Roman Catholic Church Saint Joseph

PASTOR: Msgr. David C. Hubba

PAROCHIAL VICARS:

Rev. Anthony Di Stefano Rev. John Z. Radwan

DEACON: George Montalvo

PASTOR EMERITUS:

Rev. George M. Reilly

MASS SCHEDULE Saturday 5:00 pm

Sunday 7:30am, 9 am, 10:30 am, 12 noon

DAILY Weekdays 7:00 am

& 8:30 am Saturday 8:30 am

HOLY DAYS as announced

Miraculous Medal Novena

and Eucharistic Adoration

TO BE ANNOUNCED

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.

Homebound/Hospital Call Parish Office

Christian Initiaion of Adults—RCIA Contact Parish Office

PARISH REGISTRATION Contact Parish Office

Office Location Phone Email/Fax Website

Parish Office 105 Harrison St., New Milford 201-261-0148 office@sjcnj.org Fax #: 201-261-0369

sjcnj.org

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

Saint Joseph School

the greenhouse PreK

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

MEET OUR NEW YOUTH MUSIC MINISTER

—p. 2

___________________________________________________________________

SAINT JOSEPH SCHOOL ACCEPTING NEW REGISTRATIONS

—p. 4 Oradell/New Milford, NJ

Summer Hours: (Parish Office) Mon-Thurs: 9 am - 5 pm, Fri.: 9 am - 2 pm. YOU MUST TELEPHONE FIRST (201-261-0148)

July 19, 2020

2

SAINT JOSEPH CHURCH ORADELL/NEW MILFORD, NJ

FIRST COMMUNION & CONFIRMATION Celebrations

CHECK YOUR EMAIL Under the Directives of the Archdiocese, we are now able to celebrate the sacraments that were postponed due to the Coronavirus. Emails have been sent to all those who prepared to

receive First Holy Communion and Confirmation this year. Please check your email for the details. If you have any questions, contact kennedya@sjcnj.org

Fr. John Radwan gives a special blessing to Veronica & Nick Ocello at the 5:00 pm Mass on July 11, 2020, on the occasion of their 50th Wedding Anniverary.

A Golden Anniversary ~ Nick & Veronica Ocello

WELCOME TO OUR NEW YOUTH MUSIC MINISTER—DAN FERRARI Saint Joseph Youth Ministry welcomed our new Youth Music Minister, Dan Ferrari, at the July Teen Mass last Sunday. Dan is an accomplished singer/songwriter and worship leader, as well as a friend of our own Fr. Anthony. We are indeed blessed to have Dan share his musical talent with those who attend our Teen Masses (all ages are invited) and to walk our journey of faith with us. Dan is from Little Falls, NJ. He experienced a profound "re-conversion" in his faith life around 2009 which took his mainstream

music career on a totally different path. He began to play at St. Paul Inside the Walls in Madison, NJ where he is still involved today as co-leader of their young adult ministry. Dan has been expressing his faith and sharing his journey with the Lord through his music and songwriting ever since. (Dan Ferrari is the only musician who has shared the stage with both Pope Francis and Lady Gaga—not at the same time!) Dan has released two faith-based albums in the last three years – available on iTunes and Spotify. He was featured on Sirius XM Radio’s the Catholic Channel in June 2020. Dan travels to various parishes, retreats, youth and young adult ministries singing, speaking and leading worship in an effort to spread the joy of Christianity and the excitement of knowing Jesus.

Dan is married to his beautiful wife of almost 3 years, Caitlin, whom he met through the young adult ministry they’re both involved in. They are excited to welcome their first child in December 2020. Dan is grateful to God for the opportunity to be sharing his faith, music and story here with the teens and parishioners of Saint Joseph.

TEEN MASSES RESUME AT SAINT JOSEPH

Join us one Sunday a month at 4:00 pm for our Teen Mass. Watch this bulletin for the dates of our future Teen Masses, as well as instructions on how to register if you wish to attend this Mass, since numbers must be limited due to current restrictions.

