Saint Joseph ROMAN CATHOLIC Church
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
Confession Saturday at 4:00-4:30pm (or by appointment)
Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe - November 22, 2020
Our Parish Family is Served By Weekly Mass Intentions
Father ST Sutton, Pastor Saturday 11/21 5:00pm Teresa Nugent 973-383-1985 - [email protected]
Deceased members Father Alexander Londono, Migrant Ministry of the Capra family [email protected] Sunday nd 8:00am Jennifer Lynn McDonald November 22 Father Edward Davey, Pastor Emeritus Dorothy Soley
Deacon Thomas Zayac, Deacon Our Lord Jesus @ Christ, King of the 9:30am Richard Takach Deacontaz gmail.com Universe Orlando Rui Quinta Karen Glowatski, Office Administrator Charles W. Sutton
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11:30am Nicholas Marino Doreen Zimmerman, Administrative Assistant 973-383-1985 - [email protected] Ann Shaffer
Christine Shell, Director of Food Pantry Monday 11/23 12:05pm Intentions of Jessica Vetter 973-383-1985 - [email protected] Tuesday 11/24 12:05pm William G. Brucker Faith Formation - 973-383-8413 [email protected] Wednesday 11/25 12:05pm Father Alan Savitt
Kelly Robinson, Director of Music Ministry Thursday 11/26 12:05pm NO MASS - Thanksgiving [email protected] Friday 11/27 12:05pm Barbara Tyburska
Sharon Eltzholtz, Bulletin Assistant Saturday 11/28 5:00pm Jewel English [email protected] James Dorsey Robert Lasser, Finance Administrator Sunday [email protected] - 973-383-1985 th 8:00am James Dorsey November 29 Augustino Cataldo TRUSTEES OF THE PARISH First Sunday Dorothy Bosi, George Hayek of Advent 9:30am Joshua Thomas
and Gerard Woodring Personal Intention
11:30am Ann & Joseph Plevyak Weekly Remembrance Father Michael Burke
The Sanctuary Lamp, “Oremus Pro Invicem” which burns near the Tabernacle
as a reminder of our Lord’s presence We pray for all those who are in need in the Most Holy Eucharist, of the Lord’s healing presence: burns this week in loving memory of: Gary Arvary, Gene Belcher, Fred Bender, Egon Berninger, Dorothy Charette, Teresa Collins, Father Angelus Croce, Grace Cruz-Beyer, James Cunningham, Alex DeMartino, Derya Demirtas, Jennifer DiNardo, Mary Ann Dowling, Patricia Downey,
Jennifer Downing, Russell English, Erica Needham Errico, And the hosts and wine, Kathie Fetchko, Chris Flora, Theresa Fusco, Monsignor Mark Giordani, Jim Gluszak, Gladys & John Greed, which will become the Joy Grenewicz, Suzanne Hammond, Finnuala Hanifan, Geri Hayes, Holy Body and Precious Blood Jessica & Hannah Joseph, Susan Kadar, Father Daniel Kelly, of our Lord, were given Jessica Kirby, John Kraft, Valerie Landell, Patricia Lane, Shirley in loving memory of: Lavin, Elaine LeFever, Roberto Leyva, Raymond Makusiewicz, Jr., Sal Mauceli, Sharon Miller, Jake Michael Miraldi, Kathy Modrow, Mike Palumbo, Alexander Partyka, Patty Pellegrino, Cheryl Piritz, Joyce & Mike Polster, Michael Porfido, James Proulx, Jack Rhinesmith, Joan Riccardi, John Rokicki, Donna Rozsas, Alexia Russ, Father Edward Salmon, Father Jude Salus, George Scarpa, Ben Sellitto, Coleen Shields, Crystal Siro, Francis Siro, Terri Skill, Ernest Sprague, Gloria Steets, May they now be resting in the peace Kristen & Sofia Steets, Evelyn Strauss, Joni Strauss, Brysen Sutton, of the Lord’s heavenly kingdom! Delia M. Sutton, Edna & Paul Swenson and Rita Zimich.
Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe – november 22, 2020
WEEKEND DONATIONS Food pantry
November 15, 2020
Collection $4,496 Online Giving $1,501
Total: $5,997 Our weekly budget still is $10,000 The Christmas Giving Angels For those who are still at home, we are always in need of your will be available for our clients in Newton prayerful and financial support. You may mail your weekly or (in baskets in front of the Saint Joseph statue) monthly budget envelope donations to the Parish Center: 22 Halsted Street, Newton, NJ 07860. Thank you! Beginning the weekend of November 28th and November 29th
Next Weekend readings This year we will again be asking for women and Next Weekend readings men’s toiletries along with laundry detergent and dish
liquid for our clients here in Newton. This year November 29, 2020 there will be three (3) angels to choose from.
Isaiah 63:16b-17, 19b; 64:2-7 • Women’s Toiletries Angel 1 Corinthians 1:3-9 • Men’s Toiletries Angel Saint Mark 13:33-37 • Laundry Detergent and Dish Liquid Angel
To make distributing these items easier, we will be
packaging them with the regular weekly grocery bags Thrift shop which we prepare each week for our clients. Therefore, there is no need for any gift bags or wrapping. The items listed above will be a WE WILL BE CLOSED tremendous help now more than ever to our clients THANKSGIVING WEEK during Christmas as they do not receive any of these NOVEMBER 26TH- 28TH items from other organizations.
Normal hours are: As always, we thank you so much for your generosity Thursday and Friday: 10:00am-4:00pm and your help with this very important ministry Saturday: 9:30am-12:30pm during the Christmas Season here at Saint Joseph Church.
Gifts can be returned in the vestibule at the entrance of the church starting the weekend of One simple ask: th th please wear a mask! December 5 and 6 .
Thanksgiving mass Save unborn babies Mass for Thanksgiving will be on th The Columbiettes are sponsoring Wednesday, November 25 at 12:05pm. a campaign to seek our Blessed Mother’s intercession to There will be NO noon Mass on Thanksgiving Day.
Save Unborn Babies - SUB! Please support this endeavor to pray ONE MILLION HAIL MARYS. Parish Center Offices will be closed You can e-mail your tallies to: Thanksgiving Day and Friday so that [email protected] our staff may enjoy the holiday with their families and friends. The tally so far is: 277,420
The McCarrick Report Before we can begin speaking about this “report” (herein referred to as “MR”), it should be noted that this report is NOT a canonical report. Rather, it is a published document that was put together by unknown sources (assumed to be the personal attorney of the Holy Father), as no author was given and not even the people who were involved in preparing the report were listed. Over eighty people were said to have been interviewed and yet, there is no list of them either. The report begins by pointing the finger at Pope Francis’ predecessors, the late (Saint) Pope John Paul II and the elderly Pope Benedict XVI. It was Pope John Paul II who made the decision to make (former) AB McCarrick a Cardinal of the Church when he was the Archbishop of Washington, D.C. even after he received a letter from the (late and former) Cardinal of New York, Cardinal John O’Connor, which reported allegations against (former) AB McCarrick, accusing him of “sleeping with other priests” and “sharing beds with seminarians.” As a result of this letter from Cardinal O’Connor, an investigation was started. According to the MR: “What is known now… is that three of the four American bishops provided inaccurate and incomplete information to the Holy See regarding McCarrick’s sexual conduct with young adults.” The problems I see with this report are as follows: 1.) (Former) AB McCarrick wrote a personal letter to Pope John Paul II saying he was innocent, and the Holy Father believed him. End of story? 2.) When Cardinal O’Connor wrote his letter to the pope, he learned of these allegations from Monsignor James Cassidy, a priest/psychologist from the Archdiocese of New York who had spoken to Doctor Rick Fitzgibbons, a psychiatrist, who personally interviewed the victim. When the Nuncio was asked to investigate this claim, he never consulted Monsignor Cassidy, Doctor Fitzgibbons, or even the accuser/victim. 