Office Location Phone Email/Fax Website

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

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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 DEACON Edward Maron

PASTOR EMERITUS:

Rev. George M. Reilly

Oradell/New Milford, NJ Roman Catholic Church Saint Joseph

The Nativity of the Lord — December 25, 2016

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

“And the Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us, and we saw his glory, the glory as of the Father’s only Son, full of grace and truth.” JOHN 1:14

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Saturday 5:00 pm UC 5:00 pm MC 5:00 pm Gym 7:00 pm 10:00 pm

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

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

PRAYER REQUESTS

Let us remember those who are ill: Baby Oliver Kamal, Savannah Spinosa,

Michael Riccardone, Felix Matos, Yvonne Driscoll, Linda Burns

Let us remember those who have recently died: Ann Hannon, Louis Scrivani, Maureen Mac Devette,

Carol Ajello

Let us remember those serving in the military.

SUNDAY COLLECTION

Due to an early printer’s deadline for the holidays, our December weekly collection amounts will be published in January.

BREAD & WINE INTENTIONS

The bread for the week of December 25, 2016

is offered in loving memory of Felice Bartolomeo

as requested by the Bartolomeo Family.

The wine for the week of December 25, 2016

is offered in loving memory of the Deceased Members of the Piazza Family

as requested by Marie Piazza.

See the bulletin in full-color at sjcnj.org

COVER ART: “The Nativity,” Redemptor Hominis Church, Saint John Paul II National Shrine, Washington, D.C. Artist: Fr. Marko Ivan Rupnik, S.J. and the artists of Centro Aletti.

PARISH OFFICE/RECTORY will be CLOSED on:

Monday, December 26, Friday, December 30 and Monday, January 2

SAINT JOSEPH SCHOOL will be CLOSED from: Friday, December 23 (at 12 noon) through Monday,

January 2. Classes resume on Tuesday, January 3.

MIRACULOUS MEDAL NOVENA Our Novena will NOT be held on December 26 or January 2 due to the holidays. (The Novena prayers may be said at home.) The Novena will resume as a regular devotion of Saint Joseph Church on Monday, January 9.

IS SAINT JOSEPH ON YOUR GIFT LIST? It’s not too late. Our parish depends upon your financial support, especially at Christmas, to meet its larger expenses. Your gift to Saint Joseph’s Christmas Collection

may be made up to and including January 8, the last day of the Christmas Season. Please memo your check or offering envelope “CHRISTMAS COLLECTION.” Thank you for your generosity!

December 24, 2016 Christmas Eve Maryann Vincenti Mary Greenan Elizabeth Sullivan Brian Patrick Coogan Elise & Frederick Mueller

December 25, 2016 Christmas Day People of the Parish Kennedy & Grimm Families Pietro & Teresa A. Bernardi Ronald Sgambati John & Margaret Schatz

December 26, 2016 Dan O’Grady Birthday Remembrance Margaret E. Flanagan

December 27, 2016 James R Toscano & Louise Maloney Susan &Terrence McCormack

December 28, 2016 Francesca DiPiazza Julie Masterson December 29, 2016 For the Talarico Family Living and Deceased Mary Codner First Anniversary Remembrance

December 30, 2016 Maureen Kirwan Anthony Errico 15th Anniversary Remembrance

December 31, 2016 Louise & Theodore Kachel William Sweeney

January 1, 2017 Mary, Mother of God People of the Parish Frank Ugenti Edward Kirk William J. Sweeney 30th Anniversary Remembrance Deceased Members of the Corbett & Dabrowski Families

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THE NATIVITY OF THE LORD ~ DECEMBER 25, 2016

