Office Location Phone Email/Fax Website

Parish Office 105 Harrison St., New Milford 201-261-0148 office@sjcnj.org Fax #: 201-261-0369

sjcnj.org

Religious Education 105 Harrison St., New Milford 201-261-1144 religioused@sjcnj.org sjcnjre.org

Saint Joseph School 305 Elm St., Oradell 201-261-2388 office@sjsusa.org sjsusa.org

the greenhouse-PreK 305 Elm St., Oradell 201-477-8114 vailc@greenhouseusa.org greenhouseusa.org

MASS SCHEDULE Saturday 5:00 pm

Sunday 7:30 am, 9:00 am, 10:30 am, 12:00 pm

DAILY Weekdays 7:00 am &

8:30 am

Saturday 8:30 am

HOLY DAYS as announced

Miraculous Medal Novena Monday, 7:00 pm in Mary’s Chapel

Eucharistic Adoration First Wednesday of Month

SACRAMENTS Confession: Saturday,

4:00 pm - 5:00 pm Baptism

Contact the Parish Office. Marriage

Arrangements should be made with a priest at least one year in advance.

Sick/Homebound/Hospital Call the Parish Office.

Christian Initiation of Adults—RCIA

Contact the Parish Office.

PARISH REGISTRATION Contact the Parish Office.

PASTOR:

Msgr. David C. Hubba

PAROCHIAL VICARS:

Rev. Andrew Park Rev. Roy Regaspi

DEACON George Montalvo

PASTOR EMERITUS:

Rev. George M. Reilly

Oradell/New Milford, NJ Roman Catholic Church Saint Joseph

Fifth Sunday of Lent ~ April 2, 2017

Parish Office Hours: Parish: Mon.-Fri..9 am-5 pm, ; Rel. Ed.: Mon –Thurs.: 9:30 am—5 pm (Also by appointment.)

LENTEN FOOD DRIVE THIS WEEKEND

—Bring your donations to Rectory Garage by

1:30 pm on Sunday 4/2

“Jesus said to her, ‘Did I not tell you that if you believe you will see the glory of God?’... He cried out in a loud voice,

‘Lazarus, come out!’ The dead man came out… .” JOHN 11: 40, 43

Art: “The Raising of Lazarus” Fresco by Giotto (1304-1306)

located in the Scrovegni (Arena) Chapel in Padua, Italy

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FROM THE PASTOR’S DESK appears on page 4.

OUR LADY OF FATIMA STATUE The Legion of Mary is pleased to announce that the Statue of Our Lady of Fatima is available to those who wish to honor her in their homes. Call Veronica Ocello at 201-265-6894 to have your name placed on the visitation schedule.

12th ANNUAL DIVINE MERCY CONFERENCE —APRIL 8

The Annual Conference on the Message of Fatima and Divine Mercy will take place on Saturday, April 8 from 9:00 am-5:30 pm at Cardinal Spellman High School in Bronx, NY. The featured speaker will by Fr. Andrew Apostoli, CFR. For information and registration, go to TheDivineMercy.org/bronx or call 1-800-462-7426. You can also pick up a brochure in our church literature racks or at the rectory/parish office.

DIVINE MERCY The Legion of Mary will distribute Divine Mercy Novena pamphlets at the doors of the church NEXT weekend (April 8-9). The message of The Divine Mercy, which is based on the writings of Saint Faustina Kowalska, a Polish nun who wrote a diary of the revelations she received about God’s mercy, is that God loves all of us. He wants us to recognize that His mercy is greater than our sins, so that we will call upon Him with trust, receive His mercy, and let it flow through us to others. On each day of the Novena, which begins on Good Friday and goes until Divine Mercy Saturday (April 22 this year), there is a new petition that seeks God’s mercy for different purposes.

The Legion of Mary has been praying the rosary with our children in grades 3-6 in our Religious Education program. In the photo above, Grade 3 students created a giant rosary to use in their prayer.

