Twenty-Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time September 21, 2014 Pastoral Staff Pastor Father Vincent T. Euk Parochial Vicar Fr. Vicente Magdaraog Weekend Assistant Fr. Bill O Brien Deacons Tom Gene Cechulski, F. Moir, Sr. Sr. Charles James Littlefield R. Daye, Jr. John Tomasz Franey Cechulski Gino Charles (Louis) R. Daye Esposito Jr. John Franey School Gino (Louis) Principal Esposito Sister Cherree Power, C.R. School Principal Religious Sister Cherree Education Power, C.R. Brenda Heffernan, D.R.E. Susan Religious Education Parish Brenda Administrator Heffernan, D.R.E. Leonard Lauren DeMaio, P. Weg C.R.E. Director Parish Administrator of Music Nancy Leonard Condardo P. Weg Director of ACTS Deacon Director Tom of Music Cechulski Bozena Nancy Condardo Cechulski Coordinator of Youth Ministry Director of ACTS Deacon John Tom Franey Cechulski Bozena Cechulski Phone Contacts Rectory 732-363-4200 Coordinator of Youth Convent 732-364-2361 Ministry Deacon John Franey School 732-364-4130 Religious Phone Contacts Education 732-364-4137 Rectory 732-363-4200 Cafeteria 732-364-9455 Convent 732-364-2361 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 ACTS Office 732-364- 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 Mass every third Tuesday at 8PM. Sacrament Sacrament of Reconciliation of Reconciliation Saturdays Saturdays from 4:00 from to 4:45PM 3:00 to or 3:45PM call to schedule and before an each appointment Sunday Mass with a priest.
Mass Intentions for this Week September 21, 2014 7:20 Marge Wands... Bill & Pat Fosgreen 12:00 Patricia Phillips... Family TUESDAY..St. Pius of Pietrelcina, pr. 7:20 Alana Marie Allorto... Hoefler Family 12:00 Lenny & Terry Weg... Family 7:20 Leslie & Ella Althaver... Ed & Mary Althaver 12:00 Elaine Hart...The Creevy Family 8:00AM Sandra Faison... Martha Trombley 4:00PM Joseph Lattari... Family 7:20 Priest Intentions 12:00 Richard & Lucretia A. Santoro... Gippetti Family THURSDAY 7:20 Intentions of Deacon Tommy... Chickie & Richard 12:00 Ana Berardi... Polera Family 7:30 For the People of the Parish 9:00 Marge Wands... Dolly Gutowski 10:30 Joseph Cassidy... Bill & Pat Fosgreen 12:00 PM Anne O Keefe... Joe & Elaine Tirella 5:00 PM Angela Pensabene... Donna Pensabene & Anthony Events for this Coming Week SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY 6:30 Men s Gathering 1:00 Alanon R 3:30 Rosary Making N 10:00 Little Flowers CF 1:15 Fellowship CF 1:30 Baptism C 6:45 Legion of Mary-N 7:00 Boy Scout Troop #300 CF 5:30 Junior Legion of Mary N 6:15 RCIA CF 7:30 Bingo CF 8:00 Novena/Rosary N 7:30 Maranatha Prayer Group N 7:00 Healing Hearts N 7:30 Ask the Pastor N 8:00 MQP Prayer Group C 9:00 Men s AA R 9:00 Men s Adoration C Key for Event Locations: C-church, CF-school cafeteria, L-school library, R- rectory, SC-Spiritual center, N-narthex Sacrificial Offering Update Scripture Readings for the week of September 21, 2014 Sunday:... Is 55:6-9/Phil 1:20c-24, 27a/Mt 20:1-16a Monday:... Prv 3:27-34/Lk 8:16-18 Tuesday:... Prv 21:1-6, 10-13/Lk 8:19-21 Wednesday:... Prv 30:5-9/Lk 9:1-6 Thursday:... Eccl 1:2-11/Lk 9:7-9 Friday:... Eccl 3:1-11/Lk 9:18-22 Saturday:... Eccl 11:9--12:8/Lk 9:43b-45 Next Sunday:... Ez 18:25-28/Phil 2:1-11 or 2:1-5/Mt 21:28-32
Pastor s Notes I would like to thank all those who have been mowing the lawns, but we still do need more people to cut the grass. A weekly two hour commitment would probably be enough to get things done. I also want to thank the landscape people who have also volunteered their time to make the church and school area look so nice. Please call the rectory if you can help. We are also in need of getting about six people to work on cleaning the radiators in the cafeteria and the church. It looks like these may have not been cleaned in many years. This would be a commitment of five hours for each location and it will not only save on the gas bills, but also on the comfort in our church during Mass. Please call the rectory if you can help. I also want to thank the team of electricians who have fixed the lighting in the gym and on the stage in preparation for the spring play, Annie. The April 18th performance will have