ST. JOSEPH CHURCH SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2016

SECOND SUNDAY OF LENT

PASTORAL STAFF AND PARISH OFFICE

Father Steven Shadwell ............................................................................................................................. Pastor Harry White, Ben Lo Paro ...................................................................................................................... Deacons Sister Janet Brisky, P.B.V.M. .................................................................................................. Pastoral Associate Sister Geraldine Corio, P.B.V.M. ................................................................................. Director of Faith Formation Justine Smith .................................................................................................. Faith Formation\Baptism Assistant Mary Beth Ferriola ............................................................................................Business and Cemetery Manager Mary O’Neill ............................................................................................................................... Parish Secretary Antonietta Dellapi .................................................................................................Director of Volunteer Ministries Camille Kluge ................................................................................................................................ Youth Director Jacqueline M. Reilly ....................................................................................................................... Music Director Bob Sautter .................................................................................................... Buildings and Grounds Supervisor Kevin Kennedy and Diane Parisi .................................................................................................. Parish Trustees

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 21 10:00 AM RCIA - FBR 2:15 PM Boys CYO Basketball - PC MONDAY, FEBRUARY 22 5:00 PM Girls Basketball - PC 7:00 PM Confession - CH 7:00 PM The Mystery of God - FBR TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 23 7:00 PM Intentional Disciples - PC 7:30 PM Alcoholics Anonymous - KH WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 24 6:30 PM 1st Holy Communion\Parent Child Time- PC 7:00 PM Cantor\Choir Rehearsal - CH 7:30 PM Boy Scouts - FBR THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 25 9:00 AM Moms and Tots Playgroup 6:00 PM Boys CYO Basketball - PC 8:00 PM Knights of Columbus - KH FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26 9:00 AM Stations of the Cross Following Mass - CH Midnight Alcoholics Anonymous - KH SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 27 1:00 PM Eagle Court of Honor - PC 10:00 PM Alcoholics Anonymous - KH SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 28 12:00 PM Youth Mass - CH 1:00 PM YM Stations of Cross Practice - CH

LECTORS FOR THE WEEKEND OF FEBRUARY 27\28

G. Tacinelli, V. Haggerty, H. Meditz, Youth Ministry PC: Anita

EXTRAORDINARY MINISTERS OF HOLY COMMUNION FOR THE WEEKEND OF FEBRUARY 27\28

SATURDAY 5:00 PM: D. Santa Lucia, A. Moralishvili, C. Bernal SUNDAY 7:45 AM: C. Gensheimer 9:00 AM: D. Lastro, R. & L. De Franco, E. Frew 10:30 AM: B. Sautter, M. B. Ferriola 12:00 PM: Youth Ministry Any Extraordinary Minister who would like to serve one Friday every other month at Chilton Hospital, please call Carolyn Gerri at 973 838-3705 or 973 934-1994. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 22 - The Chair of St. Peter,

Apostle 9:00 AM People of the Parish TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 23 - St. Polycarp, Bishop, Martyr 9:00 AM Sick of the Parish. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 24 9:00 AM +Ermelinda Ziccardi by Michael and Carol Bernal THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 25 9:00 AM Intention\Military Service Men and Women FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26 9:00 AM People of the Parish SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 27 9:00 AM Sick of the Parish 5:00 PM +Virginia Deering by Peter and Marge Mack +Peter Gillen, Sr. by Pat and Pete Gillen, Jr. SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 28 – 3rd Sunday of Lent 7:45 AM People of the Parish 9:00 AM +Robert Muniz by Rita O’Brien +Thomas Vitale by Pat Yannacci 10:30 AM +Kathryn Briggs by Karen and Jim Sisco +Pam Riley by Irene Hannan 12:00 PM +William McClurg by Kluge Family +Anna Richnavsky by Richnavsky Family +Intention\Jada and Bernadette by Priscilla Toye +Elizabeth Rago by Cazorla Family

Budget: $6,250.00

Weekend February 13\14

$4,903.00

Difference: - $1,347.00

The bread and wine for the week of Feb-ruary 21st has been donated in loving memory of Ermelinda Ziccardi by Michael and Carol Bernal.