SOCIAL CONCERNS’ “DESIGNER HANDBAGS & TRICKY TRAY”

—APRIL 27 The “Bingo and Basket” fundraiser for our Brother/Sister Parish, St. Joseph in Jersey City, will take place on Thursday evening, April 27 in the Saint Joseph Lower School Gymnasium. The doors will open at 6:00 pm and bingo will

begin at 7:00 pm. Prizes will include gorgeous designer handbags. There will also be a Tricky Tray, Door Prizes and a 50/50 Raffle. Contact Joanne at 201-261-6810 or Joan at 201-265-5823 for tickets.

BASKETS & GIFTS NEEDED Social Concerns is seeking gift items for the many Tricky Tray baskets. We are also looking for empty baskets. If you have a gift or basket to donate, please call Joanne or Joan (phone #s listed above). Thank you!

The members of the Parish Pastoral Council welcomed dozens of parishioners to a coffee

hour after the 10:30 Mass on March 19. If you have an idea you’d like to share with the

Council, you may email them at PastoralCouncil@sjcnj.org

COFFEE WITH THE PARISH PASTORAL COUNCIL

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Saturday 5:00 pm

Sunday 7:30 am 9:00 am 10.30 am 10:30 am MC 12:00 pm

Monday 7:00 am 8:30 am

Tuesday 7:00 am 8:30 am

Wednesday 7:00 am 8:30 am

Thursday 7:00 am 8:30 am

Friday 7:00 am 8:30 pm

Saturday 8:30 am 5:00 pm

Sunday 7:30 am 9:00 am 10:30 am UC 10:30 am MC 12:00 pm

FIFTH SUNDAY OF LENT ~ APRIL 2, 2017

PRAYER REQUESTS Let us remember those who are ill:

William Sveridovich, Mona Nelson, Baby Ronan Wnuk, Doreen Tortorelli, David Guerra, Florence Bartus,

Gener Basilio

Let us remember those who have recently died: Rev. Joseph E. Buzzerio, Florence Frerichs

Let us remember those serving in the military.

SUNDAY COLLECTION Week of March 26, 2017

BASKET PARISHPAY TOTAL $8,087 $4,717 $12,804

BREAD & WINE INTENTIONS

The bread and wine for the week of April 2, 2017

is offered in loving memory of

James Leyden

as requested by Maureen Leyden.

LENTEN FOOD DRIVE —THIS WEEKEND

Please bring your donations to the Saint Joseph RECTORY GARAGE before or after any of the Masses this weekend.

April 1, 2017 Joseph & Grace Gaetano

April 2, 2017 People of the Parish Doris Daigle Robert Fleming Hugo Del Bove 2nd Anniversary Michaely Wieland

April 3, 2017 Robert M. Di Gioia Jess Alto

April 4, 2017 For the living and deceased members of the Prior & Plinio Families Timmy Curtin

April 5, 2017 Mc Laughlin & Dalton Families James A. Mc Laughlin

April 6, 2017 Michael Weber Charles Dombeck

April 7, 2017 Mary O’Carroll Dorothy M. Zack

April 8, 2017 Lloyd De Nicolo Theodore V. Kachel

April 9, 2017 People of the Parish Almerindo Accomando Birthday Remembrance John Dabrowski Kathleen O’Brien Grazia Menzella

EARLY BULLETIN DEADLINE Announcements for our Easter (April 16) Bulletin must be submitted to Diane at hellriegeld@sjcnj.org NO LATER than Wednesday, APRIL 5.

EUCHARISTIC ADORATION —APRIL 5 Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament will be held on Wednesday, April 5 in Mary’s Chapel from 9:00 am-5:00 pm. The Legion of Mary invites you to attend.

LAST CHANCE TO RESERVE YOUR PLACE

WEDDING ANNIVERSARY LITURGIES The wedding anniversary Masses for 5, 25 and 50 years of marriage will take place in the Cathedral Basilica of the Sacred Heart in Newark on the following dates: April 30, 2017 at 3:00 pm (25 years and 5 years) May 7, 2017 at 3:00 pm (50 years) You MUST notify our parish secretary by April 11 if you’d like to attend so we can send your name to the Archdiocese.

