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HOLY DAYS as announced

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

Eucharistic Adoration First Wednesday of Month

9 am—5 pm in Mary’s

Homebound/Hospital Call Parish Office.

Christian Initiation of Adults—RCIA Contact Parish Office.

PARISH REGISTRATION Contact Parish Office.

PASTOR:

Msgr. David C. Hubba

PAROCHIAL VICARS:

Rev. Andrew Park Rev. Roy Regaspi

Deacon G. Montalvo

PASTOR EMERITUS:

Rev. George M. Reilly

Oradell/New Milford, NJ Roman Catholic Church Saint Joseph

* CWV “Cross of Peace” Fundraiser TODAY

* 5 New Eagle Scouts-p. 2

* Some Great Summer Reading Ideas-pp. 3 & 6

TWELFTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME ~ June 25, 2017

Summer Hours: (Parish Office) Mon-Thurs: 9 am - 5 pm ; Fri-9 am –2 pm; (Rel. Ed.) Mon-Thurs: 10 am-4 pm (Also by appointment.)

MASS SCHEDULE Saturday 5:00 pm

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

DAILY Weekdays 7:00 am & 8:30 am

Saturday 8:30 am

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.

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“CROSS OF PEACE” FUNDRAISER THIS WEEKEND—JUNE 24-25

Members of the Catholic War Veterans will be at the Masses THIS WEEKEND for their Annual Cross of Peace Fundraiser to benefit veterans and the military services. Our members have been serving God's Church by

their service to fellow veterans, the military, families and youth in our local communities for over 65 years. Because of your generosity the CWV has been able to help the resident vets in the Veterans Home in Paramus and support the charitable programs which give aid and comfort where most needed for veterans and military personnel. Your continued support is greatly appreciated. Donations can be put in the white buckets at the doors of the church today. If you have questions about the Catholic War Veteran and its activities, and/or you would like to join our CWV Post #1710), please see Kurt Strobach (St. Joseph parishioner and Post #1710 Judge Advocate) or another member after Masses TODAY in the Harrison Street lobby. Men and women who are practicing Catholics and who have served in uniform, in all services including Coast Guard and Merchant Marine, during war time or conflict, and have been honorably discharged are invited to join. You may also contact Kurt at 201-599-8116 for more information.

Eloise Rose Traphagen Child of Cathryn and Eric

with Eloise’s great grandmothers

Jack Timothy Thorne Child of Robert and Kerri

Saint Joseph Boy Scout Troop 142’s Newest Eagle Scouts

SACRAMENT OF

BAPTISM

June 18, 2017

FIVE NEW EAGLE SCOUTS

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We are proud to announce that five members of Troop 142—all of them graduates of Saint Joseph School— were recognized this past weekend for attaining the highest rank in Boy Scouting. The requirements for Eagle take years to fulfill and the honor is earned by only four percent of Boy Scouts. Our warmest congratulations, boys! Pictured from left to right are: Joseph Carrier, Liam Reilly, Abraham Thomas Barhe, Joseph Criscuolo, and Gian Paolo Pernicone

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TWELFTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME ~ JUNE 25, 2017

FROM THE PASTOR’S DESK

Concluding this year’s book recommendations, here are some suggestions in …

History

Michael Scott’s Ancient Worlds: A Global History of Antiquity (Basic, 2016) surveys the 6th Century BC to the 4th Century AD; not only Greece and Rome, but also Carthage, Eurasia, India, China and other lands.

Christopher de Bellaigue’s The Islamic Enlightenment (Liveright, 2017) treats a subject not well known now.

Pieter M. Judson’s The Habsburg Empire: A New History (Belknap/Harvard, 2016) sees the long-lived and vastly diverse realm not as hidebound and retrograde, but as based on law and open to modern progress.

Daniel Beer’s The House of the Dead (Knopf, 2017) covers Russia’s Siberian prison camps, which were begun by the Czars and “perfected” by Stalin.

David McCullough’s The American Spirit: What We Are and What We Stand For (Simon & Schuster, 2017) collects fifteen talks by our greatest narrative historian on events and people from our nation’s story. He says Harry Truman was “neither brilliant nor eloquent,” but that he was “courageous and principled,” and that the “invisible something he brought to the office was character.” He also praises the accomplishments of the less known Benjamin Rush, a doctor, a professor and a delegate to the Continental Congress, and mentions that he was also a “vociferous champion of abstinence from hard or spirituous liquors—but then no one’s perfect.”

Bruce Chadwick’s Law and Disorder (Thomas Dunne, 2017) tells of the early days of New York policing. On a visit to New York in 1835, Davy Crockett, commenting on the city’s street criminals, said, “I would rather risk myself in an Indian fight than venture among those creatures after night.” Articles in the “penny press” newspapers of the time led to public pressure for better crime fighting. Mayor Cornelius Lawrence then started America’s first detective unit (92 untrained men) in the 1830s, and Mayor William Havemeyer created the NYPD, whose members he called “New York’s finest.” They wore star-shaped copper badges, which caused people to call them “coppers,” later shortened to “cops.”

