Office Location Phone Email/Fax Website

Parish Office 105 Harrison St., New Milford 201-261-0148 office@sjcnj.org Fax #: 201-261-0369

sjcnj.org

Religious Education 105 Harrison St., New Milford 201-261-1144 religioused@sjcnj.org sjcnjre.org

Saint Joseph School 305 Elm St., Oradell 201-261-2388 office@sjsusa.org sjsusa.org

the greenhouse-PreK 305 Elm St., Oradell 201-477-8114 vailc@greenhouseusa.org greenhouseusa.org

MASS SCHEDULE Saturday 5:00 pm

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

DAILY Weekdays 7:00 am &

8:30 am

Saturday 8:30 am

HOLY DAYS as announced

Miraculous Medal Novena Monday, 7:00 pm in Mary’s Chapel

Eucharistic Adoration First Wednesday of Month

SACRAMENTS Confession: Saturday,

4:00 pm - 5:00 pm Baptism

Contact the Parish Office. Marriage

Arrangements should be made with a priest at least one year in advance.

Sick/Homebound/Hospital Call the Parish Office.

Christian Initiation of Adults—RCIA

Contact the Parish Office.

PARISH REGISTRATION Contact the Parish Office.

PASTOR:

Msgr. David C. Hubba

PAROCHIAL VICARS:

Rev. Andrew Park Rev. Roy Regaspi

DEACON George Montalvo

PASTOR EMERITUS:

Rev. George M. Reilly

Oradell/New Milford, NJ Roman Catholic Church Saint Joseph

Second Sunday of Lent ~ March 12, 2017

Parish Office Hours: Parish: Mon.-Fri..9 am-5 pm, ; Rel. Ed.: Mon –Thurs.: 9:30 am—5 pm (Also by appointment.)

*Irish Soda Bread for sale by ASCPG today

*Coffee with the Parish Pastoral Council—MAR. 19

—see page 2.

Become Part of Saint Joseph’s

Could the Lord be calling you to help spread the Gospel and be his hands and heart in our world? Do you think you might like to read Scripture at Mass, help to give Holy Communion at our liturgies/to the sick, sing in our choir, serve on the altar, or greet/assist those attending our Masses? If so, please see page 4 of this bulletin. Your participa-tion is most welcome and all training will be provided.

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SHAWL MINISTRY MEETING—MARCH 14

Saint Joseph’s Shawl Ministry will meet on Tuesday, March 14 from 2:00-4:00 pm in the Parish Life Center on Grove Street. All knitters & crocheters are welcome to join us in

making shawls… or bring your current yarn project and spend a relaxing afternoon with us. Our ministry has shawls available for those experiencing illness, confinement, bereavement, or other situation. For further information, please contact Barbara Piersa at 201-261-0298 or Pat De Nicolo at 201-261-4323.

FROM THE PASTOR’S DESK appears on page 4.

Marissa Lina Gentile Child of Andrew & Michelle

with brothers Christopher and Bradley

SACRAMENT OF

BAPTISM

February 19,

2017

God bless Marissa and her Family.

CONGRATULATIONS BOYS VARSITY & JV CHAMPS!

Saint Joseph Athletic Association proudly announces that both our Boys Varsity and JV teams were named North-ern Valley Parochial League champions. Well done, boys!

WE’LL BE MISSING THE BEAT

Our wonderful drummer, Rich Leavy, who along with Peter Greco and Monroe Quinn (R.P.M.) makes our 12 noon Sunday liturgies so uplifting, will be

missing from our celebrations until June. Sadly, he broke his ankle and will need time to recover. Please keep him in your prayers .

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Saturday 5:00 pm

Sunday 7:30 am 9:00 am 10.30 am 10:30 am MC 12:00 pm

Monday 7:00 am 8:30 am

Tuesday 7:00 am 8:30 am

Wednesday 7:00 am 8:30 am

Thursday 7:00 am 8:30 am

Friday 7:00 am 8:30 pm

Saturday 8:30 am 5:00 pm

Sunday 7:30 am 9:00 am 10:30 am UC

10:30 am MC 12:00 pm

SECOND SUNDAY OF LENT ~ MARCH 12, 2017

PRAYER REQUESTS Let us remember those who are ill:

Baby Ronan Wnuk, Doreen Tortorelli, David Guerra, Ann Maron, Florence Bartus, Jennifer Enny, Kathy Kern

Let us remember those who have recently died: Rev. Dennis E. Cocozza

Let us remember those serving in the military.

