SACRAMENT OF RECONCILIATION / CONFESSION Every Saturday: 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM When possible the Priests are available for Confession before Mass. Also by appointment by contacting the Cathedral Office.

VISITATION OF THE SICK AND ELDERLY Please keep us informed when a person is sick or in the Hospital. Contact the Cathedral Office in order to put his/her name in the Mass Intention list. If the person needs to receive the Communion, a Priest will visit or send an available Extraordinary Eucharistic Minister.

FUNERALS Please contact the Cathedral Office for information.

EXPOSITION OF THE MOST BLESSED SACRAMENT Every Friday: After the 12:35 PM English Mass until 6:45 PM

HOLY HOUR Every Monday: After the 7:00 PM Spanish Mass until 8:30 PM

DEVOTIONS HOLY ROSARY OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY (2000 HAIL MARY MINISTRY AND EXPOSITION OF THE MOST BLESSED SACRAMENT.) Every First Saturday of the Month: From 5:30 AM to 6:00 PM

CHAPLET OF THE DIVINE MERCY Every Friday: 3:00 PM

RELIGIOUS EDUCATION Classes are held on Sunday.

Cathedral of Saint John the Baptist THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CATHEDRAL OF SAINT JOHN THE BAPTIST IS THE MOTHER CHURCH

OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF PATERSON AND THE SEAT OF ITS BISHOP.

Thirty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time November 4, 2018

Welcome! To the Cathedral Parish of St. John the Baptist! The beauty of this Cathedral expresses the dynamic energies and vibrant faith of our parish community. We invite you to be at home here as you draw closer to God through our worship, our programs, our movements, and our service projects. After one of our liturgies, please introduce yourself to me and the other members of our staff. We are here for you and are honored to have the opportunity to journey together in faith. Rev. Msgr. Geno Sylva

SAINT JOHN’S CATHEDRAL STAFF Rector of the Cathedral and Vicar for Special Projects Reverend Monsignor Geno R. Sylva, STD

Parochial Vicars Reverend Leonardo Lopez Reverend Luis Alberto Hernandez

Permanent Deacons Mr. German Vargas Mr. Guido Pedraza Mr. Jose Pomales Mr. Luis Gil

Executive Assistant & Protecting God’s Children Facilitator Mrs. Carol Monroe

Office Manager Mrs. Amparo Castellanos

Coordinators of Catechesis Mrs. Ivannia Vega-McTighe Mrs. Sylvia Ortiz Deacon Jose Pomales

Parish Secretary Ms. Ana Amezquita

Janitor/Custodian Mr. Carlos Mendez

MASS SCHEDULE / HORARIOS DE MISAS

WEEKEND MASSES / FINES DE SEMANA MISAS SATURDAY VIGIL / VIGILIA LOS SABADOS 5:00 PM (English) 7:00 PM (Spanish)

SATURDAY / SABADOS Every first (1) Saturday of each month 9:00 AM (Spanish) in Honor of Our Blessed Virgin Mary (Celebrated in the Chapel of Our Lady)

SUNDAY / DOMINGO 8:30 AM (English) 10:00 AM (Spanish) 11:30 AM (English) 1:00 PM (Spanish)

WEEKDAY MASSES / MISAS DURANTE LA SEMANA (Celebrated in the Chapel of Our Lady) MONDAY THRU FRIDAY / LUNES A VIERNES 12:35 PM (English) 7:00 PM (Spanish)

HOLY DAY MASSES / MISAS EN DIA FESTIVO 12:35 PM (English) / 7:00 PM (Español)

OFFICES: THE BISHOP FRANK J. RODIMER CENTER 387-389 Grand Street, Paterson, NJ USA Main: 973-345-4070 Fax: 973-345-7831 Email: info@rcdopcathedral.org Web: www.rcdopcathedral.org

PARISH OFFICE HOURS Mon. - Fri.: 9:00 am to 8:00 pm Saturday: 9:00 am to 5:00 pm

LIBRARY (GIFT SHOP) / LIBRERIA HOURS / HORARIOS Tuesday / Martes: 7:30 PM to 8:30 PM Saturday / Sabado: 12:00 PM to 2:00 PM Sunday / Domingo: 11:30 AM to 2:00 PM

Founded: 1820 Families: 589

MAIN ENTRANCE Main Street & Grand Street

RECTORY / PRIESTS RESIDENCE 381 Grand Street Paterson, NJ 07505

SACRAMENT OF BAPTISM Every third (3rd) Saturday in English 10:30 AM - Spanish 11:30 AM Every Saturday in Spanish: 11:00 AM Parents and Godparents must attend class prior to Baptism.

