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Church of the Sacred Heart
751 Main Avenue
Bay Head, New Jersey
(732) 899-1398
Fax # (732) 899-2233
Website: www.sacredheartbayhead.com
E-mail: [email protected]
Fourth Sunday of Advent
December 21, 2014
Staff:
Rev. Michael O’Connor ([email protected])
James A. Lacey, Deacon([email protected])
Silverius Galvan,Deacon([email protected])
Weekend Celebrants:
Fr. Paul Engel, O.F.M. Cap.
Fr. Kevin P. Ashe
Masses:
Saturday: 5:15 PM
Sunday: 8:00AM, 9:15AM and 11:00 AM
Confessions:
Saturday 4:30 to 5:00 PM
Other occasions as announced.
Marriages: (Registered Parishioners only)
Please notify the rectory as soon as the decision to
marry has been made. There is a prescribed
preparation program of one year.
Baptisms are held on the first and third Sunday of
each month. Please contact the Parish Office to
make arrangements as early as possible.
Sick Calls: At any time.
Religious Education Sunday morning Grades 1-8
10:15 AM—11:30 AM.
Rectory Office Hours:
Monday through Friday 9:00 AM to 2:00 PM
DECEMBER 20th/21st
FOURTH SUNDAY OF ADVENT
Saturday, December 20, Vigil Mass
5:15 PM
Deacon Jim Tobin
Father Michael` From Family
Sunday, December 21
8:00 AM
Adele Boraczek
Father Paul
From the O’Connell Family
Special Intention
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Pellerito
From Mary Knapp
9:15 AM
June Pierce and Family
Father Michael From Family
Patricia Wittenberg
From Lynn Krohn and Lilly and Chuck
11:00 AM
Elvie Masuelli
Father Kevin
From Masuelli Family
Kennedy and Vanderspurt Family
From Tom Vanderspurt
Monday, December 22
8:30 AM
Michael Scott
From Dawn Rusinko
Jack Olsen
From Arthur and Gail Condon
Tuesday, December 23. St. John of Kanty
8:30 AM
Richard Wohrmann
From Parents
Wednesday, December 24
8:30 AM
For Our Parishioners
Wednesday, December 24, Christmas Eve Masses
4:00 PM
June and Jess Pierce and Family
Father Michael From Family
6:00 PM
For Our Children—Santa Claus will
Father Kevin
be present and give out a gift.
Thursday, December 25, The Nativity of the Lord
8:00 AM
For Our Parishioners
Father Paul
9:15 AM
Deceased Members Gordon Family
Father Paul
From Family
11:00 AM
Lois Neil-Sambar
Father Michael From Dr. and Mrs. Pieter Ketelaar
Friday, December 26, St. Stephen
8:30 AM
Lucy Tacchino
Dolores Roach 20th Anniversary
From Ann and Michael Kelly
Saturday, December 27, St. John
8:30 AM
Patricia Marrocco Wittenberg
From the R.J. Mawe Family
BAPTISMAL PREPARATION
MEETING
Our next Baptismal Preparation Session will be on
Monday, February 2, 7PM in the Parish Hall. To register, please call the parish office at 732-899-1398.
All families who have not attended a prior class are
requested to attend and are asked to invite godparents.
NEXT WEEKEND
DECEMBER 27th/28th
THE HOLY FAMILY OF JESUS,
MARY AND JOSEPH
Saturday, December 27, Vigil Mass
5:15 PM
Edward and Susan Cupoli
Father Kevin
From Family
Thomas Dunne
From Nancy Wrynn
Sunday, December 28
8:00 AM
Thomas White
Father Paul
From Wife Gilda
Genevieve Kuska
From Marie and Bob Hull
9:15 AM
Peg Getcliffe
Father Paul
From Mr. and Mrs. R. Sitko
Patricia Wittenberg
From Susan Schwer
11:00AM
Roger Jennings
Father Michael From Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Braker
Michael Marino
From Vincent and Joann Marino
Wedding Anniversary Blessing for Couples
Celebrating December Anniversaries
ALTAR CANDLES
DECEMBER 20-26
Frank Vasaturo at the request of Anne and Michael Kelly.
SACRED HEART CHURCH
Daily Mass:
Monday—Saturday
8:30 AM
Vigil Mass:
Saturday
5:15 PM
Sunday Mass:
8:00 AM, 9:15 AM and 11:00 AM
Eucharistic
First Friday of month
9:00M
Adoration:
Confession:
Saturday
4:30PM
Baptismal
1st Monday of Month
7:00 PM
Preparation Class
Rosary
Before the 8:30 AM Daily Mass
Respect Life
Last Thursday of month 3:30PM
WEEKLY COLLECTION
BULLETINS SENT TO PRODUCTIN EARLY.
NO COLLECTION TOTALS AVAILABLE.
Please remember Sacred Heart in your
Last Will and Testament.
Thank you for your support of
Our parish.
MERRY CHRISTMAS
ONE SOLITARY LIFE
The priests and staff of Sacred Heart Church wish all our
parishioners, their families and guests a very Merry Christmas
and Happy New Year. May God bless you all for your
kindness and dedication to our Church.