3.) Two of the bishops called to testify were former auxiliary bishops of (former) AB McCarrick when he was in Newark. 4.) The third bishop called had become McCarrick’s successor when he came to the Diocese of Metuchen. These two problems hardly speak to the veracity, integrity, or independence of the MR. 5.) According to the MR, two bishops witnessed immoral behavior in a catering hall and never reported it. It appears that a network of younger bishops had and still seem to be covering for an older bishop who “made” them. Worse than that, there also appears to be an apparent “network of silence” surrounding McCarrick, which truly is one of the more serious problems which the MR never addressed. 6.) The former Nuncio in the United States, Archbishop Carlos Maria Viganò, has been very public about his disdain for this process and has in his possession a plethora of documents, with times and places where he brought the matter of McCarrick’s misdeeds to the Holy See. AB Viganò alleges that the present Holy Father has lied on several occasions about all these matters. 7.) While the MR takes to task the reports and allegations of AB Viganò, he was never interviewed or even summoned to be part of this report. This once again underscores the fact that this was NOT a canonical report or investigation, but one that was flawed by the mere fact that key individuals with direct knowledge of the allegations were not interviewed. It could be likened to an annulment case where one of the former spouses or witnesses were not given the opportunity to tell their side of the story. 8.) The MR stated that AB Viganò in 2012: “Failed to act on instructions given by Cardinal Marc Armand Ouellet” (the Prefect of the Congregation of the Bishops) to investigate the new claim against McCarrick involving a priest in the Diocese of Metuchen. However, according to AB Viganò, he did indeed bring this matter to the Holy See and had the appropriate conversations with his superiors, which the MR actually indicates in several places. 9.) AB Viganò purports that he notified the Pope about McCarrick’s immoral behavior in June and October of 2013 and the pope failed to take action. The MR report seems to go after AB Viganò on numerous occasions and as stated previously, AB Viganò was never interviewed by the person putting together this report. The MR stated: “…No records support Viganò’s account and evidence as to what he said is sharply disputed... Until 2017, no one – including Cardinals Parolin, Ouellet and Archbishops Becciu and Viganò – provided Pope Francis any documentation regarding allegations against McCarrick… Pope Francis had only heard that there had been allegations and rumors related to immoral conduct with adults occurring prior to McCarrick’s appointment to Washington… Believing that the allegations had already been reviewed and rejected by Pope John Paul II, and well aware that McCarrick was active during the papacy of Benedict XVI, Pope Francis did not see the need to alter the approach that had been adopted in prior years.” ...continued on next page
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This year we will be doing our Giving Tree for our Our Annual Super 50/50 sister Parishes in Paterson (Mary Help of Christians and Saint Agnes Churches) by collecting Raffle Tickets for Faith Formation gift cards. The parishes have asked for gift cards to will be drawn on November 28th the following stores: Shop Rite at the Parish Center. Target Kohls You may purchase a ticket at the entrance of the Marshalls church on the weekend or any time during the week Walmart at the Parish Center Office. You may get any denomination, please write the monetary amount on the gift card. The deadline This is the ONLY fundraiser that our Faith Formation will be the weekend of December 12/13. You may Program has all year as we do not charge any family drop the gift cards off at the Parish Center or place for Faith Formation. them in the basket in front of the Blessed Mother’s statue.
