MASS SCHEDULE — ALL CHURCH ACTIVITIES HAVE BEEN SUSPENDED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE —

Saturday: 7:00 & 8:00 AM (English) 5:00 PM - Vigil Mass (English)

Sunday: 7:30 AM, 9:30 AM (English) 11:00 AM (Italian) 12:30 PM Family Mass (English) 7:00 PM (Portuguese)

Weekdays: 7:00 & 8:00 AM Holy Days: 6:30, 8:00, 10:00 AM & 7:30 PM* *Check bulletin—Holy day schedule s are subject to change Other Weekly Services & Activities: Mon to Sat 7:35 AM - Morning Prayer 8:30 AM - Holy Rosary (English) Mondays 7:30 PM - Bible Study in English Tuesdays 9:00 AM - Legion of Mary 7:30 PM - St. Padre Pio Mass 7:30 PM - Holy Rosary Society 8:00 PM - Holy Rosary (Portuguese) Wednesdays 2:00 PM - Holy Rosary (Italian) Thursday 6:15 to 7:15 PM - Holy Hour Adoration for Vocations Friday 8:30 PM - Brazilian Prayer Group 1st Friday 8:30 AM to 7:30 PM - Blessed Sacrament Adoration

Served by the Vocationist Fathers Fr. Christogonus (Chris) Iwunze, S.D.V., Pastor Fr. Roberto da Silva, S.D.V., Parochial Vicar Fr. Louis Caputo, S.D.V.,Weekend Assistant Fr. Thomas La Russa, S.D.V., D.R.E.

Church & Rectory 442 E Brinkerhoff Ave Palisades Park, NJ 07650 Tel. 201-944-1154 Fax. 201-944-9510 Email. stnicholas07650@live.com Website. www.stnicholasrcchurch.org

Office Hours Mon, Wed, Thu & Fri 11:30 AM - 6:00 PM Tuesdays 4:00 PM - 9:00 PM (Mornings by appointment only)

ADMINISTRATION OF THE SACRAMENTS Baptisms: On any available Sunday during the 11:00 AM (Italian), 9:30 AM or 12:30 PM (English) & 7:00 PM (Portuguese) Masses. Please contact the rectory at least one month prior to desired date. Confessions: Saturdays 4:00 to 4:45 PM, or during the week by appointment. Marriages: Please contact the rectory at least six months prior to desired wedding date. Sacrament of the Sick: If you are hospitalized or un-able to come to Church for health reasons and would like to be visited by a priest for Confession, Commun-ion, or Anointing of the Sick, please call the rectory. Religious Education Program (CCD): For children 1st to 8th grades who are not attending Catholic School. Classes are held on Sundays from September to May at 11:30 AM, with attendance at the 12:30 PM Family Mass. Confirmation: Teens will receive the Sacrament of Confirmation at 8th grade. They will attend classes at 11:30 AM from September to December; and from January to April classes will start at 11:00 AM in the church hall, with attendance at the 12:30 PM Family Mass.

ST. NICHOLAS RC CHURCH

5th Sunday of Lent March 29th, 2020

Lazarus, dead for four days, came out of his tomb

when Jesus called his name (John 11:1-45).

SATURDAY, March 28 7:00AM Anna Scrivanich by Eleonora Michalopoulos 8:00AM Joseph Hroncich Jr. by Joseph & Maria Hroncich 5:00PM Giovanna Giampiccolo by Linda & Frank Benincasa SUNDAY, March 29 7:30AM All victims of the coronavirus pandemic 9:30AM Giuseppina DeFrancesco by Chiola family 11:00AM Michele Osso by M/M Antonio Porco 12:30PM Josephine Daniele by Daniele family 7:00PM For all people of this parish MONDAY, March 30 7:00AM Antonio Mantuano by Vincenzina Pate 8:00AM Francesco Tarabocchia by sister-in-law Maria TUESDAY, March 31 7:00AM Joseph Giannini by his family 8:00AM Milena Matesic by Michelle Matesic & Danny Kolic WEDNESDAY, April 1 7:00AM Richard Lagagnina by Carmela & Silvio Barone 8:00AM Nicola Picinic by his wife Antonia THURSDAY, April 2 7:00AM Frank Martini by his family 8:00AM Roberto Tarabocchia by Maria Mattessich FRIDAY, April 3 7:00AM Antonia Bussanich by Joe & Maria Hroncich 8:00AM Mateo Mattessich by Vitoria Matesic SATURDAY, April 4 7:00AM Antonia Mirkovic by M/M Zdenko Mirkovich 8:00AM Giovanni & Nicolina by Gaudenzia Mattessich 5:00PM Patrick Dell’Aquila by Phil & Louise Luciano SUNDAY, April 5 7:30AM John Pappalardo by his family 9:30AM Deceased members of the Holy Rosary Society 11:00AM Giuseppe & Francesco Velardo by Frank & Francesca V. 12:30PM Aldo & Mario Mattessich by sister-in-law Maria 7:00PM For all people of this parish

