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ST.
CHURCH
ST. PETER’S
PETER’S CHURCH
——AARoman
Community——
RomanCatholic
Catholic Parish
Parish Community
Belleville
Belleville
155
155William
William Street
Street
Founded
1837
Founded 1837
New
07109
New Jersey
Jersey 07109
Served By
Pastor:
Fr. Ivan Sciberras
Parochial Vicar:
Fr. Wojciech B. Jaskowiak
In Residence:
Fr. Giovanni Rizzo
Deacons:
Mr. Julio Roig
Mr. Guillermo J. Valladares
Elementary School Principal:
Mrs. Phyllis A. Sisco
Parish Catechetical Coordinator: Mrs. Lisa A. Melillo
Director of Music:
Parish Secretary:
Business Manager:
Parish Trustees:
Mr. John Christian Colaneri
Sr. Vilma Orejola, FLP
Mrs. Linda Mako a
Mrs. Nancy Adessa
Mr. Thaddeus Rajnes
Pastoral Council President:
Mr. Gary Hinton
We invite You to Celebrate the Eucharist
The Lord’s Day: Saturday Eve: 5:30 p.m.
Sunday: 7, 8:30 10, 11:30 a.m.,
1 p.m. Spanish
Weekdays:
Monday to Friday:
9:00 a.m.
Monday, Wednesday, Friday
7:00 p.m.
(Evening Mass in the Retreat House Chapel)
Saturday:
8:00 a.m.
Infant Baptism
Sacraments for the Sick/Homebound
Anointing: Anytime upon request in the home of the sick.
Communion: A Priest, Deacon or Eucharistic Minister of the
parish will bring Holy Communion to those parishioners
confined to home. Please notify the Rectory when someone is ill
or admitted to the hospital.
St. Peter’s Cemetery
For information about acquiring a plot, or to make a donation to
our Cemetery Perpetual Care Fund, please contact Mrs. Linda
Mako a at the Rectory.
Novena
Spanish - Second Sunday of each month at 2:30 p.m.
English - Fourth Sunday of each month at 2:30 p.m.
Parents must register by calling the Rectory at least one month in
advance. Baptism Instruction held the week before the Baptism.
Proposed godparent/s need to be living in accordance to the
teachings of the Catholic Church, and are asked to attend the
Baptism Instruction along with the child’s parents.
Teaching the Good News
St. Peter Elementary School - Pre K through 8
http://www.stpeter-school.org
Sacrament of Reconciliation
Saturday: 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. or anytime at the Rectory upon
an appointment with a priest.
Christian Marriage
The couple should contact a parish priest or deacon one year
before the desired date for the marriage to ensure proper
preparation for the Sacrament. Couples are not to make FIRM
plans for the reception PRIOR to speaking with a parish priest or
deacon.
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Easter Sunday † April 5, 2015
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April 5, 2015
Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ,
Jesus Christ is Risen! He is Truly Risen! Alleluia!
Today we join our Mother the Church in celebrating with great joy the Resurrection of our Lord. After living though the Season of Lent and meditated on the suffering and death of her Lord during Holy
Week, the Church is today bathe in glory as She celebrates the event which makes it possible for Her
to exist and which She has never ceased to announce throughout the last two millenia.
The joy of Easter will be celebrated for the next ϐifty days (till Pentecost Sunday – May 24th). And
since the enormity of Easter Sunday cannot ϐit in one day, the Church celebrates the ϐirst eight days of
Easter (called the Octave, spanning from today till next Sunday) as one long day of celebration. Easter Week will culminate in another celebration taking place next Sunday. As the Apostle Thomas urges us in the earliest liturgical document
in existence, the Apostolic Constitutions, “After eight days [following the
Feast of Easter] let there be another
feast observed with honor, the eighth
day itself, on which he gave me, Thomas,
who was hard of belief, full assurance,
by showing me the print of the nails and
the wound made in His side by the
spear.” This instruction was reiterated
by Christ Himself to St. Faustina
Kowalska when He asked her to promote
the devotion to the Divine Mercy.
