Roman Catholic Church

Office Location Phone Email/Fax Website

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

sjcnj.org

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 WEEKEND

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

9 am—5 pm in Mary’s Chapel

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.

Saint Joseph

PASTOR:

Msgr. David C. Hubba

PAROCHIAL VICARS:

Rev. Andrew Park Rev. Roy Regaspi

DEACON: George Montalvo PASTOR EMERITUS:

Rev. George M. Reilly

Summer Office Hours: Parish: Mon.-Thurs.9 am-5 pm, Fri. 9 am-2 pm; Rel. Ed.: Mon –Thurs.: 9:30 am—5 pm (Also by appointment.)

Oradell/New Milford, NJ Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time August 16, 2015

INSIDE *We Are Living Stones

UPDATE—p. 4 *A Special Goodbye—p. 5

Feast of the Queenship of Mary—August 22

“The Coronation of the Virgin” by Diego Velázquez (Museo del Prado)

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PRAYER REQUESTS

Let us remember those who are ill: Genevieve Flynn

Let us remember those who have recently died: Bob Westerdahl, Mary Greenan, Sarah DiChiara, Natividad Baefa

Let us remember those serving in the military.

SAINT JOSEPH CHURCH ORADELL/NEW MILFORD, NJ

Saturday 5:00 pm

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

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 am

Saturday 8:30 am 5:00 pm

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

Sunday Collection for Week of August 9, 2015

BASKET PARISHPAY TOTAL $7,625 $4,000 * $11,625

* The monthly ParishPay contribution remains the same as July but has been divided into

five weeks for the month of August.

Saint Joseph Parish Staff

Mr. Brendan Walsh/Mrs. Carol Winkler….Parish Trustees Deacon George Montalvo…... Dir. of Religious Education Mrs. Arlene Kennedy…………. Sacraments Coordinator Mr. Monroe Quinn……………... Director of Music Mr. Tom Meli…………………….. Facilities Director Mrs. Phyllis Vrola………………. Business Manager Mrs. Anne Annunziato……….. Parish Secretary

Mrs. Colette Vail………………… Principal of Saint Joseph School Mrs. Angela Gussoni…………... Vice Principal Mrs. Diane Hellriegel………….. Dir. of Communications/ Bulletin Editor

STEWARDSHIP REFLECTION “Watch carefully then how you live,

not as foolish persons but as wise….” (EPHESIANS 5:15)

A wise person recognizes that all we have comes from God. A wise person thanks God every day for all His many blessings. A wise person realizes that God has blessed us for a reason and He wants us to be partners with Him in His work here on earth.

BREAD AND WINE INTENTIONS

The bread and wine for the week of August 16, 2015

is offered in thanksgiving as requested by Gail & George Fabiano.

Please remember to drop off or send in your weekly donation envelope. Saint Joseph Parish relies on parishioners’ weekly contributions

to meet our operating expenses. Thank you for being a good steward of our parish.

See our bulletin in FULL COLOR on our website:

sjcnj.org

August 15, 2015 Joaquina Guzman

August 16, 2015 People of the Parish Manuel & Maria Jose Amaral Stan Obal Jo-Ann Verrier

August 17, 2015 Robert Coleman Benthea Galvin Birthday Remembrance

August 18, 2015 Ana Maria Sasso Mary Potter

August 19, 2015 Special Intention In Thanksgiving August 20, 2015 Maria Tarabocchia Paul Rota

August 21, 2015 Matthew Ruh Joseph Lofgren August 22, 2015 Brian Sherry Jennie & Joseph Ferrante

August 23, 2015 People of the Parish Timmy Curtin Jo-Ann Verrier Dorothy O’Dell Birthday Remembrance

THANKS … to all of our parishioners who have already volunteered to help the “We Are Living Stones” campaign to move forward at Saint Joseph.

Please see page 4 of this bulletin for more information and word of a special invitation that will be coming your way soon.

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TWENTIETH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME ~ AUGUST 16, 2015

FROM THE PASTOR’S DESK

CHILDREN’S BOOK DRIVE Saint Joseph School Girl Scouts —Justine Garcia and Erin Maron, members of Troop 994—are accepting new and gently-used books for Preschool through Grade 8 for St. Joseph School in Jersey City. Books can be dropped off Monday through Friday in the donation box located in the front foyer of the Saint Joseph lower school building at 305 Elm Street, Oradell until August 31.

Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809), one of the greatest and most productive composers, wrote 104 symphonies, 76 string quartets and many sonatas (being regarded as the father of all three), among other classic works. He was also an ardent Catholic believer and an exemplary human being, as Patrick Kavanaugh’s fascinating book Spiritual Lives of the Great Composers makes clear. Born to a poor family, he became a choirboy at famed St. Stephen’s Cathedral in Vienna at age nine. After being dismissed from it at seventeen because his voice had changed, he was penniless, surviving by giving music lessons and playing his violin. He had considered becoming a priest at his family’s urging, but finally decided that God wanted him to serve by using his great talent for music. He later wrote:

I know that God has favored me, and recognize it thankfully. I also believe that I have done my duty and I have been of use to the world through my work. Let others do the same!

He wanted to marry a girl he loved, but after she chose to enter the convent instead, he married her older sister. But things didn’t work out. (His wife thought so little of his music that she sometimes cut up his manuscripts for hair-curling papers.) They separated, but Haydn supported her generously and never said an unkind word about her. Every day after he awoke, Haydn would pray on his knees before beginning his composing:

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I prayed to God—not like a miserable sinner in despair—but calmly, slowly. In this I felt that an infinite God would surely have mercy on his finite creature, pardoning dust for being dust.

Haydn was consistently joyful in his demeanor. He once summed this up by saying, “Since God has given me a cheerful heart, he will forgive me for serving him cheerfully.” He always sought, as he said another time, to

“depict Divinity through love and goodness.” He wrote his great oratorio The Creation when he was 66. On one occasion, he told the musicians who were about to perform it:

There are so few happy and contented people here below, sorrow and anxiety pursue them from everywhere; perhaps your work may, some day, become a spring from which the careworn may draw a few moment’s rest and refreshment.

The Creation was the last concert Haydn attended. When it ended, the audience applauded, and Haydn lifted his hands toward heaven and said, “Not from me—from there, above, comes everything.” He spoke with the humility of a man who, when England’s King George III complimented him on all the music he had created, he responded, “Yes, Sire, a great deal more than is good.” But most of it was much more than that.

Msgr. David Hubba

ANNUAL MISSIONARY

APPEAL —AUGUST 29-30

A representative of the Missionary Sisters of the Holy Rosary will be with us on the

weekend of August 29-30. The community was founded in Ireland in 1924 to work with the women of Nigeria, West Africa. The Missionary Sisters of the Holy Rosary are now an international community working in nine countries of Africa and in Brazil and Mexico. The Sisters are a strictly missionary group with no institutions in the United States or Canada, so therefore rely almost exclusively on funds provided through the Society for the Propagation of the Faith and the generosity of the people back home to support their sisters on mission. Your contributions are greatly appreciated. If you would to see more about them, go to their website mshr.org

SCHOOL SUPPLIES NEEDED Girl Scout Gold Award candidate Aprile Bertomo has been working with the Center for Hope and Safety (formerly Shelter Our Sisters) to collect school supplies for the children living at the Center. If you’d like to participate, please go to their website at hopeandsafetynj.org to see what items are needed. You can call Aprile at 201-501-0787 or email her at ebertomo@yahoo.com to arrange to have your donation picked up. The drive ends on August 21.

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TWENTIEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME ~ AUGUST 16, 2015

SUBSTITUTE TEACHERS NEEDED Saint Joseph School would like to add your name to our substitute teacher list for this coming school year. If you have at least 60 college credits, are 21 years of age or older, and have worked with children in the past, please send your resume to Vice Principal Angela Gussoni at Saint Joseph lower school (305 Elm Street, Oradell, NJ 07649). For more info, call 201-261-2388.

PICK UP YOUR SCHOOL PACKET —AUGUST 22-23

Saint Joseph School packets for registered families can be picked up in the main foyer of

the upper church next weekend after all Masses or at the school’s main office during the week between the hours of 8:00 am and 3:00 pm.

Shown above (L-R) are retiring parish secretary, Anne Annunziato (holding grandson Benji), Anne’s husband Pat, daughter-in-law Becky (holding grandson Sammy) and son Stephen.

