Saint Joseph Roman Catholic Church Oradell / New Milford, NJ Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ ~ June 22, 2014 SUNDAY MASS TIMES TO CHANGE ON JULY 5-6 The NEW Sunday Mass schedule will be: Saturday: 5:00 pm Sunday: 7:30 am, 9:00 am, 10:30 am, 12 noon (Daily Mass times remain the same:, ; Saturday: ) Please note: If you previously arranged a Mass intention for a Mass whose time will change, your intention will be announced at the new time. Reconciliation / Confessions Saturday, 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm Baptism Marriage Arrangements should be made with a priest at least one year in advance. Sick / Homebound / Hospital Ministry Rev. George M. Reilly PASTOR EMERITUS Mrs. Colette Vail Principal of Saint Joseph School Mrs. Angela Gussoni Vice Principal of Saint Joseph School Mrs. Diane Hellriegel Dir. of Communications & Development Sacramental Life Mass Schedule (until July 5) Sunday Mass Saturday 5:00 pm Anticipated Sunday 10:30 am 12:30 pm Daily Mass Weekdays and Saturday Holy Days as announced Parish Staff Rev. Msgr. David C. Hubba, PASTOR Rev. Andrew Park Rev. Roy Regaspi PAROCHIAL VICAR PAROCHIAL VICAR Mr. Thomas Meli Facilities Director Mr. Monroe Quinn Director of Music Mrs. Phyllis Vrola Mrs. Anne Annunziato Business Manager Parish Secretary Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament First Wednesday of the Month 9:00 am - 5:00 pm in Mary s Chapel Miraculous Medal Novena Monday, 7:00 pm in Mary s Chapel Christian Initiation of Adults RCIA Parish Registration Office Location Phone Email Website Parish Office 105 Harrison St., New Milford 201-261-0148 office@sjcnj.org sjcnj.org Deacon George Montalvo Director of Religious Education Mrs. Arlene Kennedy Sacrament Coordinator Mr. Anthony Armando Youth Minister Religious Education 105 Harrison St., New Milford 201-261-1144 religioused@sjcnj.org sjcreligioused.blogspot.com Saint Joseph School 305 Elm St., Oradell 201-261-2388 office@sjsusa.org sjsusa.org the greenhouse-prek 305 Elm St., Oradell 201-477-8114 vailc@greenhouseusa.org greenhouseusa.org Summer Hours: (Parish Office) Mon-Thurs: 9 am - 5 pm ; Fri-9 am 2 pm; (Rel. Ed.) Mon-Thurs: 9 am-4 pm Msgr. Richard Groncki WEEKEND ASSISTANT (Also by appointment.)
Saturday 5:00 pm Sunday 10.30 am 10:30 am MC 12:30 pm Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 5:00 pm Sunday 10.30 am 12:30 pm June 21, 2014 George M. Fabiano SAINT JOSEPH CHURCH ORADELL/NEW MILFORD, NJ June 22, 2014 People of the Parish Felice Bartolomeo 36th Birthday Remembrance Judene Maron Baglieri Irene Mancuso Patrick Belle 10th Anniversary Remembrance June 23, 2014 Frank McCoo Luz Palicio June 24, 2014 Robert S. Cardell Don Douglas June 25, 2014 Bruce Berenato John Canning June 26, 2014 John Clancy Mary Henderson June 27, 2014 John Clancy Lorraine Cagliostro June 28, 2014 Don a Felicita Diaz Ed Dalton 14th Anniversary Remembrance June 29, 2014 People of the Parish Raymond Alleman Susan DeRosa Irma Primc BREAD AND WINE INTENTIONS The Bread for the Week of June 22, 2014 is donated in loving memory of Felice Bartolomeo as requested by his parents. The Wine for the Week of June 22, 2014 is given for the praise and glory of God. Our bulletin can also be seen on our website at sjcnj.org 2 PRAYER REQUESTS Let us remember those who are ill: John Brereton Let us remember those who have recently died: Michael J. McNamara, Rev. Monsignor Lawrence W. Cull Let us remember those serving in the military. Sunday Collection for Week of June 15, 2014 Basket ParishPay TOTAL $7,467 $5,207 $12,674 PLEASE DON T FORGET SAINT JOSEPH...when you go on vacation! Our parish depends on the weekly collections to meet regular operating expenses. Please be sure to drop off your envelope before or after your trip! SOLEMNITY OF THE MOST HOLY BODY AND BLOOD OF CHRIST (Corpus Christi) June 22, 2014 "Just as the living Father sent me and I have life because of the Father, so also the one who feeds on me will have life because of me. This is the bread that came down from heaven. Unlike your ancestors who ate and still died, whoever eats this bread will live forever." - Jn 6:57-58 SUMMER BREAK Beginning this weekend, there will be no 10:30 am Sunday Mass in Mary s Chapel during the summer. It will resume after Labor Day. SPECIAL INTENTIONS You can donate the Bread and/or Wine used during a week s Masses in memory of a loved one or for a special intention. Contact the parish office at 201-261-0148 for available dates. EARLY BULLETIN DEADLINE Because of the July 4th holiday, the deadline for the July 6 bulletin is earlier than usual. Announcements must be submitted to bulletin@sjcnj.org no later than Tuesday, June 24 for the July 6 issue. PARISH OFFICE SUMMER HOURS Monday-Thursday: 9 am-5 pm Friday: 9 am-2 pm Religious Ed.: Monday-Thursday: 9am-4 pm SCHOOL OFFICE SUMMER HOURS Monday-Thursday: 8 am-3 pm Friday: 8 am-12 noon
