209 US Highway 206 Our Lady Queen of Peace Branchville, NJ 07826
We are a Roman Catholic parish family. We respond to Christ’s call to proclaim the Gospel in both word and deed, and in all our relationships and responsibilities. We encourage our members to embrace a lifestyle marked by Stewardship of Time, Tal- ent, and Treasure, engaging in active support of our ministries of the Word, Worship, and Service. We welcome everyone from Branchville, Frankford (Augusta), Lafayette and all who come to share the joy of Christ! All who wish to join us as new members please call the parish office for more information on becoming a member of our parish family.
The Twenty-Third Sunday in Ordinary Time September 6th Rev. Philip-Michael F. Tangorra Pastor [email protected] Mass Schedule Saturday: 5:00 PM Youth Mass Dcn. Vincent Ricciardi (Homily Intended for Teens/ Deacon Cooperator Young Adults) Sunday: 8:00 AM Mrs. Jennifer Durso Office Manager 10:00 AM [email protected] 12:00 PM (Starting 9/13) Daily: 8:00 AM (Monday-Saturday) Ms. Claudette Casile Holydays: 8:00 AM and 7:00 PM Coordinator of Religious Education Traditional Latin Mass 5:00 PM First Friday [email protected] Reconciliation: Mrs. Mary Chobrda Saturday: 4:00 PM-4:45 PM Music Director After All Morning Masses [email protected] During Eucharistic Adoration (Mon & Fri) Anytime by Appointment Office Hours: Monday-Friday 9:00 AM-2:00 PM Eucharistic Adoration: Mondays: 7:30 PM-8:30 PM Parish Office: (973) 948-3185 Fridays: 8:30-9:30 AM Fax: (973) 948-4799 24 HR Eucharistic Adoration First Friday Website: OLQPBranchville.org The Twenty-Third Sunday In Ordinary Time: September 6th
Mass Intentions MEMORIALS SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 5th The week of September 6th 8:00 AM NEITA GREEN Sanctuary Lamp burns for : (THE FLAHERTY FAMILY) Johnathan Volpe 5:00 PM NICHOLAS MARINO (THE FAMILY) ALTAR FLOWERS MEMORIALS SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 6Th 8:00 AM PEOPLE OF THE PARISH The week of September 6th the Altar Flowers 10:00 AM MRS. ALICE FERNANDES are presented for: (THE KELLEHER FAMILY) Noverly Wehrli
MONDAY Weekly Collection 8:00 AM INTENTIONS OF ROSE LOPIANO Sunday Offering 8/29 & 8/30 $ 2,195.00 (ANNE MARIE LOPAIANO) Online $ 870.00 TUESDAY Total $ 3,065.00 8:00 AM CLAIRE MCALLISTER Estimated Weekly Expenses $ 4,500.00 (BARBARA BAYLES) Difference ($ 1,435.00) WEDNESDAY
8:00 AM LINDA M. GROCHOWSKI Please Consider “Online Giving” (THE FAMILY)
THURSDAY My friends thank you for your continued financial support 8:00 AM CHRIS FARLEY especially amidst these difficult financial times and the (THE FLAHERTY FAMILY) beginning of the school year. Your continued financial support benefits the excellent activities of faith formation , FRIDAY evangelization, charity and healing. 8:00 AM PAUL WORTHINGTON (RITA WENNING) - Father Phil NOVERLY WEHRLI Online Giving (FLORIAN WEHRLI & DEL LIPSKY) An alternative for giving if you can’t attend Mass. SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 12th Thank you to the families that have signed up for Online Giving! 8:00 AM RICHARD BAYLES You can decide exactly when your gift is made and where it goes. (BARBARA BAYLES) You can even view your giving history and pledge progress at any time, just by logging in. Please visit www.olqpbranchville.org and 5:00 PM DICK BURCHFIELD click the Online Giving link to get started. (THE GRANDCHILDREN) SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 13th Please remember in your prayers 8:00 AM INTENTIONS OF Hap Rowan, Patricia Poole, Patricia Fiss, Clarence FRANCIS MAYER Roberts, Joe Foster, Lisa Dorans, Molly Russo, John (JENN DURSO) Crisman, Philip Baccari, Laura Schaefer, Dottie Hilt, 10:00 AM INTENTIONS OF Angelo Appice, Miryam Rodriguez, Peggy Mahon, Janice BISHOP KEVIN SWEENEY Miglin, Bradley Burchfield, Pete Lozar, Aylssa Morgan, Ann Romyns, Mike Galante, Richard Kopycienski, Brian (THE KELLEHER FAMILY) Decker, Jim Steurer, Bill Klecha, Sherry Coleman, Sue 12:00 PM ISAURA DIAS Klecha, Judy Moyer, Theresa Barrett, Charles (THE KELLEHER FAMILY) Worthington, David Glowatski, Lee Iliff, Arnold Ligi Planned Parenthood Christian Civilization Class Prayer Vigil for 40 Days of Life
