OUR LADY OF MT. CARMEL PARISH

103 South Center Street Orange, New Jersey 07050

PARISH STAFF COMMUNITY OF ST. JOHN

Fr. Gabriel-Mary Fiore, CSJ

Pastor

Fr. Martín de Porres, CSJ Parochial Vicar

Fr. Francis of the Child Jesus,

CSJ

Br. John Timothy, CSJ

Br. Daniel Kolbe, CSJ

Br. Philip, CSJ Parish Office 973-674-2052

Fax 973-675-1342

E-mail secolmc@gmail.com

La Epifanía del Señor Sunday, January 3, 2016 The Epiphany of the Lord

PARISH OFFICE HOURS:

Mon., Tues, Thurs., Fri. 12:30—4:30 pm

Bi-lingual Secretary During All Parish Hours

Wednesday Parish Office CLOSED

EUCHARISTIC CELEBRATIONS Saturday: 5:00 pm Vigil Mass Sunday: 8:00 am (Italian) 9:15 am (Spanish) 11:45 am (English) 4:00 pm (Haitian: 1st Sunday of the Month) Weekdays: 8:00 am (English), Monday to Saturday 7:30 pm (Español), Friday (excepto durante el verano)

SACRAMENT OF RECONCILIATION: Thursdays 8:30am—9 am (also available at any reasonable time, Fridays 8:15pm—9pm you may call the office to schedule) Saturdays 4:00pm—4:30 pm Sundays 10:30am—11:30 am ROSARY: Sundays at 11:10am ROSARIO: De Lunes a Sábado 7:30pm en el Convento Domingo 10:30am en la Capilla BAPTISM: Please contact the office to meet with the Pastor before making arrangements. MARRIAGE: Arrangements should be made at least one year in advance. VISITATION OF THE SICK: Emergency sick calls are answered at any time.

OUR LADY OF MOUNT CARMEL CHURCH

Sunday—JANUARY 3 8:00 People of the Parish 9:15 Special Intentions for Pinquil Family by Family 11:45 Grace Chuckerel By Daughters, Susie & Joanne 4:00 In Thanksgiving to Our Lady of Mt. Carmel By Mona Gustave Monday—JANUARY 4 8:00 Charles & Rose Rossi By Estate Tuesday—JANUARY 5 8:00 Mary Cosentino By Family Wednesday—JANUARY 6 8:00 Special Intentions for Ramon Aguilar By Family Thursday—JANUARY 7 8:00 In Thanksgiving to Our Lady of Mt. Carmel By Joseph Verret Friday—JANUARY 8 8:00 Special Intentions for Luvenci & Tina Bonneau By Mother, Maryse 7:30 Jaime Penafiel & Milton Ojeda By Carmen Castillo Saturday—JANUARY 9

8:00 Gatti Family By Family 5:00 Bill Serrani By Pat & Ann

Sunday—JANUARY 10 8:00 Assunta & Vincenzo DeNunzio By Mr. & Mrs. Lorenzo Di Fabrizio 9:15 People of the Parish 11:45 Special Intentions for Melissa Venant By Rose Venant

PARISH SICK LIST

Fr. Achilles Cassieri, Colleen McClellan, Emilie Jensen, Jeanne Serrani, Thomas Simmons, Christal Reichert Plugge, Lois Reichert, Carole Lochard, Helen Jaquindo, Dina Deaquino, Jacueline Tous-saint, Mildred Bucco, Mulumebeth Stephens, Perry Nezon, Sergot Alexis, Kathy Tomasso, Brenda Loucka, Janet Pearlman, Fernando Portillo, Dinari Lambert, John Balestriere, Carole Issac, Pauline Vergeon, Solange Pelissier, Daniel Anderton, Alan Robbins, Concetta Boscarino, Lorena Simmons, Er-ica Monacelli, Florence Azzinaro, Al Del Vento, Jr. and all Parishioners and Benefactors who are ill and in need of prayer. Please let us know of anyone who needs prayers and we will gladly add them to our Parish Sick List. We will keep your loved ones name on this list for one month.

