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Saint Joseph ROMAN CATHOLIC Church
973-383-1985
Twenty-ninth Sunday in ordinary time - October 20, 2019
Schedule
of Masses Weekdays
Monday-Friday at 12:05pm
Weekends Saturday (Sunday Vigil) at 5:00pm
Sunday at 8:00am, 9:30am, 11:30am and 5:00pm
Misa en Español todos los Domingos a las 2:30pm y tambien, el tercer Lunes
del Mes a las 7:00pm
Sacrament
of reconciliation Saturday at 4:00-4:30pm
or by appointment
ALL Other
Sacraments by Appointment
Our Parish Family is Served By
Weekly Mass Intentions
Father ST Sutton, Pastor 973-383-1985 - [email protected]
Father Alexander Londono, Migrant Ministry Fr. [email protected]
Father Edward Davey, Pastor Emeritus
Deacon Thomas Zayac, Deacon [email protected]
Karen Glowatski, Office Administrator 973-383-1985 - [email protected]
Doreen Zimmerman, Administrative Assistant 973-383-1985 - [email protected]
Christine Shell, Director of Food Pantry 973-383-1985 - [email protected]
Faith Formation - 973-383-8413 [email protected]
Kelly Robinson, Director of Music Ministry
Sharon Eltzholtz, Bulletin Assistant [email protected]
Robert Lasser, Finance Administrator 973-383-1985
TRUSTEES OF THE PARISH Dorothy Bosi, George Hayek
and Gerard Woodring
Twenty-ninth Sunday in ordinary time - October 20, 2019
The Sanctuary Lamp, which burns near the Tabernacle as a reminder of our Lord’s presence in the Most Holy Eucharist, burns this week in loving memory of:
And the hosts and wine, which will become the Holy
Body and Precious Blood of our Lord, were given
in loving memory of:
Weekly Remembrance
May they now be resting in the peace of the Lord’s heavenly kingdom!
We pray for all those who have asked us to pray for them, those we have forgotten to pray for and those
who pray for us, as we remember the following people from our parish family in need of the Lord’s
healing power:
Aaron Armstrong, Gary Arvary, Ron Ayers, Gene Belcher, Fred Bender, Mary Benziger, Egon Berninger,
Louise Crann, Father Angelus Croce, Cecilia DeFeo, Alex DeMartino, Derya Demirtas, Jennifer DiNardo,
John Fedash, Anthony Flora, Chris Flora, Linda Flynn, Theresa Fusco, Monsignor Mark Giordani, John Greed, Joy Grenewicz,
Suzanne Hammond, Finnuala Hanifan, Jessica & Hannah Joseph, Ann Inglima, Susan Kadar, Father Daniel Kelly,
Jessica Kirby, Kerri Knight, Valerie Landell, Shirley Lavin, Elaine LeFever, Roberto Leyva, Bill Matulewicz,
Joe Mazzarella, Deirdre Metzger, Sharon Milles, Jake Michael Miraldi, Virginia Morville, Selina Neunert, Mike Palumbo,
Matthew Parsons, Cheryl Piritz, Michael Porfido, James Proulx, Joan Riccardi, John Rokicki, Donna Rozsas. Alexia Russ, Father Jude Salus, O.S.B., George Scarpa, Crystal Siro, Francis Siro, Ben Sellitto, Ernest Sprague, Gloria Steets,
Evelyn Strauss, Joni Strauss, John Taschler & Rita Zimich.
Saturday 10/19 5:00pm Nugent & Fitzsimmons families Helen Salza
Sunday October 20th
Twenty-Ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time
8:00am
9:30am
11:30am
5:00pm
Lita Ibanez Bill Bender
Zayacz & Gillen families Patricia Fitzpatrick
Nicholas Marino Protection of babies in the womb
Intentions of Father Jude Salus
Monday 10/21 12:05pm James Novack
Tuesday 10/22 12:05pm Nicole Ack
Wednesday 10/23 12:05pm George Tippetts Rose Bochicchio
Thursday 10/24 12:05pm Mass of Thanksgiving
Friday 10/25 12:05pm James Lee Anthony Barletta
Saturday 10/26 5:00pm Helen Salza Deceased members of the Frank family
Sunday October 27th
Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time
8:00am
9:30am
11:30am
5:00pm
Ann L. Crane Helen Salza
Anne Savacool Patricia Fitzpatrick Red Fowler
Hailey Acierno June Komorowski
Maria Lourdes Quinta
“Oremus Pro Invicem”
This week’s events
Food pantry
October 13, 2019
Collection $7,651 Online Giving $971
Total: $8,622
Diocesan Assessment $1,410 Weekend Mass attendance: 566
Sunday, October 20
10:30am Confirmation Class (School)
10:30am Hospitality (Community Center)
7:00pm Boy Scout Medal (School Library)
Monday, October 21
4:00pm Faith Formation (School)
7:00pm Spanish Mass (Church)
8:30pm Migrant Ministry Dinner (Community Center)
Wednesday, October 23
10:00am Prayer Shawl Ministry (Parish Center)
Thursday, October 24
1:00pm Legion of Mary (Parish Center)
Sunday, October 27
10:30am Confirmation Class (School)
October 27, 2019
Sirach 35:12-14, 16-18 2 Timothy 4:6-8, 16-18
Saint Luke 18:9-14
PARISH WEEKEND DONATIONS
R.C.I.A.
