NEW JERSEY’S OLDEST CATHOLIC COMMUNITY ST. JOSEPH 1765 OUR PARISH MISSION STATEMENT 250 years of faith-filled commitment distinguishes St. Joseph Parish, a Roman Catholic community located in West Milford Township in rural northern New Jersey. Lay people founded this community in 1765 and maintained it in the consistent practice of the Roman Catholic faith, thus earning it the honor of being the State’s oldest parish. Today’s parishioners, responding to the needs of the changing West Milford area, aim to develop further the lay involvement that historically characterizes St Joseph’s They accomplish this by expressing their PASTORAL STAFF and PARISH OFFICE Father Steven Shadwell ................................................................................................................. Pastor Harry White, Ben Lo Paro........................................................................................................... Deacons Sister Janet Brisky, P.B.V.M. ......................................................................................... Pastoral Associate Sister Geraldine Corio, P.B.V.M. ..................................................................... Director of Faith Formation Justine Smith ..................................................................................... Faith Formation\Baptism Assistant Pat Mattera ............................................................................... Adolescent Faith Formation Coordinator Mary Beth Ferriola....................................................................................................... Business Manager Mary O’Neill .................................................................................................................. Parish Secretary Christine Alessio.................................................................................... Director of Volunteer Ministries Camille Kluge .................................................................................................................. Youth Director Jacqueline M. Reilly .......................................................................................................... Music Director Bob Sautter......................................................................................... Buildings and Grounds Supervisor Kevin Kennedy and Diane Parisi ...................................................................................... Parish Trustees SACRAMENT OF BAPTISM Baptism arrangements are required to be made at least 2 MASS SCHEDULE Monday through Saturday ...... 9:00 am - Church Saturday evening ................... 5:00 pm - Church Sunday morning ... 7:45, 9:00 am, 12:00 Noon - Church ............... and 10:30 am - Parish Center months in advance by contacting Justine Smith at the Parish Office at 973-697-6100. Baptisms are celebrated on the first and third Sunday of each month. Families are asked to attend the 12 Noon Mass, the baptism ceremony will take place immediately following. If a Baptism Preparation class is required, the class will be assigned at HOLY DAYS Please consult the Bulletin NEW PARISHIONERS Please call the Parish Office to register, to learn PARISH OFFICE ....................... 973-697-6100 the time the baptism is scheduled. SACRAMENT OF RECONCILIATION Saturday at 3:30 pm until 4:30 pm; or, anytime anyone wishes to receive the Sacrament, please call the Parish Office to set an appointment with a priest. FAX........................................... 973-697-3716 MINISTRY TO THE SICK FAITH FORMATION… .................. 973-208-0636 anointed should call the Parish Office. If you or anyone CONVENT .......................................973-697-2846 E-MAIL .......................... [email protected] Anyone who is seriously ill or aged and wishes to be you know is in the hospital, please call the Office. WEBSITE ......................... www.stjoseph-nj.org BUSINESS HOURS MARRIAGE PREPARATION PROGRAM Monday thru Thursday ................... 9 AM - 5 PM one year before the wedding. All couples to be married Friday .......................................... 