Saint Joseph ROMAN CATHOLIC Church
973-383-1985
fifteenth Sunday in ordinary time - July 14, 2019
Schedule of Masses Weekdays: Monday-Friday at 12:05pm
Weekends: Saturday (Sunday Vigil) at 5:00pm Sunday at 8:00am, 9:30am, 11:30am
Sacrament of reconciliation Saturday at 4:00-4:30pm or by appointment
Our Parish Family is Served By
Weekly Mass Intentions
Father ST Sutton, Pastor
973-383-1985 - [email protected]
Father Alexander Londono, Migrant Ministry Fr. [email protected]
Father Edward Davey, Pastor Emeritus
Deacon Thomas Zayac, Deacon [email protected]
Karen Glowatski, Office Administrator 973-383-1985 - [email protected]
Doreen Zimmerman, Administrative Assistant 973-383-1985 - [email protected]
Christine Shell, Director of Food Pantry 973-383-1985 - [email protected]
Kelly Lynch, Director of Music Ministry [email protected]
Sharon Eltzholtz, Bulletin Assistant [email protected]
Robert Lasser, Finance Administrator 973-383-1985
TRUSTEES OF THE PARISH Dorothy Bosi, George Hayek
and Gerard Woodring
fifteenth Sunday in ordinary time - july 14, 2019
The Sanctuary Lamp, which burns near the Tabernacle as a reminder of our Lord’s presence in the Most Holy Eucharist, burns this week in loving memory of:
And the hosts and wine, which will become the Holy
Body and Precious Blood of our Lord, were given
in loving memory of:
Weekly Remembrance
May they now be resting in the peace of the Lord’s heavenly kingdom!
Let us pray for all those in our parish family in need of the
Lord’s healing hand, especially:
Gary Arvary, Ron Ayers, Gene Belcher, Bill Bender, Fred Bender, Egon Berninger, Donald
Charette, Louise Crann, Father Angelus Croce, Cecilia DeFeo, Alex DeMartino, Derya Demirtas, Jennifer
DiNardo, John Fedash, Anthony Flora, Linda Flynn, Theresa Fusco, Monsignor Mark Giordani, John Greed, Joy Grenewicz, Suzanne Hammond, Finnuala Hanifan, Jessica & Hannah Joseph, Susan Kadar, Jessica Kirby,
Kerri Knight, Stanley Kozlowski, Valerie Landell, Shirley Lavin, Elaine LeFever, Bill Matulewicz, Joe Mazzarella,
Deirdre Metzger, Jake Michael Miraldi, Virginia Morville, Mike Palumbo, Matthew Parsons, Cheryl Piritz, Michael
Porfido, James Proulx, Joan Riccardi, Alexia Russ, George Scarpa, Crystal Siro, Francis Siro, Ben Sellitto, Ernest Sprague, Gloria Steets, Evelyn Strauss, Joni Strauss,
John Taschler & Rita Zimich.
May the Lord continue to bless them with health in mind and body.
“Oremus Pro Invicem”
Saturday 7/13 5:00pm Grace McDonald Stella Lulewicz
Sunday July 14th
Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
8:00am
9:30am
11:30am
Eugene & JoAnn Williams Tricia Heide Ford
Salvatore Consentino Kevin Herrmann Anne Savacool Lexi Faye Intentions of Father Thomas Petrillo
Monday 7/15 12:05pm Amado Dazo
Tuesday 7/16 12:05pm Olga Campbell Samuel
Wednesday 7/17 12:05pm Marge “Cherub” LaRosa
Thursday 7/18 12:05pm Helen Dunn Patricia Fitzpatrick
Friday 7/19 12:05pm Robert Figel
Saturday 7/20 5:00pm Shawn Ostendorf Alexander & Dorothy Partyka
Sunday July 21st
Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
8:00am
9:30am
11:30am
Anne Savacool James C. Whitaker
Anne Lundgren Mary Pidane Nicholas Marino Protection of babies in the womb
PARISH WEEKEND DONATIONS
This week’s events
July 7, 2019
Collection $7,110 Online Giving $1,011
Total: $8,121
No More Second Collections $185
Weekend Mass attendance: 559
We still are so close to our weekly goal of $10,000!
