Very Rev. Dennis A. Nikolić, V.F., Pastor Rev. Seán M. Connolly, Parochial Vicar Rev. Simon Nwachukwu, Hospital Chaplain Deacon Richard Trapani Deacon Albert Loeffler Deacon Alexander Gapay

ST. JOSEPH’S CEMETERY

Parish Office: 845-343-6013

RELIGIOUS EDUCATION Coordinator: Ms. Linda Byrons: 845-343-4415

SUNDAY MASS Saturday evening: 5:30 Sunday morning: 7:00, 9:00, 9:00 (Latin), 11:30 Sunday afternoon: 1:00 -- en Español

DAILY MASS Monday – Friday: 7:30 a.m. and 12:10 p.m. Wednesday: 7:00 p.m. -- en Español Saturday: 8:00 a.m.

HOLY DAYS Mass and Confession schedule announced ahead of time.

CONFESSIONS

Saturdays: 4:15-5:00 p.m. and 7:30-8:00 p.m.

Other occasions as announced Also by appointment

BAPTISMS For registered parishioners, by appointment, after instruction. Sundays at 2:30 p.m.; second through last Sunday in English, first Sunday in Spanish.

PARENT BAPTISMAL INSTRUCTION Meetings in the Parish Center

English: Third Saturday, 9:15-10:15 a.m. Spanish: Fourth Saturday, 9:00-10:00 a.m.

MARRIAGES

For registered parishioners. Arrangements must be made at least 6 months in advance.

PASTORAL VISITS

Communion for the home-bound and anointing of the sick: please call the Rectory: 845-343-6013.

RITE OF CHRISTIAN INITIATION (RCIA)

For adults interested in becoming Catholics and for Catholics who need to receive Communion and/or Confirmation: please call the Rectory: 845-343-6013.

LITURGY

Eucharistic Ministers: Coordinator, Deacon Trapani Lector Coordinator: Mr. Martin Suchy Organist: Mr. Joseph Bertolozzi

DEVOTIONS

Perpetual Adoration In Chapel: 24 hours a day, . 7 days a week.

Miraculous Medal Novena: Mondays, 7:00 p.m. First Friday: Holy Hour 8:00-9:00 p.m. First Saturday: Rosary after the 8:00 a.m. Mass First Saturday: Holy Hour 7:00 – 8:00 p.m. in Spanish Rosary Crusade for Life: First Sunday of the month, . 4:00-5:00 p.m.

PARISH SERVICES

Food Pantry: Wednesdays 10:00 a.m. -12:00 noon Senior Dining: Serving lunch Mon.-Fri. 845-956-1428 Parish Website: www.SJChurch.com Parish E-Mail: Parish@SJChurch.com Youth Group: Meetings are held at 7:00 p.m. in the

Parish Center Gymnasium. For High School and Students in Grade 8: February 16, March 1, March 15 and March 22.

FIFTH SUNDAY OF

Church of St. Joseph 149 Cottage Street , Middletown, N.Y. 10940 (845) 343-6013 www.SJChurch.com

Welcome to Our Parish

TThe Sixth Sunday in

Ordinary Time

February 16, 2020 Sexagesima Sunday

SIXTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME FEBRUARY 16, 2020

for the Week of February 16 – February 23

SAT: 5:30 pm Ralph & Laura Zambrana SUN: 7:00 am All Parishioners Living & Deceased 9:00 am Bernice Lutrario & Marianne Polizzano

LATIN: 9:00 am Waldirco Aro 11:30 am Victor Loperfido Sr. 1:00 pm Ignacia Luna Galicia MON: 7:30 am Chris Arnita 12:10 pm Antonio & Filomena Levato TUE: 7:30 am Maria Rudic 12:10 pm Andrew Brezina WED: 7:30 am Onofrio Moliterno 12:10 pm Rocco Grcic 7:00 pm – por los difuntos -- THUR: 7:30 am All Priests Living & Deceased 12:10 pm In Honor of St. Lucy FRI: 7:30 am Rose & Giovanni Biasi 12:10 pm Albert Wiggenhauser SAT: 8:00 am Vincent & Maria Mingolla & Family 5:30 pm Thomas, Catherine, John & James Stanford SUN: 7:00 am All Parishioners Living & Deceased 9:00 am Pietro, Maria, Concetta & Giovanni Scumaci

