St. Veronica Church 4215 Route 9, Howell, NJ 07731 Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time 732-363-4200 www.stveronica.com August 2, 2015 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 Susan Vella 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. Regina R. Reale Director of Music Director of ACTS Nancy Condardo Deacon Tom Cechulski Bozena Cechulski Director of ACTS Youth Ministry Coordinator Deacon Tom Cechulski Deacon Franey Bozena John Cechulski Phone Contacts Coordinator of Youth Ministry Rectory 732-363-4200 Deacon John Franey Convent 732-364-2361 School 732-364-4130 Phone Contacts Religious Education Rectory 732-363-4200 732-364-4137 Convent 732-364-2361 Rectory Fax 732-370-3891 School 732-364-4130 Religious Education Rectory Office Hours: 732-364-4137 M-F 9:00-4:30 PM Cafeteria 732-364-9455 Second & Fourth Saturday ACTS Office 732-3649AM 12:30 PM 2936 Fax 732-370-3891 Weekend Masses: Saturdays: 4:00 5:00 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 HealingMass Mass every everythird thirdtuesday Tuesdayatat7:30PM 8PM. SacramentSacrament of Reconciliation of Reconciliation SaturdaysSaturdays from 4:00from to 4:45PM 3:00 toor3:45pm call to schedule and before aneach appointment Sunday Mass with a priest.
Mass Intentions for this Week August 2, 2015 MONDAY 7:20 Leo Lamb... Lamb Family TUESDAY....St. John Vianney, pr. 7:20 Egidio Russlillo... Mr. & Mrs. Scotto D Anielo WEDNESDAY 7:20 Valentina Torralba... Diana & Bob Morris THURSDAY... Transfiguration of the Lord 7:20 Stephanie Orashen... Anna & Hal Ornstein FRIDAY 7:20 Scott Sprague... Anna & Hal Ornstein SATURDAY......St. Dominic, pr. 8:00AM Laura Visicaro... Revoir Family 4:00 PM James McGuffie...Denise & Brian Curran SUNDAY 7:30 Will Perez..JoAnne Tracy 9:00 Debbie Mackanic... Family 10:30 Marie Fenamore... Antonett Castellaneta For the People of the Parish 5:00 Margaret Salerno.Antonett Castellaneta Events for this coming Week See our website www.stveronica.com Sacrificial Offering Update Last Week s Offering: $ Thank you for you continued generosity. Readings for the Week of August 2, 2015 Sunday:... Ex 16:2-4, 12-15/Eph 4:17, 20-24/Jn 6:24-35 Monday:... Nm 11:4b-15/Mt 14:13-21 Tuesday:... Nm 12:1-13/Mt 14:22-36 or 15:1-2, 10-14 Wednesday:...Nm 13:1-2, 25--14:1, 26-29a, 34-35/Mt 15:21-28 Thursday:... Dn 7:9-10, 13-14/2 Pt 1:16-19/Mk 9:2-10 Friday:... Dt 4:32-40/Mt 16:24-28 Saturday:... Dt 6:4-13/Mt 17:14-20 Next Sunday:... 1 Kgs 19:4-8/Eph 4:30--5:2/Jn 6:41-51
Pastor s Notes In today s gospel Jesus begins to reveal to the crowds that He is the Bread of Life. This is the start of a teaching which will cause many of His followers to turn away from Him. The Twelve, completely speechless, still stay loyal to Him. We do teach that the consecrated bread is the Body of Christ and the consecrated wine is the Blood of Christ. It is a reality that can only be perceived by faith. Even at the Last Supper, when Jesus instituted the Holy Eucharist, they were spared from the gruesome reality of what was to happen the following day. Today, we too are spared from this. However, by faith, we truly believe that when we receive Holy Communion, we do receive the Body and Blood of Christ through these sacramental signs. Since God does not belong to time, but rather He created time for us, we also know by faith that when we attend Mass we become present to the actual Passion, Death and Resurrection of Jesus. I do not think that Jesus is attempting to present a morbid picture to us because He has veiled that gruesome reality from us by using sacramental signs. However, we can be certain that His main motive is to show that the Father so loves us that He has given us His only Son even to the point where He has died a terrible death to save us from our sins. God still respects our divine attribute of free will and we can choose to accept His salvation or reject it. If we could only ask God to help us to understand His love for us, we could appreciate on a much deeper