It was Saint John Paul II who instituted this feast for the Universal Church in the year 2000. So it was
seen as a sign from heaven that this great Pope left this world to go to the House of the Father on the
Vigil of the Feast of Divine Mercy in 2005. The Holy Father Emeritus Benedict XVI aptly reminded us
that “The Feast of Mercy is not a ‘party for devotees’ but rather a very special refuge for sinners.”
Please plan on joining us for the Divine Mercy Holy Hour next Sunday from 2PM to 3PM in our
Parish Church, where we will pray the Divine Chaplet in Spanish, Vietnamese and then in English,
and will conclude with Solemn Benediction soon after 3PM.
There is also another matter I would like to address here: it seems to me that we ϐind it hard to
rejoice and celebrate. While attendance at Mass spikes during the Lenten Season and great
crowds converge on our Churches during Holy Week, we easily go back to our regular routine as
soon as Easter Sunday is over. This cannot be further away from the thought of the Church, who
gives us these ϐifty days of celebrating after we lived through the forty days of Lent. It would be
very appropriate, therefore, to seek to attend Mass during this coming week. With St. Paul, we
would be able to poke death when he exclaims, “Death, where is your victory; O death, where is
your sting?” (1 Cor 15:55). And like the early Christian we would greet one another with these
powerful words, “He is truly risen, Alleluia.”
I would also like to take this occasion to congratulate the large number of brothers and sisters
who were baptized during last night’s Easter Vigil. A special word of welcome to those who made
the decision to seek baptism as adults. May they, together with the many young people and children who were baptized into Christ last night, continue to journey with us, and may be a light in
the world’s darkness, which will draw many others to discover the love of the Father. May they
also know of our joy to have them partake of the Holy Eucharist with us!
A blessed Easter Season to all,
Fr. Ivan Sciberras
[email protected]
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FINANCE
03-22-2015
03-22-2015
5th Sunday of Lent Collection
Assessment Collection
$ 5,394
$ 1,955
Due to early transmittal of today’s bulletin the
collection amount for March 29th will be announced
in the April 12th bulletin.
PLEASE REMEMBER TO MAKE YOUR PLEDGE
TO THE 2015 SHARING GOD’S BLESSINGS
ANNUAL APPEAL
Happy Easter to All! Thank you to the many generous
parishioners who have supported the 2015 Annual Appeal, which began just before Lent. During Lent, we are
all challenged to grow in prayer, to fast, and to give alms
in anticipation of this great Easter season!
Your generosity to the Annual Appeal allows
Catholics and non-Catholics alike throughout our four
counties in New Jersey the opportunity to encounter the
Risen Christ. Thousands of people are served annually
by the Archdiocese of Newark through various programs
and ministries funded by the Appeal. Our parish also
benefits by receiving a rebate from the appeal if it exceeds its goal.
Goal:
Pledges Received:
Under (Under) Goal:
Number of Donors:
MONTHLY HOLY HOUR
$30,630
$16,860
($13,770)
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Please be sure to watch this year’s Annual Appeal video online at www.rcan.org/sharing to see
firsthand the impact that YOUR gift makes.
If you have not made your gift; we encourage
you to consider Sharing God’s Blessings. Thank you
again for your generosity and Happy Easter!
To learn more about the ministries of the Archdiocese of Newark, please visit www.rcan.org/sharing,
like us on facebook at ‘Roman Catholic Archdiocese of
Newark’ or tweet us at @NwkArchdiocese!
SPECIAL WEDDING
ANNIVERSARY LITURGIES
There will be two special Masses celebrating milestone years for married couples. The Archbishop will
celebrate Mass:
April 19, 2015 - 3 pm for couples celebrating
50 years of Christian marriage or more years.
May 3, 2015 - 3 pm for couples who
are celebrating 25 and 5 years of marriage.
Both liturgies are at the Cathedral Basilica and couples need to register with Sr. Vilma (973-751-2002) in
order to receive certificates. Registration is due on
April 8th for 50 years and April 22nd for 25 & 5 years.
