SACRAMENT OF BAPTISM Every third (3rd) Saturday in English 10:30 AM - Spanish 11:30 AM Every Saturday in Spanish: 11:00 AM Please contact the Cathedral Office.

SACRAMENT OF MARRIAGE Arrangements must be made at least six (6) months in advance. Please contact the Cathedral Office.

SACRAMENT OF RECONCILIATION / CONFESSION Every Saturday: 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM 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, please contact the Cathedral Office.

FUNERALS Please contact the Cathedral Office for information.

RELIGIOUS EDUCATION Classes are held on Sunday.

HIGH SCHOOL YOUTH MINISTRY, YOUNG PROPHETS Meeting Every Friday: 7:00 PM to 9:30 PM

EXPOSITION OF THE MOST BLESSED SACRAMENT Every Friday after the 12:30 PM Mass until the 7:00 PM Mass.

CATHEDRAL OF SAINT JOHN THE BAPTIST

THE EPIPHANY OF THE LORD JANUARY 5, 2020

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. Luis Gil

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

Director of Cathedral Music Ms. Jessica Mattiace

Office Manager Mrs. Amparo Castellanos

Coordinators of Catechesis Mrs. Ivannia Vega-McTighe Mrs. Sylvia Ortiz

Coordinator of Youth Ministry, Young Prophets Bryany Alvarez

Parish Secretaries Ms. Ana Amezquita Mrs. Sonia Aljallad Mrs. Sonia Vargas

Janitor/Custodian Mr. Carlos Mendez

MASS SCHEDULE / HORARIOS DE MISAS

WEEKEND MASSES: SATURDAY: 5:00 PM (English and Latin) 7:00 PM (Spanish)

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

WEEKDAY MASSES: (Chapel of Our Lady) MONDAY THRU FRIDAY / LUNES A VIERNES 12:30 PM (English) 7:00 PM (Spanish)

1st SATURDAY of the Month: 9:00 AM

HOLY DAY MASSES: 12:30 PM (English) 7:00 PM (Español)

HOLY HOUR Every Monday following 7:00 PM Mass

CATHEDRAL OFFICE 387-389 Grand Street, Paterson, NJ 07505 Mon. - Fri.: 9:00 am to 8:00 pm Saturday: 9:00 am to 5:00 pm Sunday: 11:00 am to 1:00 pm Main: 973-345-4070 Fax: 973-345-7831 Email: info@rcdopcathedral.org Web: www.rcdopcathedral.org

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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.

Founded: 1820 Families: 890

New Catechetical and Educational Building ~ Nuevo Edificio Catequético y Educativo

For further information on how you may participate in this important building project, please call 973-345-4070 or visit our website at www.rcdopcathedral.org

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EPIPHANY OF THE LORD JANUARY 5, 2020

MASS INTENTIONS-INTENCIONES PARA LA MISA SATURDAY/SABADO JANUARY 4 9:00 am (Español) En Honor a la Santísima Virgen Maria 5:00 pm (English) Health: Kevin Walsh, Bernard Riley Health: Anne Marie Brennan 7:00 pm (Español) †Nidia Isabel Yepes †Gustavo Yepes †Flora Sanchez †Ana Brito †Jose Bisono Salud: Maria Samaritano, Anabella Moharita, Miriam Nuñez SUNDAY/DOMINGO JANUARY 5 8:30 am (English) †Holy Souls in Purgatory Health Kevin Walsh, Bernard Riley, Anne Marie Brennan 10:00am (Español) †Gladys Botello †Ana Brito †Luis Aponte †Vilma Quiroz †Jose Bisono Salud: Anabella Moharita, Maria Samaritano, Fr. Mark Giordani Salud: Jose Lopez, Miriam Nuñez 11:30 am (English) †Jose Bisono Health Kevin Walsh, Bernard Riley Health: Anne Marie Brennan 1:00 pm (Español) Acc. Grac. al Señor de los Milagros †Luis Gutierrez †Fausto William Albarran Salud: Robert Herrera, Miriam Nuñez MONDAY/LUNES JANUARY 6 12:30 pm (English) †Holy Souls in Purgatory 7:00 pm (Español) Acc. Grac. A San Judas Tadeo †Jose Jesus Gamboa Zuluaga Salud: María Samaritano, Miriam Nuñez Salud: Julio Gamboa Zuluaga, Edison Gamboa Zuluaga TUESDAY/MARTES JANUARY 7 12:30 pm (English) †Holy Souls in Purgatory 7:00 pm (Español) †Jose Otoniel Zuluaga Pineda WEDNESDAY/MIERCOLES JANUARY 8 12:30 pm (English) †Holy Souls in Purgatory 7:00 pm (Español) Novena en honor a Nuestra Señora de la Altagracia Salud: Julio Gamboa Zuluaga Alud: Edison Gamboa Zuluaga THURSDAY/JUEVES JANUARY 9 12:30 pm (English) †Holy Souls in Purgatory

7:00 pm (Español) †Jose Robles Castillo Novena en honor a Nuestra Señora de la Altagracia FRIDAY/VIERNES JANUARY 10 12:30 pm (English) †Manuel Esteban Martinez Sr. 7:00 pm (Español) Novena en honor a Nuestra Señora de la Altagracia †Teodora Figueroa (4to mes)

Thank you to all who have made a

pledge to our Cathedral Building project. We are so grateful for

your participation in this important initiative for the

future of the Cathedral! If you have not yet made a pledge, it is

not too late to participate.

We hope to have as many of our Cathedral family a part of

this incredible legacy that we will be leaving behind for future

generations!