REST IN PEACE

We remember our beloved dead who have gone home to meet the Lord, who sleep in Christ finds in His presence light, happiness, and peace.

May God Bless Them!

WEEKLY MEMORIALS ARE ALSO AVAILABLE IF

YOUR MASS DATE IS NOT OPEN

REMEMBER YOUR LOVED ONE WITH A DONATION IN THEIR MEMORY FOR:

ALTAR BREAD ALTAR WINE ALTAR CANDLES SANCTUARY LAMP OR ANY OF THE CANDLES DEDICATED TO OUR SAINTS For more information on our memorials, please contact the Parish Office at 973-674-2052. Cost is $10 per intention.

The Epiphany of the Lord January 3, 2016 Rise up in splendor, Jerusalem! Your light has come, the glory of the Lord shines upon you. — Isaiah 60:1

OUR LADY OF MT. CARMEL YOUTH GROUP ANNOUNCES A

TRIP TO OUR NATION’S CAPITAL WASHINGTON, DC FOR THE MARCH FOR LIFE

JANUARY 21—JANUARY 22

OPEN TO ALL MIDDLE AND HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS

DETAILS TO FOLLOW OR EMAIL

orangeyouth.olmc@gmail.com

LOOKING IN THE RIGHT PLACES “Appearances can be deceiving,” as the saying goes. As we celebrate the epiphania, the “appearing” of the eternal Word of God on earth, this is still true. What rapturous foresight must have filled Isaiah as he wrote the words we hear today. How, for four hundred years, they must have filled the hearts of the people of Israel with hope for the day when God’s glory would shine on them. How deceived some must have felt when the glory of God came to them in the lowliest and humblest of human lives. We have many expectations about how the di-vine presence will appear among us. But we can also set ourselves up, through these expectations, to miss the divine glory when it truly appears. We get caught up in looking for the star, forgetting that the star is not the divine sign, the babe is. It may take a persistent journey for us to come upon the true ap-pearance of God’s glory in our lives: Jesus Christ. Copyright © J. S. Paluch Co.

TREASURES FROM OUR TRADITION Over the next few weeks, if you were to stroll around Prague or Budapest or Kraków, you might see curious graffiti scratched in chalk over some doorways: “20 + C + M + B + 16.” The families dwelling be-hind those doors have celebrated the Epiphany door blessing. They have gathered before the feast-day meal, probably after Mass, and the head of the fam-ily has traced the sign of the cross on the piece of chalk. Standing on a ladder, the leader traces the numbers for the new year, and the letters C M B for Christus Mansionem Benedicat, Latin for “May Christ bless this house.” The letters also point to the names that tradition has assigned to the mysterious magi, Caspar, Melchior, and Balthasar—although scripture tells us nothing of their number, their country, or their names. The blessing speaks of journeys ended and jour-neys begun at the doorway, and prays that all jour-neys be as satisfying as was the magi’s. It prays that the house beyond the door have the quality of love and peace that the magi marveled at when they at last arrived in Bethlehem. In some countries where the Soviet Union tried to impose a harsh atheism, the vigor of this household custom survived all ef-forts to erase Christian customs. In the years of struggle, the chalked blessings were a pervasive sign of defiance, and now in the light of new freedoms, they are a sign of the resilience of our tradition and the fulfillment of the magi’s quest for meaning and peace. —Rev. James Field, Copyright © J. S. Paluch Co.