Mass Intentions

ST NICHOLAS RC CHURCH Parish Trustees: Giovanni Simone & Michael Massaro Parish Secretary: Débora Moreira Music Ministry: Addie Luers, Giovanni & Karen Simone, Silvia Maresca, Cynthia Ramos, Angela Costantini and Kelly Oliveira

Vocationist Sisters Community Sr. Benedita Carvalho, S.D.V., Superior & Pre-K Director; Sr. Joicy Palatty, S.D.V. and Sr. Emilia Din, S.D.V. 223 14th Street - Palisades Park, NJ Tel. 201-947-2413 Parish Pre-K “Fr. Justin Learning Center” Tel. 201-944-1376

NOTRE DAME ACADEMY 312 First St—Palisades Park, NJ Principal: Mark Valvano Tel. 201-947-5262

News of the Parish

ATTENTION:

All public celebration of both Sunday Mass and daily Mass is suspended until further notice.

This decision comes after

exhaustive discussion and with an especially heavy heart. Public celebration of the

Sacraments and other public forms of worship are suspended until further notice.

This includes, but is not limited to previously scheduled Confirmations, celebrations of First Communion, penitential services, Communion

services, and Liturgies of the Word.

St. Nicholas Church will be closed and locked until further notice.

Private prayers in church are discontinued until further notice.

Wakes and funerals must be postponed until further notice. There are no exceptions to this, regardless of the size of the group. Burials may

take place with only the priest.

All baptisms and Confessions must be postponed until further notice with the exception

of an extreme emergency.

Rectory’s office will remain closed. Schedule appointments and services

by phone 201-944-1154 or email stnicholasrcchurch.com

In Memoriam BREAD AND WINE

donated this week in memory of all deceased members of the Cecere family by Carmela Cecere

All week day and Sunday Masses requests for the souls of your beloved deceased or for the intentions

of the living are been celebrated privately by Fr. Chris and the Vocationist Sisters daily.

Pray for our sick: Mateus Ribeiro, Angela Tina, Domenica Dinaro, Josephine Dolberry, Eileen Murphy, Sara Modafferi, John Hroncich (John Hroncich’s nephew), James Malatesta, Arthur Mazzarella, Dolly Marie Caiazzo, Francesco DeCandia, Rosetta Lo Faro, Paul Albanese, Paul Albanese, Stefano Sgambellone, Giulia Picinich, Anne Mulieri, Anna Teresi, Eudineia Aniceto, Marie Marino, Stephany Posada and all the victims of the coronavirus pandemic worldwide.

Pastoral Care

5th Sunday of Lent

Gospel Jn 11:1–45

Now a man was ill, Lazarus from Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha. Mary was the one who had anointed the Lord with perfumed oil and dried his feet with her hair; it was her brother Lazarus who was ill. So the sis-ters sent word to him saying, “Master, the one

you love is ill.” When Jesus heard this he said, “This ill-ness is not to end in death, but is for the glory of God, that the Son of God may be glorified through it.” Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus. So when he heard that he was ill, he remained for two days in the place where he was. Then after this he said to his disci-ples, “Let us go back to Judea.” The disciples said to him, “Rabbi, the Jews were just trying to stone you, and you want to go back there?” Jesus answered, “Are there not twelve hours in a day? If one walks during the day, he does not stumble, because he sees the light of this world. But if one walks at night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him.” He said this, and then told them, “Our friend Lazarus is asleep, but I am going to awaken him.” So the disciples said to him, “Master, if he is asleep, he will be saved.” But Jesus was talking about his death, while they thought that he meant ordinary sleep. So then Jesus said to them clearly, “Lazarus has died. And I am glad for you that I was not there, that you may believe. Let us go to him.” So Thomas, called Didymus, said to his fellow dis-ciples, “Let us also go to die with him.” When Jesus ar-rived, he found that Lazarus had already been in the tomb for four days. Now Bethany was near Jerusalem, only about two miles away. And many of the Jews had come to Martha and Mary to comfort them about their brother. When Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went to meet him; but Mary sat at home. Martha said to Jesus, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died. But even now I know that whatever you ask of God, God will give you.” Jesus said to her, “Your brother will rise.” Martha said to him, “I know he will rise, in the res-urrection on the last day.” Jesus told her, “I am the resur-rection and the life; whoever believes in me, even if he dies, will live, and everyone who lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?” She said to him, “Yes, Lord. I have come to believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God, the one who is coming into the world.” When she had said this, she went and called her sister Mary secretly, saying, “The teacher is here and is asking for you.” As soon as she heard this, she rose quickly and went to him. For Jesus had not yet come into the village, but was still where Martha had met him. So when the Jews who were with her in the house comforting her saw Mary get up quickly and go out, they followed her, pre-