He was born in an obscure village, the child of a peasant
woman. He grew up in still another village where he worked
in a carpenter shop until he was thirty. Then for more than
three years he was an itinerant preacher. He never wrote a
book. He never held office. He never visited a big city. He
never traveled two hundred miles from the place where he
was born. He did not have the things one usually associates
with greatness. He had no credentials but himself. He was
only thirty-three when the tide of public opinion turned
against him. His friends ran away. He was turned over to his
enemies and went through a mockery of a trial. He was nailed
to a cross between two thieves. While he was dying, his
executioners gambled for his clothing, the only property he
had on earth. When he was dead, he was laid in a borrowed
grave through the pity of a friend. Nineteen centuries have
come and gone and today he is the central figure of the human
race and the leader of mankind’s progress. All the armies that
ever marched, all the navies that ever sailed, all the
parliaments that ever sat, all the kings that ever reigned, put
together have not affected the life on man on earth as much as
that ONE SOLITARY LIFE.
TREASURES FROM OUR TRADITION
By the year 800, when anointing was defined as the proper
office of priests, very complicated rituals began to take shape.
Perhaps this was to reassure the laity, who had memories of
an earlier practice, that the new way was not only better, but
impossible for a layperson to conduct. Blessings and
sprinkling of holy water, the singing of as many as seven
psalms, penance, anointing of all the senses, viaticum, all
capped off by the clothing of the sick person in penitential
garments, were part of the rite. This proved unwieldy, and
creative spirits got to work. By the 1500s people made
distinctions between visiting the sick, anointing, and
viaticum. The attempt of the Church to be faithful to the
image of a healing Christ has some complicated history,
including centuries when the celebration was rare. Most sick
people had no access to the rites at all; only monastics or the
well-off had much hope of this care. Today, those unhappy
days are long behind us, and the care of the sick is an
essential task in every parish’s life. As Christmas approaches
almost everyone comes in contact with someone who is a
candidate for pastoral care. You live out the best of our
tradition when you arrange for a sick person to receive Holy
Communion or the sacrament of the sick and the consolation
of regular contact with the faith community.
CHRISTMAS FLOWERS
If you would like to make a donation towards the purchase of
our Christmas flowers, trees, etc., there are offering envelopes
at Church doors. Please complete form and return to the
collection basket or the parish office. Thank you for helping
us decorate our Church as we prepare for the Birth of Christ.
CHRISTMAS
A young mother, her eyes shining with fatigue, who is
arranging her hair; a father who finds himself alone with his
pretty wife and baby, straightening the stable to make himself
useful in some way; shepherds who bring cheese and perhaps
also some curdled milk; sheep who look at their shepherds
while bleating; a donkey who is eying his manger changed
into a cradle; an adorable swaddled baby whom one calls
Savior, Christ and LORD: this is the manifestation of the
goodness and the tenderness of God. This is the most fantastic
birth in the history of humanity, the one which changed the
face of the world! This is how far God humbled and
compromised himself with us! This is Emmanuel!
NEW YEAR’S DAY
FELOWSHIP DINNER
Will be held January 1, 2015, 1-3PM in our Church Hall. We
really need your help. Volunteers and donations of cooked
turkeys, hams, stuffing, mashed potatoes, vegetables are
needed. Contact Maureen Vanderspurt at 732-725-6876 or
[email protected] and tell us what you’ll be able to cook
for this important community event. Donations to help defray
the cost of the dinner are also appreciated. Make checks
payable to Sacred Heart Church with New Year’s Dinner in
the memo and mail 751 Main Ave., Bay Head 08742 or leave
in collection baskets. NEW THIS YEAR—CHICO’S is
helping us. During the week of December 26th—31st, if you
mention Sacred Heart Church when purchasing a chic item at
the Sea Girt Rt. 35 store, CHICO’S will donate 10% of that
purchase price towards the Dinner. So ladies go and buy
yourself something fabulous and help us help others! Thank
you very much for your support of this annual Fellowship
Dinner.
ST. GREGORY’S PANTRY
Pantry closed December 25th and 26th.
Christmas Dinner Open House at Pt. Pleasant Presbyterian
Church December 25th, 1-4PM
WEDDING ANNIVERSARY BLESSING
For couples celebrating December wedding anniversaries will
be held Sunday, December 28th at the 11AM Mass.
GOD OF LOVE, AND LIFE
FATHER, SON AND HOLY SPIRIT
YOUR CHRISTMAS GIFT TO
YOUR PARISH
In his book Conversion: Reflections on Life and Faith, Father
James Turro writes “Birds are meant to fly. They have wings
and just the right form to soar and glide. Yet they cannot
leave the ground without one more thing—a current of air
they cannot fly in a vacuum.
