Church of the Precious Blood 72 Riverdale Avenue Monmouth Beach, New Jersey 07750 Parish Office Tel: 732- 222-4756 Parish Office Fax: 732-759-8212 Religious Education Office: 732-963-9982 E-Mail: [email protected] Website: www.churchofthepreciousblood.org Rev. Michael Sullivan, Pastor BAPTISMS Baptism is celebrated at a Saturday Evening, Sunday Mass or the second /fourth Rev Ben Amora, Parochial Vicar Rev Andres’ Serna, Parochial Vicar Sunday of the Month at 1:00PM..Parents must attend a Baptismal Preparation Session . It is Eileen Lang, Religious Ed. Director, Joe Moffitt, Director of Music Ministry, recommended that you attend the Session while expecting the baby. Please call the Parish Ed Ehret & Mary Eagan, Administrative Assistants Office to schedule your baptism prep class. John O’Connell, Sexton WEDDINGS Diocesan regulations require one year notice. Please contact the Parish Office Office Hours Mon-Friday 9am to 1pm, Sunday 8:30am-12noon before making reception arrangements. MINISTRY TO THE SICK If a parishioner is confined to the home and wishes to receive The MASS SCHEDULES Eucharist, please call the Parish Office. Kindly notify the Parish Office of hospitalizations. Saturday: 5:00 PM Vigil Mass Emergency calls at any time - 732-222-4756. Sunday: 7:30, 9:00,10:30 and 12:00 Noon RELIGIOUS EDUCATION CLASSES: Call Religious Education Office for schedule. (732-963- Daily Masses: 7:30 AM Saturdays: 9:00 AM 9982) Holy Day Masses: Vigil: 7:30 PM & 7:30 AM on Holy Day SPIRITUAL DIRECTION Marge Gryta 908-489-1168, Jim Moseman 908-675-7124 CONFESSIONS Saturday: following the 9:00am mass at 9:30AM Sister Parish: Our Lady of Perpetual Help, Laserre, Haiti Masses for the Week What’s Happening September 28th and 29th Saturday, September 28, 2019 Family Promise Sign Up 9:00am Anthony Salimbene Req by Joyce and John Collins Faith Sharing Sign up 5:00pm Dorothy Grill (Look for the Green cards) Req by Larry and Debbie Monday, September 30 Sunday, September 29, 2019 Rainbows Fall Session Begins 7:30am Herbert and Sophie Cieslikowski Parish Center, 6:45pm Req by The Family Tuesday, October 9:00am Community Mass Intentions 10:30am The People of The Church of the Tuesday, October 1st Precious Blood LGBTQ Ministry 12:00pm Community Mass Intentions Parish House, 7pm Friday, Oct 4th Monday, September 30, 2019 Eucharistic Adoration 7:30am Gary L. Palumbo 8:00am-12:00pm Req by Donna Lynn Palumbo Saturday, Sunday October 5th and 6th Tuesday, October 01, 2019 Helping Hearts Food Donation 7:30am Corinne Meyer Req by Madeline Badalaty Family Promise Sign Up (Precious Blood) Wednesday, October 02, 2019 7:30am Florence Ferrara Setta October 7th Req by her Nephew Andrew Rainbows Parish Center, 6:45pm Thursday, October 03, 2019 7:30am Stacey Gregerson Weathers Req by The Family Friday, October 04, 2019 7:30am The People of The Church of the Precious Blood Saturday, October 05, 2019 5:00pm Kathleen Tocci Req by The Family James Hughes Req by Anne Langan The Community of Precious Blood Church Welcomes with great Joy Our newly bapzed children! Roman Franco Perry Nicola Francis Liberatore Jefferson Basil Baccash Olivia Lois Dailey W’ H R M: 1st Sundays Weekend, Sep. 28 & 29 Scouts of America, 5p, Parish Center Family Promise Sign Up Faith Sharing Sign up 1st Tuesdays (Look for the Green LGBTQ Ministry, 7pm Parish House cards) 3rd Saturdays Tuesday, Oct 1 Men’s Group, 8a, Parish House All God’s Children (LGBTQ Ministry) 4th Saturdays 7pm, Parish Center Women’s Group, 8a, Francis Rm. Weekend, Oct. 5 & 6 Daily Helping Hearts AA, Parish Center, 7-8a Family Promise Sign UP Mondays Sunday, Oct 6 Choir Practice, Church, 7:30p Blessing of the Animals, follow 12pm +++++++++++++++++++++++++ Mass THERE WILL BE A Monday, Oct 7 BLESSING OF ALL Rainbows, 7p, Parish House ANIMALS ON SUNDAY, Tuesday, Oct 8 OCTOBER 6TH, Spirituality Comtee., 6p, Parish House (FOLLOWING THE 12:00 MASS) IN FRONT OF THE CHURCH Wednesday, Oct 9 Liturgy Comtee., 6p, Parish House ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Saturday, Oct 12 Parish Italian Night, P. Center, 6p Weekend, Oct 12 & 13 Grupo Manhattan at Masses Second Sunday Social, Parish House Weekend, Oct 19 & 20 Pre-Cana, Parish Center (Sat.) A big thank you to all the folks Drive for Food Pantry at Masses who helped to make the Mass Family Promise Week begins (Sun.) and picnic on the beach Red Bank CROP walk (Sun.) a GREAT event especially the grill masters… Steve Petrillo and John Ur. Please remember the opportunity to sponsor a child in our sister parish in Lasserre, Haiti. • SUNDAY OCTOBER 20, 2019 Sponsorship