Margaret Creighton’s The Electrifying Fall of Rainbow City (Norton, 2016) traces Buffalo’s history, from being America’s eighth-largest city in 1901 to its more recent decline because of the opening of the St. Lawrence Seaway in 1959 and a loss of industry in the 1970-80s.

Buffalo was also where President William McKinley was shot and killed by the anarchist Leon Czolgosz, who was convicted of his crime just 18 days later by a jury that needed only half an hour to deliver its verdict. Just a month later, he was among the first to show that the recently invented electric chair did indeed work.

Daniel Todman’s Britain’s War: Into Battle, 1937-1941 (Oxford, 2016) offers a modest

reassessment of Neville Chamberlain, a recognition that the UK would be hard-pressed to hold on to its empire, and a description of the hard bargain America drove for its Lend Lease aid. He says Britain could not have been on the winning side without the US and the USSR.

Giles Milton’s Churchill’s Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare (Picador, 2017) is on Britain’s SOE (Special Operations Executive), which waged creatively disruptive warfare in World War II.

Ben Macintyre’s Rogue Heroes (Crown, 2016) is about another British creation of WW II, the SAS (Special Air Service), a highly effective unit of eccentric (and sometimes criminally inclined) individuals who excelled in irregular tactics. The author describes one of them, an Ulsterman named Mayne, who became one of the most decorated soldiers of the war, referring to him as “240 pounds of highly volatile human explosive” and calling his recruitment something “like adopting a wolf: exciting, certain to instill fear, but not necessarily sensible.”

Guillaume Zeller’s The Priest Barracks: Dachau, 1938-1945 (Ignatius Press, 2017) tells of how three of the infamous concentration camp’s 30 barracks held 2,579 priests, monks and seminarians, 1, 034 of whom died.

Biography

William F. Buckley, Jr.’s A Torch Kept Lit, ed. James Rosen (Crown, 2017) is a collection of obituaries the late conservative author wrote about his wide range of friends and opponents. And not all of the friends shared his political views. Some of the best pieces are on Whittaker Chambers, Rosalyn Turek (a pianist and harpsichordist who specialized in Bach) and the actor David Niven, who, when dying of Lou Gehrig’s disease, was convulsed with laughter as he told Buckley about seeing a friend driving in the opposite direction when they were both stopped at a red light. Niven’s friend, who knew nothing about his illness, leaned out his window and asked David, “What have you got?” Niven tried to tell him that he had amytrophic lateral sclerosis,

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but the man couldn’t make out what he was saying and, just as the light changed, yelled back: “Oh? Well I’ve got a Lamborghini 500S!”

The New York Times Book of the Dead: 320 Print and 10,000 Digital Obituaries of Extraordinary People, ed. William McDonald (Black Dog and Leventhal Publishers, 2016) is a fascinating read.

Ruth Scurr’s John Aubry, My Own Life (New York Review, 2016) is about the man who wrote Brief Lives, biographical sketches of about 400 of his 17th-century English contemporaries. He also traveled the country by mule to collect objects from Roman times and his own era, not to accumulate possessions but to preserve artifacts of the past.

Candice Millard’s Hero of the Empire: The Boer War, a Daring Escape, and the Making of Winston Churchill (Doubleday, 2016) covers young Winston’s dramatic getaway after he was a POW.

Gino Segre and Bettina Hoerlin’s The Pope of Physics (Henry Holt, 2016) is on Enrico Fermi, the Nobel physicist who came to the U.S. in 1939 and developed the first nuclear reactor, which was crucial for the Manhattan Project. When he first came to offer his services to the government, he overheard an underling use an ethnic slur when the man told his boss who was there to see him. Fortunately for the Allied war effort, Fermi didn’t walk away.

Ronald C. White, Jr.’s American Ulysses: A Life of Ulysses S. Grant (Penguin Random House, 2016) has a more favorable view of the Civil War hero’s presidency than most historians, citing his actions against the KKK and his efforts to enforce the 14th Amendment through more than 3,000 indictments in 1871 alone. One reviewer, Harold Holzer, noted the good marriage Grant and his wife Julia had: “The Grants were so secure that they allowed both their crotchety old fathers—one a money-grubbing Unionist, the other an unreconstructable secessionist—to live at the White House, extending the family’s own ‘Civil War’ by a decade.”

Thomas Alexander Hughes’s Admiral Bill Halsey: A Naval Life (Harvard, 2016) tells about the great naval hero of World War II in the Pacific. Robert Mitchum said his favorite role was playing Halsey in the film Midway—because he finished the shooting in one day!