Weekend readings
“If you cannot feed a hundred people, just feed one!” ~ Saint Mother Teresa
This week at Saint Mother Teresa Food Pantry we are already preparing for Thanksgiving. We will again be distributing over one hundred (100) bags of groceries for people that are in need during the Thanksgiving holiday. In addition to our regular weekly needs, we are looking for donations of the following groceries listed below to help with this year’s Thanksgiving Event:
If you would like more information on the Rite of Christian Initiation
for Adults (RCIA) that will help you travel on your spiritual journey and follow Christ
in your life, please call Deacon Tom and Joanne Zayac at 973-300-4758.
Thrift shop
We are preparing the new schedules for December, January and February for Eucharistic Ministers, Readers
and Altar Servers.
Please call or email the Parish Center Office before noon on November 8th with any changes or days that you are
unavailable during these months.
This schedule will NOT include Christmas. There will be special sign-up sheets for Christmas Eve and Day.
Please remember to make sure your assignment is covered when you are unavailable.
Ministry schedules
We also have plenty of pasta and mac & cheese.
Thank you for your generosity!
Weekly Needs Paper towels Toilet paper Laundry detergent Depends (large) Spam Canned fruit
Thanksgiving Needs Boxed mashed potatoes Boxed stuffing Canned corn Canned cranberry sauce Turkey gravy jar/can Canned yams
The Thrift Shop is having a 1/2 price sale
on everything in the store through November 2nd.
50/50 tickets Food pantry soiree
Blood drive
To date, we have sold only 90 Super 50/50
Raffle Tickets, 45 of which were sold to
non-parishioners who are friends of Father ST.
Please consider supporting your Faith Formation
Ministry for our youth (which we do not charge
any family to participate in during the year).
It is also a great opportunity to win some extra
money. We will only sell 200 tickets and half of
the proceeds will be given as prizes.
Thank you for your support
and generosity!
Saint Mother Teresa Food
Pantry
We are proud to be able to once again host our Annual Food Pantry Soiree on Friday, November 15th with cocktails at 6:30pm and dinner at 7:30pm. We are inviting you to join us again this year with the Jimmy Ray Band at a dinner dance at Perona Farms to benefit the Saint Mother Teresa Food Pantry. This year marks the third annual dinner where you will see the immediate effects of your good will by touching the lives of those less fortunate than we in offering them food and some basic household necessities. Once again, tickets are seventy dollars ($70) per person and sponsorships are also available in our memorial book: Full Page Sponsorship (includes 4 tickets and a full page ad) $500 Half Page Sponsorship (includes 2 tickets and a half page ad) $250 Business Card Sponsorship (includes business card size ad) $100
I look forward to hearing from you in being a sponsor and attending this great event filled with great music, good friends and even a few surprises. Please make your check payable to:
Saint Mother Teresa Food Pantry c/o B&D Group, Inc.
1A Main Street, Suite 5 Sparta, NJ 07871
Looking forward to hearing from you soon. With all my gratitude for your support of this worthy cause. Jude DiGidio Chair Name(s): __________________________________________ Address: __________________________________________ □ # of Tickets ($70/each) □ Full Page Sponsorship - $500 □ Half Page Sponsorship - $250
Healing mass
Come join us on Saturday, November 23rd at 11:00am in the Community Center, when anyone who would like to receive an anointing with blessed oil (this is NOT the Sacrament of the Sick) within the celebration of the Eucharist is welcome. This will allow for anyone who is suffering from physical or psychological illnesses to be blessed by the priest or deacon at this Mass. If you are interested in attending this Mass, please complete the following form and either drop it off in the collection basket or call 973-383-1985. We will have a light lunch after the Mass. _________________________________________ Number of people attending Mass: __________ Name of people to be anointed: _________________________________________ _________________________________________ _________________________________________
Donate Blood for a Reason Let the reason be LIFE!
