Saint Joseph Roman Catholic Church Oradell / New Milford, NJ Twenty First Sunday in Ordinary Time ~ August 25, 2013 “People will come from the east and the west and from the north and the south and will recline at table in the kingdom of God. For behold, some are last who will be first and some are first who will be last.” Lk 13:29-20 Sacramental Life Reconciliation / Confessions Mass Schedule Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament Saturday, 4:00 pm - 4:45 pm Sunday Mass First Wednesday of the Month 9:00 am - 5:30 pm in Mary’s Chapel Baptism Saturday 5:00 pm Anticipated Contact the Parish Office before the Sunday 7:00 am 8:30 am Miraculous Medal Novena fifth month of pregnancy. 10:30 am 12:30 pm Monday, 7:00 pm in Mary’s Chapel Marriage Daily Mass Christian Initiation of Adults—RCIA Arrangements should be made with a Weekdays 7:00 am and 8:30 am Contact the Religious Education Office. priest at least one year in advance. Saturday 8:30 am Parish Registration Sick / Homebound / Hospital Ministry Holy Days as announced Contact the Parish Office. Call the Parish Office. Parish Staff Rev. Msgr. David C. Hubba, PASTOR Rev. Andrew Park, PAROCHIAL VICAR Rev. John Chadwick, Msgr. Richard Groncki, Msgr. William Hatcher, WEEKEND ASSISTANTS Mrs. Colette Vail Mr. Heath Winborn Rev. George M. Reilly, Pastor Emeritus Principal of Saint Joseph School Director of Operations Mrs. Angela Gussoni Mr. Monroe Quinn Mrs. Phyllis Vrola Mrs. Arlene Kennedy Sacrament Coordinator Vice Principal of Saint Joseph School Director of Music Business Manager Mrs. Anne Annunziato Mr. Anthony Armando Mrs. Diane Hellriegel Youth Minister Communications & Development Parish Secretary Office Location Phone Email Website Parish Office 105 Harrison St., New Milford 201-261-0148 [email protected] sjcnj.org Religious Education 105 Harrison St., New Milford 201-261-1144 [email protected] sjcreligioused.blogspot.com Saint Joseph School 305 Elm St., Oradell 201-261-2388 [email protected] sjsusa.org the greenhouse-PreK 305 Elm St., Oradell 201-477-8114 [email protected] greenhouseusa.org Parish Office Hours: Weekdays 9 am - 5 pm or by appointment Religious Ed. Office Hours: Mon.-Thurs. 9am - 5 pm ST. JOSEPH CHURCH ORADELL/NEW MILFORD, NJ PRAYER REQUESTS Let us remember those who are ill: Bob Westerdahl, Carmine Laratonda, Jane Prosser, Irene Manlapaz, Mags Joya, Kerry Vecker, Pauline Massar, Ruth Miller Saturday August 24, 2013 Let us remember all those who have recently died: 5:00 pm Jennie & Joseph Ferrante David Doherty Sunday August 25, 2013 Let us remember those serving in the military. 7:00 am People of the Parish 8:30 am Deceased Members of Sunday Collection for Week of August 18, 2013 The Prior & Plinio Family Basket ParishPay Total 10.30 am Jesse Mosheim $9,054 $5,327 $14,381 12:30 pm Rosalinda B. Claveria—living intention If you would like to sign up for ParishPay , Monday August 26, 2013 simply go to sjcnj.org and click on “Electronic Giving.” 7:00 am Thomas Feenie 8:30 am Blanche Castellucci EARLY BULLETIN DEADLINE Tuesday Auguts 27, 2013 Please note that due to the Labor Day holiday, 7:00 am Mary Buchanich announcements for the September 1 AND September 8:30 am Thomas Kelliher 8 bulletins must be sent to [email protected] or to Wednesday August 28, 2013 Diane Hellriegel at 201-261-0148 ext. 15 no later than 7:00 am Giuseppe Pilla THIS Friday, August 23. 8:30 am John Jack Grimm WALK-IN DINNER PROGRAM Thursday August 29, 2013 7:00 am Rev. Dante DiGirolamo FOR THE HUNGRY—AUGUST 29 8:30 am Ruth Belthoff Parishioners of Saint Joseph Parish will be preparing and serving a meatloaf dinner for Friday August 30, 2013 approximately 120 people in need at the 7:00 am Sarah Mulchay Housing, Health & Human Services Center 8:30 am Ruth Belthoff located at 120 South River Street in Saturday August 31, 2013 Hackensack. If you would like to help, please call Joan at 8:30 am Mary & Dominic Nocetti 201-265-5823. Or you may make a donation toward 5:00 pm Vincent DeLuca the cost of the dinner by sending a check to the parish Sunday September 1, 2013 office payable to Saint Joseph Church marked “Walk-in 7:00 am People of the Parish Dinner Program.” 