level how His Son s sufferings were made meaningful to us and how our sufferings can be made meaningful to ourselves and those whom we love. Yes, it is easy for us to love those whom we see. What mother would not be filled with sorrow to find her child shot to death in a movie theater? But can she say, Father, forgive them like Jesus Who died loving those who were killing Him as He tried to save them from their evil acts. Recently, you may have heard of the selling of fetal body parts by Planned Parenthood. The sin of abortion is brutal enough, but in the callousness of killing so many unborn babies, especially when they have taken on the appearance of a child, can tempt one to think, why waste them? I cannot help to recall how the Nazis made lamp shades out of human skin. These logical choices violate the same ethical principles. But why are we so blinded by this insensitivity? I find it odd that we have developed a Federal law called a hate crime. If you do harm to an individual, isn t that a form of hate? Isn t this understood? Have the courts found a way to measure the inner souls of criminals? To follow that logic, isn t greed a hate crime too? What we are missing in our thinking is an understanding of the transcendent nature of man who is made in the image and likeness of God. Every time we hate, we hate what God loves. Every time we hate we forget that we too are sinners. As Jesus begins to tell us to eat His Flesh and drink His Blood, are we appreciating His and our transcendent natures? Do we realize how important the Mass is to our lives and the warnings from the Apostles to receive it worthily? Sacramental signs instituted by Christ to give grace came at a price of the Father handing over His Son to give us an opportunity to be saved from our sinful nature. If we cannot respect God by attending Sunday Mass, can we expect us to respect the lives of the people around us? You see ISIS, shooting people, etc. are more a reflection of the importance of being religious and to be religious in charity and truth. Pope Francis said that if we did not have the Church, we would be left to the mercy of our imaginations. Many of us Catholics are making up our own rules. They may be under the guise of charity, but they are simply not under the reality of the truth and we are bearing the consequences. Fr. Euk Scripture Meditation "So they said to him, 'What can we do to accomplish the works of God?' Jesus answered and said to them, 'This is the work of God, that you believe in the one he sent.'" These fledgling believers came to Jesus seeking direction. They had witnessed his miracles, heard his teachings, and been miraculously fed by his hands. Now they wanted to know what they should do. How should they respond to the revelations they were beholding? Most of us would expect an "active" answer to a question like theirs. We tend to think of God's work as things like the corporal works of mercy--feeding the hungry and sheltering the homeless--or the spiritual works of mercy--instructing the ignorant, comforting the afflicted, and so on. But Jesus gives a surprising answer. Instead of focusing on these external tasks, he tells the crowd that God's work is to believe in him. They should accept the gift God gave: the Son. This, apparently, is the appropriate starting point for doing God's work. And really, it makes sense. If we move too quickly into doing external actions, we risk not having enough interior strength behind them. Feeding the hungry is always good, but feeding the hungry as an expression of our love for Jesus is going to enable us to feed them with more compassion, more generosity, and more long-term commitment. When faith in Jesus is foremost in our lives, then the other important tasks that are all part of God's work will fall into place. If we love Jesus, we will naturally want to love his people. So let us examine the good works that we do and be sure that they have as their starting point a deep and abiding faith in the Son of God.
