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Sixteenth Sunday After Pentecost September 20, 2020
MASSES FOR THE WEEK
Sunday 8:00 AM September 20
10:30 AM
Monday 8:00 AM September 21
Tuesday 8:00 AM September 22
Wednesday 7:30 PM September 23
Thursday 8:00 AM September 24
Friday 8:00 AM September 25
Saturday 8:00 AM September 26
5:00 PM
MASS SCHEDULE
Please Carefully Read The Instructions For Returning To Mass At Mater Ecclesiae
The Church is now open for Masses. The regular schedule of Masses and Confessions will return as follows with the noted modifications.
Daily Mass Schedule Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 8:00AM Wednesday at 7:30PM – All Daily Masses are in the Church
Sunday Mass Schedule Saturday Evening Anticipated Mass at 5:00 PM in BDM Hall Sunday 8:00AM in Bishop DiMarzio Hall 10:30AM in Church
New Confession Schedule 30 minutes before Daily Masses 1 hour before Sunday obligation Masses On Porch
We will live stream Masses except on Monday and Tuesday.
First Friday Schedule: 7:30 AM Confessions 8:00 AM Mass followed by All Day Adoration 4:00 PM Benediction
Liturgical Readings
Sunday September 20 II Class Sixteenth Sunday After Pentecost Readings: Ephesians 3, 13-21 & Luke 14, 1-11
5:00 PM Saturday Anticipated Mass-Bishop DiMarzio Hall 8:00 AM Low Mass – Bishop DiMarzio Hall 10:30 AM High Mass - in Church Confessions 1 Hour before Mass on Porch
Monday September 21 II Class Saint Matthew, Apostle & Evangelist Readings: Ezechiel. 1, 10-14 & Matthew 9, 9-13
8 AM Mass in Church – Novena to St. Michael Confessions 30 minutes before Mass
Tuesday September 22 II Class Saint Thomas of Villanova, Bishop & Confessor Comm. Saint Maurice & Companions, Martyrs Readings: Ecclesiasticus 44, 16-27; 45, 3-20 & Matthew 25, 14-23
8 AM Mass in Church - Novena to St. Michael Confessions 30 minutes before Mass
Wednesday September 23 II Class EMBER WEDNESDAY – Day of Fasting Readings: Amos 9, 13-14; 2 Esdras 81, 1-10 & Mark 9, 16-28 Comm. Saint Linus, Pontiff & Martyr
7:30 PM Mass in Church – Novena to St. Michael Confessions 30 minutes before Mass
Thursday September 24 IV Class Our Lady of Ransom Readings: Ecclesiasticus 24, 14-16 & Luke 11, 27-28
8:00 AM Mass in Church – Novena to St. Michael Confessions 30 minutes before Mass
Friday September 25 II Class EMBER FRIDAY – Day of Fasting Readings: Osee 14, 2-10 & Luke 7, 36-50
8:00 AM Mass in Church – Novena to St. Michael Confessions 30 minutes before Mass
Saturday September 26 II Class EMBER SATURDAY – Day of Fasting Readings: Leviticus 23, 27-32; Hebrews 9, 2-12
8:00 AM Mass in Church– Novena to St. Michael Confessions 30 minutes before Mass
5:00 PM Anticipated Mass in Bishop DiMarzio Hall Confessions 1 hour before Mass on Porch
Eighth Grade CCD Class
will meet this Sunday, September 20, 9:15 AM to 10:15 AM
“Could you not watch one hour with Me?”
Matthew 26, 40
Forty Hours Devotion
Friday, October 2 Opening Mass at 7:30 PM
Saturday, October 3
Mass of Peace at 10:30 AM
Sunday, October 4 Closing Mass at 10:30 AM
On Friday, Saturday and Sunday,
October 2, 3, and 4, we will hold our annual Forty Hours Eucharistic Devotion. This is a large undertaking for a small parish with people spread out all over the Delaware Valley and beyond. The main purpose of this Devotion is to give solemn honor and praise to our Lord in the Most Blessed Sacrament. This is done by beautiful Masses, Processions, devotions and quiet prayer.
Every parishioner should plan to participate each day in some aspect of the 40 Hours. We especially need people to sign up for Adoration times at night so that there is someone in the Chapel every hour of Exposition.
This year, we will once again have the full 40-hours of Adoration, which means that Adoration will continue overnight on Friday and Saturday.