a pre-play dinner sponsored by the Knights of Columbus after the Sunday Vigil Mass. Thanks also to the two volunteer high school students, graduates of SVS, for setting up thirteen new computers in the school. They spent many hours updating the computers. This time we purchased used laptops to replace the now obsolete XP computers in the computer lab. I am happy to report that our school enrollment exceeded my projections by about 70 students. We are hopeful that the school will be self supporting in two more years or less. If you would like to assist in helping needy parents pay their tuition bills, please call the rectory. We will be honoring SVS graduates who are serving us in law enforcement with a fund raising dinner after the Sunday Vigil Mass on October 25th. This too will be sponsored by the Knights of Columbus. The Knights of Columbus will be selling red roses for the Right to Life on the weekend of October 4/5. They will also be recruiting members. I personally have benefitted from being a 4th Degree Knight for over 32 years. It is a wonderful group of men and they do lots of charity work. They are supporting the EWTN and Salt & Light television networks. They also have a woman s group too. Fr. Euk Chapter 55 of Isaiah is the last chapter of the Book of Consolations, also known as Second Isaiah. It contains those beautiful images of come to the waters and snow and rain come down. It also stresses the complete otherness of God His ways are not at all like our ways. In this passage God is deeply concerned about our affairs in a loving way. God is seen as being extremely generous in forgiving to those who change from their evil ways. Today we know God is ever present to us not only in church, but in our personal lives. Phillipi, where St. Paul is writing from, is located in Macadonia which is now in northern Greece. Today s letter was written about 50 AD and Paul is in prison awaiting a sentence of life or death. He has a keen awareness that Jesus is the source of Life and he is looking forward to death where he can make the big transition into Eternal Life. But even Paul, being so much like Christ, still is willing to live in his suffering flesh as long as God wants so he can continue to lead others to Christ and Eternal Life. The Gospel portrays the unlimited generosity of God who is concerned about the needs of all people. He is concerned not about justice, but about His generosity and His absolute control over everything. At the end of the day, the landowner deliberately has the last come first and they get a full day s pay. He could have avoided the grumbling by paying them in the order that they started work. The landowner symbolizes God Who has compassion for the poor and unemployed. He gives a wage that is calculated not on laws of the market, but on the real needs of people. The compensation symbolizes our heavenly reward. It is not a legal claim on God because no one who has walked the earth can claim it. It is independent of any claims of human merit and work because it is from His overflowing generosity. God is loyal in keeping His word to His loyal subjects. If you love me, keep My commandments. An early call to discipleship does not entitle us to a calculated degrees of reward. The reward depends on what we do with our gifts that God has given us. God's justice cuts through the embellishments of evil. God sees what our intentions are because He knows the human heart. His judgment rebuffs the proud claims of merit. Let us pray for humility before God so that we do not fall prey to the illusion that we know God so well that we can ignore Him and get away with it. Fr. Euk
