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AUGUST 1, 2021 Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Readings for the week Sunday: Ex 16:2-4, 12-15/ Ps 78:3-4, 23-25, 54/ Eph 4:17, 20-24/Jn 6:24-35 Monday: Nm 11:4b-15/ Ps 81:12-17/Mt 14:13-21 Tuesday: Nm 12:1-13/Ps 51:3-7, 12-13/Mt 14:22-36 or Mt 15:1-2, 10-14 Wednesday: Nm 13:1-2, 25—14:1, 26-29a, 34-35/Ps 106:6-7b, 13-14, 21- 23/ Mt 15:21-28 Thursday: Nm 20:1-13/ Ps 95:1-2, 6-9/Mt 16:13-23 Friday: Dn 7:9-10, 13-14/ Ps 97:1-2, 5-6, 9 /2 Pt 1:16-19/ Mk 9:2-10 Saturday: Dn 6:4-13/ Ps 18: 28, 3-4. 47 and 51/ Mk 17:14-20 PǂǓNJǔlj OLJLJNJDŽdž Office Hours: Monday to Friday 9:00 a.m.- 4:00 p.m. Sunday 9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. Voice: 732/264-4712; BNJǔljǐǑ ǐLJ Ǖljdž DNJǐDŽdžǔdž ǐLJ TǓdžǏǕǐǏ Fax: 732/264-9080 MǐǔǕ RdžǗdžǓdžǏDž Email: [email protected] DǂǗNJDž M. O’CǐǏǏdžǍǍ, C.M. Mr. Bob Cognat, PǂǔǕǐǓ Facilities Manager Rev. Garry R. Koch email: [email protected] PǂǓǐDŽljNJǂǍ VNJDŽǂǓ Mrs. Francine DeMuria, Rev. Augusto “Al” Lorenzo Gamalo Office of Temporal Administration email: [email protected] DdžǂDŽǐǏǔ John L. Clymore Mrs. Margaret Roddy, Richard L. Morris Pastoral Minister for Raymond R. Pelkowski Church Management Paul A. Remick and Sacrament Coordination Stephen G. Scott email: [email protected] TdžǎǑǐǓǂǓǚ Mǂǔǔ SDŽljdžDžǖǍdž Mrs. Lori Ulrich, Saturday Vigil: 5:00 p.m. Director of Marketing and Sunday: 8:00, 9:30, 11:00 a.m. Event Management Monday - Friday: 9:00 a.m. email: [email protected] OɅɂ Lȱȴɉ ȿȶ VȹȳɄȿɂɉ RdžDŽǐǏDŽNJǍNJǂǕNJǐǏ SǕ. BdžǏdžDžNJDŽǕ SDŽljǐǐǍ AȴȿɂȱɄȹȿȾ Cȸȱɀȵȼ Monday, Wednesday, Friday Mr. Kevin Donahue, Prinicpal following the 9:00 a.m. Mass email: [email protected] Please consider joining us as and by appointment an Adorer. Contact Kathy 732/739-3381 for more information. PǂǓNJǔlj RdžLjNJǔǕǓǂǕNJǐǏ Registration forms are available in the parish office and on our website at stbenedictholmdel.org A_ G7 If you are interested, please respond. If you are thinking, or even pondering about the question, please respond. One of my assignments in the diocese is as the Ocean Side (Monmouth and Ocean Counties) Director of Vocations. Please have anyone interested in opening the conversation reach out to me, so that I can assist in the process. The church needs priests – good, holy, faithful – and there are more than a few men here in this parish, and in our local high schools, who fit that bill. There is a Mass Dear Fellow Parishioners of St. Benedict: for Vocations on Wednesday evening at St. Michael Church in As we enter the so-called “Dog Days of August” we are ramping West End at 5:00 p.m. Please consider attending. up for the beginning of a new school year here at SBS. We have Have a blessed and relaxing week, received approval from Holmdel Township to install modular Fr. Garry classrooms to house two classes of PreK-3 students. This will be located between the first and second wings of the school. We The Sacrament of Baptism still have spots available in all of the grades 1 – 8 if you, or Please contact Margaret Roddy at 732/264-4712 ext. 17 or anyone you know, is still considering Catholic education. Please [email protected] to make arrangements for your child’s make contact with the school office to schedule a tour. baptism. This weekend we begin our “good-byes” to the students from The Sacrament of Holy Matrimony Catholics have the duty to receive the Sacrament of Matrimony our parish who have recently been graduated from high school. in a church. Please make contact with the parish office at least We will offer a blessing to recent high school and college one year prior to your intended marriage date to begin the graduates at all of the Masses this weekend. We will have an end preparation process. This includes attendance at a Pre-Cana of semester gathering after Christmas for all of our college Conference and several sessions with our Marriage Minister. students. If you are presently in a civil marriage and desire to receive the Sacrament and enter into a valid Catholic marriage, please make With all of the protocols and restrictions over the past eighteen contact with the parish office. We offer direction and assistance months I have had very limited time away, focusing just on the on receiving an annulment for those who are divorced and holidays. As things are better now, and with August looking re-married. Please do not hesitate to call – the process is slower, I am going to be away from mid-week through the generally less difficult or cumbersome than imagined. following week. A little break to relax and rejuvenate is always a Please