“The Lord loves a cheerful giver.” - 2 Corinthians 9:6
Sunday, July 14
10:30am Hospitality (Community Center)
7:00pm Boy Scouts Medal (School Library)
Monday, July 15
7:00pm Spanish Mass (Church)
8:30pm Migrant Ministry Dinner (Community Center)
Wednesday, July 17
10:00am Prayer Shawl Ministry (Parish Center)
Thursday, July 18
1:00pm Legion of Mary (Parish Center)
July 21, 2019
Genesis 18:1-10a Colossians 1:24-28
Saint Luke 10:38-42
Weekend readings
Thrift shop
Are you interested in serving your parish family in the capacity of being on the Parish Council?
The Parish Council Members have completed their three (3) year term. They may choose to run again, but will need to be re-elected. We are looking for new and fresh faces to help assist the pastor in the “on-goings” of the parish and offer their opinions and input. There will be 10 elected spaces and 2 appointed spaces.
Purpose: To assist the pastor in his leadership role of planning, organizing, initiating, promoting, coordinating and reviewing the evangelization, worship, Faith Formation and service activities within the parish.
Objectives: To assess adequately the needs of the whole parish and its members, and to develop and implement a pastoral plan which will promote the common good of the parish.
To foster unity and a sense of community in the parish and to coordinate all parish activities in a manner that will best serve the interests of the parish.
If you think you might be interested in being put on this year’s ballot for the parish to vote on, please email your name to Father ST at [email protected] or call the Parish Center at: 973.383.1985.
Thank you for your continued
desire to serve your parish family.
Adoration of the Most Blessed
Sacrament will be suspended for the summer months of July and August.
With so many people away
during these months, the attendance at First Friday
Adoration has not been sufficient to continue during the summer.
We will resume Adoration after
Labor Day on Friday, September 6th.
adoration
Parish council
The Father Michael J. Burke Thrift Shop, (now located across the street from the church at 17 Halsted Street) is having it’s Annual Summer bag sale from July 11th - August 3rd. Fill a bag for $4.00. We are also having a Christmas in July sale on all Christmas merchandise (Christmas items are not included in the bag sale). The shop hours are Thursdays and Fridays from 10:00am to 4:00pm and Saturdays from 9:30am to 12:30pm.
Please stop by for a wonderful
shopping experience!
Food pantry
Extra Time on your hands?
Volunteers needed
Do you have extra time in your day? Please consider volunteering at our:
Thrift Shop Morning or afternoon shifts of 3 hours.
Shifts are 10:00am until 1:00pm or 1:00-4:00pm
We are open Thursdays and Fridays from 10:00am until 4:00pm
and Saturdays 9:30am until 12:30pm
Sacred (+) Linens The washing and ironing of the
sacred linens used at the altar (every 3 months).
There are so many ways to help Saint Mother Teresa Food Pantry. Our parish family has been so generous with the variety of groceries we receive every week. We still receive calls from parishioners wondering how else they could help. The answer is COUPONS if you have time and receive a newspaper on Sundays cut those coupons and put them in an envelope with your grocery donation. We shop for the food pantry once a month looking for sales and the coupons will help us save more money and would enable us to get different items. This week our food pantry could use the following items: Depends for women (L and XL), paper towels, toilet paper, deodorant for men and women, shampoo and conditioner for men and women, tissues, jar spaghetti sauce (all varieties), salad dressings, mayonnaise, tuna fish, can chicken, instant oatmeal (all flavors), juice boxes, tea, coffee, sweet cereals and cookies.
Remember to look for those sales!!!!!
Thank you for your continued support of this important ministry
in your parish family.
Summer Office hours
The Parish Center Office will close at noon
on Fridays during the months
of July and August,
beginning Friday,
July 12th through
Friday, August 30th.
