Mission Statement

Through the intercession of Mary our Mother and Saint Jerome, we the parish families of Our Lady of Hope

are called to live and proclaim the Gospel of Jesus Christ. We strive to grow as a vibrant and welcoming community

through worship, evangelization, and ministry to those in need by sharing the resources, time, and talents given to us by God.

The Parish of Our Lady of Hope

April 26, 2020 *Third Sunday of Easter

Saint Jerome School * Blue Ribbon Awardee

Office Number: 732-222-8686 Website Address: www.saintjeromeschool.org

Saint Jerome Church

Saint Mary of the Assumption Church

46 Richmond Avenue, Deal, NJ 07723

Saturday Vigil Mass: 5:00pm Sunday: 8:00am and 10:00am Daily: Monday to Thursday at 9:00am Confessions: Saturday 4:00 PM

254 Wall Street, West Long Branch, NJ 07764

Saturday Vigil Mass: 5:00pm Sunday: 7:30am and 11:00am Daily: Wednesday-Friday-Saturday 8:30am Confessions: Saturday 4:00 PM

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It’s Simple: • Log onto our parish website and click on the Parish Giving Logo and follow the easy registration instructions.

It’s Secure: • Parish Giving is PCI compliant and uses the strongest SSL encryption technology available.

It’s Convenient: • No more searching for the check book on Sunday morning or stops at the ATM machine. • You can pick the day of the month for the recurring contributions to be processed.

Tax Benefits: • You will be able to print out a report detailing your contributions for the year.

Parish Benefits: • Weekly or monthly contribution choices Significant reduction of parish administrative costs.

Contact the parish office with questions or email: office@ladyofhopeparish.org

Pastoral and Support Staff Rev. Peter James Alindogan

Msgr. Cajetan Salemi * Rev. Jerome Nolan Louis Jakub * Anthony DiCesare * Paul Kliauga, Deacons Sr. Angelina Pelliccia, M.P.F. *Sr. Elizabeth To , M.P.F.

Sr. Elizabeth Dalessio, M.P.F. , School Principal Elsa Pagano * Georgie Mandica Pat Serafino * Norma Adami s

Robert Garratano * Chris ne Scholtz Dennis Melofchik & Theodore Ferraro, Jr., Trustees

Contact Informa on

Office Hours: Monday - Thursday 9:00am - 1:00pm 254 Wall Street, West Long Branch, NJ 07764

Phone 732-222-1424 ●Fax 732-222-2291 Email Address: office@ladyo opeparish.org

Website: www.ladyo opeparish.org St. Mary’s Number: 732-531-1409

Email Address: stmary@ladyo opeparish.org

Weekly Collec on and A endance May the good Lord bless you for your generosity and presence!

St. Jerome St. Mary of the Assumption

Saturday/Sunday, April 18/19, 2020

4/19/2020 $2,730.00

Easter $3,840.00

Online Giving $1,385.00 41 families

Totals $7,955.00

Last year same weekend total $7,185.00 496 people

Saturday/Sunday, April 18/19, 2020

4/19/2020 $3,830.00

Easter $2,845.00

Online Giving $572.00 22 families

Totals $7,247.00

Last year same weekend total $4,704.00 325 people

Weekly collec on envelopes can be mailed or placed in mail box at 254 Wall Street Church or 46 Richmond Avenue for Both St. Jerome and St. Mary’s Churches. Please do not leave cash in mail box outside of business hours. Please make all checks payable to: Our Lady of Hope Parish. We thank you for your con nued support during this me. Please note both rectory offices are closed to visitors un l further no ce but we can be reached by phone or email. Mass is celebrated daily at 9:00 AM livestream through Facebook on Our Lady of Hope page or through the link on Ladyo opeparish.org website.

All donations, contributions, and payments to the parish should be made payable to: The Parish of Our Lady of Hope

Pope Francis Prayer Intensions for April Freedom from Addic on

We pray that those suffering from addic on may be helped and accompanied.

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Dear Friends in Christ,

I hope you are well and staying safe as you read this letter. I am sharing here with you what I wrote in my journals last week.

We have not fully admitted it yet. We talked about this virus, spread countless information about prevention, contamination, guidelines, protocols and whatever we thought needed to be shared. We resorted to different ways of coping with it—from sanitation to isolation, from avoidance to quarantine, from putting on masks to physical distancing. We even tried to trace its source or sources—laboratory or wild life market?

