St. Veronica Church 4215 Route 9, Howell, NJ 07731 31st Sunday in Ordinary Time 732-363-4200 www.stveronica.com October 30, 2016 Pastoral PastoralStaff Staff Pastor Father PastorVincent T. Euk Father Vincent T. Euk Parochial Vicar Fr. VicenteVicar Magdaraog Parochial Fr. Vicente Magdaraog Weekend Assistant Fr. Bill O Brien Weekend Assistant Fr. Bill O Brien Deacons Tom Cechulski, Sr. Deacons Charles DayeSr., Jr. Gene F.R. Moir, John Franey James Littlefield Gino (Louis) Esposito Tomasz Cechulski Charles R. Daye Jr. School Principal John Franey Sister CherreeEsposito Power, C.R. Gino (Louis) Religious Education School Principal Sr. AnnCherree Norton,Power, D.R.E. C.R. Sister Linda Clayton Religious Education Business Manager D.R.E. Brenda Heffernan, Deacon Esposito Lauren Gino DeMaio, C.R.E. Parish Administrator Director of Weg Music Leonard P. Emer O Mahony Director of Music Youth NancyMinistry CondardoCoordinator Deacon John Franey Director of ACTS Phone Contacts Deacon Tom Cechulski Bozena Cechulski Rectory 732-363-4200 Convent 732-364-2361 Coordinator of Youth School 732-364-4130 Ministry Education Religious Deacon John Franey 732-364-4137 Rectory Fax 732-370-3891 Phone Contacts Rectory 732-363-4200 Rectory Office Hours: Convent 732-364-2361 M-F 9:00-4:30 PM School 732-364-4130 Second & Fourth Saturday Religious Education 9AM 12:30 PM 732-364-4137 Cafeteria 732-364-9455 Baptisms: Every 2nd and 4th ACTS Office 732-364Sunday of each month,. 2936 Fax 732-370-3891 5:00 PM Sundays: 7:30, 9:00, 10:30, 12 noon, 5PM Weekend Masses: Saturdays: 4:00 Daily Masses: Mon-Fri 7:20 AM & 12 Noon, Sat: 8AM Holy Days: As announced in the bulletin. HealingMass Mass every everythird thirdtuesday Tuesdayatat7:30PM 8PM. Healing SacramentSacrament of Reconciliation SaturdaysSaturdays from 4:00from to 4:45PM call to schedule aneach appointment with a priest. of Reconciliation 3:00 toor3:45pm and before Sunday Mass
Mass Intentions for this Week October 30, 2016 MONDAY 7:20 Int. of Larry Pighini... Esposito and Wegner Families 12:00 Joseph Panek... Wittstruck Family 8PM Richard Dolan... Jim & Edna Rooney TUESDAY... All Saints Day.Holy Day of Obligaion 7:20 Gene Berry... Wife, Theresa 12:00 Monica Brothers... LaBarbera Family 8PM Jerry Jankowski... Diane Jankowsk WEDNESDAY... All Souls Day 7:20 All Souls 12:00 All Souls 8:00 Special Mass for the Deceased of our Parish FRIDAY....St. Charles Borromeo, b. 7:20 Mary Ann Salzano...Neidermeyer Family 12:00 Madeline Rieker.Sheila & John McBride SATURDAY 8:00 AM Int. of the Pfaff Family... Barden Family 4PM For the People of the Parish SUNDAY 7:30 Dolly Gutowski.Reiff Family 9:00 Michael DiAngelo.Christine Pandolfo 10:30 Helen Stivala... Rodrigues Family 12:00 Andrew Lynch... Jack & Fran McGuire 5PM Philip & Sheila Connell... Daughter * Rectory Office Closed on November 1st, All Saints Day THURSDAY 7:20 Frances Pezulich... Tim & Tina DoCampo 12:00 Jerry Jankowski...Wife, Diane Events for this coming Week Sanctuary Candle Week of October 30th For a Special Intention... Charlotte Farrell Chapel Candles Week of October 30th In memory of Mary Lee Blanchett...Mom See our website www.stveronica.com Sacrificial Offering Update Last Week s Offering: $15,223.00 Special Collection: $3973.00 Thank you for your continued support. Readings for the Week of October 30, 2016 Monday: Phil 2:1-4/Ps 131:1-3/Lk 14:12-14 Tuesday: Rv 7:2-4, 9-14/Ps 24:1-6/1 Jn 3:1-3/Mt 5:1-12a Wednesday: Wis 3:1-9/Ps 23:1-6/Rom 5:5-11 or Rom 6:3-9/Jn 6:37-40 Thursday: Phil 3:3-8a/Ps 105:2-7/Lk 15:1-10 Friday: Phil 3:17 4:1/Ps 122:1-5/Lk 16:1-8 Saturday: Phil 4:10-19/Ps 112:1-2, 5-6, 8-9/Lk 16:9-15 Next Sunday: 2 Mc 7:1-2, 9-14/Ps 17:1, 5-6, 8, 15/2 Thes 2:16 3:5/Lk 20:27-38 or 20:27, 34-38
