Roman Catholic Church Saint Joseph

DONATIONS FOR OUR

LENTEN FOOD DRIVE CAN BE DROPPED OFF

AT THE

RECTORY GARAGE AFTER ALL MASSES

THIS WEEKEND.

PASTOR: Msgr. David C. Hubba

PAROCHIAL VICARS:

Rev. Roy Regaspi Rev. Anthony Di Stefano

DEACON: GeorgeMontalvo

PASTOR EMERITUS:

Rev. George M. Reilly

MASS SCHEDULE

Saturday 5:00 pm Sunday 7:30am, 9 am,

10:30 am, 12 noon

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 Wed. of Month 9 am—5 pm in MC

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.

Homebound/Hospital Call Parish Office

Christian Initiation of Adults—RCIA Contact Parish Office

PARISH REGISTRATION Contact Parish Office

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

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305 Elm St., Oradell 201-261-2388 office@sjsusa.org sjsusa.org

Fifth Sunday of Lent ~ April 7, 2019 Oradell/New Milford, NJ

Office Hours: (Parish) Mon-Fri.: 9 am - 5 pm; (Rel. Ed.) Mon.-Thurs: 10 am-4 pm (Also by appointment.)

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SAINT JOSEPH CHURCH ORADELL/NEW MILFORD, NJ

SACRAMENT OF

MARRIAGE

March 30, 2019

Alexis Alison

& Rohan

Rasquinha

Shown opposite right are our Seminarian speakers Matthew Gonzalez and Ariel Bautista; at far right is Matthew with Saint Joseph School classmate and cantor Danielle Gherardi and choir members Jeff & Felecia Braun.

Last Sunday Saint Joseph Church was blessed to have a visit from six Seminarians who are studying for the priesthood. Shown above on left are three of the Seminarians; in large photo are Saint Joseph’s Fr. Anthony Di Stefano (far left); Saint Joseph pastor Monsignor David Hubba (center) and Fr. Christopher Ciccorino of the Immaculate Conception Seminary faculty (far right) with all our visiting Seminarians. Shown bottom left is Fr. Pablo Gadenz (Seminary faculty) with one of our Seminarians. Please keep our Seminarians and all our priests in your prayers.

JOURNEY TO THE PRIESTHOOD

CREATE IN ME A CLEAN HEART, O GOD Fr. Anthony and parishioners from Saint Joseph joined Cardinal Tobin, the clergy, Religious and lay faithful of the Archdiocese at the Cathedral Basilica on March 28 for a Lenten prayer service to pray for the survivors of clergy abuse, for their families, and for the Church.

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FIFTH SUNDAY OF LENT ~ APRIL 7, 2019

FROM THE PASTOR’S DESK

SAINT JOSEPH/ST. PETER COMMUNAL ADVENT

PENANCE SERVICE MONDAY—APRIL 8

7:30 pm AT SAINT JOSEPH CHURCH

This year’s Lenten Penance Service for both Saint Joseph and St. Peter the Apostle Parishes will be held on Monday, April 8 at 7:30 pm HERE at Saint Joseph Church. The clergy of both parishes will be available to hear confessions.

EASTER FLOWERS DONATION Donations for flowers and decorations to adorn our church during the Easter season can be made in memory of a loved one or for a special intention. Please use the envelope you received in the mail or mark an envelope “Easter

Flowers.” Be sure to PRINT the name of the deceased or special intention and YOUR NAME. Checks ($10 per name/family) made out to “Saint Joseph Church” may be put in the collection basket or dropped off or mailed to 105 Harrison Street, New Milford, NJ 07646

Somewhere in my file of cartoons I have one with an angry wife standing in back of her husband’s chair as he reads a newspaper after

just complaining about his poached breakfast eggs. She says to him, “That yellow scum on the top happens to be hollandaise sauce.” Mastering a classic hollandaise sauce, a traditional stage in the training of French chefs, requires an expert preparation using 32 egg yolks, which is why famed chef Eric Ripert, whose New York restaurant, Le Bernardin, has three Michelin stars, entitled his recent memoir 32 Yolks: From My Mother’s Table to Working the Line. Ripert had a very difficult boyhood when he grew up in France and Andorra, especially after his parents divorced, an event that shook him greatly, especially when arguments exploded along with his mother’s prized porcelain dishes as she smashed them against the wall. After his father died on a mountain-hiking trip when Eric was eleven, things got worse after his mother married a man who turned out to be a bullying stepfather. The man sometime poured Eric’s snack jam on the floor and made him clean it up. Ripert said that “Hugo was patient in his cruelty. He trained me to mistrust him and even hate him, the way one might train a dog to fight.” Eric’s relief from these trials was the food his mother and grandmother taught him to cook and visits to an excellent restaurant run by an eccentric former soldier of the French Foreign Legion, who had served in Algeria and Egypt and fought at the battle of Dien Bien Phu. The man, who delighted in refusing to seat even locally powerful people if he felt like it, took a liking to Eric and taught him many lessons about preparing food, including how to make a splendid chocolate mousse. Eric then set his eyes on becoming a chef himself. The demanding, and often harrowing, training he went through to rise to the pinnacle of his profession included working under renowned Paris chef Joël Rubuchon, a perfectionist who was impossible to please. Ripert writes that Rubuchon was his “first truly frightening boss” and, after a month, he was “completely terrorized.”

