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Saint Joseph ROMAN CATHOLIC Church
973-383-1985
Second Sunday in ordinary time - January 20, 2019
Sacrament
of reconciliation Saturday at 4:00-4:30pm or by appointment
Sacraments
of Baptism,
Marriage or
Personal Appointments Please call the Parish Center
Schedule of Masses Weekdays: Monday-Friday at 12:05pm
Weekends: Saturday (Sunday Vigil) at 5:00pm Sunday at 8:00am, 9:30am, 11:30am and 5:00pm
Misa en Español todos los Domingos a las 2:30pm y tambien, el tercer Lunes del Mes a las 7:00pm
Our Parish Family is Served By
Weekly Mass Intentions
Father ST Sutton, Pastor 973-383-1985 - [email protected]
Father Alexander Londono, Migrant Ministry Fr. [email protected]
Father Edward Davey, Pastor Emeritus
Deacon Thomas Zayac, Deacon [email protected]
Karen Glowatski, Office Administrator 973-383-1985 - [email protected]
Doreen Zimmerman, Administrative Assistant 973-383-1985
Linda Gorski, Director of Faith Formation 973-383-8413 - [email protected]
Christine Shell, Faith Formation Assistant [email protected]
Kelly Lynch, Director of Music Ministry [email protected]
Sharon Eltzholtz, Bulletin Assistant [email protected]
Robert Lasser, Finance Administrator 973-383-1985
TRUSTEES OF THE PARISH Dorothy Bosi, George Hayek
and Gerard Woodring
Saturday 1/19 5:00pm Robert McDonald Eufronia Bordador
Sunday January 20th
Second Sunday in Ordinary Time
8:00am 9:30am
11:30am
5:00pm
David Adam Oakley Robert Morsell Carmen Liuzza Nicholas Marino James McConnell Deacon Georges Sakkal Father Eugene Malek, OFM
Monday 1/21 12:05pm Anthony Maresca Joseph V. Wallace
Tuesday 1/22 12:05pm Mary McDermot
Wednesday 1/23 12:05pm Monsignor Francis Seymour
Thursday 1/24 12:05pm John J. Bopp Sr. Richard E. Kummer
Friday 1/25 12:05pm Anthony Barletta
Saturday 1/26 5:00pm George Flynn Bernardo Alonso
Sunday January 27th
Third Sunday in Ordinary Time
8:00am 9:30am
11:30am
5:00pm
Lydia Khouri Sciamsi John J. Fagan Theresa Cornish Gary Frega Marge & Donald LaRosa
Second Sunday in ordinary time - January 20, 2019
The Sanctuary Lamp, which burns near the Tabernacle
as a reminder of our Lord’s presence in the Most Holy Eucharist,
burns this week in loving memory of:
And the hosts and wine, which will become the Holy Body and Precious Blood of our Lord, were given in loving memory of:
Weekly Remembrance
May they now be resting in the peace of the Lord’s heavenly kingdom!
Let us pray for all those in our parish family
in need of the Lord’s healing:
Gary Arvary, Gene Belcher, Bill Bender, Fred Bender, Donald Charette, Father Angelus Croce, Alex DeMartino, Derya Demirtas, Jennifer DiNardo,
John Fedash, Pat Fitzpatrick, Anthony Flora, Linda Flynn, Theresa Fusco, Monsignor Mark Giordani, John Greed, Jessica & Hannah Joseph, Susan Kadar, Jessica Kirby,
Father Paul Knauer, Kerri Knight, Valerie Landell, Shirley Lavin, Elaine LeFever, Anne Lundgren,
Bill Matulewicz, Joe Mazzarella, Deirdre Metzger, Jake Michael Miraldi, Virginia Morville, Mike Palumbo,
Michael Porfido, James Proulx, Alexia Russ, Jack Rhinesmith, George Scarpa, Crystal Siro, Francis Siro, Edward Smith, Ernest Sprague, Gloria Steets, Evelyn Strauss, Joni Strauss
and Rita Zimich.
