The Roman Catholic Parish of St. Vincent de Paul 250 Bebout Avenue Stirling, New Jersey 07980 Phone: (908) 647-0118 Fax: (908) 647-5992 Parish Office—908-647-0118 In an emergency call 973-222-0720 Parish website: stvincentschurch.org Parish email: [email protected]PASTORAL STAFF Fr. A. Richard Carton, Pastor [email protected]Fr. William (Bill) Mooney Weekend Assistant Elena Bird Zolnick 907-953-0128 Director of Sacred Music [email protected]Vincent G. Clarke 908-647-4926 Organist Sr. Krystyna Dziadkowiec Pastoral Associate [email protected]Sr. Elsa Jeronimo, C.S.JB. Director of Social Outreach [email protected]Deirdre Nemeth 908-647-0421 Director of Faith Formation [email protected]Sr. Niky Burgos C.S.JB. Youth Minister [email protected]Peter O’Neill, Deacon 908-647-7258 [email protected]Parish Trustees Alan Tangreti and Timothy Wallisch PARISH OFFICE STAFF John Castagna Business and Facilities Manager [email protected]Vera Castagna Parish Secretary [email protected]Maria DeLuca Faith Formation Secretary [email protected]Teri Kesselmeyer Technology and Communications [email protected]We are a Catholic community rooted in the Eucharist and committed to the poor. Sunday Mass Schedule (Vigil Mass) Saturday —5:00PM Sunday 8:30AM and 10:30AM Confession: Saturday at 4PM or other days by appointment. Weekday Mass Schedule 8:30AM Monday—Saturday “It would be easier for the world to survive without the sun than to do so without the Holy Mass.” St. Padre Pio
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The Roman Catholic Parish of St. Vincent de Paul 250 Bebout Avenue
Stirling, New Jersey 07980 Phone: (908) 647-0118 Fax: (908) 647-5992
WEDNESDAY August 22nd The Queenship of the Blessed Virgin Mary 8:30AM Sr. Krystyna Dziadkowiec (Living)
Joseph Galante Msgr. Patrick Brown
THURSDAY August 23rd Saint Rose of Lima, Virgin 8:30AM Anastasia Dolman (Living) Sarah Daken Carolyn Bednarski
FRIDAY August 24th Saint Bartholomew, Apostle
8:30AM Elsie Mills Helen Enright James Hurley, Jr.
SATURDAY August 25th Saint Louis
Saint Joseph Calasanz, Priest 8:30AM Irma Scelba Erich “Rick” Binner Deceased members of the Conant and McSweeney Families
Twenty-First Sunday in Ordinary Time
5:00PM (Vigil) Anne King John Harty, Sr. Peter and Louise Cipparulo
SUNDAY August 26th 8:30AM Beverly Guldner Michael Loughery Willard and Gretchen Dolman
10:30AM Mary Keller Deceased members of the parish Deceased members of the Syrotiuk Family
The 6:00PM Sunday Mass will resume
on September 9th.
Weekend of August 11th and August 12th
Total collected at Masses: $9,108
Online We Share: $3,417
Total Offered: $12,525
Thank you to those who support the mission of the parish.
Daily Mass Readings Monday Ez 24:15-24; Mt 19:16-22 Tuesday Ez 28:1-10; Mt 19:23-30 Wednesday Ez 34:1-11; Mt 20:1-16 Thursday Ez 36:23-28; Mt 22:1-14 Friday Rv 21:9b-14; Jn 1:45-51 Saturday Ez 43:1-7ab; Mt 23:1-12
There are families who are constantly in need of basic food items that most of us usually shop for weekly. However, some families are just not able to do that. The St. Vincent de Paul Food Pantry has been in existence for over 20 years and we have provided help to many families by welcoming them to the Food Pantry in order to provide them with the necessary items to feed them and their children. We serve an average of 45 families monthly. The Food Pantry is open to “clients” on the third Wednesday of each month. It takes coordinating, planning and organizing to run the pantry and to serve all these families. Now we need your help! Our volunteer coordinator is retiring and we are looking for someone who is interested in social outreach, especially to the poor and the hungry. We are looking for a new Food Pantry Coordinator. If you are interested in finding out more about this ministry please call Sr. Elsa Jeronimo at 908-2 9 5 - 4 9 4 4 o r b y e m a i l t o [email protected]
Five times a day ordained ministers, those in Consecrated Life, and many in the Laity pray the Liturgy of the Hours, also known as the Divine Office. It is the daily prayer of the Church, marking the hours of each day and sanctifying the day with prayer. The Hours are a meditative dialogue on the mystery of Christ, using scripture and prayer. The Hours consist of the Office of Readings, Morning Prayer, Midday Prayer, Evening Prayer and Night Prayer. Within the Hours is reading and reflecting on the Scripture—psalms and readings from Scripture along with various prayers of praise and petition which are prayed by the individual for the good of the whole Church. I have the great blessing of being able to pray the Divine Office in my chapel in the rectory. While John Calabro was here during the summer we prayed the Liturgy of the Hours together and it was good to have another to share that