SUNDAY COLLECTION Week of March 5, 2017

BASKET PARISHPAY TOTAL $10,189 $4,717 $14,906

BREAD & WINE INTENTIONS

The bread for the week of March 12, 2017 is offered in loving memory of the

Deceased Members of the Hart and Schatz Families

as requested by Dorothy Schatz.

The wine for the week of March 12, 2017 is offered in loving memory of

Juan C. Alison 10th Anniversary Remembrance

as requested by the Alison Family.

Visit us on our websites: CHURCH: sjcnj.org SCHOOL: sjsusa.org RELIGIOUS ED.: sjcnjre.org

Saint Joseph Parish Staff

Parish Trustees………..Mr. Brendan Walsh/Mrs. Carol Winkler Parish Pastoral Council…………….Mr. Martin De Benedetto Dir. of Religious Education ……….Deacon George Montalvo Sacraments Coordinator …………..Mrs. Arlene Kennedy Director of Music ……………………..Mr. Monroe Quinn Youth Minister …………………………Mrs. Donna Cirino Facilities Director …………………....Mr. Tom Meli Business Manager ……………….…. .Mrs. Phyllis Vrola Parish Secretary ……………………....Mrs. Geraldine Carolan

Principal of Saint Joseph School…Mrs. Colette Vail Dir. of Comm./ Bulletin Editor…...Mrs. Diane Hellriegel

STEWARDSHIP REFLECTION “Go forth from the land of your kinsfolk and from your father’s house to a land that I will show you.” GENESIS 12:1 God calls all of us to leave behind our old ways and to follow Him, placing our complete trust in Him. Some of the old ways that we may have to struggle to leave behind might be materialism, selfishness and greed. Yet God promises to show us a new land and a better way to live.

COMMUNAL PENANCE—MARCH 27 There will be a Communal Penance Service here at Saint Joseph Church on Monday, March 27 at 7:30 pm. We will also be welcoming parishioners from St. Peter the Apostle parish at that celebration of the Sacrament.

March 11, 2017 Patrick Cahill

March 12, 2017 People of the Parish Doris Daigle Josephine Gebbia Lynne Main Caldwell Frances Catarcio

March 13, 2017 Louise Mary Cerelli Bill Petrie

March 14, 2017 Rose Viscardi Alfred O’Toole

March 15, 2017 Judene Maron Baglieri Gerald Burns

March 16, 2017 Margaret Flannery Marie & John T. Flieger

March 17, 2017 Donald Mason Philip McGough

March 18, 2017 Mildred Frykberg Catherine Margaret Danes

March 19, 2017 People of the Parish Catherine Margaret Danes Pauline & Edward Wernicki In Honor of Saint Joseph Deceased Members of the Moretti & Scarano Families

MISSION ACCOMPLISHED Thanks to parishioner and sacristan Tom Moran for his suggestion to bring the Franciscan Friars of the Renewal for the moving Lenten Mission they gave us last week. The Friars led us in three beautiful evenings of prayer, song, reflection and renewal as we celebrated God’s love and found his mercy and healing in the Sacrament of Reconciliation.

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FROM THE PASTOR’S DESK

OUR STATIONS OF THE CROSS You may have noticed some changes taking place to the Stations of the Cross plaques that are hung on the walls of our Upper Church. A professional artist is now in the process of repairing, restoring and enhancing their beauty. This project is taking place thanks to your generosity to the “We Are Living Stones” capital campaign. During this process we will continue to hold the devotion EVERY FRIDAY IN LENT (except Good Friday) at 2:00 pm with the schoolchildren and again at 7:30 pm. Please join us.

BECOME A LITURGICAL MINISTER The Liturgical Ministries are an excellent way to fulfill your baptismal call of service to one another while greatly enriching your own faith. Training will be provided. If you would like to learn more about one of our liturgical ministries or would like to volunteer for one, please see any one of our priests or call the parish office at 201-261-0148. You can also contact

a representative of the ministry via email: Readers/Lectors: Betty Kern at beanke@optonline.net Ministers of Holy Communion: Phil De Rosa at philip.derosa@prudential.com Altar Servers: Dr. Michael Petrella at mopetrellamd@gmail.com Choir: Monroe Quinn at quinnm@sjcnj.org Ushers/Greeters: Tom Moran at tmoran61@gmail.com