May the Lord in His Goodness continue to bless them with health in mind and body.
“Oremus Pro Invicem”
PARISH WEEKEND DONATIONS
This week’s events
January 13, 2019 Collection $8,684
Online Giving $471
Total: $9,155
Diocesan Assessment $1,409 Weekend Mass attendance: 733
Thank you for your generosity
Each week we get closer and closer to our weekly budget.
EVERYONE is asked to prayerfully consider what donation they make to their parish family
each and every week. If EVERYone participates
it makes it easier to reach our goal! What are you giving to the Lord for al that He
has done for you in your life?
Thank you for your continued generosity!
Sunday, January 20
10:30am Hospitality (Community Center)
10:30am Confirmation Class (School)
Monday, January 21 - Martin Luther King Jr. Day
NO FAITH FORMATION
7:00pm Spanish Mass (Church)
8:30pm Migrant Ministry Dinner (Community Center)
Wednesday, January 23
10:00am Prayer Shawl Ministry (Parish Center)
7:00pm R.C.I.A. (Parish Center)
Thursday, January 24
1:00pm Legion of Mary (Parish Center)
Sunday, January 27
10:30am Confirmation Class (School)
January 27, 2019
Nehemiah 8:2-4a, 5-6, 8-10 1 Corinthians 12:12-30
Saint Luke 1:1-4, 4:14-21
Weekend readings
Hail Mary campaign
The Don Bosco Columbiettes #7784 are sponsoring a campaign to seek our
Blessed Mother’s intercession for world peace. Please support this endeavor to pray ONE MILLION HAIL MARYS.
You can e-mail your tallies to: [email protected] or write the
number on a slip of paper and drop it into the container by Mary’s statue. The tally so far is 237,591
Rite of enrollment
Tax donation
Food pantry
As the cold weather is upon us, we continue to depend upon your generosity and kindness by bringing food each week to church. To help you with this there is a new shopping list in the back of the church with some added items on the list. Please feel free to take one. We also accept all grocery store gift cards and we will do the shopping for you. Thank you again.
This week we especially need mayonnaise, ketchup, all kinds of jar pasta sauce, Spam, Dinty Moore stew, cookies, canned fruit, jarred applesauce or snack size!
It is that time of the year.
If you are in need of your
2018 envelope donation
receipt for your tax returns,
please contact the Parish
Center.
On Sunday, January 13th, our Confirmation candidates were presented at the 9:30am Mass
for the Rite of Enrollment. After Father ST accepted their promises to faithfully prepare
for the Sacrament of Confirmation, the parish community offered their
prayers to support their formation process.
Please continue to pray for them in the final months of their preparation.,
C.h.w.c. mission trip Super Bowl Sunday
Our Mission trip
There are only three (3) spaces available!
We are still planning our Parish Mission Trip to Plattsburg, New York from
June 23-28, 2019. Please contact Cathy Roy if you are interested:
973-383-7662 or 973-715-7953.
Since, Sunday, February 3rd
is Super Bowl Sunday
the 5:00pm Mass
will be cancelled
(for this weekend only).
We hope you enjoy the time with your
families and friends. Please check our
Mass schedule for our regular weekend
Masses that weekend!
In order to support
our Parish Mission Trip again this year, we will be having
our Annual Sub Sandwich Sale on the weekends of:
January 20th
and 27th
Sandwiches will be provided on Super Bowl Sunday, February 3
rd
columbiettes
Flu season
Since we are in the midst of the cold and flu season, a reminder that if you have a cold or any flu like symptoms please refrain from receiving from the chalice. Remember when we receive the Sacred Host alone, we are still receiving the full and complete Body, Soul and Divinity of Christ. Also, if you are not feeling your best, at the sign of peace please use an alternate form of greeting besides a handshake to protect the others in our community. Thank you for your cooperation in this matter.