But, the elephant in the room, if I may call it, is this: where have we gone wrong? Where did it hurt most? Allow me to apply the six main points in journalism and news reporting.

Who: that’s us, billions of us affected right now in this planet What: Pandemic When: End of 2019 till the present. That was when some of us became aware of this virus Why: A lot of answers to this: cleansing, healing, wake-up call, purging, priority check, break from normalcy How: Disruption in all aspects of our lives And where? Not from a specific country or continent. But we have gone wrong in the place that God seeks us most—in our human hearts. That is closest to what is now hurting us the most—the air we breathe.

Ironically, the air that we inhale may sometimes carry the virus we could accidentally ingest. Physiology lessons tell us that when air passes through our nostrils and pumps its way to our lungs, the human heart is aided greatly. The heart is primordial and primal. Once it stops, death intrudes. Things that bother us, problems that pester us and all the other worries and concerns that trouble us have its source and its cure in the recesses of our hearts.

It is necessary, therefore, to seek within and inside us what brought out this crippling and debilitating virus. The blame should not be confined to a specific class of people, or race, or to those who spread the disease, knowingly or unknowingly.

We can only blame ourselves for not listening to what our hearts dictate. Had we listened, before we were forcefully quarantined, then we would have realized that health is more important than wealth (money is not enough to compensate for anything invisible), family is more essential than self (the Christian command) and time spent with our loved ones make our days (and even better nights) more complete than frivolous hobbies and pastimes.

Had we listened, then we would have realized that we don’t need to rush in life, that we need to pause from time to time and value the persons we share lives with, that our destination in the next life becomes more precious and lasting when journeyed together.

Had we listened earlier, then we would have realized that goodness is more contagious than the virus itself, that heroes abound in every corner and work place in society, that we can all unite for a common cause. Our hearts are aching now to be connected physically, than virtually related. The Internet cannot supply the human touch, cannot codify a hug, cannot correlate, irrespective of even a common handshake.

Where did we go wrong at this point of our lives, close to a quarter of a century past the millennium? Where have we gone wrong? The heart.

We did not listen in the past to the Voice of the Spirit coming to our hearts, tracing itself up to our windpipes and nostrils, to the air we breathe that keeps us alive (and is now filtered by the masks we wear). It is a momentous time to get rid of all the vices that pepper the human heart. Unless we let that happen, then waves of viruses will still be widespread and prevalent. There will never be an end.

If we persist in not listening to Him who supplies the air we breathe, then we remain apart from the One who heals the viruses of our hearts. He it is—the One who truly wears the crown.

You are always remembered in my Masses and prayers! Blessings always.

Fr. PJ

FFather PJ’s Letter

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MMass Inten ons

Saturday, April 25 Livestream

5:00 PM 9:00 AM

Living and Deceased Parishioners Francis & Louise Quinn

Walter & Be y Pawlukanis Joseph Petrone

The Marcantonio family

Sunday, April 26 Livestream 900 AM Facebook Our Lady of Hope Page

7:30 AM Al Silvestri Funzie & Steve Strollo

Silvino Lopes His children

11:00 AM Joseph Kallighan Doreen & Mark Bulzis

Salvatore J. Ferraro The Ferraro family

Wednesday, April 29 Livestream

8:30 AM

9:00 AM

David R. Long ( 1st Anniversary) Our Lady of Hope Parish

Mary Karbowiak Irene CIarla

Charles Schwendinger Tony & Gretchen DiCesare

Friday, May 1 Livestream

8:30 AM

9:00 AM In memory of Giacomina & Francesco Gulli

The Laugelli family Brenda Atwood (1st Anniversary)

Our Lady of Hope Parish Rosemary Gannon

SJS 2nd Grade Class

Saturday, May 2 Livestream 900 AM Facebook Our Lady of Hope Page

8:30 AM

Arthur & Rose DiCesare

Tony & Gretchen DiCesare Joseph Montague

Kevin & Lisa Garifine

5:00 PM Tony Strollo Mom & Dad

Ivanna Por llo Her parents

Sunday, May 3 Livestream 900 AM Facebook Our Lady of Hope Page

7:30 AM Living and Deceased Parishioners Susie Barziloski ( Happy Birthday)

Rosemarie & Alec Baret Silvino Lopes

His children

Frank Bulzis Doreen & Mark Bulzis

Joan Montague The Montague family

11:00 AM

Saint Jerome Church

LORD, HEAR OUR PRAYER

Please pray for the sick, the homebound and those who have requested us to remember them in prayer, especially: Week 1: Allison Dutka, Fr. Fred Jackiewicz, and Steve Lazar