The first person I met when I reported to my assignment as a newly ordained priest at Holy Trinity Church in Hackensack was our live-in

cook and housekeeper Nancy O’Shaughnessy, who was out walking the rectory’s Weimaraner. Nancy was a fine cook who truly made our rectory a home. She also had enough personality for three ordinary people. Every summer she would go back to the home she shared with her sister in Limerick, on the suburban side of the River Shannon. At one time, their backyard neighbor was the actor Richard Harris. Nancy had a friend from Washington Township who had a high position with Irish Airlines, with the result that she could bring a basically unlimited amount of luggage with her on her summer flights. This was mostly what she bought to give to her two nephews and their families, which she always took through the nothing-to-declare lane at Irish Customs. One year she brought them articles of patio furniture. I initially thought her nephews were poor, but later found out that one of them owned a nice insurance business and the other was an architect who, besides his regular practice, saved stained glass windows and other artifacts from closed-down chapels and re-purposed them in new settings, including a previously unattractive cinderblock church in a poor area of Limerick. Nancy had a brother who was an IRA participant—not the tax-deferred retirement savings kind, but the other kind. When the parish priests went to his wake, we met the daughter of Eamon De Valera, who also dropped by to pay respects. For its first few years, the Bergen Irish’s St. Patrick’s parade stepped off from the front of Holy Trinity. I’ll

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always remember how proud and happy Nancy was over the festivities.. Ireland is small, and so is its population. For all its beauty, it has meager natural resources, except for its people. But in them, and in its faith traditions, it is enormously wealthy. Friday is the feast of its most famous person, St. Patrick (c. 386-c.460). Most probably of Roman lineage (from Britain), he was kidnapped by Irish pirates, made a slave herding swine, escaped to home, trained to become a priest, and eventually returned to Ireland, where he worked long, courageously and successfully for the Faith. He was the first to evangelize Western Europe beyond the boundaries of the Roman Empire.

The great Redemptorist preacher Father Joseph Manton superbly described the debt we owe St. Patrick: What Ireland produces cannot be packed into crates or poured into barrels. It was essentially the spirit that Patrick bequeathed, the deep faith and the warm heart, the witty tongue and the lilting song, and a fierce dedication to freedom. It is Ireland’s contribution to the brave and multicolored mosaic of that grand Catholic image produced by so many different nationalities that together have made the Church in America the magnificent enterprise it is.

May you greatly enjoy your St. Patrick’s Day celebrations. And, especially if you are Irish, may they let you show your rightful pride in a great saint. And don’t forget: Cardinal Tobin has dispensed Catholics of the Archdiocese from the usual Friday Lenten obligation of abstaining from meat.

Msgr. David Hubba

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SECOND SUNDAY OF LENT ~ MARCH 12, 2017

SAINT JOSEPH SCHOOL PRESENTS

“THE DANGERS OF SOCIAL MEDIA” Safety Tips for You and Your Child

as presented by retired FBI special agent Bob Bukowski , RLB Security Consultants

Because our young people are practically growing up on the internet, it is essential that we teach them the skills they will need to safely learn and socialize online. As adults, we too need to find ways to keep our own personal information (and reputations) secure. ALL ARE INVITED to a very special presentation on Tuesday, March 21 at 7:30 pm in the Saint Joseph lower school Gym (305 Elm St., Oradell) that will help you: Learn what to do if you are threatened or scammed online Learn the myths vs. the facts of the internet Protect your child from child predators, sexting,

cyberbullying, recruitment by terrorists or gangs Any questions, see the brochures in our church racks or call 201-261-2388. There is NO COST.

HAVE YOU SHARED GOD’S BLESSINGS?

Saint Joseph’s goal in the annual Sharing God’s Blessings Appeal which helps to fund so many of the Archdiocesan ministries and

programs that provide social, educational and spiritual support to thousands of people each year, is $85,375.00. Please help us reach our goal and make your pledge today. Envelopes are available at the doors of the church or at the rectory/parish office. Simply drop your envelope in the collection basket or at the rectory.

BISHOP ROBERT BARRON’S “CATHOLICISM”

BEGINS THIS WEDNESDAY The celebrated series “Catholicism” will be shown this Wednesday morning from 9:30 to 10:30 in the Jackson Room (in Mary’s chapel, our lower church). If you are looking for a means of deepening your relationship with Our Lord this Lent, this will offer you a most enjoyable way of doing so. In Episode 1, “Amazed and Afraid: The Revelation of God Become Man,” we journey with Bishop Barron to the mysterious and sacred sites of the Holy Land (from Caesarea, to the Sea of Galilee, and to Jerusalem) and to the eternal city of Rome. Bishop Barron illustrates the Catholic Faith’s conviction that Jesus of Nazareth is the promised Messiah and the revelation of God become man in Christ. Robert Barron is an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles who has become widely known as a writer and speaker about the Catholic Faith. He is the founder of Word on Fire Catholic Ministries. One of its notable projects is the series “Catholicism,” which Bishop Barron created and hosts. It makes very enjoyable use of his talents and interests, which include art, architecture, literature, music and history.

