Welcome to St. Virgil’s Parish

Mass Intentions for the Week Sat., April 20 8:00 PM Brother Anthony D’Souza Sun., April 21 7:30 AM Dec’d Members of the

D’Annunzio & DeRienzo Families Hank Landi Frank Landi

9:00 AM Bob Thomas 10:30 AM Helene Hallett

Harold Benz Craig Jacobs

12:15 PM Carl Reasor Mon., Apr. 22 6:30 AM Delia Clemente 12:10 PM Special Intentions Tues., Apr. 23 6:30 AM Ines D. Bernardo 12:10 PM Maria Infante Wed., Apr. 24 6:30 AM Hal Bermingham 12:10 PM Orlando & Amelia Biagi

Larry Contrucci Bernadette Pavkovic Catherine Sweich

Thurs., Apr. 25 6:30 AM Bob Thomas 12:10 PM Anthony & Josephine Carvagno

Esther Glanville—22nd Anniversary Bob & Sue Sameth—Special Intentions

Fri., Apr. 26 6:30 AM Francis D’Annunzio Richard Esposito

12:10 PM Mick Dunne Domenic Merlo Barbara Picone Lester Resh Phylis Resh Rose Prisco

Sat., Apr. 27 8:00 AM In Thanksgiving from the Bernardo Family

5:00 PM Anthony Cerrato Bartholomew Fitzsimmons Bill Smith Edith Nunn Elizabeth Wurzer—1st Anniversary

Sun., Apr. 28 7:30 AM Msgr. Paul Knauer Eileen Doherty

9:00 AM Joseph & Bridget Haugh Anthony Haugh Patrick Doherty Raffaele Gesualdo

10:30 AM Louise Fitzpatrick 12:00 PM Ann Marie Lagan

Donald James Scanlon—29th Anniversary Anna Russo

New Parish Email: Please make note of the new parish email: svparishoffice@gmail.com

You can visit our new website at: www.stvirgilparish.org

Rejoice! He is Risen

This Week at St. Virgil’s

Monday, April 22 Miraculous Medal Novena following the 12:10 Mass

Tuesday, April 23 Return Support Group, 11AM, TC

Thursday, April 25 Bible Study, 10:30 AM, TC

Divine Mercy Novena, 6:30 PM, Chapel Bible Study, 7 PM, Library

Friday, April 26 Eucharistic Adoration following the 6:30 AM Mass

Prime Time, 1 PM, TC Saturday/Sunday, April 27/28

Cardboard City by Appalachia Outreach Team K of C Drive for Citizens with Disabilities

Saturday, April 27 Confession, 3:30-4:15 PM

Sunday, April 28 Choir Rehearsal 9:30 AM, CR

Divine Mercy Novena & Benediction, 3 PM

Please pray for all those serving in defense of our Country, both at home and abroad, especially: Second Lieutenant Ryan Feeney Lieutenant Commander Daniel M. Leahey Lieutenant Patrick J. Leahey Lieutenant Mark C. Leahey Lieutenant R. Andrew McGuinness Lieutenant Mark Van Orden Major Gary Windt Petty Officer 2nd Class Timothy Butchko Master Sergeant. T.J. Hopkins Lieutenant Kelsey Bergh

Among Ourselves

Please remember in your prayers: James Irvin, Marie E. Logan, Margaret Ellis, Mary Eileen Prisinzano, Eileen Langan, Bob Taylor, John & Elizabeth Zisa, Kamasha Redhead, Stephen Burke, Sandra Buck, Janet Dittrich, Mallory Miller, Miah Tully, Domenico & Teresa Procopio, Anne Benson, Baby Emma Scannelli, Barbara Bock, Mary Maffeo, & Rose Marie Warrick. We are very grateful for your on-going generosity during the year. The regular collection for the weekend April 13/14 was $11,396. ($9497 from in pew donations and $1,899 from Faith Direct). We thank you for your generosity. The Knights of Columbus will be collecting after Masses the weekend of 4/27-28 to benefit the annual Intellectual Disabilities Drive. The proceeds will be split among several local Intellectual Disability Charities.

