Roman Catholic Church

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 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

Summer Office Hours: Parish: Mon.-Thurs.9 am-5 pm, Fri. 9 am-2 pm; Rel. Ed.: Mon –Thurs.: 9:30 am—5 pm (Also by appointment.)

Oradell/New Milford, NJ Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time August 9, 2015

INSIDE:

VOLUNTEER SIGN-UP for

“We Are Living Stones” —See page 4

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PRAYER REQUESTS

Let us remember those who are ill: Bob Westerdahl

Let us remember those who have recently died: Mariantonia Tridenti

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 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 12:00 pm

Sunday Collection for Week of August 2, 2015

BASKET PARISHPAY TOTAL $7,634 $4,000 * $11,643

* The monthly ParishPay contribution remains the same as July but has been divided into

five weeks for the month of August.

Saint Joseph Parish Staff

Mr. Brendan Walsh/Mrs. Carol Winkler….Parish Trustees 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

STEWARDSHIP REFLECTION “Get up and eat, else the journey

will be too long for you!” (1 KINGS 19:7) Jesus knew that the stewardship journey would be difficult, so He gave us the nourishment of the Eucharist. When we take time to join our sacrifices with the sacrifice of the Mass, we find the strength to give and joy in our giving.

BREAD AND WINE INTENTIONS

The bread and wine for the week of August 9, 2015

is offered in thanksgiving as requested by Gail & George Fabiano.

Please remember to drop off or send in your weekly donation envelope. Saint Joseph Parish relies on parishioners’ weekly contributions

to meet our operating expenses. Thank you for being a good steward of our parish.

See our bulletin in FULL COLOR on our website:

sjcnj.org

August 8, 2015 George M. Fabiano August 9, 2015 People of the Parish Dolores DeFelice Jo-Ann Verrier Timmy Curtin

August 10, 2015 Olga Bazawluk Garcia Lucille Mossay August 11, 2015 Margaret Harahan Joseph Mirante

August 12, 2015 Michael Connolly Mary & Michael O’Shea August 13, 2015 Ana Maria Sasso Brian Sherry

August 14, 2015 Edward Kelly Mary Potter August 15, 2015 Assumption of Mary

Brian Sherry Joaquina Guzman

August 16, 2015 People of the Parish Manuel & Maria Jose Amaral Stan Obal Jo-Ann Verrier

YOUR HELP IS NEEDED The “We Are Living Stones” Capital Campaign will provide the solid foundation upon which our Church will continue to build and enhance

the future for all one million Catholics across Northern New Jersey, as well as to help meet some of the specific needs of Saint Joseph Parish itself.

Go to page 4 of this bulletin to see how YOU can help!

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NINETEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME ~ AUGUST 9, 2015

FROM THE PASTOR’S DESK

∎ I hope you will consider volunteering to help make our parish’s effort in the “We Are Living

Stones” campaign a success. This is the drive every parish is partnering with the Archdiocese on. If you don’t know about it already, don’t worry—you’re sure to hear about it. Mark Alleman has generously volunteered to chair our effort, knowing how important it is for Saint Joseph. Tom Kelly and Glenn Nunez have graciously agreed to serve as co-chairmen and work with Mark. We thank them all.

∎ One of God’s greatest gifts to us is Sacred Scripture, through which he has communicated to us the most important of his teachings and inspirations. The Second Vatican Council’s Constitution on Divine Revelation has a wonderful description of why the Bible should matter enormously to us.

In the sacred books the Father who is in heaven comes lovingly to meet his children, and talks with them. And such is the force and power of the Word of God that it can serve the Church as her support and vigor, and the children of the Church as strength for their faith, food for the soul, and a pure and lasting found of spiritual life.

If you would like to take part in our parish’s biblical learning sessions, you will have a chance to sign up for them in the coming weeks. Anyone who does will gain

from the opportunity they present and the results they are sure to produce. In his Confessions, St. Augustine has a passage where he says that

In my needy life, Lord, my heart is much exercised under the impact made by the words of your Holy Scripture.

This can be so for any of us.