VOLUNTEERS NEEDED FOR ALL MASSES
ALTAR SERVERS Must be going into 4th Grade this fall and older.
READERS & EXTRAORDINARY MINISTERS OF HOLY COMMUNION
Requirements: - Must be Confirmed - Must attend Church regularly (every Sunday) - Must be a registered parishioner - Must not be excommunicated by the Church
NAME: ____________________________________ PHONE: __________________________ EMAIL: MINISTRY:_________________________________
Ministry schedules
We are preparing the new schedule for September, October and November for Eucharistic Ministers, Readers and Altar Servers. Please call the Parish Center by August 2nd with any dates which you are unavailable during these months. If you are able to serve at another Mass time please call the office and let us know.
Who is Venerable Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen?
In addition to being pressured to leave television, Bishop Sheen also “Found himself unwelcomed in the churches of New York City. Spellman cancelled Sheen’s annual Good Friday sermons at Saint Patrick Cathedral and discouraged clergy from befriending the Bishop.” Bishop Sheen had become “Persona non grata” in the Archdiocese. Nonetheless, being a man of great faith and forgiveness, Bishop Sheen never spoke publicly about his maltreatment at the hands of Cardinal Spellman but only referenced in passing to his “trials both inside and outside the Church.”
Unfortunately for Bishop Sheen, Cardinal Spellman made good on his threat as his much watched television series was not renewed and the Bishop was transferred to a small diocese in Upstate New York, which Cardinal Spellman and others referred to as an “Ecclesiastical Siberia.”
While serving in Rochester, he created the Sheen Ecumenical Housing Foundation and spent some of his energy on political activities such as his denunciation of the VietNam War. In 1967, Bishop Sheen decided to give one of the buildings of Saint Bridget Parish to the Federal Housing and Urban Development Program which was to be used for black Americans. There was a protest and an argument with the pastor who stated “There is enough empty property around without taking the church and the school.” The deal fell ultimately through.
On October 15, 1969, one month after celebrating his 50th Anniversary as a priest, Bishop Sheen resigned from his position and was then appointed Archbishop of the titular See of Newport, Wales. Archbishop Sheen continued writing over seventy-three (73) books, many articles and columns. During his visit to Saint Patrick Cathedral on October 2, 1979, Pope John Paul II embraced Sheen and stated “You have written and spoken well of the Lord Jesus Christ. You are a loyal son of the Church.”
An interesting note to put in your warehouse of useless knowledge. The actor Ramon Gerard Antonio Estevez adopted the stage name of “Martin Sheen” partly in admiration of Fulton J. Sheen.
Finally, as if this story could not get any more incredulous, most recently, the Cardinal Archbishop of New York, Cardinal Timothy Dolan, who has spent a million dollars in legal fees over three years in order to block the transfer of Archbishop Sheen’s body where it lay in rest in the crypt of Saint Patrick Cathedral in New York to Peoria, Illinois. And my question is why? (which I have not found a logical answer). Nonetheless, most recently, the Archdiocese of New York lost its multiple attempts at keeping Archbishop Sheen’s body in New York as they were ordered to release his body this week to his 94 year old niece Joan. Interestingly enough, the Archdiocese made this move at 5:00am in the morning in which His Eminence was not present either dur-ing the removal or the transfer of Archbishop Sheen’s body (which he was highly criticized by many online). Additionally, Cardinal Dolan ordered a “media blackout” so that no cameras or video would be present.
I share with you all of this information so you can know the background of the legacy and life of Peter John “Fulton” Sheen. A man that was not only gifted with the ability to teach, preach and heal, but also a holy man that was raised in the life of prejudice, injustice, maltreatment, bias and revenge, unfortunately, all at the hands of “holy” men of God called “Your Eminence,” “Your Excellency” and “Father!”
God help the Venerable Fulton J. Sheen’s cause for canonization and do not be afraid to pray through his intercession for a miracle. Who knows, your miracle could be the final one that is needed to make him a saint!
