Saint Joseph. Roman Catholic Church. Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

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1 Saint Joseph INSIDE: Check out page 4 for some important information! Roman Catholic Church Oradell/New Milford, NJ Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time August 2, 2015 PASTOR: Msgr. David C. Hubba PAROCHIAL VICARS: Rev. Andrew Park Rev. Roy Regaspi DEACON: George Montalvo PASTOR EMERITUS: Rev. George M. Reilly MASS SCHEDULE WEEKEND Saturday 5:00 pm Sunday 7:30 am, 9:00 am, 10:30 am, 12:00 pm DAILY Weekdays & Saturday HOLY DAYS as announced Miraculous Medal Novena Monday, 7:00 pm in Mary s Chapel Eucharistic Adoration First Wednesday of Month 9 am 5 pm in Mary s Chapel Dear brothers and sisters, the Church loves you! Be an active presence in the community, as living cells, as living stones. Pope Francis SACRAMENTS Confession: Saturday, 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm Baptism Contact the Parish Office. Marriage Arrangements should be made with a priest at least one year in advance. Sick/Homebound/Hospital Call the Parish Office. Christian Initiation of Adults RCIA Contact the Parish Office. See page 4 of this bulletin. PARISH REGISTRATION Contact the Parish Office. Office Location Phone /Fax Website Parish Office 105 Harrison St., New Milford office@sjcnj.org sjcnj.org Fax #: Religious Education 105 Harrison St., New Milford religioused@sjcnj.org sjcnjre.org Saint Joseph School 305 Elm St., Oradell office@sjsusa.org sjsusa.org the greenhouse-prek 305 Elm St., Oradell vailc@greenhouseusa.org greenhouseusa.org Summer Office Hours: Parish: Mon.-Thurs.9 am-5 pm, Fri. 9 am-2 pm; Rel. Ed.: Mon Thurs.: 9:30 am 5 pm (Also by appointment.)

2 Saturday 5:00 pm Sunday 7:30 am 9:00 am am UC 12:00 pm Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 5:00 pm Sunday 7:30 am 9:00 am am 12:00 pm August 1, 2015 Nancy Degand August 2, 2015 People of the Parish Anne & Wesley Leckie Octavio & Crispina Acero Violet Guion August 3, 2015 James Morin Eileen Oxton Saunders August 4, 2015 Agnes Estacio Lloyd DeNicolo August 5, 2015 Elma Cabanayan Mary Potter August 6, 2015 Mary Carty Rose Marie Cecchi August 7, 2015 Escolastico Planillo Angela Micciche August 8, 2015 Carmen Ferreiras George M. Fabiano August 9, 2015 People of the Parish Dolores DeFelice Jo-Ann Verrier Timmy Curtin BREAD AND WINE INTENTIONS The bread for the week of August 2, 2015 is offered in loving memory of Joaquina Guzman as requested by the Becker Family. The wine for the week of August 2, 2015 is offered for the honor and glory of God. SAINT JOSEPH CHURCH ORADELL/NEW MILFORD, NJ 2 PRAYER REQUESTS Let us remember those who are ill: Mary Castagna Let us remember those who have recently died: Roberto Lacuesta, Bruce Grasing, Matthew Celestine, Christian Celestine, Nick Calalang Let us remember those serving in the military. Sunday Collection for Week of July 26, 2015 BASKET PARISHPAY TOTAL $6,632 $5,078 $11,710 Please remember to drop off or send in your weekly donation envelope. Saint Joseph Parish relies on parishioners weekly contributions to meet our operating expenses. Thank you for being a good steward of our parish. STEWARDSHIP REFLECTION Each day the people are to go out and gather their daily portion; thus will I test them, to see whether they follow my instructions or not. EXODUS 16:4 When the Israelites gathered more than their daily portion of manna, the surplus became wormy and rotten. In the same way today, God calls us to be content with a fair portion and to be willing to share the rest. WEEKEND ROSARY The Rosary is prayed in the Blessed Sacrament Room of Mary s Chapel after each of our Sunday Masses (at, 10:00 am and 11:35 am) and before our Saturday evening Mass at 4:30 pm. All are welcome to join us in prayer. EUCHARISTIC ADORATION AUGUST 5 Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament will be held on Wednesday, August 5 in Mary s Chapel from 9:00 am 5:00 pm. The Legion of Mary invites you to attend. Saint Joseph Parish Staff Mr. Brendan Walsh/Mrs. Carol Winkler.Parish Trustees Deacon George Montalvo... Dir. of Religious Education Mrs. Arlene Kennedy. Sacraments Coordinator Mr. Monroe Quinn... Director of Music Mr. Tom Meli.. Facilities Director Mrs. Phyllis Vrola. Business Manager Mrs. Anne Annunziato.. Parish Secretary Mrs. Colette Vail Principal of Saint Joseph School Mrs. Angela Gussoni... Vice Principal Mrs. Diane Hellriegel.. Dir. of Communications/ Bulletin Editor

