Saint Joseph ROMAN CATHOLIC Church 973-383-1985 Schedule of Masses Weekdays Monday and Tuesday at 8:00am Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday at 12:05pm Saturday (Vigil) at 5:00pm Sundays 8:00am, 9:30am 11:30am and 6:00pm (All are in church) Misa en Espanol todos los Domingos a las 2:30pm Sacrament of Reconciliation Saturday 4:00pm-4:30pm Sacraments of Baptism, Marriage & Personal Appointments Please call the Parish Center February 21, 2016 Our Parish Family is Served By Weekly Mass Intentions Father ST Sutton, Administrator Saturday 2/20 5:00pm Luis Carlos Alfaro 973-383-1985 - [email protected] Father Edward Davey, Pastor Emeritus Sunday 8:00am Theresa Bocchino st Nicholas Marino Deacon Gerald Hanifan February 21 Deacon Alfred Kucinski 9:30am Vito Peragino Second Sunday Deacon Thomas Zayac Robert M. Skevin of Lent Deborah Henegan, Director of Faith Formation (Elementary) 11:30am Maud Goettisheim 973-383-8413 - [email protected] Joseph Plevyak Sarah Samanns, - Director of Faith Formation (High School) 6:00pm John Luczun 973-940-0223 - [email protected] Monday 2/22 8:00am Patriarch Ignatius Hayek Kelly Dachisen, Director of Music Ministry [email protected] Tuesday 2/23 8:00am Gandolfo Schimmenti Intentions of Anna Fee Anne Lundgren, Office Manager 973-383-1985 - [email protected] Wednesday 2/24 12:05pm Rose Olivetti Karen Glowatski, Office Assistant Thursday 2/25 12:05pm Father Robert Wolfe, OCarm 973-383-1985 - [email protected] Friday 2/26 12:05pm Francis Alonso Saturday 2/27 5:00pm Amelia Reskovac TRUSTEES OF THE PARISH Luis Carlos Alfaro Dorothy Bosi, George Hayek, Sunday 8:00am Richard K. Bayles th Gerard Woodring. February 28 9:30am Kittie Clyde Brandenburger Third Sunday of Lent Ruth Frankovsky Saint Joseph Regional School 11:30am 20 Jefferson Street - 973-383-2909 Marjorie Mills Francis & Stella Covel Mrs. Patricia A. Klebez, Principal 6:00pm Deacon Victor Puzio WEEKLY REMEMBRANCE “Oremus pro invicem” The Sanctuary Lamp which burns near the LET US REMEMBER IN OUR PRAYERS, THE tabernacle in church is the reminder of our FOLLOWING MEMBERS OF OUR PARISH FAMILY Lord’s presence in the Most Holy Eucharist, will burn in loving memory of: Susan Allanson, Jennifer DiNardo, Pat Fitzpatrick, Ed Huff, Jessica Kirby, Kerri Knight, Greg Orvetz, Michael Palumbo, Michael Ryan, Rosemary Woodring, James Nicholas Costello Cale & Lane Yetter and Ritz Zimich. May he now be resting in the peace of the heavenly kingdom! PARISH WEEKEND DONATIONS The hosts and wine, which will become the Holy Body th and Precious Blood of our Lord, was given in loving Weekend of February 13-14 memory of: Collection $6,159 Diocesan Assessment $1,087 Total Collection: $7,246 Nicholas Marino Attendance: 663 May he also be resting in the joy of God’s presence! Ash Wednesday $1,540 Thank you for your continued generosity! Second Sunday of Lent- February 21, 2016 This week’s events WORKS OF MERCY SEMINARS Monday, February 22 Saturdays from 10:30-11:30am until March 5th 4:05-5:20pm Faith Formation (School & Parish Center) Father Michael Davitti, S.X. 6:50-8:05pm Faith Formation (School ) will be offering seminars in the church 5:00pm Basketball (Community Center) on the Spiritual and Corporal Works of Mercy. 7-8:30pm Confessions (Church) This is a great way to participate in the Year of Mercy Tuesday, February 23 recommended by our Holy Father Pope Francis. 4:05-5:20pm Faith Formation (School ) 5:00pm Basketball (Community Center) Wednesday, February 24 “All Are Welcome!” 5:00pm Basketball (Community Center) 7:00pm R.C.I.A. (Parish Center) Thursday, February 25 1:00-2:00pm Legion of Mary (Parish Center) 5:00pm Basketball (Community Center) 7:00pm Finance Committee (Parish Center) 7:30pm Choir Practice (Church) Friday, February 26 5:00pm Basketball (Community Center) 7:30pm Stations of the Cross (Church) Saturday, February 27 8:00am-2:00pm Basketball (Community Center) CHURCH IN CENTRAL & 10:30am Year of Mercy Presentation (Church) Sunday, February 28 EASTERN EUROPE 10:30 Confirmation Class (School and Parish Center) Next week, we will take up the Collection for the Church in Central and Eastern Europe. This collection supports Catholic organizations that provide affordable shelter and training for seminarians in a region that still struggles from the effects of Soviet rule. By providing pastoral care, catechesis, and funding for building renovations, your Weekend readings donation helps restore the Church and build the future in the region. Please give generously to the collection next February 28, 2016 week. Visit www.usccb.org/ccee. Exodus 3:1-8, 13-15 1 Corinthians 10:1-6, 10-12 Saint Luke 13:1-9 Saint Joseph school Alumni LENT Please join the Saint Joseph Regional School family in honoring all alumni, while helping to support the current