9:30 am
Planned Parenthood 8 Morgan Street, Newton Saturdays Every Thursday during the 9:00 am–10:00 am 40 Days of Life Campaign In Queen of Peace Hall
September 24th Starting Saturday September 12th October 1st, 8th, 15th, 22nd and 29th After the huge success of Father Phil’s Christian Civilization Class last January, (suspended due to covid ) it will reconvene on Saturdays starting September 12 in the Queen of Peace Rite of Christian Initiation Hall. Please join Father Phil and parishioners to learn more For Adults about the foundation that our church is built upon. We will (RCIA) be starting with the first Ecumenical Council of Nicea 325 AD If you would like to become a Catholic or from which we derive the Nicene Creed. have not received all of your Sacraments such as First Holy Communion or Confirmation this program is for Eucharistic Adoration you! The RCIA program is designed to help adults grow in their faith and become fully initiated into the Eucharistic Adoration Church. Please call the office for more information. Mondays 7:30pm—8:30pm Mass For Deliverance Fridays The Feast of the Sorrowful Mother 8:30 am-9:30am September 15th 3:00 am Mass
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Mass Offerings: Masses For The Dead
On June 30, 1968, three and a half years after the close Mass Card Request of the Second Vatican Ecumenical Council, Pope St. Paul VI promulgated the “Creed for the People of God” so as to summarize the faith of that Council and to correctly transmit the You can now request Mass cards by faith of the Church to the people of our times. In this apostolic visiting our website or going directly to letter Solemni Hac Liturgia, Pope St. Paul VI affirms the traditional teaching of the faith about the communion of saints: this link: “We believe in the communion of all the faithful of Christ, those https://giving.parishsoft.com/App/ who are pilgrims on earth, the dead who are attaining their Form/0f00ab02-1984-4682-b50b- purification, and the blessed in heaven, all together forming one 17a0e3ec78f5 Church; and we believe that in this communion the merciful love Mass Cards are also available by calling of God and His saints is ever listening to our prayers, as Jesus told us: Ask and you will receive. Thus, it is with faith and in the office. hope that we look forward to the resurrection of the dead, and the life of the world to come.” The People of God, the Church, as The Bible Timeline: a communion of saints, is intimately bound to each other and the prayers that we offer for each other have a real effect. The Story of Salvation In the ever-true and applicable doctrinal teachings of the Ecumenical Council of Trent, in it’s twenty-second session, Is back in person at the parish! chapter 2 teaches: “Therefore it [the Mass] is quite properly offered according to apostolic tradition not only for the sins, The story of God’s love for us is written throughout penalties, satisfactions and other needs of the faithful who are the Bible—how do you fit in to that story? living, but also for those who have died in Christ but are not yet This study takes you through the entire narrative of fully cleansed.” Who are those who have died in Christ but are the Bible, by studying 14 books of the Old and New not fully cleansed? All of those yet to receive their eternal reward Testament both historically and spiritually. Come in Heaven, the holy souls in purgatory. and learn and see the Bible in a whole new way. It is the definitive dogmatic teaching of the Church that those who have died in Christ, but who had venial sins on their The AM group meets at 9:10 AM, Tuesdays, the PM soul or who had not perfect charity in their heart are purified group meets at 7:15 on Tuesday