MOST HOLY BODY AND BLOOD OF CHRIST, JUNE 22, 2014 FROM THE PASTOR S DESK Although a completely accurate tally of New Jersey s current Catholic population is elusive, a good estimate is 3,250,000, or 41.9% of our state s people. They belong to about 750 parishes and are served by approximately 2,500 priests, 4,200 sisters, 240 brothers and 700 deacons. This is a remarkable growth from the early days of European settlement here, when the sparse Catholic population consisted mainly of French, German and Irish immigrants: ironworkers in the north, glass workers in the south, and scattered farmers. Archbishop Myers has urged our parishes to ring their bells this Tuesday at noon to help commemorate the 350 th anniversary of the beginnings of New Jersey, when, in 1664, Lord John Berkley and Sir George Carteret received a grant of the land between the Hudson and Delaware Rivers from the Duke of York (later King James II). The two intended to allow wide religious tolerance to settlers, although their vision would suffer delayed fulfillment. After William and Mary regained the English throne in 1688 following brief Catholic possession of it, things did not go well for Catholics. A 1698 meeting of New Jersey s Assembly granted religious freedom to all Christians except to any of the Romish religion. And after Queen Anne assumed the throne, she directed the governor of what was now a royal colony to permit a liberty of conscience to all persons (except papists). Such strictures, including forbidding Catholics to hold public office, were not formally removed until 1844. Two German Jesuits, both working out of Philadelphia, were among the earliest priests to care for New Jersey Catholics. Both had to operate with somewhat secretive methods. This was a bit easier for Fr. Theodore Schneider, who was also a doctor and so could combine his medical work with his priestly calls during the years following 1744. He offered Mass using a Missal he had copied out by hand. Even better known was the remarkable Fr. Ferdinand Steinmeyer, a trained philosopher and astronomer who was one of the University of Pennsylvania s first trustees. Adopting the name of Father Farmer, he regularly and energetically covered New Jersey from 1758-1786, making pastoral visits and administering the sacraments. He even led the efforts to organize New York City s first Catholic parish, St. Peter s on Barclay Street, near today s World Trade Center, at a time when New Jersey Catholics Commemorate 350 Years 1664-2014 3 local law still prescribed a penalty of life imprisonment for Catholic priests discovered working in the city. Immigration has always been key to Catholic growth in our state. The first large-scale arrivals, in the mid- 19th Century, were the Irish, many of whom were seeking work in a rapidly industrializing New Jersey during the time of their homeland s disastrous Potato Famine, and Germans, who were fleeing the persecutions of Bismarck s time. A later major wave brought large numbers of Italians and Eastern Europeans, and led to the creation of many ethnic parishes, two of the earliest being St. Anthony s (for Poles) and Holy Rosary (for Italians) in Jersey City, such close neighbors that priests could almost shake hands with each other from their respective sacristies. New Jersey s Bishops, beginning with St. Elizabeth Seton s nephew James Roosevelt Bayley, gave wise guidance to the rapidly increasing Catholic population. In 1856 he founded a college to educate priests, which has since grown into Seton Hall, America s largest diocesan university. And by 1876 there were also 77 Catholic elementary schools. Bishop Bayley also acquired land for Newark s Sacred Heart Cathedral, one of the greatest Catholic churches in the world, which was finally completed in 1954. Over the years, the Newark Diocese has grown into a Metropolitan See, or Archdiocese, with four derivative dioceses: Trenton, Paterson, Camden and Metuchen. Two Eastern Rite dioceses have also been erected in New Jersey: the Eparchy of Passaic, for Ruthenian Byzantine Catholics, and the Syrian-Rite Diocese of Newark, the only such diocese in the West. Further Catholic growth has continued into our own times. The G.I. Bill, after the conclusion