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Church Office 201.444.6362 FAX 201.444.5056
Email: [email protected]
Religious Education Office 201.447.1776 Email: [email protected]
Parish Website www.churchofthenativitynj.com
315 Prospect Street Midland Park, NJ 07432
November 5, 2017
Pastoral Staff
Rev. George Klybus, Pastor Rev. Msgr. James A. Burke, In Residence Rev. Michael German, Weekend Assistant Olivia L. Harrington, Religious Education Coordinator Janet Nemec, Director of Lay Ministries Lorraine DeLuca, Religious Education Assistant Kaye Zbonack, Parish Secretary Jim Kenny, Director of Financial Affairs & RCIA Jim Chiappini, Organist Ciarán Sheehan, Cantor Roberto Hurtado, Maintenance Supervisor Pedro Herrera, Maintenance Staff Russell Kamp & Tia Patterson, Parish Trustees
Masses Saturday: 5:00 pm Sunday: 8:00, 10:15 am, 12 Noon Daily: Monday-Friday 12:10pm (chapel) Holy Days: Consult Bulletin
Parish Membership Every family in of our parish is encouraged to register. Forms are available in the church or at the Church Office. If you move or change your home address or email address, kindly notify the Church Office. If you want to add your cell phone to your family information contact the Church Office.
Delphine S Fernandez Bruce J DeHaas Elizabeth Mulligan Thomas J McLaughlin Jacqueline Jean Nagle Sophie Brois Victor P Bastis, Jr Matilda Portaz Columbia M Provenzale Geovanni Walters Ethel Agnes Sheldon Jean J Drobinski Albert J Brenkert, Jr Veronica J Harty Mary Irene Gallagher Elizabeth McCombs
Ellen Patricia O'Driscoll Anna J Grimstad Vernon G Oates Alan G Marschall Andew J Phiefer Charles Salerno Matilda D Duanno Susana Gutierrez Mary Ann O'Neill Claire A Saccomanno William J Heyburn Ralph S Musco Harold T Hanson Nicholas F Servidio Joan C Kaldawi John James Neretich, Jr
Roger Edward Keller, Jr William J Keane Kyra Ann Kolpin Peter F Rossano Mary E Grillo Patrick C Sorge, Jr Janet M Weis Arthur R Kleppe III Douglas W Caine Jean Drelich Roger Lee Mitchem Lynn C Yolman Joseph T Golden Jeanne Marie Joyce MaryLou Hellestro William T Conroy
All the Souls of the Faithful Departed
Eternal Rest Grant Unto Them O Lord
November 5, 2017 The Thirty-first Sunday In Ordinary Time
Please remember in your prayers the sick who have asked for our prayers… Devon Lieschman and Sonia Intagliata
▪▪▪▪▪ Please remember in your prayers the recently deceased…
Joseph Antone, Mary Grillo, Richard Overeem, Janet Weis, Douglas Caine, Joseph Polito, Joseph Golden,
Lynn Yolman, Jeanne Marie Joyce, Jean Drelich, Neil O’Donoghue, MaryLou Hellestro, William T Conroy
Mass Please Remember Mass Requested By
Saturday November 4th 5:00 Mass
John & Madeline Gurry Eileen & Don Rodda
Sunday November 5th
8:00 Mass Rosary Society Living and Deceased Members
Ralph Musco
Rosary Society
Pinkler Family
10:15 Mass Edna Atella
Janet Weis
Jane & Barry Donnelly
Jack & Maryanne Kelley
12:00 Mass Mary Grillo Nicholas Family
Monday November 6th 12:10 Mass
Pasquale DiFinizio 8th Anniversary
Patrick Caldiero 33rd Anniversary
Anna & Joseph Caldiero
Anna & Joseph Caldiero
Tuesday November 7th 12:10 Mass
Sick & Deceased Legionaries
Catherine Sullivan
Legion of Mary
Pat Sullivan
Wednesday November 8th 12:10 Mass
Margaret & Eugene Keane
Catherine Mitchell
Ambrose McGarry
Claire & Stan Laikowski
Thursday November 9th 12:10 Mass
Victor Calabreta Marilyn & Mike Nagle
Friday November 10th 12:10 Mass
Departed Souls of Fr. Fuino’s Family
Evelyn Rudy
Family
Andrew & Janet Nemec
Saturday November 11th 5:00 Mass
Ester & Al Vierheilig 56th Wedding Anniversary
Sr. Eleanor Dobson 3rd Anniversary
Special Intention
Stan & Claire Laikowski
Sunday November 12th
8:00 Mass Jean Holden Barbara & Ray Cantwell
10:15 Mass Mary Irene Gallagher
Janet Weis
Vince Gallagher & Family
DeMarco Family
12:00 Mass George Sheehan Marilyn & Mike Nagle
9:00 Mass Jack Esposito Family
Humble O merciful God, take pity on those souls who have no
particular friends and intercessors to recommend them to Thee, who, either through the negligence of those who are alive, or through length of time, are forgotten by their friends and by all. May the souls of all the faithful departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace.