The Sign up for 40 Hours will be online this year, utilizing the same online site we have used for First Friday Adoration. We will include the link on Facebook, our Website and bulletin as soon as it is available.
To sign up for Forty Hours, please click the following link:
https://signup.com/go/uaAgFsD
• Choose the hours you want to sign up for. • Sign up! It's Easy - you will NOT need to register
an account or keep a password. • The Sign Up site does not share your email
address with anyone.
If you have any questions, please email Michael Phelps at [email protected] or you can text or call him at 609-221-5603.
PLEASE NOTE: THE LINK FOR THE ONLINE SIGN UP CHANGES EACH MONTH FOR EACH EVENT. PLEASE USE THE NEW 40 HOURS LINK THAT IS PROVIDED.
If you do not have online access, the schedule for 40 Hours Devotion will be posted the weekend prior to October 2. This will allow parishioners unable to sign up online to see where coverage is needed and to “sign up” in person. During this year of pandemic causing such uncertainty, our 40 Hours of Adoration is especially vital.
Mater ecclesiae Welcomes
Dr. Peter Kwasniewski
Author, theologian, and composer Dr. Peter Kwasniewski will be doing a lecture tour in southern New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Ohio from September 19 through September 23, with stops in Berlin, Allentown, Altoona, Pittsburgh, and Steubenville.
He will be giving a talk at Mater Ecclesiae (where he and his wife were married in 1998!) on Saturday, September 19, at 10 AM. The topic will be “The Power of Non-Verbal Language to Communicate the Ineffable.”
The talk will be followed by a Question and Answer session and a chance to purchase signed copies of Dr. Kwasniewski's latest book, Reclaiming Our Roman Catholic Birthright: The Genius and Timeliness of the Traditional Latin Mass (Angelico, 2020).
About Dr. Kwasniewski……..
“Peter Kwasniewski (pronounced, at least in America, as Quash-NEV-ski), born in Chicago in 1971, spent his youth in New Jersey, where attendance at an all-boys Catholic high school brought him an exceptional training in humanities and poor to non-existent religious instruction.
He went off to Georgetown University for a single year, after which he made one of the best moves of his life by starting over again at Thomas Aquinas College in California, from which he received a B.A. in Liberal Arts in 1994. Not having had his fill of Washington, D.C., he earned an M.A. and a Ph.D. in Philosophy from The Catholic University of America, whose giant statue of Pope Leo XIII in McMahon Hall was a beneficent presence throughout.
After teaching philosophy and theology at the International Theological Institute in Austria and music for the Franciscan University of Steubenville’s Austrian Program (1998–2006), he joined the founding team of Wyoming Catholic College in Lander, Wyoming, where he served as the first Director of Admissions and Assistant Academic Dean, directed the Choir and Schola, and taught, over time, all of the theology courses and most of the philosophy and fine arts courses (2006–2018). He left WCC in the summer of 2018 to pursue a career as a freelance author, public speaker, editor, publisher, and composer, with the intention of dedicating his life to the articulation and defense of Catholic Tradition in all its dimensions.
Over the past twenty years, Kwasniewski has published over 1,200 articles, both academic and popular, on sacramental and liturgical theology, the aesthetics of music, Thomistic thought, and the social doctrine of the Church.
He has written or edited ten books: Wisdom’s Apprentice (CUA Press, 2007); On Love and Charity: Readings from Aquinas's Commentary on the Sentences (CUA Press, 2008); Sacred Choral Works (Corpus Christi Watershed, 2014); Resurgent in the Midst of Crisis: Sacred Liturgy, the Traditional Latin Mass, and Renewal in the Church (Angelico Press, 2014); Noble Beauty, Transcendent Holiness: Why the Modern Age Needs the Mass of Ages (Angelico Press, 2017), A Reader in Catholic Social Teaching: From Syllabus Errorum to Deus Caritas Est (Cluny Media, 2017); Tradition and Sanity: Conversations and Dialogues of a Postconciliar Exile (Angelico, 2018); John Henry Newman on Worship, Reverence, and Ritual (Os Justi, 2019); And Rightly So: Selected Letters and Articles of Neil McCaffrey (Roman Catholic Books, 2019); Reclaiming Our Roman Catholic Birthright: The Genius and Timeliness of the Traditional Latin Mass (Angelico Press, 2020).
Dr. Kwasniewski writes regularly for New Liturgical Movement, OnePeterFive, LifeSiteNews, Rorate Caeli, The Remnant, Catholic Family News, and The Latin Mass magazine.