SHAWL MINISTRY MEETING—APRIL 11 Saint Joseph Shawl Ministry will meet on Tuesday, April 11 from 2:00-4:00 pm in the Parish Life Center on Grove Street. All knitters and crocheters are welcome to join us

in making shawls...or bring your current yarn project and spend a relaxing afternoon with us. Our ministry has shawls available for those experiencing illness, confinement, bereavement, or other situation. For further information, please contact Barbara Piersa at 201-261-0298 or Pat DeNicolo at 201-261-4323.

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FROM THE PASTOR’S DESK

Friday is the feast day for St. John Baptist de la Salle (1651-1719), founder of the Congregation of Christian Brothers, often known as the La

Salle Christian Brothers. They are not the same as the Irish Christian Brothers who run Bergen Catholic, whose founder was Brother Edmund Rice. Three retired Irish Christian Brothers (Brother Michael, Brother Luke and Brother James) live in the residence behind our church. St. John’s Christian Brothers got their start in France.

St. John, who came from a wealthy aristocratic family from northern France, began his training for the priesthood when he was just eleven. After his studies were interrupted by his need to tend to family matters after his parents died, he was ordained in

1678, earned a doctorate in theology three years later, and seemed headed for a major Church position. His entry in Butler’s Lives of the Saints says that “He settled down to the comfortable life of a cathedral canon with private means, attending daily services but without any parochial responsibilities to disturb him.” Then he ran into Adrien Nyel, a layman who had opened four schools for the poor and who now asked John to help him open another one in Reims. Soon a second school followed, and by now John was committing his personal funds to make its existence possible. At first John was appalled by the poor quality of the teachers who made up the schools’ faculties, regarding them as being inferior to the servants he was used to being with at his home. In time John would reveal his own exceptional talents for training teachers and for organizing schools with high standards. He soon led a household of brothers who became the congregation he founded. None of them would be ordained priests, something still characteristic of the community’s life. Their purpose and ideal was well expressed in their Rule, which stated that their mission was to be

… ambassadors of Christ to the young; since it was their duty to pass on the faith, they must themselves be steeped in it.

They resolved to honor the will of God and to govern their conduct by his teachings. John wrote a number of books in which he described how his schools should be run, including a very detailed one, The Conduct of Christian Schools. His educational innovations included teaching students in class groups instead of in one-on-one tutorials. His work knew great challenges, but has enjoyed enormous success and influence. Pope Pius XII designated him chief patron saint for all who teach the young. His last words were:

(continued above)

“I adore in all things the holy will of God in my regard.” They aptly summarize how he tried to live. I’ve encountered only two of St. John Baptist de la Salle’s spiritual sons in my life. The first was Brother Michael, the dean of discipline at Paramus Catholic Boys School when the brothers used to run it some years ago. Brother Michael was about six foot-eight. If one of my altar boys at Holy Trinity in Hackensack was to be going to Paramus Catholic and committed some deed of misbehavior, I would tell him that he’d better not try that at Paramus Catholic—not with Brother Michael around! One day, when I went to the school to help with confessions and was a little late, I walked down a long corridor and saw a gigantic figure approaching me. That has to be Brother Michael, I thought. I also imagined that somehow he must know that I was using fear of him to subdue my unruly servers, which, of course, he didn’t. When we met up, it was clear that he was a kind and gentle man. The second was a former La Salle Christian brother I met when we were seminarians at Darlington. He was a late vocation to the priesthood, unusual in those days: a likable , free-spirited 47-year-old who had a good, if zany, sense of humor. At a time when we weren’t allowed to have cars, he had several genuine jalopies, none of them properly registered. He drew up a hand-made license plate, which he would use for each car as required. One of the cars had an accelerator pedal that didn’t work—so he tied a string from the engine through the driver’s-side vent window and, when he wanted to give the car gas, he would pull on the string, and it worked. When our professor for St. John’s Gospel was covering today’s passage about Jesus restoring Lazarus to life after he had been in the tomb four days (Jn 11, 1-45), the ex-brother raised his hand to ask a question: “Father, it says in my Bible that Lazarus came forth from the tomb. Who were the other three?” The instructor was not amused. The raising of Lazarus was Jesus’s most astonishing miracle. It attracted more believers to him, heightened the resolve of some of his opponents to do away with him, and also made Lazarus something of a celebrity, while putting his own life in danger (Jn 12, 9-10). For us, this great miracle is one more indication that our own destiny, by the gift of God, is to survive death and to live forever. It certainly helps us get ready for Easter, which is fast approaching.