Pop Tab Collection Program
Did you know that the Columbiettes collect can tabs to support those who are staying in a Ronald McDonald House? The funds generated from
recycling the aluminum tabs help offset the Ronald McDonald House expenses.
“The Ronald McDonald House serves families whose children require care at an area hospital by offering them a homelike atmosphere where they can get the rest and renewal they need to be most supportive of their sick or injured child. Guests stay at the House regardless of their ability to pay the requested $10.00 per night donation. The fee is waived over 80% of the time. However, although the House has an increasing occupancy rate per year, the requested donation does not cover the actual $60.00 per night per room expenses of maintaining the House. Therefore, philanthropic support to generate additional funds necessary to cover the House expenses is essential.”
You can help support the Ronald McDonald House by collecting the little tabs you pull to open a soda, soup, pet food, beer or other aluminum cans.
If you have tabs that you want to donate for the cause, please contact Miriam Montagne at 201-230-1373 and she will gladly collect the tabs from you.
A Tribute to Mrs. Anne Lundgren
almost guaranteed a place in heaven at the left hand of
God.
After four years, our rapport has morphed into a
positive, professional, spiritual, friendly, and loving
relationship. I guess you never realize how important
people and things are in your life until they are no longer
there. It was not until I had to assume some of her
responsibilities (along with Karen and the rest of the
staff) then I realized how much she did and how
professional and proficient she was at doing it.
Many times, I have spoken to Anne about her
relationships with her former pastors and they were not
always positive. One in particular she shared with me
that she was informed that it was her job to “always
make him look good no matter what.” Well, after
working side by side with Anne for almost four years,
I realized that I never had to tell her and yet she always
made me look good. She always defended me and
pleaded with the people when I first arrived to “give him
a chance.” She was the balance to my rants and
raves. She was the voice of reason when I wanted to
blast someone via email for making crazy accusations or
comments about what was going on in the church. She
was the first person that ever wrote letters for me. It
took only a short period of time to get down my style
and need for consistency and we were off! Of course,
in turn, I teased her mercilessly every chance I had.
In the top drawer of my desk in the Parish Center,
I have a special place where I keep a “I was wrong” file
which contains the date, time and reason why Anne was
wrong about something. Over the past four years,
I think I only have three slips of paper in this
drawer. Again, we laughed each and every time that I
added a piece of paper (usually under much consterna-
tion and reluctance).
Moreover, what I have learned in Anne’s absence is that
first and foremost, Anne was a woman of faith. She was
a daily communicant to Mass and a regular parishioner
at the 9:30am Mass. However, it was crystal clear that
this faith was in God and not in any priest, bishop or
even the pope. Her favorite saying (which I had framed
for her desk) is that the Church was often a “repressive,
regressive, insular, patriarchal and androcentric society.”
But this never kept her from serving the Church,
her priests and her faithful.
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I am firm believer that we should
share the smoke of gratitude and
praise with people while they are
still alive rather than waiting
until their funeral when they
cannot smell the aroma of
incense as it burned around their
casket.
This is the motive for writing this
article about Mrs. Anne Lundgren, our former Office
Manager of the Parish Center here at Saint Joseph
Church. As many of you know, when you wanted
something completed or were in need of anything; a Mass
card, a niche or crypt at the mausoleum, picking a date for
your Wedding or Baptism, or just were in need of a
listening ear or a shoulder to cry on, Anne was the person
that was always there for you. She was the hub of the
wheel that made everything work more smoothly in the
Parish Center and in the parish. This past December 31,
2018, Anne retired from her position as Office Manager
due to a serious illness and since then has been sorely
missed.
Anne began working at Saint Joseph Church on June 8,
2009, when the former pastor, Father Peter Filipkowski
asked her to work full-time in the office. Anne brought
with her the experience of working at Saint (formerly
Blessed) Kateri Church in Sparta. She continued in her
position when Father Brian was named Administrator in
July of 2010 and when I arrived in July of 2015.