9 AM - 12 PM Saturday and Sunday .............................. Closed 454 G E R M A N T O W N R O A D Arrangements should begin by setting a date with a priest at St. Joseph’s must participate in a Marriage Preparation Program. W E S T M I L F O R D NJ 07480 ST. JOSEPH CHURCH SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2014 33RD SUNDAY OF ORDINARY TIME SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 16 10:30 AM Generations of Faith - PC 1:00 PM Generations of Faith - PC 6:30 PM Antioch Prep. - NR MONDAY, NOVEMBER 17 9:30 AM Moms Club Int’l. - KH 5:15 PM Girls CYO Basketball - PC TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 18 6:30 PM Boys CYO Basketball - PC 7:30 PM Alcoholics Anonymous - KH WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 19 7:00 PM Generations of Faith Design Team - UR 7:30 PM Boy Scouts - PC THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20 9:30 AM Moms and Tots - KH 6:30 PM Boys CYO Basketball - PC FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21 9:30 AM Kids Playgroup - KH 7:30 PM Cub Scout Pack Mtg. - PC Midnight Alcoholics Anonymous - KH SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 22 12:00 PM Girls CYO Basketball - PC 10:00 PM Alcoholics Anonymous - KH SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 23 1ST Penance Children’ s Session following 9:00am Mass - CH 1:00 PM RCIA - NR 2:00PM Boys CYO Basketball - PC 4:00 PM Zackaroff and Waddilove Wed Reh - CH 6:30 PM Decision Point - NR LECTORS FOR THE WEEKEND OF NOVEMBER 22\23 C. Alessio, V. Haggerty, D. Lastro, J.P. Parish Center: Anita EXTRAORDINARY MINISTERS OF HOLY COMMUNION FOR THE WEEKEND OF NOVEMBER 22\23 SATURDAY 5:00 PM: P. Krueger, D. SantaLucia, A. Moralishvili SUNDAY 7:45 AM: T. Mooney, C. Gensheimer, M. Smilek 9:00 AM: D. Lastro, R. & L. De Franco, E. Frew 10:30 AM: I. & C. Weiss, B. Sautter, A. Dellapi, M. B. Ferriola 12:00 PM: P. Mattera, M. Trudell, E. Peat, T. Edie, J. Galioto Any Extraordinary Minister who would like to serve one Friday a month at Chilton Hospital, please call Carolyn Gerri at 973 838-3705 or 973 934-1994. The Sacrament of Baptism Celebrating the Embrace of God 2, November 2014 Madilyn Grace Maglio Daughter of Michael and Cheryl Maglio MONDAY, NOVEMBER 17 – St. Elizabeth of Hungary, religious 9:00 AM + Fr. Robert Greco, O. Carm by Shadwell Family +Bill Nelson TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 18 – Dedication of the Basiilicas Sts. Peter and Paul, apostles; St. Rose Phillipine Duchesne, virgin 9:00 AM +Pete Casale by Karen Blumeling WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 19 9:00 AM +Stephanie Ann Driscoll THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20 9:00 AM +John Jones by Pat Jones +Jared Fisher by Fisher Family FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21 – The Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary 9:00 AM +Ed Morrison. +Marilyn Halpainy +Marjorie Ross by Pat Yannacci +Jane Dell’Osso by Pat Yannacci +Justin Patrick Harvey by Harvey Family SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 22 – St. Cecilia, virgin, martyr 9:00 AM Intention\Rachel Shadwell +Theodore J. Wenz by Adelheid Wenz 5:00 PM +Rita Wagner by Illy Family SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 23 – Solemnity Christ the King 7:45 AM +Lydia Russell by Madonna Hayes 9:00 AM +Nancy Cece +Lillian Organ by Jenifer and Tice Hettema +Corinne Delahanty by Pat Yannacci +Matthew O’Neill by Pat Yannacci 10:30 AM +Eileen Osterhaudt by Mary Flanagan +Donna Tamayne by Jennifer and Tice Hettema 12:00 PM Intention\Karen Miller, Jim Petrizzi and Family by Deacon Milt and Mary Ann Smilek +Jane Dell”Osso by Barbara and Terry Bordine OFFERING AT ST. JOSEPH’S LAST WEEKEND Budget: $6,340.00 Weekend November 8\9 Difference: $6,245.00 - $ 95.00 SMALL FAITH COMMUNITY Experience a Small Faith Community. We meet in the Upper Room on Tuesday evening for an hour to reflect on the following Sunday’s Scripture from 7:30 – 8:30 pm. Our next meeting is November 18th. Next Week: Solemnity of Christ the King 1st Reading: Ezekiel 34:11-12, 15-17 2nd Reading: 1 Corinthians:15-2-26, 28 Gospel: Matthew 25:31-46 SCRIPTURE FOCUS: Today’s description of the last judgment goes further than any other. The final judgment determines what counts in the end. It is not success or how perfectly a person has developed. In the end, the judgment is about love for the poorest, the no-accounts, the ones easy to miss. It is not about doing good or charitable things for a cause or out of a sense of duty. What counts is doing real practical good out of genuine