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Saint Joseph Roman Catholic Church Oradell / New Milford, NJ
Third Sunday of Lent ~ March 23, 2014
Sacramental Life
Reconciliation / Confessions
Saturday, 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Baptism
Contact the Parish Office before the
fifth month of pregnancy.
Marriage
Arrangements should be made with a
priest at least one year in advance.
Sick / Homebound / Hospital Ministry
Call the Parish Office.
Mass Schedule
Sunday Mass
Saturday 5:00 pm Anticipated
Sunday 7:00 am 8:30 am
10:30 am 12:30 pm
Daily Mass
Weekdays 7:00 am and 8:30 am
Saturday 8:30 am
Holy Days as announced
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
Contact the Religious Education Office.
Parish Registration
Contact the Parish Office.
Parish Staff
Rev. Msgr. David C. Hubba, PASTOR
Rev. Andrew Park Rev. Roy Regaspi PAROCHIAL VICAR PAROCHIAL
VICAR
Mrs. Colette Vail Principal of Saint Joseph School
Mrs. Angela Gussoni Vice Principal of Saint Joseph School
Mrs. Diane Hellriegel Dir. of Communications &
Development
Mr. Thomas Meli Facilities Director
Mr. Monroe Quinn Director of Music
Mrs. Phyllis Vrola Mrs. Anne Annunziato Business Manager Parish
Secretary
Deacon George Montalvo Director of Religious Education
Mrs. Arlene Kennedy Sacrament Coordinator
Mr. Anthony Armando Youth Minister
Office Location Phone Email Website
Parish Office 105 Harrison St., New Milford 201-261-0148
[email protected] sjcnj.org
Religious Education 105 Harrison St., New Milford 201-261-1144
[email protected] sjcreligioused.blogspot.com
Saint Joseph School 305 Elm St., Oradell 201-261-2388
[email protected] sjsusa.org
the greenhouse-PreK 305 Elm St., Oradell 201-477-8114
[email protected] greenhouseusa.org
Parish Office Hours: Weekdays 9 am - 5 pm or by appointment
Religious Ed. Office Hours: Mon.-Thurs. 9am - 5 pm
Rev. George M. Reilly PASTOR EMERITUS
Msgr. Richard Groncki
WEEKEND ASSISTANT
The Samaritan woman said to him, “How can you, a Jew,
ask me, a Samaritan woman, for a drink?”
Jesus answered and said to her, “If you knew the gift of God
and who is saying to you, ‘Give me a drink,’
you would have asked him and he would have given you living
water.”
Jn 4:9a-10
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PRAYER REQUESTS Let us remember those who are ill: Harold
Reilly, Brian Jaimes, Aniano Yabut, Marie Codner
Let us remember those who have recently died: Rev. James A.
Kirchner
Let us remember those serving in the military.
SAINT JOSEPH CHURCH ORADELL/NEW MILFORD, NJ
Sunday Collection for Week of March 16, 2014 Basket ParishPay
TOTAL
$9,403 $4,879 $14,282
Our bulletin can also be viewed at sjcnj.org
OUR LADY OF FATIMA FIRST SATURDAY
MASS AND LUNCHEON—APRIL 5 Every year our Social Concerns
Committee hosts a special Mass for individuals who are handicapped
and have a difficult time getting to Mass or social events. The
Mass this year is scheduled for April 5 at 12 noon and will include
Anointing of the Sick, followed by the recitation of the Rosary and
then a luncheon in our lower school gym. All facilities used are
handicapped-accessible. The invitation to this Mass and luncheon is
extended to our homebound parishioners as well. If you would like
more information, please contact Flor Alto at 201-265-1254 or Joan
Murray at 201-265-5823.
LENTEN INDIVIDUAL CONFESSION The opportunity for individual
confession is offered every Monday night in Lent from 6:30—7:00 pm
and on Saturdays from 4:00-5:00 pm in the Reconciliation Room
located at the Elm Street (main) entrance of the church.
STATIONS OF THE CROSS The Stations of the Cross are celebrated
every Friday in Lent at 7:30 pm and also at 2:00 pm with the
schoolchildren (except
April 4 and April 18). Parishioners are welcome to attend.
March 22 2014 Marguerite Jackson
March 23 2014 People of the Parish Thomas Boccieri Courtney
Jensen Catherine Fuhrman Tom Callahan
March 24 2014 Helen Lipinski Judene Maron Bagliere
March 25 2014 Marissa Allen Joan Haney
March 26 2014 Jack Flannery Judene Maron Baglieri
March 27 2014 William Flannery Mary Ann Mills
March 28 2014 Mary Jane Kilker Don a Felicita Diaz
March 29 2014 The Deceased Members of the Dias and Mendes
Families Richard Nelson
March 30 2014 People of the Parish Shaun Cannan Mr. & Mrs.