Ministry Schedule for April 27 and 28 5:00pm Vigil 7:30am 9:00am 10:30am 12:00pm Cantor Frank Kelly Nina Rangel Riti Suresh Youth Band Lector John Logan Margaret Flory Tom Battagliese Rick Kane Youth Ministry Altar Servers Lia Dyer Breanna Barter Michael Szoke Victoria Coté Natalie Dyer Jake Gringeri Micah Fuentes Michael Gopon Extraordinary Marie Hantak Nicea D’Annunzio Dianna DeLorenzo Viji Alex Andrew DeBlock Ministers Wendy Nunn Jackie Donnelley Joe DeLorenzo Maureen Kelly John FitzPatrick Helen Salerno Beverly Morgan Melissa Gringeri Michele Para Kevin Gopon Karen Schwingel Rosemary Paulison Bill Hoferer Pat Para Penny Manser Phyllis Smith Joan Sambrowski Bernadette Mauser Cheryl Zebick Frank Miller Dan Smith Pete & Lydia Sesso Bob Zebick George Perkins

A BLESSED AND HAPPY EASTER to you. May the grace of the New Life experienced by you be recognized by your family, friends and co-workers - all because of the Resurrection of Our Lord.

The Gospel according to John, Chapter 12 describes the anointing of Jesus. Jesus wanted to spend the Passover in Jerusalem, an overcrowded city. So, he stayed in Bethany at the home of his friends Martha, Mary and Lazarus. At dinner, Mary took a liter of perfumed and very expensive oil. She anointed the feet of Jesus and dried them with her own hair. The costly oil caught the attention of Judas who openly criticized this extravagant anointing. Only Jesus understood this ritual. It was done out of love, a love that regrets that it cannot do more. It was done in humility because Mary chose Jesus’ feet rather than His head. And Mary was very bold to loosen her hair in public and dry Jesus’ feet with it. Love, humility and courage - all in a single action that scented the whole house and has been etched in our memories even to this day.

Experiencing Easter, the Resurrection of Jesus Christ in a personal manner, will inject New Life in us. Then we, too, like Mary, will act out of Love, Humility and Courage.

Our Lent, Holy Week, and Easter were made possible because of the loving, humble and courageous actions of so many parishioners. Their faithfulness and commitment to St. Virgil has been blessed in so many ways. Our united gratitude to our Altar Servers, Lectors, ministers of the Eucharist, our music ministry (children’s, youth and adult choirs), decorators, landscapers, church linen team, ushers, greeters, our Deacons and many other helpers. All of us, through our love, humility and boldness have brought a new fragrance to our parish. How wonderful it is to see God’s grace present among us. May we continue in this spirit of New Life and commit ourselves to spiritual growth and making disciples.

From all at St. Virgil wishing you a joyous and grace-filled Easter - Fr. Lance

Parish Postings

Join us for a Divine Mercy Sunday Devotional Prayer Service

Sunday, April 28, at 3:00 PM

Please join us for a beautiful service of prayers and reflections from the Diary of St. Faustina as we honor the hour of God’s great mercy for the whole world. The service will include the The Divine Mercy Chaplet in song, veneration of the Divine Mercy image and Benediction. (This service WILL NOT include Holy Mass or Confessions.)

May Crowning Drawing Invitation to the Parish Women

The Rosary Society invites all women of the parish who wish to be part of the drawing for the Crowning of Our Lady on Thursday, May 2, to either contact Betty O’Keefe (973-267-7760) or fill out the form below and put it in the weekly collection basket. This includes Rosary Society members as well. The cut-off date is Wednesday, April 24.

When leaving a telephone message, please include your name and telephone number so we may contact you if your name is drawn.