love. Jesus tells us that when we do this, we are serving Jesus himself. LIFE FOUCS: Describe a time when helping others was your way of living this Gospel. CAN YOU HELP? Info: Sr. Janet 973-697-2846 Please leave donations in Sr. Janet’s garage. Thank you! If it’s not in this box, don’t leave it in Sister’s garage. She can’t get her car in! Needed: Straight and Narrow needs men’s and women’s winter coats spotlessly clean and on hangers all sizes up to 3X & 4X ASAP. Please leave in Sister’s garage. Also, there is an urgent need for soap, body wash, powder, deodorant and razor blades. Also need toothpaste, shampoo, Fixodent (original), and large umbrellas. If you have any current magazines: inspirational, sports, hobbies, National Geographic. Black out your name and address from the label and leave in Sister’s garage. Call Sr. Janet: If you are able to help a friend in Milford Manor with Facebook for an hour a week. Sr. Janet: Knows a college student who needs a car to get to school. Please call Sister. Call Sr. Janet: If you are willing to cook dinner for 2 people once a year. Mountain Creek: Discount season passes. Email Sr. Janet at [email protected] as soon as possible. BINGO AT MILFORD MANOR: Saturday, December 6 2:30 – 3:30pm Come 10 minutes early and stay 10 minutes late to help. Bingo prizes are needed. Sister always needs help. If you need a signature, Sr. Janet will have a pen after bingo. SPIRIT OF CHRISTMAS Help us collect gifts for those in need. Please leave donations unwrapped in Sr. Janet’s garage from December 6th – 12th. Big hits are: sweatshirts, sweat pants, hoodies, sneakers, socks, underwear, toys and games. Please call Sr. Janet if you would like to help set up on Friday, December 12th. Meet at the lower level of the convent at 7:00pm. Finish at 8:15pm. Also, help distribute on Saturday, December 13th from 9:30 – 12:30pm. ……………………………………………………….. Anniversary Passport Stickers: If you have attended one of the events and didn't get a sticker for your family passport book, stop by the rectory and pick it up. Time for Vocations… Please pray for: Deacon Giovanni Rodriguez and Seminarian Henry Pinto A Time To Serve In The Military… Please pray for: Nicholas Costello, Lt. Jamie Curcio, Jennifer Smolinski, Tom Oroho, Brian Hartigan, Mario Lanza, Kevin Canova, Alex Richnavsky, Jason Benedict, Ryan Benedict, Jonathan Greenwald, Erik Filipek, Jonathan Gabay, Matthew Lattanzi and Tara Lee Wrocklage A Time To Heal… Please pray for: Bill Atkins, Bob Weiss, John Paicer, Scott Frew, Sal Domenico, Marilyn Whritenour, Gregory Whritenour, Martha Colombo, Denise Thiel, Emily Hennessy Green, Jim Casey, Sandra Roberts, Walter Roberts, Pat Burd, Peg Misner, Margaret Fonte, Tom Pavlin, Aiden Patrick and Chase Michael Martinez A Time To Die… Please pray for: Bill Atkins, Kevin Kajor, Andrew Burkhardt and John Puzio, father of Eileen Frew Please Note: Only family members may request to have someone included in prayers for the sick. ……………………………………………………………. CHRISTMAS IS COMING ! Share a part of history … Gift your friends and family with our 250TH JUBILEE COOKBOOK, “SECRETS FROM ST. JOSEPH’S.” OVER 600 RECIPES … HARDCOVER - $20 {2 FOR $35}… Available at parish office: Mon-Thurs, 9 am to 5 pm and Fri, 9 am to 12 noon]. For mail order: Call parish office [973-697-6100]. Checks may be sent to “St Joseph Church.” Add $8 S&H. …………………………………………………………………… GIFT CARD NEWS: New in stock – Lowe’s and The Home Depot. Thank you to the 54 families that participate in the easy-breezy fundraiser! …………………………………………………………………… CHILDREN’S CHOIR Rehearsal will be on Sunday evenings from 6:00pm until 7:00pm in the church beginning on Sunday, November 16th. Children from grades from 1-8 are invited to join. We will be rehearsing for the Christmas Concert on Sunday, December 14th in the church at 3:00pm and the 4:00pm Christmas Eve Mass in the church. ………………………………………………………………….. THANKSGIVING EVE ECUMENICAL SERVICE Wednesday, November 26 at 8:00pm in Newfoundland Methodist Church on LaRue Rd. If you would like to sing in the choir be there at 7:00pm. We all have the duty to do good Pope Francis "Keep Christ in Christmas" NEW DESIGN PRE ORDER NOW! Contact Mike Heller - Grand Knight - 973728-6228 ASAP PRE Order Price - $4.00 per w/full payment. In Person Price $6.00 each or 2 for $10.00 or 3 or more for $4.00 each 11-24: Pride in