Saint ClareSAINT R.C. CLARE C CHURCHhurch “We become what we love and who we love shapes “We Come to Pray...Wewhat weLeave become.” to Serve” - St. Clare

Rev. Peter Glabik, Pastor Rev. Thomas Fitzgerald, Parochial Vicar Gerard Palladino, Director of Music Liturgical Assistant for Special Liturgies Bullen Editor Local Youth Protecon/Safe Environ. Coordinator

Monday — Friday: 8:30am Divine Mercy Chapel (beginning July 1st)

Saturday: 4:00pm Sunday: 9am and 11am Confession Saturday: 3:00-3:45pm

Tuesday and Thursday 8:30am—12:30pm

69 Allwood Road—Clion, NJ 07014 Phone: (973)777-9313 Fax: (973)777-6945 Website: SaintClareNJ.com th Email: offi[email protected] 17 Sunday Ordinary Facebook: SaintClareNJ July 25, 2021

SAINT CLARE PARISH • CLIFTON, NJ 17th SUNDAY ORDINARY TIME

MONDAY — JULY 26, 2021 Altar Bread & Wine (Ss. Joachim and Anne) +JOHN and HELEN SWETITS 8:30am +LARRY MOTYL Altar Candles -SONNY ESTERO +SUSANNE MINGO (Well Being) Sanctuary/Divine Mercy Candle TUESDAY — JULY 27, 2021 -PRO POPULO 8:30am -IN HONOR OF St. Clare Candle THE HOLY FAMILY -PRO POPULO St. Francis Candle WEDNESDAY — JULY 28, 2021 -PRO POPULO 8:30am -PRO POPULO St. Joseph Candle THURSDAY — JULY 29, 2021 +ELLEN WALLACE (St. Martha) 8:30am +ISABEL LOZANO Memorial Opportunities are available : +ROSEMARIE HABICK Contact the Office at 973-777-9313

Altar Bread & Wine: $20 donaƟon FRIDAY — JULY 30, 2021 (St. Peter Chrysologus) All Candles: $15 donaƟon each 8:30am -PRO POPULO

SATURDAY — JULY 31, 2021 4:00pm +LILLIAN GRAYSON

SUNDAY — AUGUST 1, 2021 (18th Sunday Ordinary Time) July 17/18 $2,915.00 9:00am -DOT SCHMIDT

11:00am +LUIGI GALDO +RICHARD HABICK, SR. +ROSA ANIKONOW God Bless You for your generosity

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JULY / AUGUST ENVELOPE SCHEDULE

July 25 -Regular CollecƟon -Maintenance and Repairs

August 1 -Parish Novena to St. Clare -Regular CollecƟon AUGUST 6th

August 8 -Debt ReducƟon 7pm -Air CondiƟoner -Regular CollecƟon Rectory Office SAINT CLARE PARISH • CLIFTON, NJ 17th SUNDAY ORDINARY TIME Saint Clare Candle $15.00 per candle Feast: August 11th

Please consider donating towards a candle or candles. Our beautiful custom candle can be memorialized in memory of a deceased loved one, pray for a special intention, remember a birth or anniversary, or give thanks to God. Candle envelopes are available on the display in the back of the church. Please return ASAP in order to give us time to prepare all the candle labels. Candles will be lit beginning the weekend preceding the Feast of St. Clare. There will be a special mass at 7pm on August 11th in order to honor our Patron Saint. A message from St. Clare…….. We have available 180 beauƟful candles with my image on them, please help me light all of them.