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suming that she was going to the tomb to weep there. When Mary came to where Jesus was and saw him, she fell at his feet and said to him, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.” When Jesus saw her weeping and the Jews who had come with her weep-ing, he became perturbed and deeply troubled, and said, “Where have you laid him?” They said to him, “Sir, come and see.” And Jesus wept. So the Jews said, “See how he loved him.” But some of them said, “Could not the one who opened the eyes of the blind man have done some-thing so that this man would not have died?” So Jesus, perturbed again, came to the tomb. It was a cave, and a stone lay across it. Jesus said, “Take away the stone.” Martha, the dead man’s sister, said to him, “Lord, by now there will be a stench; he has been dead for four days.” Jesus said to her, “Did I not tell you that if you believe you will see the glory of God?” So they took away the stone. And Jesus raised his eyes and said, “Father, I thank you for hearing me. I know that you always hear me; but because of the crowd here I have said this, that they may believe that you sent me.” And when he had said this, He cried out in a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out!” The dead man came out, tied hand and foot with burial bands, and his face was wrapped in a cloth. So Jesus said to them, “Untie him and let him go.” Now many of the Jews who had come to Mary and seen what he had done began to believe in him.

Excerpts from the Lectionary for Mass for Use in the Dioceses of the United States of Amer-ica, second typical edition © 2001, 1998, 1997, 1986, 1970 Confraternity of Christian Doc-trine, Inc., Washington, DC. Used with permission. All rights reserved. No portion of this text may be reproduced by any means without permission in writing from the copyright owner. The English translation of the Psalm Responses from Lectionary for Mass © 1969, 1981, 1997, International Commission on English in the Liturgy Corporation. All rights reserved.

Vocationist Corner

O Joseph, O Mary, O Jesus! O unique, true marriage of

souls, O unique true fusion of hearts, O unique true union of the life of the Holy Spirit, in the blossom of the Father, unique true image of the Di-

vine Unity and Trinity. Within you, O my Holy Family, I see the personifica-tion of humility in Saint Joseph, who unites himself

to the personification of purity in Mary, and be-tween humility and purity,

comes down from above, the personification of love in Jesus Christ!

Blessed Fr. Justin Russolillo, SDV, Spirit of Prayer, page 14

Learn more about Blessed Fr. Justin visiting the Vocationist Fathers’ website vocationistfathers.org

Dear Lord, source of all healing, cast the light of health and well-being on those who’ve been exposed to coronavirus, those who have contracted the disease, and those who may contract the disease in the future. Bless them, protect them and bring them speedily to full recovery. Bless all who are ill with healing of body, healing of soul and healing of spirit. Amen

Prayer of the Faithful The Spirit of the One who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in us, and so we pray for the needs of all. For our Church to rededicate itself to its mission of spreading the Gospel of life throughout our society and in all the world, let us pray to the Lord. For leaders in our world to uphold the value and dignity of every human life in every decision that they make, especially at this time of the Coronavirus pandemic, let us pray to the Lord. For those preparing for the Easter sacraments, espe-cially those in our midst, as they die to old ways and seek to grow in the new life that Jesus has won for them, let us pray to the Lord. For first responders and others who aid and protect our communities with their very lives, and for their families, let us pray to the Lord. For all who coax new life out of the earth each spring: for farmers, gardeners, and migrant workers, let us pray to the Lord. For all those who have died from the Coronavirus, and for all who have died this past week, that they may be raised to new life in heaven, and that their loved ones may know comfort in their grief, let us pray to the Lord. For all the prayers that we hold in the silence of our hearts; for all our intentions spoken and unspoken, let us pray to the Lord. God of abundant life, you free us from sin and death, and raise us up to new life in you. Graciously hear and grant these our prayers according to your will, through Jesus Christ our Lord. — Copyright © J. S. Paluch Co., Inc.

A well-spent life is the only passport

to heaven. —Pope Leo XIII

PRAYER

The more you devote yourself

in prayer the more you will do well

in your work. —St. John Baptist de

la Salle

THESE ARE TIMES TO PRAY Please join us in prayers of the

HOLY ROSARY ONLINE every day of the week to the quick end of the coronavirus pandemic.

Download the free app “ZOOM Cloud Meeting" on your phone or computer. You then open the app

to join us LIVE (30 minutes prayer) You will be asked the meeting number:

At 12:00 PM—Holy Rosary in English Meeting # 863-589-223

At 3:00 PM—Santo Rosario Italiano Meeting # 596-882-780

At 6:00 PM—Santo Rosario em português Meeting # 294-266-791

All are welcome Please call the rectory office if you need

assistance installing the program