Second Sunday in Ordinary Time January 14, 2018 Pastoral Staff Pastor Father Vincent T. Euk Parochial Vicar Fr. John Chang Weekend Assistant Fr. Bill O Brien Deacons Tom Cechulski, Sr. Charles R. Daye, Jr. John Franey Gino (Louis) Esposito School Principal Sister Cherree Power, C.R. Religious Education Sr. Ann Norton, D.R.E. Linda Clayton Business Manager Deacon Gino Esposito Director of Music Emer O Mahony Youth Ministry Coordinator Sister Ann Norton Phone Contacts Rectory 732-363-4200 Convent 732-364-2361 School 732-364-4130 Religious Education 732-364-4137 Rectory Fax 732-370-3891 Rectory Office Hours: M-F 9:00-4:30 PM Second & Fourth Saturday 9AM 12:30 PM Baptisms: Every 2nd and 4th Sunday of each month,. Weekend Masses: Saturdays: 4:00 PM Sundays: 7:30, 9:00, 10:30, 12 noon, 5PM Daily Masses: Mon-Fri 7:20 AM & 12 Noon, Sat: 8AM Holy Days: As announced in the bulletin. Healing Mass every first Friday at 7:30PM Sacrament of Reconciliation Saturdays from 3:00 to 3:45PM and before each Sunday Mass
Mass Intentions for this Week January 14, 2018 MONDAY 9:00 Judy Moore...Bob & Diana Morris TUESDAY 7:20 Jean Graga... Family 12:00 Kristen Butterfield... Mom & Dad WEDNESDAY...St. Anthony, abbot 7:20 Terry and Lenny Weg... Family 12:00 Maria Mattina... Rose Pugliese THURSDAY 7:20 Mary Nelson... Margaret & Rich Savner 12:00 Dora Loyson... Ed & Mary Althaver FRIDAY 7:20 Sue Termine.Bob & Diana Morris 12:00 Int. of the Blessed Mother...Ed and Mary Althaver Events for this coming Week SATURDAY 8AM Catherine Peragine... Mr. and Mrs. William Nagy 4PM Richard Zachary Tiewski... Washington & Calleja Families SUNDAY 7:30 Bonnie Yuro... Patrick & Eileen McCarthy 9:00 Robert Marquis & Family... Rita Marquis 10:30 For the People of the Parish 12:00 Int. of Steve & Patty LaPietra... John & Alice Clark 5:00pm Ann Cagney... Fran & Bill Hackett Please Note: There is one 9AM Mass scheduled on Monday 1/15/18. The rectory is closed on Monday, 1/15/18. Sanctuary Candle Week of January 14, 2018 Intentions of Deacon Gino & Rosaria Esposito.Bill & Cheryl Wegner Chapel Candles Week of January 14, 2018 In memory of Nieves Mirasov.....Daughter See our website www.stveronica.com Sacrificial Offering Update Last Weeks Offering : $16,826.00 Thank you for your continued support. Readings for the Week of January 14, 2018 Sunday: 1 Sm 3:3b-10, 19; 1 Cor 6:13c-15a, 17-20; Jn 1:35-42 Monday: 1 Sm 15:16-23; Mk 2:18-22 Tuesday: 1 Sm 16:1-13; Mk 2:23-28 Wednesday: 1 Sm 17:32-33, 37, 40-51; Mk 3:1-6 Thursday: 1 Sm 18:6-9; 19:1-7; Mk 3:7-12 Friday: 1 Sm 24:3-21; Mk 3:13-19 Saturday: 2 Sm 1:1-4, 11-12, 19, 23-27; Mk 3:20-21 Next Sunday: Jon 3:1-5, 10; 1 Cor 7:29-31; Mk 1:14-20
Pastor s Notes The First Book of Samuel is one of those unforgettable Scriptures about some real people in real circumstances that deal with supernatural interventions by God. It is also a display of faith which changes our whole outlook on life and demands a strong will of obedience to its responsibilities. Samuel was the first son of Hannah who suffered ridicule because of her infertility. Her tormented life brought her to Eli s temple to pray for a child. Her stress was so severe that Eli actually thought she was a drunk, but on listening to her he finds her to be quite sober and in deep pain. Eli offers a prayer for her and prays that God will give her a child. Hannah finally conceives and she dedicates her child, Samuel, to Eli s temple. She later gives birth to three more sons and two daughters. Eli s temple suffers from greedy, lustful and disobedient sons who defied Eli s corrections. God reveals they will all die young by the sword. God endows Samuel with a humble and obedient disposition and eventually makes him a prophet who will eventually anoint David as king. One night Samuel was awakened by a mysterious call. While he thinks it is Eli calling him, Eli gives him some spiritual direction to respond to the Caller with Speak, Lord, your servant is listening. Most of us do not recognize when God is calling us because we do not live in silence. A spiritual director can train us to achieve that silence so we can discover what is God s will for us. In the first stage, it is usually one of the four vocations: married, single, consecrated life and priesthood. The next stages are often described as a journey because they are full of surprises that can bring us to places we have never imagined. Samuel will be called by God to anoint Saul and David as a king. The Gospel brings us to the call of Andrew and another disciple as well as Peter. Here the call is very direct, by Jesus Himself. These chosen are not meant to be permanent because, like all of us, we are temporarily in this world. But they do live on in a special charism of being