Roman Catholic Church

THIS WEEKEND! “An Afternoon of

Christmas Joy” Concert Sun., Jan. 11—3 pm Church

Office Location Phone Email Website

Parish Office 105 Harrison St., New Milford 201-261-0148 office@sjcnj.org sjcnj.org

Religious Education 105 Harrison St., New Milford 201-261-1144 religioused@sjcnj.org sjcnjre.org

Saint Joseph School 305 Elm St., Oradell 201-261-2388 office@sjsusa.org sjsusa.org

the greenhouse-PreK 305 Elm St., Oradell 201-477-8114 vailc@greenhouseusa.org greenhouseusa.org

MASS SCHEDULE WEEKEND

Saturday 5:00 pm

Sunday 7:30 am, 9:00 am, 10:30 am, 12:00 pm

DAILY Weekdays 7:00 am &

8:30 am

Saturday 8:30 am

HOLY DAYS as announced

Miraculous Medal Novena Monday, 7:00 pm in Mary’s Chapel

Eucharistic Adoration First Wednesday of Month

9 am—5 pm in Mary’s Chapel

SACRAMENTS Confession: Saturday,

4:00 pm - 5:00 pm Baptism

Contact the Parish Office. Marriage

Arrangements should be made with a priest at least one year in advance.

Sick/Homebound/Hospital Call the Parish Office.

Christian Initiation of Adults—RCIA

Contact the Parish Office.

PARISH REGISTRATION Contact the Parish Office.

Saint Joseph

PASTOR:

Msgr. David C. Hubba

PAROCHIAL VICARS:

Rev. Andrew Park Rev. Roy Regaspi

DEACON: George Montalvo PASTOR EMERITUS:

Rev. George M. Reilly

Office Hours: Parish: Mon.-Fri.: 9 am—5 pm; Rel. Ed.: Mon –Thurs.: 9:30 am—5 pm (Also by appointment.)

Oradell/New Milford, NJ January 11, 2015

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PRAYER REQUESTS Let us remember those who are ill: Joseph Sciancalepore, Tim Curtin

Let us remember those who have recently died: Victoriano Posadas, Robert Bartolotta, Dolores Bruno, Jean Ziller, Rev. Alfred J. Kowalski, Robert Cabezas,

Clementeene Boley

Let us remember those serving in the military.

SAINT JOSEPH CHURCH ORADELL/NEW MILFORD, NJ

Saturday 5:00 pm

Sunday 7:30 am 9:00 am 10.30 am 10:30 am MC 12:00 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 7:30 am 9:00 am 10.30 am 10:30 am MC 12:00 pm

Sunday Collection for Week of December 28, 2014 Basket ParishPay TOTAL

$9,810 $4,972 $14,782 Sunday Collection for Week of January 4, 2015

Basket ParishPay TOTAL $8,315 $5,065 $13,380

BREAD AND WINE INTENTIONS

The Bread for the week of January 11, 2015

is offered in loving memory of Leonard LaSpisa as requested by the

Faculty & Staff of Saint Joseph School.

See our bulletin IN COLOR at sjcnj.org

Saint Joseph Parish Staff Parish Trustees………....Brendan Walsh & Carol Winkler Deacon George Montalvo…... Dir. of Religious Education Mrs. Arlene Kennedy…………. Sacraments Coordinator Mr. Monroe Quinn……………... Director of Music Mr. Tom Meli…………………….. Facilities Director Mrs. Phyllis Vrola………………. Business Manager Mrs. Anne Annunziato……….. Parish Secretary

Mrs. Colette Vail………………… Principal of Saint Joseph School Mrs. Angela Gussoni…………... Vice Principal Mrs. Diane Hellriegel………….. Dir. of Communications/ Bulletin Editor

OUR CHRISTMAS THANKS Our warmest thanks to all the people who so generously gave of their time and talent to make our Christmas liturgies so moving and uplifting. Director of Music Monroe

Quinn, our leaders of song, musicians and choir made it possible for us to joyously sing out in praise of the newborn King. Our thanks to Facilities Director Tom Meli, sacristans Tom Moran and Celsius Matulac, our Art & Environment Committee, and all who came to help decorate and make our worship spaces look so beautiful. We are grateful to our lectors who proclaimed the Scriptures with such dignity and clarity; to our Extraordinary Ministers of Holy Communion who so reverently distributed the Bread of Life; to our altar servers who respectfully attended to all the details of our liturgies; and to our ushers/greeters who made our parishioners and visitors feel so welcome. Our thanks to all those who donated toward the Christmas flowers and decorations (their names and intentions will appear in a next week’s bulletin) and to all of our parishioners and friends who, by their presence and participation at our liturgies, made our celebrations of the Birth of Christ truly memorable.