Many of his approximately 150 musical works have been performed in liturgical settings and in concert.
Kwasniewski is also a scholar of The Aquinas Institute in Green Bay, which, in conjunction with Emmaus Academic, is publishing the Opera Omnia of the Angelic Doctor in some 60 volumes; a Fellow of the Albertus Magnus Center for Scholastic Studies, which conducts summer courses in Norcia, Italy; and a Senior Fellow of the St. Paul Center in Steubenville.”
From Dr. Kwasniewski’s Website: https://www.PeterKwasniewski.com
Novena to St. Michael the Archangel
September 21 to September 29
Our nine-day Novena to Saint Michael the Archangel will begin on September 21 and continue after each daily Mass. The last Novena prayer will be at the Mass on the Feast of St. Michael on September 29. If you are unable to attend daily Mass, you can join us spiritually by praying the Novena at home. The Novena is available online at our website and linking through Facebook.
St. Michael, one the seven archangels, is also one of the three angels mentioned by name in the Scriptures; St. Raphael and St. Gabriel are the others. St. Michael appears twice in the Old Testament and twice in the New. The first reference occurs in the Book of Daniel (chapter x). In Daniel xii, Michael is called "the great prince who standeth for the children of Thy people." Here, Michael is represented as Israel's great support during the seventy years of the Babylonian captivity.
In the New Testament (Jude ix), we are told that Michael disputed with the devil over the body of Moses; this episode is not mentioned elsewhere in the Bible.
In the Apocalypse (chapter xii) we find the most dramatic reference to St. Michael. Here John recounts the great battle in Heaven, when the wicked angels under Lucifer revolt against God, and how Michael, leading the faithful angels, defeats the hosts of evil and drives them out. St. Michael is revered in Catholic tradition and liturgy as the protector of the Church, as once he was regarded as the protector of the Israelites. St Michael is placed over all the angels, as prince of the Seraphim. He is the special patron of police, sick people, mariners, and grocers. His emblems are a banner, a sword, a dragon, and scales. The name Michael is a variation of Micah, meaning in Hebrew, "Who is like God?"
EMBER DAYS
Days of Fasting and Penance
Ember Days are on the Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday following the First Sunday in Lent and Pentecost Sunday, during the third full week of September, and after the Third Sunday of Advent.
They are days of fasting for the special sanctification of the four seasons and for obtaining God’s blessing on the clergy, for whose ordination the Ember Saturdays are specially set apart. The Propers of the Masses reflect the Season in which they occur and include additional Lessons said before the Gospel.
Breakfast with Father Pasley
Inviting all women of the Parish 18+
There will be a Breakfast with Father
after the 8am Mass
Saturday October 24th
On the lawn by the Lourdes Grotto
Bring your own breakfast and a chair
Ends with the Rosary at 11:30am
Questions can be directed
to Anna Pagano
732-674-6810
A Prayer for Those Afflicted by the Pandemic
Let us pray for all those who suffer the consequences of the current pandemic,
that God the Father may grant health to the sick, strength to those who care for them,
comfort to families and salvation to all the victims who have died.
Almighty ever-living God,
only support of our human weakness, we implore you to look with compassion upon the sorrowful condition of Your children who suffer because of this pandemic; relieve the pain of the sick, give strength to those who care for them,
welcome into your peace those who have died and, throughout this time of tribulation, grant that we
may all find comfort in Your merciful love. Through Christ our Lord.
Amen.
VIRTUS® Training
The safe environment training program for adults is VIRTUS® Protecting God’s Children. This replaces CAP.
If you have never been fingerprinted for the Diocese of Camden and you have never attended a CAP session, you are considered a “first time user.” First time registrants need to go on the Diocese of Camden website, www.camdendiocese.org, click on the VIRTUS link located at the bottom of the website and follow the directions.
If you have been fingerprinted for the Diocese of Camden and/or you have attended a CAP session in the past, you are considered to have an existing account. For instructions, contact your parish safe environment coordinator at the rectory office: 856-753-3408 or email
Save the Date!
40 Hours Devotion will be held on
October 2, 3, and 4
THE HOLY SACRIFICE OF THE MASS
Sundays: Saturday 5:00 PM Low Mass Sunday 8:00 AM Low Mass
10:30 AM High Mass Confessions: 60 minutes before each Mass
Weekdays: 8:00 AM
Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday
7:30 PM Wednesday
Confessions 30 minutes before Mass *********************************************************
Please Note: Confessions will not be held in the regular
confessionals. If it is a nice day, please enter the screen porch and go to the window at the left of the door. If it is bad weather, enter the Narthex, turn right to enter the hallway, turn right to enter the classroom, close the door and go to the kneeler.