FROM THE PASTOR’S DESK

Among the first three Chinese Catholics to be ordained priests was the renowned landscape painter Wu Li (1632-1718),

whose faith was nurtured by the European Jesuit missionaries who brought the Gospel to China in their order’s early days. Seven years after his baptism, at age fifty, Wu Li joined the Jesuits following the death of his wife, taking the name Simon-Xavier a Cunha. Following his ordination in 1688, he spent the remaining thirty years of his life as an itinerant missionary and pastor, working with persevering dedication to bring the Gospel to the people of the Jiangsu countryside in the face of considerable difficulties. In terms of raw statistics, his efforts did not meet with great success, but he fulfilled the call of his priesthood nobly. In the course of his duties, he made extensive use of his considerable talent for writing poetry, including his verses entitled “Music from Harmonious Heaven in Reverent Thanks to the Lord of Heaven,” which are splendidly suited to the celebration of Christmas:

… God’s Son came down from Heaven to save us people and turn us towards the good. His grace goes wide! Taking flesh through the virginity of the Holy Mother in a stable He was born. … They say He can save our souls from their destructiveness and sweep away the devil’s wantonness.

This is another way of reasserting what St. Augustine once proclaimed when he wrote that “God became human that we might become human.” Christmas rejoices in God’s large and stupendous love for us, which testifies to his permanent bond with the human family. And since this is so, our lives are eternally enhanced beyond any other possible prospect, if we will allow this to be so. On September 17, 1948, Chiara Lubich, founder of the Catholic movement Focolare, visited the office of Igino Giordani, who had been elected to the Italian Constituent Assembly in the first elections following World War II. Giordani came from a poor but deeply Catholic family. He was a decorated and severely wounded soldier in World War I who had been a strong opponent of Italy’s Fascist regime. He also held an important position with the Vatican Library and was well read in the teachings of the Faith, although he admitted that “I possessed them only as a matter of culture. They weren’t integrated with my life.” With Chiara were a layman and three Franciscans (a Friar Minor, a Capuchin and a Conventual).

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Giordani expected to treat his visitors with the kind of courtesy a legislator would routinely extend to constituents and possible voters. He thought to himself: “I was sure I would hear a lot of sentimental drivel about some utopian welfare scheme.” But he was enormously impressed with the way Chiara spoke of her devotion to Christ, later recalling that

There was an unusual tone to her voice, a sense of deep certainty and conviction that seemed to come from something supernatural. Suddenly my curiosity was aroused and a fire began to blaze within me. A half hour later when she had finished speaking, I found myself completely taken by an enchanted atmosphere: enclosed in a halo of happiness and light; and I would have wanted that voice to continue speaking. It was the voice that I, without realizing, was waiting to hear. It placed holiness within the reach of everyone.

Giordani later joined the Focolare movement and devoted his life to its ways, living in one of its houses after the death of his wife. “I moved away from the library cluttered with books,” he later said, “to the Church filled with Christians.” It was a real conversion, he added, which “having plucked me from the doldrums that fenced me in, was now urging me to step onto a new landscape that was endless, somewhere between earth and Heaven, inviting me to walk again.” Igino Giordani, who has reached the first stage on the path to canonized sainthood, once composed the following beautiful verses about the meaning of Christmas.

A light has come from Bethlehem that has continued to enlighten the hearts of men and women. The angels’ message again and again gives us new hope. Centuries have passed since then and so much has happened to make us lose heart— wars and disasters and disappointments of every kind. But that good news, the grace of that child and the happiness of that mother have continued to help people and nations to free themselves from the night in which they again and again have found themselves straying.

May all of us, and our families and friends, know a Christmas filled with the most important joys and blessings. Merry Christmas! Msgr. David Hubba

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OUR 3rd ANNUAL PARISH

BEEFSTEAK DINNER & RAFFLE

—FEBRUARY 26 Saint Joseph Church’s very

popular Beefsteak Dinner and Raffle will take place on Saturday, February 26 at 6:15 pm in the School Gym. Tickets are $45 a person and include a wonderful dinner by Clifton’s Nightingale Catering (serving the finest in beefsteak & chicken banquets since 1938) with music by our own Peter Greco. The names of the 50/50 raffle winners will be drawn at the dinner. Proceeds of the event will go toward repair and

maintenance of our church. SAVE THE DATE and watch for a letter from the pastor and more information in the parish bulletin!