LATIN: 9:00 am Anonymous Personal Intention 11:30 am Juana Calixto 1:00 pm – por los difuntos --

Note: Mondays through Fridays, 12:10 p.m. Mass is offered for an increase in vocations. An additional

intention may be requested.

+ PRAY FOR + Beverly Petrozak, Alfred Beairsto, Anne Grasse

BISHOP COLACICCO TO VISIT

The Most Reverend Gerardo J. Colacicco, will make a pastoral visit to our Parish next Sunday, February 23 and will offer both the 9:00 a.m. Mass and the 1:00 p.m. Spanish Mass. The Bishop would like to join us at the hospitality coffee hour after the 9:00 a.m. Mass. He looks forward to greeting as many parishioners as possible during his visit with us. Bishop Colacicco was consecrated on December 10 with Bishop Edmund Whalen. Bishop Colacicco has been pastor of Sacred Heart Parish in Newburgh, Saint Columba in Hopewell Junction, and at Saint Joseph- Immaculate Conception, Millbrook. He also has served on the Metropolitan Tribunal of the archdiocese, and for four years, as Director of Pastoral Formation at Saint Joseph’s Seminary. He was named a Prelate of Honor of His Holiness by Pope John Paul II in 1999. He now serves as Episcopal Vicar for Dutchess, Ulster, Sullivan and Orange counties.

ST. JOSEPH’S YOUTH GROUP

Our youth group will meet this Sunday, February 16, at 7:00 p.m. in the Parish Center Gymnasium. All eighth- grade and high school-aged students are welcome. Upcoming youth-group meetings will be held March 1, March 15 and March 22.

KRISPY KREME FUND RAISER

Our Youth Group wishes to thank everyone who supported our Krispy Kreme fund raiser. It was a great success and we hope to hold this fund raiser again soon.

PERPETUAL ADORATION

Perpetual Adoration is a Eucharistic devotion whereby members of a given parish or area unite in taking hours of Adoration before the Most Blessed Sacrament throughout the day and night, seven days a week. The Blessed Sacrament is exposed in the monstrance to provide a closer intimacy between Our Lord and the adorer.

There are many reasons for having Perpetual Adoration. It provides a practical way of giving the Adoration and thanksgiving which is due to God. It allows us to make reparation for our sins and those of the world as well as to petition God for all that we need.

We are blessed to have Perpetual Adoration in the Blessed Sacrament Chapel. Lent is coming. It would be a good practice to offer an hour of Adoration each week during Lent. But choose a specific hour and commit to it. This week ask Jesus what He thinks of that idea.

Every hour of the 168 hours of the week is available to you to become a Guardian. Call Marty or Clarice Suchy at 845-692-4510.

HOURS OF SPECIAL NEED

SUN: Midnight-1:00 a.m. MON: 2:00-3:00 p.m.

MON: 11:00 p.m.- Midnight TUES: 5:00-6:00 a.m.

THUR: Noon-1:00 p.m. FRI: 2:00-3:00 a.m.

FOR WEATHER-RELATED CLOSINGS OF THE CHAPEL YOU MAY CALL THE

CHAPEL RECORDING 845-956-1455 (this number might not work from a Spectrum house phone)

YOU MAY ALSO CALL: 845-343-6013, ext. 105

With wintry weather continuing to present a challenge, please remember that we follow the Middletown School District. If Middletown Schools are closed … we are closed. If after-school activities are cancelled … Religious Education classes are cancelled.

