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December 28, 2014
St. Michael’s Parish Community
We Are Stewards of God’s Gifts, Time and Treasure To Build Up The Kingdom
ADDRESS:
SACRAMENT OF PENANCE
1212 Kelly Street • Union, NJ 07083
Saturday
TELEPHONES:
PASTORAL CARE OF THE SICK
Notify a priest of all who are hospitalized or home
bound. Emergencies at any time.
Rectory/Parish Center: 908-688-1232
Rectory/Parish Center fax: 908-810-1076
School:
908-688-1063
Convent:
908-686-3839
Religious Education Office: 908-964-0965
Youth Ministry Office: 908-686-3762
Email Address: [email protected]
Website: http://stmichaelunion.org
PASTORAL STAFF
Rev. Charles B. McDermott, Pastor
Rev. Ranulfo D. Docabo, Parochial Vicar
Fr. Emmanuel Agu, Parochial Vicar
Rev. Ward P. Moore, In Residence
Rev. Matthias T. Conva, Pastor Emeritus
Mrs. Antoinette Telle, Principal
Mrs. Marilynn Dragone, Coordinator of Religious Education
Mr. Philip Matrale, Pastoral Associate for Youth Ministry
Mr. Peter Petrecca, Music Director
MASS
Sundays:
Daily:
Saturday:
Holy Days:
5:30PM(Saturday Evening)
7:30, 9:00, 10:30AM, 12:00 Noon
Monday thru Friday 7:00, 8:30AM
8:30AM
Announced in the bulletin
1:00-2:00PM
SACRAMENT OF BAPTISM
The Parish initiates new members on the 2nd Sunday of the
month, at 1:30PM, by arrangement. Instruction is on the
Friday evening prior to the baptism, at 7:30PM.
SACRAMENT OF MARRIAGE
Preparations for Christian Marriage begin one year prior to
planned date of the wedding. Couples should contact one of
the priests.
SACRAMENT OF HOLY ORDERS
Contact the Vocations Office of the Archdiocese of Newark
at 973-497-4365.
ORDER OF CHRISTIAN INITIATION OF ADULTS
Adults interested in becoming a member of the Catholic
Church and Catholics who are in need of the Sacraments of
Confirmation and/or Eucharist are welcome to inquire by
calling the Parish Center.
CHRISTIAN FORMATION:
St. Michael’s School: An environment for growth in faith,
values and knowledge, pre K-8. For further information, call
the School Office.
Religious Education: a program of religious instruction,
grades 1-8. For further information please call the Religious
Education Office.
YOUTH MINISTRY
A comprehensive youth program for all teens from 9th to
12th grade. Our program promotes growth in Catholic values and morals, provides opportunities for Christian service
and offers positive social activities. For further information
call the Youth Ministry Office.
PARISH MEMBERSHIP
Every Family in the Parish should be registered.
People who need to register, please call the
Parish Center for information.
The Holy Family of Jesus, Mary and Joseph
St. Michael The Archangel Church, Union, New Jersey
We are all destined to live in families: Jesus was no
exception. Jesus’ family, like most of ours was not a family
of great privilege. They fulfilled the ritual requirements of
Judaism and returned to their simple lives in Nazareth.
There, we can presume, they followed the sometimes difficult
call to honor, love and respect one another … just like us.
HOLY FAMILY
SCHEDULE OF MASSES
Saturday
5:30 PM
Sunday
7:30 AM
9:00 AM
10:30 AM
12:00 Noon
Monday
7:00 AM
8:30 AM
Tuesday
7:00 AM
8:30 AM
Wednesday
7:00 AM
8:30 AM
5:30 PM
Thursday
9:00 AM
12:00 Noon
Friday
9:00 AM
Saturday
8:30 AM
5:30 PM
Sunday
7:30 AM
9:00 AM
10:30 AM
12:00 Noon
December 27 & 28, 2014
December 27
Francis & Claire Gillick
December 28
For the Parishioners
Gerardo Crincoli
Jose Masaoy (Living)
Frankie & Modessa Espana (Living)
20th Wedding Anniversary
December 29
Novena of Masses
Joseph Paulose Veliakath
December 30
Frankie & Modesa Espana (Living)
20th Wedding Anniversary
Harold Gillick
December 31
Novena of Masses
Deceased Members of the Sipe, Arnaldo,
Lacson & Jalandoni Families
Jose Arnaldo
January 1
Jesus Alvero
Russell & Eileen Eklund
January 2
June Scholz
January 3
Novena of Masses
Vito Volpe
January 4
For the Parishioners
George L. Keckeisen Sr.