3

FROM THE DESK OF FR. JOHN

SIXTEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME ~ JULY 19, 2020

Fr. John Z. Radwan, parochial vicar of Saint Joseph Church, is our guest columnist this week.

Monsignor Hubba’s column, “From the Pastor’s Desk,” will return August 16.

On Friday, July 24, we will celebrate the memorial of a powerful saint, Saint Sharbel, who is not well known in our Catholic Latin Rite Church. Saint Sharbel’s memorial was first inserted into the liturgical calendar in the United States in 2004. Prior to that, he was known primarily among the Christians in Lebanon where the dominant form of Catholicism is the Maronite Rite Catholic Church. There are millions of other Catholics in the world—full members of the one, holy, catholic and apostolic Church—who worship using an Eastern, or Middle Eastern, liturgy. The Maronite liturgy, rituals, church customs and forms or prayer can trace their origins to ancient times. Saint Sharbel, baptized as Youssef (Arabic for Joseph), was one of five children born into a poor family from a remote village in the hills of Lebanon. They were devout Maronite Catholics whose relatives already included priests and monks. Youssef was only three when his father died. From very early on, young Youssef displayed a tender devotion to the Virgin Mary and a natural disposition toward prayer. In his early twenties, he left the family home to enter a monastery. In due time, he made his religious profession and took the name Sharbel after a second-century martyr from Antioch, a city not far from Lebanon. He then studied, was ordained a priest in 1859, and returned to his monastery to live as a strictly observant monk practicing austere mortifications. In 1875, he was granted the privilege to live as a hermit in a chapel, under his monastery’s supervision and care. And there he stayed—alone, isolated, mortified, poor, reflective and silent—for the next twenty-three years, willingly separating himself from the world so he could more easily attach himself to Christ. He died of a stroke at the age of seventy. Saint Sharbel lived the model life of an Eastern hermit-monk in the ancient tradition of Saint Anthony of the Desert. His reputation for holiness spread among the local people, who sought him to receive a

(continued above)

The Saint of the Week: Saint Sharbel Makhlüf, Priest 1828-1898

July 24—Memorial

blessing and to be remembered in his prayers. After his life, more miracles were attributed to his intercession. When his body was exhumed after many decades of death, it was found to be incorrupt. Father Sharbel was never photographed during his lifetime, and only a few monks ever saw him after he entered the monastery. But in May of 1950, some Maronite monks visited Fr. Sharbel’s grave on his birthday and took a photo. When the film

was developed, a mysterious hooded figure with a white beard appeared among them in the photograph. It was Sharbel. All images of the hermit Sharbel are based on this photo. Saint Sharbel was beatified by Pope Paul VI in 1965 at a Mass at the conclusion of the Second Vatican Council. And in 1977, he became the first Eastern Christian saint to be canonized in modern times. Although Fr. Youssef never traveled far from the Lebanese hermitage where he lived, his influence has spread widely in Eastern Christianity and is now spreading in our Latin Western world of Christianity. Saint Sharbel, pray for us. May your serene example of prayer and fasting be an inspiration for all who do battle in their spiritual deserts—for all who struggle with sin and the temptations of the world and the flesh. Help us to follow your unique path of holiness.

Fr. John Radwan

4

SUNDAY MASS ONLINE

Please check our parish website:

sjcnj.org for the link to the Mass

starting on Saturdays at 5pm

Mass is also available on OPTV Saturdays at 7pm & Sundays at 10am on Altice/Optimum Ch. 77 (Oradell); FiOS Ch. 28 (Oradell & New Milford)

SAINT JOSEPH CHURCH ORADELL/NEW MILFORD, NJ

ATTENTION PARISHIONERS!