∎ The Solemnity of Our Lady’s Assumption into Heaven is this coming Saturday, and will be celebrated at our normally scheduled 8:30 am Mass. While it is not a holy day of obligation this year (because it occurs on a Saturday), it is one of the Church’s most joyous and important days and beliefs, something the late Pope Paul VI reminded pilgrims about at his 1973 Mass on the feast day:

This is the meaning of the Assumption; the love of God that raised her who believed in Him to eternal glory.

The pope also said that

Many have the desperate certainty that death will be the end of everything. It is false. It is a materialistic, temporal illusion because another life truly exists. There is another life! … It is not a legend, nor myth. It is the truth. God has created us immortal. Every time a baby is born, he is born for eternity.

Msgr. David Hubba

Mary What mystery magnificent what joy without alloy, that God should come to live in me as helpless baby boy.

I hurry to Elizabeth; she too shall bear a son; our hearts are one in praise of God — Redemption has begun!

Back home I learn of gossip while Joseph deals with doubt, but nothing can disturb God’s plan or my sweet rapture rout.

Each day I wake in wonderment to sing God’s awesome grace, and wait in prayerful longing to kiss my baby’s face.

And then one night in Bethlehem with all the world asleep, in a stable small and still did God his promise keep.

Too soon the childhood days fly past when we must be apart, that he may teach and heal and bless yet never leave my heart.

Then comes the tide of agony when godless men prevail, to bind my son in lies of hate with scourge and thorn and nail.

With John I stand beneath the cross, his suffering to mourn, remembering his saving words: “For this I have been born.”

I wait the while he sleeps in death, yet through the dark of pain his promise comes to dry my tears: “I shall rise again.”

And suddenly my son is here resplendent in pure light, and I can hold him in my arms like that first holy night.

An original poem by our parishioner

Marie L. Chiarella

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NINETEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME ~ AUGUST 9, 2015

Visit us on our websites CHURCH: sjcnj.org SCHOOL: sjsusa.org

RELIGIOUS ED: sjcnjre.org

GET READY! SAINT JOSEPH SCHOOL’S

2ND ANNUAL

FAMILY FALL CARNIVAL IS SET FOR

SEPTEMBER 18-19-20

Do you have a local business or service?

BECOME A CARNIVAL SPONSOR

$500 Sponsor Package includes a 6-foot promotional banner; 1 sheet of 30 tickets; 1 Sunday Wrist Band (unlimited rides)

$200 Sponsor Package—12x18” Individual Promotional Poster Board

$15—$199 Sponsor Package —Spot on the “All Sponsors Banner”

For more information or to sign up as a sponsor, contact Saint Joseph School at 201-261-2388.

ENROLL YOUR CHILD IN A BLUE RIBBON SCHOOL

WITH STRONG CATHOLIC VALUES Saint Joseph School accepts students from 3 years old to Grade 8. Registration for September is now taking place. Call 201-261-2388 to arrange a visit.

MEN’S CORNERSTONE MEETING —AUGUST 13

The next meeting of Men’s Cornerstone will be on Thursday, August 13 at 8:00 pm in the Parish Life Center (on Grove Street behind the lower school). We hope to see you there!

PART-TIME POSITION AVAILBLE AT SAINT JOSEPH

YOUTH MINISTER Would you like to help empower the young people of our parish to live as disciples of Jesus Christ in our world today? Saint Joseph Parish is looking for a qualified individual to serve as a part-time Youth Minister in our high school youth ministry. A candidate must be a practicing Catholic, over 21 years of age, a college graduate, and have experience working with young people from 13-18 years of age. Good organizational skills and a passion to involve young people in sharing their unique gifts with the larger community are essential. Interested candidates should send their resume s to Fr. Andrew Park, Saint Joseph Church, 105 Harrison Street, New Milford, NJ 07646.

SUBSTITUTE TEACHERS NEEDED Saint Joseph School would like to add your name to our substitute teacher list for this coming school year. If you have at least 60 college credits, are 21 years of age or older, and have worked with children in the past, please send your resume to Vice Principal Angela Gussoni at Saint Joseph lower school (305 Elm Street, Oradell, NJ 07649). For more information, contact Mrs. Gussoni at 201-261-2388.

CHILDREN’S BOOK DRIVE NOW UNTIL AUGUST 31

—a perfect opportunity to donate the books your children have outgrown!