Name_____________________________________________ Telephone Number___________________________________

May Crowning of Our Lady May 2, 2019

All are invited to the May Crowning, sponsored by the Rosary Society, on Thursday, May 2, in the church.

We will arrive at 6:45 p.m. to recite a decade of the rosary dedicated to Our Lady. Mass will begin at 7 p.m.

Refreshments will be served in the Tracy Center immediately following Mass.

ATTENTION ALL PRIME TIMERS! Our next meeting will be on April 26 at 1 PM in the Tracy Center. Please note this is the 4th Friday of the month, as our usual 3rd Friday is Good Friday this year.

We have an enthusiastic group of young people who will be joining us on April 26. They represent the Appalachia 2019 team that we help send to Kentucky during the month of July, with a monetary donation as well as our prayers. Please come out and welcome them.

We will also have a surprise treat in store for all, as well as our usual 50/50 drawing, our collection for the Interfaith Food Pantry and, of course, our delicious dessert table. Hope to see you all on Friday afternoon, April 26, and in the meantime have a happy, blessed Easter.

Fr. Lance’s Letter

43rd Annual St. Virgil’s Carnival May 8, 9, 10, 11

The signs are up; the mailing is out; and the Carnival is just around the corner. We need your help to make it all a success. You have probably received our request in the mail for sponsors and volunteers. Sign up for volunteering is easy with Sign Up Genius. Go to Sign Up Genius and fill in your preferred slot at:

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/30E084CACAF29A46-2019

Advance Ride Tickets are available in the Parish Office until Tuesday, May 7. The cost is $30 for a card of 30 tickets. These ride tickets can be used any night of the Carnival.

Pilgrimage to The Divine Mercy Shrine in Stockbridge, Massachusetts on Friday, June 14

The grounds of the National Shrine consist of 375 acres of land nestled in the beautiful Berkshire Mountains in Western Massachusetts. The name of the property is called “Eden Hill” because of its natural beauty. On the grounds of Eden Hill, you

can explore the National Shrine Church which offers daily Mass, confessions, adoration, rosary, benediction, the chaplet of Divine Mercy, the blessing of religious articles and a blessing with a first-class relic of St. Faustina. There are five outdoor shrines including life-size Stations of the Cross. Their gift shop is the largest religious articles store in New England.

Plan to join our Parish Pilgrimage on June 14. Bus transportation and a box lunch will be provided for $45. Bus leaves at 9 AM and returns approximately 8 PM. If you are planning to join us, fill out the form below and return it to the Parish Office with your cash or check made payable to St. Virgil’s Church.

Divine Mercy Pilgrimage Reservation

Name____________________________________________________ Phone ____________________________________

Email _____________________________________________________________________________________________

Faith Formation

WELCOME OUR NEW MEMBERS

The Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults, RCIA, is focused on the conversion of Catechumens, the unbaptized, and Candidates, those baptized in other Christian denominations or Catholics seeking to complete their sacramental initiation into the Roman Catholic faith. It is a process focused on conversion during an extended period of formation. It is we, the community, that ritually celebrate their conversion during the season of Lent as they are received into our community through the Rite of Sending when the Catechumens are sent to the Cathedral where the Bishop accepts their enrollment into the final phase of their journey as they become the Elect and enter into the final preparation for

celebrating the Sacraments of Initiation.

This year we welcome into our St. Virgil community the Elect, Federico Robles, who received the Sacraments of Initiation, Baptism, Confirmation and Eucharist, Stephanie Anne Mantilla who received Eucharist and Confirmation, and candidates Elizabeth Haluska, George Haluska, and Jessica Haluska, who will be receiving Confirmation, completing her Sacraments of Initiation. Let us reach out to these people God has called to join our community, a call they have embraced, by offering them our prayers and support as they enter into this new period of living the Gospel where we are all called to follow in the footsteps of Jesus, to love and serve one another.

