S AINT PETER ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH The Eucharistic Parish Merchantville, NJ 08109 Served By Rev. Timothy E. Byerley, Ph.D., Pastor Rev. Wilson K. Paulose Deacon Michael F. Scott Kathy O’Callaghan, School Principal Stephanie Vostenak, Coordinator of Religious Education A Program for Catholic Living MASS SCHEDULE Saturday Evening ....4:00pm Sunday ..............................7:30, 9:30, 11:30am and 7:00pm Weekdays ........................6:45 and 9:00am Saturdays ........................9:00am Holy Days ......................watch the bulletin for schedules Information Education Rectory: 43 West Maple Avenue ST. PETER SCHOOL Ph: 856-663-1373 Fax: 856-488-0647 To register your children, Religious Education: 43 W. Maple Ave. please call the principal Ph: 856-663-4490 at 856-665-5879. Web: www.saintpetermerchantville.com Religious Education: Rectory Office Hours: 856-663-4490. Monday through Thursday CCD for Kindergarten- 9:00am-12 Noon & 12:30pm-4:00pm Grade 4 is a family based Friday 9:00am-12 Noon & 12:30pm-3:00pm Adoration Chapel: See Website program on Sunday mornings 10:30am twice a School: 51 West Maple Avenue month. Grades 5-8 classes Ph: 856-665-5879 are weekly on Tuesday at Web: www.stpeterschool.org 5:30pm. O CTOBER 3, 2021 - T WENTY - SEVENTH S UNDAY IN O RDINARY T IME Sacraments SACRAMENT OF BAPTISM - Baptisms are celebrated every Sunday at 12:45pm. Parents are expected to attend a Pre-Jordan Baptism class. Please call the Rectory to register for a class so that we have adequate materials. Godparents and children are welcome to attend. SACRAMENT OF MARRIAGE - In order to accommodate our own Parishioners, only Parishioners of St. Peter (Bride or Groom) will be able to be married in St. Peter Church. Couples planning to marry at St. Peter are expected to contact the priest to arrange a date and time first. Second, they must attend the Pre-Cana Conferences as mandated by the Bishop. The period of preparation for marriage is a minimum of six months to ensure completion of all arrangements before the wedding date. For Pre-Cana reservations call 663-1373. Only Parish Musicians are permitted for Wedding Masses. NO EXCEPTIONS. SACRAMENT OF THE SICK - The priests may be called at any time day or night for the Sacrament of the Sick. Furthermore, the priests will be happy to visit the Sick with Holy Communion upon request. SACRAMENT OF RECONCILIATION - Tuesday 12 Noon-1:00pm; Saturday 2:30-3:30pm and 7:00-7:30pm FUNERALS - The proper form of Church burial for a baptized Catholic is the Mass of Christian Burial, not a service at a funeral home. Viewings in the Church are not permitted. Funeral Masses are scheduled at 10:00am. No eulogies in church, and only Parish Musicians are permitted for Funeral Masses, NO EXCEPTIONS. New Parishioners - ALL ARE W ELCOME - Please register with the parish... so we know who you are, so if you ever need a letter, etc., you’re on record, so you can be on our mailing list, and most importantly, so we can serve YOU! Twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time October 3, 2021 influenced your decision, and she does not doubt that in many cases it was a Abortion and Healing painful and even shattering decision. The wound in your heart may not yet have healed. Certainly what happened was and remains terribly wrong. But do not give in to discouragement and do not lose hope. Try rather to understand what happened and face it honestly. If you have not already done so, give yourselves over with humility and trust to repentance. The Father of mercies is ready to give you his forgiveness and his peace in the Sacrament of Reconciliation. You will come to understand that nothing is definitely lost and you will also be able to ask forgiveness from your child, who is now living in the Lord. With the friendly and expert help and advice of other people, and as a result of your As we observe another Pro-Life Sunday, we own painful experience, you can be recall that the Church has always been the great among the most eloquent defenders of defender of the right to life of the unborn child. She everyone’s right to life. Through your has courageously proclaimed that every human life commitment to life, whether by from conception to natural death is sacred, accepting the birth of other children or unrepeatable and inviolable. She reminds us that by welcoming and caring for those most every abortion results in the gravely immoral killing in need of someone to be close to them, of an innocent child. you will become promoters of a new At the same time, the Church has likewise way of looking at human life. proclaimed the mercy of Christ and the healing (Evangelium Vitae, no. 99, 1995) power of his forgiveness for aborted women. Some Jesus came to save sinners, not the self- believe that abortion is the “unforgivable sin”. Jesus righteous. We are reminded by Venerable Francis has made it known to us that there is no sin outside