a successor to the Apostles in their dioceses. The will of God never interferes with personal choice. While God chooses to make us for a purpose, we still can say yes or no. Even Mary, the Mother of God, had the choice to accept or reject the will of God. Praise God that she accepted! Since our Baptism we have been adopted by God as His children. Our parents and godparents play an important role in keeping the faith alive in these children, but like the flickering light handed down from the Paschal Candle at Baptism, it can easily be blown out. St. Paul points out how personal sin changes our inner disposition. Living in mortal sin has a negative, yet invisible, influence on our effectiveness in keeping and conveying the faith especially since many mortal sins are habit forming. It can take a long time, and sometimes never, to recognize how unhappy we can become in this enslavement and what further depravities it may lead us into. We Catholics are called to follow Jesus freely. Jesus tells us how to find happiness. It generally conflicts with our passions, like Eli s sons and what we read in the newspapers. Let us pray to Jesus and ask Him to help us see that we can enhance our own personal happiness by intensifying our love for Jesus Who says, If you love me, keep my commandments. Fr. Euk Scripture Meditation "We have found the Messiah!" Who is Jesus for you? John calls Jesus the Lamb of God and thus signifies Jesus' mission as the One who redeems us from our sins. The blood of the Passover Lamb(Exodus 12) delivered the Israelites from their oppression in Egypt and from the plague of death. The Lord Jesus freely offered up his life for us on the cross as the atoning sacrifice for our sins (1 Corinthians 5:7). The blood which he poured out for us on the cross cleanses, heals, and frees us from our slavery to sin, and from the "wages of sin which is death" (Romans 6:23) and the "destruction of both body and soul in hell" (Matthew 10:28). It is significant that John was the son of the priest, Zachariah, who participated in the daily sacrifice of a lamb in the temple for the sins of the people (Exodus 29). In Jesus John saw the true and only sacrifice which could deliver us from bondage to sin, death, and the powers of hell. How did John know the true identity of Jesus, as the Son of God and Savior of the world (John 1:29)? The Holy Spirit revealed to John Jesus' true nature, such that John bore witness that this is the Son of God. How can we be certain that Jesus is truly the Christ, the Son of the living God? The Holy Spirit makes the Lord Jesus Christ known to us through the gift of faith. God gives us freely of his Spirit that we may comprehend - with enlightened minds and eyes of faith - the great mystery and plan of God to unite all things in his Son, our Lord Jesus Christ.
OUR SPIRITUAL LIFE Please Pray for Our Sick Tom Lovito Marjorie Paulmann Margaret Flood Mark Stoughton Mia Castellan Baby Dylan Gallego Connie Camilleri Rosemary DeFalco Diane Grad Erin Haber Monica Noble Steven Hensle Paula Baiga Diane Cudhedy Jake Infanti Joe Oates Jane Oates Ann Donovan John Kerod Dorothy Sabol Billy Gordon Robert Farrell Christine Clements John Rodrigues Cathy Forman Ed Kelly Dennis Hayward Kathy Hayward Marie Schmidt Christopher Hunt Greg Mador Brayden Walton Victoria Burke Robert O Malley Sr. Karen & Dylan D Souza-Casiero Barbara Sewing Joanne Oates Carmen Devone Mike Kuris Marisa D Sa Joseph Greco Milagros Martino Corinne Kerod Robert Robisky Charles Layton George Keith Kathy Aiello John Burke Retired Bishop John Smith Erasmo Ninamango Douglas Floyd Ella Floyd Judy Silagi Denise Worster Vinnie Gaglardi Mary Ann Morelli Michelle Schultz Roberta Wingren Carl Lahetta Antonio Esposito Gavin Femiano Jen Arico Jessica Przyeylski Please Pray for our Parishioners Serving our Country: Sgt. Sean T. Curran Sgt. Brennan Six PV2 William Wotton GSMI Sandro Farduchi Sgt. Krystyna Cechulski Major Julio Collazos S.R. Steven Brennan Sgt. Gregory Hiller PFC Zackary Burkey LCDR Matthew W. Smith Sgt. Luke Wlodkowski 1st Lt. Robert F. Farrell 1st Lt. Ash Young Sgt. Paul Coyle Sgt. Matt Myers Baptism St. Veronica s Parish Family wishes to welcome those who have become members through the Sacrament of Baptism. Thank you for the gift of life! Church and Chapel Sanctuary Candles If you would like to donate a Sanctuary Candle for a loved one, please contact the rectory office (732-363-4200). Candles will be in memory of or intentions of the named individual for one week (Sunday to Saturday) and announced in our bulletin. Church Candle $15 Chapel Candles $20 (2). Our Lady Undoer of Knots Please join us for the next rosary and novena to Our Lady Undoer of Knots on Friday, January 19, 2018 at 