January 6, 2019

The Epiphany of the Lord

Behold, the Lord, the Mighty One, has come; and kingship is in his grasp, and power and dominion.

254 Wall Street, West Long Branch, NJ 07764 Office: 732-222-1424

Saturday Vigil Mass: 5:00pm Sunday: 7:30am and 11:00am Daily: Wednesday-Friday-Saturday 8:30am Confessions: Saturday 4:00 PM

46 Richmond Avenue, Deal, NJ 07723 Office: 732-531-1409

Saturday Vigil Mass: 5:00pm Sunday: 8:00am and 10:00am Daily: Monday to Thursday at 9:00am Confessions: Saturday 4:00 PM

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Saint Jerome School * 2018 Blue Ribbon Awardee

Office Number: 732-222-8686 Website Address: www.saintjeromeschool.org

Pastoral and Support Staff Rev. Peter James Alindogan

Msgr. Cajetan Salemi * Rev. Jerome Nolan Assisting Priests

Louis Jakub * Anthony DiCesare * Paul Kliauga Deacons

Sr. Angelina Pelliccia, M.P.F., * Sr. Elizabeth Toft, M.P.F. Sr. Elizabeth Dalessio, M.P.F.

Elsa Pagano * Georgie Mandica Pat Serafino * Norma Adamitis

Robert Garratano * Christine Scholtz

Dennis Melofchik & Theodore Ferraro, Jr., Trustees

Contact Informa�on: Office Hours: Monday - Thursday 9:00am - 1:00pm

254 Wall Street, West Long Branch, NJ 07764 Phone 732-222-1424 ● Fax 732-222-2291

St. Mary’s Number: 732-531-1409 Email Address: office@ladyofhopeparish.org

Website: www.ladyofhopeparish.org

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Weekly Collec�on and A�endance May the good Lord bless you for your generosity and presence!

St. Jerome St. Mary of the Assumption

Saturday/Sunday, December 22/23, 2018

5:00pm Mass $1,816.00 149people

7:30am Mass $2,763.00 124 people

11:00am Mass $1,495.00 109 people

Online Giving $805.00 26 families

Totals $6,879.00 382 people

Saturday/Sunday, December 22/23, 2018

5:00pm Mass $1,151.00 98 people

8:00am Mass $2,115.00 99 people

10:00am Mass $1,398.00 152people

Online Giving $417.00 15 families

Totals $5,081.00 349 people

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Dear Friends in Christ,

Peace and Joy on this Feast of the Lord’s Epiphany!

Allow me to thank you for all your Christmas gifts, wishes, prayers, and love. I am blessed and grateful to be part of our faith community, previously linked and twinned from our two churches of rich religious tradition and history. Great to be a father of one now, after being a father of twins for a year.

I am grateful to the Arts and Environment Team, as I may call it, for our two places of worship. They did a marvelous, magnificent and truly wonderful job in decorating elegantly our churches for Christmas.

For St. Jerome Church, I am thankful to Christine Scholtz for leading the Team. She listed the team members in a separate corner of this bulletin along with their respective responsibilities. Christine also prepared us spiritually in organizing and heading the Vespers for the four Sundays of Advent.

For St. Mary’s Church, thank you to the volunteers, who were there on December 23. An Angel, who wants to remain anonymous, spent a big chunk of her time in ordering and arranging the flowers for Christmas. She single handedly had colorful poinsettias on the base of the Blessed Mother Statue in our main high altar. Angels do have wings.

Till then. See you in Church and have a blessed weekend.

Fr. PJ

Father PJ’s Letter

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MMass Inten�ons

Saturday, January 5

5:00pm Morris Vivona Req. by The Dellera Family

Michael Ioli Req. by The Richards Family

Sunday, January 6

7:30am Doris LaCorte Req. by Dino

Michael Ioli Req. by Vito and Liz Paolantonio

11:00am Marie Hausser (30th Anniversary) Req. by Robert Hausser and Eileen Smith Anthony Palmisano Req. by Anthony and Gretchen DiCesare