evenings for from all affection for sin in Purgatory. (See Council of Florence, approximately 90 minutes. Each session begins Decree for the Greeks: D, 693) The Catechism of the Catholic with a video, featuring a lecture by Jeff Cavins the Church teaches: “All who die in God's grace and friendship, but author of the study, followed by discussion. We still imperfectly purified, are indeed assured of their eternal meet in the Queen of Peace Pavilion. Masks must salvation; but after death they undergo purification, so as to be worn. achieve the holiness necessary to enter the joy of heaven. (CCC, 1030)” Our prayers for the dead, especially by having the holy For a preview of the study, go to https:// sacrifice of the Mass offered for their purification, has a real ascensionpress.com/collections/the-bible-timeline- effect upon the purification of the holy souls in purgatory and the-story-of-salvation. assists them on their pilgrimage to heaven. “This teaching is also There is no cost for the program, only the cost of based on the practice of prayer for the dead, already mentioned the workbook which can be purchased at Ascension in Sacred Scripture: ‘Therefore Judas Maccabeus] made Press. atonement for the dead, that they might be delivered from their For newcomers, we will be holding review/catchup sin.’ From the beginning the Church has honored the memory of th nd the dead and offered prayers in suffrage for them, above all the sessions, Tuesdays, September 8,15 and 22 at Eucharistic sacrifice, so that, thus purified, they may attain the 7:15 pm in the Queen of Peace Hall. The program beatific vision of God. (CCC, 1032)” will resume on 9/29 with the section entitled “The Divided Kingdom,” focusing on why the Royal It is for these reasons that it is appropriate that Masses Kingdom of David divides. and other prayers, sacrifices, penances and suffrages be offered to God frequently for our brothers and sisters in Christ who have For more information, or to sign up for the review gone before us. Why? Because our prayers do count! sessions, please contact Maria Albanese at 973-570 -7984.
I.T. Help Needed Outdoor We are looking for an I.T. professional who is Family Movie Night able to donate a couple of hours to check our computers systems to make sure everything is Sunday , Sept. 20th running efficiently. Please call the office, (973)
7:00pm 948-3285 x1, if you are able to help. Rain date: A Better Way Sunday, Sept. 27th to Start Your Day! 7:00pm
Join Fr. Phil with his friends Anna Mitchell and Matt Swaim on the SonRise Morning Show every Wednesday at 7:10 am to hear them discuss Canon Law, the Church and her cur- rent issues. Recent shows have discussed Joe Biden’s being denied Holy Communion , the Pachamama, and how abortion is the preemi- nent issue facing a Catholic electorate. Reruns on EWTN Radio. Tune in by downloading the Sacred Heart Radio App on the Google Play or Apple Store. Or log on to Sacred Heart Radio’s Bring a lawn chair /picnic blanket website: https://sacredheartradio.com/
Religious Education News and Updates Classes Start September 19/20 Classes for Grades 2, 7 (Confirmation I), 8 (Confirmation II) will be held in person, on site. Grades 2 & 7 meeting in Queen of Peace Hall. Grade 8 will be in Varricchio Hall.
Classes for Grades 1, 3, 4, 5, 6 will have in-person and/or remote-learning options at least for the Fall.
In person Registration will occur before and after all Sunday Masses on August 29/30 and September 12/13. You can also register online:https://olqpbranchville.org/registration. There will also be phone call reminders to all Religious Ed. families to register on August 21.
We are looking for teaching assistants and volunteers for all grades, particularly for disinfecting, bathroom monitoring, parking lot monitoring, and we invite our newly confirmed to consider sharing their faith with our parish community in this way. Thank You!
The Next Parent Meeting will occur on Friday 9/11 at 7:00pm.