Next Week: 3rd Sunday of Lent 1st Reading: Exodus 3:1-8, 13-15 2nd Reading: 1 Corinthians 10:1-6,10-12 Gospel: Luke 13:1-9

SCRIPTURE FOCUS: The fig tree in the parable in to-day’s Gospel represents Jerusalem. Jerusalem was the center of God’s chosen people. He loved and cared, culti-vated and fertilized. It is time for Jerusalem to bear fruit, but Jerusalem failed. The coming of Jesus as the “sign” of God’s love for people can be seen as an extra time of grace given to Jerusalem. But by the time the Gospel was written, Luke’s audience would know that Jerusalem had been destroyed. The parable also carries a caution for us: Unless we reform we too will perish, just as Jeru-salem did.

LIFE FOCUS: Tell how God’s calling caused you to look

inward and make a positive change in your life.

CAN YOU HELP? Info: Sr. Janet 973-697-2846

Please leave donations in Sr. Janet’s garage. Thank you!

Needed: There is a need for soap, body wash, deo-dorant, individually wrapped tooth brushes and razor blades. Also need toothpaste, shampoo, Fixodent (origi-nal) umbrellas, men’s and women’s tee shirts clean and in good shape and clean baseball caps. If you have any cur-rent magazines: inspirational, sports, hobbies, National Geographic. Black out your name and address from the label and leave in Sr. Janet’s garage. Needed: Newspaper puzzles with the answers stapled to the puzzles. Please put in puzzle box in Sr. Janet’s garage. Needed: Rosary beads. Needed: Boys seasonal clothes size 2T and 3T. Please leave in Sr. Janet’s garage labeled “D.” Needed: Car for a parishioner. Needed: Mini jazzi (motorized wheel chair) that works. Call Sr. Janet. Birth Haven 50/50 Raffle: Tickets $25.00 each. Dead-line April 1. Checks payable to “BH” Attn: Sr. Janet Needed: Part-time employees. 20 – 30 hours a week in Hewitt. Call Sr. Janet for details. BINGO AT MILFORD MANOR: SATURDAY, APRIL 2nd

2:30 – 3:30PM Come 10 minutes early and stay 15 minutes late to help. Bingo prizes are needed - men’s wallets. Sister always needs help, so CALL Sr. Janet if you can help. If you

need a signature, Sr. Janet will have a pen after bingo.

SMALL FAITH COMMUNITY Experience a Small Faith Community. We meet in the Upper Room for an hour to Reflect on the following Sunday’s Scripture from 7:30 – 8:30pm. Our next meeting will be Monday, April 4th.

Time for Vocations… Please pray for: Seminarians Henry Pinto and Luke Agknew

A Time To Serve In The Military… Andrew Giambalvo

If you have a family member in the military and would like them to be prayed for please call parish office with the

name of the person. A Time To Heal… Please pray for: Carmen Romero,

Peg Misner, Bob Weiss, Justin Kraivanger, Darlene Quigley, John Paicer, Scott Frew, Marilyn Whritenour,

Gregory Whritenour, Emily Hennessy Green, Tom Pavlin, Natalie Hummel, Donald Conlon, Charles

Richnavsky, Robert G. Kochka, Carmen Palafox and Thomas Mooney

A Time To Die… Please pray for: Those buried in our cemetery

Please Note: Only family members may request to have someone included in prayers for the sick. They will re-

main on for 2 weeks then the parish office must be noti-fied if they are to remain on for another 2 weeks.