January 10, 2015 Anthony Gallardo

January 11, 2015 People of the Parish Bozo Picinic Special Intention for Ann Dabrowski Mandel Angela Micciche Lois Grimm

January 12, 2015 Diane Longo Margaret Barrett Shaw

January 13, 2015 Thomas J. Quinn Timothy Kehoe

January 14, 2015 John Zak Marie & Tom Joyce

January 15, 2015 Mary Schoenfeld Diane Longo

January 16, 2015 Jennifer Metsch Brother Luke Gilchrist

January 17, 2015 Jimmy White (living) Grand Knight Installation James & Theresa Santaniello

January 18, 2015 People of the Parish Carlos Garcia Alfred Jacob 11th Anniversary Remembrance Ronald Lisa Arthur Sherry

THIRD SATURDAY PRAYER—JANUARY 17 All parishioners are invited to join the Legion of Mary after the 8:30 am Mass in Mary’s Chapel, on Saturday, January 17. After the Rosary we will continue our series on the virtues of the Blessed Mother.

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BAPTISM OF THE LORD ~ JANUARY 11, 2015

FROM THE PASTOR’S DESK Among 2014’s deaths in the world of religion were:

∎ Msgr. David Casazza: After serving as a Coast Guard chaplain and then as a chaplain for the Navy and Ma rines, he was pastor of St. Peter’s in River Edge from 1970-1988, and one of the most respected priests of our Archdiocese.

∎ Fr. Franz van der Lugt, SJ: For almost 50 years he lived in Syria, deeply committed to interreligious dialogue and to a spirituality center he founded, which included a home that cared for 40 children with mental disabilities. He stayed in Syria when he could easily have fled its recent convulsions of civil war. After being abducted by gunmen, he was beaten and then shot to death in Homs.

∎ Stratford Caldecott: A distinguished Catholic essayist and author, he was a board member of the influential theological journal Communio.

∎ Fr. Benedict J. Groeschel, CFR: One of the great Catholic voices of America, he reached thousands by his books and articles on the spiritual life and by his broadcasts on EWTN. A renowned psychological counselor, he helped numerous people, including many priests and bishops. Among his charitable works were his efforts for the right-to-life cause, in cluding starting Good Counsel’s shelters for pregnant women who choose to keep their babies. He was also the principal founder of the Franciscans Friars and Sisters of the Renewal, religious communities that now have more than 150 members.

∎ Msgr. Lorenzo Albacete: Puerto Rican theologian and physicist, and a leader in the lay movement Communion and Liberation. He was a speaker much in demand, not only on issues of faith and science but on a wide range of theological topics. Albacete was a negligent correspondent. Some years ago he met Polish Archbishop Karol Wojtyla, the future John Paul II, who sent him several letters about authors who impressed him, but got no response from Albacete. Visiting Washington as Pope, John Paul greeted Albacete in a receiving line and said to him, “Lorenzo, maybe now you will answer my letters?”

Among writers and cultural notables who died were:

∎ Dr. Sherwin Nuland: Yale medical ethics professor best known for writing How We Die: Reflections on Life’s Final Chapter (1994), which said that assisted suicide is wrong but that we have no obligation to pursue futile treatments when death is clearly approaching, which is the Catholic position. He wrote that we used to accept death as a natural phenom- enon when certain signs showed it was near, but

Now when the same signs appear, it’s a signal to operate one more time, to put in

yet another tube, put in a fourth pacemaker after the third failed, to start a new course of chemotherapy, send the patient down for another CAT scan.

∎ Patrick McGovern: Although worth $5.7 billion, he flew coach and drove a used car. He and his wife Lore also gave $350 million to his alma mater, MIT, to create a brain research institute. He published the famous “Dummies” books that cleverly summarize the essential points of many fields of knowledge in a highly enjoyable way. One volume is the excellent Catholicism for Dummies (Wiley Publishing, 2003) by Rev. John Triglio Jr. and Rev. Kenneth Brighenti.

