November 3, 2019

Mass Schedule

Saturday: 5:00pm

Sunday: 8:00am, 10:15am, 12Noon

Daily Mass in the Chapel Monday-Friday, 12:10pm

Holy Days: Consult Bulletin or Website

All the Souls of the Faithful Departed

Eternal Rest Grant Unto Them O Lord

Rita Marie Laraia Queenie Mullian

Clifford Tyler John Gauger Irene Bazzini

Donald Andrew Vallich, Sr Catherine Bush

Virginia A Nielson Maureen T Oates

Joseph A Cannaliato Anthony M Medici, Jr

Manuel Louro Ann C Gordon

Kathleen O'Shea

William F Losquadro Mary "Kit" Ozzello

Donna L Davis Savino "Sam" J Turchiano

Rosella Murgia Anna Homer

Vincent F Murphy James Hardt

Edmund W Tamar Jane Frances Mathews

Kevin Yali Tyler G Speziale Charles McHugh John F Donohue

Phyllis A Bieger Madeline E Brougham

Erin L Gilligan Irene T Killoran

Patricia Freemyer Richard Garfield Alice Ugwuozor

Paul Scillia Mary Margaret Baillie

Arlene J Conlon Linda Maguire

Mary Jane Overeem

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Mass Please Remember Mass Requested By

Saturday Nov 2nd 5:00PM

Jennifer Lyn Wymbs Mom & Dad

Sunday November 3rd

8:00 Mass Living & Deceased Members of the Rosary Society

Rosary Society

10:15 Mass Franklyn V. Robbins Arlene Conlone

Mary Gedney Andrew Gargano

12:00 Mass Rita & Henry Laraia Family

Monday Nov 4th 12:10PM

Intention for the Living

Joyce, Kenneth, Lara, Faith, Stephen, Dawn Anton

Mom & Grandma

Tuesday Nov 5th 12:10PM

Sick & Deceased Members of Legion of Mary

Legion of Mary

Wednesday Nov 6th 12:10PM

Pasquale DiFinizio Patrick Caldiero

Dona & Joe Caldiero

Thursday Nov 7th 12:10PM

May Manzo George & Josephine Thompson

Friday Nov 8th 12:10PM

William B. Nitschmann Bill Malcolm

Saturday Nov 9th 5:00PM

Sr Eleanor Dobson John Karole

Claire & Stan Laikowski McLaughlin Family

Sunday November 10th

8:00 Mass Rosella Murgia Fred & Joan Budde

9:00 Mass Jack & Jay Esposito Family

10:15 Mass Intention for the Living

Al & Ester Vierheilig 58th Wedding Anniversary

Family

12:00 Mass Maria D’Anza Filomena & Tony Veli

Please remember in your prayers the sick who have asked for our prayer

Nicholas Moquete and Patricia Birrer

▪▪▪▪▪ Please remember in your prayers

the recently deceased

Paul Scillia, Jacques Chirac, Romaus Agu, Arlene Conlon, Margarita Hurtado, William DeLorenzo, Linda McGuire, Bill Macy, Mary Jane Overeem, Maria Radakova, Catherine Cowan, Giuseppina Gagliano

Vocation

November 4th

Monday Nov 4

11:00AM OH - Nativity Prayer Chaplet 8:00PM - CHA Rosary Gathering

Tuesday Nov 5

11:00AM MCG - Legion of Mary 7:30PM CHU - Choir Practice

Wednesday Nov 6

1:00PM MCG - Scripture Meeting 1:30PM OH - Nativity Knits Meeting

Thursday Nov 7

4:30PM MCG - Rosary Society Meeting

Friday Nov 8

11:00AM CHA - Eucharistic Adoration 1:00PM MCG - Shepherds Luncheon

Saturday Nov 9

Feather’s for Food Pick Up 12:00PM CHU - Baptism

Sunday Nov 10

Feather’s for Food Pick up 9:00AM CHU - Mass for Differently-Abled People

WEEK OF

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Week of November 4, 2019

The Bread and Wine

in the Chapel are offered

in celebration of the

Gillespie Family

By:

Audrey Gillespie

Thank you for your generous support of your Parish. Oct 26 & 27

Weekly Church Offering Including On-Line Giving

$6,238

The Church of the Nativity Prayer Chain is accepting prayer requests. Please call the rectory with your request.

The Legion of Mary is a prayer group devoted to Our Blessed Mother. We meet on Tuesdays at 10:15AM in the McGrath Room. Please consider joining this ministry and devote yourself to Mother Mary.

All Souls Day directly follows All Saints Day, and commemorates "the faithful departed," those individuals who die in God's grace. Catholics believe that not everyone who is destined for heaven is immediately ready for the "Beatific vision," i.e. the direct experience of God and his perfect nature in heaven, so they must be purified of "lesser faults," and the effects of sin.

