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 [email protected] 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 [email protected]
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 [email protected]
Sr. Lois Marie Parente C.S.S.F.,
Financial Affairs [email protected]
Ingrid Pineda, Director of Lay Ministries
Olivia Harrington, Coordinator of Religious Education
Religious Education Office [email protected]
Church Office
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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 [email protected]
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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There is nothing ordinary about Ordinary Time
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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.