SAINT JOSEPH CHURCH NEEDS YOUR

EMAIL ADDRESS! We are in the process of updating our parish records and would like to include an email address for each family. This will enable us to contact you quickly with important information. Please do not assume that we already have your email address (unless you just sent it last week!). THIS IS A NEW LIST. EVERYONE: please seend your full name and email address as soon as possible to:

PastoralCouncil@sjcnj.org Thanks! WELCOME BACK TO MASS

AT SAINT JOSEPH

The public celebration of SUNDAY MASS has resumed at Saint Joseph Church. The Mass schedules remain the same: Weekends: (Sat.) 5:00 pm; (Sun.) 7:30 am, 9:00 am, 10:30 am and 12 noon Weekdays: (Mon. thru Fri.) 7:00 am and 8:30 am; (Sat.) 8:30 am only Occupancy is subject to state and local health directives. Currently no more than 100 people are allowed in the Upper Church and no more than 60 in Mary’s Chapel. (See p. 6 for further information and directives.)

DON’T FORGET TO TAKE YOUR POSSESSIONS

AT THE END OF MASS Please be sure to remember to take your possessions with you at the end of Mass. For health and safety reasons, we are unable to keep any personal items that have been left behind.

Serving students in PreK-3 to Grade 8

201-261-2388 sjsusa.org

PreK 3, PreK 4 and Kindergarten

The Early Childhood Program of

sjsusa.org

5

Saturday 5:00 pm

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

PRAYER REQUESTS

Let us remember all those who are ill: Hugh E. Flanagan, Kurt Shuler, Jose Morales,

Riley Fuapengco, Oliver Kamal, Reagan Morse. Ed Grube Let us remember all those who have died:

Raymond Cappock

Let us remember those serving in our military: 2nd LT Harry Aquino USAF, Lance Cpl. Alexander Banas,

1st LT Christopher Bascomb, 2nd LT Michael McPherson, 1st LT Michael Shuler, PFC David Solinas, Jr.

BREAD & WINE INTENTION

The bread and wine for the week of July 19, 2020

is offered for the honor and glory of God.

SIXTEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME ~ JULY 19, 2020

YOUR SUPPORT IS GREATLY NEEDED

YOU CAN DONATE ONLINE: Go to sjcnj.churchgiving.com and follow the directions. You can quickly and easily make a one-time donation or set up an account to make your normal weekly contribution.

MAIL YOUR ENVELOPE: Please mail it to the Parish Office 105 Harrison Street, New Milford, NJ 07646.

DONATE AT MASS: If you are attending our public

celebration of Mass, we ask that you place your donation in the basket at the doors of the church. Thank you!

STEWARDSHIP REFLECTION “The kingdom of heaven may be likened to a man who sowed good seed in his field…He who sows good seed is the Son of Man, the field is the world, the good seed the children of the kingdom.” - Matthew 13:24, 37-38 As children of God, we are all “good seeds”. We are blessed by God with the potential to accomplish much good in the world. We fulfill God’s plan when we spend time in prayer every day, use our skills to help others and share our financial gifts to help build God’s kingdom on earth. Through our example of gratitude and generosity we sow “good seeds” on earth and ultimately help each other get to Heaven!

SUMMER OFFICE HOURS

PARISH OFFICE: Mon.-Thurs.—9am-5pm; Fri.—9am-2pm Due to staff’s limited return, and with health and safety concerns in mind, we ask that you CALL FIRST (201-261-0148) to arrange an appointment or specific time to come by, or email us at office@sjcnj.org

RELIOUS EDUCATION: Call 201-261-1144 to reach Deacon George or Mrs. Kennedy.

SCHOOL OFFICE: Mon. thru Thurs.: 8am-3pm; Fri.: Closed

OTHER PARISH BUILDINGS STILL CLOSED Except for our offices, all parish buildings (Parish Life Center, Parish Retreat House, Youth Center) REMAIN CLOSED until further notice. All public parish ministry meetings remain suspended until further notice. Groups will continue to meet virtually.