Every day we were required to make dinner for his French poodle … [Once] his dog didn’t finish his dinner because the meat was too tough. What kind of cooks were we that we couldn’t even make a meal that a dog would enjoy?

But Ripert learned his profession and succeeded in it to its most exquisite extent, becoming, along the way, the author of praised cookbooks and a TV star. I became interested in reading 32 Yolks after seeing a

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review by Georgia Pellegrini, who pointed out that

There is a Japanese word, kintsukuroi, that means “golden repair.” It is the art of restoring broken pottery with gold so the fractures are literally illuminated—a kind of physical expression of its spirit. As a philosophy, kintsukuroi celebrated imperfection as an integral part of the story, not something to be disguised. The artists believe that when something has suffered damage and has a history, it becomes more beautiful.

I think this can be an intriguing comparison for the wonderful way God’s forgiveness can repair even lives most damaged by sin. This Monday, at 7:30 pm we will have our Lenten Penance service in our church. We have been cooperating with St. Peter’s in River Edge on these Lent and Advent celebrations of God’s mercy, and the priests of both parishes will be available to hear your confessions. As Holy Week and Easter draw near, it will be a perfect opportunity to get ready for their splendors.

Msgr. David Hubba

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

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You must RSVP by April 8!

HAVING A MARY HEART IN A MARTHA WORLD

—TUESDAY, APRIL 9 9:15-10:30 am or 7:30-9:00 pm

Join us in our Parish Retreat House (on Grand Street, behind our church) as we explore scripture to see what Jesus said 2,000 years ago about how to put Him first. This very special hour and a half is OPEN TO EVERYONE, both women and men. Please let us know which session (morning or evening) you would like to attend by calling the Parish Office at 201-261-0148 . You are encouraged to bring your own Bible, but scriptural passages will also be available on handouts.

DIVINE MERCY SUNDAY —APRIL 28

The Legion of Mary will distribute Divine Mercy Novena pamphlets at the doors of the church after Masses NEXT WEEKEND, April 13-14. On each day of the Novena, which begins on Good Friday and goes until

Divine Mercy Saturday (April 27 this year), we pray for God’s mercy for different purposes. Watch this bulletin for information about our parish Divine Mercy Sunday prayer service on Sunday, April 28 at 2:00 pm.

RICE BOWL DONATIONS —DUE APRIL 17

If you have been saving money throughout Lent in your Catholic Relief

Services “Rice Bowl,” now is the time to count it, convert it to a check (made out to “Saint Joseph Church” and memo’d “Operation Rice Bowl”—NO cash or coins please) and drop it off at our Religious Educa-tion Office located in the rectory (105 Harrison St., New Milford). All monies are due by April 17.

ICON OF OUR LADY COMES TO SAINT JOSEPH

The beautiful image of Our Lady Help of Persecuted Christians can be seen on

our main altar in the upper church today. (The image in full view also appears on the cover of this bulletin.) It comes to us from the Knights of Columbus’ “Marian Prayer Program” whose purpose is to spread devotion to Our Lady and to encourage prayer for our brothers and sisters at risk around the world. The icon will remain with us through Thursday, April 11. That morning, immediately following the 8:30 am Mass, Fr. Anthony and the Legion of Mary wll conduct a special Rosary and prayer service to raise awareness of the plight of Christians persecuted for their faith and to stand in prayerful solidarity with them. We hope you will be able to join us. We thank parishioner and Knight Paul Noonan who arranged to bring this very special image of Our Lady to Saint Joseph Church.

SAVE THIS DATE! FOR SOMETHING THAT WILL

ENRICH YOUR FAITH —APRIL 25

Fr. Anthony Di Stefano will present a special Easter season talk/reflection on “The Creed: Articles of Faith That We Can Believe in” on Thursday, April 25 at 7:30 pm in the Parish Retreat House (entrance on Grand Street behind our church). Refreshments will follow the talk. This will be the second of Fr. Anthony’s presentations at our parish. (The first was “Praying With Icons” in January which was very well-received.) Be sure to circle April 25 on your calendar!

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Saturday 5:00 pm

Sunday 7:30 am 9:00 am 10:30 am UC 10:30 am MC 12:00 pm 6:00 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 UC 10:30 am MC 12:00 pm

PRAYER REQUESTS

Let us remember all those who are ill: Dr. John Driscoll, Maria Anna Paz Macatunad, Frank Piersa, Solidad Reluccio, Claire Collins,

James LaMendola, Jean Ragnec Let us remember all those who have recently died:

Adelaida Silva, Joseph Polyniak, Jack Matesic, Jim Fligate

Let us remember those serving in the military.