Ministries & Outreaches

Rosary Society – May Outreach

To celebrate Mother’s Day, the Rosary Society is collecting NEW baby clothes and accessories for Birthright International in Dover, NJ. Birthright offers medical, legal and psychological services free-of-charge to any woman or girl regardless of age, race, religion, marital or economic status. It also recommends a wide range of community support services such as financial assistance and housing. All services are provided in a caring and non-judgmental environment. Additional information is available on its website www.birthright.org.

Please remember these mothers and their babies by purchasing one or more items from the list below. Please provide only the items and sizes requested.

Clothing for boys and girls - all sizes 6 mo to 2T

Summer outfits (short & long pants) Socks Desitin®/diaper rash cream Baby towels with or without hoods Onsies (short & long sleeves) Bibs Crib sheets Wash cloths All parishioners are invited to participate in the collection. Please bring your gifts to the Parish Office no later than Wednesday, May 15.

Thank you for supporting these women and girls during this difficult time of their lives.

Appalachia Outreach 2019

Cardboard City April 27 & 28

Thank you to everyone who supported our donut sale this past Sunday. The rewards were sweet!!! We have been asked to do another sale and are looking at June to bring back the donuts. We will keep in touch.

Our Go Fund Me page for our mission trip is now active. If you prefer to donate on line, the Go Fund Me page is quick and easy. You can sponsor a team through the site or packets are still available at the doors of the church for individual sponsorship of a team member. Your support, in donations and prayer, are so important to the success of our mission trip. Thank you for all your support. https://www.gofundme.com/gfp74-appalachia-2019

Our team will be bagging at the Shop Rite of Greater Morristown on April 27. Please let us help bag your groceries!!! We promise we won't put the eggs on the bottom!

On April 27, our Appalachia Team will be participating in our 4th annual Cardboard City. At Cardboard City, teens build a shelter out of cardboard boxes and sleep out overnight to bring awareness to hunger and homelessness in our community. We ask you to be part of our retreat by bringing a bag of groceries to church on the weekend of April 27 and 28 to support the Interfaith Food Pantry. (please see the Interfaith wish list in the bulletin) We will also be collecting funds for our partners at Homeless Solutions. Both service partners are dedicated to helping the less fortunate in our community. The teens say this year’s city will be the best yet!!! Please stop by and say Hello!

Please remember the Interfaith Food Pantry while you are doing your grocery shopping. Pantry needs are extensive this time of year. Current needs are: canned fruit, spaghetti/pasta sauce, tomato products, cereal-low sugar, high fiber, pasta / whole wheat pasta, white and brown rice, dry milk,

dry milk (1 qt. package), evaporated milk, calcium-fortified milk alternatives, canned beans (pork & beans, pinto, red or white kidney), tuna fish, canned meats and meals, Rice-A-Roni, Pasta-Roni, Hamburger Helper, Tuna Helper, Macaroni & Cheese, all varieties of soups, Stage 1, Stage 2 and Stage 3 baby food, baby cereal, baby wipes, reusable grocery shopping bags, Boost or Ensure regular and glucose control.

Family Promise Homeless Shelter Help

During the year, SVC is a supportive parish of the Family Promise Homeless Shelter in Chatham. Always a Thursday evening about 3 times a year, SVC donates food for a meal to serve about 15 people and schedules volunteers to supervise the guests overnight. Help with either service is always needed. To become a part of the distribution list, please email stephcrowley@optonline.net. A week prior to our scheduled date, a signup sheet is forwarded to volunteers to register online for their donations of food or time. Food is dropped at volunteer's home who is attending the dinner and SVC volunteers serve and enjoy an evening with the guests. The dinner and overnight stay at the United Methodist Church in Chatham on Main Street. Food is dropped the evening before or day of the dinner by 3pm. Volunteers for the overnight choose their shifts and arrive as scheduled. To get more information on supervising, please email kathybutchko@aol.com.

