427 Stanhope Road Sparta New Jersey 07871 973-729-1682 www.saintkateri.org email: [email protected] LOVE GOD, LOVE OTHERS AND MAKE DISCIPLES OF CHRIST FEBRUARY 14, 2021 WELCOME: New parishioners are asked to register by calling or visiting the parish office or by speaking to one of the parish staff. You can also visit our website and register. WHY A CATHOLIC CHRISTIAN SHOULD BE A REGISTERED PARISHIONER The precepts of the Church explained that: we need to belong to a parish (your parish is the Church in the City where you are domiciled) and to contribute to its support. Everyone should do this (Canon 107). To identify yourself with a worshipping community of faith. Salvation comes to us by God in community. Religion is not meant to be individualistic. Membership in a parish community is the norm. To allow the priest of the parish to know Sacrament of Baptism: Baptism will be celebrated every 1st you so that Letters of Recommendation Sunday & 3rd Sunday of the month at 1:00pm. Please call can be given when needed. eight weeks in advance of the date of baptism or email: (Sponsorship/certificates) [email protected]. For those who are Sacrament of Marriage: Arrangement should be made attending Mass in person one year in advance of the marriage date. Please call the or visiting for private office. prayer, please be mindful that a mask must be worn Eucahristic Adoration: Every first Friday of the month from in the Church at all times. 2:00pm. Ending with evening prayer, prayer novena to St. During Communion, please continue to wear Kateri and benediction at 7:00pm. your mask as you receive the Holy Eucharist and then step aside and lift your mask momentarily to consume the Body of Christ. We must continue to be vigilant and protect our community and fellow parishioners. Thank you for your cooperation with these guidelines. Parish Staff PRAYER TO ST. JOSEPH Fr. Vidal Roberto Gonzales, Jr. Pastor Hail, Guardian of the [email protected] Redeemer, Spouse of the Blessed * * * Deacon Drew Calandriello Virgin Mary. Deacon Glen Murphy To you God entrusted his only Deacon Bruce Olsen Son, in you Mary placed her * * * Jeanne Hoskin trust; with Christ became man. Office Manager Blessed Joseph, to us too, show [email protected] * * * yourself a father and guide us Jennifer Dottinger in the path of life. Obtain for us Administrative Assistant grace, Mercy and courage, and [email protected] * * * defend us from every evil. Amen. Tina Jurgaitis With his announcement of a Year of Bookkeeper St. Joseph, Pope Francis has invited us [email protected] WEEKLY MASS INTENTIONSth * * * to commemorate the 150 anniversary Cheryl Wallace of Blessed Pius IX's proclamation of DRE and Pastoral Associate St. Joseph as the Patron of Catholic [email protected] Church. He offers us this year, in our * * * Dawn Green Parishes, our Diocese of Paterson and Administrative Assistant the universal Church, to draw closer Youth Protection / Safe Environment to the one who loved Jesus "with a [email protected] Father’s heart." * * * Marc G. Dalio Be in good spirits under the fatherly mantle Music Director of St. Joseph, a place of safest refuge [email protected] * * * in trials and tribulations. Mike Sawey - St. Joseph Marello Carlos Gomez Maintenance * * * PLEASE REMEMBER IN YOUR PRAYERS THOSE WHO ARE SICK Cathy Pivowar We pray for: Patricia and Tom Sartain, Taylor Donnelly, Robert Medina Robert VanHoene, Kathy Hartwick, Rob McGurrin, Trustees Brian Naccarelli, Bill McCrossan, Carol Mohr, Graydon McVicker, Edward Wallace, MaryAnn Eifler, Christopher Robak, Margie Frazier, Patrick Dillsworth, Chris Auger, Margaret Brennan, Brittany Johnson, Michael Cordero. ACTIVE MILITARY LIST Please pray for our Active Military: Sean Schoch, Infantry Second Lieutenant, SSgt Daniel Joseph (DJ) Duguay, US Air Force; James Schoch, Infantry Second Lieutenant; Frank Cutrone, First Lieutenant, US Army; LtCol Dan Murphy, US Marine Corps; LTJG Katherine Garza, US Navy; LTJG David Garza, US Navy; LCpl Josh Jackson US Marine Corps. May God keep them safe and protect them from all harm. If you would like a love ones name added to the prayer list for the military, please call the parish center, 873-729-1682. WEEKLY MASS INTENTIONS We are grateful to all those who have signed up for Electronic Giving and those who continue to Feb. 13, - 5:00 pm +Santo Scaglione mail in or drop off weekly donations. We truly appreciate your ongoing support and want to Feb. 14, Sunday 6th SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME let you know we’re here for you. You are a 7:30 am Special Intention: Elmer Maximo valued members of our church family. Your 9:00 am +Chuck &Maureen D’Angelo Sunday offering Even though our church is 10:30 am Volunteer Catechists quiet, facility utilities do not go away. Needs of our community, 12:00 nn People of the Parish ministry, and families still remain as well. We cannot meet such Feb. 15, . 