We will have Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament
immediately following the 5:30 pm Mass on April
11, 2015 in the main Church. The Holy Hour will end
with Benediction at 7:30 pm. Perhaps you could plan on
spending some time before the Blessed Sacrament and receive His peace and love in your heart.
Please join us on Sunday April 12, 2015 for a Holy
Hour which begins with the
Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament right after the Mass in
Spanish.
The Divine Mercy
Chaplet will be prayed at 2:00
p.m. in Spanish followed by
Vietnamese and English.
We conclude with
Benediction right after 3:00
p.m.
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SAINT PETER’S THIS WEEK
MONDAY, April 6
Saturday, April 4
8:00 -Mario Gencarelli, rq Bombina & Gencarelli Family
-Fr. Mark O’Connell, rq The Cowley Family
Sunday, April 5
7:00 Elizabeth & Walter Heyl, rq James F. Begans
8:30
Serritella & Sorice Family, rq Mr. & Mrs. Sal Sorice
10:00 Lois J. Nejman, rq Nejman & Daniels Family
10:15 11:30 Denise Neilan, rq Rajnes Family
1:00
Eleodoro Herrera, rq Elizabeth Egoavil
Monday, April 6
9:00 Wenceslao Buot, rq Sentina Family
7:00 Paul Nguyen, rq Roan Nguyen
Tuesday, April 7
9:00 Robert Freitag, rq Irene Freitag
Wednesday, April 8
9:00 Maria Nguyen, rq Nguyen Family
7:00 For the Intentions of Bill & Lorraine Plank
(59th Wedding Anniversary) rq Laurie Flores
Thursday, April 9
9:00 Lorraine Lipesky, rq Joe & Donna Tafro
Friday, April 11
9:00 In Thanksgiving to St. Anthony,
rq Sandra Rodriguez
7:00 All Souls, rq Nguyen Family
Saturday, April 11
8 :00 Daniel Sullivan, rq Peg & Dan
5:30 Val Nucci (15th Anniversary),
rq Wife, Judy & V.J & Vincent
Sunday, April 12
7:00 Jennie Orsogno, rq Daughters, Tina, Betty & Anne
8:30
For the Parishioners of St. Peters, rq Anonymous
10:00 Fr. Mark O’Connell, rq Anne Traflet
11:30 Helen & Bill Gilroy, rq Bloom Family
1:00
For the intentions of Juliet & Arielle Davila,
rq Marcela Davila
School Closed—Easter Recess
8:00-9:00 pm Clases De Religion, Jovenes y Adultos,
Casa de Retiro
TUESDAY, April 7
School Closed—Easter Recess
7:00-8:15 pm Confirmation Class, School
WEDNESDAY, April 8
School Closed—Easter Recess
7:30 pm
Neo-Catechumenal Way, School Annex
8:00 pm
Vietnamese Prayer Group, Chapel
THURSDAY, April 9
School Closed—Easter Recess
7:00 pm
Bible Class, RMR 1
7:30 pm
Legion of Mary, RMR 3
7:30 pm
Youth Group (Jovenes Creyentes),
Church Basement
FRIDAY, April 10
School Closed—Easter Recess
Jovenes Creyentes Retreat, Retreat House
7:00 pm
NA Support Group, Church Basement
7:30 pm
John XXIII—Couples Classes, Cafeteria
SATURDAY, April 11
Jovenes Creyentes Retreat, Retreat House
9:00 am
First Communion Class, RMR 3
1:00 pm
Confession, Church
6:30 pm
Holy Hour, Church
7:30 pm
Neo Catechumenal Way, School Annex
SUNDAY, April 12
Jovenes Creyentes Retreat, Retreat House
8:30 - 9:45 am CCD Class, School
10 am & 1 pm Children Liturgy of the Word, Church
10:00 am
RCIA Formational Session, RMR 1, 2, & 3
2:00 pm
Divine Mercy Holy Hour, Church
4:00 pm
Jovenes Creyentes Mass, Church
The CHURCH SANCTUARY LAMP will
burn the week beginning April 5th in
loving memories of Samuel, Isabella &
Anna M. Troiano at the request their
daughter and sister, Rose.
