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This Week at MBS Monday, December 4 • R.E. Grades 1-6, 4:00-5:15 pm (AMBS) • Confirmation Class 4:00-5:15 pm (AMBS) • AMBS Advent Tree Lighting 5:00 pm

Tuesday, December 5 • AMBS Advent Confessions Grades 2-5, 1:30 pm

• R.E. Grades 1-8, 4:00-5:15 pm (AMBS)

• Prayer Shawl Group 7:00 pm (CR)

Wednesday, December 6 • 9:00 am Morning Prayer (Church) • AMBS Advent Confessions Grades 6-8, 1:30 pm • AMBS Musical Collaborations Recital 7:00 pm • Mary’s Call Prayer Group — 7:00 pm (UCR) Friday, December 8 • Parish Center & AMBS Closed Saturday, December 9 • First Penance for 2nd Grade 12:30 pm Sunday, December 10 • Confirmation Retreat 9:00 am-1:30 pm (AMBS &

Church) • Baptism Preparation after 12:30 pm Mass (CR)

Eucharistic Adoration at MBS “Come to Me….”

MBS has Adoration every Saturday from 9:30 am until 4:00 pm. Although we invite you to drop in whenever you can, we really need adorers to sign up and commit to a specific hour each Saturday. If you can commit to a specific hour or even to a specific 30 minutes, call Rose Stone at 201-677-0761.

Attention Children's Choir We are preparing to sing at the 4:00 pm Christmas Eve Mass

All children who are interested in singing are encouraged to come after

the 10:30 Masses on: Sunday 12/3, 12/10, 12/17

Music will be provided. We will rehearse in the church, parents are invited to attend. The rehearsals will run

approximately 30 minutes. Thank you,

David Maiullo, Director of Music

Coat Drive The Associates of the Sisters of St. Joseph a l ong w i t h t he MBS Confirmation Candidates will be conducting a coat drive the weekend of

December 9-10 to help our dear neighbors in need this Christmas Season. All coats should be clean and in useable condition and may be brought to all of weekend masses, or left on the Parish Center porch. Thank you for helping to live out the Gospel!

First Sunday of Advent December 3, 2017

Be watchful! Be alert! You do not know when

the time will come.— Mark 13:33

Thank you for your continued support and generosity to our

church!

November 25/26, 2017: $14,052.00

Welcome New Altar Servers

Eleven members of our parish are new to the ministry

of Altar Server. We congratulate them and their families. May God

bless them in their ministry at the Altar!

Arianna DeMarco, Giancarlo DeMarco, John DeMarco, Matteo DeMarco, Lexie-Ann Gatto

Alexander Krakowiak, Leila Mattar, Rosemary Mazzola, Emily McCarthy,

Nina Primerano, Joseph Starr

Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception

Friday, December 8 Holy Day of Obligation

Masses:

6:45 am 9:15 am 6:30 pm

Second Sunday Food Collection Next Sunday, December 10th, will be the 2nd Sunday Food Collection. Please drop off all food donations at the Narthex of the Church.

The Giving Tree is Here! Please take an ornament off the tree and return the gift, wrapped, by December 10th. Your generosity as always is greatly appreciated.

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“To everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven.” Ecclesiastes 3:11

“A time to be healed” Parish Sick: Ed Tryon, Caitlin Licare, Mary DiIenno, Barbara Kincaid (sister-in-law of Cathy Kincaid), Helen VonGlahn, Fred Englander, Kimberly Wexler, Jackie Kobes, Alex Lerch, Michael Maher, John Pullaro, David Stone, Kimberly Wexler, Rose McConway, Mimoo Khodadi, Linda Brown Gearity, Florence Gorsky, Maryanne Harkins, Marian Jakubik, Bernadette Sephton, Jerome Gruber, Alice Peisch, Jeff Cotugno, Robert Cotugno, and Darren Was

“A time to mourn” Recently Deceased: Victor Viggiano and all those who grieve them

“A time for peace” For national and world leaders and those in the armed services: especially Ronald Anzalone and Greg Mucks

Sunday December 3 7:30 am Parish Family 9:00 am Margaret K. Schak (Bivona Family) 10:30 am Catherine & Charles O’Connor (Tom & Noreen Jones) 12:00 Noon Thomas O’Brien (Anthony & Phyllis Pirone) Monday December 4 6:45 am Judy Damiano (Chris & Nancy McKeon) 9:15 am Vilma & Jules Latincsics (Elizabeth Latincsics) Tuesday December 5 6:45 am Kent Butts (Bob & Sue Fitzpatrick) 9:15 am Protection of Babies in the Womb &

Their Families (20/20 Project) Wednesday December 6 6:45 am Dominic Santucci (Joseph & Annette Raia) 9:15 am Dolores Chipko (Jerry & Anne Heller) Thursday December 7 6:45 am James Longo (Bivona Family) 9:15 am Mary Malone (Joe & Joan McAuliffe) Friday December 8-Immaculate Conception 6:45 am Parish Family 9:15 pm Anthony & Frances Racioppo (Thomas & Theresa Potenza) 6:30 pm Elizabeth Pinto (Rev. John Job) Saturday December 9 9:00 am Andrew Latincsics (Fellinger Family) 5:30 pm Sal & Mary Cosentino (Family) Sunday December 10 7:30 am Parish Family 9:00 am John & Anne Loiacono (Family) 10:30 am Mark Zarantonello (Battista Family) 12:00 Noon Thomas Burns (Rory Quinn)

Join in praying the rosary after every weekday and Saturday morning Masses.