Thank you for your generous support of your Parish. Oct. 28 & 29
Monday November 6
11:00AM OH - Nativity Prayer Chaplet
Tuesday November 7
11:00PM MG - Legion of Mary 1:00PM MG - Scripture Study 7:30PM C - Choir Practice
Wednesday November 8
10:00AM OH - Shepherds on the Move 1:00PM OH - Nativity Knits 7:00PM KH - YES We Can Cook
Thursday November 9
7:00PM MG - Knights of Columbus Meeting
Friday November 10
Saturday November 11
Hospitality Weekend Feathers for Food Pick Up
Sunday November 12
Hospitality Weekend Feathers for Food Pick Up 9:00AM C - Mass for differently-abled people 9:00PM S - Religious Education 1:30 MG - Baptism Class
November 6 WEEK OF
KEY
C-Church OH-O’Connell Hall MG-McGrath Room CHA-Chapel
S-School KH-Kennedy Hall UR-Upper Room R-Rectory
Weekly Church Offering Including On-Line Giving
$9,978
On October 26, 2017, from the Auletta of Paul VI Hall, Pope Francis had a live audio-video connection with the crew of Mission 53 on board the International Space
Station, a 400-kilometer flight from the Earth.
The crew is made up by Randolph Bresnik (U.S.A.), Commander of NASA; Paolo Nespoli (Italy), ESA engineer; Mark T. Vande Hei (U.S.A.) NASA engineer; Joseph Acaba (U.S.A., native of Puerto Rico) NASA engineer; Sergey Ryazanskiy (Russia), engineer and Alexander Misurkin (Russia), engineer.
Here is a ZENIT translation of the text of part of the conversation between the Holy Father and the Astronauts.
Good morning you all! Paolo Nespoli: Good morning, Your Holiness. Welcome to the International Space Station, among us, among the crew of expedition 52 and 53.
Holy Father: Question 5: And now, if you have the courtesy to listen, I’ll ask another question. Our society is very individualistic and in life, instead, collaboration is essential. I think of all the work that is behind an enterprise like yours. Can you give me a significant example of your collaboration in the Space Station?
Paolo Nespoloi: Holy Father, an optimal question. I’ll leave the question to the American colleague Joseph Acaba who is of Puerto Rican descent. Paolo Nespoli translates… Joe recalled that for this Station there is cooperation between several nations of the world: there is the United States, there is Russia, Japan, Canada, nine European nations . . . And he recalled how these nations work together to obtain something that is beyond each one of them. However, one of the important and interesting things that he said is the fact that each one of us bears a difference and these differences put together make a much greater whole than an individual person could be; and working thus together, in this collaborative spirit to go beyond, this is the way for us as human beings, to go out of the world and continue this voyage in knowledge.
Holy Father: Your are a small “Glass Palace!! The totality is greater that the sum of the parts, and this is the example that you give us.
Thank you so much, dear friends, I would like to say: dear brothers, because we feel ourselves representatives of the whole human family in the great project of research that is the Space Station. My heartfelt thanks for this conversation, which has enriched me very much. May the Lord bless you, your work and your families. I assure you: I will pray for you and you, please, pray for me. Thank you!
Paolo Nespoli: Holy Father, on behalf of all I want to thank you for having been with us today, on the International Space Station. This is a place where we do much research, where we go to seek the things of every day. We thank you for having been with us and for having led us higher and having pulled us out of this daily mechanicalness, and making us think of greater things than ourselves. Thank you again! © Libreria Editrice Vatican ZENIT translation from Italian by Virginia M. Forrester For more of this conversation, check out https://zenit.org/articles/popes-conversation-with-astronauts/.