8:30 am Vasken Kadehjian 10.30 am Catherine Fitzek SAINT JOSEPH PARISH 10th Anniversary Remembrance MASS BOOK FOR 2014 12:30 pm Elizabeth Baglivi IS NOW OPEN Please use “2014 Mass BREAD AND WINE INTENTIONS Intention Form” in the literature racks at the The Bread and Wind for doors of the church or in the rectory. the week of August 25, 2013 is offered for the glory and praise of God. Mass Intention requests will be taken from 10 am-3 pm (Tuesday to Thursday in August; A SPECIAL THANK YOU Monday to Friday thereafter). August 10, 2013 * Bring the completed form to the parish office Dear Monsignor, when you arrange for the Masses. For the kindness shown me and the *State the full name of the person for whom the welcome I received from the parish, Mass Intention is requested. I am eternally grateful to you, the associate (Fr. Andrew) *The donation is $10 per request and is payable at the and the entire parish. May God bless you in all of your time of request to: “Saint Joseph Church.” work there. God bless! *Mass Intentions may be requested for Christmas or Rev. Fr. Philip W. Tickey, Jr. , Missionary Easter (but not both). 2 TWENTY FIRST SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME, AUGUST 25, 2013 FROM THE PASTOR’S DESK SIGN UP NOW! Wednesday is the feast of Saint Augustine “MARIAN PILGRIMAGE” TO (354-430), whose influence on Catholic BASILICA OF THE NAT’L SHRINE thought and Western Civilization is almost WASHINGTON, D.C.—OCTOBER 26 impossible to overestimate. He once called DEADLINE TO REGISTER: September 26 himself a “vendor of words.” Someone once said that it The Archdiocese of Newark is sponsoring a one-day would take a typical lifetime to read all he wrote. A pilgrimage to the Basilica of the National Shrine of the recent discovery of previously unknown letters and Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C. on Saturday, sermons by him led Peter Brown, his most famous October 26, 2013. modern biographer, to add an 80-page supplement to A PILGRIMAGE CHURCH his classic work Augustine of Hippo: A Biography. Two The Basilica of the National Shrine is a pilgrimage major encyclopedias on Augustine have appeared lately, church. Dedicated to the patroness of the an American one weighing in at 900 pages and an even United States, the Blessed Virgin Mary, more massive product of German scholars. under the title of her Immaculate Augustine’s two most famous works are his Confessions, Conception, and with over 70 chapels and an exploration of his journey to the Catholic Faith, and oratories depicting Our Lady and peoples The City of God, an immense book that situates from around the world, Mary’s House is Christianity in the grand sweep of world history and home to all. defends it with skillful vigor. The Confessions, The various chapels are related to mother sometimes called the first autobiography, is easily the shrines in their countries of origin and offer most translated work of its era. Its third sentence, pilgrims the same graces and indulgences. addressing God, contains Augustine’s best known One can make a pilgrimage to many of the statement: “You have made us for yourself, and our great Marian shrines of the world at the hearts will never be at rest until they rest in You.” Basilica of the National Shrine. Here are a few of the other things he wrote, a small The feature of the day will be a rosary harvest from his abundant riches: devotion and concelebrated Mass in the Basilica. A bus will leave from Saint Joseph Parish It does indeed make a difference where a man finds and return the same day. Please contact Pat his joy. Fakharzadeh of the Legion of Mary at [email protected] or You have ordered it, and so it is, that every at 201-599-2123 for more information. SEE NEXT disordered mind should be its own punishment. WEEK’S BULLETIN FOR THE REGISTRATION FORM. Men go forth to marvel at the mountain heights, at Pictured above are the Basilica (top), Our Lady of huge waves in the sea, at the broad expanse of Lourdes chapel (center left) and Our Lady of Guadaloupe flowing rivers, at the wide reaches of the ocean, and chapel (bottom right)—both in the Basilica . at the circuits of the stars, but themselves they pass by. If you’d like to receive our monthly parish I can find no safe place for my soul except in You. In email newsletter, simply send your email You may my scattered longings be gathered address to [email protected] together, and from You may no part of me ever depart. RETROUVAILLE — September 6-8 Man, by worshipping the works of his own hands, A LIFELINE FOR TROUBLED MARRIAGES may more easily cease to be man, than the works of Retrouvaille (a French word meaning his hands can, through his worship of them, become rediscovery) is a program that offers tools gods…. By craving to be more, man becomes less…. needed to rediscover a loving marriage Such is the depth of the Christian Scriptures that, relationship. It is designed for couples with even if I were attempting to study them, and nothing marital problems, including those who are considering else, from boyhood to decrepit old age, with the marriage separation or who are already separated or utmost leisure, the most unwearied zeal, and with divorced and want marriage help.