time of prayer with. In addition to the texts from Sacred Scripture, within the Office of Readings is to be found writings by and on the Saints from the life of faith. The most brilliant insights, consolations, and encouragements are offered in those writings. To be honest, there have been times when the readings speak clearly and, at other times perhaps due to my own tiredness or lack of connectedness, the writings do not seem to speak directly to me. On Saturday, August 11 I read from the writings of St. Catherine of Siena (March 25, 1347 – April 29, 1380) from a dialogue, On Divine Providence, under the title of The Bonds of Love. St. Catherine, who is a Doctor of the Church, showed deep insight into the mystery of death and lived a very interesting life at a most challenging time. What follows is the section I read from and which was most edifying and helpful to me: My sweet Lord, look with mercy upon your people and especially upon the mystical body of your Church. Greater glory is given to your name for pardoning a multitude of your creatures than if I alone were pardoned for my great sins against your majesty. It would be no consolation for me to enjoy your life if your holy people stood in death. For I see that sin darkens the life of your bride the Church—my sin and the sins of others. It is a special grace I ask for, this pardon for the creatures you have made in your image and likeness. When you created man, you were moved by love to make him in your own image. Surely only love could so dignify your creatures. But I know very well that man lost the dignity you gave him; he deserved to lose it, since he had committed sin. Moved by love and wishing to reconcile the human race to yourself, you gave us your only-begotten Son. He became our mediator and our justice by taking on all our injustice and sin out of obedience to your will, eternal Father, just as you willed that he take on our human nature. What an immeasurably profound love! Your Son went down from the heights of his divinity to the depths of our humanity. Can anyone’s heart remain closed and hardened after this? We image your divinity, but you image our humanity in that union of the two which you have worked in a man. You have veiled the Godhead in a cloud, in the clay of our humanity. Only your love could so dignify the flesh of Adam. And so by reason of this immeasurable love I beg, with all the strength of my soul, that you freely extend your mercy to all your lowly creatures.
St. Catherine of Siena shows a deep love for the Church at her time. Plagued by corruption, laxity in witness and great confusion she knew that beginning with her own conversion she could plead with God for the conversion of those who were not living a unitive relationship through Christ. St. Catherine was strong and determined as were many of our sisters and brothers in the Communion of Saints and, while it certainly was not easy for them, it was because of their witness that they afforded hope and encouragement to others.
In these days I pray that you have drawn closer in prayer to Christ, especially as we listen these Sundays to the sixth chapter of the Gospel of John, referred to as the Bread of Life discourses, where Jesus urges us to find strength and renewal in and through His abiding presence, especially in the Eucharist and at Mass. May He draw us close, strengthen our hearts, renew our courage and confirm our faith by His merciful gaze. Let us continue to pray for one another.
Peace,
Fr. Richard
May your Mercy be on us O Lord, as we place our trust in You
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PLEASE REMEMBER IN YOUR PRAYERS
Those who serve in the military: Calla Ann Armenti, Dylan T. Jones, James Minogue, Stephen J. Campbell, Sean Milde, Frank Fasano, Richard Lister, Eric Leverone, Jay Donato, Frank Messina, Eileen Murphy, Peter Giovanni, John E. Siedler IV
Those who are ill:
Cecile Fountain Jardim, Eric Garcia, Judy Quaely, Jim and Sandra Fittin, Jane Moran, Frank Critelli, Cathy Bognar, John Daglian, Parker Watson, Annette McGrory, Lou Aroneo, Patrick Bergin, Lucy Bustillos, Paula Matchen, May Hill, Caitlin Shea, Bill Wallisch, Larry Oster, Nanci Gamba, Elizabeth Early and Helen Munro.
Those who have died to this world
Lynne Johansen and Mary Sagan Requiescat in Pace
May all the faithful who have departed this world
rest in your eternal peace. Amen
READINGS FOR NEXT SUNDAY
First Reading: Joshua 24:1-2a, 15-17, 18b Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel and told them if it did not please them to serve God, then they must decide who they would serve. The people claimed that God had brought them out of slavery and protected them on their journey. Therefore, they would serve, the Lord their God, and no one else.
