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Holy Family of Jesus, Mary and Joseph December 30, 2018

The Holy Family of Jesus,

Mary, and Joseph St. Michael’s Church-Sunday, December 30, 2018

December 30, 2018 www.stmichaelnj.com

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Saturday, December 29 9:00 AM People of the Parish

4:00 PM † Robert J. Moran Carol Moran and Family

† Kathryn Fromer Bruce, Joan, Marc & Eric

5:00 PM † Margaret Hoagland Thomas & Vicki Hoagland

† Joan Nolan Kathryn Ippolito

7:30 PM People of the Parish

† Celine Feehan Tricia & Louis Vincelli

Sunday, December 30 7:00 AM † Mary Anne Browne

9:00 AM † Bernadette Malek Dolores Sabalja, Marie Rose & Denis Czund

10:00 AM † Ursula Carlesimo Children

† Josephine Mirabito Celeste Enugala

11:00 AM † Josephine Mirabito Dorothy O'Hara

12:00 PM † Msgr. Reardon Falivene Family

4:00 PM † Clifford Emil Ray Janice, Fred, Kathleen & Isabel Carr


Monday, December 31

8:00 AM † Pro-Life Cause Friends of Sylvia Marsico

4:00 PM † Kathryn Fromer Bruce, Joan, Marc & Eric

7:30 PM † Ella King

Tuesday, January 1 (Mary, Mother of God-Holy Day)

8:00 AM † Helen Devens Dotty O’Hara

12:00 PM † Eileen Horan

5:00 PM † Margaret McCarthy

Wednesday, January 2 8:00 AM † Mary Romano Mike Moretti

Thursday, January 3 8:00 AM † Brian Valan Family

Friday, January 4 8:00 AM † Effie Murphy Family

12:15 PM † Cecelia Adams Family

5:30 PM † Rev. Philip Cordisco

Saturday, January 5 9:00 AM People of the Parish

4:00 PM † Kyle Jarmon Jim Sharkey & Family

† Annette Cannizzaro Husband Tom

5:00 PM † Anthony Caruso Renee & Charles Bazaz

† Donald W. Johnson Johnson Family

7:30 PM † Mary Dromerick Family

Sunday, January 6 7:00 AM † Walter M. Dromerick Family

† George H.W. and Barbara Bush

9:00 AM † Stephen M. Suppo Kathleen & Patricia

10:00 AM † James Weeden Grandchildren

11:00 AM Special Intention: Celeste Carlesimo

Family

12:00 PM † Stephen A. Gill Children

4:00 PM † Lorenza Balonzo Grandchildren


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There will be a Holy Hour for Vocations from 7:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. on the Thursday evening that pre-cedes First Friday. The next Holy Hour for Vocations will be on January 3. The Holy Hour will include Eu-charistic Adoration, Rosary, and Confession. The har-vest is great but the laborers are few. Please join with us in praying for vocations!

Our customary monthly Mass in Latin on the First

Friday will be celebrated in English next month - January

4 at 12:15 p.m. - due to Fr. Esquen’s vacation schedule.

Confessions will be heard before that Mass from 12:00

Noon to 12:10 but not after the Mass. Eucharistic Adora-

tion will commence with Exposition at 12:45 p.m. and

continue through the afternoon until Benediction at 5:10

p.m., Confessions 5:15-5:25 p.m., and Mass

at 5:30 p.m.

This schedule change will take effect on

January 4 and will be our regular First Friday

afternoon schedule for the foreseeable future.

The First Friday 12:15 p.m. Mass in Febru-

ary (on the 1st) will be celebrated in Latin by

Fr. Esquen.

The parish business office will be closed on Mon-day, December 31 and Tuesday, Jan. 1. The office will reopen at 8:30 a.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2019.

SOLEMNITY OF MARY,

MOTHER OF GOD

The Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God is a Holy

Day of Obligation in 2019. Our Mass schedule for

the holy day is as follows:

Monday, December 31, 2018:

4:00 PM and 7:30 PM

Tuesday, January 1, 2019:

8:00 AM, 12:00 Noon and 5:00 PM

(no 4:00 PM Mass and no 7:30 PM

Mass on January 1st)

MARCH FOR LIFE 2019 WASHINGTON D.C.

The March for Life began

as a small demonstration in

1973 and rapidly grew to be

the largest pro-life event in

the world. The peaceful

demonstration that has fol-

lowed on this somber anni-

versary is a witness to the

truth concerning the great-

est human rights violation

of our time: abortion. Join

us and half a million pro-

lifers as we head once again

to Washington, D.C.

on Friday, January 18, 2019 for the 46th annual March For

Life and walk from the Washington Monument up Consti-

tution Av to the Supreme Court. Always peaceful and up-

lifting, The March For Life offers you the opportunity to

stop in at your federal legislators' offices and let them know

how you feel (and how you pray that they will vote!). De-

funding the abortion industry, defunding embryonic stem

cell research, voting against "right to die" and "death with

dignity" euthanasia legislation are all critical parts of this

day of peaceful and prayerful witness and demonstration.