Donato, Elizabeth & Joe Pacicco
Rhuel Resureccion
Sir 3:2-6, 12-14 We are to honor our parents.
Psalm 128 Blessed are those who fear the Lord and walk I
his ways.
Col 3:12-21 Live in love and peace with one another in
Jesus’ name.
Luke 2:22-40 The favor of God is upon Jesus, presented in
the temple.
DECEASED RELATIVES AND FRIENDS
Please remember in your prayers all those who have died
especially members of St. Michael’s Parish.
NOVENA OF MASSES DECEMBER 2014
Albert & Venera Costible
Mary Russomanno
Ann L. Corrigan
Ingrid Caldwell
John P. Hynes & Irene C. Hynes Chester Ghiretti
Vincent A. DiBisceglie
John Mahon
Carmen Stewart
Jose Arnaldo
Mercedes & Yolanda Escudero
Albert H. Salls
Norman Escudero
Rico Roque
Pierre & Rubinetti Families
Franl Rubinetti
Michael Scolamiero
George Rinehart
James Ford, Sr.
Edward L. Shea
Joan Trump
Special Intentions
Gertrude & Vincent Bushwell
Frank Pettesch
Manuel Ramos (Living)
Special Intentions
Franzeres Goncalves
Eugene Fabio, Jr.
Vivian Provilon (Living)
Belen Schanssema
Thomas Verdom
Margaret Daum
Michelene Kmetz
Betsy Locsin
Gregory Emezuom
Lucy Emechete
Amedeo & Caroline Solemine & Josie Solemine
George & Adele Gaglioti (Living)
Lenny Schillizzi, Sr & Lenny Schillizzi, Jr.
Alfred David Jr., Joseph, Mildred, Anthony Cicalese
Living & Deceased Members of the Czapla & Leniart
Families
Living & Deceased Members of the Milana, Crosby, Doman,
Vricella, Scanlon & Matthiack Families
Living & Deceased Members of the Orlando, Landolphi,
Siciliano & LaManna Families
Living & Deceased Members of the Cerami, Kalkus, Tobia
& Vellanti Families
Living & Deceased Members of the Malone, Ur &
DiMarco Families
ALTAR OFFERINGS
The Altar Bread & Altar Wine are offered for St. Michael’s
Parishioners.
The Sanctuary Lamp is offered for Mario Spalliero,
requested by the Jascur Family.
THE 2015 MASS BOOK IS NOW
OPEN. PLEASE COME BY THE
PARISH CENTER, 1211 ORANGE
AVENUE TO RESERVE YOUR
DATES.
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St. Michael The Archangel Church, Union, New Jersey
December 27 & 28, 2014
SICK RELATIVES AND FRIENDS
Please remember in your prayers all those who are sick especially Fr.
Lawrence Murphy, Marie Patania, Louise A. Del Russo, Dominick
Vellanti, Gail Patania, John Canfield, Frank Egan, Cheryl & Victor
Graziano, Dorothy & Henry Sohl, Josefina Alferez, Angelina
Gunshore, Luz Jereza, Eugene Dellare, Vincent Sabetino, Debra Ann
Castiglione, Emily Cilento, Bernadette Perna, Marylou Morales, Bill
Votapek, Manuel Alvero, Wieska Nnoli, Pat Scalgione, Joanne
Kalkus, Terry & Tony Russo, Cathy Dehner, Victoria Alao, Liza
Narciso, Rosa Ferreira, Phyllis Doreen, Jessie Versoza, Antonio
Sonera, Emma Alcantara, Mario San Diego, Michael Gorde, Corazon
Almeda, Jessica Piano Petti, Francis Martin Romano, Steven Riola
Antoinette Czapla, Marianne Hunt O’Malley, Richard Epifanio,
Rosario Raffa, Carmella Capone, Jean Kinney, Artie Ondish, Marie
Cwiklinski, Dorothy Gavura, Geroge Martinez, Irene Didyk, John
Twaddle, Antonette DiMuzio, David Tucker, Leyla Tosun, Brian
Meade, Daisy Diaz, Angela & Joseph Martino, Ruth Little, Jayne
Fabre, Joanne Milana Doman & Joseph Doman, Robert Heimall,
Stacy Porter, Mario San Diego, Jean Nazaire, Edward Feola, Grace
Plaza, Vincenza Sutera, Barbara Dittemer, Janneth Alferez, Maria
Schmid, Heath Family, Brian James, Eusebia Lamboy, Shem
Bingham, Kathleen Massa, Manuel Ramos, Edward Grohl, Dinorah
Valle, Stanley Sipe, Donna Milano DiGiorgio, Reynaldo Garcia,
Mary Manco, Ray Isacsson, Jeannine Rose, Aida Aguirre, Timothy
Lindsy & Christian Heimall.