of World War II, led to both a strong increase in higher education for New Jersey s Catholics and to a major population shift of Catholics to the suburbs. Recent arrivals of still more immigrants have been further transforming our Catholic population: large numbers of Hispanics and, additionally, new residents from Asia, including Filipinos, Koreans, Vietnamese and Indians. Today s worsening upheavals in the Middle East may well lead some of that region s refugees to our state too. Among prominent New Jersey Catholics have been the significant writers Orestes Brownson, and Frank Sheed and his wife Maisie Ward, all of whom explained and defended our Faith brilliantly, and the poet Joyce Kilmer. Nicola Montani, author of the St. Gregory Hymnal, taught at Seton Hall and at our Immaculate Conception Seminary. John P. Holland, (continued on page 4)
SAINT JOSEPH CHURCH ORADELL/NEW MILFORD, NJ (From the Pastor s Desk continued from page 3) OVER 500 ROSARY BEADS DONATED TO MILITARY inventor of the submarine, was also a New Jersey Catholic. William Brennan and Antonin Scalia rose to Supreme Court seats, while three Catholics of our state (Ann Dore McLaughlin, James Mitchell and Raymond Donovan) have served as Secretaries of Labor. Catholic notables in the entertainment world have included Major Edward Bowes (of the 1930 s Original Amateur Hour ), and singers Frank Sinatra and Bruce Springsteen. We have plenty of reasons to ring our bells on Tuesday. Catholics have contributed a great deal to New Jersey. The Saint Joseph Knights of Columbus Council 3814 extends their thanks to the parishioners of Saint Joseph and the Church of the Ascension in New Milford for their generosity in donating over 500 sets of rosary beads for our service men and women. The beads are being sent to the Archdiocese of the Military for distribution by military chaplains to our troops and their families. [I have drawn on a number of sources for this piece, including works of two local priests and a lay professor who have written on New Jersey s Catholic history: Msgr. Raymond Krupke of the Diocese of Paterson, Fr. Christopher Ciccarino of our own Archdiocese, and Professor Dermot Quinn of Seton Hall. If anybody wants to know the particulars, please ask me.] NEW TIMES FOR SUNDAY ROSARY Effective July 5 when the Sunday Mass times change (see front cover), the rosary will be prayed before Masses on Saturdays at 4:30 pm; on Sundays at, 10:00 am and 11:35 am. The Legion of Mary invites everyone to attend. The daily rosary will continue to be prayed immediately following the daily Mass. Msgr. David Hubba LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR SPECIAL COLLECTION JULY 5-6 HAPPY 350th ANNIVERSARY, NEW JERSEY! Serving the Elderly with Love and Respect On Wednesday, June 24...let our bells peal both with joy at this moment in time, and in recognition of the loyal and devoted Catholics of the past, present and the future whose traditions and depth of faith from distant lands have strengthened and will continue to strengthen our State and our Nation. The Most Reverend John J. Myers Archbishop of Newark The Little Sisters of the Poor from St. Joseph s Home for the Elderly in Totowa will be visiting our parish on Saturday and Sunday, July 5-6. The Little Sisters of the Poor operate 188 homes throughout the world providing loving care to the elderly and have served the aged in New Jersey since 1879. Please be as generous as your means allow. Thank you for your support and God bless you. SPRING CLEANING CONTINUES! Facilities Director Tom Meli continues the much-needed improvements to our church. New carpeting has been installed on the steps to the lower church and on the altar of Mary s Chapel by V& S Carpeting, Midland Park (see below). The almost two decades old carpeting on the altar of the Upper Church will also be replaced shortly to complement the freshly painted sanctuary completed by Seton Painting (far left). 4
