CHRISTMAS SCHEDULE 2015 Advent Confessions Saturdays, December 5, 12, 19, 2015 11:00 AM and after 7:00 PM Mass MONDAY, December 7, 2015 7:00 AM Marie Navalany, r/o Chris Porchetta 8:45 AM Anne Cooney, r/o Helen Slusark 7:00 PM Jean Confer, r/o Feeney Family TUESDAY, December 8, 2015 HOLY DAY 7:00 AM Thomas Rudnicki, r/o Partyka Family 8:45 AM C. William Bowkley, r/o Wife and Son 7:00 PM Michael Keker, r/o Wife & Family WEDNESDAY, December 9, 2015 7:00 AM Robert Velasco, r/o Diane Jones 8:45 AM Jan & Maria Kolesar, r/o Milka & Family THURSDAY, December 10, 2015 7:00 AM John Colucci, r/o Michael & Doreen Duffy 8:45 AM Frank Comito, r/o Peter & Christine Farbaniec FRIDAY, December 11, 2015 7:00 AM Frank Jazikoff, Sr., r/o M/M Richard Fetzer 8:45 AM Thomas Fenlon, r/o SJV Altar Rosary Society SATURDAY, December 12, 2015 8:00 AM Joanne Arena, r/o Tom Damico 5:00 PM Jean Leahy, r/o Carol & Flavio Talarico 7:00 PM Robert Botti, r/o Feeney Family SUNDAY, December 13, 2015 7:00 AM Living and Deceased Members of our Parish 9:00 AM Ralph & Elvira Dorio, r/o Anthony & Mary Virazzi 10:45 AM Palma Sisco, r/o Mom & Dad 12:15 PM Sylvia Covino, r/o Patricia Berry Remember and pray for the sick of the parish, those who are hospitalized, and their caregivers: Rose Thompson, Tyrita Julius, Beatrice Schott, Al Papa, Debbie & Lonnie Perryman, Susan Endler, Harry McCabe, Michael Prongay, Carolyn Kearney, June Woods, Stephen Hahn, Nicole Kimble, Joan Tedesco, Filomena Armellino, Keith DiGiuseppe, Peter King, Vincent Spino, Baby Charlotte Olivo, Assunta Kovalcik, Susan Lisowski, Jim Kenney, Glenn Daniel, Barbara Roberts, Chris Schwartz, Michael Christie, Jane Alencewicz, Heather Marie Olivo, Bethany Ciccarelli, Baby Tyler Bishop, Neil Scheve, Eric LeGrande, and please remember our service men and women in your prayers. Let us pray for our recently departed brothers and sisters, Noreen Gillespie, Joseph Jacobi and reward them a place in heaven and eternal rest. BANS OF MARRIAGE Christopher Aulisi and Amelia Corral January 3, 2016 Advent/Christmas Lessons & Carols Choir Concert Sunday, December 13, 2015 3:00 PM Christmas Eve Masses Thursday, December 24, 2015 Christmas Pageant 3:45 PM - Church 4:00 PM (Children s Choir), 5:30 PM, Midnight Mass Christmas Carols 11:30 PM Christmas Day Masses Friday, December 25, 2015 9:00 and 10:45 AM, and 12:15 PM Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God Holy Day of Obligation New Year s Eve & Day Masses Thursday, December 31, 2015 5:00 PM Friday, January 1, 2016 9:00 AM The Bread and Wine have been offered in loving memory of Margaret McClellan From Bacsik Family and Robert Buettel From Mom The Sanctuary Light Has Been Donated in loving memory of Chester Banasiak from Wife, Daughter & Family GOD S PLAN FOR GIVING Collection for the weekend of 11/22/15 was $13,551.25 11/29/15 was $15,598.25 May God bless you for your generosity. SPECIAL COLLECTION FOR ELDERLY RELIGIOUS Aging religious need your help. In the United States today, there are more than 33,000 senior Catholic sisters, brothers, and religious order priests. These religious worked tirelessly in Catholic schools, hospitals, and agencies, usually for little to no pay. As a result, many religious communities lack adequate savings for retirement and eldercare. Your gift to today s collection for the Retirement Fund for Religious helps provide medications, nursing care, and more. Please be generous. PARISH BREAKFAST THIS WEEKEND. Please join us in the cafeteria after 9AM Sunday Mass. Our hosts this month are SJV School Basketball and Cheering
e welcome our littlest members born to new life Baptized in water and the Holy Spirit November 22, 2015 Matthew James Aure Child of Menandro and Joanna Geneblazo Aure Carl Stevie Collins III Child of Carl and Carmen Berbari Collins Next Baptismal class will be December 15, 2015 Please call the Rectory to register. ALTAR ROSARY SOCIETY The gift counter now has Christmas items available. Advent wreaths, candles, children s books, and Christmas wafers (Oplatki) which are also available at the Rectory. Special orders taken. PARISH POINSETTIA SALE DECEMBER 5 th and 6th It s almost time to get out your Christmas decorations! Please support your Parish Community. Buy your Poinsettias at St. John Vianney this year! Colors include: Red, Pink, White, Marble in both large and small sizes. St. John Vianney School News Students will attend 10 AM Mass on Tuesday, December 8, for the Feast of the Immaculate Conception. On Friday, December 11, there will be a 12:15 PM dismissal. Aftercare will be provided. If your child will be staying in aftercare, please send them to school with a lunch. The Home School Association is sponsoring Story Time with Santa on Friday, December 11, from 6-8 PM. If you purchased tickets, they will be sent home with your child this week. Our annual second grade Christmas pageant will take place on