The next Blood Drive at Saint Kateri Parish is
October 26th
7:45am to 1:45pm. Eligible blood donors are between the ages of 17 to 75, weigh a minimum of 110 pounds and
in good health. To schedule an appointment: Tinyurl.com/GiveBloodNJBS Sponsor Code 15978 Walk-ins are always welcome. For more information, call Mary Stanek at 973-349-9191. Thank you to September's blood donors, and the wonderful volunteers who helped out: We collected 59 units of blood. God Bless You!
To celebrate Columbus day or not?
everywhere better. In short, it is hard to say that the effect that European civilization has had on the New World is anything but a net positive. Of course, critics will say that this analysis is ignorant of the destruction that came with colonization. They will point to the massive death rates of native peoples due to Old World diseases and slavery. Many will go as far to say that Columbus was guilty of genocide because of the destruction wrought by him and his followers. However, this claim is blatantly false. A genocide is deliberate mass murder with the goal of eradicating an ethnic or religious group, which is something Columbus never tried to do. But what about the disease and conquest brought on by the Conquistadors? It’s true that these factors did lead to a lot of destruction, but they aren’t cause for removing Columbus from his pedestal. First, let’s consider the disease that Columbus and other Europeans introduced to Native Americans. Europeans never intentionally used disease as a weapon; in fact, they didn’t even understand how disease spread or why the native population was so susceptible to illnesses that were much less deadly to residents of the Old World. Thus, the epidemics that plagued the New World’s native peoples were tragic but unintentional results of colonization. It would be unfair to paint the explorers who brought them here as villains when they were unaware of what they were doing. Second, we must remember that Columbus and the other European explorers were products of a violent time. War was just a fact of life, as was the subjugation of conquered peoples. Furthermore, inhabitants of the New World were certainly guilty of the same brutality and belligerent activities. Archaeologists and historians who study Native American history have plenty of trouble describing the details of the pre-Columbus Americas, but they almost all agree that the continents were rife with warfare and barbarism not unlike medieval Europe. This is to say nothing about the heinous practice of human sacrifice, which was practiced by many Mesoamerican societies. Make no mistake, I’m not denying that any atrocities occurred during the Age of Exploration, nor am I trying to make excuses for them. My point is that it is unfair for us to judge 15th century people by 21st century standards of morality, and it is just flat out wrong to condemn some historical figures and paint idealistic pictures of others who committed equally heinous acts. Rather, we must take an objective approach to examining the people who made our past. If we do this for Columbus, we will discover a man who was flawed, but nevertheless contributed so much to our history, and had an overall net positive effect on who we are today. Thus, let’s keep celebrating Columbus Day and let’s honor our history.
Pittston, Pennsylvania, Mayor Michael Lombardo addressed the gathering on Main Street in front of the town's Christopher Columbus statue during a program celebrating Columbus as well as the area's Italian heritage on Sunday, October 7th in Pittston. If you’re like me, you were taught in grade school that Columbus was an awful person who killed peace-loving natives, and is a symbol for Western oppression. Consequently, we were told that we shouldn’t celebrate Columbus Day, and that it would be better to replace the holiday with something to honor his victims. For the longest time, I believed this narrative. However, I eventually realized that it suffered from the same problems that a more idealistic Columbus narrative suffers from; namely, it simplifies the story to a very basic good versus bad dynamic. As a lover of history, I recognized that any narrative that does this isn’t history at all, it’s propaganda. From there, I tried to find a more objective and accurate approach to what really happened, and I came to an interesting conclusion given the present cultural attitudes. Columbus, despite his faults, should be honored for his momentous accomplishments. Any attempt to erase him from historical memory doesn’t correct a lie, it actually perpetuates one. Few American holidays have been as controversial as Columbus Day. According to modern wisdom, he was the founder of slavery and committed genocide against Native American peoples, who are always portrayed as peaceful hunters and gatherers, innocent of wrong-doing. Furthermore, in the eyes of historical revisionists, Columbus wasn’t just evil, he was dumb, too. History teachers loved to remind us that Columbus never knew he had stumbled upon a new continent, and that he wasn’t the first person, or even the first European to lay eyes on it. Because of all this controversy, many governments and institutions (UConn included) are taking steps to erase Columbus from public memory by renaming the holiday “Indigenous Peoples’ Day” to honor the victims of Columbus’ alleged mass murder. I have no problem with a holiday to honor the rich history of Native Americans; in fact, I believe it is in our country’s best interest to have one. However, simply replacing Columbus Day with Indigenous People’s Day would be a mistake. It’s hard to understate how important Columbus’ “discovery” of the Americas was. It may be true that Leif Erickson was the first European to step foot in North America, and yes, the Native Americans had already lived here for thousands of years, but neither of them ushered in the vast economic and social revolution that Columbus did. Furthermore, there is compelling evidence that suggests that native peoples, due to challenges posed by the land itself, would never have been able to develop a technologically advanced society independent of the West. The advanced civilization that characterizes many New World countries has resulted in unprecedented improvements in standards of living, the rise of classical liberal governments and a whole host of revolutionary technology that makes the lives of people
Salvation of souls
Parish appreciation dinner
All saints day mass
In appreciation and thanks for all that you do for our parish family, Father ST is inviting you to our Annual Parish Appreciation Dinner on Friday, November 8th at 7:00pm in the Community Center. There will be NO COST! The only catch is that you must reserve a place (in order that we may make enough food). This does not mean the usual last second waiting. Please fill out the following slip and place it in the collection basket or you can call the Parish Center at 973-383-1985. Deadline for reservations is: November 1st
. *********************************** Name: ___________________________________
Telephone: ________________________________
Number of persons: ________ (Please include children)
I will make _______________________ dessert for this event.