READINGS FOR THE WEEK Monday: 1 Jn 3:22 — 4:6; Ps 2:7bc-8, 10-12a; Mt 4:12-17, 23-25 Tuesday: 1 Jn 4:7-10; Ps 72:1-4, 7-8; Mk 6:34-44 Wednesday: 1 Jn 4:11-18; Ps 72:1-2, 10, 12-13; Mk 6:45-52 Thursday: 1 Jn 4:19 — 5:4; Ps 72:1-2, 14, 15bc, 17; Lk 4:14-22a Friday: 1 Jn 5:5-13; Ps 147:12-15, 19-20; Lk 5:12 -16 Saturday: 1 Jn 5:14-21; Ps 149:1-6a, 9b; Jn 3:22- 30 Sunday: Is 42:1-4, 6-7 or Is 40:1-5, 9-11; Ps 29:1 -4, 3, 9-10 or Ps 104:1b-4, 24-25, 27-30; Acts 10:34-38 or Ti 2:11-14; 3:4-7; Lk 3:15-16, 21-22

SAINT ELIZABETH ANN SETON (MOTHER SETON)

JANUARY 4TH. SETON, Elizabeth Ann, born in New York city, 28 August, 1774; died in Emmittsburg, Maryland, 4 January, 1821. Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton was the first native born American to be canonized by the Catholic Church. Born two years before the American Revolution, Elizabeth grew up in the upper class of New York society. She was a prolific reader, and read everything from the Bible to con-temporary novels. In spite of her high society background, Elizabeth's early life was quiet, simple, and often lonely. As she grew a little older, the Bible was to become her continual instruction, sup-port and comfort -and she would continue to love the Scriptures for the rest of her life. In 1794, Elizabeth married the wealthy young William Seton, with whom she was deeply in love. The first years of their marriage were happy and prosperous. Elizabeth wrote in her diary at first autumn, "My own home at twenty-the world-that and heaven too-quite

impossible." This time of Elizabeth's life was to be a brief moment of earthly happiness before the many deaths and partings she was to suffer. Within four years, William's father died, leaving the young couple in charge of William's seven half brothers and sisters, as well as the family's importing business. Events moved quickly from there with devastating effect. Both William's business and health failed. He was finally forced to file a petition of bankruptcy and, in a final attempt to save William's health, the Setons sailed for Italy, where William had business friends. Unfortunately, William died of tuberculosis while in Italy. Elizabeth's one consolation was that he had recently awak-ened to the things of God. The many enforced separations from dear ones by death and distance served to draw Elizabeth's heart to God and eter-nity. The accepting and embracing of God's will - "The Will," as she called it - would be a keynote in her spiritual life. Elizabeth's deep concern for the spiritual welfare of her family and friends eventually led her into the Catholic Church. In Italy, Elizabeth captivated everyone by her kindness, patience, good sense, wit, and courtesy. During this time Eliza-beth became interested in the Catholic Faith and, over a period of months, her Italian friends guided her in Catholic in-struction. Elizabeth's desire for the Bread of Life was to be a strong force leading her to the Catholic Church. Having lost her mother at an early age, Elizabeth felt great comfort in the idea that the Blessed Virgin was truly her mother. She asked the Blessed Virgin to guide her to the True Faith and officially joined the Catholic Church in 1805. At the suggestion of the president of St. Mary's College in Baltimore, Maryland, Elizabeth started a school in that city. The school had originally been secular but once news of her entrance to Catholocism spread, several girls were removed from her school. It was then Seton, and two other young women who helped her in her work, began plans for a Sister-hood. They established the first free Catholic school in America. When the young community adopted their rule, they made provisions for Elizabeth to continue raising her children. On March 25, 1809, Elizabeth Seton pronounced her vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience, binding for one year. From that time she was called Mother Seton. Although Mother Seton became afflicted with tuberculosis, she continued to guide her children. The Rule of the Sister-hood was formally ratified in 1812. It was based upon the Rule St. Vincent de Paul had written for his Daughters of Charity in France. By 1818, in addition to their first school, the sisters had established two orphanages and another school. Today, six groups of sisters can trace their origins to Mother Seton's initial foundation. Seton's favorite prayer was the 23rd Psalm and she developed a deep devotion to the Eucharist, Sacred Scripture, and the Virgin Mary. For the last three years of her life, Elizabeth felt that God was getting ready to call her, and this gave her great joy. Mother Seton died in 1821 at the age of 46, only sixteen years after becoming a Catholic. She was beatified by Pope John XXIII on March 17, 1963 and was canonized canonized on September 14, 1975 by Pope Paul VI. A wonderful prayer in Saint Elizabeth's name is:Lord God, you blessed Elizabeth Seton with gifts of grace as wife and mother, educator and foundress, so that she might spend her life in service to your people. Through her example and prayers may we learn to express our love for you in love for our fellow men and women. We ask this through Christ our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