AN INVITATION TO THE CATHOLIC FAITH JOURNEY Saint Joseph Church welcomes all those who seek to explore the possibility of becoming a Catholic Christian through the RCIA program (Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults). Who is RCIA for? Adults never baptized Adults baptized in another Christian church Adults baptized Catholic who have not received full reception into the church through the Sacraments of Eucharist or Confirmation What is RCIA? Catholicism is a way of life and a journey in faith. RCIA is a process, rooted in history, which is designed to educate in the Catholic faith and prepare adults to receive the sacraments of the Church. It seeks, however, to do more than simply give interested persons information. Becoming Catholic involves entering into a relationship with a community of God's people. Our hope is that you will enjoy a deeper relationship with God as you also become acquainted with members of Saint Joseph and the Church throughout the world. You will notice how your own life experiences and beliefs have brought you to this point as you listen to God's invitation to explore the Catholic faith. At the same time, members of the parish are praying for you, attending sessions with you, and sharing their own life stories as Catholics. For more information, contact Father Roy Regaspi at 201-261-0148 and join us any time at Mass. YOUNG ADULT MINISTRY ST. PETER, RIVER EDGE Come join a community of Catholic young adults (18-39 years old) in various stages of life who will be gathering to nurture and cultivate an environment of Christian living through Christ-centered activities. The group is open to members of all religious backgrounds. Activities include gathering for fellowship, food, fun and games; learning more about the Catholic faith through prayer and scripture; participating in community service; and Archdiocesan young adult events. UPCOMING EVENTS: (every second Saturday of the month after the 5:30 pm Mass at St. Peter the Apostle Parish, 431 Fifth Avenue, River Edge) July 12 Hike for Christ at Ross Dock Park in Ft. Lee; August 19 Coffee House Open Mic. Any questions, contact Donna Cirino at 201-362-8783 or at dcirino15@saint-peter.org MOST HOLY BODY AND BLOOD OF CHRIST, JUNE 22, 2014 5 REST IN PEACE Rev. Msgr. Lawrence W. Cull 1942-2014 We extend our deepest sympathy to the family of Monsignor Lawrence Cull who died on June 14 at age 71. Monsignor Cull, son of Thomas and Florence Cull, grew up in Oradell on Elm Street, not far from our church. He was baptized at Saint Joseph Church in 1942, made his First Communion here in 1950 and was confirmed here on June 6, 1953. Msgr. Cull was ordained a priest of the Archdiocese of Newark on May 31, 1969 and served at St. Paul Parish in Ramsey from 1969-1983. He spent 1984-85 at Ascension Parish in New Milford, was pastor of Holy Rosary in Edgewater from 1985-89, was dean of Bergen Southeast from 1987-89 and pastor of St. Michael Parish in Cranford from 1989-2001. As pastor from 2001-2011 of St. Paul Parish in Ramsey (where he began his priesthood), he also served as Ramsey police chaplain and chaplain for the Ramsey Knights of Columbus. His ministries included marriage tribunal, college teaching, adult education, retreat, counseling, and caring for the members of AA, saying Mass monthly for them. Eternal rest grant unto his soul, O Lord. FORTNIGHT FOR FREEDOM: FREEDOM TO SERVE JUNE 21 to JULY 4 The theme of this year s Fortnight will focus on freedom to serve the poor and vulnerable in accord with human dignity and the Church s teaching. Participation in the Fortnight for Freedom is simple; all it takes is a concerted effort to do something that promotes our freedom as Catholics to serve one another. You can offer a day of faith-based service within the community, perhaps volunteering at a soup kitchen or helping to paint, garden, clean, or organize donations at a local charity. No act of service is too small to make a difference! Go to www.fortnight4freedom.org to learn more. TAG SALE FOR SENIOR RESIDENCE AT ST. PETER JULY 13 The Senior Residence at St. Peter the Apostle in River Edge will host a tag sale fundraiser on Sunday, July 13. If you have gently used household items that you would like to donate to our fundraiser, please contact Ann Marie at 201-225-0707 to arrange a time to drop off your items. We are also looking for tables and clothing racks that we can borrow for the sale.
SAINT JOSEPH CHURCH ORADELL/NEW MILFORD, NJ The Sacrament of Baptism was celebrated at Saint Joseph Church on Sunday, June 15, 2014 at our 10:30 am Mass. May God bless the children baptized and their families. Jack Thomas Delasandro Child of Joseph & Megan Grace Isabel Pulido Child of Pablo & Jessica with sister Juliet Ella Suzanne Orso Child of Steven and Amy Orso with brothers Eric & Chase Timothy William Kamal Child of Shafayat & Kristen Read the Gospel and Color When God's people were in the desert with Moses, they got hungry. So, God gave them sweet manna from heaven every morning. It was all they needed to live. God sent Jesus to us from heaven, too, but he's much better than manna. Through Jesus, we can live forever with God. 6