OUR SPIRITUAL LIFE Adoration Chapel "Jesus speaks in the silence of the mystery of the Eucharist and every time reminds us that to follow Him means to come out of ourselves and make of our own lives, not a possession, but a gift to Him and to others." Pope Francis NEW ADORERS URGENTLY NEEDED: Sunday: 1AM, 7AM; Saturday: 1PM Contact Debbie drev514@aol.com, or 732 367 7750 Banns of Marriage James Franco and Brittany Mattia Sept. 19, 2015 (1) Please Pray for Our Sick Monica Drumm Tom Lovito Lorraine Groh Robert Sewing John Grad Mark Stoughton Michael Kuras Marge Koury Susan Termine Erin Haber Kathy Pfeifer Milly Wade Elaine Fiet Carol Gale Marie Juckiewicz Denise Bergeron Joseph Neglia Joseph Cadott Rosemarie Feyko Kenneth Vigilo Anthony Leone Victoria Burke Alice Hanvey Bill D Erasmo Sue Wurzler Thomas DiPaolo Ross Johnson Jody Melano-Gomez Margorie Paulmann Timothy Delligatti Joey Weikel Paula Baiga Tessa Marie Eby Vita O Kane Barbara Matuscak Rose Perrotta Raymond Poyer David Henriques Beverly Canzoneri Sheila McAdam Michael McAdam Krisanne Alino Rita Lenthe Robert Lenthe Francis Biegen Tania Santiago Daniel DePaul Linda Cavazzoni Jean Tierney Ruth Kavanagh Baby Wyatt Cavanagh Kim Fariello Alexandra Morello Edward O Keefe Claire Ashern James Bailey John Pecelli Roland Rodriguez Donna Wagner Carmen Devone Baby Caitlin Bright Please Pray for our Parishioners Serving our Country: Sgt. Sean T. Curran PV2 William Wotton Sft. Krystyna Cechulski S.R. Steven Brennan Corp. Ethan Bolger Corp. Luke Wlodkowski 1st Lt. Ash Young Sgt. Brennan Six GSMI Sandro Farduchi Capt. Julio Collazos Sgt. Gregory Hiller PFC Zackary Burkey 1st Lt. Robert F. Farrell Sgt. Paul Coyle Baptism St. Veronica s Parish Family wishes to welcome those who have become members through the Sacrament of Baptism: Edward Deacon, son of Edward & Jacqueline Fournier Thank you for the gift of life! Divine Mercy Devotions Please join us today, August 2nd, at 1:30 PM for Benediction and recitation of the Divine Mercy Chaplet. All are welcome. GRACE NOTES Greetings in our Lord! Your warm welcome has and continues to be very much appreciated. The firm foundation and dedication of the many members of our parish music ministry is impressive. In the following weeks keep watch for how together we will experience more fully the kingdom of our God that is here in our midst. Always feel free to visit with me after the Masses to introduce yourself, ask questions, offer suggestions, or to be among the first to learn of the developing opportunities. Pax. Regina R. Reale Music Director Summer Rosary Making Dates Rosary Making: Change in summer rosary making hours. The rosary making group will meet in the narthex on the following dates over the summer: August 7 th and August 21 st Please mark your calendars. Bishop s Anniversary Blessings 2015 All couples celebrating their 1st, 25th, or 50+ wedding anniversary during the 2015 calendar year are invited to gather with family and friends to share the Eucharist, renew your sacred wedding vows, and receive Bishop O Connell s Episcopal Blessing. Anniversary couples from Ocean and Monmouth Counties may register through the parish to attend the Sunday, October 25, 2015, Mass and Blessing at 3:00 pm at St. Robert Bellarmine Parish in Freehold (registration deadline is September 30, 2015. Going to Rutgers in New Brunswick? The Catholic Center at Rutgers, located at 84 Somerset St. on the College Avenue Campus, is looking forward to welcoming you to the New Brunswick/Piscataway campuses. Please note the following information: Sunday Masses, 12PM at Busch Student Center, 6PM Cook Campus Center, 6PM Livingston Student Center 8pm, St. Peter s Church, 94 Somerset Street. We have many open activities beginning Sept. 3rd. Please join us. Check us out at the Involvement Fair on September 7th! Visit us online at www.catholiccenter.rutgers.edu.