Wednesday January 9

8:30 am Living and Deceased Members of the Parish John Zuccarino

Req. by James Pagano

Friday January 11

8:30 am Irene Kallighan (1st Anniversary) Req. by The Parish of Our Lady of Hope

Rose Lee Req. by Irene Ciarla

12:00 pm ADORATION TODAY A�er Mass un�l 12:00 Noon

Saturday, January 12

8:30 am Olivia Pepitone Req. by The Pepitone Family

Theodore L. Ferraro Req. by Vito and Liz Paolantonio

5:00 pm Joseph O’Brien Req. by Alan and Be�e Dibling

Anthony Donato Req. by Alan and Be�e Dibling

Sunday, January 13

7:30am Mike Ioli Req. by The Bordiuk Family

Theodore l. Ferraro Req. by John and Georgie Mandica &

Family

11:00 am Frank Bulzis Req. by Doreen and Mark Bulzis

Irene Kallighan Req.by Doreen and Mark Bulzis

Server Schedule

Saturday January 12 5:00 pm

Lector Chris Scholtz Madeline O�no

Extraordinary Ministers

Connie Dominguez Ben D’Silva Deacon Lou

Altar Servers Aleena D’Silva Anna Siciliano Rebecca Rodriguez

Sunday, January 13 7:30 am

Lector Dona Coffey

Extraordinary Ministers

Richard Loeffler Robin S�llings

Altar Servers Kevin Hagerman Nicole Knox Riley Mandeville

Lector Debbie Ronan Amelia Lopano

11:00 am

Extraordinary Ministers

Sal Sita Kevin Ronan

Altar Servers Richard Wallace Mayte Lozano Zulmy Lozano

The "St. Jerome Rosary Altar Society," invites everyone to reserve flowers in front of the Blessed Mother and Sacred Heart Statues. The dona�on is $12 each and can be for loving memorials, birthdays, anniversaries, or any special inten�ons.

Please contact Donna Tomaino for available dates at 732-996-6037 or email: tomaino�ppycat@comcast.net

ALTAR PRIVILEGE

January 12………………..….Sally Dunphy and Ann Goldy January 19…..Terry Reese

“What a joy to serve the Lord and His people.”

Speaking of Marriage and Family Life Do I have any habits that annoy my partner?

Am I willing to change?

Rosary Altar Society From our members to all of you: A very happy, healthful, and blessed New Year!

We bid a fond farewell to our Vice President Gayle Scholl who will be moving soon, and since we couldn't convince her to commute to NJ from Nebraska for our mee�ngs, we will have a vacancy in the VP posi�on! Gayle has been a steadfast member and of tremendous support in all our efforts and ac�vi�es, and she will be sorely missed. We wish you and your family Godspeed, Gayle!

Our next mee�ng is Mon., Feb. 4, 7:15 pm in the rectory conference room. Stay tuned for everything we're planning a�er that!

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SServer Schedule Saturday, January 12 5:00 pm

Lector Peter Hughes Extraordinary Ministers

Dena Glynn Lea Tallarico Diane Ailor

Sunday, January 13 8:00 am

Lector Dennis Melofchik Extraordinary Ministers

Catherine Hinz Maureen Melofchik Barbara Calvo

Altar Servers Michael Delia Audrey Delia

10:00 am Lector Joan Berzansky Extraordinary Ministers

Deacon Paul K. Mike Berzansky Kate Chambrovich

Mass Inten�ons Saturday, January 5

5:00 pm Beatrice Volpe Req. by Mr. & Mrs. F. Guiscardo

Emil Nemec Req. by Don & Linda Hopkins

Sunday, January 6

8:00 am Ann Mulcahy Req. by the parishioners of Our Lady

of Hope Parish, St. Mary’s Church Heather Melofchik Sullivan

Req. by Hughes family

10:00 am Rosemary Marino Req. by the parishioners of Our Lady

of Hope Parish, St. Mary’s Church Joseph Ruivo

Req. by Violeta Lemos Ruivo

Monday, January 7

9:00 am J. Townley Carr Req. by Sally Welch

Tuesday, January 8

9:00 am Adelaide Bariscillo Req. by John Wengler

Wednesday, January 9

9:00 am Deceased members of the Scally and McCormick families

Req. by Bob and Donna Scally

Thursday, January 10

9:00 am Carol Zackey

Saturday, January 12

5:00 pm Emil Nemec Req. by Don & Linda Hopkins

Sunday, January 13

8:00 am James Marrucca Req. by Mr. & Mrs. Ronald Carvalho

and family John Frank Leonard

Req. by Larry & Anne Gruner

10:00 am Joseph Hauschildt, Sr. Req. by Hughes family

Deceased members of the Baldino & DeFazio families

Req. by Bob & Donna Scally

Debt Reduc�on Collec�on Weekend THIS WEEKEND

The November debt reduc�on collec�on was $2,262.00 which we paid directly toward principal. Thank you for your generosity. Did you know that in addition to our waterproofing work on the interior and exterior walls and underground of the church, all the windowsills in the basement were raised by 8

inches to further prevent drainage problems seeping in through the windows? All new basement windows were then installed.

Mini Meditation

Mary’s Motherhood

“Do not be afraid to take Mary as your Mother in the journey of life! Let Mary be a model for you of how to follow Jesus. Do not be afraid to enter into

confidence with her, to entrust to her maternal hands all problems, all concerns, all expectations and plans. Above all, confide in her the plan that

concerns your entire life.”