3 EIGHTEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME ~ AUGUST 2, 2015 FROM THE PASTOR S DESK Skylight Paths Publishing of Woodstock, Vermont, has four very enjoyable anthologies on the seasons of the year. Summer: A Spiritual Biography of the Season has an extract from G.K. Chesterton s Tremendous Trifles, in which Chesterton describes what he did one day when he was vacationing in Sussex, England: Lacking a piece of white chalk for such a task was enough to make Chesterton despair, as he thought of the impossibility of drawing pictures about virtue without the necessary symbolism it alone could provide. [W]ithout white, he thought, my absurd little pictures would be as pointless as the world would be if there were no good people in it. I remember one splendid morning, all blue and silver, in the summer holidays when I reluctantly tore myself away from the task of doing nothing in particular, and put on a hat of some sort and picked up a walking-stick, and put six very bright-coloured chalks in my pocket. Then I suddenly stood up and roared with laughter, again and again, so that the cows stared at me and called a committee. Imagine a man in the Sahara regretting that he had no sand for his hour-glass. Imagine a gentleman in mid-ocean wishing he had brought some salt water with him for his chemical experiments. I was sitting on an immense warehouse of white chalk. White chalk was piled more miles until it met the sky. I stooped and broke off the rock I sat on: it did not mark so well as the shop chalks do; but it gave the effect. After that, he approached the woman who owned the house where he was staying and asked her if she could give him some brown paper, which he wanted not for wrapping a package, as she assumed, but for drawing action scenes about good and evil, which he intended to do on the country walk he was about to take. Passing through the great downs of southern England, he paused at a favorable place and took out his chalks, only to realize that he had neglected to bring a white one, something that bothered him considerably because The next time you see a picture of the white cliffs of Dover, perhaps you will think of Chesterton, who was surrounded all along by everything he needed to accomplish his task that summer day of almost a century ago. All of us are in similar situations every day. And so it is good to know, as St. Paul wrote in Romans 8, 3, that With God on our side, who can be against us? the chief assertion of religious morality is that white is a colour. Virtue is not the absence of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate thing, like pain or a particular smell. Mercy means a plain and positive thing like the sun, which one has either seen or not seen. Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc. In a word, God paints in many colours; but He never paints so gorgeously as when He paints in white. (continued above) Msgr. David Hubba MASS FOR THE SOLEMNITY OF THE ASSUMPTION OF MARY THE TRANSFIGURATION OF THE LORD Thursday, August 6, 2015 Though not a holy day of obligation in 2015 because it falls on a Saturday, the Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary is the most important of all the Marian feasts as it commemorates the death of Mary and her bodily assumption into Heaven, before her body could begin to decay--a foretaste of our own bodily resurrection at the end of time. As they were coming down from the mountain, he charged them not to relate what they had seen to anyone, except when the Son of Man had risen from the dead. So they kept the matter to themselves, questioning what rising from the dead meant. Mk 9:9-10 Mass at Saint Joseph for the feast day will be on Saturday, August 15 at. 3

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5 EIGHTEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME ~ AUGUST 2, 2015 MEN S CORNERSTONE MEETING AUGUST 13 SACRAMENT OF MARRIAGE The next meeting of Men s Cornerstone will be on Thursday, August 13 at 8:00 pm in the Parish Life Center (on Grove Street behind the lower school). We hope to see you there! July 25, 2015 CATECHISTS NEEDED A catechist is faith, hope and love attached to arms and legs, aches and pains, family duties, and not enough time. A catechist is an ordinary person who is extraordinary because he or she teaches as Jesus did. A catechist is faithful to the past, open to the future, and is especially dedicated to deepening the faith of the present. Ruth Rivera & Jeffrey Shau from A Catechist Is by Msgr. John Francis Murphy Catechists are needed (starting September 20) on Sundays for Kindergarten and Grades 1, 4 and 5; on Tuesdays for Kindergarten, and Grades 1, 3, 4, 5; and on Wednesdays for Grade 7 at 4:45 pm and also at 6:30 pm. A tuition discount is available to anyone serving as a catechist who also has a child in the Religious Education program. ENROLL YOUR CHILD IN A BLUE RIBBON SCHOOL WITH STRONG CATHOLIC VALUES Please call Deacon George or Mrs. Kennedy at if you would like to learn more. Saint Joseph School accepts students from 3 years old to Grade 8. Registration for September is now taking place. Call to arrange a visit. See our bulletin in FULL COLOR at: sjcnj.org SACRAMENT OF July, 19, 2015 Isaac Michael Joymon Child of Jess & Christina Baby Isaac is shown with his parents and his brother Xavier, his uncle Christopher John, and his grandparents Thomas and Annamma John. Celebrating the Sacrament were Bishop Joy Alapatt (center), Auxiliary Bishop of the St. Thomas Syro Malabar Catholic Eparchy of Chicago, Rev. Dr. Jacob Vadakkekara, Rev. Fr. Roy Regaspi, Rev. Fr. Jacob Christy, Rev. Dr. Jacob Kattackal. 5