“You must remember to love people and use things, rather than to love things
and use people.” -Fulton J. Sheen
Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen was born Peter John Sheen on May 8, 1895 and died on December 9, 1979. He was ordained a priest for the Diocese of Peoria on September 20, 1919 and ordained
an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of New York on June 11, 1951. He was then named the Bishop of Rochester, New York on October 21, 1966 (until October 6, 1969). After his resignation, he was raised to the rank of Archbishop of titular See of Newport, Wales which gave him a new title of Archbishop and allowed him to continue his philanthropic works, writing and giving conferences.
He was on the Catholic Hour on NBC from 1930-1950 before moving to television presenting Life is Worth Living (1951-1957). The Archbishop’s final show was The Fulton Sheen Program (1961-1968).
The cause for his canonization was officially opened in 2002 and in June 2012, Pope Benedict XVI officially recognized a decree from the Congregation for the Causes of Saints stated that he lived a life of “heroic virtues” which is a major step towards beatification and he is now referred to as “Venerable.” On July 5, 2019, Pope Francis approved a miracle that occurred through the intercession of Archbishop Sheen, clearing the way to his beatification.
Peter John Sheen was born in El Paso, Illinois, the oldest of four (4) sons of Newton (imagine) and Delia Sheen. His parents were of Irish decent, tracing their roots back to Croghan County Roscommon, Connacht. Fulton was his mother’s maiden name and he was baptized as Peter John. As a young child, Peter John contracted tuberculosis. After his family moved to Peoria, Illinois, Peter John served as an altar boy at the Cathedral of Saint Mary.
Graduating as the valedictorian at Spalding Institute in Peoria in 1913, he went on to be educated at Saint Viator College in Bourbonnais, Kankakee County, Illinois. He attended Saint Paul Seminary in Minnesota before his ordination on September 20, 1919. Peter John earned a Doctorate of Philosophy at the Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium in 1923. And in 1924, he traveled to Rome where he earned a Sacred Theology Doctorate at the Pontificium Collegium Internationale Angelicum (the future Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas, commonly referred to as the “Angelicum”).
As with all things in the Church, there is always another side of the truth as to why things happen the way they do. I have often wondered why Bishop Sheen resigned in the middle of a very popular career and as my paternal grandmother always taught me, “follow the money.”
According to the forward from Archbishop Sheen’s autobiography, Treasure in Clay, EWTN Catholic journalist Raymond Arroyo wrote why Sheen “retired” from hosting Life is Worth Living at the height of its popularity when over thirty (30) million viewers and listeners tuned in each and every week. “It was widely believed that Cardinal Spellman drove Sheen off the air.” He continued: “In the late 1950’s the government donated millions of dollars’ worth of powdered milk to the Archdiocese of New York (then under the leadership of Cardinal Francis Spellman). In turn, His Eminence turned over the milk over to the Society for the Propagation of the Faith (which Bishop Sheen was the Director at that time) to distribute to the poor all over the world. Bishop Sheen was demanded to pay millions of dollars to the Archdiocese. Despite the powerful hand of Cardinal Spellman in New York, as well as in the Vatican, Bishop Sheen refused to pay.
Cardinal Spellman took Bishop Sheen and the entire matter directly to Pope Pius XII. Unfortunately, for Spellman, the pope sided with Bishop Sheen as he learned directly from President Eisenhower that the surplus aid had indeed been donated by the United States government to the Church free of charge. We learned that Cardinal Spellman later confronted Bishop Sheen stating: “I will get even with you. It may take me six months or ten years, but everyone will know what you are like.” Bishop Sheen responded: “Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius!”
Pop tabs 2019 Sussex county fair
The Columbiettes are
pleased to report that
our contributions of
POP TABS to support
the Ronald McDonald
House has exceeded
our previous total. This year we collected 95
pounds of TABS. If you were wondering, it takes
approximately 1,430 TABS to equal one pound!
When you do the math, we have donated 135,850
TABS!!
The funds generated from recycling the aluminum
TABS help offset the Ronald McDonald House
expenses.