STAY UP-TO-DATE Please continue checking

our parish website at sjcnj.org and our parish Facebook Page at

facebook.com/church.st.joseph

July 18, 2020 Edward & Marguerite Jackson

July 19, 2020 People of the Parish Edward Cronin Frank Piersa Rodolfo Abuedo (Living)

July 20, 2020 Stephen Jugan Elisa Coleman

July 21, 2020 Max McDonough Mate Skroce

July 22, 2020 Louise Plentus Timothy Sullivan

July 23, 2020 Stanley Sowizral For the living and deceased members of the Prior & Plinio Families

July 24, 2020 Daniel Mallet Carter Murdock

July 25, 2020 Sal Cozzitorto Brian Low

July 26, 2020 People of the Parish Frank Piersa Michael Edward Tumang Patrick Chu

6

DAILY MASS AND CONFESSION

Daily Mass (M-F at 7:00 am and 8:30 am; Sat. at 8:30 am only) continues. Church doors will open 15

minutes before each Mass and be locked between Masses to allow for cleaning. Please enter via Harrison St. door and exit via Grand St. door only.

Private prayer follows 8:30 am Mass until 9:30 am, when the church is closed for cleaning.

No gatherings. (Adoration will resume on the f irst Wed. of the month as soon as permitted.) Confessions have returned to Saturdays from 4:00-5:00 pm or upon request.

GUIDELINES FOR ATTENDING PUBLIC SUNDAY MASS

ARRIVE EARLY (20 minutes before Mass) and line up outside. Doors will open 15 minutes before Mass.

Wear a face mask at all times while on the parish campus (both indoors and out) and maintain safe social distancing (6 feet).

Enter via Elm St. or Harrison St. doors only. (Grand St. entrance is handicapped-access only.)

Hand sanitizer will be available and must be used upon entering.

You will be seated in alternating pews. No physical contact during the Sign of Peace.

DISTRIBUTION OF HOLY COMMUNION When processing forward to receive, keep mask

on and follow the blue markings on the floor. Pause at the solid blue line, and wait until a

priest/minister is available. Holy Communion is permitted in the hand only. Once the consecrated host is placed in your

hand, step to the side, remove your mask briefly to consume, then immediately reposition your mask and return to your seat.

AFTER FINAL BLESSING Remain seated until a minister instructs you to

move; exit your pew when prompted. No private prayer or gathering after Sunday

Mass is permitted. Please do not congregate outside.

FOR HEALTH AND SAFETY

Openly-accessed areas of the church are being cleaned daily at regular intervals and deep- cleaned at least weekly for health and safety.

Appropriate cleaning of high-use areas in the church is being done before each Mass.

Holy Water fonts must remain empty until further notice.

Public Restroom Access is restricted due to state health mandates.

Please remember to WASH YOUR HANDS for at least 20 seconds before coming to Mass and WEAR A FACE MASK at all times while in church and on campus.

SAINT JOSEPH CHURCH ORADELL/NEW MILFORD, NJ

Saint Joseph Parish Staff

Parish Trustees…………....Mr. Brendan Walsh/Mrs. Carol Winkler Parish Pastoral Council……...Mr. Thomas Kohli/Mr. Neil Neubert Dir. of Religious Education ………Deacon George Montalvo Sacraments Coordinator …………..Mrs. Arlene Kennedy Director of Music ……………………..Mr. Monroe Quinn Sacristan………………………………….Mr. Tom Moran Youth Minister…………………………,Mrs. Ellen Solinas Facilities Director ………………….....Mr. Tom Meli Business Manager ……………….…. .Mrs. Phyllis Vrola Parish Secretary ……………………....Mrs. Geraldine Carolan

Principal of Saint Joseph School…Dr. Paula Valenti Dir. of Comm./Bulletin Editor……Mrs. Diane Hellriegel

Visit us on our websites: CHURCH: sjcnj.org

SCHOOL: sjsusa.org RELIGIOUS ED.: sjcnjre.org

7

8