SHORT THOUGHT ON THE SCRIPTURES

Our Lord wants us to use insistently the petition prayer or prayer of faith. There are, indeed, other kinds of prayers — worship, salvation, prayer of thanks —, but Jesus insists very much on our often using the petition prayer. Why? Many could be the reasons: because we need God's help to attain our greatest aim; because it expresses hope and love; because it is a clamor of faith. But there is also a motive that, perhaps, is sometimes ignored: God wants things to be a little as we like them. Thus, our petition — which is an act of freedom — along with God's omnipotent power, can contribute to make the world as God wishes and a little as we wish, too. The power of prayer is just wonderful!

-— Deacon Albert Loeffler

FLU SEASON IS HERE The flu season has started with medical personnel reminding us to wash our hands with warm, soapy water and to cover our coughs and sneezes. At church, we will not offer the exchange of peace, as we have done in the past. Please respect your neighbors at Mass. We will resume inviting all to exchange a sign of peace when the flu season has passed.

ST. JOSEPH’S DAY TABLE

A celebration to honor St. Joseph, our Patron Saint, and Patron of the Universal Church, will be held his on feast day, Thursday, March 19. We will begin with a Mass at 7 p.m. followed by refreshments in the Parish Center. Please mark your calendar to attend this special celebration. More information will follow very soon.

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The Church of St. Joseph, in conjunction with

Collette Tours, will be offering a pilgrimage to explore the Shrines of Ireland. The trip will run nine days, from November 5-13, and will include stops in Dublin to view St. Patrick’s Cathedral and the Book of Kells at Trinity College; Down Cathedral in Belfast; Armagh; the Marian Shrine at Knock; Kylemore Abbey in Galway, and the Cliffs of Moher (pictured above).

The projected price per person of $2,729 for double rooms, $2,629 for triples and $3,029 for singles includes round-trip air fare from Newark International Airport, air taxes, fees and surcharges, hotel transfers and 11 meals (seven breakfasts and four dinners). Not included is the travel insurance cancellation waiver of $329 per person.

There is limited availability; in order to avoid being closed out, you may make a reservation by calling the Parish Office (845-343-6013). Trip brochures have been placed in the Church, near the Bulletins.

SPREADING THE WORD

If you have an announcement of interest or importance to our Parish community, please submit it, in paragraph form, to the Church’s email address: parish@sjchurch.com Please include the time, date and site of your event plus the full name of a contact person, including a phone number. All items must be received no later than the Thursday that precedes the publication date by 10 days. Submissions may be edited for space considerations, and submitting an item is no guarantee of publication.

PRO LIFE NEWS

The Spring campaign of 40 Days for Life begins on Ash Wednesday, February 26. There is a three-pronged approach to ending abortion. 1) Prayer. Each of us can pray for those mothers considering abortion, for those who would encourage abortions and for the workers in abortion facilities. 2) Fasting. Each of us can fast from a favorite food, TV program or something else that brings us pleasure. 3) Public Witness. If possible, join us at the designated area near Planned Parenthood, which is located at 7 Coates Drive in Goshen. St. Joseph’s is usually there on Mondays.

ST. JOSEPH’S PARISH WINNING CALENDAR NUMBERS

Jan 29 -- # 5730 Feb 5 -- # 6355 Jan 30 -- # 6268 Feb 6 -- # 5288 Jan 31 -- # 6090 Feb 7 -- # 6848 Feb 1 -- # 5389 Feb 8 -- # 5954 Feb 2 -- # 6323 Feb 9 -- # 6824 Feb 3 -- # 6455 Feb 10 -- # 6933 Feb 4 -- # 5859 Feb 11 -- # 6261

CHOIR REHEARSALS FOR HOLY WEEK

If you would like to join the choir for Holy Thursday, Good Friday and Holy Saturday services (or any one of those), rehearsals will be held every Thursday, beginning February 27, in the church choir loft at 7 p.m., access only from the parking lot door nearest the altar. The music will include traditional chant, Classical pieces by Mozart and Schubert and modern works. Questions? Speak to our Music Director, Joseph Bertolozzi, or leave a message for him at the Parish Office (phone 845-343-6013).

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