Msgr. David Hubba

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FIFTH SUNDAY OF LENT ~ APRIL 2, 2017

FRIDAY STATIONS OF THE CROSS Stations of the Cross will be held EVERY FRIDAY IN LENT (except Good Friday) at 2:00 pm with the schoolchildren and again at 7:30 pm. Please join us.

MEETING OUR PARISH GOALS HELP SHARE GOD’S BLESSINGS

Thank you to those who have already pledged in the Archdiocesan “Sharing God’s Blessings” Appeal. Saint Joseph Parish’s goal

in this annual campaign, which helps to fund so many of the Archdiocesan ministries and programs that provide social, educational and spiritual support to thousands of people each year, is $85,375.00. Fifty-seven donors from Saint Joseph have pledged a total of $14,930 to date. Please help us reach our goal and make your pledge today. Envelopes are available at the doors of the church or at the rectory/parish office. Simply drop your envelope in the collection basket or at the rectory.

PARISHIONERS NEEDED! RITE OF WASHING OF FEET

—HOLY THURSDAY, APRIL 13 Parishioners are needed to be part of the rite of foot washing at the Mass of the Lord’s Last Supper on Holy Thursday, April 13. If you are interested in participating please call the parish office at 201-261-0148 and leave your name, phone # and email address with our parish secretary Gerry. We will need 12 individuals (including men, women, teens and older children) for this centuries old ritual enactment of the sign that Jesus gave us (in his own washing of the feet of his disciples at the Last Supper) that we must love one another.

ATTENTION TEENS: PASSION PLAY (LIVING STATIONS OF THE CROSS) The Youth Group has begun practice for the Passion Play (to be

presented in the Church on Good Friday, April 14 at 7:30 pm) and the teens are very excited to be participating in it. There is still a need for more teens, so if you are interested we will be once again meeting this Sunday, April 2 from 7:00–9:00 pm. We will be meeting in the Church. If you cannot make it, but want to be in the Passion Play, please contact Youth Minister Donna Cirino at 201-362-8783 or email her at cirinod@sjcnj.org

THE COLLEGE SEMINARY OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION

presents

“NOTES OF DISTINCTION” —APRIL 20

—featuring our own MONROE QUINN (Saint Joseph Music Director) and LISA VIGGIANO

(cantor) in a benefit concert and cocktail reception in support of the college seminarians in their discernment an formation at Saint Andrew’s Hall. Monroe and Lisa will perform music of the American Songbook, Broadway show tunes, as well as pop and jazz favorites at 7:00 pm at the Jubilee Hall Auditori-um, Seton Hall University (400 South Orange Avenue, South Orange, NJ 07079). Donation: $100 per person. For ticket information, please contact Linda Valvano, Office of the Rector at 973-761-9420 or at linda.valvano@shu.edu

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Saint Joseph Parish Staff

Parish Trustees………..Mr. Brendan Walsh/Mrs. Carol Winkler Parish Pastoral Council…………….Mr. Martin De Benedetto Dir. of Religious Education ……….Deacon George Montalvo Sacraments Coordinator …………..Mrs. Arlene Kennedy Director of Music ……………………..Mr. Monroe Quinn Youth Minister ………………………...Mrs. Donna Cirino Facilities Director …………………....Mr. Tom Meli Business Manager ……………….…. .Mrs. Phyllis Vrola Parish Secretary ……………………....Mrs. Geraldine Carolan