Wednesday, December 16, at 7 PM in church. All are welcome! If you haven t already done so, please return your Calendar Raffle tickets to school as soon as possible. The first drawing will take place in January. Now is a great time to purchase Scrip. There are so many restaurants and retailers from which to choose. It makes great Christmas gifts! Pre-School News We will have an early dismissal on Friday, December 11. Students who only attend in the morning will dismiss at 10 AM, and full day students will dismiss at 12 noon. Aftercare will be provided. The children will be performing their Christmas Concert for their families in the Parish Center at 9:00 AM on Tuesday, December 15. THE GIVING TREE As you can see the Giving Tree is back! Please take an ornament and return it the weekend of December 12/13 with the tag securely attached to the (New, Unwrapped gift). Gift cards and monetary donations may be placed in the box provided. Please indicate the gift card amount. If you are a group, organization or family and would like to adopt a family to give to, please contact us for a family list. St. Vincent DePaul, SJV ProLife, Local Seniors, Catholic Charities, and SJV families in need will be the recipients of your generous gifts. Give and it shall be given to you. - Luke 6:38 Barbara Morrisey- 732-501-2195 or Donna Worosila -732-381-1584 YOUTH MINISTRY Happy Advent! The youth group will be meeting this Sunday night, December 6th from 7:00pm to 8:30pm in Trailer D. Come hear the adventurous tales of the National Catholic Youth Conference. All 8th through 12th graders are welcome! Registration for the Christmas retreat weekend is now closed. The Christmas retreat will take place from December 11th to the 13th. We will be moving away from the consumerism aspect of Christmas and discussing the scripture stories as they relate to our lives today. We would like to congratulate Fr. Thomas as he is installed as Pastor at St. Cecelia's on December 19th. All teens are invited to assist with the set up, serving, and clean up, of a short celebration in the back of the church after the 4:30pm mass on December 19th. I look forward to seeing you there!! Interested in youth ministry? We have rolling admissions which means anyone can join at any time throughout the year. You may be interested to know that there are no obligations, and no cost to becoming part of this amazing ministry. John Cook can be reached at jcook@sjvs.net, or by calling the office at (732) 381-0008. We are all about adventure based immersion experiences which allow you to joyfully become active in your catholic faith experience. It's Epic!!
MUSIC MINISTRY NEWS Parish Mass Headcount What Did We Learn? Adult Choir A few weeks ago I explained that the Bishop s Office has asked Thanks to ALL the members of our adult choir who sang at the 9:00 every Parish in the Diocese to count the number of persons attending am mass last Sunday! Our group is now practicing for our parish every weekend Mass during the first four weekends in November. Advent/Christmas concert, which will be held on Sunday December The numbers are in 13 th in the church. We meet each Wednesday evening from 7:30 to 9:00 Pm in the church. The adult choir sings most Sundays at the Using averages for the four weeks of November: 9:00 Am mass and occasionally at the 10:45 Am mass. The adult Mass with the highest attendance: 5:00 pm (average 321.5 people choir also sings for Midnight Mass on Christmas Eve, Holy Week, per Mass) The Easter Vigil and several other liturgical celebrations throughout Mass with the second highest attendance: 10:45 am (average 316.25 the year. Our next rehearsal will be on Wednesday December 9 th people per Mass) at 7:30 P m in the church. New members (Including high school students) are welcome to join! Curious about the others? 7:00 pm average 135.25 people per Mass 7:00 am average 128 people per Mass 9:00 am average 301.75 people per Mass 12:15 pm average 278.75 people per Mass The average number of people at the six weekend Masses as 1,481.5. If that sounds like a lot of people consider that there are 3,109 registered families (families, not people; assuming an average of 2.54 people per family, that s 7896.86 people) in the parish. What you may not realize is that when we counted, we counted everyone not just people in the pews we counted: the Priest; the Deacon, if any; Altar Servers; the Organist; the Cantor, the members of the Choir; the Extraordinary Ministers; the Lector; Ushers (whether or not wearing the red jacket); people standing; people in the crying room. What else did we observe? More people sit in the back two sections of the Church than in the front two sections. With respect to the front, more people tend to sit in the front left (organ side) than in the front right Mary side) section. The back two sections are fairly equally filled. So, if you are running late for Mass and want to get a seat head up to one of the front sections! A THANK YOU The Knights of Columbus Council 6571 would like to thank the parishioners of St. John Vianney for their support in the recent Blood Drive and Alzheimer s donation. We had many new donors this year, and for every pint of blood that was given, potentially three lives are saved. 