizes and a D.J. for your listening and dancing pleasure. For tickets or more information you can Year of Faith contact any member of the Knights of Columbus Faith comes from hearing councils involved or call Eugene Sanchez 201-314- What must we hear to have faith? 1252, Joe Egan 201-842-926 ,Tom Jones 201-438- COME! Join us starting on Sunday, April 7th at 4 PM for an 5364 or Pat Brislin 201-638-0309.Looking forward outdoor street Mission at Sesselman Park at 282 to seeing you on April 27th . Tickets will be sold at Carlton Avenue, East Rutherford. There will be the door is space is still available. music, singing and preaching for five Sundays of Easter! DO NOT BE AFRAID Did you notice? Today is called the “Second Sunday of Easter,” not the “First Sunday after Easter.” Our celebration of Easter is not over. These Sundays of Easter continue to present the mystery of Jesus Christ’s victory. The readings begin with the “signs and wonders” abounding in those earliest days. Sick people lay in the street, hoping that at least Peter’s “shadow might fall on one or another of them.” Then, in a powerful passage from the book of Revelation, the visionary falls down “as though dead” upon seeing the victorious Christ. But Christ extends a gentle touch: “Do not be afraid . . . once I was dead, but now I am alive forever.” In the Gospel, that same Christ appears and breathes on the disciples, and gently leads Thomas to believe. This Christ—more powerful than any evil force, victorious over death itself—touches us and whispers, “Do not be afraid.” 6

Spring Fun and Philanthropy at St. Joseph’s Church April 2013 Sign up for Boiling Springs Community Alliance Program after all masses or at your local branch. The Community Alliance Program from Boiling Springs Savings Banks affords community organizations like St. Joseph’s Church to earn extra money entirely through the participation of its members. Boiling Springs Bank will make a quarterly donation to St. Joseph’s Church based upon the average daily balance of the members’ designated accounts at Boiling Springs. There is no minimum account, no fee to the participant, no funds withdrawn from the participants’ account(s) and all participants’ and organization’s account information is kept strictly confidential. If you already have an account(s) at Boiling Springs, you can contact Boiling Springs and let them know that you would like to participate in the program. For more information please contact Debbie Cannariato (Boiling Springs Bank) at 201-507-2137. St. Joseph Church is #0242. Enrollment forms can also be found on the parish website under “Parish Life/Fundraising”.

April 2013 Sign up for TD Bank’s Affinity Membership Program after all masses or at your local branch. The Affinity Membership Program from TD Bank offers another very easy way for St. Joseph’s Church to earn extra income entirely through the participation of its members. TD Bank will make an annual donation to St. Joseph’s Church based upon the average balance of the members’ designated accounts. There is no minimum account balance, no fee to the participant, no funds withdrawn from the participants’ account(s) and all participants’ and organization’s account information is kept strictly confidential. Just let them know that you would like to assign all of your accounts to code A3343. Enrollment forms can also be found on the parish website under “Parish Life/Fundraising”.

April 12-21, 2013 Gift cards are the perfect gift for the upcoming spring occasions! Place your gift card orders after all masses or in the rectory office for Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, Graduations and Teacher Appreciation Gifts. Gift cards will be available for pick up April 27-28, 2013.

April 14, 2013 “Family Pasta Bowl” 1:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. in the school auditorium Entertainment, lunch and dessert included Raffle chances and prizes available $15 adults, $10 children 12 and under Bring your “Pennies for the Parking Lot” Tickets available after all masses, in the rectory office

June 2, 2013 Fr. Joe’s 10th Anniversary Celebration and Parish 50/50 “Vacation Raffle” drawing in the school cafeteria at 1:30 p.m.. Light lunch, desert and refreshments will be served.

September 2013 St. Joseph’s – date to follow

Fall 2013 T.G.I. Friday’s Proceeds Night to Benefit St. Joseph’s Church Dine all day at T.G.I. Friday’s on Route 17 South in Wood-Ridge and 20% of all pre-tax sales are donated back to our church. Remember to bring the flyer to make it count!

For more information on any of the programs listed above, please contact Eugenia Roman at 201-893-4897.

Pope Francis' "Urbi et Orbi" Blessing Dear brothers and sisters in Rome and throughout the world, Happy Easter! Happy Easter! What a joy it is for me to announce this message: Christ is risen! I would like it to go out to every house and every family, especially where the suffering is greatest, in hospitals, in prisons… Most of all, I would like it to enter every heart, for it is there that God wants to sow this Good News: Jesus is risen, there is hope for you, you are no longer in the power of sin, of evil! Love has triumphed, mercy has been victorious! The mercy of God always triumphs! We too, like the women who were Jesus’ disciples, who went to the tomb and found it empty, may wonder what this event means (cf. Lk 24:4). What does it mean that Jesus is risen? It means that the love of God is stronger than evil and death itself; it means that the love of God can transform our lives and let those desert places in our hearts bloom. The love God can do this! This same love for which the Son of God became man and followed the way of humility and self-giving to the very end, down to hell - to the abyss of separation from God - this same merciful love has flooded with light the dead body of Jesus, has transfigured it, has made it pass into eternal life. Jesus did not return to his former life, to earthly life, but entered into the glorious life of God and he entered there with our humanity, opening us to a future of hope. This is what Easter is: it is the exodus, the passage of human beings from slavery to sin and evil to the freedom of love and goodness. Because God is life, life alone, and we are his glory: the living man (cf. Irenaeus, Adversus Haereses, 4,20,5-7). Dear brothers and sisters, Christ died and rose once for all, and for everyone, but the power of the Resurrection, this Passover from slavery to evil to the freedom of goodness, must be accomplished in every age, in our concrete existence, in our everyday lives. How many deserts, even today, do human beings need to cross! Above all, the desert within, when we have no love for God or neighbor, when we fail to realize that we are guardians of all that the Creator has given us and continues to give us. God’s mercy can make even the driest land become a garden, can restore life to dry bones (cf. Ez 37:1-14). So this is the invitation which I address to everyone: Let us accept the grace of Christ’s Resurrection! Let us be renewed by God’s mercy, let us be loved by Jesus, let us enable the power of his love to transform our lives too; and let us become agents of this mercy, channels through which God can water the earth, protect all creation and make justice and peace flourish. And so we ask the risen Jesus, who turns death into life, to change hatred into love, vengeance into forgiveness, war into peace. Yes, Christ is our peace, and through him we implore peace for all the world. The Pope continued by asking for peace in the Middle East, Africa, Asia and above all on the Korean peninsula. Peace in the whole world, still divided by greed looking for easy gain, wounded by the selfishness which threatens human life and the family, selfishness that continues in human trafficking, the most extensive form of slavery in this twenty-first century; human trafficking is the most extensive form of slavery in this twenty-first century! Peace to the whole world, torn apart by violence linked to drug trafficking and by the iniquitous exploitation of natural resources! Peace to this our Earth! Made the risen Jesus bring comfort to the victims of natural disasters and make us responsible guardians of creation. Dear brothers and sisters, to all of you who are listening to me, from Rome and from all over of the world, I address the invitation of the Psalm: “Give thanks to the Lord for he is good; for his steadfast love endures for ever. Let Israel say: ‘His steadfast love endures for ever’” (Ps 117:1-2).

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