∎ Gabriel Garcia Márquez: Nobel laureate and exponent of Magic Realism fiction, his works drew heavily from Colombian folk and ghost tales. His most notable novels are One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) and Love in the Time of Cholera. His leftist politics and close association with Fidel Castro caused his onetime friend, the Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa, to call him “Castro’s courtesan.” Llosa punched him at a Mexico City theater in 1976, calling him a traitor.

∎ Maya Angelou: Assaulted by her mother’s boyfriend at age 7, she didn’t speak for the next two years. A teacher brought out her writing talent and love of reading (especially Dickens, Shakespeare and Poe). She wrote 36 books, mainly poetry but also children’s books, cookbooks and even greeting cards. She often appeared on TV, received many honorary doctorates, participated in President Clinton’s 1993 inauguration, and received the 2010 Presidential Medal of Freedom. Her poem “Still I Rise” says:

Does my sassiness upset you? Why are you beset with gloom? ‘Cause I walk like I’ve got oil wells Pumping in my living room.

∎ Lorin Maazel: He conducted the Cleveland Orchestra, the Pittsburgh Symphony, the Chicago Symphony and the New York Philharmonic, and was often guest conductor for the Vienna Philharmonic. When he was only 7, Arturo Toscanini invited him to conduct the NBC Symphony.

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∎ Nadine Gordimer: Admired South African novelist (winner of the 1991 Nobel Prize for Literature) and opponent of apartheid. A heart murmur confined her to home at age 11, leading her to read and write extensively. In her Nobel lecture she said that the evil of racism could easily have made her success impossible if she had not been born white:

Only many years later was I to realize that if I had been a [black] child … I might not have become a writer at all, since the library that made this possible for me was not open to any black child.

She told an interviewer in 1961, “I have no religion, no political dogma. Only plenty of doubts about everything except my own conviction that the color bar is wrong and utterly indefensible.”

∎ Galway Kinnell: A poet who wrote verses that people without graduate degrees could read. In his breakthrough poem “The Avenue Bearing the Initial of Christ” (1960), he spoke of

Wiped-out lives—punks, lushes Panhandlers, pushers, rumsoaks, all those Who took it easy when they should have been out failing at something.

∎ P. D. (Phyllis Dorothy) James: British crime novelist well regarded for her insight into human values. Her most memorable character was the poet- detective Adam Dalgliesh. James, a deeply committed Christian believer, once said that “What the detective story is about is not murder but the restoration of order.”

Prominent deaths in politics and public affairs included:

∎ Amiri Baraka: Born Leroi Jones in Newark, he be came a prote ge of the poet Allen Ginsberg. A radical Marxist and Black Power proponent, he was an admirer of Malcolm X and Fidel Castro. His play “Dutchman” won the 1964 Obie award. His conviction for possessing arms during the 1967 Newark riots was later overturned. After being named New Jersey’s Poet Laureate in 2002, he wrote the controversial poem “Somebody Blew Up America,” which many called anti-Semitic. When Baraka refused to apologize for it, the state legislature abolished the office of Poet Laureate. Baraka’s most publicized political adversary was State Senator Anthony Imperiale, who once dressed up as a Roman centurion and rode an elephant in Newark’s Columbus Day parade.

∎ Senator Jeremiah Denton: Leading a bomber squadron over North Vietnam, he was shot down and imprisoned in the infamous “Hanoi Hilton.” When he was forced to appear in an anti-American

propaganda video, he used his eyelids to spell out “torture” in Morse Code. He spent four of his nearly eight years in prison in solitary confinement, often in coffin-size boxes. He went on to become a Senator for Alabama.

∎ Fouad Ajami: Born a Shiite Lebanese, he recognized the dangers of Arab extremism and became an American citizen and a prote ge of Princeton’s Bernard Lewis. Once a staunch pro-Palestinian voice, he later changed his views, criticizing the extremists’ positions as anti-modern, anti-Zionist and anti-American. His most notable publication was The Dream Palace of the Arabs (1998).