MINISTRY SCHEDULE—July 31/Aug 1

4:00 PM 9:00 AM 11:00 AM EUCHARISTIC Suspended Until Further Suspended Until Further Suspended Until Further Notice MINISTER (H) Notice Notice

LECTOR Edmund Arellano Athena Aquino Rodulfo Moises, Jr. ALTAR Suspended Until Further Suspended Until Further Suspended Until Further Notice SERVERS Notice Notice SAINT CLARE PARISH • CLIFTON, NJ 17th SUNDAY ORDINARY TIME

Prayer to Saint Joseph To you, O blessed Joseph, do we come in our tribulation, and having implored the help of your most holy Spouse, we confident ly invoke your patronage also. Through that charity which bound you to the Immaculate Virgin Mother of God and through the paternal love with which you embraced the Child Jesus, we humbly beg you graciously to regard the inheritance which Jesus Christ has purchased by his Blood, and with your power and strength to aid us in our necessities. O most watchful guardian of the Holy Family, defend the chosen children of Jesus Christ; O most loving father, ward off from us every contagion of error and corrupting influence; O our most mighty protector, be kind to us and from heaven assist us in our struggle with the power of darkness. As once you rescued the Child Jesus from deadly peril, so now protect God's Holy Church from the snares of the enemy and from all adversity; shield, too, each one of us by your constant protection, so that, supported by your example and your aid, we may be able to live piously, to die in holiness, and to obtain eternal happiness in heaven. Amen.

St. Joseph Candle In addition to our weekly candle offerings, we are also offering the special St. Joseph Candle found in the Shrine during the Year of St. Joseph. Please pick-up form in the sacristy. The offering for the candle is: $15.00 God Bless You. **Candles are lit in the order your offering has been received; we are sorry, but specific weeks cannot be requested**

GO 2 ST. JOE PILGRIMAGE All people are welcome and encouraged to partake in the “Go 2 St. Joe Pilgrimage” hosted by the Diocese of Paterson to celebrate the Year of St. Joseph. To participate, visit insidethewalls.org/go2sjoe and print the pilgrimage passport. You then have until December 8th to vis- it 7 of the 11 locations listed on the passport. Full details can be found on the website. SAINT CLARE PARISH • CLIFTON, NJ 17th SUNDAY ORDINARY TIME Saint of the Week

"Jesus loved Martha, and her sister Mary, and Lazarus" (John 11:5)

Saint Martha is menƟoned in three Gospel passages: Luke 10:38-42, John 11:1-53, and John 12:1-9, and the type of friendship between her and her siblings, Mary and Lazarus, with the Lord Jesus is evident in these passages. In the gospel of Luke, Martha receives Jesus into her home and worries herself with serving Him, a worry that her sister Mary, who sat beside the Lord's feet "listening to Him speak," doesn't share. Her complaint that her sister is not helping her serve draws a reply from the Lord who says to her, "Martha, Martha, you are anxious and worried about many things. There is need of only one thing. Mary has chosen the beƩer part and it will not be taken from her." The over anxiousness she displays in serving is put into the right context by Jesus who emphasizes the importance of contemplaƟng Him before all things. Yet she is seen next in John, outside the tomb of her brother Lazarus who had died four days earlier, as the one who receives the RevelaƟon from the Lord that "I am the resurrecƟon and the life; whoever believes in me, even if he dies, will live, and everyone who lives and believes in me will never die." When asked by the Lord if she believed this she said to Him, "Yes, Lord. I have come to believe that you are the Messiah, the Son of God, the one who is coming into the world," displaying her great faith which is confirmed by Jesus' subsequent rais- ing of her brother Lazarus from the grave. In the third and last instance, we see Martha, again in John, at a house in Bethany where Jesus was reclin- ing at table with her brother Lazarus aŌer he had raised him from the dead. During dinner, John's Gospel tells us, "Martha served." She is re- vealed here performing the same task as when we first saw her, but now her service is infused with her faith, and the brevity of the descripƟon suggests the silence and peace in which she serves as opposed to the nervous anxiety she displayed earlier. Martha, whom we have seen serv- ing, in Luke, and then believing, earlier in John, is now seen expressing her belief in the acƟon of serving the Lord. "Martha served," and in doing so teaches us the way of ChrisƟan life.

Feast Day: July 29 Saint Martha is the patron of housewives, servants, waiters and cooks.

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