Second Reading: Ephesians 5:21-32 or 5:2a, 25-32
Husbands and wives should love one another as Christ loved the Church. They should nourish and care for each other as Christ cared for the church. Through the union between the two, they become one.\
Gospel: John 6:60-69 Many of Jesus' followers were still disturbed by his teaching of the living bread, which they could not yet fully understand. Jesus explained that the Spirit gives life, and flesh is unimportant. Some of the disciples decided to leave. Jesus asked if the Twelve also wanted to leave. Although they do not completely understand yet, they have enough faith in Jesus to stay because they believe he is God's holy one.
RCIA and the Blessing of Marriages
Adults who desire to be baptized, those who are members of other Christian communities, or those who have not yet received the Sacrament of Confirmation and would like to be initiated or complete their initiation into the Sacramental life of the Roman Catholic Church are invited to consider doing so. Any adult who has the desire are asked to contact Fr. Richard so that they may be given more information and direction.
If any couple in the parish are married but have not had their marriage blessed by the Church, and for whom there is no impediment in doing so, they are invited to contact Fr. Richard for information on having their marriage blessed.
You can contact Fr. Richard in person, by phone 9 0 8 - 6 4 7 - 0 1 1 8 o r b y e m a i l [email protected].
We ask Our Lady of Guadalupe to “intercede for the healings of our nation and our people from decades of abortion on demand.” Join the U.S. Bishops for a Novena of 9 Fridays for the Legal Protection of Human Life. Sign up by visiting www.usccb.org/pray. The Novena is prayed on Fridays and concludes on Friday, September 28th.
PRO LIFE NOVENA
St. Vincent de Paul’s 1st through 10th grade Faith Formation program offers a combination of grade level classroom sessions and Family Faith events all centered around the Mass. Family Faith is designed to help foster a deeper understanding, love and sharing of the Catholic faith for the whole family and parish community. This format promotes the family as being the most important influence in a child’s faith life.
Registration for Faith Formation for grades 1 through 10 is available on the parish website.
First Communion preparation is a two year process beginning in 1st grade. If your child will be new to the program please contact Deirdre N e m e t h a t 9 0 8 - 6 4 7 - 0 4 2 1 o r [email protected] for additional information.
Reborn through the waters of Baptism and the outpouring of the Holy Spirit, we embrace:
Isla Grace Buchanan daughter of James and Stefanie
claimed now for the fullness of eternal life.
ST. VINCENT DE PAUL WOMENS RETREAT
God Will Meet You Where You Are. Fr. Peter Krebs, S.T. is this year’s Spiritual Director for the Retreat which will take place on Friday, September 28th through Sunday September 30th. The Retreat will be held at Delbarton Retreat Center, Mendham, NJ. The fee is $235 which includes single or double room accommodations and 5 meals. Registration is now available on the parish website. For questions please contact Teri Kesselmeyer at the parish office.
The Knights of Columbus will be sponsoring a 50’s & 60’s DOO WOP Dinner Dance Party. The evening will feature live music featuring a Rhythm & Blues Trio. The dance party will be held on Saturday, October 6th. The evening will begin at 7:00pm until 11:00pm and
will take place in the Pastoral Center Gym. More information to follow.
CYO Boys and Girls Basketball Tryouts will be conducted on the following dates: for 3rd/4th grade boys-Sept. 11th from 6:30pm to 7:45pm; for 5th/6th grade boys-Sept. 12th and 17th from 6:15pm to 7:30pm; for 7th/8th grade boys-Sept. 12th and 17th from 7:45pm to 9:00pm; for 5th/6th grade girls and 7th/8th grade girls-Sept. 13th and 18th from 6:15pm to 7:30pm.We are also looking for someone to coach the girls’ teams. Tryouts will take place in the St. Vincent de Paul Pastoral Center Gym. For information and/or questions please contact Mike Wizeman at [email protected].
KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS BLOOD DRIVE
The Knights of Columbus are sponsoring a Blood Drive on Monday, August 27th from 3:30pm to 8:00pm in the Church Meeting Room. Donor registration will take place in the vestibule of the church after Masses this weekend and
next weekend. Please consider being a blood donor. For further information please contact Ken Schaefer at 732-356-6148.
LIFE FACTS...DID YOU KNOW?
One promotor of the contraception movement was Paul Ehrlich’s book, The Population Explosion, published in 1968. Predictions that overpopulation would deplete the world’s resources led governments to mandate population control measures, such as China’s one child policy.