Pastor s Notes In the October 20th edition of The Monitor the article Our Faith Requires that We Kill the Pain, not the Patient, seems to neglect some of our articles of faith. Yes, we should never kill the patient, but are we really required to kill the pain? No one likes to suffer and generally when we suffer, we have what seems to be the most difficult time trying to pray. At the same time our faith is tested by maintaining Jesus command to us, If you love me, keep my commandments (Jn 14:15). How hard it is to not be cranky and crabby when we are suffering! Job s wife urged him to curse God (Job 2:9), but as a man of faith, he did not despite all the terrible things Satin did to him. When Jesus died for us, He atoned for all the sins of people who accept His Mercy. However St. Paul speaks of making up for what is lacking in the death of Christ (Col 1:24). This article of faith on temporal punishment due to sin (CCC 1471) is often forgotten. Few people realize that we can play an important role in making up for the injustices we or others have caused which brought Jesus to the Cross. When we go to the Sacrament of Reconciliation, do we really think a few Hail Mary s will suffice for our sins? In justice how much do we need to make up for saying a bad word? How much do we need to do to make up for missing Mass on Sunday for no good reason (CCC 2181)? Yes, sacramental confession will enable us to be forgiven of sins by Jesus, but can a penance for the sin ever make up for the injustice of the nails driven through Jesus hands and feet? What did St. Paul mean by making up what is lacking in the death of Christ? It has to do with our role in the Redemptive process. There is a treasury in the Church which the Church applies from the satisfactions of Christ and the saints (CCC 1471). No one uses bad words in Heaven, but what if we die with the habit of cursing like a trooper? Does not something have to be done before we can get through those pearly gates? Yes, this is what Purgatory (CCC 1030) does, but would it not be better to settle that account in this life? True, most of us cannot. However, there is one way to rid ourselves of this debt we owe Christ a plenary indulgence. Plenary indulgences are easy to get during this Holy Year. Just walk through a designated Holy Door before November 20th and fulfill the necessary conditions. Have you any relatives who may be in Purgatory? Make a second visit for them because indulgences can be applied to the dead too. (You can only obtain one plenary indulgence per day.) Acts of mercy and charity as well as joining our sufferings to the Cross give us the opportunity to build up this treasury of graces that can be applied to remit temporal punishment due to sin. The sufferings we experience as we make our transition from this world to Eternal Life can be that stepping stone to get us directly into Heaven. One of the prayers for the dying in the rite of the Sacrament of the Sick ends with since you have given him/her a share in your own passion, help him/her to find hope in suffering. Yes, we can make our last agony a great opportunity not only for ourselves, but even for trying to get our fallen away children back into the Church! When I heard Mother Teresa call herself the worst sinner in the world, it made me pause and think about myself. But her sufferings were excessive, yet coupled with great joy. Many martyrs seemed also to be filled with a sense of joy as they approached a tortuous death. Was their joy because they knew that their sufferings were remitting temporal punishment due to sin even for their killers? Some of the Church Fathers taught that the death of St. Stephen had a great influence in the conversion of St. Paul. When a priest is called to a dying person, he has a special privilege to administer the Apostolic Pardon, a plenary indulgence for that dying person. Along with the Sacraments of Reconciliation, the Sick and Viaticum if possible, the properly disposed person gets a ticket into Heaven. All suffering, but especially the suffering of the dying offers great potential for filling that treasury of satisfactions for the Church to distribute. So I would not be so sure that we should kill pain outright. Moral law does permit us to take pain killers to alleviate our suffering. But let us make sure that the dying have a priest to visit them before they are put into a medical stupor. Let us also keep in our prayers all those Christians who are being tortured and killed in the name of God so they can have the joy of filling that treasury of satisfactions. Fr. Euk Scripture Meditation Behold, half of my possessions, Lord, I shall give to the poor, and if I have extorted anything from anyone I shall repay it four times over. Zacchaeus was serious about following Jesus. Maybe