∎ Ken Gray: A longtime Democratic Congressman, he was honored in 2008 by having part of I-57 named the Ken Gray Expressway. A press release for the occasion noted that he “was known for his flamboyant wardrobe, humor, amicability and a fierce passion for bringing federal funds to southern Illinois.”

The business world lost:

∎ John Cali: With his brother Angelo and their boyhood friend Edward Leshowitz, he started Cali Associates in 1949, then merged it with the Mack Company in 1997. Mack-Cali owned 279 properties, comprising 31 million square feet of office space. Its revenue for 2012 was $704.7 million. Mr. Cali played jazz with famed composer Hoagy Carmichael at Indiana University and donated $5 million to create the Montclair State University music school that bears his name.

∎ S. Truett Cathy: Founder of Chick-fil-A, taking it from a small diner in suburban Atlanta to an opera- tion of more than 1,800 locations in 40 states, making it America’s largest chain of chicken restau- rants (famous for fried chicken sandwiches and courteous treatment of customers), in the process earning himself, according to Forbes, $6.3 billion. Cathy was a fervent Christian who in 2012 was much criticized by activists for homosexual unions for his defense of traditional Christian marriage. His son Dan (“Bubba”), who shared his father’s opinion on the issue, told the Baptist Press that the company was “guilty as charged” for backing “the biblical definition of a family.” At the height of the ensuing controversy, the Jim Henson Company pulled its Muppet toys from the chain, and politicians from Boston and Chicago declared that Chick-fil-A stores were not welcome in their areas, a stance that increased the company’s profits. The older Mr. Cathy, who worked into his 80s and wrote several books, including How Did You Do It, Truett? (2007),

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THIS SUNDAY—JANUARY 11! “AN AFTERNOON OF

CHRISTMAS JOY” Our very popular annual Christmas

concert, “An Afternoon of Christmas Joy,” is this Sunday, January 11 at 3:00 pm in the upper church and will feature our wonderful Adult Choir, our gifted professional musicians and leaders of song, and the sweet voices of our Children’s Choir—all under the direction of our talented Director of Music, Mr. Monroe Quinn. Plan to get here early so you are sure to get a seat! Help us celebrate the official end of the Christmas season with glorious music in a beautiful setting.

Visit us on our websites! Church: sjcnj.org School: sjsusa.org

Religious Education: sjcnjre.org

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was generous to charities that awarded scholarships and established foster care homes. He once explained one of his main business tenets:

Ever since I was a teenager delivering newspapers (for seven straight years), I have tried not to lose a single customer. I treated each one like the most important person in the world and delivered each paper as if I were delivering it to the front desk of the Governor’s mansion. The key to succeeding with a paper route and the restaurant business, I would later learn, is to take care of the customer. … I have found that the most effective way of promoting my business didn’t cost me anything but a little kindness to my customers.

Msgr. David Hubba

BAPTISM OF THE LORD ~ JANUARY 11, 2015

NEXT MEN’S CORNERSTONE MEETING —JANUARY 14

Our next Men’s Cornerstone meeting will be on Wednesday, January 14, at 8:00 pm in the basement of the Brother’s Residence. All men in the parish who have made Cornerstone are invited to attend this monthly meeting to enjoy great camaraderie, spiritual renewal, and to plan for Cornerstone XXIII. An email reminder with details of this meeting has been sent to all men on the Cornerstone email list. Please pray that the Holy Spirit will guide all the men of Cornerstone on their journey toward the next

weekend— March 20-21, 2015. Join us! We welcome all ideas and suggestions to help make Cornerstone XXIII another outstanding experience for all who participate!

↑Olivia Marisol Luna Child of

Carlos & Cristina with sister Ana

←Giaa Jolie Gaffney Child of

Christopher & Kareinesse

↑Liannna Noelle Romeo Child of

Luke Romeo & Patricia Desmond

SACRAMENT OF

BAPTISM

December 21, 2014

God bless

the children baptized and their families.

PROTECTING GOD’S CHILDREN WORKSHOP —JANUARY 20

ALL adults volunteering with children in Saint Joseph Parish and School MUST be certified in the Protecting God’s Children Program. This includes anyone who has not taken the course within the last 3 years. The workshop will be held on Tuesday, January 20 from 7:00-10:00 pm in the Saint Joseph School Gym. Pre-registration is required. Please go to virtus.org and click on “Registration” in the green box on the left side of the page to begin the registration process. Any questions, please call Deacon George at 201-261-1144.