OUR SPIRITUAL LIFE NEW ADORERS URGENTLY NEEDED: Sunday: 1AM, 7AM; Monday: 1AM, 10AM; Sat: 1AM all hours available Email/message Debbie drev514@aol.com, 732 367 7750 Inner Healing Available Basic Christian Maturity Series Are you looking to learn more about your Catholic faith? Join us on Wednesday evenings from 7:15-9pm; Sept 17 thru Nov 5th. Meet in the foyer of the school (near gym) at 715. We will begin talk promptly at 7:30. Bring a bible, pen and paper. For questions and to register, contact Karen Haber 908 612-9782 khawaywego@gmail.com St. Veronica Church Annual Retreats Please Pray for Our Sick Deacon Tommy or Deacon Gino at Actsoffice@stveronica.com or download the registration form on our website (WWW.Stveronica.com). Please Pray for our Parishioners Serving our Country: Baptism Life Chain Sunday, October 5 The 24 th Annual LIFE CHAIN will take place from 2:30 to 3:30 PM on Sunday, October 5, in front of St. Veronica s Rectory. LIFE CHAIN is an annual nation-wide event of peaceful and prayerful public witness against abortion and for greater respect for all human life. Pro-life witnesses will be forming a Life Chain along Rt. 9 in front of the St. Veronica s Rectory. Signs which state Abortion Kills Children, Jesus Forgives and Heals, etc. will be available. Please join us and stand up for life! Refreshments will be served following the witnessing. Life Chain can be used for Confirmation service time by the 8 th graders. Please contact Hu and Joan Mador at 732-367- 2565 or hmador@optonline.net for more information.
Blessing of the Animals We will hold our annual Blessing of the Animals on the Feast of St. Francis, Saturday, October 4th at 10:30 AM. Please gather at the entrance of the church mall. Events Committee Needs Members Please consider joining our Events Committee team. We focus on both fundraising and parish functions that can bring us all together as a community. We have organized things such as our Mega 50/50, Pasta Dinner, St. Patrick s Day celebration, and Ipad Santa s secret raffle. We would like to make even more plans for next year, but we will need more hands to do so. We generally meet once every other month. Please consider joining this very worthwhile committee. If you are interested please call Cheryl at the rectory. 732-363-4200. Evenings of Recollection for Married and Engaged Couples Saint Robert Bellarmine, 61 Georgia Road, Freehold, New Jersey, 07728, will host a series of Evenings of Recollection for Married and Engaged Couples beginning on September 24 th from 7:30 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.. Drawn from the tradition of Lectio Divina, each session will focus on increasing the Prayer life of couples, encouraging their shared conversation with God, so that each married couple experiences the fullness of an extraordinary marriage, which God desires so deeply for you. Session one, Praying Together, will guide you toward new ways to Pray as a couple. Session two, Living Out Your Baptism in Your Marriage, to be held October 29 th, will explore how the Prayerfulness and mystery of your baptism serve to energize your married life. The final session onnovember 19 th, Praying the Eucharist as a Couple: An Invitation to Holy Communion, will focus on how this highest form of Prayer can take a unique central position in the Prayer life of married couples. SAVE THE DATE FOR SOME FUN!!!! SVS BARNYARD October 18th 12:00 pm - 3:00pm Lots of activities - bounce house, petting zoo, reptile show, pony rides, concession stand Come join our St Veronica School and Church Community - and bring a Friend! All proceeds benefit St. Veronica School. Admission and details to follow. Please Help Us Support St. Veronica School Stop & Shop Starting October 4, 2014 through March 19, 2015, St Veronica School will have the opportunity to earn cash through the Stop & Shop Rewards Program. All you have to do is log on to www.stopandshop.com/ aplus and select CUSTOMER REGISTRATION to register online using your Stop & Shop Card. The St Veronica School ID number is 03987. IS GOD CALLING YOU? Each session will be followed by a short gathering with wine, cheese and desserts where couples can join in conversation and fellowship. To help us plan, please RSVP toretreat924@strobert.com if you plan on joining us. Oktoberfest To be held October 3rd at the Tap House in Spring Lake Heights, will support the Catholic Charities programs for Children and Families in Monmouth County. For information on these programs, visit our website www.catholiccharitiestrenton.org/monmouth OUR NEEDS Pantry Very Low. Items Most Needed Spaghetti sauce, canned fruit, tuna helper, tuna, pork and beans, canned vegetables, cereal