WITH HEARTFELT THANKS If you’ve ever stopped by the parish office/rectory, you’ve had the pleasure of meeting our Parish Secretary, Anne Annunziato. Anne has been at the heart of Saint Joseph Parish for the last five years— and she’s made sure that we haven’t missed a single beat! As Parish Secretary, Anne has registered new parishioners; scheduled baptisms, weddings, funerals, and ministry meetings of all kinds; helped parishioners to arrange for Masses to be said in memory of their loved ones; maintained both the parish calendar and all of the parish’s sacramental records; and coordinated the popular parish Giving Tree program that helps so many needy families at Christmas every year. What some folks don’t know though is that Anne has had some other very important jobs serving both the Church and the people of God. For ten years she was the Executive Secretary of the Bergen County Council of Churches, responsible for organizing the prestigious annual banquet that celebrated the volunteer-of-the-year at each church in Bergen County. She also created and published their annual journal. Thirty-one years ago, she volunteered to run Saint Joseph’s upper school office during religious education classes. She became an invaluable asset to that program serving in it for over 25 years, and then in 2005 was appointed full-time Administrative Assistant for Religious Education. While there she used her excellent computer skills to develop improved methods for registering and tracking the progress of the more than 800 students in the program, while also scheduling and recording every parish child’s reception of the Sacraments. Anne designed and created the worship aids for First Penance, First Holy Communion and Confirmation and has continued to do so all these years. Perhaps it was a happy omen that while growing up in Ridgewood, NY, Anne attended St. Joseph High School in Brooklyn. After she met and married her husband Pat, the couple moved to New Milford, NJ and joined our own Saint Joseph Church. As Anne says, “We’ve spent a lifetime here at Saint Joseph. We raised our three children (Christopher, Jennifer and Stephen)

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in this parish. So many of the parishioners here have become our friends. They offered prayers in time of need and shared in the joys of our family. For this Pat and I will always be grateful.”

A FOND FAREWELL

And it is also with gratitude for all that she has meant to Saint Joseph Parish that we now say thanks and goodbye to our friend Anne as she retires at the end of this month. Anne and Pat will be moving to Aurora, Colorado, to be near their son and his family. As Anne says, “Thanks to so many of you who stopped by my desk and graciously allowed me to share the thousands of pictures of my grandchildren with you! It is with great joy that I look forward to my ‘new job’ as a full-time Grandma. “And as August 31 quickly approaches, I look back on my days at Saint Joseph as a parishioner, a volunteer, and a staff member with great pride, happiness and love. Pat and I will always treasure the gift of each one of you in our hearts and in our prayers.” Anne, we will be keeping you in our hearts and prayers as well. May good Saint Joseph continue to guide and protect both you and your family, and remember that you always have a home at Saint Joseph Church in Oradell/New Milford! Please be sure to stop by the parish office/rectory to say goodbye and wish Anne all the best as she and Pat head “westward-ho!”

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SAINT JOSEPH CHURCH ORADELL/NEW MILFORD, NJ

Visit us on our websites CHURCH: sjcnj.org SCHOOL: sjsusa.org

RELIGIOUS ED: sjcnjre.org

Do you have a local business or service?

BECOME A CARNIVAL SPONSOR

For more information or to sign up as a sponsor, contact Saint Joseph School at 201-261-2388.

ENROLL YOUR CHILD IN A BLUE RIBBON SCHOOL

WITH STRONG CATHOLIC VALUES Saint Joseph School accepts students from 3 years old to Grade 8. Registration for September is now taking place. Call 201-261-2388 to arrange a visit.

NEW BIBLE STUDY MEETS MONTHLY This academic school year, our parish will be offering a Bible Study that will fit into everyone's schedule. For the first time, we will be offering a Bible Study that will meet monthly. This eight-part study (75-minute sessions) provides the easiest way to understand the Bible. Unlocking the Mystery of the Bible makes the complex simple. It helps you uncover the story woven throughout Scripture so that you can get the “big picture” of the Bible and understand what it is all about. Formerly called the Quick Journey through the Bible, this study is part of Great Adventure Bible Series from Ascension Press. There is minimal 'homework' and each session includes a 30 minute DVD lesson. Parents of school-aged children are particularly encouraged to participate in order to help with their children’s religious education.

SIGN UP NEXT WEEKEND! Sign-ups for the new monthly study, as well as the more traditional weekly studies will take place on the weekend of August 22-23 in the Harrison Street lobby. The weekly study topics include Matthew, James, Revelation, The Prophets, as well as Mary: A Biblical walk with the Blessed Mother. It is also possible to sign-up on our parish website: sjcnj.org All studies will begin in September. To find out more about this parish-based Bible Study Program, please visit ascensionpress.com or contact Pat Fakharzadeh at 201-599-2123 or email her at bible@sjcnj.org

HOME HEALTH CARE AVAILABLE

Saint Joseph parishioner Loretta Luongo, an experienced home health care aide with a nursing background, is available for part time employment as a companion. Her services include cooking and light housework. Mrs. Luongo has worked with a number of parish families. References are available. Call 201-519-3297 or send an email to bluongo761@yahoo.com

COOP EXAM REGISTRATION Students not currently enrolled in a Catholic school in the Archdiocese of Newark may begin registering online for the Cooperative Admissions Examination, the test that serves as one of the criteria for admission to participating Catholic high schools, on September 1 by going to www.coopexam.org The test is scheduled for Nov. 6.

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