DECEMBER 21-22, 2019 COLLECTION/COLECTA

$7,043.77

A Grateful Heart Thank you for your enthusiastic and generous support for

your new Catechetical and Educational Building! Your support of our campaign, “Building on Tradition”, means

so much to so many. Please keep our mission and our project in your prayers.

Msgr. Geno

Un Corazón Agradecido ¡Gracias por tu entusiasmo y generoso apoyo para el

nuevo edificio catequético y educativo! Tu apoyo a nuestra campaña, "Construyendo sobre la tradición", significa demasiado para muchos. Por favor mantén nuestra misión y nuestro proyecto en tus oraciones.

Mons. Geno

Hymns for 8:30 and 11:30 Masses From the red Missalette

Hymns for 8:30 and 11:30 Masses Processional – We Three Kings #222 Offertory – We Three Kings (cont.) Communion – The First Noel #322

Closing – Hark! The Herald Angels Sing #336

The Universal Vocation to Holiness is the Universal Vocation to Love

The universal vocation to holiness has no other name than the universal vocation to love as Christ has revealed it. The vocation to this revealed love is absolute, because it requires a complete and total giving of oneself without asking anything in exchange. We are called to love “with our whole heart, with our whole soul, with all of our strength”. We are thus in the presence of the absence of measurement which obliges us to accept as the only proper measurement that which was achieved by Jesus of Nazareth on the Cross: “giving it all” and going “until the end”, and “forever”, without asking in return.

The one who follows Christ and consecrates his or her existence to Him knows that

this love endures everything, except one thing: that we place limits on that love. Saint Theresa of the Child Jesus, in her autobiography, offers a commentary on love: "When I looked upon the mystical body of the Church, I recognized myself in none of the members which St. Paul described, and what is more, I desired to distinguish myself more favorably within the whole body. Love appeared to me to be the hinge for my vocation. Indeed, I knew that the Church had a body composed of various members, but in this body the necessary and more noble member was not lacking; I knew that the Church had a heart and that such a heart appeared to be aflame with love. I knew that one love drove the members of the Church to action, that if this love were extinguished, the apostles would have proclaimed the Gospel no longer, the martyrs would have shed their blood no more. I saw and realized that love sets off the bounds of all vocations, that love is everything, that this same love embraces every time and every place. In one word, that love is everlasting. Then, nearly ecstatic with supreme joy in my soul, I proclaimed: O Jesus, my love, at last I have found my calling: my call is love. Certainly I have found my proper place in the Church, and you gave me that very place, my God. In the heart of the Church, my mother, I will be love, and thus I will be all things, as my desire finds its direction.”

My dear friends, as we begin this new year, the 200th anniversary of our parish

community of St. John the Baptist, it is important for each one of us to recognize the important role that we each play in the life of our community. Each one of us has been called to love and evangelize in a unique way. God has entrusted to each one of us this important vocation and, it is when we live this vocation that we grow along the way of holiness and get ever closer to Heaven!

Msgr. Geno Sylva

From the Rector’s Desk

La Vocación Universal a la Santidad es la Vocación Universal al Amor La vocación universal a la santidad no tiene otro nombre que la vocación universal a

amar como Cristo lo ha revelado. La vocación a este amor revelado es absoluta, porque requiere una completa entrega y total de uno mismo sin pedir nada a cambio. Estamos llamados a amar "con todo nuestro corazón, con toda nuestra alma, con todas nuestras fuerzas". Por lo tanto, estamos en presencia de la ausencia de medidas que nos obliga a aceptar la única medida adecuada que logró Jesús de Nazaret en la Cruz: "darlo todo" e ir "hasta el final" y "por siempre", sin pedir nada a cambio.

Quien sigue a Cristo y consagra su existencia a Él sabiendo que este amor lo soporta

todo, excepto una cosa: El ponernos límites a ese amor. Santa Teresa del Niño Jesús, en su autobiografía, habla sobre el amor: "Cuando miré el cuerpo místico de la Iglesia, no me reconocí en ninguno de los miembros que San Pablo describió, y, lo que, es más, deseé distinguirme más favorablemente dentro de todo el cuerpo. El amor me pareció la bisagra de mi vocación. De hecho, sabía que la Iglesia tenía un cuerpo compuesto por varios miembros, pero en este cuerpo no faltaba el miembro necesario y más noble; Sabía que la Iglesia tenía un corazón y que ese corazón parecía estar en llamas de amor. Sabía que un amor conducía a los miembros de la Iglesia a la acción, que, si ese amor se hubiera extinguido, los apóstoles no habrían proclamado el Evangelio por más tiempo, los mártires ya no habrían derramado su sangre. Vi y me di cuenta que el amor marca los límites de todas las vocaciones, que el amor lo es todo, que este mismo amor abarca cada vez y en cualquier lugar. En una palabra, ese amor es eterno. Entonces, casi extasiado con gran alegría en mi alma, proclamé: Oh Jesús, mi amor, por fin he encontrado mi llamado: mi llamado es el amor. Ciertamente, he encontrado mi lugar apropiado en la Iglesia, y tú me diste ese lugar, Dios mío. En el corazón de la Iglesia, mi madre, seré amor, y así seré todo, a medida que mi deseo encuentre su dirección ".

Mis queridos amigos, al comenzar este nuevo año, el 200 aniversario de nuestra

comunidad parroquial San Juan Bautista, es importante que cada uno de nosotros reconozca el importante papel que desempeñamos en la vida de nuestra comunidad. Cada uno de nosotros ha sido llamado a amar y evangelizar de una manera única. ¡Dios nos ha confiado a cada uno de nosotros esta importante vocación y es cuando vivimos esta vocación que crecemos en el camino de la santidad y nos acercamos cada vez más al Cielo!

Mons. Geno Sylva

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