at the start he was just curious when he ran ahead to scale that sycamore tree. But that curiosity developed into a life-changing experience when Jesus called him by name. At that moment, when the Lord chose Zacchaeus to be his host for the evening, the rich tax collector came down quickly and received him with joy. And shortly thereafter came his promise of conversion and penance. Not only would he change his ways; he would make up for his former ones. And thus Jesus declared, Today salvation has come to this house. Penance isn t a popular concept in our modern era. We like to think about God s great mercy and forgiveness, but it s not so fun to think about the lingering effects of our sin. When Zacchaeus stole money, people suffered, especially the poor. His conversion to the ways of God wouldn t make up for the suffering he had inflicted on people. But his choice to go back and set things aright could make a difference. Sometimes, we are called to do something similar. Of course it is not always possible to go back and directly restore the relationships or situations that we have damaged through our sins. However, it is always possible to offer a kind of sacrifice often called making reparation for our sin. We can do something virtuous and offer it to God as a kind of deposit in the universal bank of goodness to make up for the unjust withdrawals we have previously made. In this way, we too can show that we are serious about following the Lord.
OUR SPIRITUAL LIFE Please Pray for Our Sick Tom Lovito Lorraine Groh Marjorie Paulmann Mark Stoughton Vinny Placanica Mia Castellan Michael Kuras Susan Termine Connie Camilleri Erin Haber Kathy Pfeifer James Addiego Paula Baiga Kinsey Beaton Beto Huayllasco Joseph Neglia Richie Brown Diane Cudhedy Eugene Binkowski Vita O Kane Nancy Petroccione Ryan Dickerman Kasey Seymour Bonnie Yuro Carl LaLetta Bob Yuro Michael Connolly Diane Hines Christopher Zoas Fernando Capestrano Brendan Condon Joe Oates Jane Oates Jean Mc Adam Marie Juckiewicz Carmen DeVone Ralph Scarabino John Rodrigues John Kerod Robert Farrell Christine Clements Antoinette Ferrara Cathy Forman Ed Kelly Dennis Hayward Ross Johnson Denise Bergeron Kathy Hayward Claire Archer Vincenzo Centineo Greg Mador Baby Brayden Walton Anne Delaney Victoria Burke Maryann Gularek Karen D Souza-Casiero Mary Althaver Debbie Mossa Kevin Corcoran Robert O Malley Sr. Please Pray for our Parishioners Serving our Country: Sgt. Sean T. Curran Sgt. Brennan Six PV2 William Wotton GSMI Sandro Farduchi Sgt. Krystyna Cechulski Capt. Julio Collazos S.R. Steven Brennan Sgt. Gregory Hiller Corp. Ethan Bolger PFC Zackary Burkey Sgt. Luke Wlodkowski 1st Lt. Robert F. Farrell 1st Lt. Ash Young Sgt. Paul Coyle Baptism St. Veronica s Parish Family wishes to welcome those who have become members through the Sacrament of Baptism. Emma Grace, daughter of Joseph & Kristina Piscioneri Gabriella Marie, daughter of Justin & Christina Lotano Jake Matthew, son of Matthew & Kristin Blaine 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. Weekly Donation: Church Candle $10 Chapel Candles $15 (2). Banns of Marriage Jessica Revoir & Anthony Tortorice (3) 12/10/16 Theology of the Body Lecture Series Presenter: Fr. Euk For 4 weeks, starting Sunday October 30th, each Sunday at 6:30PM in the narthex, finishing on Nov. 20th. Week 1, Oct. 30th, topic is The Word s of Christ ~Jesus s response to the questions of divorce ~The first and second account of creation ~The Redemption of the body Romans 8:23 (see website for further details) Mass for All Souls in November On Wednesday, November 2nd, we will have our annual Remembrance Mass at 8PM. This Mass will be celebrated for those who have gone before us in the Sign of Faith. Please join us as we remember the dearly departed members of our family and parish community. You will find our Remembrance Mass Book in the back of the church. If you have entered the name of your loved one in the past, you need not enter them again. Thank you. Mega 50/50 Mega 50/50 Cash Raffle in 2 Weeks!!! As we approach the end of the ticket sales and the drawing of our Mega 50/50, we would like to thank all our ticket purchasers and sponsors for supporting our Mega 50/50 raffle. As you are aware the Mega 50/50 is a major