When: 6:00 A.M. Mass / 6:30 A.M. board bus & depart

Where: St. Jerome Church 254 Wall Street, West Long

Branch

Return: 9:30 P.M. (approx.)

Cost: still only $10! (College and high school students free)

Bus Captain: Kathryn Perez 732-581-9735 Call ASAP for

more info and to reserve your seat.

First Friday Mass in English Next Month; New Schedule

on First Fridays


CCD Christmas Class Schedule

Sundays: There will be no class on Dec.

30th. Sunday classes resume on Jan. 6th.

Tuesdays: There will be no class on Jan.1.

Tuesday classes resume on Jan. 8th.

2019 Calendars are now available in

the back of the church. Feel free to

take one after Mass. Thank you to

Woolley-Boglioli Funeral Home for

this donation!

O Immaculate Virgin Mary, Mother of Mercy, you are the ref-uge of sinners, the health of the sick, and the comfort of the af-flicted You know my wants, my

troubles, my sufferings. By your appearance at the Grotto of

Lourdes you made it a privileged sanctuary where your

favors are given to people streaming to it from the whole

world. Over the years countless sufferers have obtained the cure for their infirmities - whether of soul, mind, or body. Therefore I come to you with limitless confi-dence to implore your motherly intercession. Obtain, O loving

Mother, the grant of my requests. Through gratitude for Your favors, I will en-

deavor to imitate

Your vir-tues, that I

may one day share in Your glory. Amen.

Pastoral Care Stephen and Paduan Ministries

Our Extraordinary Ministers made 14 Communion/shut-in visits and one Stephen Ministry visits during this past week. We pray that we have helped to bring God’s love and peace to His people in need.

Faith We guide our steps by faith, not by what is seen. 2 Cor

5:7 “Faith is like a bright ray of sunlight. It enables us to see

God in all things as well as all things in God.” St. Fran-

cis de Sales

Our Prayer: Heavenly Father, help me to shine the

spotlight of Your faith on the world I live in. Grant that I

may see You everywhere and serve You in everything.

Our Extraordinary Ministers are available for our parish-

ioners to visit the sick; the elderly; and bring Commun-

ion. Please contact us if you need us – 732-483-0360,

Ext. 120.

2019 Mass Book

The 2019 Mass Book is now open. We kindly ask

that when you come to the parish office for schedul-

ing, please bring a written list including the names

and dates of your requests and your name and phone

number. The stipend for Masses is $10.00 per

Mass.


Please be kind and gentle to yourself.

Christmas is joy, religious joy, an inner joy of light and peace.

Pope Francis

May you know the beauty of the season,

Merry Christmas.

Have a peaceful & a wonderful New Year

During this wonderful season there is al-ways the opportunity for

the blues to arrive. Try and find the middle ground. Change

it up. Make new traditions. Do something different, something new.

Go to mass.

Christmas is the perfect time to celebrate the love of

God and family and to create memories that will last forever. Jesus is God's perfect, indescribable gift.

The amazing thing is that not only are we able to receive this gift, but we are able to share it with oth-

ers on Christmas and every other day of the year.

Joel Osteen

St. Michael's has a group for those that need

support with life's new paths and journeys. The PATHWAY TO HEAL Group is a ministry for

widowed, separated, and divorced persons.

Our group is here to help those who may be

new to the emotional stresses of separation

and loss in your world. If you need a place to come and feel safe please plan on at-

tending our group.

Thursday, January 10th, 2019

7:00 P.M.

St. Michael's Living Room 6 West End Court, Long Branch, NJ

Please Join Us, All Are Welcomed.

Please contact the Parish Office if you need immediate assistance.

+AMDG+

I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you;

I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a

heart of flesh.

Speaking honestly, I’ve figured out that 99 percent of

my bad moods and losses of temper aren’t because of the

external factors, but really about my inner being. More

specifically, when I put myself at the center of concern I

begin muttering things like, “Why am I always doing the

dishes, feeding the dog or taking out the trash?” Each is a

necessary and good thing to perform, so there is no issue

there. The problem is one of the attitude. That “I” don’t

appreciate the opportunity of doing a particular good

right now and wish it were someone else doing it. This

results in making myself grumpy instead of peppily whis-

tling along. After all, if I am going to do it anyway why

not do it happily?

Having a Babylonian past, the New Year’s celebration

precedes the Catholic faith. Nonetheless, a New Year’s

resolution is a very Christian idea. Christ came to give us

new birth, a new way of life and a new self. In other

words, a new beginning much like the resolve to start

anew on New Year’s Day. I gather losing weight is the

most common thing to tackle, although there are count-

less self-improvement goals. Yet no undertaking is more

worthy or rewarding than a task God asks of us: To push

“me” out of the stony center to make room for the gift of

a new heart of flesh and a new joyful spirit.