The Don Bosco Columbiettes #7784 are sponsoring a campaign to seek our Blessed Mother’s intercession
for the Salvation Of Souls. Please support this endeavor to pray ONE MILLION HAIL MARYS. The campaign will continue until
May 31, 2020. You can e-mail your tallies to: [email protected]
or write the number on a slip of paper and drop it into the container by Mary’s statue.
The tally so far is 168,951
Want to feel old?
United states flags
The Solemnity of All Saints is a Holy Day with the obligation of attending Mass.
This year’s Masses will be:
Friday, November 1st at 12:05pm and at 7:00pm.
Bonanza premiered 60 years ago.
The Beatles split 50 years ago. Laugh-In premiered nearly 52 years ago.
The Wizard of Oz is 80 years old. Elvis is dead 42 years. He’d be 84 today.
The Thriller video is 36 years old. Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin dead 49 years.
John Lennon dead 39 years. Mickey Mantle retired 51 years ago. Back to the Future is 35 years old.
Saturday Night Fever is 42 years old. The Ed Sullivan show ended 47 years ago. The Brady Bunch premiered 50 years ago.
The triplets on My Three Sons are 50. Tabitha from Bewitched is 55.
The Corvette turned 66 this year. The Mustang is 55.
If you were born in the 50’s, you’ve had 12 presidents.
The Don Bosco
Knights of Columbus are collecting U.S.
flags that are worn, tattered and not
suitable for displaying any longer. The flag,
when it is in such a condition that it is no longer a fitting emblem of display, should be destroyed in a dignified way, preferably by burning. There will be a box to collect these flags at the back of the church. The flags will be burned in a ceremony and the ashes
will be spread across the graves of U.S. Veterans.
Any questions call Ed Conrads at 973-809-3571.
Please support those who support us!
Come and Visit our new
Father Michael J. Burke Thrift Shop (located across the street from the Parish Center)
Hours are: Thursdays & Fridays
10:00am-4:00pm Saturdays from 9:30am-12:30pm
Confessor, Spiritual Advisor and Friend. Gone to his eternal reward.
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ABBEY GIFT SHOP 289 Route 206, Newton
973-383-2092 Books, Rosaries, Statues,
Jewelry ,Crucifixes Tuesday-Saturday 9:30-11:45am
1:15-4:30pm, Sunday 1:15-4:30pm
Saint Joseph Church’s Cemetery Route 206 - Newton, New Jersey
Crypts and niches are still available in our Queen of Heaven Mausoleum (inside and outside)
For further information, please contact our Parish Center at: 973.383.1985
Smith-McCracken Funeral Home
63 High Street, Newton, NJ - 973-383-4600
Our Caring Staff of Funeral Directors Robert E. McCracken, Owner/Manager - N.J. Lic. No. 3640
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WE TREAT YOUR PET LIKE FAMILY! Father Michael J. Burke
You are a priest
forever in the order of Melchizedek!
We remember Deputy Sheriff Matt Jones, Trooper Peter R. Stephan
and Captain Albert Torres.
who were killed in the line of duty this past week. May the Lord be with them
and their families
In Loving
Memory of
James Novack
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Father through Him.” -Colossians 3:17
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We truly miss your presence, your untiring
professionalism, your unique and
special ways. The parish has suffered such a great loss since your passing.
Continue to watch over us.
Remembering all those who have lost loved ones through suicide. May the Lord give them and their families
His peace.