St John Paul II

Here’s One Posi�ve Encouragement

It’s now 2019 and 6 days into the new year. What resolutions are you making for the new year? Let me guess: you are going to exercise more, watch what you eat, be kinder to others, attend mass more often, etc. Same old, same old. Why not try something new, a resolution to enhance your closeness with God. How about reading a Bible passage, saying the rosary and really meditating on each decade, or reading books on religion or being a Catholic? Set a goal of being able to explain, not defend why you are a Catholic by year’s end. Just because you were baptized as a Catholic or because your whole family is Catholic does not cut it. Next December you will have fulfilled your New Year’s resolution and truly know and understand why you are a Catholic.

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UNITED IN PRAYER

Please pray for the sick, the homebound and those who have requested us to remember them in prayer, especially: Ashley Cusack, Kathy Sita, Jean Kolibas, Donna Curtis, Silvio Varone, Laurel Varone, Chad Clarke, Josephine Santandrea, Kathleen Moran, Eileen Lomet, Fr. Fred Jackiewicz, Robert Steiner, Kathy Ryan, Lorry Steiner, Jim Malespina, Jim Vecchione, Vinny Stasio, Eugene Andrea, John Clark, Joan Malespina Marie Miltner, Vilda Malic, Joel Rivera, Peter Gangemi, Jane Pearson, Francis Tarasiewicz, Bob Waitt, Maryanne Cardamone, David Walther, Don Bennett, Lori Kelly, Carole Evangelista, Marie Siciliano, Maureen Walther, Regina Roche and family, Frank Marsico, John Maugeri, the Mazza family, the Frankfort family, Raymond Hardy, Maritza Hernandez, Jeffrey White, Anna Oleinik, Peggy Morgan, Peggy Hildebrand, Augustus Maggio, Hayden Hawes,, John Shaw, Jeanine Hayes, Wendy Lewelyn, Phil Wilderotter, John Murphy, Frank Signorelli, Steve Lazar, John Fiedler, Myra Walther, Samy Yanni, Randy Siciliano, Rose DiLieto, Annie Villarroel, , Diane Latshaw, Elizabeth Smith, Dr. Jai Jeen Rhee, Sarah Walther, Father Ray Wadas, Nate Valcich, Marta Otero, Sam Geffrey, Frank Edwards, Linda Hopkins, and Josh.

Also, we continually keep in our prayers all those who are serving in the Armed Forces.

MARCH FOR LIFE 2019 ~ WASHINGTON D.C.

The March for Life began as a small demonstra�on in 1973 and rapidly grew to be the largest pro-life event in the world. The peaceful demonstra�on that has followed on this somber anniversary is a witness to the truth concerning the greatest human rights viola�on of our �me: abor�on. Join us and half a million pro-lifers as we head to Washington, D.C. on Friday, January 18, 2019 for the 46th annual March For Life. Always peaceful and upli�ing, The March For Life offers you the opportunity to stop in at your federal legislators' offices and let them know how you feel (and vote!).

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POPE FRANCIS PRAYER INTENTIONS FOR DECEMBER Young People and the Example of Mary

That young people, especially in Latin America, follow the example of Mary and respond to the call of the Lord to communicate the joy of the Gospel to the world.

St. Jerome 2018 Christmas Greens &

Flower Team Members:

Choir Loft Garland & Wreaths:

The Paolantonio family: Michael & Tracy, Emma & Alexa

Indoor & Outdoor Evergreen Wreaths:

Carol & Erin Doran, Donna Nurthen, & Eileen Pepitone

Sanctuary Garlands, Trees & Wreaths:

Gayle & Joe Scholl, John Sartorio, & Terence Turgyan;

Sanctuary Flowers & Nativity:

Holly & Keira Buniewski, Carol, Kristen & Erin Doran,

Suzanne Fitzsimmons & Elizabeth Rathjens

ALSO:

Thank you Charles Holtz for tidying up the church!

Thank you Paolantonio family for stringing additional lights on the trees!

Thank you Elizabeth Rathjens for making the beautiful gold bows for the sanctuary wreaths & ordering the flowers.

Thank you Suzanne Marcantonio & Frankie for filling the front step urns so beautifully with greens and white pine branches.

AND:

Thank You, Gayle & Joe, for all your support and help over the years in preparing the St. Jerome liturgical environment for the celebration of Christmas & Easter. You will be greatly missed! May God bless you with good health and happiness as you begin a new chapter of your lives in Omaha, Nebraska.

Thank you, everyone, for taking time from your busy schedules to help prepare our church so

beautifully for Christmas!

May God bless you this Christmas Season and throughout the New Year.

Christine Scholtz, lay ecclesial minister

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