Saint Joseph School Girl Scouts —Justine Garcia and Erin Maron —members of Troop 994—are accepting new

and gently-used books for Preschool through Grade 8 for St. Joseph School in Jersey City. Books can be dropped off Monday through Friday in the donation box located in the front foyer of the Saint Joseph lower school building at 305 Elm Street, Oradell. The book drive is part of the girls’ project for their Silver Award, the second highest honor in Girl Scouting. Your donations will not only help the children of our sister school but will also help our hard-working Girl Scouts fulfill their promise “to help people at all times.”

SJS AWARDED $25,000 GRANT

FROM ARCHDIOCESE In a letter from Archbishop John Myers, SJS principal Colette Vail

was notified that Saint Joseph School has been awarded a $25,000 grant from the Archdiocesan Stewardship Endowment for repairs to the upper school building—including new gutters, drains, and the installation of new flooring on the second floor and in the stairwells.

Visit Saint Joseph School on Facebook. Go to facebook.com/school.st.joseph

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ALZHEIMER’S SUPPORT —AUGUST 26

Effective Communication Strategies will be offered by the Alzheimer’s Association at Oradell Health Care Center, 600 Kinderkamack Road, Oradell, on Wednesday, August 26 from 6:00-7:00 pm. This programs is free and open to the public, but registration is required. Families may call the 24/7 Help Line at 1-800-272-3900 or go to alz.org/nj and click on the “Community Education Calendar” link to reserve a space.

CHARITABLE GIFT ANNUITIES

Would you like a safe and secure way of providing financial support to your aging parents? Do you feel it is time to “give back”. If so, a charitable gift annuity (CGA) may be just the solution. A CGA can provide payments to your aging parents now and a gift to their parish later. It will provide you both with peace of mind and also an income tax deduction. For more information about making a gift, please call the Theresa Lynch, Planned Giving Manager, Archdiocese of Newark, 973-497-4042 or email lynchthe@rcan.org

From September 22-27, Philadelphia will host the World Meeting of Families 2015 which is expected to draw an international audience, with Pope Francis attending! The event will take place at the Philadelphia Convention Center. If you would like to join the group led by Fr. Roy, please call Canterbury Pilgrimages & Tours, Inc. at 1-800-653-0017 for pricing and availability.

SAINT JOSEPH PARISH GOES TO W.M.O.F.

RACHEL’S VINEYARD RETREAT

—SEPTEMBER 11-13 Are you suffering from an abortion experience? Do you have feelings of guilt and anxiety? Do you suffer from depression? There is hope! Rachel’s Vineyard Retreat, sponsored by the Newark Archdiocese Respect Life Office, will be held at the Archdiocesan Youth Retreat Center, 499 Belgrove Drive, Kearny, NJ 07032 on the weekend of September 11-13. The cost is $150 and includes all retreat materials and meals. For more information, contact Cheryl A. Riley at the the Respect Life Office by calling 973-497-4350 or emailing her at rileyche@rcan.org All calls and emails are confidential.

BERGEN COUNTY ANNUAL

SENIOR CITIZENS PICNIC

—SEPTEMBER 9 (RAIN DATE: SEPTEMBER 16)

If you are 60+ years old, you are cordially invited to the annual Senior Citizens Picnic— a special day that will include lunch, music & entertainment, craft fair, information tables, and much more! The annual picnic sponsored by the Bergen County Department of Human Services/Division of Senior Services will by held at Van Saun County Park, Paramus, on Wednesday, September 9 from 10:00 am to 3:00 pm. Limited handicap-accessible parking is available. If you have special needs, please call at least two weeks in advance to request accommodations. For more information, call Eleanor Contreras at 201-336-7416.

LEARN ABOUT THE BIBLE GROW IN YOUR FAITH

People often express an interest in learning more about the Bible and in

better understanding the Word of God. Here at Saint Joseph we have a way to do just that. It is called the Great Adventure Bible Series. Saint Joseph Parish has enjoyed participating in this nationally known DVD based program since 2008. New groups are now forming for The Bible Timeline: The Story of Salvation. This year we are offering either an eight-week or a 24-week study. New to our offerings is a ten-week study on The Prophets. All studies will begin in September. To find out more about this parish-based Bible Study Program please visit ascensionpress.com or contact Pat Fakharzadeh at 201-599-2123 or email her at bible@sjcnj.org

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