Lloyd Handwerker’s Famous Nathan (Flatiron, 2016) is about his grandfather, founder of the renowned hot dog business that started at Coney Island. Nathan slept in the back of the original stand in case anybody wandering by at 3:00 am or so would want to buy a hot dog. To allay fears that his food was unhealthy, he hired locals to dress up as doctors and eat his hot dogs in plain sight.

Our parish’s Notre Dame students may find Lisa Napoli’s Ray and Joan (Dutton, 2016) interesting. It relates the lives

of the Krocs. Ray made big money by turning “McDonald’s” into an international giant. His widow donated millions to charities, including a $5 million check to Notre Dame on the 85th birthday of its late president, Father Theodore Hesburgh. Napoli says that before she mailed it, “she sent a maid scrambling through the house to find a stamp with the new postage rate on it, so she didn’t have to overpay by using two of the old ones.”

David Kaufman’s Some Enchanted Evenings (St. Martin’s, 2016) is about the great Broadway star Mary Martin. After unforgettable roles in Peter Pan and The Sound of Music, she and her husband spent almost thirty years living on a farm in the Brazilian jungle with no phone or electricity.

Andrzej Franaszek’s Milosz: A Biography (Belknap/Harvard, 2017) describes the life of one of the greatest poets and essayists of modern times, who escaped Communist tyranny and wound up teaching in California. Czeslaw Milosz was a deeply committed Catholic whom St. John Paul II greatly respected.

Marty Appel’s Casey Stengel (Doubleday, 2017) tells of the zany manager of great Yankee teams and hopeless early Met ones, who was famous for his confusing press interviews. Casey was once an outfielder for the minor league Kanakee Kays, who were informally known as the Kanakee Lunatics because they played their home games across from the Illinois hospital for the insane. A teammate, Joe Gilligan, said, “Stengel is one fellow who won’t be here next year.” Someone asked if he would be in the Big Leagues, and Gilligan replied, “No, he’s going into that building over there.” A number of other Kays were quick to agree with him.

Philip Eade’s Evelyn Waugh (Holt, 2016) portrays the great novelist (and Catholic convert) as less irascible and less taken up with aristocratic ways than his reputation indicates. He was also self-reproachful about his faults.

Richard Askwith’s Today We Die a Little! (Norton, 2016) and Rick Broadbent’s Endurance: The Extraordinary Life and Times of Emil Zatopek (Bloomsbury, 2016) are both about the Czech long distance runner regarded as the greatest ever. He won 5 Olympic medals: 4 gold (including the first Marathon he ever attempted) and a silver, and set 18 world records. Accused of having an anti-Soviet attitude in 1968, he was stripped of his army rank and made to work as a trash collector, a well digger and a miner, before the Czech Republic gained its independence in 1990 and declared him a national hero.

Alexander Masters’ A Life Discarded (Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2016) is about an English woman who wrote the world’s longest diary: 40 million words, 148 volumes and 15,000 pages. The diary covers 1952-2001—and more of it has been lost! What survived was found in a Cambridge

dumpster. —Msgr. David Hubba

Check out more great titles suggested by parishioner Phil Follety on page 6.

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Saturday 5:00 pm

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

Monday 7:00 am 8:30 am

Tuesday 7:00 am 8:30 am

Wednesday 7:00 am 8:30 am

Thursday

7:30 am 8:30 am

Friday

7:00 am 8:30 am

Saturday 8:30 am 5:00 pm

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

PRAYER REQUESTS

Let us remember those who are ill: Elizabeth Smith, Rev. George Reilly,

Jo-Ann Ryan, Florence Bartus

Let us remember those who have recently died: Kenneth Smolinksky, Bede Nwoye Okigbo,

Ardith Leber

Let us remember those serving in the military.

SUNDAY COLLECTION Week of June 18, 2017

BASKET PARISHPAY TOTAL

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$7,446 $4,739 $12,185

BREAD & WINE INTENTIONS

The bread and wine for the week of June 25, 2017 is offered in loving memory of

Mike Weber as requested by the Gherardi Family.

TWELFTH SUNDAY IN ORDINRY TIME ~ JUNE 25, 2017

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

STEWARDSHIP REFLECTION “Everyone who acknowledges me before others I will acknowledge before my heavenly Father.” MATT 10:32 Do you share your Catholic faith with others? Do you defend your Catholic faith or do you remain silent when the situation arises? Do you pray in public before meals? Pray for the strength and courage to be a joyful witness of our Catholic faith when the opportunity presents itself.

PARISH OFFICE SUMMER HOURS Mon. -Thurs. — 9 am-5 pm; Fri. -9am-2 pm.

RELIGIOUS EDUCATION OFFICE HOURS: Mon.-Thurs.—10 am-4 pm; closed on Fridays.