SACRAMENT OF MARRIAGE Arrangements must be made at least six (6) months in advance. Pre-Cana courses are required and are given in Spanish in March, June and October.

Bienvenido! A la Catedral San Juan Bautista! La belleza de esta catedral expresa la energía dinámica y la fe vibrante de nuestra comunidad parroquial. Te invitamos a estar aquí; tu casa, mientras te acercas a Dios a través de la adoración, nuestros programas, movimientos y proyectos de servicio. Después de una de nuestras celebraciones Eucarísticas, por favor acércate a mí, o a alguno de los miembros de nuestro personal. Estamos aquí para ti, y nos sentimos honrados de tener la oportunidad de caminar unidos en la fe. Rev. Msgr. Geno Sylva

THE CHAPEL OF OUR LADY DeGrasse Street

THIRTY-FIRST SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME NOVEMBER 4, 2018

INTENCIONES DE LA MISA DE LA SEMANA SATURDAY/ SABADO November 3

5:00 pm (English) For St. John’s Parish Community †Holy Souls in Purgatory 7:00 pm (Español) Por la Comunidad de San Juan Bautista

Acc. grac. al Señor de los Milagros †Gertrudis Marte †Jose Dolores Ortiz †America Antonia Ortiz †Juan Rodriguez Figueroa †Manuela Gutierrez Almeida Salud: Suhami Maria Perez SUNDAY /DOMINGO November 4 8:30 am (English) For St. John’s Parish Community †Holy Souls in Purgatory 10:00am (Español) Por la Comunidad de San Juan Bautista

†Mariana Abril †Giselle Osoria (2do mes) †Gladys Botello †Israel Rios (2do Aniv) †Agustin Rayo Jr. Salud: Gabriela Farfan †Ana Ofelia Arcila

11:30 am (English) For St. John’s Parish Community

†Manuel Esteban Martinez (1st Anniv) †Tom Sklarski Health: Zenaida Almario 1:00 pm (Español) Por la Comunidad de San Juan Bautista

Acc. Grac. al Señor de los Milagros Acc. Grac. al Señor por los 27 años de bodas de Juan Carlos Serrano y Teresa Albarran †Erodes Chalas †Altagracia Sanchez †Fausto William Albarran (3er mes) †Carlos Narvaez †Nora Galllego Salud: Suhami Maria Perez Salud: Familia Rodriguez Campo Verde MONDAY/MONDAY November 5 12:35 pm (English) †Holy Souls in Purgatory 7:00 pm (Español) Acc. Grac. Señor de la Misericordia Acc. Grac. a San Elias †Migdalia Mercedes Salud: Suhami Maria Perez TUESDAY/MARTES November 6 12:35 pm (English) †Holy Souls in Purgatorio 7:00 pm (Español) †Agustin Rayo Jr. Salud: Suhami Maria Perez WEDNESDAY/MIERCOLES November 7 12:35 pm (English) †Holy Souls in Purgatory Health: Renato Sy 7:00 pm (Español) †Alberto Avila (10mo. mes) †Joel Mateo †Mercedes Colon Salud: Suhami Maria Perez THURSDAY/JUEVES November 8 12:35 pm (English) †Holy Souls in Purgatory 7:00 pm †Maria Luisa Rodriguez Health: Maria Suhami Perez FRIDAY/Viernes November 9 12:35pm (English) †Holy Souls in Purgatory

7:00pm (Español) †Jose Carlos Pagan †Jose Robles Castillo Salud: Suham Maria Perez,

2018 Bishop’s Annual Appeal Here I Am, Lord!

When you give to a charitable organization, it is important to be confident that the funds are used wisely. Please know that your gift to the Bishop’s Annual Appeal supports the following causes: our Catholic Charities agencies, seminarian education, our urban elementary schools and our priests’ retirement residence and priests’ extraordinary healthcare needs. In addition, 50% of all funds received over a parish’s goal is returned to the parish directly for its own needs. Appeal funds are used for no other purpose and serve only those who live in Morris, Passaic and Sussex counties. You can make a pledge with confidence when you give to the Bishop’s Annual Appeal. For your convenience, you can make an online gift or pledge at www.2018appeal.org. Thank you!