ST. PATRICK’S DAY DISPENSATION “I dispense the people of the Archdiocese of Newark from the obligation to abstain from meat on Friday, March 17, 2017. “I remind all Catholics who avail themselves of this dispensation that the Church highly encourages you to substitute some other act of penance, such as special prayer, acts of piety or works of charity on March 17th.”

Cardinal Joseph W. Tobin, C.Ss. R.

GIRL SCOUT SUNDAY—TODAY March 12 is the 105th anniversary of the founding of Girl Scouting by Juliette (“Daisy”) Gordon Low. May God bless the Girl Scouts of

our parish. For information about Girl Scouting, please call the parish office at 201-261-0148.

You can see our bulletin IN COLOR on our parish website at sjcnj.org

LENTEN REFLECTION “CARRYING THE CROSS”

LEGION OF MARY THIRD SATURDAY PRAYER

—MARCH 18 Richard Fritzky author of A Pilgrim’s Song: Mary Varick and Her Theology of Suffering, What Must Needs Come: A Legacy of Gettysburg, and Tidings of Great Joy: Keeping Christmas Well will speak in Saint Joseph’s Upper Church on Saturday, March 18 after the 8:30 AM Mass at the Legion of Mary Third Saturday Prayer Service. All are most welcome! Focusing upon the topic of “Carrying the Cross,” he will suggest that affliction and suffering can be the ultimate instruments of joy, transformative grace, and redemption—and that truly living as a Christian requires journeying deep within and giving of oneself without. If you are challenged and struggling with suffering of any kind – be it mental, emotional or physical – or if you are simply interested in going deeper this Lent, please consider coming. You will not be disappointed.

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AN EVENING OF MUSIC IN SUPPORT OF “FAMILY PROMISE”

WITH PETER GRECO—APRIL 1 Come and enjoy a concert of great music and entertainment featuring Peter Greco, pianist/accompanist and Domenick Panfile, tenor, on Saturday, April 1 at 7:00 pm at Our Lady Mother of the Church, 209 Woodcliff Avenue, Woodcliff Lake, NJ 07677. Donations gratefully accepted (cash or check) for Family Promise of Bergen County which assists working families with children who are temporarily homeless. For more information, call 201-391-2826.

BERGEN COUNTY CARE FAIR

The County of Bergen is sponsoring the First Annual Bergen County Care Fair to be held on April 23 from 12:00 to 5:00 pm at the Hilton Hotel, 650 Terrace Avenue in Hasbrouck Heights.—a one-stop source to help all Bergen residents cut through the health care and support system maze, learn about their options, and connect with the right providers and resources. Admission is FREE. For more information, call 201-336-7240 or go to bergencarefair.org

FREE TAX PREPARATION SERVICE AT

Seton Hall Law School volunteers will prepare Income Tax Returns for taxpayers with an annual W-2 income up to $70,000. IRS certified volunteers at the Center for Social Justice at Seton Hall Law School, 833 McCarter Highway, Newark, NJ 07102 will provide private, confidential, one-on-one tax return preparation. Law students, the Tax Law Society and professors prepare returns free of charge to students, qualified staff and members of the community. Spanish translators available. Go to law.shu.edu/clinics/volunteer-income-tax-services.cfm to see when the services are available, if you are eligible and what you should bring. Call 973-642-8700 or email csj_reception@shun.edu for additional information.

SPRING CRAFT SHOW/SALE —MARCH 26

On Sunday, March 26th , Saint Joseph Regional High School, Montvale, NJ will be hosting its annual Spring Craft Show/Sale from 10:00 am until 4:00 pm, showcasing the talents of 100 crafts people and fine artists including many new crafters. Admission is $2.00. Children and senior citizens (65+) are free. NO STROLLERS PERMITTED.

“NEW HOPE - HELPING HANDS” GALA—APRIL 26

Established in 1985, New Hope, Inc. is an outreach organization that provides

help for single first-time mothers and their babies. New Hope provides subsidies for housing, day care, education

and counseling. The annual Gala will be Wednesday, April 26 from 6:30 - 10:30 pm at Seasons, 664 Pascack Road, Washington Twp. 07676, Cost is $85 per person. There will be a cocktail hour, gourmet dinner, silent auction, Tricky Tray, raffle, huge 50/50 and dancing. For reservations, call Kathy at 201-573-8697 or email her at kturlick@gmail.com

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