students and staff up through the school’s pending transition and merger of the Catholic elementary schools in Sussex County. SACRAMENT OF Please join us as we celebrate 60 years of the RECONCILIATION loving and faithful educational community that Monday evenings during Lent has defined Saint Joseph. A Country-Western from 7:00 to 8:30 pm Casino Night will be held at the school on Every Saturday from 4:00 to 4:30 pm (No confessions on Monday evening March 21st) Saturday, April 9, 2016 beginning at 6:00pm. All proceeds from the event will support Catholic education right here at Saint STATIONS OF THE CROSS Joseph School in Newton, Sussex County. Each Friday evening during Lent at 7:30pm For more information, please contact (until March 18th) the school at 973-383-2909. The holy Season of Lent! Lent (Latin: Quadragesima - English: Fortieth) is a Orthodox Christianity including Western Rite solemn religious observance in the liturgical calendar Orthodoxy, which prepares Christians for the greatest of many Christian denominations that begins on Ash feast of the church year, Pascha (Easter). Wednesday and covers a period of approximately six weeks before Easter Sunday. In many ways Great Lent is similar to Lent in Western Christianity. There are some differences in the timing The traditional purpose of Lent is the preparation of of Lent (besides calculating the date of Easter) and the believer through prayer, penance, repentance of how it is practiced, both liturgically in the public sins, almsgiving, atonement and self-denial. worship of the church and individually. This event, along with its pious customs, is observed by Christians in the Anglican, Calvinist, Lutheran, The English word Lent is a shortened form of the Methodist, Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Old English word len(c)ten, meaning "spring", as its traditions. Today, some Anabaptist and evangelical Dutch language cognate lente (Old Dutch lentin) still churches also observe the Lenten season. does today. A dated term in German, Lenz (Old High German lenzo), is also related. According to the Its institutional purpose is heightened in the annual Oxford English Dictionary, 'the shorter form commemoration of Holy Week, marking the death, (? Old Germanic type *laŋgito- , *laŋgiton-) seems to burial and resurrection of Jesus, which recalls the be a derivative of *laŋgo- long ... and may possibly tradition and events of the New Testament beginning have reference to the lengthening of the days as on Friday of Sorrows, further climaxing on Jesus' characterizing the season of spring'. The origin of crucifixion on Good Friday, which ultimately the -en element is less clear: it might simply be a culminates in the joyful celebration on Easter Sunday suffix, or lencten might originally have been a of the Resurrection of Jesus Christ. compound of *laŋgo- 'long' and an otherwise little attested word *-tino, meaning 'day'. During Lent, many Christians commit to fasting or giving up certain types of luxuries as a form of In languages spoken where Christianity was earlier penitence. Many Christians also add a Lenten spiritual established, Greek and Latin, the term used refers to its discipline, such as reading a daily devotional, to draw dating from the fortieth day before Easter. In modern themselves near to God. The Stations of the Cross, Greek the term is Σαρακοστή, derived from earlier a devotional commemoration of Christ's carrying the Τεσσαρακοστή, meaning "fortieth". The corresponding Cross and of his execution, are often observed. Many word in Latin quadragesima ("fortieth") is the origin of Roman Catholic and some Protestant churches remove the term used in Latin-derived languages and in some flowers from their altars, while crucifixes, religious others: for example, Spanish cuaresma, Portuguese statues, and other elaborate religious symbols are often quaresma, French carême, Italian quaresima, veiled in violet fabrics in solemn observance of the Romanian păresimi, Croatian korizma, Irish Carghas, event. Throughout Christendom, some adherents mark and Welsh C(a)rawys. the season with the traditional abstention from the consumption of meat, most notably among Roman In other languages the name used refers to the activity Catholics. associated with the season. Thus it is called "fasting period" in German (Fastenzeit), Norwegian (fasten/ Lent is traditionally described as lasting for forty days, fastetid), and Czech (postní doba); and it is called in commemoration of the forty days which, according "great fast" in Russian (великий пост – vyeliki post) to the Gospels of Matthew, Mark and Luke, Jesus and Polish (wielki post). spent, before beginning his public ministry, fasting in the desert, after which he endured temptation by the The terms used in Filipino