ST. JOSEPH STATUE RAFFLE: The St. Joseph statue that is being raffled off is on display in the church. You may make a donation (no set amount) but not necessary; fill out the card with your name and phone number and drop in the basket. The drawing is March 13th at the 10:30 am Mass ……………………………………………………………………

THANK YOU TO ALL WHO AT-TENDED THE SOCIAL GATHERING

THIS PAST SUNDAY. WE HOPE

YOU ENJOYED SPENDING SOME

TIME WITH FELLOW PARISHION-ERS. MANY THANKS TO: MARY

BETH FERRIOLA, NANCY MCLAUGH-LIN, JOAN CASTRIGNANO, DEBORAH RU-

BINSKY AND DENISE LEONE FOR PROVIDING WON-DERFUL TREATS FOR ALL TO ENJOY. THANK YOU TO

NORMAN AND CASSANDRA RUBINSKY FOR HELPING

THEIR MOM, DEBORAH, AND DENISE LEONE WITH

SETTING UP AND THANK YOU ALSO TO THE LESKO

FAMILY FOR SETTING UP TABLES AFTER MASS FOR

THE GATHERING. LOOKING FORWARD TO OUR NEXT

SOCIAL GATHERING. ……………………………………………………………………

WELCOME HOME TO HEALING

There will be confession in church every Monday evening from 7:00- 8:30pm until March 14th.

Protecting God’s Children

Virtus® Workshop As required by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishop, all parish volunteers who “have regular contact with children” must attend a “Protecting God’s Children Workshop.” This workshop is being offered at:

St. Catherine of Bologna Church in Ringwood on: Wednesday, February 24 at 7 pm in the Parish Hall.

To register on-line: go to www.patersondiocese.org

Click on “Links” on the top menu bar and then select “Child Protective Services.” Registration for Virtus® is available there. The Paterson Diocese also requires that volunteers com-plete a background check and sign an acknowledgment of having read the Diocesan Code of Conduct. Informational packets are available in the parish office.

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Youth Ministry Living Stations

of the Cross

Come and learn about Jesus’ journey to the Cross as we prepare for our presentation of the sta-tions of the cross. ~ Youth Ministry will begin practices for the ‘Living Stations of the Cross’ with a brief meeting on Sunday February 28 immediately following the 12 noon mass in the church. All interested high school teens should attend this meeting. Subsequent practices will be held in the church as follows – Sunday March 6 - 4:00-6:00 pm, Sunday March 13 – 4:00-6:00 pm, Sunday March 20 - 7:00-9:00 pm. The presentation will take place Good Friday, March 25 at 8:00 pm in the church. For further information, please contact Camille at klugecamille@gmail.com. ……………………………………………………………………

KNIGHTS NEWS We are looking for a few good men. For more information contact Chuck

Carbone at 973-208-1786 or chuckerbone@optonline.net District Free Throw – Sunday, 2/21 Our Lady Queen of Peace Thursday, 2/25 – Social Meeting – 8:00PM KH ………………………………………………………………….

ST. JOSEPH’S TABLE

Palm Sunday, March 20th in the parish cen-ter following all Masses. The 9:00am, 10:30am and 12 noon Masses will be held

in the parish center that day. See next weekend’s bulletin for more details.

The food pantry needs: juice, tea, cof-fee, potatoes, canned fruit, Spaghet-tiOs, mayo and salad dressing. Easter dinner donations of hams and

family size lasagna would also be appreciated. The Food Pantry would like to distribute Easter Baskets this year to the children of the families that come to the pantry. We are looking for donations of medium size Easter baskets and small toys. We need the donations by March 18th. They may be left in the back of the church. Friday, March 18th at Koch Hall we need volunteers to put together the Easter baskets. This is a fun volunteer activity for the whole family.

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16TH ANNUAL CASINO NIGHT SATURDAY, MARCH 12, 2016

Doors open at 6:15pm. Tickets: $45.00 ($40.00 for a group of 6 or more) which includes a light buffet,

dessert, beer, wine, soda and $100.00 in casino chips. Prize lottery

at the end of the evening. Games from 7:00 – 10:00pm. If you have any questions or would like to help the committee or donate a prize please call Antonietta Del-lapi @ 973-697-6100 or email sj-volunteers@optonline.net. Tickets are available at the parish office or to reserve tickets please call the parish office during regular business hours. 973 697-6100. ……………………………………………………………………

Would you be willing to call a newly registered family to wel-come them to St. Joseph Parish? Please call Sr. Janet.