Week 2: Michael Bitterly, Ashley Cusack , James Shanahan

Week 3: Stephanie Bernstein, Christopher Cohalan, Syron Sean Davis, Dominguez family, Lori Kelly, Diane Latshaw, Frank Marsico, Carole Mueller, Anna Oleinik, Frank Signorelli, Kelly Terry, Father Ray Wadas, Bob Waitt, David Walther , Maureen Walther, Myra Walther, and Samy Yanni

Week 4: Joan & Robert Day, Donald Dunphy, Connie Heal, Joyce Klohn, Deacon John McCabe, and Katie McCann

Also, we continually keep in our prayers all those who are serving in our Armed Forces.

**The names will be listed for four weeks unless you contact the

rectory office at office@ladyofhopeparish.org or call 732-222-1424 to extend **

THE ANNUAL CATHOLIC APPEAL – IN ACTION!

Our Lady of Hope Parish Goal : $60,000 Collected $24,047 from 119 Donors

How is this campaign different from the Faith to Move Mountains campaign? The Annual Catholic Appeal helps to fund the ongoing opera ng expenses of the diocese from day to day. Funds received in this campaign will be dispersed as described in our brochure during the following 12 month period. The Faith to Move Mountains Endowment campaign is a response to long-term and extraordinary needs. Its major objec ve is to establish new or increase exis ng endowments to fund an cipated increases in expenses over the long term.

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Cleaning Out Your House? Did you know that St. Jerome School has a clothing bin?

Acceptable items:

Clean wearable clothing

Shoes

Linens

Handbags

Stuffed Animals

Please do not leave items outside of the bins. We cannot accept furniture or large items.

Our School will receive part of the proceeds on all dona ons!

Mass Inten ons

Saturday, April 25 Livestream

5:00 PM

9:00 AM Rose DiLieto

Mary Jonasson & family Geraldine Slocum

Diane Ailor

Sunday, April 26 Livestream 9:00 AM Facebook Our Lady of Hope Page

8:00 AM John & Annabelle Harvey Nella

Joseph Small Rose O’Connor-Myer

10:00 AM Jean Grab Ron Grab

Kathleen McCann Ka e & Michael McCann

Monday, April 27 Livestream

9:00 AM Living and Deceased Parishioners

Tuesday,

April 28 Livestream

9:00 AM Thomas Morrissey

Wednesday, April 29 Livestream

9:00 AM

Vic ms of Corona virus

Thursday, April 30 Livestream

9:00 AM Dr. Daniel & Marie Fernicola His loving family

Saturday, May 2 Livestream

5:00 PM

9:00 AM Living and Deceased Parishioners Anne Pender Cudlip

Brigid Lukas

Sunday, May 3 Livestream 9:00 AM Facebook Our Lady of Hope Page

8:00 AM Joseph L. Black David Applegate

Alfred Augus s Vecchia His family

10:00 AM Kathleen McCann Teresa Magat

Flavia DeMola & Anthony & Pamela Mauro

Here’s One Positive Encouragement

Written by a fellow parishioner

God raised up great leaders like Moses and Joshua to do his work for his people. So too, can great leaders arise up in me of need in Our Lady of Hope Parish to help lead our parish and community in these mes of need.

When our two parishes were merging, we used ques onnaires and asked for volunteers for ministries and commi ees. Looking at our responses, we found many were willing to help but few were willing to lead.

Our parish, our community, and our world need people willing to lead and serve with LOVE. Love being the primary reason for whatever they intend to accomplish. Most people are afraid to help or lead a group for fear of not looking professional whatever that means, or that they will make mistakes and look foolish.

When my son and I were working together he would say “Dad, you’re not ac ng like a professional”. I would ask how is a professional to act and he would say “you know professionally”. I conveyed knowledge to my customers with truthfulness, kindness and loved what I did. Because of this many appreciated my demeanor and told me so. Why am I telling you this, so you will not be afraid of what people think of you even family. Do what you LOVE to do, grab onto a problem or situa on with enthusiasm and help solve it by being a volunteer or a leader. There are many situa ons and opportuni es you can avail yourself of to help others. Take advantage of these trying mes to show God and others what you are made of. Become ac ve, live the doctrine of LOVE. What our parish and our community will be like in the future depends on your work today.

Saint Mary of the Assumption Church

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