Around the Diocese & Around Town

The Compassionate Friends, a self-help group for bereaved parents, siblings, and grandparents will be meeting on Thursday, May 9, at St. Christopher's Church in Parsippany, at 7:30PM in room 101. This month’s program: "Dealing with Anger, Guilt, and Regret". For more information please call Lily Capriglione at: 973-568-4164

Weekly Reflection

Acts: 10:34a, 37-43 New Testament John: 20:1-9

This week we celebrate the apex of our faith. If it were not for Easter Sunday, there would be no Christian faith and the world would be a very different place. Many think Christmas is the most important Church feast day. But, theologically speaking, Easter is most important. It is hard to imagine, without the Resurrection of Christ, that we’d particularly care about the birth of Christ. It is His Resurrection which gave us the hope that changes our lives - that there is a tomorrow and that all of what we see is “not all there is.” The Resurrection gives us the “Joy” that is so basic to our attitude as Christians.

The first reading today is not from the Old Testament but from the Acts of the Apostles. The testimonies of the Apostles on this Main Event are critical to the entire Christian World’s faith in the Resurrection and its proof. The Acts are a record by His Apostles of the Resurrection after every effort to investigate and explain what had happened. The Acts represent very important corroborating evidence of the Resurrection by Christ’s followers whom not only met, talked to, ate with, knew and experienced Jesus in real time, and touched the risen body of Christ.

The Acts have provided us with many interesting and enlightening facts and information about our Holy Redeemer’s life and death. For example, the Acts record that Mary Magdala was the first person to find the Tomb empty and report the matter to Peter, who was to become the leader of the Christian Church. If this were not true, the Apostles surely would never have put it into their account, since women’s testaments were not accepted in the courts of that time, such as the Jewish Sanhedrin and the secular Roman courts. The Acts further record that the Apostles Peter and John then rushed to the Tomb and confirmed with circumstantial evidence what Mary Magdala had reported. The physical times that the Apostles saw Christ and not only spoke with Him, but had eaten with him and touched Christ gave them faith in His Resurrection, and why it was that they went to their violent deaths (all except John) teaching and preaching this basic and life changing event. This also gives us faith, hope and joy in the Resurrection.

Lord, help us to meditate on Your Resurrection and what it means to each of our lives of faith!

Easter Flower Memorials The Myers and Cavan Families ................................................................................................... Joe & Nancy Myers Special Intentions ............................................................................................................................. The Cutter Family Deceased Members and Special Intentions Received ............................................... Mary Ann & Ricardo Perez Alfred Atkins ..................................................................................................................................................... Kathleen Joan & Charles Griffin & Special Intentions ......................................................................... Harry & Fran Bolton Dolton & DeChiara Families .................................................................................................... Harry & Fran Bolton Frances, Howard & Mark Sherwood ...................................................................................... Harry & Fran Bolton Deceased Members of our families ..................................................................................... Jenifer & Mark Beyrent Deceased Members of the Garnier & Steiniger Families........................................... Dennis & Theresa Granier Deceased Members of the Carvagno & Conforti Families ........................................... Tom & Gloria Carvagno Deceased Members of the Glanville & Paulison Families ................................... Dennis & Rosemary Paulison James O’Keefe .............................................................................................................................. The O’Keefe Family Ronald & Lillian Burrows,Rronald Harris & Ann Marie Lagan .......................................... The Burrows Family Robert & Kathleen Gelpke ............................................................................................................... Maureen Gelpke