General Intention: That people may learn to respect
creation and care for it as a gift of God.
Missionary Intention: That persecuted Christians may
feel the consoling presence of the Risen Lord and the
solidarity of all the Church.
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Saint Peter School
forming the future with
Purpose, Passion and Power!
READINGS FOR THE WEEK
Monday:
Tuesday:
FROM THE PRINCIPAL’S DESK. . .
As Catholic school students our children are
privileged to journey with Jesus. During Holy Week they
walked the Way of the Cross as our seventh graders presented the Stations of the Cross. Our students commemorated Holy Thursday with a special service and
with the help of Father Wojciech. Later, the students reenacted the Last Supper in their classrooms.
Lent provides the Catholic educator with an opportunity to utilize this unique season as a valuable
teaching tool. The story of the life and death of Jesus is
filled with powerful elements which pique the curiosity
of even our littlest angels. Easter is about more than
bunnies and candy. The children are introduced to the
celebration of new life in the spring. As they grow older
they will relate this awakening of nature to the new life
Jesus brings to us in the Resurrection. Our students
learn a very important concept of our faith; we are an
Easter people.
May the Risen Lord bless you and your families during
this season of hope and renewal. Happy Easter! Alleluia!
“Do not abandon your lives to despair. We are
the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.” Pope John
Paul II
Wednesday:
Thursday:
Friday:
Saturday:
Sunday:
Acts 2:14, 22-33; Ps 16:1-2a, 5, 7-11;
Mt 28:8-15
Acts 2:36-41; Ps 33:4-5, 18-20, 22;
Jn 20:11-18
Acts 3:1-10; Ps 105:1-4, 6-9; Lk 24:13-35
Acts 3:11-26; Ps 8:2ab, 5-9; Lk 24:35-48
Acts 4:1-12; Ps 118:1-2, 4, 22-27a;
Jn 21:1-14
Acts 4:13-21; Ps 118:1, 14-15ab, 16-21;
Mk 16:9-15
Acts 4:32-35; Ps 118:2-4, 13-15, 22-24;
1 Jn 5:1-6; Jn 20:19-31
Interested in Baptism, First Communion, and
Confirmation as an Adult or Adolescent?
If you are an adult and have not yet received the
sacraments of Baptism, Confirmation or Eucharist, there will
be a Rite of Christian Initiation Inquiry Session on
this Thursday, April 21st at 8 pm in Rectory Meeting
Room #2 (enter through the back of the Rectory). At
this meeting you will be able to find out about our program.
This meeting is also for non-Catholics who would like to
become Catholics. If you have any questions, please call Sr.
Vilma at the rectory (973-751-2002).
ACTIVITIES IN THE AREA
THE SCHOLARSHIP FUND
FOR INNER-CITY CHILDREN
The Scholarship Fund for Inner-City Children invites
you to apply for a partial-tuition scholarship for your child for
the 2015-2016 school year. Applications are available by visiting
their website at www.sficnj.org. Partial-tuition scholarship are
awarded based on financial need without regard to race, religion
or ethnicity. The deadline to submit your completed application
is April 15, 2015.
Being a current scholarship recipient does not guarantee an automatic scholarship award for the 2015-2016 school
year. Current recipients as well as all new applicants must submit a completed application every year along with $30 application fee and the required financial documentation. In addition,
all previous financial award amounts are not guaranteed and can
be changed from year to year.
All applicants will be notified of their decision on or
before May 29, 2015.
The 28th Annual Liturgy for Those Who have lost a
Child will be held on Friday, May 8, 2015 at 7:30 PM at
Notre Dame RC Church, 359 Central Avenue, North
Caldwell. All parents who have suffered the death of a
child of any age are invited to attend with their families
and friends. A personal witness will also be offered as
the name of each child is read during the Mass. Preregistration is requested by calling the Family Life Office
at 973-497-4327.