The McCarrick report continued... 10.) In 2013, when AB Viganò claims he informed Pope Francis, Cardinal Giovanni Angelo Becciu also mentioned that he also informed Pope Francis. So, it seems that there is a conflict of facts that can lead one to believe that there is yet another cover-up in the name of “whitewashing” history in order to exonerate the present Holy Father. Just because his predecessors had seemed to have dealt with the “McCarrick problem,” allowing it to continue, sadly does not let Pope Francis off the hook. This had the possibility of being a scandal in the Church of epic proportions, which ultimately it was. Nothing was done because no one did anything before, or what they did was thought to be satisfactory. 11.) Cardinal Becciu stated that the pope was never given the files until 2018. However, in September of 2017, Cardinal Timothy Michael Dolan of New York had already reported an allegation of a minor to the Vatican (the pope). 12.) In June of 2018, McCarrick was officially removed from ministry, and in July, he resigned from the College of Cardinals. However, the MR never mentioned that a second young victim (James Grein) came forward in the interim. Oddly enough, his name was never mentioned in the MR! I think it is an important piece of information and testimony that was left out. 13.) There also seems to be a conflict of testimony on the part of the Holy Father, who alleges he “Never heard anything about this,” but “had Viganò mentioned something about a serial predator, he certainly would have remembered that.” However, in an interview with Valentina Alazraki, a Mexican journalist, Pope Francis said he knew nothing about McCarrick and stated: “I don’t remember if Viganò and I talked about McCarrick.” Which leaves open the possibility that he did. 14.) Another large problem with the MR is that it does not treat this situation from a canonical point of view, rather, more of a legal brief, written by attorneys with the sole purpose of clearly limiting the liability of the present Holy Father and those Bishops, Archbishops and Cardinals who are still alive (with the exception of AB Viganò).
...To be continued
HYMNS FOR HOLY MASS this week
PROCESSIONAL “To Jesus Christ, RECESSIONAL “Crown Him with Our Sovereign King” Many Crowns”
Crown Him with many crowns, the Lamb upon His To Jesus Christ, our Sov’reign King, who is the throne. Hark! How the heav’nly anthem drowns all world’s salvation, all praise and homage do we bring music but its own. Awake my soul, and sing of Him and thanks and adoration. R. who set us free, and hail Him as your heav’nly King through all eternity. R. Christ Jesus, Victor! Christ Jesus, Ruler! Christ Jesus, Lord and Redeemer! Crown Him the Lord of life, who triumphed o’er the grave, and rose victorious in the strife for those He Your reign extend, O King benign, to ev’ry land and came to save. His glories now we sing, who died and rose on high, who died, eternal life to bring, and nation; for in Your kingdom, Lord divine, alone we lives that death may die. find salvation. R. Crown Him the Lord of love behold His hands and To You and to Your Church, great King, we pledge side, rich wounds, yet visible above, in beauty our hearts’ oblation until before Your throne we sing glorified. No angel in the sky can fully bear that sight, but downward bends His burning eye at in endless jubilation. R. mysteries so bright.
Crown Him the Lord of peace, whose power a PSALM RESPONSE scepter sways from pole to pole, that wars may cease, absorbed by prayer and praise. His reign shall “The Lord is my shepherd; there is nothing I shall know no end, and round His pierced feet fair flow’rs want.” of paradise extend their fragrance ever sweet.
Crown Him the Lord of years, the Master of all time, OFFERTORY “We Have Been Told” Creator of the rolling spheres, and risen Lord sublime. All hail, Redeemer, hail! For you have died for me; Your praise and glory shall not fail R. We have been told, we’ve seen His face and heard throughout eternity. His voice alive in our hearts; “Live in my love with all your heart; as the Father has loved me, so
I have loved you.” Prayer to saint joseph “I am the vine, you are the branches, and all who live in Me will bear great fruit.” R. Saint Joseph our patron “You are my friends, if you keep My commands; no we call upon you today longer slaves, I call you friends.” R. to look upon our parish family in Newton. “No greater love is there than this: to lay down one’s We ask for your fatherly protection life for a friend.” R. and paternal guidance through these difficult times in our country, COMMUNION “Jesus, the Lord” in our world and in our Church. R. Jesus. Jesus. Let all creation bend the knee to the Lord. Continue to watch over our elderly
In Him we live, we move and have our being; in Him and those most vulnerable at this time; the Christ, in Him the King! Jesus, the Lord. R. May they know of your fatherly care
Though Son, He did not cling to godliness; and be comforted by the Lord’s presence. but emptied Himself, became a slave! Jesus, the Lord. This we pray through Him whom you R. watched over as your own child, He lived obediently His Father’s will accepting His death, death on a tree! R. Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
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