A Word from the Pastor
Tickets will be sold after all Masses on the following weekends: November 11/12, November 18/19, and if not sold out...November 25/26
All tickets are available, first come, first served, after weekend Masses in the Church and at the Rectory on weekdays. Checks are to be payable to Church of the Nativity.
For ticket information contact the Church Office at 201.444.6362 or [email protected].
To get a sneak preview of Ciarán Sheehan, check out his website at ciaransheehan.com
Contact Janet Nemec at [email protected]
November 5, 2017 The Thirty-first Sunday In Ordinary Time
Parish Cateche cal Program: Gr. K-8: Just a reminder… There will be NO SESSIONS
Thursday Nov 9th – NJEA Conven on Thursday Nov 23rd and Sunday Nov 26th –
Thanksgiving recess
FIRST RECONCILIATION PROGRAM: The presenta on of the second theme “Remembering God’s Forgiveness” in the First Reconcilia on Program begins this week. Parents will help the children preparing for the Sacrament understand that God loves each of us very much. He wants us to stay as close to him as possible, but this is not always easy to do.
CONFIRMATION PROGRAM 2017: Missed the mee ng and want to par cipate? You can s ll call the office @ 201-447-1776. Just a reminder… The second Fall Session will be next Sunday November 12 a er the 10:15 Mass.
ALL SAINTS DAY CELEBRATION We are celebra ng the Feast of All Saints today, November 5th at the 10:15 AM Mass. Hope you’ve joined us, as the CCD students honored them with a “Parade of Saints”.
Attention families of 8th grade students planning to attend Catholic high school in Fall 2018!
The High School Placement Test (HSPT®) administered as part of the Cooperative Admissions Program for Catholic high schools will be given on Friday, November 10, 2017.
Registration for this exam is online at: www.njcoopexam.org For more information about the Cooperative Admissions Program go to:
www.catholicschoolsnj.org.
ARE YOU SOMEONE OR DO YOU KNOW SOMEONE WHO
Have you expressed an
interest in becoming Catholic?
A Teenager who has not been baptized?
Were you baptized Catholic, but has not celebrated the Sacraments of Confirmation and
Eucharist?
Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults (RCIA) A New Class of
Instruction Has Started Now! Come and See...
We offer an opportunity to come together in a small group to learn more about our faith. Sessions focus on the teachings and experience of Church and prepare individuals to celebrate the Sacraments of Baptism, Confirmation, and Eucharist during the Easter season. There are separate sessions for children or youth. You are welcome to participate in the process with your questions, your insights and your faith story in a warm accepting setting. For information please contact:
Talk to Fr. George or Jim Kenny at the Church Office
201 444-6362. Email:
Bergen Catholic will host an Open House on Wednesday November 8th from 6:30-8:30
Registration can be found on the Admissions page on the Bergen Catholic Website. Questions can be directed to Matt Rosa, Director of Admissions, at [email protected] or call 201-634-4141.
Have you ever considered
becoming a Lector?
Lectors are scheduled to serve about once a month at weekend and Holy Day Masses. Handbooks guide our lectors through the readings so that the Liturgy of the Word may be proclaimed with confidence and clarity. A strong voice and good diction are considered assets for lectors. All lectors are given the opportunity to indicate the Mass times for which they prefer to be scheduled. For more information contact Kathy Hutton 201 444-1481 or [email protected].
November 5, 2017 The Thirty-first Sunday In Ordinary Time
Looking for a little physical activity? Want to get fit without going to the gym?
Here is your answer…
Come and workout with other parishioners This workout is what you have been looking for A little aerobics, A little yoga, A little meditation
For a lot of well-being!
Wednesdays at 10:00 AM In O’Connell Hall
Come and check it out… Everyone is welcome!
Contact Phyllis for more information 201-560-0470
Wedding Anniversary Celebration Form The Nativity Parish annual Wedding Anniversary Mass will be held on
Saturday, November 18th at 5:00PM. If you are celebrating a 5th, 10th, 15th, 20th, 25th, 30th, 35th, 40th, 45th, 50th wedding anniversary this year, please join the many other of Nativity’s couples in celebrating this special occasion.