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COMMUNITY NEWS Don't 'Give up’ for Lent--give blood!! The Monthly Blood Drive will be Sunday, 2/21 at the First Aid Station (619 Ridge Road, by the library), 8:30-1:30. No appointments are re-

quired and we welcome First Timers!! Start a new family tradition to give the gift of life this Lenten season. Remem-ber, it's not too late to start a New Year's resolution to do-nate more often this year. P. S. If you can't donate, please encourage others to do so. Babysit their kids, buy them breakfast or lunch before donating, get the groceries for them while they donate--those simple steps could allow someone to donate and literally help save a life!! Ques-tions? Comments? Contact Jim Gilligan at 973-728-4251 or jrg2y@yahoo.com.

Most folks are self-conscious about their appearance. This is a good thing when kept within the bounds of self-respect and a healthy care of the body. However, it can be exaggerated to the point of crippling disease. Then, there are those among us

who carry the enormous cross of a visible deformity. One thinks of those marred by accident, war, disease or from birth. In these latter cases folks, after great personal suffering (physical and mental), can come to understand in a very concrete way that beauty is only skin deep for they often discover a deeper more permanent beauty – the beauty of the person beneath. It happens, too, that these, and any who are visibly challenged, can lead us who are not challenged in so visible a way to appreciate the abiding and more important beauty of the soul within; the soul within them and within ourselves. And this introduction brings us straight to the Gospel of today. “Jesus took Peter, John, and James and went up the mountain to pray. While he was praying his face changed in appearance and his clothing became dazzling white…Peter and his compan-ions had been overcome by sleep, but becoming fully awake, they saw his glory.” (Gospel of the Day; Luke 9) Peter and his companions we are told had fallen asleep but became fully awake. This is metaphorical language intended to communicate how unaware they had been of the glory hidden within the day to day appearance of Jesus; of which glory, they now become fully conscious. But, why hadn’t they seen it before? Certainly Jesus was attracting large numbers on account of his gracious words and his miracles. Certainly Jesus was doing good works, even the works of God, before this moment: raising the dead, forgiving sins, feeding the hungry multitudes in mind and body. Certainly, Jesus showed himself more than a carpenter, philanthropist, and prophet before this transfiguration moment. Why, had not his intimate friends glimpsed his glory thru all the great and extraordinary (even supernatural) events they had already witnessed? Who knows, maybe Jesus was just too plain and ordinary, too poor and humble for them to see the God he was. The point is this – we are like the apostles. We see a Church that is just ordinary but never seem to grasp the glory of the Kingdom of God she is. We see a Church that is always poor, always struggling, filled with sinners, and we never get past the visible to the beauty hidden be-neath. True, we see her feed the poor, clothe the naked, comfort the sick. True we see her have exhilarating moments like millions flocking to see her shepherd in chief the Pope. But, still we are all too ready to dismiss her as just one more flawed organization, doing some good, among the gazillions of other institutions. We see her only as human and never as divine. I guarantee you that if we were to see the glory of the Church we would be as surprised as the apostles when they saw the glory of Jesus. And yet, the glory of the Church is the same as that of Jesus: the divine abiding in total unity with the human. I think this surface faith that so many of us have is what allows us to become enemies of the Faith or as St. Paul said enemies of the Cross: “For many, as I have often told you and now tell you even in tears, conduct themselves as enemies of the cross of Christ. Their end is destruction. Their God is their stomach; their glory is in their “shame.” Their minds are occupied with earthly things.” (Second Reading; Philippians 3) We need to take our profession of faith to a deeper level. Let’s do this this Lent. Our First Reading from Genesis is given us today as an example of true faith; of the kind of faith we need to acquire. Abraham is told: The Lord God took Abram outside and said, “Look up at the sky and count the stars, if you can. Just so,” he added, “shall your descendants be.” (Gen-esis 15) By all accounts, by outward appearance, this must have seemed impossible to the child-less Abraham. But we are told: “Abram put his faith in the Lord, who credited it to him as an act of righteousness.” A faith that is only skin deep will fade as certainly as the beauty of the body.