WEEKLY SCHEDULE
Sunday
December 28
9:00 AM
RCIA Meeting, LC
No Religious Education
Monday
December 29
8:00 AM
Rosary, Church
No Religious Education
Tuesday
December 30
8:00 AM
Rosary, Church
No Religious Education
No CYO
Wednesday
December 31
New Year’s Eve
Parish Center Closed
8:00 AM
Rosary, Church
Thursday
January 1
New Year’s Day Day
Parish Center Closed
8:00 AM
Rosary, Church
Friday
January 2
8:00 AM
Rosary, Church
Saturday
January 3
8:00 AM
Rosary, Church
1:00 PM
Confession
Sunday
January 4
9:00 AM
RCIA Meeting, LC
9:00 AM
Children’s Liturgy of the Word
Mass, Church
10:15-11:30 AM
Religious Education
Anyone who would like someone to be put on the sick list,
please contact the parish center. The names will be left on
for one month, unless notified otherwise.
WEEKLY COLLECTION
Actual
SOS
Total
Budget
Difference
50/50 RAFFLE
Please buy your tickets after all the masses.
50/50 raffle tickets are sold after each Mass.
Cost of the ticket is $5.00 each.
1st Prize – 35 % of the proceeds
2nd Prize – 10% of the proceeds
3rd Prize – 5% of the proceeds
Week of
12/14/2014
$ 9,137
$ 5,158
$ 14,295
$ 15,228
($
993)
Children’s Collection
Yr. to Date
7/1/-12/14/2014
$ 196,888
$ 70,611
$ 267,499
$ 282,230
($ 14,731)
$
246
Your generosity is essential to the continuation of our
parish’s mission to spread the Gospel.
Raffle tickets will be sold after every mass.
Religious Education Department will be selling the 50/50
Raffle tickets for the month of December. Thank you.
“SOS COLLECTION” On the first weekend of
each month, we have an “SOS” collection at all
masses. This collection will be dedicated especially
for our utility bills. Please make your greater
donation to the “SOS” rather than the regular
collection this week. The next SOS collection is
this weekend of January 3 & 4.
ST. VINCENT DE PAUL DONATIONS
Thanks to your faithful donations to the St. Vincent
de Paul Fund, St. Michael’s has been able to make
the following donations:
St. John’s Soup Kitchen
$1,500
St. Joseph Social Service Center
$1,500
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St. Michael The Archangel Church, Union, New Jersey
December 27 & 28, 2014
The staff of the Religious Education Office
wish you and yours a Happy New Year!
Marilynn Dragone, Tatiana Arrieta & Lois Scanio
ATTENTION CCD TEACHERS & FAMILIES:
There are no Religious Education classes during
Christmas week and New Year's week. Classes
will resume on Sunday, January 4, 2015. The
Religious Education Office will close on Tuesday,
December 23rd and will reopen on Monday,
January 5, 20l5.
FIRST
COMMUNION
STUDENTS
REMINDER: Eucharist Preparation Mass #2 is
the weekend of December 10th at all Masses with
the exception of the 7:30 a.m. Mass. Children will
be called to the altar to receive a bible.
CHILDREN’S LITURGY OF THE WORD will
be held Sunday, January 4th, at the 9:00 a.m. Mass.
Special “THANK YOUS” to Mr. Erwin Argonza
and the Adult and Children’s Choir for their gift of
song on Christmas Eve, to Patricia Badiola, pianist
and to the Children’s Liturgy of the Word
Committee for their assistance at the Christmas Eve
Liturgy.
A NEW YEAR'S PRAYER
May God make your year a happy one!
Not by shielding you from all sorrows and pain.
But by strengthening you to bear it, as it comes;
Not by making your path easy,
But by making you sturdy to travel any path;
Not by taking hardships from you,
But by taking fear from your heart;
Not by granting you unbroken sunshine,
But by keeping your face bright, even in the shadows;
Not by making your life always pleasant,
But by showing you when people and their causes need you most,
and by making you anxious to be there to help.