OLMC Pilgrimage
The Women's Auxiliary of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Church,
Nutley is considering a spring pilgrimage/trip to the National Shrine of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel, Middletown,
NY. A minimum of 30 passengers is required to secure a
bus. For additional information or to make a reservation
contact Linda (973) 661-0090 or [email protected].
2015 Pilgrimage To Canada
August 24th to 28th
$570.00 Per Person -- PASSPORT REQUIRED
Join Fr. Archie L. Mabini, Parochial Vicar and Deacon Stephen Rodack of Sacred Heart Church, Lyndhurst, NJ. For further information, please call Deacon Stephen at 201-935-0750.
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AN EASTER REFLECTION
(Taken from Fr. Roberto Crooker, CSB's book, "Our Lady's Sabbath")
I've read your book now, Luke, and even though you asked me to correct or amplify those parts about the days before my son began to teach and
preach in Galilee, not one word of it would I change. But oh, the memories it
stirred! I never tire of thinking back on all he did and said, and weighing it anew
within my heart. Even the things that you had learned from me came to me
with new force. A case in point: I told you when we found him in the Temple,
we did not understand, Joseph and I, the word he spoke to us, how he must be
about his Father's business; but now it seems to me that everything he said was
full of deeper meanings than we grasped, and only on the Last Day shall we
know all that he meant.
You know Elizabeth said to me at our visit, "Blest is she who has believed." The more I think on that, the plainer it becomes that my belief is dearer
than my motherhood itself. (You also wrote how Jesus told that woman, the
one who called the womb that bore him happy, that happier are they who hear
God's word and keep it.) True indeed it was that day the Mighty One had done
great things for me, but greater yet are those he has done since, although in
ways so hidden and sublime no human words can tell, even to one so docile to his Spirit as are you.
And so it was, my thoughts turned as I read to something that you scarcely touched upon: the Sabbathwhen my son lay in the tomb (of which you say no more than that we kept the rest according to the Law's
command). That was the day the Spirit poured on me such gifts of faith and hope as to surpass, if such may be,
the very ones he gave at Pentecost in tongues of holy fire.
When we had buried Jesus' body, John insisted that I not go to my home, but come to spend the Sabbath
rest with him. We said but little to each other there, and if we sought to speak our voices failed. And yet, for all
the grief that pierced my heart that night, there was a certitude and peace beyond expression that I would have
shared with him, so desolate he seemed, had I but found the words. (My son himself was much like that the
day that Joseph died: we sat, he held my hand, we wept together, yet almost nothing did he find to say. I wondered, later, that he chose to speak so much to Martha at her brother's tomb, more than to me at Joseph's death but then my Joseph has to wait for the Last Day to rise, and so the case was not the same.)
Mary and Martha had, of course, told me the words he spoke as he prepared to call their brother from his
grave, especially that phrase so deeply graven in their minds: "I am the resurrection and the life."
It was those very words that came to me the afternoon I stood and watched him die: I asked within myself, as
once I had to Gabriel long before, "How can this be?" The answer was the same: with God all things are possible.
So, as I sat next day, and weighed these words again within my heart, even amid the darkness and the pain they
seemed to me most certain, and my soul did magnify my Savior God the more.
Do not misunderstand: I knew not then just how it all would happen on the morrow. But when they went
with spices to the tomb, I sensed within that it would not be right for me to go along and seek him there. In all the
wild confusion of that day, I stayed at John's, and while they dashed about with half-believed reports that he was
risen, he came himself to share with me his joy and let me glimpse the blessed, glorious light that radiated from
his precious wounds.
Yet even then, I somehow could not touch: he spoke to me as through some mystic veil that hung between the mortal and the Risen. (It was the same, I later heard, with Mary of Magdala, who met him in the garden
beside the tomb.) When afterwards they told of how he made poor Thomas feel his hands and side, I wondered
why it was that I, who bore him in my womb and at my breast had nurtured him, was not allowed to touch, and
others were. I've pondered that, and now I see a reason for it: the Apostles are sent to tell the world what they
have heard and seen and touched, but I was called to be perfect disciple, steadfast in belief even that day when he
who is called "Rock" was shaken, and had first to be restored before he could confirm his brothers' faith. Thus
even in his rising he has left his mother here to walk by faith, not sight, until he shall return to take her home. It
will not be much longer now, I think, before I share his glory to the full and drink with great delight the joys that
he prepares for me.