William Griffin Teresa Giammarino Lucy Barone
Saturday 5:00 pm
Sunday 7:00 am 8:30 am 10.30 am UC 10:30 am MC 12:30 pm
Monday 7:00 am 8:30 am
Tuesday 7:00 am 8:30 am
Wednesday 7:00 am 8:30 am
Thursday 7:00 am 8:30 am
Friday 7:00 am 8:30 am
Saturday 8:30 am 5:00 pm
Sunday 7:00 am 8:30 am 10.30 am UC 10:30 am MC 12:30 pm
BREAD AND WINE INTENTIONS The Bread and Wine for the week of
March 23, 2014
is offered in loving memory of Helen O”Brien
requested by the O’Brien Family.
GIVE THE GIFT OF PRAYER Bread and Wine intentions are available
throughout 2014. Bread and Wine together is an $80 donation,
individually a $40 donation. Contact the parish office for
available dates and to place your request.
CATHOLIC ADVOCATE ONLINE The March issue of the Archdiocesan
publication The Catholic Advocate can be viewed online at
http:www.editions.us.com/catholicadvocate_0314
PARISH COMMUNAL PENANCE SERVICE —APRIL 7
Our Lenten Communal Penance Service is scheduled for Monday,
April 7 at 7:30 pm in the upper church.
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THIRD SUNDAY OF LENT, MARCH 23, 2014
PARISH RELIGIOUS EDUCATION
Confirmation preparation sessions continue on Sundays at 8:15 am
in the lower school gym. The last date is March 30.
Lenten Penance Service for Grade 8 will be March 26 from 4:30 to
6 pm.
First Holy Communion Retreat Day is next Saturday, March 29 from
9 am-12:30 pm in the lower school.
Substitute catechists are needed for all sessions. If you can
help, please call the Religious Education Office at
201-261-1144.
FROM THE PASTOR’S DESK HOLY THURSDAY RITE OF WASHING OF FEET The
Lord Jesus washed the feet of his disciples at the Last Supper as a
sign of the new commandment that Christians should love one
another. For centuries, the Church has imitated the Lord through
the ritual enactment of that commandment in the washing of feet on
Holy Thursday.
If you would like to be part of the rite of foot washing at our
celebration of the Mass of the Lord’s Last Supper on Holy Thursday,
April 17, please call the rectory/parish office at 201-261-0148 or
speak to Monsignor Hubba.
∎ Luke 1, 26-38 alone records the Annunciation, the encounter in
Nazareth of
Mary, then almost certainly a teenager, with God’s messenger,
the Archangel Gabriel, sent to enlist her cooperation in human
life’s most momentous event. The angel discloses to her that God
wants her to be the mother of his Son, who is to establish an
unending kingdom and so fulfill God’s longed-for promises to
Israel. On Tuesday we celebrate this feast that recalls the first
stirrings of salvation. The Annunciations is one of the first
Gospel events to be artistically depicted. In a gallery of Rome’s
Catacomb of St. Priscilla there is a simple painting that portrays
it on a tomb built some time before the year 200. Two hundred and
fifty years later, the curious Syrian Saint Simeon Stylites died
after one of the most austere lives in Christian history, in which
he spent years living on top of a tall column in Qal’at Sim’an,
about forty miles northeast of Antioch. From there he preached,
with considerable success, to passing humanity. Admirers eventually
built an impressive shrine around his famous pillar, and later
someone assembled a collection of sixty moulds for making
devotional tokens for pilgrims. Four of them portray the
Annunciation. Almost a thousand years later, an unknown Polish
artist created an illustration for an antiphonary, a book for choir
members to use when singing the Divine Office. For vespers service,
Mary is shown reading at a lectern, teaching the angel as he kneels
at her feet. The opening verse of the service is Psalm 43, 2:
We have heard, O God, with our ears: our fathers have declared
to us, the work thou has wrought in their days, and in the days of
old.
About fifty years after, the Sicilian artist, Antonello da
Messina painted “The Virgin Annunciate,” a beautiful young Mary
wearing a muted blue veil, who sits at a desk gazing out at us from
above her prayer book. It is one of the few works to illustrate the
Annunciation by showing Mary alone. As she reflects on the
astonishing message she has just received, her luminous face
displays a faint smile that is both mysterious and serene. American
painter Henry Ossawa Tanner’s “The
Annunciation” (1898), an arrestingly beautiful modern treatment,
depicts Mary sitting on her bed gazing at a shining light that
manifests the Archangel’s presence.
(continued)
However we envision this famous scene, we see in Mary the one
who said, in response to God’s summons, “Let it be done to me
according to your will”—all that anyone can say to God, really.