The Catholic Church calls this purification "purgatory." The Catholic teaching on Purgatory essentially requires belief in two realities: 1. that there will be a purification of the souls of believers prior to entering heaven and 2. that the prayers and masses of the faithful in some way benefit those in the state of purification. As to the duration, place, and exact nature of this purification, the Church has no official teaching, although Saint Augustine and others used fire as a way to explain the nature of the purification. Many faithful Catholics, including Pope Benedict XVI, understand that Purgatory may be best thought of as an "existential state" as opposed to an actual place (see Benedict's Eschatology: Death and Eternal Life 230-231). All Souls is the general, solemn, day of commemoration, when the Church remembers, prays for, and offers requiem masses up for the faithful departed. History

Christians have been praying for their departed brothers and sisters since the earliest days of Christianity. Early liturgies and inscriptions on catacomb walls attest to the ancientness of prayers for the dead. Praying for the dead is actually borrowed from Judaism, as indicated in 2 Maccabees 12:41-42. In the New Testament, St Paul prays for mercy for his departed friend Onesiphorus (2 Timothy 1:18). Early Christian writers Tertullian and St. Cyprian testify to the regular practice of praying for the souls of the departed. Over time, many Church Fathers, including St. Augustine, e.g. in Enchiridion of Faith, Hope, and Love and City of God, further developed the concept of a purgation of sins through fire after death. Today all Western Catholics celebrate All Souls' Day on November 2, as do many Anglicans, Lutherans, and other Christians.

A Word

from the

Pastor

CHILDREN’S MINISTRY… RELIGIOUS EDUCATION PROGRAM Gr. K-8: Just a reminder…

There will be NO SESSIONS Thursday Nov 7th – NJEA Convention Thursday Nov 28nd and Sunday Dec. 1st – Thanksgiving

recess FIRST RECONCILIATION PROGRAM This week the young children in our parish will begin to prepare for Sacramental Reconciliation with their families. CHAPTER # 1 “You Are Blessed”, with the followings objectives: to demonstrate that we are blessed; to explain that First Reconciliation is one of many great moment in our journey with God and to teach how to be grateful and how to share our blessings with others. CONFIRMATION JOURNEY 2020: Just a reminder… Next session is Sunday, November 10th after the 10:15 Mass. ALL SAINTS DAY CELEBRATION We are celebrating the Feast of All Saints today November 3rd at the 10:15 AM Mass. Please join us, as the CCD students honor them with a “Parade of Saints”.

GOOD NEWS FOR LITTLE ONES IS BACK! IS SOMEONE UNDER 5 IN YOUR FAMILY? If you have a small child under the age of 5, you’ll be happy to know that during the 10:15 AM Mass, we offer our Religion readiness program for those ages 2 to 5, entitled “Good News for Little Ones”. This Program is supervised by Olivia Harrington our Religious Ed. Coordinator and staffed by trained catechists and volunteers. This program is located in the Upper Room of the Church. EPIPHANY PAGEANT Plans are under way for this season’s Pageant, which has been scheduled for Sunday, January 5th, 2020 – Feast of the Epiphany – after the 12:00 Noon Mass in the Church. If your child is interested in participating in the Pageant – either as a soloist, choir, musician, dancer, artist, stage crew, choreographer, narrator, speaking role, and performing. Please call us at the Religious Ed. Office (201-447-1776) o email us at religioused@nativitynj.org indicating your child’s wishes to partake in the pageant, on or before November 20, 2019.

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Adoration of the

Blessed Sacrament

Fridays 11:00AM-12:00PM In the Chapel

Come to Mass 15 minutes early and be part of the team who makes Nativity such a welcoming Parish. Come by yourself, with a spouse or greet as a family. A rotational schedule assigns greeters to the Mass times of their choice about once every few weeks.

We are currently in need of Greeters for the 8:00,10:15 and 12 Noon Masses

For more information contact

Ingrid Pineda at the Church Office ipineda@nativitynj.org

Join our Team of Greeters!

Our next meeting will be held

Thursday Nov 7th at 7:00 PM in the

Mc Grath Room. Refreshments will be

served. All are welcome.

Sunday Nov 3th at 8:00 AM, we will

celebrate our Mass for our ill and

deceased members.

Hope to see you there.

News

Fr. George, Pastor fr.george@nativitynj.org

Sr. Lois Marie Parente C.S.S.F.,

Financial Affairs sr.lois@nativitynj.org

Ingrid Pineda, Director of Lay Ministries

ipineda@nativitynj.org

Olivia Harrington, Coordinator of Religious Education

oharrington@nativitynj.org

Religious Education Office religioused@nativitynj.org

Church Office

office@nativitynj.org

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Friday, November 8th after the 12:10 Mass

(Mass is in the Chapel) The Luncheon is $6.00

RSVP due by October 4th nativityshepherds@yahoo.com

Don’t forget your “All Packaged and Canned

Soup” for the Love Fund!

Next Meeting

We had another successful clothing

drive. We were able to help 9 families

with clothing and houseware needs.

We also delivered over 40 bags of

clothing to Straight and Narrow,

Father English and Oasis. In addition

we have clothing going to Suits for

success and have been able to put

some items at the community thrift

shop to support the Rosary Society.

Thank you to all who donated and

who help.

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in memory of a loved one

in thanksgiving

to honor a special birthday or anniversary

or occasion in your family

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in memory/honor of a loved one, please

complete the form and return it to the Church

Office with your contribution of $10 per

week. You can also visit the Church Office in

person.

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There is nothing ordinary about Ordinary Time

Details to follow soon ...

Reminder— Next weekend Nov. 9 &10 please pick a Food “turkey feather” for our Thanksgiving Food Drive for our friends at the York Street Project. Just grab a “turkey feather” and return the food product on it. These foods will be given to the families at the York Street Project for their Thanksgiving Dinner at home. All food donations need to be back by next weekend, November 16th & 17th.