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JOIN US! From September 22-27, 2015, Philadelphia will host the World Meeting of Families.The event will take place at the Philadelphia Convention Center and will include an Adult Congress (18+) which will feature internationally known and engaging speakers who will talk, present panels and lead workshops so

that participants can support each other in the joys and struggles of life, and a Youth Congress (for ages 6-17) that will be an interactive program where young people can build, create, play, listen, serve, and embrace the “Mission of Love that Brings Families Fully Alive.” (Daycare will be available.) To see the preliminary schedule, go to worldmeeting2015.org The final deadline for registration for this event with our parish is Sunday, January 11. The cost is $1,195 per person (6 days, double occupancy), plus the recommended registration fee for the Congress ($125). If you are interested, call Canterbury Pilgrimages & Tours, Inc. at 1-800-653-0017.

SHAWL MINISTRY MEETING —JANUARY 13

The Shawl Ministry of Saint Joseph Parish will meet on Tuesday, January 13 from 2:00-4:00 pm in the Parish Life Center on Grove Street. All knitters & crocheters are welcome to join us in making shawls…or bring your current yarn project and spend a relaxing afternoon with us. Our ministry has shawls available for those experiencing illness, confinement, bereavement, or other situation. For further information, please contact Barbara Piersa at 201-261-0298 or Pat DeNicolo at 201-261-4323.

A THANK YOU FROM OUR STUDENT MISSIONARY “Thanks to the generosity of Saint Joseph parishioners, I am fully funded for my medical mission to Mexico City with FOCUS, the Fellowship of Catholic University Students,” writes Susan Piersa, SJS grad, Boston University student and Saint Joseph parishioner. “I feel so humbled and grateful to be part of such a wonderful faith community. Thank you!”

BEEFSTEAK DINNER/RAFFLE —FEBRUARY 28

Saint Joseph Church’s 1st Annual Beefsteak Dinner and Raffle will take place on Saturday, February 28 immediately after the 5 pm Mass in the School Gym. Tickets are $45 a

person if reserved in advance and include a wonderful dinner by Clifton’s Nightingale Catering (serving the finest in beefsteak banquets since 1938) with music by our own Peter Greco. The names of the 50/50 raffle winners (1st prize: 25%; 2nd prize: 15%; 3rd prize: 10%) will be drawn at the dinner. Proceeds of the event will go toward repairs and maintenance of our beautiful church. You will be receiving a letter about this wonderful event from our pastor Msgr. Hubba that will include a dinner reservation form and raffle book. We hope we can count on your support!

BEEFSTEAK DINNER

KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS FREE THROW CHAMPIONSHIP

—JANUARY 17

St. Joseph Knights of Columbus Council is sponsoring it’s local Council Basketball Free-Throw Championship. All boys and girls ages 9 to 14 are invited to participate. Every participant will be recognized for their involvement. The event will take place on Saturday, January 17 at Saint Joseph School Gym. Registration begins at 2:30 pm; competition begins at 3:00 pm. For additional information contact: Bob Osterlof at 201-370-3404 or visit our website at kofc3814.org

SJS 2015 ANNUAL TRICKY TRAY —FEBRUARY 5

… at the Rockleigh Country Club. Doors open at 5:30 pm; dinner is served at 7:00pm. Fabulous prizes—hundreds of baskets! (There will be a basket preview the day of the event from 12-2 pm.) The reservation price of $65 per ticket includes a four-course dinner, beer, wine, soda and a 25 ticket sheet for the auction. Contact Geraldine at 201-390-6456 or via email at Geraldine_wacker@yahoo.com to reserve your seats !

CATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICES SUPPORTING THE WORK OF THE CHURCH

IN COMBATING EBOLA If you would like to donate to help, you can send your check (made payable to “Archdiocese of Newark— CRS Ebola Collection”) to the Office of Finance, Archdiocese of Newark, P.O. Box 9500, Newark, NJ 07104-0500.

DON’T FORGET! ARCHBISHOP HEBDA HERE Sunday, February 8 at the 9:00 am Mass.