Complete the form below and return to the rectory or drop it in the offering basket. First and Last Name_____________________________________________________________ Address _____________________________________City____________________ Date of Marriage ___________Phone Number______________________________ Email Address _______________________________________________________ Wedding Song _______________________________________________________
Please bring a framed
wedding picture to the Church Office
by Friday, November
10th
All About Our Icons
Nativity of the Lord During the reign of Caesar Augustus, our Lord and God and Savior Jesus Christ was born of the Virgin Mary in the town of Bethlehem. Refer to the Gospels of Matthew (chapters 1-2) and Luke (chapter 2) for the account of the Lord's birth in the flesh. The feast is universally celebrated on December 25. This beautiful icon depicts several scenes from this glorious event. In the center, the Theotokos lies beside the Lord in the cave. The ox and donkey represent the Jews and the Gentiles. In the upper right corner, an angel gives the good news of this birth to a shepherd, and on the left side, the Magi are guided by the star, carrying their gifts from the East. In the lower right corner, a midwife tends to the newborn Savior, and on the left side, Joseph the old man is tempted to leave Mary by the devil appearing in human form. (The latter two of these scenes are from the Holy Tradition (Protoevangelium of James), an early Christian text from which the Church draws a number of traditions about the Nativity.) The tree, which is in the middle of the lower part of the icon, is a symbol of the Tree of Jesse. This tree refers to Isaiah 11:1-2, "But a shoot shall sprout from the stump of Jesse, and from his roots a bud shall blossom. The spirit of the Lord shall rest upon Him." King David was often mentioned as the son of Jesse and Jesus was from the House of David. The Holy Icon of the Nativity reminds one to praise and glorify the Birth of Christ. The celebration of Christmas each year serves to remind each and everyone of us that Christ came for you and me.
November 5, 2017 The Thirty-first Sunday In Ordinary Time
Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament
First Fridays 11:00AM-12:00PM
in the Chapel
The next scheduled Adoration is
December 1st
Calling all Senior Citizens You're invited to...
Immaculate Heart Academy's
Annual Senior Citizen Thanksgiving Dinner
Monday, November 20th 5PM-7PM IHA cafeteria for
a free Thanksgiving dinner & more
Please RSVP to Sarah Shutrop 201-445-6800 x 167 or [email protected]
Nativity’s Food Pantry has been providing the families at the York Street Project, more specifically, the children at the Nurturing Place, with non perishable foods for more than 25 years. Your continued generosity allows us to provide them with the assistance they need to feed these students.
We have been informed by our friends at the York Street Project that there has been a change in the donated foods they can accept to serve to the students at the Nurturing Place. They have provided us with the new approved list below.
Since the new governmental regulations, they are using more fresh foods, so if GIFT CARDS can be donated that would really help also. Currently they can use gift cards from:
SHOP-RITE, BJ'S AND TRADER JOE'S
If you donate foods, not on the approved list below, we will deliver the foods to the York Street Project. While they cannot be served to the children at the Nurturing Place, the Moms will use the food at home. Peace, Fr. George
BABY FOODS: single ingredient fruits and vegetables (i.e. apples, bananas, green beans) No jar foods with added sugars, cereal or fruit bits No jar dinners such as; chicken noodle, spaghetti and meatball, etc. No organic baby cereal or cereals with flavor added
Quaker Oatmeal - plain / 3 minute cooking Oatmeal Raisin Cookies
100% JUICE (low sugar) Whole Grain Crackers
Sugar free or no added sugar PLAIN APPLESAUCE
Low Sodium Goya Adobo' and Sazon'
Low sodium spaghetti sauce *(must be plain flavor - no meat , mushroom, etc.)
Gold fish Crackers (WHOLE GRAIN Variety ONLY)
Low sodium - chicken, beef, vegetable broth Fig Newtons
Low sodium bullion cubes - chicken and beef Minestrone soup-low sodium
Low sodium - diced tomatoes, stewed toma-toes, crushed tomatoes, tomato paste
Canned - low sodium vegetables (peas, corn, mushrooms)
Canned fruit in natural juice with no added sugar (PINEAPPLE CHUNKS/PEACHES/PEARS/FRUIT COCKTAIL)
Whole wheat pasta - (spaghetti, lasagna noodles, rotini, elbow, penne, ziti)
Sugar free syrup Canned tomato soup-low sodium
100% all fruit jelly ( grape/strawberry) Graham crackers - original
Almond butter Gluten free - pretzels
Brown rice/barley Pita chips - plain or sea salt
Rice cakes - only plain flavor Wheat Thin crackers - plain
Cereals - plain corn flakes, Honey Bunches of Oats, plain Rice Krispies, whole grain cheerios
Raisins
Food Pantry Foods that meet the new governmental regulations at the York Street Project