call Lori McCahill, Director of Marriage Ministry at 732/264-4712 ext. 27 or [email protected] blessing. Ministry to the Sick and Homebound Here in the parish we have had some internet issues, and this Parishioners who are ill or unable to get about are often the most came to a head following the wicked thunderstorm activity on neglected and in need. Please make contact with the parish office July 6th. This left us without internet access for almost eight full for any of the following ministries or services: days. Obviously this hampers productivity and, as I explained in Anointing of the Sick – the priests will visit the persistently an earlier missive, it is why we were unable to publish a bulletin homebound at least twice per year but are available to come to the weekend of July 11th. This week – Wednesday through your home anytime that there is a health crisis or a deteriorating Friday – we will have a planned shutdown of the internet so that condition. Please do not wait until the person is in the final stages of life – except for an emergency – to call for a priest. the problem can be fixed and some new hardware installed. Due to this there will be limited office availability, so ordinary Reception of Holy Communion – if a homebound parishioner business will be conducted by many staff from their homes, to would like to receive Holy Communion, please make contact with the parish office. the best that they are able. Fortunately our ordinary state technology disbursements are available to cover the cost of the Hospital Nursing Homes – please call the office if a parishioner changes necessary to the systems. or a loved one is at Bayshore Community Hospital or has been moved into a local nursing home so that we can tend to the This week – August 4th – we observe the feast of Saint John pastoral needs. For family members hospitalized outside of the Vianney, patron saint of diocesan priests. This is a good time for area the in-house chaplaincy services can tend to the immediate needs. One of the priests will pay a visit as requested. us to think about vocations to the priesthood. This fall our diocese has twelve seminarians in formation, ranging from Community Outreach sophomore in college to third year of theology. We hope that we Help for People with Medicare (SHIP) - SHIP is a State Health will ordain one transitional deacon next May, though lacking a Insurance Program that provides FREE, objective, confidential transitional deacon this year we will have no priesthood help to Medicare beneficiaries who have problems or questions with Medicare, Medigap, Medicare Advantage Plans, Part D and ordinations in 2022. Please pray not only for vocations, but also Long-Term Care. Please call Lorrie McGee, Pastoral Minister actively talk about and encourage young (or maybe even not so for Community Outreach at 732/264-4712 ext. 37 or young) men to consider priesthood. As you will see in the [email protected]. bulletin there is a Pilgrimage from our diocese next Saturday (August 7th) for those who are discerning priesthood. 2 EIGHTEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME AUGUST 1, 2021 th Saturday, August 7 Saint Sixtus II, Pope, and Companions, Martyrs Saint Cajetan, Priest Memorial Mass Society 5:00 p.m. Diane McEnery req. Jack McEnery Ronald Miller req. Jack McEnery Pat McAleavy req. The McAleavy Family st The Logan and McConeghy Families Saturday, July 31 req. Eileen McConeghy Saint Ignatius of Loyola. Priest Anthony Chalela req. Caroline Cattani 5:00 p.m. Diane McEnery req. The McEnery Family Carmelo Blacconeri req. The Cannarozzo Family st Frank R. and Joan Tornabene Sunday, August 1 req. The Tornabene Family Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time 1 Rosemary Sellinger req. The McEnery Family 8:00 a.m Pro Populo Gertrude Ellen Casadonte req. The McEnery Family 9:30 a.m. Mary and Con Cunningham req. Marion Manning Eleanor Artale req. Rob and Anita Smith 11:00 a.m. Edoardo Russo req. The DeMuria Family Daniel Vassallo req. The Vassallo Family Monday, August 2nd Sunday, August 8th Saint Eusebius of Vercelli, Bishop Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Saint Peter Julian Eymard, Priest 8:00 a.m Pro Populo 9:00 a.m. Reverend Francis Cornely 9:30 a.m. Donald K. Jordan req. The Pino Family req. Clergy, Staff and Parishioners of St. Benedict 11:00 a.m. Julieta Orante req. The Russotto Family rd Please remember in your prayers all those whose names are listed in Tuesday, August 3 9:00 a.m. Monica Bove req. Miroslav Sincak our Prayer Intention Book Wednesday, August 4th August 1, 2021 Saint John Vianney, Priest th 9:00 a.m.