parish fundraiser. The proceeds are utilized for needed parish repairs and upgrades, which without your support and participation would not be possible. There are only 2 weeks left to purchase tickets. If you have not done so, please help support our fundraiser and have an opportunity to share in the winnings. You got to be in it, to win it. Thank you and good luck. Tickets are on sale after Masses for the next 2 weekends and at the rectory during the week. The drawing is on Saturday, November 12th during Fr. Euk s anniversary dinner. Join in the Celebration!! Dinner Dance in Honor of Fr. Euk s 30th Anniversary as a Priest. Sat. November 12th 7PM St. Veronica Gym Cost: $20 Full Buffet, DJ, Dancing (an adult only event) October 30th is last day to buy tickets!! Keep Christ in Christmas Magnets are available at the rectory. Cost: $3.00
Save the Date!! St. Veronica Christmas Carol Festival Free Family Event Singing Carols Together Fellowship Refreshments Come join us for a night of fun. December 10, 2016-7 PM in the School Gym Consider Joining our Altar Server Ministry St. Veronica Altar Server Ministry provides an opportunity for the young people of our parish to become more involved in the parish in a constructive, helpful and educational way. This ministry allows young parishioners to grow in the following ways: Serve Christ and the Church Participate in the Liturgy Learn more about the Mass and the Church Be more involved in the parish The Ministry is open to those in Fifth Grade and beyond who have celebrated their First Communion. Altar Server training will begin in October, with sessions on Saturdays. We will let you know when the training session times are scheduled. If you are interested, please download the registration form at www.stveronica.com and return it to the rectory to the attention of Deacon Gino Esposito. Divine Mercy Prayers On one occasion I heard these words in my soul, Make a novena for your country. This novena will consist of the recitation of the Litany of the Saints. (Diary, 59) Please join us on Nov 6th at 1:30 PM for the Devine Mercy prayers as we all pray for our country. Bring a friend with you! Save the Date Youth One-Day Retreat March 18, 2017 Details to Follow Shop Amazon Smile Shop smile.amazon.com and Amazon will donate to St. Veronica Church. Halloween Costumes and candy are available. When searching for charitable organization, type in St Veronicas Church (must have capital letters) Christian Prayer Guides Available in the rectory: Cost $3.50 Adoration Chapel A Holy Hour before the Most Blessed Sacrament so pleases the Heart of Jesus that every person on earth receives a new effect of God's graces. St Faustina Monday hours in need of partners: Overnight, 3PM, 4PM, 6 PM Weds 11AM (no adorer), 11PM Contact Debbie drev514@aol.com or leave message 732 367 7750 Post Abortion Healing Have you suffered an abortion? Experience God s love and mercy and begin the journey of healing. Please call the Sisters of Life: 866-575-0075 or email: hopeandhealing@sistersoflife.org. For men, call Theresa Bonopartis at 877-586-4621 or email: Lumina@postabortionhelp.org St. Rose High School P.T.A. invites you to AUTUMN BREW FEST An evening of German food, drink and fun! Friday, November 4th 7:30 PM - 10:00 PM St. Rose High School MAAC $30pp in advance/$35pp @ the door (adults only) For additional information email: avonmdo33@gmail.com St. Peter School 39th Annual Craft Festival November 11th & 12th from 9AM 4PM at St. Peter School 415 Atlantic Ave., Pt. Pleasant Beach, NJ Free Admission Over 100 selected crafters, raffle table, photo with Santa, delicious lunch, fresh home baked goods Any questions please call 732-892-1260. Special Collection for the Archdiocese for the Military Services. On November 5/6 there will be a special collection for our Military Services. Please help support our service men and women. Collection envelopes are at the end of the pews and will be collected on Nov. 5/6. Thank you for your support. OUR NEEDS Food Pantry Needs-We are getting low! Most Needed: Pancake Mix, Inst. Potatoes, Gravy, Syrup Needed: Tuna, rice, canned fruit, dry milk (pouches) tea, coffee, cereal, canned meat, canned soup, tuna helper
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