Every person will need to talk louder than normal, please be aware of this. Those who are waiting should maintain a 7 feet separation from each other and make sure you are far enough away that you cannot hear anything.
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MASSES BROADCAST ON FACEBOOK
We will continue to live stream Masses except on Monday and Tuesday.
We must continue to pray for the Church:
Mary, Mother of the Church,
Maria, Mater Ecclesiae, pray for us.
Ora pro Nobis.
Saint Michael the Archangel Patron Saint of Police and Law Enforcement
Mater Ecclesiae Mass and Confession Schedule
beginning 6-9-2020
SAINT MICHAEL THE ARCHANGEL, defend us in battle;
be our protection against the wickedness and snares of the devil.
May God rebuke him, we humbly pray: and do thou, O Prince of the Heavenly Host,
by the power of God, thrust down into hell Satan
and all the evil spirits who prowl about the world seeking the ruin of souls.
Amen.
CCD news
Prayer Chain for Special Intentions & Intercessory Prayer
Mater Ecclesiae parishioners who have a need for intercessory prayers or who wish to commit to participate in our Prayer Chain should contact Lou DiLoreto at 609-304-4911 or [email protected].
Pro-Life Apostolate
The Pro-Life Newsletter is published each month and is available in the Narthex and online at our Website www.materecclesiae.org and on our Facebook page.
Sunday Collection
Please continue to support Mater Ecclesiae.
Our mission must continue; with your help, it will!
Thank you for your generosity!
Saint Maria Goretti Group
JOIN MATER ECCLESIAE’S YOUTH GROUP
We welcome all kids ages 11 and up to join our youth group here at Mater Ecclesiae! Our group is themed towards 'real love.' In a world where the meaning of love has been almost lost, we want to restore it through learning to love God with all that we have, putting others first, and forming strong friendships in Christ.
Please contact Emily Sparks for more information: Phone: 856-214-6985 or Email: [email protected].
Young Adult Legion of Mary
If you are a young adult between the ages of 18 and 29 and are looking for a Catholic group to share your Faith, evangelize, and have fun with, consider joining the Legion of Mary! Our Praesidium is called Virgo Fidelis (Virgin Most Faithful). We are devoted to Our Blessed Mother whose goal is to bring souls to Christ through evangelization under her mantle. To join us or find out more information, please call Emily Sparks at 856-214-6985. We hope to hear from you!
Mater Ecclesiae Council #12833 New members are welcome. The Scriptural Rosary can be found on
their website: www.KofC12833.org.
discalced Carmelite Society of Mater Ecclesiae
The Discalced Carmelite Society of Mater Ecclesiae is a Contemplative Third Order of the Discalced Carmelites. Our vocation is not a social one, but one of prayer. Our duty is to be Obedient to the Church and our Superiors. Meetings are open to Parishioners only who are 24 years of age and older or admitted by our Spiritual Director, Rev. Robert C. Pasley, KCHS. Formation is a journey lasting about 6 years. If you are interested in discerning your vocation to the Discalced Carmelites and would like additional information, or if you are in need of prayers, please contact one of the council members below.
• Colleen DeLuca OCD, Professed: 937-554-5129 or [email protected]
• Nancy Hilbert OCD, Professed: 609-505-7102 or [email protected]
• Monica Lenthe OCD, Professed: 856-383-0326 or [email protected]
Federation of North American Explorers
A Catholic outdoor adventure group for boys and girls ages 6 to 17. We meet two Thursdays a month and one Saturday a month here at Mater. Please visit our Facebook page 1st North Star FNE or call 848-226-5515 for more information.
PLEASE RETURN YOUR CCD REGISTRATION FORMS TO THE
RECTORY OFFICE. PAYMENT IS NOT DUE AT THIS TIME.
THE SACRAMENT OF CONFIRMATION WILL BE RESCHEDULED IN THE FALL AT THE DIRECTION OF THE DIOCESE.
CCD Parents, Please Note:
Registration for the 2020-2021 CCD School Year has begun. New Family Registration and New
Student Registration Forms are available online. We have emailed all current CCD families with
re-registration information. If you have not received this mailing, please contact the office at
856-753-3408 or email [email protected].
Thank you.