God's love, peace, hop and job to you for the year ahead
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St. Michael The Archangel Church, Union, New Jersey
December 27 & 28, 2014
ALTAR SERVERS’ SCHEDULE
Time
5:30pm
7:30am
9:00am
10:30am
12:00nn
Dec. 27-28
Feast of the Holy Family
1.Clarina Kunnath
2.Joseph Veliakath
3.Jenelle Baul
4.Angel Rodriguez
Dec. 31- Jan 1
Motherhood of Mary
1.Alyssa Dela Cruz
2.Joseph Veliakath
3.Jenelle Baul
4.Angel Rodriguez
1.Jarlene Estopia
2.Chika Adibemma
3.Uzonna Adibemma
4.Ugochi Adibemma
1.Tiago Torres
2.Desi Garcia
3.Giovanna Garcia
4.Aidan Perez
1.Freneta Amalraj
2.Johnruel Magno
3.Jianna Fernandez
4.Jerome Fernandez
1.Julia Durugo
2.Justin Durugo
3.Charles Ozurumba
4.Ginika Ozurumba
Computers
Gym
Art
Music
Spanish
1.Joshua Estoque
2.Paschal Nwako
3.Jed Iglesia
4.Lorenz Tangub
These past 2 weeks we have had Christmas Celebrations
with the disabled children of the ARC, cookedand
served dinner to our friends at the Quadriplegic Center
and served dinner to the residents of the Nursing Home.
Our members did an amazing job of spreading Christ’s
love and Christmas cheer at all these service projects.
Our members really came through at our “Santa In Blue”
toy collection as we collected over 180 brand new toys
for needy children. (and these were good toys too!)
Special thanks to our seniors who drove all the toys to
the Police Station
STUDENT OF THE MONTH
Angelina Quiwa PKB
Zoei Fogle
KB
Wiktor Silwa
1B
Mitshelah Florestal 2B
Isabella Villanueva 3B
Jazmin Delos Santos4B
Janai Campbell
5B
Jayden Mathurin 6B
Mary Kate Morales 7B
Elexis Lovelace
1.Joshua Laube
2.Freneta Amalraj
3.Nathan Felix
4.Meegan Felx
1.Nickdy Auguste
2.Alyssa Dela Cruz
3.Michael Durugo
4.Obie Melie
ST. MICHAEL’S SCHOOL NEWS
PKA
KA
1A
2A
3A
4A
5A
6A
7A
8A
1.Clarina Kunnath
2.Geri Kunnath
3.Jenelle Baul
4.Angel Rodriguez
1.Jarlene Estopia
2.Ifeanyi Adibemma
3. Uzonna Adibemma
4. Chika Adibemma
1.Julia Durugo
2.Justin Durugo
3.Obie Melie
4.Chike Melie
1.Lorenz Tangub
2.Jed Iglesia
3.Ginika Ozurumba
4.Marc Pereira
Jan. 3-4
The Epiphany of the
Lord
Dylan Kassim
Gabrielle Aguinaldo
Sofia Sanisidro
Livia Barbosa
Anwulika Ifejika
Caitlin Wong
Natalie Aguiar
Ethen Horrobin
Sandy Zhang
Stephanie Aguinaldo
Max Collucci/Aeryn Perez
Winnie Chen
Gianna Goncalves
Brea Henderson
Congratulations to Makayla Devlin a St. Michael’s School Alumni
and a present senior of Roselle Catholic High School. She has
recently been honored by the Archdiocesan Youth Discipleship
Committee. Makayla was one of the two seniors in her class to
receive this award. She has earned this award by answering the call to
discipleship through outstanding service to family, community,
school and parish. Makayla has truly shown her service to God and
our community.
CYO/Youth Ministry News
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St. Michael The Archangel Church, Union, New Jersey
December 27 & 28, 2014
Calling all parishioners
from Africa
The St. Michael Parish is in the process of collating contact information of
our African parishioners. This information will be used to send out
invitations to future events and celebrations that will take place in our
parish.
Please fill out the form below and submit to the parish center or drop off
in the basket in the vestibule.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------NAME:
______________________________________
EMAIL:
______________________________________
You can also opt to send an email to:
Mrs. Chinyere Odoemene @ [email protected]
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