Campaña anual del Obispo ¡Aquí estoy Señor!

Cuando usted aporta a una organización caritativa, es importante que tenga la plena confianza de que los fondos se utilizarán sabiamente. Estén seguros de que su donativo a la Campaña anual del obispo apoya a cuatro causas: nuestra Agencia de caridades católicas, la educación de seminaristas, nuestras escuelas de educación primaria en zonas urbanas y nuestra Casa de retiro para nuestros sacerdotes jubilados al igual que sus necesidades médicas. Además el 50% de todos los fondos recibidos por encima de la meta de cada parroquia, se regresan a la parroquia para sus propias necesidades. Los fondos de la Campaña no se usan para ningún otro propósito y solamente son para habitantes en los condados de Morris, Passaic y Sussex. Puede hacer una promesa de contribuir con confianza a la Campaña anual del obispo. Para su comodidad puede hacer un donativo o promesa de contribuir en línea (por internet) visitando www.2018appeal.org ¡Gracias!.

Christmas Concert For the benefit of Catholic Charities

Catholic Family & Community Services Youth Risk Reduction Programs

presented by Karen Lordi (Organ), Peter Kanyuk (Saxophone), Joyce Kanyuk (Vocal),

Justin Carrasco (Trumpet and Vocal) and Woman’s Club of Morristown Chorus

Sunday, November 18, 2018, at 2:30 p.m. Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary Parish, 94 Maple

Avenue, Morristown, NJ Admission is free; voluntary donation is welcomed

Refreshments will follow the program

OCTOBER 27-28, 2018 COLLECTION/COLECTA

$5,133.32

The Saints

The only great tragedy is NOT to become a Saint It was at the end of the 19th century. Two young Parisians, one

a brilliant philosophy student named Jacque Maritain and the other a promising poet named Raissa Oumonsoff, found themselves in love. They were young Parisian intellectual elites. Yet, they both found themselves struck by the spiritual emptiness of the French intellectual life. And so they made a vow to commit suicide within a year should they not find some answer to the apparent meaninglessness of life. And then it happened. One day, when the young Maritain was reading a book by the French spiritual write Leon Bluo, he came upon one sentence that would change their lives forever: “The only real sadness, the only real failure, the only great tragedy in life, is not to become a saint.” Bluo had recognized that while there are indeed many tragic moments in life, they are all trivial in comparison to the tragedy of not becoming a saint; to not becoming the person that Christ desires us to be. It would be this one insight that would change the trajectory of Maritain’s and Oumonsoff’s lives forever. They now had their answer. They knew where meaning came from: it came from striving each day to be a saint, to be who God desires them to be. With this new attitude, they realized that all they had been worrying about in life—earning degrees, writing academic works, gaining tenured positions—while all were important on a human level, on the spiritual level they were merely trivial matters. For if they did obtain everything they desired most in life, but had not become a saint along the way, such achievements would have been for naught, for they would be trivial in the eyes of God.

Now who is a saint? It is a person who has chosen to become a friend of Christ by allowing Him to live in them. And God never tires in creating new saints. In fact, this is His joy. This is the purpose of the Church: to produce more saints. For you see God is ever restless wanting to find new ways through which to manifest His perfection, His love, His very light in the world. And this is why He has created each and every one of us. We have been created to be saints. And as the Trappist Monk Thomas Merton had said, “For me to be a saint means to be myself.” Yet, we can only be our true selves by the help of God’s grace. What a great tragedy not to want to become a saint, for only saints live in heaven!

Msgr. Geno Sylva

Los Santos La única gran tragedia es NO ser santo.

