PARISH OFFICE AND CHAPEL

26 Edgewater Place

Phone: (201) 945-6329 Fax: (201) 945-6599

Email: holyrosary@aol.com

Monday-Friday 8:30AM to 4:00PM

PASTOR: Rev. Jose A. Abalon

Permanent Deacon: Robert E. Thomson

In loving honor & memory: Michael A. Lydon

Trustee: Joan Maniego

Parish Secretary: Barbara L. Brady

Church of the Holy Rosary

365 Undercliff Avenue, Edgewater, NJ 07020

Mass Times

Daily Mass (Monday-Friday): 8:00AM

Saturday Evening Mass: 5:30PM

Sunday Masses: 8:00AM & 11:00AM (in English);

12:00PM (in Spanish)

Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament

Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament is held every Monday,

Wednesday and Friday in the Church at 365 Undercliff Avenue.

The Exposition begins at 12:00PM and ends at 3:00PM, followed

by the Divine Mercy. All are welcome to attend.

Sacraments

Reconciliation: Saturday, 3:00-5:00PM (Church)

Baptism: Baptisms have resumed. Please be advised you must

be a member of Holy Rosary Parish in order to receive a spon-

sor certification for Baptism.

WELCOME NEW PARISHIONERS! If you are attending Mass at Holy Rosary and consider Yourself a parishioner, but haven’t registered, we invite you to do so. Know-

ing who our parishioners are helps us adapt our parish programs to your needs. It is also important to be registered for Baptisms,

Marriage, to be a Sponsor/Godparent, etc.

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January 31, 2021 Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Catholic Community Services—Social Services Helpline

1-800-CCS-7413

Choir Rehearsal

Wednesdays at 7:30 PM

in the Church

Minister of Music:

Bill Jones

Religious Education

For information on our CCD

program, please see the “CCD

Corner” section of this bulletin.

For the Rite of Christian Initia-

tion for Adults (RCIA), please

call the Parish Office.

Holy Rosary Parish is a proud Co-Sponsor of Christ the Teacher

Interparochial School, 359 Whiteman St., Fort Lee, NJ 07024

(201-944-0421)

Assistance attending Mass

If you are a senior or disabled,

and you would like shuttle

transportation to and from the

11:00AM Mass on Sundays,

call the Parish Center for in-

formation. (Temporally sus-

pended)

Saturday, January 30

5:30 PM James LaRaia (Paul & Alexandria Ramsahai)

Sunday, January 31

8:00AM Gordon Thompson (The Grateful People o f

Edgewater)

11:00 AM Bobby Marino (His Friends)

12:00 PM Those Effected by CoVid-19

Monday, February 1

8:00 AM Marie Jacobson (Anna Maria , Kevin &

Jackie O’Connor)

Tuesday, February 2

8:00 AM Frank Pagano (Cassandra Burns)

Wednesday, February 3

8:00 AM Dorothea E. Brady (Barbara Brady)

Thursday, February 4

8:00 AM Katherine Adshead (Katherine & David Smith)

Friday, February 5

8:00 AM Hedwig Juraschek (Manny & Pearl Roxas)

Saturday, February 6

5:30 PM Cosmo J. Azzoline (His Loving Family)

A special way to remember a loved one is to donate the month-

ly Altar Bread and/or Wine in honor of their memory. You may

also choose to remember a loved one by donating a weekly

Sanctuary Lamp in either the Church or the Chapel. Sanctuary

Lamps burn day and night to illuminate the Blessed Sacrament,

serve as an emblem of Christ's abiding love, and as a reminder

to the faithful to respond with loving adoration in return.

The Altar Bread for February is donated in loving memory

of Jose Ignacio Celis (The Chan Family)

The Altar Wine for February is donated in loving memory

of Jose Ignacio Celis (The Chan Family)

The Sanctuary Lamp in the Church this week is in memory

of Jose Renato Abalon (the Holy Rosary Parishioners).

Mass Intentions for the Week

All those suffering in any way from the CoVid-19 pandemic.

Also James Allocco, Phillip Armstrong, Edward Baldino, Cheryl

Bostyan, Jean Braden, Rick Brouillette, Louise Bruce, Chase, Pat

Caruso, Sharbel Chaoul, Anna Corrado, Danny Coyle, Gary

Devila, Marie Ferrie, Ginny Frasco, Kenneth Galfo, Joelle & Juli-

ana Gedeon, Annmarie Gilmartin, Madeline Goodwin, Joe

Heatter, Agnes Hoffmann, Bobby Jordan, Rosemary Kaminski,

Eileen & Donald Kopczynski, Diana Lucio, Isaiah McLean, Hei-

di Monico, Humberto Norena, Conception Ortiz, Rebecca Papa-

dopoulos, Phyllis & Joseph Palermo, Rich Richinski, Rebecca

Rigolosi, Antoinette Ring, Boris Reznik, Frank Romero, Desi

Santos, Anthony Saporito, Jack Sweeney, Jenna Szandrocha,

Phillip Tarabola, Irene Taylor, Ruth Weis, Krista Wilkinson,

Kyle Wilson, Mark Winnie.

