The Parish Family of St. Catharine and St. Margaret Spring Lake, New Jersey Rev. Msgr. Harold F. Cullen, Pastor Mass Schedule St. Catharine Church 215 Essex Ave, Spring Lake, NJ 07762 Saturday: 5 PM Sunday: 7 AM, 9 AM, 10:30 AM Monday- Saturday (except Wednesday): 8 AM St. Catharine Chapel Sunday: 12 Noon Wednesday: 8 AM & 12 Noon Monday - Friday 12 Noon Parish Directory St. Margaret Church 300 Ludlow Ave. Spring Lake, NJ 07762 Rev. Msgr. Harold F. Cullen PhD, Pastor Saturday: 4.00PM Rev. William Dunlap, Associate Pastor Sunday: 8:30 AM, 10 AM, 11:30 AM Rev. Charles Weiser, Senior Priest Rev Martin Padovani, Weekend Assistant Sacrament of Reconciliation Rev William Dowd, Weekend Assistant St. Catharine Chapel, Saturday 3:30– 4:30PM St. Margaret Church, Saturday 3:00 – 3:45 PM Edward Jennings, Deacon Dr. John Little, Deacon Rich Baier, Buildings Richard Cambron, special projects Tammy Sablom, Religious Education Ed Stevens, Director of Cemeteries Sister Margaret Tierney, SC Pastoral Care dr. jarred tafaro, director of music Lisa defillippo cole, business manager NEW PARISHIONERS: Welcome! We encourage all new families who move into St. Catharine - St. Margaret Parish to call the rectory to register in the parish. Twenty-Sixth Sunday in ordinary time September 30, 2018 www.stcatharine-stmargaret.org [email protected] 732-449-5765 come face to face with the church in the person of women Dear Parishioners: and men who are content to spend their lives trying to make a difference in places where no reporter or The ongoing revelations about abuse and scandal in the photographer ever ventures to see. church has added to the urgency that some Catholics feel It is encouraging to see that in the person of Pope Francis, in relation the role of women in the church. the “official” church is taking inspiration from this side of I heard a joke, that some might find objectionable, but the church – from the men and women whose anyhow – A pious soul goes to heaven and comes fact to magnificence comes not from their vestments and their face with the mother of God. ‘Why’, he asks with all her authority but from their humility and their selflessness. blessings, she so often appears in paintings as a bit sad That surely must make the Mother of God smile. and wistful; ‘Is everything OK?’ ‘Well,’ she answers;, ‘everything is great. It’s just that …well, actually, we Msgr. Cullen had always wanted a daughter”. I heard the joke from a woman who believed that women Mission of Mercy should have a more official, decision making role in the Next weekend, October 6th/7th there will church. She made the case that in the early church, in the be a second collection to support our first century especially, women played a much different Mission of Mercy in Uganda. Green role in the church than today. In fact, Pope Francis has envelopes will be provided in the pews and been reminding us in recent times that Jesus himself in the back of the church for these contributions. Checks focused more on ordinary men and women and on the should be made payable to St. Catharine - St. Margaret Parish with Uganda on the memo line. Envelopes can needy and the poor rather than dogma, and went out of his be placed in the second collection basket or mailed to way to engage women and treat them with great respect. the Convent at 211 Essex Ave., Spring Lake, NJ 07762 St Paul in Romans 16 refers to a woman called Junia as or Rectory at 215 Essex Ave., Spring Lake, NJ 07762). prominent among the apostles, and to a woman called Sister Faida, Midwife and Supervisor of the Alanyi Health Phoebe who served as a deacon in the church. Clinic, will thank parishioners for their generous donations providing quality education and health care to As I read Pope Francis’ description of the church that he the people of Uganda. would like to see, I am reminded, as I mentioned last This year Mission of Mercy will strive to: week, that there are actually two – sometimes distinct 1) complete the building of the new church, St. Thomas churches. One is the rigid, all male church of the Vatican More, in the bush area near the Alanyi Clinic. hierarchy that often seems out of touch and obsessed with 2) provide solar for the Woman’s Ward and Theatre. dogma and rules and regulations, and before Pope Francis 3) begin the construction of a 7th grade boys dormitory at came along, out of touch with issues of social justice. And St. Kizito School in the forest of Lwetunga then there is the grass roots church that is often ignored by 4) continue to sponsor 150 orphaned/needy children the media and gets little