6:30 PM in the narthex of St. Veronica s Church. All are welcome. If interested, please call Sheila Maloney at 732-364-5566 so enough materials will be available. Thanks and we hope to see you then! Sunday Brunch St. Veronica s next monthly brunch is on Sunday, January 21st. Come join us in the cafeteria after the noon Mass for food and friendship. All are welcome! Youth Free Throw Contest Sponsored by the Knights of Columbus The Father Cetkowski Council of the Knights of Columbus (Howell/Jackson) is sponsoring the annual Basketball Free Throw Contest. All boys and girls ages 9 through 14 are invited to participate. The competition will be held on January 20, 2018 at St. Veronica s School Gym located on Route 9 in Howell. Registration begins at 2:00 PM. and the competition will begin at 2:15. Winners of the competition will move on to the district competition. All contestants on the local level will be recognized for their participation in the event. Participants are required to furnish proof of age (i.e. birth certificate) and written parental consent. For entry forms or more information contact Brian Curran at (908) 415-4720. 2019 Mass Book Our 2019 Mass Book is now open. Limit: 2 Masses per person. Save the Date Under the Sea St. Veronica School Gift Auction March 2, 2018
Air Conditioner Replacement Campaign Goal- $200,000.00 To Date Donations: $38,072.00 Please continue to help reach our goal to replace the AC system. Thank you to those who have donated and for your continued support. March for Life (time change) Washington, D.C. January 19, 2018 This year, we are joining St. Robert Bellarmine s bus to go down to the March for Life in Washington, D.C. on Friday, January 19, 2018. Bus arrives at 6:00 AM. There is no charge. We will arrange car pools from St. Veronica s to St. Robert s on the morning of Jan 19, or provide directions to the Church. Please call Hu or Joan Mador at 732-367-2565 to reserve a seat on the bus Mass For Life Life is Precious from Conception to Natural Death Mass for Life will take place at 7:00 PM on Thursday, January 18th. Mass will be celebrated by The Most Reverend David M. O Connell, C.M., J.C.D., D.D., Bishop of Trenton at the Co-Cathedral of St. Robert Bellarmine and is open to all especially those who cannot make the March the next day. Life is precious from conception to natural death. For more information call Tom Panetiere at 908-338-7128 or email him at: tpanetiere@victorypackaging.com St. Veronica Cafeteria is available for rent for family and special events. Call the rectory. Adoration Chapel Be a blessing - Receive a blessing in 2018. Calling for new adorers, couples, friends, families, prayer groups, ministries to take an hour of adoration alone or to be shared. We can also pair you with a partner. Choose your hour, though sacrificial hours midnight and overnight, and weekend hours are most needed. What works for you is an hour you are most likely to keep. Join our faithful band of adorers who have been committed since 1997 to putting Eucharistic Adoration first in their week by planning it, which also blesses our entire community and world. Registered adorers insure our commitment to keep the chapel open 24/7. Give Him time and He will give Himself to you. Hours Most Needed: Sunday : 7AM, 5PM Monday: 1AM Wednesday: 12 midnight Saturday: 6PM, 7PM (Urgent) Contact Debbie drev514@aol.com or leave message 732-367- 7750. Gift Cards Available at St. Veronica School Office Support St. Veronica School with the purchase of gift cards for routine shopping and gifts! Cash and checks accepted. $25 Target, itunes, Kohl's, Macy's, Stop & Shop, Shop Rite, Barnes & Noble, Wawa, Applebee's, Panera, Dunkin Donuts cards and more. ***School earns cash rebates at no additional cost to you!! Please help support our school! St. Veronica School Open House Have you considered the benefits of a Catholic School Education? St. Veronica School will host an Open House that offers you the opportunity to explore how your child could benefit from our faith filled, academically excellent school! Come Visit St. Veronica School Open House Sunday, January 28, 2017 12:00-2:00PM For further information, please call 732-364-4130, ext. 0. Save the Date Parish Lenten Retreat Each evening starting, Sunday February 18th through Wednesday February 21st. Details to Follow Youth Group Tonight, 1/14, following the 5PM Mass Come and join us tonight at 6PM in the cafeteria for our bi monthly youth group meeting. (dinner is included). Youth group is for youth grades 8 to 12. It s a wonderful evening of fellowship with your peers. New members are always welcome. OUR NEEDS Pantry Needs Instant potatoes, gravy, rice, Rice-A-Roni, ketchup, mayonnaise, pasta sides, canned fruit