our Priest Dinner 11-27: Thanksgiving (no social) 11-29: Visit w/St. Nick (cooking crew required) 12-6: Antioch Breakfast Detail (cooking crew required) 12-7: Lyon VA Hospital Visit - (Take a Catholic Vet to Mass) 12-13: K of C Christmas Party - (we need to know who's coming) 12-24: Crèche at Town Hall (men needed to be with Crèche) [email protected] in reference to all Knight of Columbus events …………………………………………………………… This year the St Joseph Cares Food Pantry anticipates providing 50 families with food for Thanksgiving dinners. In order to feed these families the food pantry needs the following holiday food items: flour, mayonnaise, stuffing, gravy, cranberry sauce, instant potatoes, sweet potatoes, yams, string beans, corn, carrots, sugar, pie crusts, pie fillings, cake mixes and frosting. Turkey donations are also needed and they can be dropped off at Koch Hall from 10-1 on Saturdays. Thanks to all for your anticipated generosity! …………………………………………………………………… ADVENT RETREAT: Wednesday, December 10th at 7:30pm in the church. ……………………………………………………….. HOLIDAY RAFFLE Raffle book are. $100.00 per book or $10.00 per ticket. 1st prize – 35%, nd rd 2 prize 10% and 3 prize 5% of proceeds. Drawing will be December 14th at our Christmas concert at 3:00pm. Tickets also available at the parish office during regular business hours. ………………………………………………… Thank you to all the scouts and parents for removing all the leaves around the parish buildings. Also, to the Knights of Columbus for clearing the gutters on all the parish buildings. We are extremely grateful for all their hard work. God bless all of you! MEMORIES OF OUR PARISH We arrived in West Milford 31 years ago, and since then we have been parishioners at our wonderful St. Joseph Church. I became Eucharistic Minister (Extraordinary Minister of Holy Communion) and our three sons became altar boys. One day we were all together serving in the 9:00am Mass, and Fr. Bernie considered that the Niederstrasser’s were organizing a “coup d’état”. When my Mom came to visit us from Mexico, Fr. Boniface enjoyed talking with her in Spanish. He always mentioned that some of his most difficult and wonderful years were when he was living in Bolivia. They became good friends and interchange always some post cards. We also have very nice memories of the Sunday Easter Mass at 7:00 am in front of the Cemetery Cross. It was nice hearing the light breeze going between the trees, and the woodpeckers looking for food. Some years we were freezing. We would love to have this service again. In between these 31 years, I got an overseas assignment for 9 years in Mexico and Brazil, but we continued as St. Joseph’s parishioners. Knowing we would come back, we kept our house with all our belongings. During all those years we never lost contact with our church. With approval from Fr. Bernie, Verna Shemanski air mailed us every Sunday the Church Bulletin, and when we came back for the holydays or home leave, the first question we got: “are you back for good?” When I retired in 2003, St. Joseph Church was one of the main reasons not to move out of West Milford and/or New Jersey. Hans Niederstrasser COMMUNITY NEWS A Positive Response to a Serious Prenatal Diagnosis More than 100,000 expectant couples each year receive the devastating news of a so-called poor prenatal diagnosis. It may be the detection of a heart defect, spina bifida, or genetic syndrome, but whatever the diagnosis, the parents are shocked and bereaved. With little or no information or resources available that support the option of carrying to term, 80% of these pregnancies end in abortion. When offered a service of comprehensive support, however, 80% of parents chose to carry to term. A ministry which will offer this comprehensive support to couples experiencing a serious prenatal diagnosis and carrying to term is being developed for North Jersey. Peer ministers and volunteers are invited to be part of this important ministry. If you have carried to term following a prenatal diagnosis consider becoming a peer minister. Interested persons who may not have experienced a serious prenatal diagnosis can volunteer to support parents in other ways such as sewing, knitting, photography. An information presentation will be given at St. Catherine of Bologna Parish Center, Ringwood on Monday November 17th at 7:30pm. Questions call