Christmas is the season when, according to customs, gifts are
given and exchanged as a sign of gratitude and love. This
sharing is an appreciation to loved ones and friends for sharing their lives with us and giving of themselves in so many
different ways throughout the year. For us gift-giving has
special significance because at Christmas we celebrate the
giving of the greatest gift of all, Jesus Christ, the Incarnate
Son of God. No gift ever given or received can parallel the
gift of God’s Divine Son, Mary’s boy child, Jesus Christ, who
was born on Christmas Day.
“Just as birds are meant to fly, we are meant to live forever in
happiness. But as much as we have a passion for it we cannot
do it ourselves. We must have an assist from God.”
“Christmas is the celebration of God giving us just the lift
we need to realize our destiny. The word is flesh, and now
God is the air beneath our wings”.
Comments? E-mail the
[email protected].
Respect
Life
Committee
This year we hope you will forgive us for anticipating your
generosity so that we can meet the last outstanding obligation
of $56,038.00 to the Diocese of Trenton.
at
SACRED HEART HOLY NAME
50/50 LOTTERY
CONFESSION SCHEDULE
Monday, December 22nd 7:00 PM
Tuesday, December 23rd, 9:00 AM
Win $500.00 or more in Sacred Heart’s Holy Name Society
50/50cash lottery. The monthly drawing is held the 3rd
Tuesday of each month. $60.00 gives you (12) chances, one
per month. Make your check payable to Sacred Heart H.N.
Society, complete the form below and return to the parish
office at 751 Main Avenue, Bay Head, 08742. New members
are welcome. Thank you very much for all who support our
lottery.
NAME___________________________________________
ADDRESS________________________________________
TELEPHONE
NUMBER_________________________________________
AMOUNT_________________________________________
BREAKFAST CLUB
Perhaps you have experienced the loss of a loved one, a
home, a pet or “something else important to you.” A loss is a
loss that needs to be dealt with. The Club meets the 2nd and
4th Saturday of each month at 9AM in the Church Hall
kitchen for one hour of “coffee and” as we share our
experiences in dealing and handling such issues. No
reservation, fee or commitment is necessary. To anyone,
young, old, male or female, dealing with such issues you are
welcome to come in and see if you might derive any benefits
from the gathering. We are not simply a bereavement support
group that deals solely with the loss of a loved one but rather
a group of people who are dealing with a loss of any kind. For
more information please call Doris Czarnecki at 732-6045429 or [email protected]., or Jack Genz at 732-458-5691
or [email protected].
CHRISTMAS EVE MASSES
December 24th
4:00 PM and 6:00 PM
CHRISTMAS DAY MASSES
December 25th
8:00 AM, 9:15 AM and 11:00 AM
NEW YEAR’S EVE MASS
December 31st
5:15 PM
NEW YEAR’S DAY MASS
January 1st
8:30 AM
THANK YOU
We can certainly call you friends because of the way you care
for our retired members,” writes a religious brother. Your gift
to last week’s collection for the retirement Fund for Religious
benefits some 35,000 senior sisters, brothers, and religious
order priests May God bless you for your generosity!
BIG AMBITION
Give up your small ambitions; come with me to save the
world.
DECEMBER 21st
FOURTH SUNDAY OF ADVENT
ECHOING MARY’S DECISION—The angel Gabriel today
confronts Mary with a mystery. The mystery of salvation in
Christ is not a mystery that is solved, but a reality beyond our
comprehension that we must chose to enter into. In the liturgy
of the Eastern Church, everyone waits to see if Mary will enter
into the mystery; God waits. Adam and Eve and all the souls of
the dead who long for paradise wait, angels wait for new heavenly companions. And there is much rejoicing when her decision is “yes”. We have less dramatic choices offered to us, but
the mystery of our salvation in Christ is by no means “solved.”
W may understand it a bit better due to Mary’s “yes.” We may
be a bit closer to it through the passion, death, and resurrection
of Jesus Christ. But is still remains a mystery to which we all
must give our own “yes.” Soon we will be singing “O come, let
us adore him. May our Advent prayer, our echo of Mary’s
“yes,” continue then so we may enter into the mystery of our
salvation in Jesus Christ, God among us.
CHRISTMAS IN THE HEART
Christmas! Tis the season for kindling the fire of hospitality in
the hall, the genial fire of charity in the heart.
TODAY’S READINGS
First Reading—I will fix a place for my people.
(2 Samuel 7:1-5, 8B-12, 14a 16).
Second Reading—To the only wise God, through Jesus Christ,
be glory forever and ever
(Romans 16:25-27).
Gospel—Behold, I am the handmaid of the Lord. May it be
done to me according to your word
(Luke 1:26-38).
SAINTS AND
SPECIAL OBSERVANCES
Sunday:
Fourth Sunday of Advent
Tuesday:
St. John of Kanty
Wednesday:
The Vigil of Christmas
Thursday:
The Nativity of the Lord
Friday:
St. Stephen
First Day of Kwanza
Saturday:
St. John
INFORMATION SHEET
CHURCH NAME AND ADDRESS
511533 Sacred Heart
751 Main Avenue, Bay Head NJ 08742
PHONE
732-899-1398
CONTACT PERSON
Barbara Guttenberg
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