A finales del siglo XIX. Dos jóvenes Parisinos, uno brillante estudiante de filosofía llamado Jacque Maritain y una joven prometedor poeta llamada Raissa Oumonsoff, se enamoraron. Eran jóvenes élites intelectuales Parisinas. Sin embargo, ambos se vieron sorprendidos por el vacío espiritual de la vida que llevaban los que pertenecían a esta intelectual francesa. y así hicieron una promesa de suicidio dentro de un año si no encontraban alguna respuesta a la aparente falta de sentido de la vida. Y entonces sucedió. Un día, cuando el joven Maritain estaba leyendo un libro del escritor espiritual francés Leon Bluo, se encontró con una frase que cambiaría sus vidas para siempre: "La única tristeza real, el único fracaso real, la única gran tragedia en la vida, es no convertirse en santo”. Bluo reconoció que, si bien hay muchos momentos trágicos en la vida, todos son insignificantes en comparación con la tragedia de no convertirse en santo; No convertirnos en la persona que Cristo desea que seamos. Esta sería una visión que cambiaría la trayectoria de las vidas de Maritain y Oumonsoff para siempre. Ahora tenían su respuesta. Sabían de dónde venía el significado: venía de esforzarse cada día para ser un santo, para ser lo que Dios desea que sea. Con esta nueva actitud, se dieron cuenta de que lo que les preocupaba en la vida: obtener títulos, escribir trabajos académicos, obtener posiciones sociales, mientras que todo esto eran importantes a nivel humano, en el nivel espiritual, eran simplemente asuntos insignificantes. Porque si obtuvieran todo lo que más deseaban en la vida, pero no se hubieran convertido en santos en el camino, tales logros habrían sido en vano, pues serían sin importancia ante los ojos de Dios.

Ahora, ¿quién es un santo? Es una persona que ha elegido hacerse amigo de Cristo al permitirle vivir en el. Y Dios nunca se cansa en crear nuevos santos. De hecho, este es su gozo. Este es el propósito de la Iglesia: producir más santos. Porque ves que Dios está siempre atento y quiere encontrar nuevas formas a través de las cuales manifestar su perfección, su amor, su misma luz en el mundo. Y es por esto que Él ha creado a todos y cada uno de nosotros. Hemos sido creados para ser santos. Y como el monje trapense Thomas Merton había dicho: "Para mí, ser santo significa ser yo mismo". Sin embargo, solo podemos ser nuestro verdadero ser con la ayuda de la gracia de Dios. ¡Qué gran tragedia no querer ser santo, porque solo los santos viven en el cielo!

Msgr. Geno Sylva

Anuncios 1. Un generoso benefactor ha donado 100 pavos a la Catedral. Si

deseas recibir uno de estos pavos, ya sea para usted y su familia o para dárselo a otra persona que lo necesite, diríjase al Centro Parroquial Rodimer inmediatamente después de la misa, y se le entregará una Boleto para recibir su pavo en el Centro Rodimer en la tarde del día lunes 19 de noviembre. Estos boletos se entregarán por orden de llegada.

2. Todavía tenemos boletos para la fiesta de Navidad de la catedral que se celebrará el domingo 9 de diciembre. ¡Únase a nosotros, ya que somos familia!

3. Por favor llenar el Formulario de registro parroquial, ya que será maravilloso que usted y su familia se registren oficialmente con nosotros. La forma la encontrará en las puertas de la catedral.

4. Este domingo 4 de noviembre, de 10:00 a.m. a 2:00 p.m., habrá una jornada de puertas abiertas en el cementerio y el mausoleo del Santo Sepulcro. Todos están invitados a pasar por la oficina para obtener más información sobre sus servicios.

Announcements 1. A generous benefactor has donated 100 turkeys to the

Cathedral. If you would like to receive one of these turkeys, either for you and your family or to give to someone else who may be in need of a turkey, please go to the Rodimer Parish Center immediately following the Mass, and you will be given a ticket which you will used to receive your turkey at the Rodimer Center on the afternoon of Monday, November 19. These tickets will be given out on a first come, first serve basis.

2. Tickets are still on sale for the Cathedral Christmas Party to be held on Sunday, December 9. Please join us, as we are family!

3. Please fill out the Parish Registration Form, as it will be wonderful to have you and your family officially registered with us. Forms are at the doors to the Cathedral.

4. There will be an Open House at Holy Sepulchre Cemetery and Mausoleum this Sunday, November 4th from 10:00am to 2:00pm. All are invited to stop by the office to learn more about their services.