Be Not Afraid Family Hour Reunion Tonight A family that prays together, stays together. Sunday, August 2, 2015, at St. Veronica Church at 6:30PM The Be Not Afraid Family Hour is open to all the families in the parish who want to share their love of Jesus with other parents and children. The program includes a family hour video, which combines lessons from catechism and other spiritual topics with the recitation of the Rosary. The video program is followed by fellowship and snacks in the cafeteria. For further information email: Benotafraidfamilyhour@gmail.com Knights of Columbus Rt. Rev. John F. Baldwin Assembly 4 th Degree is having a 7 Day Fundraising Cruise to the Bahamas. Sailing from Baltimore, Md, March 6, 2016, on Carnival Pride. Cost: Cabin 4D (Inside) $866.94 p/p double occupancy and, Cabin 8C (Balcony) $1,027.94p/p double occupancy. Includes: Cruise fare, taxes and port charges, cruise protection, pre-paid gratuities and fundraiser donation. A $25 deposit will hold your cabin, due by Sept. 18, 2015. For additional information: Call Darryl at Prestige Travel Services (732)370-8810 / (732) 462-2150 Catholic Charities Catholic Charities, Diocese of Trenton is pleased to announce that Bishop David O Connell will be the recipient of the Richard J. Hughes Humanitarian Award at our 26th Annual Guardian Angel Dinner Dance, on Saturday, October 3, 2015, at the Hyatt Regency in Princeton. If you wish to become a sponsor, include a congratulatory ad in the program journal, or would like more information on the event, please go to www.catholiccharitiestrenton.org or contact Nancy Tompkins at (609) 394-5181 x1161. Catholic Charities Annual Backpack and School Supplies Drive Help a child in need get off to a smart start in the new school year. Suggested supplies for children K-12: backpacks, notebooks, pens, pencils, pencil boxes, calculators, rulers, marble note books, dictionaries, 3-ring binders, 2 pocket folders, crayons, scissors, sharpeners, protractors, markers, glue sticks, loose leaf paper. Please bring your donation to the rectory by Tuesday, August 25th. St. Mary s Singles Journey This ministry meets every Sunday @ 11:45 AM in the Spiritual Center, room 10, at St. Mary s, Colts Neck. Open to all singles, widowed, divorce, separated, never married. Age 35 + Our purpose is to support and to provide fellowship to individuals who wish to lead committed Christian lives as single through a facilitated forum. No need to walk life s journey by yourself. There are friends waiting to walk beside you. Single doesn t mean alone. Contact 732-544-8415 Tuition Sponsorship Program As you are aware from a previous posting in our bulletin, we would like to remind you that if you are interested in sponsoring a SVS student that may be facing economical challenges in these difficult times, please contact the rectory office. As we hear in this weekend s Gospel, Jesus the Good Shepherd hears and knows the needs of his flock and ministers to them. We are all called to be shepherds and you can help provide a good Catholic education to a family in need. Thank you Inner Healing Available Inner healing available. To schedule an appointment, please contact Deacon Tom and Bozena at bozenacech@optonline.net or call 732-961-3657. OUR NEEDS Food Pantry Needs- Our pantry services the needy in our area. Items needed most: Tuna Helper, boxed potatoes, Spam, mayonnaise. No pasta at this time please. Donated Electric Wheel Chair Needs Battery Call Elaine at 732-252-6546. Donated Kitchen Table, 4 chairs and breakfront (honey oak) Please call Lisa at 732-364 2996. Donated: 3 matching dressers (2 large, one small), mirror, matching night table, matching headboards. Solid wood in good condition but in need of some refinishing and replacements of knobs on dressers. If interested please call Mary Anne at 732-367-0284. Donated: Black stove. Please call Martha at 732-364- 7874.
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