Deceased Members of the Donnelly & Sandelli Families.............................................................. Barbara, Michael Anthony & Samantha Sandelli Friends and Family who are cancer survivors & Friends and Family who have passed away in 2018................... Minieri/D’Agostino Families Anthony Michael Rizzo, and Deceased Members of the Moore & Rizzo Families .................................................................... Deb & Mike Rizzo Joseph & Velma Vigilanti and Theresa Fumei............................................................................................................................................. Beverly Insull Paul & Margaret Magestro & Anthony & Anne DeVenezia ............................................................................................... Jack & Diane DeVenezia Deceased Members of therusso & Fallivene Families....................................................................................................................The Fallivene Family Robin Maura Claffey, George & Rachel Claffey, George & Ellen Shivas ................................................................................John & Eileen Claffey Deceased Members of the Delp & Richenaker Families ................................................................................................... Debbie & Gary Richenaker Thomas & Rose Cumella and Frank & Catherine Altrui .............................................................................. Thomas & Marianne Altrui and Family Deceased Members of the Scannelli and Perruso Families ......................................................................................................... Jim & Carol Scannelli The Terrault Family and Dan Walsh Family ................................................................................................................................ Lovingly, Grace Walsh Pamela Costens Bauman & Robert Clark Campbell .......................................................................................................... Joseph & Florence Costens Robert & Annarose Butterly and Robert, Doris and Mark Clifford ..................................................................... Bob, Mary, Anne & Rob Clifford Grant Morgan and Deceased Members of the Paul Glanville, Sr. Family .......................................................................................... Beverly Morgan

Christin Barilla ................................................. John & Martha Barilla Edward & Katherine Snow ........................... John & Martha Barilla Bob & Jamie Hunter.................................................. Helen & Family Pino, Pablo & Sofia ........................................ Jullian, Rich, & Marisa Geddy & Marie Kairaitis ...................... Dan, Wendy & Kelly Nunn Debbie Kairaitsi Stumpf ...................... Dan, Wendy & Kelly Nunn George Nunn, Sr. ................................. Dan, Wendy & Kelly Nunn Edith Nunn ........................................... Dan, Wendy, & Kelly Nunn Gallo Family & Barry Family ............................ Pat, Joanne & Chris Robin Dunn ................................................................... Pat & Marlene Theresa and Santo Sciabica ..................................... Daughter, Marie John B. Wolf ................................................................... Mary B. Wolf Edward & Robert Taratko .......................................... Loving Family John Hooper .............................................. Pauline Hooper & Family Edmund and Clara Flynn ................................................... Jane Flynn Loreto & Miller Families ............................................Grace L. Miller Edward Joyce ................................................... Irene & Michael Joyce Craig, Marie & JJ Davidson ............................ The Davidson Family Frank Tykowski .......................................................... Helen Tykowski King & Gaertner Family .................................................... The King’s George Nunn Sr. ........................ Thomas & Larua Nunn & Family Edith Nunn .................................. Thomas & Larua Nunn & Family

John H. Courtet .......................... Thomas & Larua Nunn & Family Margaret Courtet......................... Thomas & Larua Nunn & Family The Fisher and Williamson Families ........... Barbara & Matt Fisher Jerry Kelly..................................................... Maureen Kelly & Family Vincent & George .............................................. Jeanne McGuinness John Keating ................................................................. Regina Keating Memory of Memmer & Eckardt Families ............... Regina Keating Johanna Eckardt .......................................................... Regina Keating Edith, Bill & Robert Keating ..................................... Regina Keating Donna Garland ............................................................ Regina Keating Johanna Eckardt ................................................Carl & Mary Eckardt John Keating .......................................................Carl & Mary Eckardt Olive Jeanpierre ............................................... Carl & Mary Eckardt Tom & Nancy Jeanpierre .................................Carl & Mary Eckardt Memmer Families ..............................................Carl & Mary Eckardt Paul & Elise Bangiola........................................ Mary & Ron Phillips Elizabeth Wurzer ................................................. The Wurzer Family Deceased Family & Friends .......................... Bob & Carolyn Dubee Mary and Angelo Spinola .......................................... With love, Judy John Curtin & Alfred Atkins ..... John & Michele Atkins & Family Michael & Nellie Kushner ..................................... With love, Gloria All our loved ones .......................................... Jeff & Susan Carvalho

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