I remember very clearly meeting with Anne and the rest of
the parish staff my first week in Newton and I could see
the fear in their eyes that the “new guy” was coming to
fire them all. I specifically remember telling Anne and
Karen “I know that you think I am going to fire you
immediately, but please don’t worry. I am going to wait a
few weeks and then I will fire you!” I am not sure they
understood my “unique” sense of humor at the
time. Now, almost four years later, Anne and I have
laughed how she said to herself (and maybe to a few close
friends) “I will not last long” to which I replied,
I remember thinking to myself “she will not last long.” Is it
not funny how time seems to make strange and unique co-
workers and friends?
During this same first week in Newton, I also remember
telling Anne “I have a firm belief that any woman who
works for a priest goes directly to heaven.” And since she
has worked for five priests and five parochial vicars, she is
Tribute continued...
Prayer in time of suffering
our lives. I am sorry for being the thorn in your side at
times and know that I will always cherish our time
together as I know you were my greatest cheerleader, my
confidant, my support and now my dear friend.
I pray that your last days on earth will be filled with the
love of your children, grandchildren and friends as you
transition to your new life in heaven.
Just keep in mind that you do not have to work for any
more priests, for now you will be with the King Himself.
Just try not to boss him around too much, He knows what
He is doing!
God bless you my friend and may the angels lead you into
paradise, may the martyrs come to your side and bring you
home to that place which had been prepared for you since
the beginning of time!
Your Friend Father ST
Anne was the consummate professional. However,
being the daughter of a doctor, she did not suffer fools
well. I can often remember telling her “Please do not
offend the parishioners, that is my job!” Again we
laughed and continued working harder to get the job
completed.
Anne was a confidential person that held everyone’s
financial, spiritual and personal matters close to her
heart. I do not think I ever heard her gossip about
anyone, but was not afraid to “say it like it was” when
necessary.
But above all her professional credentials and abilities,
what I miss most about her is her feminine and motherly
perspective, her sense of justice, her similar sense of
humor, her ability to always get the job done, never once
complaining and never once concerned about putting in
the extra time that a project or situation needed.
What I also enjoyed (a lot) is that I could get away with
things that most people never were able to with
her. After the loss of her husband Charlie and her sister
Karen, we often had little “chats” in my office after the
office work was completed. She really had a difficult
and yet unique time of mourning for both of these
losses in her life. But once again, she was a trooper and
never a quitter. Often times she would remark to me
“I hate when you are so logical.” Again, we laughed and
continued to fight the good fight.
I wanted you to know all these things because Anne was
more than just a “secretary” to the parish. A term which
I was very careful NEVER to use when referring to her
(either in her presence or absence). Because for Anne,
Saint Joseph Church was her fourth child and I may
have been her fifth. She loved her work and was more
than just adequate at it. She brought her wealth of
experience, her many years of dealing with parishioners
and her ability to put up with priests. She made the ship
run smoothly and never was a clock watcher or a keeper
of time that was necessary to complete a project.
I miss Anne more and more each day and as we spoke
this past week, what she has learned from her own
sickness is to appreciate what you have, enjoy your life
and take time to smell the roses and every once in a
while, send someone a dozen or two.
Anne, this is my rose to you. Like every beautiful rose
there are thorns that grow on their stems, so too it is in
Behold me, my beloved Jesus, weighed down under the burden
of my trials and sufferings, I cast myself at Your feet,
that You may renew my strength and my courage,
while I rest here in Your Presence. Permit me to lay down my cross
in Your Sacred Heart, for only Your infinite goodness
can sustain me; only Your love can help me bear my cross;
only Your powerful hand can lighten its weight. O Divine King, Jesus,
whose heart is so compassionate to the afflicted,
I wish to live in You; suffer and die in You.
During my life be to me my model and my support;
At the hour of my death, be my hope and my refuge.
Amen.
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