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PAGE TWO DECEMBER 27, 2020
On behalf of Fr. Frank, Fr. Roland, Sr. Anne Dolores and our
entire Parish Staff, I would like to extend our best wishes for a
Holy, Happy and Healthy New Year to all our Parish Family. Msgr.
Berardi
New Year Prayer Thank you Lord for giving me the brand new year
ahead.
Help me live the way I should as each new day I tread. Give me
gentle wisdom
that I might help a friend, Give me strength and courage
so a shoulder I might lend. The year ahead is empty,
help me fill it with good things. Each new day filled with
joy
and happiness it brings. Amen
NEW YEAR’S MASS SCHEDULE Thursday, December 31st - 5:00pm Vigil
Mass Friday, January 1st - 9:00a.m., 11:00am & &7:00pm
PARISH HOUSE OFFICE will close at 1:00pm on Thursday, December 31st
and will be closed on Friday, New Year’s Day. READINGS FOR THE WEEK
Monday: 1 Jn 1:5 — 2:2; Ps 124:2-5, 7b-8: Mt:13-18 Tuesday: 1 Jn
2:3-11; Ps 96:1-3, 5b-6; Lk 2:22-35 Wednesday: 1 Jn 2:12-17; Ps
96:7-10; Lk 2:36-40 Thursday: 1 Jn 2:18-21; Ps 96:1-2, 11-13; Jn
1:1-18 Friday: Nm 6:22-27; Ps 67:2-3, 5, 6, 8; Gal 4:4-7; Lk
2:16-21 Saturday: 1 Jn 2:22-28; Ps 98:1-4; Jn 1:19-28 Sunday: Is
60:1-6; Ps 72:1-2, 7-8, 10-13; Eph 3:2-3a, 5-6; Mt 2:1-12
THE SANCTUARY LAMP KEEPS ITS SILENT VIGIL
BEFORE THE BLESSED SACRAMENT IN LOVING MEMORY OF
MARY O’CONNOR
The Bread and Wine this week are for a special intention to
St. Joseph.
PRAY FOR THE SICK The sick are comforted just knowing that you
pray for them In your charity please remember: Douglas Pfleging,
Jr., Phyllis Ribaudo, Ann Socci, Concetta Chicolo, Mary Kenny, Jean
Carter, Robert Tursi, Nicholas Toto, Marykate Rose, Peggy Travers,
Jean Cunningham, Jean Elmadary, Alan March, Grayce Novaro,
Katherine Barbera, Barbara Brown, Michael Caruso, Patricia
Connelly, Mary Belli, Mark Volpe, Marco Antonio Gonzalez, Kathy
Quinlan, Jose Ruiz, Catherine Vitale, Jack McGarry, Brian Nelson,
James McGarrigle, James Finnigan, Lelia Moran, Gail Kees, Cara
Healy, Marion Coolen, Michael Roskowinski, Jeff Orr, Debbie
Caporale, Ana Ely Diaz, Ruth Orr, John G. Ferriera, Gina King, Joan
Callahan, Joyce McDonough, Eileen Doran, Lucille D’Arpe, Joanne
Karundeny, Louis Raiola, Mike Mancuso, Lucinda Bieber, Patrick
Foley, Lorraine Esposito, Linda Gagliardi, Eileen Doran, Katharine
Taylor, Frances Novaro, Vincent Gallo, Jeanne Pace, Maria &
Giuseppe Esposito, Nicholas Kinahan, Baby Andrew Haggerty, Noreen
Brown, Bobby DelGatto, Angelina Danton, Denise Leprine, Anthony
LoCasto, Rosemary McManus, Christopher McNulty, Infant Bennett
Berardi, Bill Bonner, Jane McDonnell, Lauren Sklenar Chiafullo,
Jeanne Leonard, John Zustovich, Dariusz Fleszar and Rosemary
Callahan
SYMPATHY
Remember the souls for whom Mass will be offered during the
week, especially: MONDAY 7:00 Souls in Purgatory 9:00 Mary Ellen
McGrath TUESDAY 7:00 Souls in Purgatory 9:00 James Deignan
WEDNESDAY 7:00 Souls in Purgatory 9:00 Helen A. Majeski THURSDAY
7:00 Intention to Mother Mary 9:00 Molly MacDermott 5:00 John
Schwarz & Estelle O FRIDAY 9:00 Christmas 11:00 Novena 7:00
Intentions SATURDAY 9:00 Joselito & Marietta Ybanez (Wedding
Anniv.) 5:00 Alice McKinney SUNDAY 8:00 Brother Padraic
Fitzpatrick, SFX 9:30 Eva Frahwald 12:30 Maria Corchado
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PAGE THREE HOLY FAMILY OF JESUS, MARY AND JOSEPH SCHEDULE FOR
JANUARY 3, 2021 ALTAR SERVERS LECTORS 5:00 PM Vigil Anne Falcone K.
Hanley 8:00 AM Madison Laffey C. Burns 9:30 AM Quinn Madigan D.
Leddy 11:00 AM Chris Meagher D. Maj 12:30 PM TBA M. Boyd MARCH FOR
LIFE Join us at the March for Life on January 29th. Buses will
depart St. Charles “School, 200 Penn Ave. Mass starts at 6:30am,
Coachways bus departs at 7:00am. 28 people per bus (50% capacity).
There will be 2 buses. Coachways will supply mask & hand
sanitizer to everyone. Cost will be $55 per person, which includes
coffee, snack and tip for driver. Buses will depart Washington, DC
at 3:30pm. For more information or to reserve your seat please
contact Angela DiBenedetto. THANK YOU The St. Vincent de Paul
Society would like to thank all those who contributed so generously
to their Thanksgiving and Christmas donation drives. Your support,
especially during these difficult times, is greatly appreciated.
Also, many Thanks to the volunteers who donated their time to help
deliver the food baskets WE ARE GOD’S HOLY FAMILY The scriptures of
Israel are filled with many stories of barren couples who were
miraculously granted the gift of children by God. Surely the best
known among these is the first reading from today, from which Luke
took inspiration when he recounted the miraculous birth of John the
Baptist to Zechariah and Elizabeth, and the more miraculous birth
of Jesus to Mary and Joseph. In each instance, we are given
examples or role models of those who trusted in God. More than
examples of those who trust, they are models of self-surrender.
They abandoned their own presuppositions and prejudices about the
workings of the world and turned their lives over to belief in a
God who can make life grow where none ought to; a God who can turn
death around into a new and unimagined life; a God who can, today,
take a tiny child of humble parents in an insignificant town and
make him into a light for all the world. This is what we, as God’s
holy family, are called to do each day: to trust not in ourselves
and the way we think things should be, but to open ourselves and
surrender ourselves in faith to a God of endless promise. Copyright
© J. S. Paluch Co.
GIVING TREE “The joy you give to others,
is the joy that comes back to you.” Many thanks to our
parishioners, who donated gifts for the residents of Seaview
Nursing Home, Crossroads and the needy our community. Your
generosity is sincerely appreciated. CHILDREN’S CORNER
NATIONAL BLUE ARMY SHRINE Join us this Christmas Season for
daily confessions and rosary at 11:30am and Holy Mass at noon. “Deo
Gratias” Service/Holy House December 31 from 11pm to midnight. For
more info: 908-689-1700. 674 Mountain View Road East, Asbury,
NJ
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