Altar Appointments

Please Remember in Your Prayers

A Message From Father Jose

Hoping and praying that you have a nice weekend. This week I

would like to share with you the status and the history of our

parish with regard to the Archdiocesan Annual Appeal, which

is again coming soon. Last year our parish was the first one to

complete the goal the Archdiocese gives to every parish. The

completion of this goal is thanks to our parish’s regular contrib-

utors and, most especially, one family that generously contrib-

uted a big amount as a way to share their time, talent and treas-

ure that comes from God.

Last year, we had 33 donors or contributors and one of them

almost completed our parish goal of $15,820.00. To date we

have a surplus of more than 7K that was returned to our parish.

Thanks to all our generous contributors! I would like to en-

courage everyone to be a part of this parish program and do not

forget God always repay a hundred fold for those who diligent-

ly and generously work in his vineyard. God Bless ….Fr Jose

False Prophets, True Prophets

In Deuteronomy today we hear that God’s very words will

fill the mouth of a true prophet, but a false prophet will, in a

manner of speaking, put mere mortal words into God’s mouth.

In Mark’s Gospel, we see Jesus teaching and healing as a true

prophet, one filled with the authority of God’s own voice, the

Holy One of God.

The whole history of our church is filled with both true and

false prophets. But in today’s Gospel we learn that Jesus’ fame

spread because he taught with authority; he wasn’t an authority

because he was popular or famous. We also learn from him, in

his desert temptation confrontations with Satan, that anyone can

quote scripture, even against God’s purposes. And today we

hear that his authority was not like that of the scribes, who held

the official positions of religious authority in his day. Our work

is to do our best to discern the true prophets in our midst, and to

be true prophets as well. The psalmist tells us how to do this: by

not hardening our hearts when God speaks. If we truly listen to

God, it will be God’s very words filling our mouths.

MORE

Care more than others think

necessary.

Trust more than others think

wise.

Serve more than others think

practical.

—Anonymous

Today’s Readings

First Reading — Moses spoke to all the people, saying: “A

prophet like me will the Lord, your God, raise up for

you” (Deuteronomy 18:15-20).

Psalm — If today you hear his voice, harden not your hearts

(Psalm 95).

Second Reading — Brothers and sisters: I should like you to be

free of anxieties (1 Corinthians 7:32-35).

Gospel — The people were astonished at Jesus’ teaching; he

taught them as one having authority (Mark 1:21-28).

Saints and Special Observances

Sunday: Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time;

Catholic Schools Week

Tuesday: The Presentation of the Lord;

Blessing of Candles; Groundhog Day

Wednesday: St. Blaise; St. Ansgar; Blessing of Throats;

Friday: St. Agatha; First Friday

Saturday: St. Paul Miki and companions; First Saturday

The Word of God Works of Charity

Time & Talent

Food Pantry:

Parish members assist in supplying approximately 45 families

with food every month. Thank you to all who donated and

helped in any way! The Food Pantry is open the last Tuesday of

each month from 11:00AM-12:00PM.

Feeding the Homeless:

Normally, Holy Rosary Parish members feed the homeless on

the second Monday of every month. This has been temporarily

suspended due to current CoVid-19 pandemic. We will resume

as soon circumstances allow.

Treasures

Your Monetary Donations: The work of Christ at Holy Ro-

sary is supported by parishioners who have embraced the bibli-

cal ideals of Stewardship Tithing. Father Jose prays and thanks

all of you for your generous donations to maintain our parish.

Come, let us bow down in

worship; let us kneel before the

Lord who made us.

— Psalm 95:6

Vengan, y puestos de rodillas,

adoremos y bendigamos al

Señor, que nos hizo.

— Salmo 95 (94):6

Feast of Faith

I Confess

One form of the penitential rite at the beginning of Mass is

the traditional Confiteor, or “I confess,” a prayer that was for-

merly prayed by the priest alone at the foot of the altar, but

which is now prayed by the entire assembly. The Confiteor is at

once personal—“I confess”—and communal, prayed aloud,

together. We recognize that sin does not just separate us from

God; sin comes between us and others, isolating us. We

acknowledge that sin has many dimensions, individual and

communal: sins of thought, sins of speech, sins of action, sins of

omission. Sin is not something that happens to us; sin is some-

thing we do. In the Confiteor, we take responsibility for our

own actions.

The repeated insistence on our “fault,” with the ritual ges-

ture of striking the breast, an ancient sign of penitence, is not

meant to lower our self-esteem. Rather, it acknowledges our

human instinct to transfer the blame whenever we can (“The

devil made me do it!”). This prayer stops us short. We take re-

sponsibility for ourselves, our actions, our failure to act. Then

we cry out to God in those ancient words, Kyrie, eleison—Lord,

have mercy. For the sinner who repents, there is mercy. This

truth is at the heart of our faith, and it is where the Mass, our

feast of faith, begins.

Saint Agatha (died 251): February 5

“Of noble birth and great beauty,” so the ancient ac-

counts describe Saint Agatha, martyred during an early perse-

cution for refusing a powerful

Roman’s offer of marriage, since

she had consecrated her virgini-

ty to Christ.

