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

Trustees: Joan Maniego & John Pilot

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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March 21, 2021 Fifth Sunday of Lent

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, March 20

5:30 PM James & Marguerite Schiller (The ir Loving

Family)

Sunday, March 21

8:00AM Raul Delgado (Jeanette Martucci)

11:00 AM Roberto Delgado (Jeanette Martucci)

12:00 PM Fernando Napoleon Alvardo

Salvatore Fuentes (Isabelle Fuentes)

Monday, March 22

8:00 AM Lizette Torres (The Roxas Family)

Tuesday, March 23

8:00 AM Gina Chua Reyes (The Roxas Family

Wednesday, March 24

8:00 AM Nellie Dabuet (Alex Dabauet & Family)

Thursday, March 25

8:00 AM Gabriel Yanguas, Sr. (The Roxas Family)

Friday, March 26

8:00 AM Lizette Torres (The Roxas Family)

Saturday, March 27

5:30 PM Donald Kopczinski (The Roxas 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 March is donated in loving memory of

the deceased members of our parish.

The Altar Wine for March is donated in loving memory of

the deceased members of our parish.

The Sanctuary Lamp in the Church this week is in memory

of the deceased members of our Parish.

Mass Intentions for the Week

James Allocco, Phillip Armstrong, Edward Baldino, Cheryl Bos-

tyan, 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 Kopczynski, Diana Lucio, Isaiah McLean, Heidi Monico,

Humberto Norena, Conception Ortiz, Rebecca Papadopoulos,

Phyllis & Joseph Palermo, Rich Richinski, Rebecca Rigolosi,

Antoinette Ring, Boris Reznik, Frank Romero, Desi Santos, An-

thony Saporito, Jack Sweeney, Jenna Szandrocha, Phillip Tarab-

ola, Ruth Weis, Krista Wilkinson, Kyle Wilson, Mark Winnie.

Altar Appointments

Please Remember in Your Prayers

A Message From Father Jose

Greetings of Peace from our Lord Jesus Christ. I do

hope that you had prepared yourself for the coming Holy Week

celebration. As God promises to prophet Jeremiah “I will be their

God and they shall be my people.”(Jr: 31:33). What does this scrip-

tural passage of the prophet Jeremiah mean to us and to the

people of God? It means that everything we have and all our

being comes from God. Truly, we are only stewards of God’s

eternal gift that is daily reflected in the eternal love of God. I

pray that we may nurture these gifts of the love of God for own

good and for the good of others.

Again we thank all for all your stewardship contribu-

tions, making our parish one of the first to complete the 2021

Annual Appeal goal with its surplus. Also, your weekly contri-

bution beautifies and dignifies our church making it a place a

visible sign of the presence of God. God Bless! …Fr Jose

Feast of Faith

The First Reading

Each Sunday, we listen to three scripture readings. The first

reading usually comes from the Old Testament. “The New Tes-

tament lies hidden in the Old; the Old Testament comes fully to

light in the New,” we read in the Introduction to the Lection-

ary. “Christ himself is the center and fullness of the whole of

Scripture” (5). On Sundays, these readings usually have a close

connection to the Gospel. In this season of Lent, for example,

the Exodus account of the thirst of the Israelites in the desert is

paired with the Samaritan woman’s encounter with Jesus at the

well. Ezekiel’s vision of the Lord raising people from their

graves is paired with the narrative of Christ raising Lazarus

from the dead.

The readings are taken from many sources—historical

books like Judges, Kings, and the Acts of the Apostles, prophets

like Isaiah and Ezekiel, wisdom literature like Proverbs or Ec-

clesiastes. But no matter its genre, the first reading always ends

with the same acclamation: “The word of the Lord.” The scrip-

tures are written by human authors who wrote in widely differ-

ent cultural and historical contexts, but these human authors

are also divine instruments through whom God speaks to us.

And so we say, “Thanks be to God.”

“I will be their God and they shall be my people.”- Jeremiah 31:33

What does it mean to be God’s people? It means we recognize

that everything we have and everything we are belongs to

God. We aren’t “owners” of anything, we are merely

“stewards” of the gifts God has given us. It means we are will-

ing to use our gifts and our lives to care for our family, our

neighbors and for people we don’t know, just as God cares for

each of us.

Unhappy is death without the love of the Savior;

unhappy is love without the death of the Savior.

—St. Francis de Sales

Today’s Readings First Reading — I will make a new covenant; I will write my law upon their hearts (Jeremiah 31:31-34) or Ezek iel 37:12-14. Psalm — Create a clean heart in me, O God (Psalm 51) or Psalm 130. Second Reading — Christ learned obedience and became the source of eternal salvation (Hebrews 5:7-9) or Romans 8:8-11. Gospel — If a grain of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it produces much fruit (John 12:20-33) or John 11:1-45 [3-7, 17, 20-27, 33b-45].

Saints and Special Observances

Sunday: Fifth Sunday of Lent; Third Scrutiny

Tuesday: St. Turibius of Mogrovejo

Thursday: The Annunciation of the Lord

Friday: Abstinence

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 MONDAY

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.