The Ronald McDonald House serves families whose
children require care at an area hospital by offering
them a homelike atmosphere where they can get
the rest and renewal, they need to be most
supportive of their sick or injured child. Guests stay
at the House regardless of their ability to pay the
requested $10.00 per night donation. The fee is
waived over 80% of the time. However, although
the House has an increasing occupancy rate each
year, the requested donation does not cover the
actual $60.00 per night per room expense of
maintaining the House. Therefore, philanthropic
support to generate additional funds necessary to
cover the House expenses is essential.
You can support the Ronald McDonald House by
collecting the little TABS you pull to open a soda,
soup, pet food, beer or other aluminum cans.
If you have TABS that you want to
donate for the cause, please contact,
Pam Raynor at 862-268-5210, and
she will gladly collect the TABS from
you.
During the week of August 2nd through 11th, the Don Bosco Council, Knights of Columbus,
will sponsor a Food Booth at th0 2019 Sussex County Fair.
This is an annual event to raise funds for various Charities in Sussex County.
Anyone interested in helping at the Knights Food Booth, please contact John Holzli
at 973-383-6061 or at [email protected]
or Jerry Woodring at 973-383-0450. Volunteers must be at least 14 years old and be available to work at least a 6 hour shift.
All parishioners are asked to visit
and support the Knights of Columbus Food Booth at the Fair.
Come and enjoy great food
and support our Knights!
Blood drive
Thank you to June's Blood donors and volunteers: we collected 69 units of blood.
God Bless You! We need Blood donations. NOW! Be a Blood Donor at Saint Kateri’s next Blood Drive on Saturday, July 20th from 7:45am to 1:45pm.
Eligible blood donors are between the ages of 17 to 75, weigh a minimum of 110 pounds
and in good health. To schedule an appointment: Tinyurl.com/GiveBloodNJBS Sponsor Code
15978 Walk-ins are always welcome. For more information, please call Mary Stanek
at 973-349-9191.
Please support those who support us!
Come and Visit our new
Father Michael J. Burke Thrift Shop (located across the street from the Parish Center)
Hours are: Thursdays & Fridays
10:00am-4:00pm Saturdays from 9:30am-12:30pm
Confessor, Spiritual Advisor and Friend. Gone to his eternal reward.
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ABBEY GIFT SHOP 289 Route 206, Newton
973-383-2092 Books, Rosaries, Statues,
Jewelry ,Crucifixes Tuesday-Saturday 9:30-11:45am 1:15-4:30pm, Sunday 1:15-4:30pm
Saint Joseph Church’s Cemetery Route 206 - Newton, New Jersey
Crypts and niches are still available in our Queen of Heaven Mausoleum (inside and outside)
For further information, please contact our Parish Center at: 973.383.1985
Smith-McCracken Funeral Home
63 High Street, Newton, NJ - 973-383-4600
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Happy Birthday
Father Michael Lee
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2017 Gold N.J. Herald Reader’s Choice Best Pet Services
WE TREAT YOUR PET LIKE FAMILY! Father Michael Burke Gone but not forgotten!
Always in our hearts!
We remember Deputy Sheriff Nicholas
Dixon and Conservation Officer Shanno Barron who were killed
in the line of duty this past week.
May they now be resting in the peace of God’s heavenly kingdom.
In Loving
Memory of
Louis A. Valentino
TO OUR CUSTOMERS: THANK YOU FOR YOUR
PATRONAGE TO NICKY T’S OVER THE LAST SEVERAL
YEARS. IT HAS BEEN A GREAT PLEASURE TO SERVE YOU. WE ARE SO THANKFUL FOR THE PEOPLE WE HAVE MET
AND THE FRIENDSHIPS WE HAVE MADE!!
IT IS BITTERSWEET TO SAY
NICKY T’S WILL BE CLOSING AS OF MAY 31, 2019.
ON TO OUR NEXT
ADVENTURE: RETIREMENT!!!
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Our beloved Anne. We miss you more and more as each day passes. Your presence
will always be missed.
Remembering
Alexis “Lexi” Faye
and her family in my prayers.