EARLY DEADLINE FOR JULY 10 BULLETIN If you would like your announcement to be considered for publication in the July 10 bulletin, you must send it to bulletin@sjcnj.org NO LATER than Thursday, June 29.

REMEMBER A LOVED ONE Bread and Wine Intentions are still available. Stop by the rectory/parish office to reserve your date.

PARISH OFFICE CLOSED

Monday, July 3 and

Tuesday, July 4 in observance of Independence Day.

June 24, 2017 Vera Colonno

June 25, 2017 People of the Parish Michael J. Weber George M. Fabiano Felice Bartolomeo

June 26, 2017 Michael Kirwan, Sr. Nikolli Smajlaji

June 27, 2017 Marion “Honey” Perucca Donald O’Mara

June 28, 2017 Robert T. Gorey Edward Dalton (17th Anniversary Remembrance)

June 29, 2017 Timothy Kehoe Marilyn Kahill (1st Anniversary Remembrance)

June 30, 2017 Joseph P. Sullivan Marilyn Byrne (Living)

July 1, 2017 Enrique Heredia Bill Coogan

July 2, 2017 People of the Parish Bill Petrie Deceased Members of the Bernardi & Corso Families Deceased Members of the Piazza Family

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YOUTH GROUP REMINDER BECOME PART OF OUR

2018 CONFIRMATION TEAM! FIRST MEETING—JUNE 25

Just a reminder: Anyone who is interested in being a part of the Confirmation Retreat Team, please come to the first meeting this Sunday, June 25, in the Parish Life Center from 7:00- 9:00 pm. If you cannot make it and still want to be a part of the team, please contact our Youth Minister, Donna Cirino, either by my email at cirinod@sjcnj.org or on her cell at 201-362-8783. She is looking forward to seeing everyone there!

Some of these nonfiction titles have just been published, but others have been on the shelves of my library for some time.

Among the more recent titles I would recommend:

JFK and the Reagan Revolution: A Secret History of American Prosperity by Lawrence Kudlow and Brian Domitrovic (Portfolio, 2016) shows how President Reagan’s revitalization of John F. Kennedy’s 1962 foray into supply side economics with tax cuts, sound money and minimal regulation triggered prosperity and growth in the ‘80s.

Strangers in a Strange Land: Living the Catholic Faith in a Post-Christian World, by Charles Chaput, Archbishop of Philadelphia (Holt, 2017) revisits American exceptionalism and love of country as an essential part of its Christian heritage, where we are now and how we got here with inspiring reasons for hope for American Christianity in the future.

The Romanovs 1613-1918 by Simon Sebag Montefiore (Knopf, 2016) presents an itimate history, more like an extended scandal sheet, of 20 tsars and tsarinas of the 300-year dynasty from Michael to Peter the Great to Catherine the Great to Alexander III and Nicholas II. Montefiore thoughtfully includes a “Cast of Characters” listing ahead of each chapter to keep numerous Russian names straight.

Adios America by Ann Coulter (Regnery, 2015) is an eye-opening appraisal of the underside of illegal immigration and calls, at last, for an honest debate on the subject. Lively, provocative, and often humorous, the author marshals copious research in defense of the proposition that we need to secure our borders before it’s too late.

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And among the older titles:

Napoleon: A Life by British historian Andrew Roberts (Viking, 2014) is a definitive work charting the Corsican’s rise through the military ranks to General at age 24 to Emperor, then to exile. All the military campaigns are presented here against a background of Napoleon’s intellectual achievements in advancing France in science, law and governance.

Fateful Lightning: A New History of the Civil War and Reconstruction by Allen C. Guelzo (Oxford Press, 2012) may be the best one-volume multi-dimensional contribution to the ever-growing literature on the era since James McPherson’s Battle Cry of Freedom. Both books are highly recommended.

Fracture: Life and Culture in the West 1918-1938 by Philipp Blom (Basic Books, 2015) is a fascinating year-by-year assortment of topics in Europe and the United States during these tumultuous interwar decades. Chapters are dedicated to prohibition, the new Soviet state and the Red Scare, the Scopes trial, the decadence and hedonism of the late 20s, the movies, and the Spanish Civil War. See also the author’s Vertigo Years: Europe, 1900-1914.

The Cold War: A New History, by John Lewis Gaddis (Penguin Press, 2005) is a succinct and authoritative recapitulation of the post WW II era showdown between the U.S. and the late Soviet Union from 1945 to 1989 written for his students too young to remember, but also a bracing reminder for us older readers. Here are the confrontations between Kennedy and Khrushchev, Nixon’s trip to China, and the cooperation between Reagan, Thatcher, and John Paul II that freed Eastern Europe and brought about the end of the Soviet Union.

—Phil Follety

A PARISHIONER’S PICKS MORE GREAT READS

Monsignor Hubba reached out to parishioner Phil Follety, an avid reader of history, for some book titles that he would recommend. Here they are!

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