Before Jesus taught us to say “Thy will be done on earth as it is
in heaven,” his mother left us this lesson by the willing gift of
her life.
∎ Please keep praying for the candidates and team of our Men’s
Cornerstone. The Lord is sure to make good things happen as a
result of their efforts on their just-completed weekend. Thanks to
all who made it possible.
Msgr. David Hubba
BINGO & BASKET—APRIL 24 The Saint Joseph Social Concerns
Committee will be sponsoring a “Bingo & Basket” and Tricky Tray
fundraiser to benefit our Brother/Sister Parish of St. Joseph in
Jersey City on Thursday evening , April 24, in the lower school
gym. Bingo prizes will be COACH and VERA BRADLEY pocketbooks.
Beverages and delicious desserts will be served. For reservations,
call Joanne Hudes at 201-261-6810. Donation is $20. If you would
like to donate a gift for the Tricky Tray, please call Joan at
201-261-4323 or Pat at 201-261-4323. It promises to be a fun
evening!
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SAINT JOSEPH CHURCH ORADELL/NEW MILFORD, NJ
Visit our websites at : Church: sjcnj.org School: sjsusa.org
Religious Ed.: sjcreligioused.blogspot.com
ORADELL UNICO SPRING DANCE —APRIL 6
Oradell UNICO invites you to its Spring Dinner Dance at the
Valley Brook Golf Club, 15 River Vale Road, River Vale, NJ on
Sunday, April 6 from 5:00-9:00 pm. Tickets are $65 per person and
include a delicious dinner buffet and dancing to the music of The
Lyriqs. Cash bar is available.
All proceeds benefit local charities, scholarships and community
needs.
For tickets, please call fellow parishioners Dennis Maloney at
201-265-1534 or Bob Valentino at 201-265-5698.
HIGH SCHOOL EXPO —APRIL 2 Is your child currently in grades 6 or
7? Is your child currently in high school and looking for a change?
The Catholic high schools of the Archdiocese of Newark are
sponsoring a High School Admissions Fair called High School Expo.
This event is conducted in a college fair style. School staff and
student representatives will be on hand to share information with
your family: academics, financial aid, extra-curricular activities,
and more. Our schools have a near 100% graduation rate with 97% of
seniors going on to attend college.
The event will be held at Visitation Academy, 222 Farview
Avenue, Paramus on April 2 from 7:00-8:30 pm. No pre-registration
is required and younger siblings are welcome. For more information,
call Laura Cristiano at 973-497-4258.
ON MY HONOR Last Sunday, members and leaders of Saint Joseph Boy
Scout Troop 142 and our Cub Scout Pack came together to celebrate
Boy Scout Sunday and to fulfill their promise “to do their best to
do their duty to God.” Fr. Roy presented the Parvuli Dei medal to
the Cub Scouts who had recently been recognized at the Cathedral
Basilica of the Sacred Heart in Newark for completing a wide range
of activities designed to help them discover the presence of God in
their daily lives.
CATHOLIC SCOUTING IN THE ARCHDIOCESE
Boy Scout /Cub Scout leaders are invited to BSA Catholic Emblem
Coordinators Training on April 6 from
9:30 am-3:30 pm. Girl Scout leaders are invited to a Girl Scout
Leaders Gathering on May 31 from 9:30-11:30 am. Both events will
take place in the Archdiocesan Youth Center in Kearny, NJ and are
offered at no cost. Registration is required. Contact Rich Donovan
at 201-998-0088 ext. 4150 or at [email protected] to register.
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THIRD SUNDAY OF LENT, MARCH 23, 2014
“REJOICE IN GOD’S MERCY” ARCHDIOCESAN WOMEN’S COMMISSION
—APRIL 26 Women of the parish are invited to attend a special
day of reflection on Saturday, April 26 from 8:30 am–4:30 pm at
Seton Hall University. Speakers will include Helen Alvare, J.D., an
expert on marriage, family and women’s issues and Sister Mary
Gabriel, S.V. from the Sisters of Life.
Mass will be celebrated and there will be an opportunity for
confession. Register at www.rcan.org/womcom Call 973-497-4545 or
email [email protected] for more information.
NEW HOPE PREGNANCY RESOURCE CENTER GALA DINNER DANCE
Wednesday, April 30 from 6:30-10:30 PM, at Seasons, 446 Pascack
Road, Wash. Twp., NJ. $75.00 per person includes cocktail hour,
gourmet dinner, entertainment, silent auction (amazing trips) and
Tricky Tray. For tickets, contact: Kathy Turlick at
201-573-8697.