The Sabbath is not kept, these days, the way it was when I was young: my son himself was never strict on
that the way my parents were, and now, of course, his followers prefer to celebrate the first day of the week,
to mark the day when he arose triumphant over death. I know that this is right; yet all the same I love to keep the
holy rest each week, and recollect with awe and thankfulness the graces of that blest but dreadful
day when I, alone unshaken, held within my heart the faith of God's new Israel.
SECCIÓN HISPANA
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HORAS SANTAS EN LA FIESTA
DE LA DIVINA MISERICORDIA
Acompanenos en la Hora Santa el
Domingo Abril 12 (2PM-3PM)
Comienza con la Exposicion del
Santisimo apenas termina la Misa
Hispana.
Rezamos la Coronilla de la Divina
Misericordia a las 2 p.m. en espanol y
despues en Vietnamita y Ingles.
T e rmi n a m os c o n l a
Sacramental a las 3 p.m.
B e n di ci on
RETIRO
DE JOVENES DE LA DIVINA M ISERICORDIA
Parroquia de Saint Peter, Belleville, NJ
DIOS NOS CONOCE PLENAMENTE
TE INVITAMOS: A este encuentro de jovenes
de 14 a 17 años, hombres y mujeres.
EXPOSICION DEL SANTISIMO
Fecha de Retiro: 10, 11 y 12 de Abril de 2015
Lugar: Casa de Retiros Juan XXIII, Parroquia St. Peter
Direccion: 149 William St., Belleville, NJ
Costo: $60
Informes: Rectoria/Fr. Wojciech: 973-751-2002
Nancy Portillo: 201-898-7354
Juan Quinones: 973-901-2231
La Hora Santa Mensual tendrá lugar el sábado 11 de
Abril, empezando inmediatamente después de la misa
de las 5:30 p.m. y terminando con la Bendición Solemne
a las 7:30 p.m. ¿Por qué no venir a pasar una hora de
silencio y tranquilidad con el Señor en la Eucaristía?
LECTURAS DE LA SEMANA
Lunes:
Interesado en el Bautismo,
Primera Comunión y Confirmación
como un adulto o adolescente?
Si usted es un adulto y todavía no ha recibido
los sacramentos del Bautismo, la Confirmación y Eucaristía, tendremos una sesión de preguntas sobre el Rito
de Iniciación a la fe Cristiana este Jueves, 21 de abril a
las 8 pm en la rectoría sala de reuniones #2 (entrada
por la parte posterior de la Rectoría). En esta reunión,
usted podrá averiguar sobre nuestro programa. Esta
reunión es también para los no católicos que deseen
convertirse a la fe católica. Si tiene alguna pregunta,
por favor comuníquese con la Sr. Vilma en la rectoría
(973-751-2002).
Hch 2:14, 22-33; Sal 16 (15):1-2a, 5, 7-11;
Mt 28:8-15
Martes:
Hch 2:36-41; Sal 33 (32):4-5, 18-20, 22;
Jn 20:11-18
Miércoles: Hch 3:1-10; Sal 105 (104):1-4, 6-9;
Lc 24:13-35
Jueves:
Hch 3:11-26; Sal 8:2ab, 5-9; Lc 24:35-48
Viernes:
Hch 4:1-12; Sal 118 (117):1-2, 4, 22-27a;
Jn 21:1-14
Sábado:
Hch 4:13-21; Sal 118 (117):1, 14-15ab,
16-21; Mc 16:9-15
Domingo: Hch 4:32-35; Sal 118 (117):2-4, 13-15,
22-24; 1 Jn 5:1-6; Jn 20:19-31