BREAD & WINE INTENTIONS

The bread for the week of April 7, 2019 is offered celebration of

Alexis Alison & Rohan Rasquinha’s Wedding as requested by Saint Joseph Religious Education Staff.

The wine for the week of April 7, 2019 is offered in loving memory of the

Piazza Family as requested by Marie Piazza.

FIFTH SUNDAY OF LENT ~ APRIL 7, 2019

SUNDAY COLLECTION Mar. 31, 2019 * Basket $8,769 Electronic Giving $3,701 Total Sunday Collection $12,470

*Please note that the comparable weekend last year, April 1, 2018,

was Easter Sunday. That collection will be compared to this year’s Easter Sunday collection (April 21, 2019).

LENTEN STATIONS OF THE CROSS Saint Joseph Parish will pray the “Stations of the Cross” in the upper church on Friday, April 12 at 7:00 pm.

“LIVING STATIONS” PRESENTED BY OUR

YOUTH GROUP

—APRIL 19 The Saint Joseph Youth Group will portray the Living Stations of the Cross on Good Friday, April 19, at 7:30 pm in the Upper Church. All are invited to “walk with Our Lord and witness his Passion” during this special prayer service.

April 6, 2019 Gail and George Fabiano’s Wedding Anniversary

April 7, 2019 People of the Parish William and Mary Marion Dorothy M. Zack Joseph Baranello Theodore V. Kachel Jeanette Reilly (Living)

April 8, 2019 Frances Cuffe Deceased Members of the O’Toole Family

April 9, 2019 Charles Gear Almerindo Accomando (Birthday Remembrance)

April 10, 2019 Sal Bentivegna Doris Elaine Lueddeke

April 11, 2019 Anthony D. Errico (85th Birthday Remembrance)

April 12, 2019 John Clancy Teresa Bokman

Apil 13, 2019 Jose Caitan & Natalina Fernandes Courtney Jensen

April 14, 2019 People of the Parish Rota & Joyce Families Hugo Del Bove (30th Anniversary Remembrance) Kristine LaGuardia Pat Carnevale

NO NOVENA—APRIL 8 Because of our Communal Penance Service (see page 3) the Miraculous Medal Novena will not be held this Monday. It will resume at 7:00 pm on Monday, April 15.

EARLY BULLETIN DEADLINE Announcements for the Easter bulletin must be sent to hellriegeld@sjcnj.org no later than Wednesday, April 10 in order to be considered for publication.

STEWARDSHIP REFLECTION “For his sake I have accepted the loss of all things and I consider them so much rubbish, that I may gain Christ….” (Philippians 3:8) The first commandment says that we should not put other gods before the Lord. Sharing all of our gifts, our time in prayer, our talent in charitable works and our treasure to support Church needs helps us keep God first in everything. It helps us from putting gods before God. It helps us to use our gifts for the glory of God and not for our own honor.

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SHAWL MINISTRY MEETING—APRIL 9 Saint Joseph’s Shawl Ministry will meet on Tuesday, April 9 from 2:00-4:00 pm in the PLC on Grove Street. All knitters and crocheters are welcome to join us in making shawls...or bring your current yarn project and spend a relaxing afternoon with us. Our ministry has shawls available for those experiencing illness, confinement, bereavement or other situation. For further information, please contact Shawl at 201-261-0226 or Barbara Piersa at 201-261-0298.

VOLUNTEERS NEEDED FOR “MEALS WITH A MISSION”—MAY 2

Meals With A Mission is a volunteer organization which provides 20,000 meals

monthly for the hungry throughout our local counties. We are looking for volunteers to help prepare meals – all food, recipes, and materials are provided. We have been assigned Thursday, May 2 from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm as our initial day to prepare our meal. If you are interested in volunteering this day or other days, please contact Peg Kohli by phone at 201-391-0224 or email tkohli@optonline.net Thank you for considering this worthwhile cause.

LIONS PANCAKE BREAKFAST —APRIL 14

The Oradell Lions Annual Pancake Breakfast (also serving scrambled eggs!) will take place on Sunday, April 14 from 8:00 am to 12 noon at Bergen Catholic High School (1040 Oradell Avenue, Oradell, NJ). Tickets are $7 for adults and $5 for children. Tickets available at the door or email them at lionsoforadell@yahoo.com

SOCIAL CONCERNS MEETING —APRIL 11

The Saint Joseph Social Concerns Committee will be meeting this coming Thursday, April 11 in the Saint Joseph

Retreat House at 7:30pm. We would love for you to join us. ALL ARE WELCOME!

JOIN SAINT JOSEPH’S NEW YOUTH GROUP

Saint Joseph’s Youth Group (for teens in grades 9-12 from any local high school) will be meeting every Tuesday from 7:30-9:00 pm in the Curry House

(the building next to the church on Elm Street). Please use rear entrance by the grotto/garden. Any questions, please feel free to contact our Youth Minister, Ellen Solinas at ellen@solinas.net (There will be no meetings on April 23 or April 30.)

LAST CHANCE to join in the fun!

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