Monday: Is 2:1-5; Ps 122:1-9; Mt 8:5-11 Tuesday: Is 11:1-10; Ps 72:1-2, 7-8, 12-13, 17; Lk 10:21-24 Wednesday: Is 25:6-10a; Ps 23:1-6; Mt 15:29-37 Thursday: Is 26:1-6; Ps 118:1, 8-9, 19-21, 25-27a; Mt 7:21, 24-27 Friday: Gn 3:9-15, 20; Ps 98:1-4; Eph 1:3-6, 11-12; Lk 1:26-38 Saturday: Is 30:19-21, 23-26; Ps 147:1-6; Mt 9:35 — 10:1, 5a, 6-8 Sunday: Is 40:1-5, 9-11; Ps 85:9-14; 2 Pt 3:8-14; Mk 1:1-8

Readings for the Week

Saturday, December 9 5:30 pm: Donch

Sunday, December 10

The Sanctuary Candle will be lit this week for Robert Spinnler

requested by Donald & Ari Hayek

The Bread & Wine will be offered this week for

Robert Spinnler requested by

Joan Yablonski

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

Murphy Heffernan H. Kostic Macaluso

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Please plan on joining us on Monday evening, December 4 at 5:00 pm for our Fourth Annual Advent Celebration!

We will have Prayer Circles, music, the lighting of the AMBS Christmas Tree, and refreshments.

All are welcome – especially our Religious Education CCD Families – and we hope you will join us!

Our school will be closed on Friday, December 8 for the Feast of the Immaculate Conception.

Sacramental Linens Ministry Sunday, December 3 - Noreen Jones Friday, December 8 - Chris Hanlon Sunday, December 10 - Elizabeth Latincsics

Friday, December 15 - Barbara Behrens

Please Mark Your Calendars If anyone would like to help in this ministry, please

call Joan McAuliffe at 201-891-1712. If you are unable to commit to six times a year,

consider being a substitute.

AMBS is a 2016 National Blue Ribbon School!!!

May God continue to bless our school!!!

Please support our school’s annual raffle sponsored by our Home Academy Partnership (HAP) organization. This year we are having a Super 50/50, with only 1800 tickets to be sold and the potential for one winner to receive $90,000! Your support is greatly appreciated…and you may be the lucky winner! Tickets

are $100 each and available at the school or after certain Masses. The drawing of the winner will occur on Wednesday, January 31, 2018…so these tickets make excellent

Christmas presents!!

Dear Parishioners, Recently our Annual Report, “One With” was sent out. Many of you may have received it and have seen our beautifully renovated Retirement Home. Most Blessed Sacrament Parish is listed among the three highest groups of donors. In the next circle is listed the Community Thrift Shop—Franklin Lakes, NJ. I am sure that the highest listing is because of your generosity to our annual March Collection, but I don’t think you realize the amount of money we receive through your Thrift Shop efforts. When clothes and other items come from MBS parish, they go right to “The Head of the Line.” This project is done through the generosity of Jerry Caporuscio who sorts and delivers all the donations. As I go through the yearly report, I see that many parishioners and the Family Foundations contribute in addition to the yearly collection. I feel like a celebrity when someone hears that I am from Franklin Lakes because everyone here knows of your generosity! I enjoyed 44 years of ministry among the people at MBS and now I am enjoying our Community Retirement Villa. Thank you for making this dream become a reality.

God bless you! Sister Anne Lucille Coates

Advent Prayer

Lord, fill our hearts with your love, and as you

revealed to us by an angel the coming of your Son as

man, so lead us through his suffering and death to the glory of his

resurrection, for he lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one

God, for ever and ever. Amen.

CCD GRADES 1-6 NEXT CCD Classes:

Monday, December 4th and Tuesday, December 5th

First Holy Communion Please mark your calendars. First Communion children will be receiving the Sacrament of First Penance on Saturday, December

9th at 12:30 pm in the church.

Home Study CCD We still have Home Study Books ready for pick up in the Religious Education office located in the Parish Center. Please pick them up ASAP and follow the directions included with your book. All chapters along with the online chapter reviews needs to be completed no later than February 27th.

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Confirmation Candidates The Fall Confirmation Program

Next Class: Monday, December 4th from 4:00-5:15.

*** Please mark your calendars for the Confirmation Retreat on Sunday, December

10th from 9:00AM to 1:45PM. This is a mandatory retreat for all Confirmation

Candidates.

“Senior Christmas Social”

AMBS Gym Friday, December 15, 2017

from 10:00 to 11:30 am

RELIGIOUS ITEMS If you are in need of a gift of rosaries, cards or other religious items, please stop by the Religious Education Office in the Parish Center to see what is available. All proceeds benefit the Sisters of Saint Joseph retirement community.