Xavier Nguyen Van Thuan that, “Every saint has a of the boundaries of Christ’s mercy. His Precious past and every sinner has a future”. Turn to the Lord Blood washes away every imaginable sin and heals in every trial of conscience, and find your healing in the soul, the mind, the heart, the memory. The him. emotions and every other faculty of the human person that has been damaged by sin. Jesus, have mercy on us and on the whole world! A recent expression of this truth was expressed by St. John Paul II. He declared, Fr. Tim Byerley I would now like to say a special Pastor word to women who have had an abortion. The Church is aware of the many factors which may have 2 TB = Fr. Tim Byerley ~ WP = Fr. Wilson Paulose ~ MS = Deacon Mike Scott Intentions: Requested by: *Mass Celebrant Monday, October 4 NO MORNING MASSES – 40 HOURS DEVOTION MORNING PRAYER AT 9:00 AM – ALL ARE WELCOME 7:00 PM Parishioners of St. Peter Parish TB Tuesday, October 5 NO MORNING MASSES – 40 HOURS DEVOTION MORNING PRAYER AT 9:00 AM – ALL ARE WELCOME 7:00 PM Parishioners of St. Peter Parish TB/WP Wednesday, October 6 6:45 AM Timothy Kiely Crystal Kwok WP 9:00 AM Ints. of James & Denise Johnston Evelyn Fiore WP Thursday, October 7 6:45 AM Ints. of Louis & Victoria DeRosa Peterson Family TB 9:00 AM Elizabeth Arroyo Angels of Mary WP Friday, October 8 6:45 AM Stephanie Tomko Wetterling Family WP 9:00 AM Ints. of Bill & Kathleen Segrest Fratto Family TB Saturday, October 9 9:00 AM Dorothy Joan Jamison The Ciarroccki Family WP 4:00 PM Johnny Stadtler David & Rosa Faust WP Sunday, October 10 7:30 AM Parishioners of St. Peter Parish TB 9:30 AM Margherita & Giorge DiMattia A Friend WP 11:30 AM Jozefa Laboga Stanislawa & Janusz Stefanski TB AM John Stadtler Pat & Debbie Moran TB AM Connie Burdock Leonard & Sally Burdock TB AM Marie Bivetta A Friend TB 7:00 PM Joan Woody Friends of Anthony WP Sanctuary Lamp in the Church Parish Weekly Offerings First Collection for the weekend of, September 25 – September 26 was $10,093.96. The Sanctuary Lamp will burn in Memory of Second Collection was $2,679.32. Walter & Judith Wasyluk For a total of $12,773.28. the week of October 3 – October 9 requested by Thank you for building up God’s Kingdom in our Parish! Richard & Diane Iardella. Sanctuary Lamp in the Chapel The Sanctuary Lamp will burn in Memory of Father’s Quick Quote: “Jesus, source of my life, Francesca Antinori sanctify me. O my strength, fortify me. My the week of October 3 – October 9 commander, fight for me.” St. Faustina requested by A Friend. 3 Forty Hours Schedule SUNDAY, OCTOBER 3, 2021 Exposition after the 11:30 am Mass with brief communal prayers, then exposition until just before the 7:00 pm Mass \[ \[ \[ \[ \[ MONDAY, OCTOBER 4, 2021 NO MORNING MASSES 9:00 am – Morning Prayer & Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament until 6:45pm Mass of Investiture of Altar Servers 7:00 pm \[ \[ \[ \[ \[ TUESDAY, OCTOBER 5, 2021 NO MORNING MASSES 9:00 am – Morning Prayer & Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament until 6:45pm Confessions at Noon Closing Mass with Procession of the Most Blessed Sacrament 7:00 pm THE CHAPEL WILL BE CLOSED ALTAR SERVER TRAINING FROM OCTOBER 11 & 14 AT 3:00 PM MONDAY, OCTOBER 4 UNTIL ALL NEW SERVERS ARE EXPECTED AFTER THE 6:45 AM MASS TO ATTEND WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 6 FYI We currently have several weekend and weekday Masses (6:45 AM and 9:00 AM) available throughout the remainder of the year. Please come to the Rectory to request a Mass for your intentions or for the repose of the souls of friends and family. Rectory Hours are: 9 am – Noon and 12:30 pm – 4:00 pm Monday through Thursday and Friday 9 am Noon and 12:30 pm – 3:00 pm 4 502 Parish Sick List Please pray for: Steve Bagocius, Helen Bennett, Theresa Berrios, Joseph Blahut, Joseph Bonifacio, Ginny Irwin-Boyles, Mary Anne Brogan, Barbara Brownholtz, Bernadette Burke, Craig Campbell, Joelle Chattin, Anthony Ciarroccki, Ed Cigich, Joseph DelRossi, Dr. Luis Baez- Diaz, David DiMenna, Men’s Spirituality Conference Peter Esposito, Rose Marie Finnegan, Vijay Gambhi, “Christian Manhood Through Faith and Family” Diana Gonzalez, Matthew Herb, Bob Jamison, Ellen Jamison, Thaddeus Kanigowski, Emma King, November 13, 2021 Joseph Lesniak, Jose Marrero, Savannah McHughes, Register Today Michael McNeil, Gladys Meade, Jacob Mika, manupsouthjersey.com Matthew Moran, Eileen O’Brien, Marilyn Ott, Enter Promo Code PB10 to Receive a $10.00 Amelia Paternoster, Frank Pedano, Patricia Pellegrino, Discount John Phillips, Bob Piekarski, Leona Pewor, This year’s theme is “Christian Manhood Through James Poulson, Rafael Rubino, Elsie Schatzle, Faith and Family,” a reminder that it is through Steve Schatzle, Anna Marie Schickling, Fred Schwartz, James Shue, Bob Sierra, Rose Smyth, Mark Stevens, our faith and family that we become the men God Carole Szcykalski, Joe Teti, Joseph Vena, IV, created us to be.