From the Clergy & Staff

of Saint Joseph

YOU GAVE FROM THE HEART A heartfelt thank you to all the many parishioners who contributed to our annual Christmas “Giving Tree” this year. Because of your generosity, Saint Joseph Parish has been able to help a number of organizations make Christmas a little happier for local families in need. Thank you for making a difference.

A special thank you to Kristen Racine who organized our efforts for this wonderful project. Kristen will be letting us know just where our gifts went in a future issue of the bulletin.

THANK YOU FROM THE K OF C

The Knights of Columbus St. Joseph Council #3814 would like to thank all those who donated eyeglasses, prescription sunglasses and reading glasses to the Knights’ Drive to “Give Sight to the Needy.” Hundreds of pairs of eyeglasses and eyeglass cases were received. Thank you for helping to give the gift of clearer sight to those in need.

RESTORING OUR STAINED GLASS

WINDOWS Our Facilities Director Tom Meli is very happy to announce that, as promised, the restoration of our church’s windows is now complete. The jewels of Saint Joseph Church—more than three dozen

beautiful stained glass windows—were originally installed in 1951 when our current church was built. Designed by artist George Schlagintweit and created by well-known Passaic stained glass company Marchese & Hamersma, the windows depict scenes from the life of Christ, the four Gospel writers, the Prophets and more. Over time and due to the elements, the steel framework had corroded. The clear glass that protected the windows had become scratched and cloudy. We knew we were going to have to take action to keep the windows from cracking or breaking. Our own Deacon Ed Maron recommended a premier stained glass company, Bovard Studio Inc. of Iowa, who eventually won the bid for the job. Bovard managed to remove all the windows, clean and restore their luster, replace the faulty steel framework with aluminum, and install new protective tempered glass (ventilated at top and bottom to promote air circulation and eliminate cloudiness) at each window. They were able to complete the biggest part of the job in only two weeks ( before the deadline) with very little disruption to our parish devotions. The biggest change you will notice can be seen from outside the building. You will no longer see broken and damaged frames or cloudy windows. When viewed at night, the windows now sparkle in ways they haven’t since they were first installed more than half a century ago. Polished and preserved, our beautiful stained glass windows will continue to welcome people to worship at Saint Joseph Church for generations to come.

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Visit us on our websites: CHURCH: sjcnj.org

SCHOOL: sjsusa.org RELIGIOUS ED.: sjcnjre.org

THE NATIVITY OF THE LORD ~ DECEMBER 25, 2016

SAINT JOSEPH SCHOOL 2017 TRICKY TRAY RESERVATIONS BEING

ACCEPTED NOW! For the 12th year in a row, Saint Joseph School will host its extremely popular Tricky

Tray fundraiser at the Rockleigh Country Club on

Thursday, February 9 5:30 pm; Dinner at 7:30

Fabulous Prizes—hundreds of baskets!

Your ticket ($70 per person) includes the cocktail hour, three-course dinner with beer/wine/soda, plus a 25 ticket sheet for the auction.

You may also purchase Pre-Sale Discount Ticket Packages. (And the savings are big!)

To reserve your seat and tickets at the biggest event of the year, go to our parish website at sjcnj.org, click on “Parish Events” and then on “SJS Tricky Tray.” Or contact AnnaMaria Gugliotta at 917-733-8370 or via email at annabanana42672@gmail.com

KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS FREE THROW

CONTEST —JANUARY 14

St. Joseph Knights of Columbus Council #3814 is sponsoring it’s local Council Basketball Free Throw Championship on Saturday, January 14 in the Saint Joseph School Gym. All boys and girls ages 9 to 14 are invited to participate. (All participants will be recognized for their participation. Each respective age division winner will proceed to the District competition.) Registration will begin at 2:30 pm and the free throw contest will take place at 3:00 pm. All participants are required to provide proof of age and written parental consent. Age eligibility is determined by the age of the contestant as of January 1, 2017. For additional information, contact Bob Osterlof at 201-370-3404 or rosterlof@optonline.net You can also visit the Council website at kofc3814.org

the greenhouse, Saint Joseph School’s early childhood program, features: A warm, nurturing environment Certified, experienced teachers Music, art, gym, technology, library Flexible scheduling (5 day/full day options) Before and after care available

Drop by on January 11 or call for an appointment at your convenience. Start your child off right—with a quality education in a Catholic environment.

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OPEN HOUSE SAINT JOSEPH

SCHOOL —JANUARY 11

Give your child a quality

education in a Catholic

environment.

Come visit our National Blue Ribbon school on

Wednesday, January 11

anytime between 7:00— 9:00 pm (no appointment necessary)

to see all the exciting things happening.

Saint Joseph School serves students from Preschool (ages 3-4) to 8th Grade.

Visit our website at sjsusa.org or call 201-261-2388 for more information.

Saint Joseph School—where strong academic outcomes are fostered with a commitment to Catholic values and the development of each student’s potential.

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HELPING THOSE IN DESPERATE NEED Saint Joseph parishioner Sophia Mustard will be going on a Mission Trip to Rivere Friode, a small town in Haiti, from January 5-14. She will be traveling with the Franciscan Friars and Sisters of the Renewal and the lay support group “Friar Suppliers.” The group will be working to build 45 houses and latrines (destroyed by Hurricane Matthew in October). Many people there have only a tent to live in. The group’s medical team will treat as many as 2,000 people, giving medicine for high blood pressure (a big problem there), treating wounds and handing out vitamins to a community that is without even the barest necessities. Food is never in abundance and many people there only eat every three days! The group is hoping to be able to feed 1,500 families. Sophia is asking for our financial help. The cost to build a house is $600; a latrine costs $350. A 50 lb. bag of rice is $40; a bag of kidney beans of the same size is $75. Corn is relatively inexpensive ($25 for a 50 lb. bag), but grinders are needed. The group hopes to provide both manual grinders ($300 each) and electric grinders (at $1,500 each) to make cornmeal so that the children can have breakfast in their school. If you can help, please write your check, for whatever amount you can afford, to “Friar Suppliers,” put it in an envelope marked “Mission Trip” and drop it in the collection basket or at the rectory/parish office. Friar Suppliers is a 501c3 organization. 100% of your donation will go to help the people of Haiti, the poorest country in the western hemisphere. If you’d like to see what was done on the Mission Trip in 2016 go to friarsuppliers.com Thank you for your generosity.

Saint Joseph Church's very popular annual Christmas concert “An Afternoon of Christmas Joy” will take place on Sunday, January 8 at 3:00 pm. It will feature the Adult and Children's Choirs as well as soloists and instrumentalists who are a part of the Music Ministry at Saint Joseph Church. Don’t miss it!

Saint Joseph Parish Staff

Parish Trustees………..Mr. Brendan Walsh/Mrs. Carol Winkler 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

JOIN OUR PARISH FAMILY! If you aren’t already and would like to become a member of our parish family (and we hope you do!), please contact the parish office at 201-261-0148 or stop by. New members are always welcome!

FIRST SATURDAY MASS —JANUARY 7

The Our Lady of Fatima First Saturday Family (a special group of people with special needs, their families and friends) will be gathering together on Saturday, January 7 at St. John the Evangelist Church in Bergenfield. Mass will be celebrated at 12:00 noon. After Mass and recitation of the rosary, a delicious hot luncheon will be served, free of charge, by generous members of the St. John’s parish. ALL ARE WELCOME! Our Lady of Fatima requested that on the first Saturday of each month we attend Mass and recite the Rosary, praying for peace in our world and atonement for sins. We hope you can join us. For further information, please call Joan at 201-265-5823.

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