If I keep “me” at center of the universe, I will never be

satisfied because I am incapable of giving to myself what

I need. (What I have I don’t need, so what’s needed en-

ters from outside of me.) Fulfillment comes in the person

of Jesus Christ, love incarnate, and the living water that

quenches all thirst. To make room for Him, I must “pour

me out.” Paradoxically, the more I give of myself, the

more I gain. Or as Luke 38 states, Give, and it will be

given to you.

I realize that self-centeredness can mask itself as con-

cern for others. Phrases like “after all I’ve done for you,”

are really about me and not you. Anytime we do some-

thing – no matter how seemingly good - expecting some

kind of payback is ultimately “me” centered. Ousting all

of my self-indulgent peccadillos in one resolution is ra-

ther unlikely, but if I begin with one specific habit (like

not complaining even to myself) I can ferret a little of

“me” from the center. So, I’ve resolved to join the Three

Kings in kneeling before Christ on the Epiphany and of-

fering Him my own gift. Instead of gold, frankincense or

myrrh it will be the New Year’s resolution to think less of

me and make a little more room in my heart for Him.

Kevin Connelly

Director of Religious Education


Aid For The Hearing Impaired We offer the use of radio aids during Mass upon request.

The device is tuned to the sound system in the Church so

that those who have a hearing deficit might hear more

clearly. Please ask an usher for assistance.

PARISH COUNSELING SERVICES

A joint effort of the Diocese of Trenton and

Catholic Charities provides licensed professionals for

short term counseling (up to 6 sessions) to parishion-

ers dealing with difficult issues, for example, job-

stress, family concerns and bereavement. Contact

your pastor or parish priest for additional infor-

mation and referral. The fee is $90 per session, but, if

needed, financial assistance is available through the

Diocese of Trenton Parish Counseling Services.

PROPAGATION OF THE FAITH

YEARLY MASS I NTENTIONS JULY 2019 Walter & Veronica Skowrenski r/o Robert Skowrenski & Family

OCTOBER 2019 Salvatore J. Mirarchi r/o Joe & Carmel Mirarchi

Ronald Lubischer Family NOVEMBER 2019 Louis Carlesimo r/o Children Ursula Carlesimo r/o Children

DECEMBER 2019

Dorothy Brady r/o Daughter Dee Celli

WEEKLY MASS I NTENTION

† Ronald Lubischer Joyce Lubischer

St. Vincent de Paul Society

Our cupboards are bare and we will take any

non-perishable food, especially cereal, fruit

and canned vegetables. Detergent and paper

items will be greatly appreciated. Thank you

for your generosity,

Thank you for your generosity!

Christmas 2018 Collection The tallying of the Christmas collection is a work in pro-

gress at this time since cash and checks earmarked for

Christmas continue to come in through the mail and drop

-offs at the parish office. We’ll publish the amount of the

Christmas collection in the Sunday bulletin in the next

few weeks, promptly after we close the books on the

counting process. Also, the collection data for the week-

ends of December 23 and 30 and January 6 will be pub-

lished in the January 13 bulletin due to early printer’s

deadlines. Thank you for your faithful stewardship and

financial support of the parish.

Howdy, Sorry for not being better about keeping in touch but it's been hectic here lately with a LOT of transfers which means a LOT of award writing. We are enjoy-ing the chilly winter weather - the temps have dropped into the low 70s (even high 60s some-times). I've received several boxes lately and the stuff was very much appreciated. Snacks (grab and go stuff) are always popular. Some of our shipmates, sta-tioned in Saudi Arabia were visiting so we loaded them up with swag as well. They send thanks as well. I hope the holiday season is treating you well. We're taking our unit photo tomorrow and I'll be sure to send you a copy. Thanks again for your thoughtful stream of boxes. Cheers, LCDR Eric Logistics Department Head United States Coast Guard

The following letter was received by

our parishioner Toni Seinfeld who

coordinates the Eagles Up Program

which sends needed items to U.S. mili-

tary servicemen and servicewomen

stationed overseas.


Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God

(holy day of obligation)

Tuesday, January 1, 2019

CCD Classes Resume Sunday, January 6 and


Rally & March for Life

(Washington D.C.)

Friday, January 18, 2019

Resumption of Small Group for

Women (Part 2): Facing Cancer With

Mary


6:30 p.m.

First Penance Saturday, April 6, 2019

11:00 a.m.

First Holy Communion Saturday, May 11, 2019

11:00 a.m.

On the Calendar at

St. Michael’s Church

PRAYERS FOR THE

SICK OF THE

PARISH This is a list of parishioners, relatives, and friends who are in need of our prayers for healing. Our Rosarians also pray every Saturday for all the parishioners of St. Michael’s. Please note that intentions will be listed for two months and then removed, unless the requestor calls to renew for another two months. Please also note that according to

the HIPPA & privacy laws only the sick themselves or family members may request to be added to the list. Contact the Parish Office for all prayer requests. Thank you and may Our Lord grant healing to all those who are suffering and in need of our prayers.

Week 2

Virginia Maita

Week 3

Xan D.

Week 6

Antonio Bevacqui

Joelle Vega

Rosarian Prayer Group

http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Rosary

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