COMMUNITY THRIFT SHOP God bless you for sharing your new or gently used items with us. All donations may be brought to the shed in the back of the parking lot. The key is at the Parish Center. Every donation is a blessing to the Sisters of Saint Joseph Retirement community.

Please do not donate summer clothing at this time.

Chair Exercises Postponed until Further Notice

Tuesday Mornings from 10:00 - 11:00 am

The donation is $10.00. Eve St. John is the instructor.

SENIOR MINISTRY

Junior High Notes! This Sunday begins our season of Advent, the anticipation of the celebration of the birth of Jesus! Just a reminder for classes: We have one more class this week on Tuesday, December 5th. We will

resume classes on Tuesday, January 9, 2018!! All junior high students are invited to Mass on Friday, December 8th. This is the Feast of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary, a Holy Day of Obligation. All students are encouraged to attend. Masses will be at 6:45 am, 9:15 am and 6:30 pm.

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Catholic Everything Expo at the Meadowlands Expo Center

December 2 &3, 2017 Visit www.catholieverythingexpo.com for more

information

Nativity’s Broadway Extravaganza Church of the Nativity, Midland Park, NJ

Sunday, December 10 at 3:00 pm With Ciaran Sheehan

For ticket information contact 201-444-6362 or Nativityparish.reception@gmail.com

The Franklin Lakes Chamber of Commerce

Holiday Cookie Exchange Commerce meeting. All are welcome! Tuesday, December 12th at 5:30 pm

At Muni Courthouse, Council Chambers, 2nd Floor, 480 DeKorte Drive,

Franklin Lakes, NJ Contact John Morley at 973-394-1000 x108

Church of the Nativity’s Planned Schedule

of Masses for Differently-abled People

Saturday, December 24, 2017- 5:30 pm (Christmas Eve) Sunday, January 14, 2018 - 9:00 am Sunday, February 11, 2018 - 9:00 am Sunday, March 11, 2018 - 9:00 am Sunday, April 8, 2018 - 9:00 am Sunday, May 13, 2018 - 9:00 am Reception to follow Mass

If you have any questions, you can call: 201-444-6362 or janetlynnnemec@yahoo.com

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Christmas Hymns from the Cathedral

A quartet of musicians from the Cathedral of John the Baptist in Paterson, NJ created a Christmas Carol CD with the proceeds going to the Cathedral for the purpose of serving the poor, homeless and other unfortunate situations. The CD contains eight Christmas hymns for the fee of $12.50. Call Tom Kieren at 973-214-6473 or email: pastoral140@earthlink.net. This commemorative CD seems ideal for gift giving for family and friends during the Christmas season, not to mention its tax deductibility.

Worldwide Marriage Encounter “I myself will pasture my sheep; I myself will give them rest, says the Lord GOD.” As we celebrate Christ the King, let us also learn to serve our spouses by participating in a Worldwide Marriage Encounter (WWME) weekend. For more information contact Mike and Janet Turco at 973 427-7016 or 609 335 6880 or email njwwme@peoplepc.com for more information.

Dominican College, Orangeburg, NY-845.359.7800 Sunday, December 3 from 10:00 am to 12:30 Noon

CHURCH OF THE MOST BLESSED SACRAMENT Most Reverend John W. Flesey, Pastor Rev. John Job, Parochial Vicar Rev. Joseph O’Brien, O.Carm., Weekend Assistant The Salesians of Don Bosco, Weekend Assistants Sister Rose Marie Kean, SSJ, Pastoral Associate Krista M. Pastor, Director of R.E., Gr. 1-9 & Local Safe Environment Coordinator Diane Triolo, R.E. Coordinator, 1-6 & Confirmation Pat Wuensch, R..E. Coordinator, Junior High 7th & 8th Lauren Longo, Office of the Bishop Thomas Altonjy, Principal Elaine Lerch, Business Administrator David Mauillo, Music Director-Choirs/Organist Valerie Torkelson, Director of Music-Programming/Cantor MASSES: Saturdays: Mass at 5:30 pm Sundays: 7:30, 9:00, 10:30 am & Noon Holy Days: Consult Bulletin for Times Week Days: 6:45 & 9:15 am Saturdays: 9:00 am; Recitation of the Rosary after Mass each weekday and Saturdays. First Fridays: 9:15 am Mass of Exposition, Eucharistic Adoration until 4:00 pm First Saturdays: Recitation of the Rosary after the 9:00 am Mass

Parish Center School Rel. Ed. Convent 891-4200 891-4250 891-8390 891-1836 web site: www.mostblessedsacrament.ws

Cover Sheet Church Name and Address Most Blessed Sacrament 787 Franklin Lake Road Franklin Lakes, NJ 07417 Phone 201-891-4200 Contact Person Cheryl Hendricks or Krista M. Pastor Software Microsoft Publisher 2007 Adobe Acrobat 9 Standard Microsoft Windows XP Professional Version 2002 Service Pack 2 Number of Pages Sent 9 Pages (7 pages + 2 inserts. Please call with any questions, thank you). Sunday Date of Publication December 3, 2017 Transmission Time Thursday, 12:00 pm THANK YOU.