Kathy Ranft 973-962-9152. For more information on this ministry see isaiahspromise.net and benotafraid.net. Young men and women go in search of a spouse full of the hope that they will encounter the right person; someone who will reciprocate the love they are desirous to share. They look for a good and gentle person who is decent and dignified, mature and marriageable, fun and faithful, beautiful inside and out. And, when any young couple proposes to marry they enter a period (usually a year) of intense preparations for the wedding day. They also begin to look past the wedding day into their future as husband and wife. They ask themselves many things and seek to answer together many questions: where will we live; how soon children; who will handle what in the keeping of the home or finances; how often will we allow your mother to visit; and many other such queries. They do this because they naturally recognize that marriage is more than beautiful gowns and crisp tuxedos. As the First Reading accurately proclaimed: “Charm is deceptive and beauty fleeting.” (Proverbs 31) Life is much beauty and fun, but much work also. Daily living (cleaning, cooking, bills, etc.) needs to be attended to regularly if the long term goal of a happy life together as husband and wife is to be obtained. Today’s liturgy is asking us to take the search for a spouse and the proposal of marrying them to the level of the eternal: to God. So it is that our first reading today extols the good wife; but in the context of the liturgy we are called to move beyond a ‘literal only’ meaning. In truth, the good wife extolled in today’s First Reading is symbolic of the bride of every soul – the Church. “When one finds a worthy wife, her value is far beyond pearls,” opens Proverbs 31. There are many hearts looking for this worthy wife. They imagine her as a world of peace and justice, a world without pain or suffering, an eternal dwelling, a forever of wellbeing. Few they are who find her and most settle for less (an unhappy marriage indeed) and many give up the search. Perhaps though we who have found the Church, we who partake of her heavenly food, we who drink so freely and liberally from her fountain of eternal life have forgotten how gracious and beautiful our Bride is. Perhaps we have forgotten that “her value is far beyond pearls.” “Her husband, entrusting his heart to her, has an unfailing prize.” We are, each and every one of us, the husband of our bride the Church. Yet, do we entrust our hearts to her. A young husband cannot wait to return home from work to be with his new bride. Sunday Mass is our return home from the work week. And yet, how many of us are too caught up at the office to even bother coming home. How many of us barely share our presence let alone our hearts with our Heavenly Bride. We never tell her what weighs our hearts down (confession); she prepares her rich food and choice wine at the banquet of the Eucharist but we complain how insipid is the Sunday meal because our hearts are far from our actions; she reads to us from her love letter [the Sacred Scriptures] but our hearts’ ears are closed to her voice by the many other voices we have grown to prefer; she pours out the sacred balm of her Sacraments to heal and comfort us but we prefer our wounds. Is being a member of the Roman Catholic Church for us “an unfailing prize?” John, at the end of Revelation wrote this about the Church: “Come I will show you the Bride, the wife of the Lamb.” And in the Spirit he showed me the holy city Jerusalem coming down out of heaven from God, having the glory of God, its radiance like a most rare jewel…And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and on them the twelve names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb…it had a great high wall, with twelve gates, and on the gates the names of the twelve tribes of the sons of Israel…and the street of the city was pure gold, transparent as glass...And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband…and God himself will be with them; he will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning nor crying nor pain anymore.” Is this the vision we have of our bride the Church? Do we value her far beyond pearls? Is she our unfailing prize? If so, then why do we not entrust our hearts to her?
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