100% of the Alzheimer s donations goes for research and respite care. Thank you and God Bless. ST. VINCENT de PAUL SOCIETY The November poor box contained $1,835.00. This amount includes a $10.00 gift card from Foodtown. The Thanksgiving collections (Wednesday Vigil and Thanksgiving Day) contained $2,064. Thank you... and may God continue to bless you and your families for your generosity Children s Choir Thanks to all the students who came out to sing for Christmas tree lighting ceremony at the Evergreen Center this past Thursday! We are singing this Sunday December 6 th at the 9:00 am family mass. All are invited to join us after mass for breakfast in the school cafeteria. The children s choir generally meets for practice on Tuesday afternoons from 4:00 to 5:00 Pm in the church. The group sings twice a month at either the 9:00 or 10:45 Am mass! Our next practice will be on Tuesday December 8 th from 4:00 to 5:00 pm in the church. We are now practicing for the parish Christmas Pageant as well as the 4:00 pm family mass on Christmas Eve! We will also be singing one more time during Advent, on Sunday December 20 th at the 10:45 am mass. All children in the parish from 2nd grade and up are welcome to join!! Interested in joining one of our musical groups? Please feel free to e-mail me at jframeiii@yahoo or call/text me at (908)331-0471 with any questions you might have. Jamie Frame, Dir. of Music/Organist SJV Children s Christmas Pageant All children in our parish (Pre-K and up) are invited to participate in our annual Christmas pageant on Christmas Eve! We are in need of shepherds, angels, wisemen, and animals for the living nativity! The pageant will take place on Thursday December 24 th at 3:45 in the church, following the pageant all students will be asked to sit with their families for the 4:00 pm Christmas Eve Mass. There will be one rehearsal for ALL participants will be on Monday December 21 st at 4:00 Pm in the church. All costumes will be given out at the rehearsal. Information will be going home with ALL students in SJV School as well as religious education. Please call Mrs. Cowan at the religious education office or Jamie Frame at (908) 331-0471 with any questions. SJV Parish Advent/Christmas Concert!! On Sunday December 13 th at 3:00 pm, our parish adult choir will be singing some of your favorite Christmas Carols. There will also be reading from sacred scripture as well as an opportunity to sing some carols together. Following the lessons and carols you are invited to join with us in the school cafeteria for a pre-christmas celebration of all your favorite Christmas Cookies. We will also have crafts and games for all the children. So bring the whole family out to join with your parish family!!! Hope to see you on the 13 th!!
ST. ANDREW S CHRISTMAS BAZAAR 244 Avenel St., Avenel, NJ DECEMBER 12, 2015 10:00 am TO 3:00 pm Enjoy prizes, raffles, crafts, white elephant table and delicious food and homemade cakes for sale. The Pastoral Care Ministry of Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital at Rahway is in need of EMs to distribute Holy Communion to its Catholic patients. If you have an hour or two to help one or more weekdays or week-ends, please contact Pastoral Care Office at 732-499-6049 or email: revlamirez@yahoo.com or ecrawford@rwjuhr.com Please leave a message for the staff to return your call. Come and join us in this most rewarding mercy ministry. Mother Seton Regional High School Annual Musical - "Hairspray" December 11, 12 (7:30 p.m.) 13 (2:00 p.m.) Visit our website www.motherseton.org for details RESERVE THE DATE! TRIP WITH FR. JOSEPH KUBIAK JULY 15 24, 2016 Trip to Poland during the Year of Mercy Call the Rectory at 732-574-0150 or Phyllis Gomolka at 732-566-4115 for more information. IRELAND PILGRIMAGE WITH FR. DAVID KOSMOSKI OF ST. ANDREW S PARISH IN AVENEL MARCH 1 11, 2016 SPACE LIMITED, RESERVE SOON! See Waterford, Killarney, Galway, Donegal, Ring of Kerry, Blarney Castle, Shrine of Knock, and Dublin. Departure from Newark. Price is $2399. For full brochure call 732-634-4355 or visit www.standrewparish.com or spiritualpilgrimages.org
A CELEBRATION OF CHRISTMAS You and your family are invited to attend our Annual Parish Advent/Christmas Concert SUNDAY DECEMBER 13 TH AT 3:00 PM ST. JOHN VIANNEY CHURCH We will be featuring some Christmas Classics and we will join together in singing some of our traditional Christmas Carols. Please join us in a Pre-Christmas Celebration of Holiday Cookies and Children s Crafts following the concert in the school cafeteria.