The New Covenant

Today’s first reading is an enormously important passage, not

only in the history of the Jewish people, but also for us as disciples

of Jesus, who see in it a foreshadowing of the Christian dispensa-

tion. The prophet announces that God has chosen to forgive the

people, and that as a sign of divine forgiveness a new covenant

will be established. Contrasting the new covenant with the one

made with Moses on Mount Sinai, Jeremiah says that the new cov-

enant will be written on the people’s hearts rather than on tablets

of stone. No longer will the community’s tradition be the sole bear-

er of the covenant; henceforth, God will speak directly and person-

ally to each individual, forgiving sin and calling for a return to God

in faithfulness. No longer will mere outward compliance with the

dictates of the Law suffice; henceforth, God asks for an obedience

that springs from the depths of one’s heart.

Precisely that kind of obedience is highlighted in today’s

second reading, where the author of the Letter to the Hebrews

describes Jesus as the mediator of the new covenant whose obe-

dience has made him the source of salvation for all who, in

turn, obey him.

Saint Turibius of Mogrovejo (1538 – 1606)

Catholics in Latin America and throughout the world

will celebrate the life and ministry of

St. Turibius of Mogrovejo on March

23. The 16th century bishop upheld

the rights of Peru's indigenous peo-

ples, and became one of the first can-

onized saints of the Americas.

Saint Turibius was a respected judge

and law professor Spain. One day,

King Philip II, who was head of the

Church in Spain, appointed him Archbishop of Lima, Peru.

Turibius told the king and the pope that he had never even

been to South America and that he was not even a priest! But

the decision had been made. The Church in Peru needed a holy

man to lead the people closer to Christ. Turibius was ordained

a priest and a bishop, and he soon set sail for his new land.

When he arrived in Lima, he was shocked at what he found.

Priests were not caring for their people. The poor were being

neglected. Rich Spanish landowners had enslaved many of the

native people of Peru and treated them cruelly. Turibius saw

that there was much work to be done.

Turibius decided to visit every parish in his new land. Some-

times he rode a mule from place to place, but mostly he trav-

eled on foot. His journey through the diocese took him seven

long years. He responded to the needs he saw. He supervised

the building of many churches, schools, and hospitals. The peo-

ple in power listened to Turibius because he always spoke with

love and he encouraged everyone to act with love.

Turibius died in 1606 while visiting one of his parishes in a

small mountain village. He was canonized in 1726.

http://saintsresource.com/turibius-of-mogrovejo

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.

Stations of the Cross

Every Friday during

Lent in the Church at

5:00pm.

All are welcome!

Lenten Regulations

The days of both Fast and Abstinence during Lent are Ash

Wednesday and Good Friday. If possible, the fast on Good Fri-

day is continued until the Easter Vigil (on Holy Saturday night)

as the "paschal fast" to honor the suffering and death of the

Lord Jesus, and to prepare ourselves to share more fully and to

celebrate more readily His Resurrection. The other Fridays of

Lent are days of Abstinence.

On a day of Fast, only one (1) full meal is permitted, and two (2)

smaller meals, which, if added together, would not exceed the

main meal in quantity.

> Those between the ages of 18 and 59 are obliged to fast.

> On a day of Abstinence, no meat may be eaten. Those who

have reached the age of 14 are obliged by the law of abstinence.

> The obligation to observe the laws of Fast and Abstinence

“substantially,” or as a whole, is a serious obligation.

The Fridays of the year, outside of Lent, are designated as days

of penance, but each individual may substitute for the tradition-

al abstinence from meat some other practice of voluntary self-

denial as penance.

The time for fulfilling the Pascal Precept (Easter Duty*) extends

from the First Sunday of Lent, February 21, to The Solemnity of

the Most Holy Trinity, May 30, 2021.

*Canon 920,§1. All the faithful, after they have been initiated into

the Most Holy Eucharist, are bound by the obligation of receiving

Communion at least once a year.

A Prayer for Lent

My loving Lord,

it's so hard to love the world some-

times

and to love it the way Jesus did

seems impossible.

Help me to be inspired by his love

and

guided by his example.

Most of all, I want to accept that I

can't do it alone,

and that trying is an arrogance of

self-centeredness.

I need you, dear God, to give me

support in this journey.

Show me how to unlock my heart

so that I am less selfish.

Let me be less fearful of the pain and darkness

that will be transformed by you into Easter joy. Amen.

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

Readings for the Week

Monday: Dn 13:1-9, 15-17, 19-30, 33-62 [41c-62]; Ps 23:1-6; Jn 8:1-11 Tuesday: Nm 21:4-9; Ps 102:2-3, 16-21; Jn 8:21-30 Wednesday: Dn 3:14-20, 91-92, 95; Dn 3:52-56; Jn 8:31-42 Thursday: Is 7:10-14; 8:10; Ps 40:7-11; Heb 10:4-10; Lk 1:26-38 Friday: Jer 20:10-13; Ps 18:2-7; Jn 10:31-42 Saturday: Ez 37:21-28; Jer 31:10, 11-13; Jn 11:45-56 Sunday: Mk 11:1-10 or Jn 12:12-16 (procession); Is 50:4-7; Ps 22:8-9, 17-20, 23-24; Phil 2:6-11; Mk 14:1 — 15:47 [15:1-39]

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.

Voy a poner mi ley en lo más

profundo de su mente y voy a

grabarla en sus corazones.

Yo seré su Dios y ellos serán

mi pueblo.

— Jeremías 31:33

I will place my law within

them and write it upon their

hearts;

I will be their God, and

they shall be my people.

— Jeremiah 31:33