credit for the difference that it 5) have more children sponsored. makes in the world. This is the church of the sisters and Rachelle Maget and Tesa Carlson are the Coordinators of priests and laity who toil on the front line educating, Orphan/Needy project and applications will be provided supporting, healing and advocating for the common person in the back of the church for anyone interested in and for the forgotten and the destitute in the inner cities becoming a sponsor for $350. a year. Sponsors receive a and in the depths of Africa and Central America. picture of the child and a yearly thank you and updates. If you are already a sponsor, renewal forms will be sent to I know, for me, when I read about the scandals in the you throughout the year. church that always make the headlines, I remember that Thank you for your continued support. May God Catholic church. The sick and the wounded, the lepers continue to bless you for your generosity. and the forgotten AIDS orphans in Swaziland or India or Sister Carole MacKenthun, RSM the slum dwellers in San Paolo or Calcutta, may never in Director Mission of Mercy. their lives see a cardinal or a bishop, but every day they 2 513 St. Catharine—St. Margaret Parish Family Please remember our sick: Gail Patrignelli, Florence Maclearie, Erin Tyler, Patricia Skrapits, Bob Patrignelli, Nick Costantini, Ronald Thomas, Fr. Dennis Gallagher, Helen Reh, Charles Williams, Msgr. James ST. CATHARINE CHURCH J. Finnerty, Susan Ferraro, Brendan McWeeney, MONDAY, October 1 Marlene Reisner, John Colucci, Patricia Fedorko, Kurt 8:00 AM Msgr. James A. Harding Alberts** 12:00 PM (Chapel) Nicholas E. LoVarco Please pray for our deceased: Betty Geiger, TUESDAY, October 2 8:00 AM Eugene Lavin Patricia Flaherty, Laura Jordan, Anne Nitto, Dorothy 12:00 PM (Chapel) In Mem. of M/M Zorrilla Lord, Rev. Jeremiah McGinley, Robert Redling, Rosemarie Marchitto** WEDNESDAY, October 3 8:00 AM (Chapel) Patricia E. Shea Names remain on the sick and deceased at the request of Thomas & Elinor Reynolds parishioners for 4 weeks. If extended prayers are needed, Joseph Bich Nguyen please send a note or call. Thank you. Erlinda Kahano Berry John Mulvihill SI of Fr. Harold Cullen PASTORAL CARE 12:00 PM (Chapel) Lonny Rhoades 732-449-5765 If you are going into the hospital, our THURSDAY, October 4 priests will be happy to anoint you by 8:00 AM William J. Bula appointment before admittance. If you 12:00 PM (Chapel) Linus “Lonnie” Rhoades are IN the hospital, please call us to let us know so we can visit you, since hospitals no longer list patients’ parishes. If you wish someone to visit you or your loved one in your FRIDAY, October 5 home or assisted living, please notify me directly, Sr. 8:00 AM Edith King Margaret Tierney, 732-449-5765, ext. 124. Alfred C. & Marjorie B. Casagrande Blood Pressure Screenings on the 2nd Tuesday of Frank J. Lasch each month, 12:30pm - 1:30pm, in the Convent. Kenneth Jelliff Bereavement Ministry...Three of our parishes, Roseanne Somlock Church of the Ascension, Bradley Beach, St. Catharine Dr. Richard K. Grover Church, Spring Lake and St. Mark's, Sea Girt, have 12:00 PM (Chapel) Dec’d Mbrs. of Larkin & Bereavement Support Groups. If you have experienced the O’Regan Fams loss of a loved one and are interested in healing through the support of a group, please contact one of these groups: SATURDAY, October 6 8:00 AM Carmelite Intention Please call Deacon John or Karen Kopcak at the rectory, 732-774-0456 for more information. 5:00 PM Robert Machorek St. Catharine Church meet on Thursdays 1:30 p.m. in the SUNDAY, October 7 Convent. Please call Sr. Margaret Tierney, 732-449-5765 7:00 AM People of the Parish ext. 124 to register or for more information. 9:00 AM Parish Memorial Mass Society St. Mark's Church meet on Wednesdays at 11:00 a.m. in St. 10:30 AM Irene & John Saxon Mark's Rectory. Please call Sue Nolan 718-637-1162 or 12:00 PM (Chapel) Rose & James Coppinger Peg Kraus 732-280-8752 for more information. ST. MARGARET CHURCH Members of our Parish who have family or SATURDAY, October 6 friends in the service have given us their 4:00 PM Peggy Murphy names which can be found in our Remembrance books in both churches in SUNDAY, October 7 front of one of the side altars. We 8:30 AM Rev. Msgr. Kevin Hanbury, encourage you to stop there, say a prayer 6th Annv. for those listed and for all our service people. To add a 10:00 AM Thomas J. & Rose Degnan name to our prayer list, please call Barbara 732-449-5392 or 11:30 AM Mary Tess Georgoudes Karen 732-685-7065 or parishcouncil@stcatharine- stmargaret.org.