8:15 am Msgr. Marc Giordani needs without your help. As we are not able to serve in large groups Feb. 16, . 8:15 am +Sheri Merchant or in person, our gifts of prayer and treasure are ever so important, Feb. 17, ASH WEDNESDAY even crucial to get us through this difficult time. If you haven’t 6:30 am +Teresita Gonzales already, please consider setting up a recurring gift online. It takes 8:15 am +Alfredo Julao two simple steps and the rest is seamless, automatic, and very 12:00 nn. +All Souls in Purgatory flexible. Please visit our donation page at: 4:30 pm. Special int.: People of the Parish www.saintkateri.org/electronic-giving You can also continue to mail Feb. 18,. 8:15 am Special intention: Corazon T. Rivera your gifts and envelopes to the parish at: 427 Stanhope Rd, Sparta, Feb. 19,- 8:15 am. +Eddie Dela Cruz NJ 07871. May God bless you and your loved ones. Feb. 20, - 5:00 Special Intention : STAFF and Weekly Month of February VOLUNTEER MEMBERS of the parish Feb. 21, Sunday FIRST SUNDAY OF LENT Regular Collections $11,093 7:30 am + Deceased members of the Parish Week Ending 02/07/2021 9:00 am + Dale Kobler Regular Collection 11,093. 10:30 am Vocation to the Priesthood & Rel. Life Maintenance 455 12:00 nn + David Perrelli Snow Removal 140 THANK YOU FOR YOUR GENEROSITY Please consider making a donation to benefit the people in the Philippines, devastated by the multiple typhoons that have struck their country. See the table set up by the vestibule and for $10 per FACE MASK, we hope to send some relief to those who continue to suffer greatly. Thank you. RENEW COMMITTEE When you give blood you give another birthday, another anniversary, another talk with a friend, another laugh, another hug, another chance. St. Kateri's next Blood Drive is on Saturday, Feb 20th from 7:45 am to 1:45 pm. Appointments are strongly recommended. Walk-ins can be taken as long as social distancing can be maintained. Please remember to eat, drink and bring you ID card or ID with name and photo. Schedule your appointment online at: nybc.org/njdrive Sponsor Code 15978. For more information call Mary Stanek at 973-349-9191. To the 69 donors and all who support this ministry: Thank you making our January drive such a success. More than 225 lives are better because of you. I Do Will It! 6th Sunday in Ordinary Time A leper came to Jesus and kneeling down begged him and said, “If you wish, you can make me clean.” Moved with pity, he stretched out his hand, touched him, and said to him, “I do will it. Be made clean.” Mark 1:40-41 “I do will it.” These four little words are worth digging into and pondering. At first, we may read these words quickly and miss their depth and significance. We may simply jump to which Jesus wills and miss the fact of His willing itself. But His act of willing is significant. Sure, that which He willed is significant also. The fact that He cured a leper has great meaning and significance. Certainly it shows us His authority over nature. It shows His almighty power. It shows that Jesus can heal all wounds that are analogized by leprosy. But don’t miss those four words: “I do will it.” First of all, the two words “I do” are sacred words used at various times in our liturgies and are used to profess faith and commitment. They are used in marriages to establish an unbreakable spiritual union, they are used in baptisms and other sacraments to renew our faith publicly, and they are also used in the ordination rite of priests as he makes his solemn promises. To say “I do” is what one may call “action words.” They are words that are also an act, a choice, a commitment, a decision. They are words that have an effect on who we are and what we choose to become. Jesus also adds “…will it.” So Jesus is not just making a personal choice here or a personal commitment about His own life and convictions; rather, His words are an action that is effective and makes a difference for another. The mere fact that He wills something, and then sets that will into motion by His words, means something happened. Something changed. An act of God was accomplished. It would be of great benefit to us to sit with those words and ponder what sort of significance they have in our lives. When Jesus speaks those words to us, what is He willing? What is the “it” He is referring to? He definitely has a particular will for our lives and He is definitely willing to enact it in our lives if we are willing to hear those words.