+In Memoriam+ Jean Andrews Azzinaro & Cucciniello Families Charles & Jean Aquino Angelone & Stanziale Families Michael & Charles Averna, Jr. Agostino & Maria Bellofatto Angelo, Caterina & Carmine Barone Alphonse, Mary & Armand Battista Carmelina Bellofatto John Benevento, Sr. Bucci & Guerriero Families Stephen & Mary Campanozzi Giuseppina Casiero Anthony Cataldo Carmen J. Cedola Sr. Carmen & Grace Chuckerel Maria, Carmela & Elmer Ciamillo Cedola & Cicchelli Families Ann Cirillo Nettie, Daniel & Leonard Corvino Cuccinello & Cirillo Families D’Aires Family John, Louisa & Angela D’Aloia Frank Dascoli Frank & Katherine DeGerolamo Canio & Rachel Del Vento Fr. Dante Di Girolamo Rose & Michael DeRose James & Angie DeSantis Alex John Detore Osvaldo & Gennaro Di Muro Angela Donofrio Harry L. Esposito Esposito & McGee Families Emanuel & Mary Ferrara Artaserse & Luigia Folli & Family Nicholas, Florence C.& Edith Fresolone Josephine & Frank Fusco Gabriele & Zampetti Family Ann Gatti Louis, Angelina & Diane Gesullo Dolores I. Gili

+In Memoriam+ Nerino Giordano Louis Hassell Cecelia, Anthony & Coney Innamarato Angela & Paul Ippolito, Jr. Paul Ippolito III Dr. Andrew Klein Nicholas J. & Sophie Luise Marie & James LaMaita Ronnie, Marylou & Josie Manuel Marzano & Jensen Families Rocco & Eleanor Matrale Saverio & Ida Melone Larry Minasian Anthony Monica Leonard Morelli, Jr. Gladys & Frank Palmieri Angelo Paradiso Carmel & Frank Parrillo Josephine & Pompey Piserchio Rose & Nicholas Policelli Politi & Dorey Families Reichert & Soldi Families Michael Reiser Americo ‘Babe” Romano Family Celia Salvatore Carolina Schneider Alessandro & Jennie Silvestri Alfred & Rose Stoppiello Daniel & Catherine Stoppiello Michael & Marianina Valenti Michael & Nicolena Troisi Daniel Valentino Salvatore & Ann Valentino Virgilio, Spiniello & Fernandi Families David Wayne Winters Joe & Mae Zampetti + In Honor Of + St. Anthony & St. Jude St. Lucy and Padre Pio +In Thanksgiving To+ Jesus, Mary & Joseph

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INFORMATION SHEET—UPDATED October 19, 2015 CHURCH NAME & ADDRESS Our Lady of Mt. Carmel # 643300 103 South Center Street Orange, NJ 07050 secolmc@gmail.com CONTACT PERSON PHONE NUMBER Lois Reichert 973-736-0775 HOME Lois cell 973-640-0542 lreichert812@yahoo.com 973-674-2052 - CHURCH NUMBER SOFTWARE: MSPublisher 2007 Adobe Acrobat 8 Windows XP-XP3 PRINTER: RICOH Aficio 3228C-PCL6 NUMBER OF PAGES TRANSMITTED: Cover + 4 text pages + this page = 6 SUNDAY’S DATE OF PUBLICATION ??? TRANSMISSION DAY/TIME Monday by 5 PM SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS

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