6 SAINT JOSEPH PARISH GOES TO W.M.O.F. GOING TO RUTGERS IN NEW BRUNSWICK? The Catholic Center at Rutgers, located at 84 Somerset Street on the College Avenue Campus, is looking forward to welcoming you to the New Brunswick/Piscataway campuses. SAINT JOSEPH CHURCH ORADELL/NEW MILFORD, NJ From September 22-27, Philadelphia will host the World Meeting of Families 2015 which is expected to draw an international audience, with Pope Francis attending! The event will take place at the Philadelphia Convention Center. If you would like to join the group led by Fr. Roy, please call Canterbury Pilgrimages & Tours, Inc. at for pricing and availability. SUNDAY MASS SCHEDULE: 12 noon at Busch Student Center, Room 120ABC 6 pm at Cook Campus Center, Room 202 ABC 6 pm at Livingston Student Center, Room 202ABC 8 pm at St. Peter s Church, 94 Somerset St. (CAC) DAILY MASSES (Mon.-Fri.): 12:15 pm at the Catholic Center Chapel (located inside the Catholic Ctr.) OPENING ACTIVITIES: Thurs., Sept. 3: Pizza on the plaza, 5 pm, Livingston Fri., Sept. 4: Porch Social, 7 pm, the Catholic Ctr. Sat., Sept. 5: Tailgate, Norfolk State at RU, 10 am (2 hrs. prior to game time) in Stadium Lot Mon., Sept. 7: Luau, 6 pm at the Catholic Center Tues., Sept. 8: First Spirit Nite, 8 pm, Busch (Topic: Surviving at Rutgers. We can give you tips on how to not only survive, but thrive, at Rutgers!) Fri., Sept. 11 at dusk: Googa Mooga a great game played outside in the dark. Check us out at the Involvement Fair on Sept. 7! Visit us online at www. catholic-center.rutgers.edu 6 ALZHEIMER S SUPPORT AUGUST 4 and 26 The Alzheimer s Association will be offering two local education programs for caregivers who have a loved one with Alzheimer s disease or a related dementia. Coping with Caregiver Stress will be offered at CareOne, 90 W. Ridgewood Avenue in Paramus, on Tuesday, August 4 from 3:30-4:30 pm. Effective Communication Strategies will be offered at Oradell Health Care Center, 600 Kinderkamack Road, Oradell, on Wednesday, August 26 from 6:00-7:00 pm. These programs are free and open to the public, but registration is required. Families may call the 24/7 Help Line at or go to alz.org/nj and click on the Community Education Calendar link to reserve a space. USE THESE CAREFREE DAYS TO SHOW YOU CARE Summertime and the living is easy but not free from the responsibility as followers of Christ to help those in need. The hot, leisurely days of summer provide an excellent opportunity to get caught up on some of those tasks which we postponed during the demanding days of winter. Would you be willing to go through your closets to get rid of all those unwanted heavy winter clothes and shoes that served you so well last winter? Please donate any unwanted clothing to the Catholic Charities bin located in the parking lot of our rectory/parish office on Harrison Street. Thank you for helping Catholic Charities continue its mission. Visit us on our websites CHURCH: sjcnj.org SCHOOL: sjsusa.org RELIGIOUS ED: sjcnjre.org DRESSING FOR MASS IN THE SUMMER Times may have changed since the photo opposite was taken, but your recognition of the dignity and importance of the Eucharist when dressing for Mass and your respect for the sensibilities of others is still greatly appreciated. Very brief clothing that is appropriate for the beach is not appropriate for church and since the air conditioning will be on, it s not necessary either!

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