An early preacher,

Saint Methodius, reflects in-

stead on her name, noting that,

in Greek, Agatha means

“good,” goodness being some-

thing we can all strive for, nobly

born or common, blessed with

beauty—or not! So brutal the

tortures that violated her youth-

ful innocence, Agatha, like Ag-

nes and several other women

martyrs, was honored from

time immemorial by having her

name inscribed in the Roman

Canon (Eucharistic Prayer I).

Long invoked as pro-

tector against earthquakes—

Mount Etna erupted as she was being tortured—recent atten-

tion has focused on the particularly cruel torture decreed for

Agatha, the cutting off of her breasts. This has inspired cancer

survivors to promote Saint Agatha as patron and intercessor for

women courageously facing breast cancer, for their families

and the multitude of supporters who participate in fund-raising

marches and races, and, of course, for the dedicated researchers

who seek a cure.

Current Holy Rosary Fundraiser Proceeds: The current pro-

ceeds from our ongoing fundraising efforts for a church cooling

system are as follows: A/C Fundraising (ongoing): $26,127.50;

Four bake sales: $989; Tricky Tray (12/8/19): $1,470.

Prayers to Saint Agatha

The patron Saint of breast cancer patients

St. Agatha, woman of valor, from your own

suffering we have been moved to ask your prayers for those of

us who suffer from breast cancer.

We place (person’s name) before you, and ask you to intercede on

their behalf.

From where you stand in the health of life eternal, all wounds

healed, and all tears wiped away, pray for (prayer intention),

and all of us.

Pray God will give us His holy benediction of health and heal-

ing. And, we remember you were a victim of torture and that

you learned, first hand, of human cruelty and inhumanity.

We ask you to pray for our entire world. Ask God to enlighten

us with a “genius for peace and understanding.”

Ask Him to send us His Spirit of Serenity, and ask Him to help

us share that peace with all we meet.

From what you learned from your own path of pain, ask God to

give us the Grace we need to remain holy in difficulties,

not allowing our anger or our bitterness to overtake us.

Pray that we will be more peaceful and more charitable. And

from your holy pace in our mystical body, the Church, pray

that we, in our place and time will, together, create a world of

justice and peace. Amen.

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Lord God, You showered heavenly gifts on the virgin Agatha.

Hear the prayers of those who recall her devoted life and who

ask her to intercede for them in their necessity. (petition).

Help us imitate her virtues during our earthly life and enjoy

eternal happiness with her in heaven. Amen.

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O Heavenly Father, who raised Agatha to the dignity of Saint-

hood, we implore Your Divine Majesty by her intercession to

give us health of mind, body and soul. Free us from all those

things which hold us bound to this earth, and let our spirit, like

hers, rise to your heavenly courts. Amen.

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Saint Agatha, you suffered sexual assault and indignity because

of your faith and purity. Help heal all those who are survivors

of sexual assault and protect those women who are in danger.

Amen.

Take the Love of God with You as You Go…...

Readings for the Week

Monday: Heb 11:32-40; Ps 31:20-24; Mk 5:1-20

Tuesday: Mal 3:1-4; Ps 24:7-10; Heb 2:14-18;

Lk 2:22-40 [22-32]

Wednesday: Heb 12:4-7, 11-15; Ps 103:1-2, 13-14,

17-18a; Mk 6:1-6

Thursday: Heb 12:18-19, 21-24; Ps 48:2-4, 9-11;

Mk 6:7-13

Friday: Heb 13:1-8; Ps 27:1, 3, 5, 8b-9; Mk 6:14-29

Saturday: Heb 13:15-17, 20-21; Ps 23:1-6; Mk 6:30-34

Sunday: Jb 7:1-4, 6-7; Ps 147:1-6; 1 Cor 9:16-19,

22-23; Mk 1:29-39

Announcements

Please regularly refer to holyrosaryedgewater.org for the most

up-to-date information about our Parish. To get in touch with

Parish staff, please do so only by sending an email to holy-

rosary@aol.com. Thank you.

The CCD Corner

Want to Know More?

The Holy Rosary Parish website provides information, as well

as spiritual reflections, that exceed the space limitation of this

bulletin. Visit our website www.holyrosaryedgewater.org

A Student Prayer

Thank you, God, for giving me a mind that can

know and a heart that can love.

Help me to stay focused on my studies, and encour-

age me when learning is difficult that I may grasp

the truth that is held out before me.

Grant me the grace to put my knowledge to use in

building the kingdom of God on earth that I may

find the courage to follow Your Son, Jesus. Amen.

CCD Registration for children and young adults between

grades one through eight is open. Classes began October 18,

and are being held remotely by Zoom this year. To register you

can download registration forms from our website or pick up

blank forms at the back of the church. There is no registration

fee this year; only a suggested voluntary donation.

About CCD at Holy Rosary

Religious education classes begin in First Grade and conclude

after the Reception of the Sacrament of Confirmation in Ninth

Grade. Enrollment for all parish children within this age group

is strongly encouraged.