LENT: A TIME FOR SPIRITUAL RENEWAL “A TIME TO RENEW YOUR
MARRIAGE”
—MARCH 28-30 The next Worldwide Marriage Encounter Weekend in
our area will be held on March 28-30. Come and experience a dynamic
weekend to refresh your soul and your relationship in this holy
season. For more information and to register, please call Mike and
Eileen Morgan at 877-697-9963 ext. 7 or go online to wwwme.org
“THE BEST OF TENORS ONSTAGE” Join our parish music ministers,
Domenick Panfile and Peter Greco, for a dinner concert at Calvary
Methodist Church, 185 W. Madison Avenue, Dumont, NJ on Saturday,
March 29. Dinner at 6:00 pm; concert at 7:30 pm. Dinner/Concert
tickets: $35 (adult); $15 (ages 8-15) can be purchased in advance
by calling 201-384-3630 or emailing [email protected].
Concert-only tickets may be purchased at door for $20.
A JOURNEY TO THE POTTER’S HOUSE —MARCH 30
See Michael Ferris, potter, evangelist, motivational speaker, as
he offers a powerful illustrated sermon that “brings you face to
face with God” at St. Mary’s Church, Szelest Hall (Gym), 280
Washington Avenue, Dumont, on Sunday, March 30 at 3:00 pm. To learn
more about the speaker, go to: ajourneytothepottershouse.com
40 DAYS FOR LIFE Join the hundreds of thousands of people in
over 200 cities across America participating in 40 Days for Life
this Lent—through April 13— as they stand in a peaceful, prayer
vigil across from an abortion facility. Join pro-lifers in
Hackensack at The Women’s Choice, 10 Zabriskie Street on Tuesdays,
Fridays and Saturdays from 7:00 am to 2:00 pm during Lent. For more
information contact Linda at 551-265-8121 or by email at
[email protected] or Margaret at 201- 805-0937 or at
[email protected]
KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS SCHOLARSHIP
FOR 8TH GRADERS St. Joseph Council No. 3814 is planning to
award $1,000 scholarships to two (2) eighth graders planning to
attend a Catholic High School in the fall of 2014. Eligible
applicants must be registered with Saint Joseph or Ascension
Parishes. Selection is based on service to the Church, school and
community, and an essay on the value of the K of C principles. Go
to www.kofc3814.org to download the application. (Scroll down and
go to “Links” on the left.) Deadline to apply is Monday, April 28.
For more information, contact Jeff Walters at 201-925-7174.
ORADELL BOOK & NEEDLE CLUB BUNCO NIGHT—MARCH 28
Oradell Book & Needle Club will be holding a Bunco Night
fundraiser on Friday, March 28 at 7:00 pm in the upstairs meeting
room at Oradell Borough Hall. There is a $15 donation. All proceeds
are used to fund an array of local and international charities and
good works projects. Any questions, call Susan Chambers at
201-265-6282 or at [email protected]
MUSICAL AT DON BOSCO Don Bosco Prep presents their spring
musical “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat,”on March
28-29 and April 4-5 at 8:00 pm and on March 30 at 3 pm in DeSales
Hall Auditorim, 492 N. Franklin Tpke, Ramsey, NJ. Tickets are $15
and $10 for seniors. Seating is general admission. Tickets may be
purchased at the door or in advance at
[email protected]
SJS GRADS ATTAIN HONOR ROLL Congratulations to the following
graduates of Saint Joseph School who earned a place on the Don
Bosco Prep Honor Roll: Luis Baez-Acosta, John-Paul Esoldi, and
Matthew DiMinno.
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SAINT JOSEPH CHURCH ORADELL/NEW MILFORD, NJ
Compiled by the Liturgy of the Word With Children Committee
The Gospel is the Good News about Jesus.
The Gospel Reading for today is from
John 4: 5-42.
In today’s Gospel we learn that the Jewish people did not like
the people from Samaria; they did not even talk to them. Also back
then, men did not talk to women. So when Jesus went over and spoke
to a woman who was drawing water from a well, everyone was shocked.
Jesus saw into the woman’s heart and knew that she needed God in
her life because she had sinned. Jesus saw that she was a good
person and sorry for her sin. Jesus showed her kindness, As a
result of talking to Jesus, she was happy and told others in the
town to speak to Jesus too.
Jesus wants us to be like the Samaritan woman. We all need God
in our lives so that we can be truly happy. When we are kind to one
another we share the happiness God has given us and we help others
to find God in their own lives.
NOTE TO PARENTS
We are still looking for volunteers for this
ministry. You do not need any special skill.
Just a desire to make a difference for our chil-
dren. If you have any questions or are inter-
ested, please email [email protected]
Jesus spoke to the woman drawing water
from the well and she was happy.
MISSION OF THE WEEK
Remember our happiness comes from God.
Spend a little time each morning
thanking God for a new day.