forms are found in the back of the Church. • REGISTRATION - 1:00 WALK START 2:00 What a difference you could make. • WALK - 5 miles, short walk & tired walker van available • FOOD COLLECTION – peanut butter, rice, beans & nutritious soup • MUSIC - live music by “the Wag Band” • SIX WATER STOPS with ice cream and ap- ples at the end. • ART CONTEST - banner & posters, more info on website Red Bank CROP Walk has been a part of the 50 year history of CROP Hunger Walks in the United States. We’re “Stepping up to End Hun- ger” Sunday October 20th. Participants of all ages from over a dozen area communities join us at the start line at Red Bank Regional High School to walk through Little Silver, Fair Haven, and Red Bank, to END HUNGER. Singers Wanted! Faith Sharing Sign Ups Do you like to sing? Has someone come to you This weekend we start after mass and said 'hey you should join the choir!'? Or do you not sing much at all but sign-ups for our Fall season still would like to see what its like to be in a of Faith sharing. choir? If you answered yes to any of these This is a wonderful opportunity questions you should join the choir at the Church of the Precious Blood. There is no to grow in faith perquisite ability required, just a desire to as well as meet with a group lend your voice in song for mass. We typically of likeminded parishioners. sing once every two weeks, and our rehearsals Groups meet at all times and days. are Monday nights from 7:30pm to 8:30pm. Please take a Green card and fill it out. Please see Joe after Circle the Day and Time mass for more info or which fits your schedule send him message and Drop it in the basket in the back of the church. at [email protected] Everyone is Welcome! Hope to see you there! Saint Thérèse of Lisieux (January 2, 1873 – Sep- tember 30, 1897) “I prefer the monotony of Many thanks for all the donations to the recent obscure sacrifice to all ec- Blessing Bag Brigade Collection. stasies. To pick up a pin for Our bin was overflowing! love can convert a soul.” Your generosity will give the homeless some These are the words of Thérèse of Lisieux, a basic life necessities Carmelite nun called the “Little Flower,” who we take for granted. lived a cloistered life of obscurity in the convent Your kindness is appreciated! of Lisieux, France. And her preference for hid- For more information check the den sacrifice did indeed convert souls. Few Blessing Bag Brigade NJ.page on Facebook. saints of God are more popular than this young nun. Her autobiography, The Story of a Soul, is read and loved throughout the world. Thérèse Martin entered the convent at the age of 15 and We are planning died in 1897 at the age of 24. a Pasta/Italian Night Life in a Carmelite convent is indeed uneventful on October 12, 2019 and consists mainly of prayer and hard domes- We are in need tic work. But Thérèse possessed that holy in- sight that redeems the time, however dull that of some volunteers to help make time may be. She saw in quiet suffering a re- the evening Happen! demptive suffering, suffering that was indeed We need volunteers her apostolate. Thérèse said she came to the to set up the tables, Carmel convent “to save souls and pray for to decorate, to serve priests.” And shortly before she died, she wrote: and to sell tickets… “I want to spend my heaven doing good on earth.” Thérèse was canonized in 1925. On Oc- tober 19, 1997, Pope John Paul II proclaimed Please call the Parish House her a Doctor of the Church, the third woman to to volunteer. be so recognized in light of her holiness and the influence of her teaching on spirituality in the Call 732-222-4756 Church. Thérèse has much to teach our age of the im- age, the appearance, the “self.” We have be- come a dangerously self-conscious people, Volunteers are Needed! painfully aware of the need to be fulfilled, yet knowing we are not. Thérèse, like so many Help support your parish saints, sought to serve others, to do something by being involved outside herself, to forget herself in quiet acts of We need: Eucharistic Ministers… love. She is one of the great examples of the Lectors… gospel paradox that we gain our life by losing it, Audio Visual people… and that the seed that falls to the ground must Hospitality Ministers… die in order to live. Laminate Your New Medicare Cards Thérèse managed to convert all the events of Have you received her life, great and small, into love–and only love a new medicare card? counts in the end. She had a Midas touch. Eve- Keep it looking like new no matter rything was a treasure given by God; in touch- how much you use it.