Principal of Saint Joseph School…Mrs. Colette Vail Dir. of Comm./ Bulletin Editor…...Mrs. Diane Hellriegel

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VIDEO SERIES AT SAINT JOSEPH “CATHOLICISM”— APRIL 5

Join us in the Jackson Room of the lower church on Wednesday morning from 9:30-10:30 (immediately following the 8:30 am Mass) for Episode 3, “The Ineffable Mystery of God: That Than Which Nothing Greater can be Thought” takes us on a journey from the heights of Mount Sinai to the mysterious sites of Istanbul, from the glittering streets of Paris to the glorious Sistine Chapel. Father Robert Barron presents the Catholic Faith’s compelling version of God as the ineffable and majestic Trinity. There is no charge.

LIONS PANCAKE BREAKFAST —APRIL 9

The Oradell Lions Annual Pancake Breakfast (also serving eggs too!) will take place on Sunday, April 9 from 8:00 am to 12 noon at Bergen Catholic High School (1040 Oradell Avenue, Oradell, NJ). Tickets are $6 for adults and $4 for children. For ticket delivery email us at lionsoforadell@yahoo.com

SUPER 50/50 CASH RAFFLE TO BENEFIT HOMELESS

WORKING FAMILIES

FAMILY PROMISE, the only organization in the county that provides shelter and services for working families who become homeless and helps them return to self-sufficiency, is selling raffle tickets for its Super 50/50 Cash Raffle.

Grand Prize 25% of the proceeds (up to $25,000) Second Prize 10% of the proceeds (up to $10,000) 15 Third Prizes 1% of proceeds (up to $1,000 each)

A maximum of 1,000 tickets will be sold for $100.00 each. Drawing will be held on April 12, 2017.

You may purchase tickets by calling 201-833-8009. For more information visit bergenfamilypromise.org

BERGEN COUNTY CARE FAIR—APRIL 23 The County of Bergen is sponsoring the First Annual Bergen County Care Fair to be held on April 23 from 12:00 to 5:00 pm at the Hilton Hotel, 650 Terrace Avenue in Hasbrouck Heights.—a one-stop source to help all Bergen residents cut through the health care and support system maze, learn about their options, and connect with the right providers and resources. Admission is FREE. For more information, call 201-336-7240 or go to bergencarefair.org

“NEW HOPE - HELPING HANDS” GALA —APRIL 26

Established in 1985, New Hope, Inc. is an outreach organization that provides help for single first-time mothers and their babies. New Hope provides subsidies for housing,

day care, education and counseling. The annual Gala will be Wednesday, April 26 from 6:30 - 10:30 pm at Seasons, 664 Pascack Road, Washington Twp. 07676, Cost is $85 per person. There will be a cocktail hour, gourmet dinner, silent auction, Tricky Tray, raffle, huge 50/50 and dancing. For reservations, call Kathy at 201-573-8697 or email her at kturlick@gmail.com

VATICAN MUSEUM WEBSITE The new website of the Vatican Museum—museivaticani.va—now offers high resolution images and mobile-friendly information.

TRIP TO OUTER BANKS—MAY 15-18 Ascension Parish in New Milford will sponsor a 4-day/3-night trip to the Outer Banks, North Carolina, from May 15-18. The price of $550/$675 single occ. per person includes 3 nights lodging, 3 breakfasts, 3 full course dinners, guided tour of Cape Hatteras, Roanoke Island Festival, Graveyard of the Atlantic, Wright Brothers National Memorial, Elizabethan Gardens, Bodie Island Lighthouse, Chicamacomico Life Saving Station, Bus Transportation, Luggage Handling Taxes and Meal Gratuities. $100 deposit will hold your reservation. For info and reservations call Josie at 201-265-0485 or Anna at 201-387-2632.

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