Today, worldwide fertility rates have dropped from 5.0 to 2.4 children per woman. In the US, the CDC reports the fertility rate at 1.76 children per woman, a sharp drop from 2.08 a decade ago. Europe’s rates are lower, resulting in economic and labor effects from under population! (Steven Mosher, Columbia Magazine, July 2018.)
The Diocesan Commission for Catholic Filipino Ministries invites you to the annual c e l e b r a t i o n honoring their two
Filipino saints: San Lorenzo Ruiz and San Pedro Calungsod on Sunday September 23rd. Mass will be celebrated by Bishop Arthur Serratelli at 3:30pm at the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist, 381 Grand St., Paterson. Immediately after Mass there will be a “merienda cena,” a welcoming Filipino light snack reception and fellowship at the Bishop Rodimer Center. Free parking is available at the County Garage across from the Rodimer Center. Call Emma Militante at 908-604-0075 for more information.
THE CELEBRATION OF FILIPINO SAINTS
Save the Date! The Rosary Altar Society is hosting their annual Women’s Communion Brunch on Sunday, October 14th following the 10:30am Mass in the Pastoral Center Gym. The
guest speaker will be Sr. Nadine Fodor. All women from the parish are invited along with other family members and friends. More information to follow.
“Extend your mercy towards others, so that there can be no one in need whom you meet without helping.” St. Vincent de Paul
FOOD PANTRY NEEDS The following items are greatly needed to replenish our Food Pantry: Jelly, Pancake Mix, Canned Pinto Beans, Refried Beans, Dry Small Red Beans, Vegetable Soup, Chicken Noodle Soup, Canned Pears, Canned
Beets, Tomato Sauce, Pasta (Spaghetti, Penne), Peanut Butter, Salmon, Boxed Potatoes, Coffee, Hot Chocolate and Honey Nut Cheerios. Please bring all items to the basket in the church set aside for food pantry items. Thank you for assisting those most in need.
Pope Francis has approved a new revision of paragraph number 2267 of the Catechism of the Catholic Church, according to which “a new understanding has emerged of the significance of penal sanctions imposed by the state,” thus “the death penalty is inadmissible.” The decision was announced by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith in a ‘Letter to the Bishops’ dated 1 August and signed by the Prefect, Cardinal Luis Francisco Ladaria.
The new text reads: 2267. Recourse to the death penalty on the part of legitimate authority, following a fair trial, was long considered an appropriate response to the gravity of certain crimes and an acceptable, albeit extreme, means of safeguarding the common good.
Today, however, there is an increasing awareness that the dignity of the person is not lost even after the commission of very serious crimes. In addition, a new understanding has emerged of the significance of penal sanctions imposed by the state. Lastly, more effective systems of detention have been developed, which ensure the due protection of citizens but, at the same time, do not definitively deprive the guilty of the possibility of redemption.
Consequently, the Church teaches, in the light of the Gospel, that “the death penalty is inadmissible because it is an attack on the inviolability and dignity of the person”,[1] and she works with determination for its abolition worldwide.” Pray for an end to all attacks on the sanctity of each life from conception through natural death.
The Sisters of Mercy 24th Annual Golf Classic will take place on Tuesday, September 25th at the Spring Lake Golf Club. For all the details on this event, which benefits our retired Sisters, please call Linda Cavallo at 908-756-0994 ext . 4006 or email [email protected].
Loyola Jesuit Center is sponsoring their 27th Annual Golf Outing in memory of Fr. Harvey Haberstroh, S.J. The outing will be held on Monday October 1st at the Spring Brook Country Club, Morristown. A dinner and live/silent auction will follow golf. If interested, please visit www.loyola.org for information and registration.
Memorial Bricks are still available for purchase in the Our Lady of Fatima Garden. The brick will be engraved with your name or the name of a family member, friend or loved one and will be placed in the patio to ensure a remembrance of them. Forms are available at the parish office.
DEATH PENALTY IS INADMISSIBLEER
St. Patrick School, 45 Chatham St., Chatham is one of only four Catholic Elementary
schools in the nation to be STEM certified. Consider the benefits of a parish school
environment where Gospel values are combined with Blue Ribbon academics.
Learn more on Walk-In Wednesdays. Stop by on any Wednesday between 9:00am and 11:00am for a guided tour or call 973-635-2311 to schedule
a time that works for you and your family.
The Meals for Moms Ministry seeks to support families who have just welcomed a new baby. We are happy to provide several meals to
these families during this special time.
Please contact Danielle Grieco at [email protected] for more information.
If you can help by cooking one meal please email Danielle.
“Give your hands to serve and your hearts to love.” St. Teresa of Calcutta
