PLEASE NOTE—TIME CHANGE ON MONDAY BACK TO THE
EVENING. COMMUNION SERVICE ONLY ON WEDNESDAY.
Monday January 26th
Timothy & Titus, bishops
7:00 PM Alfred Lencoski r/o Family
Tuesday January
27th Angela Merici
8:00 AM Jenny Leary r/o her daughter, Joyce
Wednesday January
28th Thomas Aquinas, priest
8:00 AM COMMUNION SERVICE ONLY
Thursday January
29th
8:00 AM Aldo Sternadore r/o his daughter
Friday January
30th
8:00 AM Florence Altiere r/o William Altiere
Saturday January
31st John Bosco, priest
8:00 AM Agostino Maria Caterina Barbiero r/o son & daughter-in-law
SUNDAY MASSES
Saturday January
31st Vigil: 4th Ordinary Sunday
5:30 PM Joseph Puchalek r/o Elsie & Emma
Sunday January 31st Sunday in Ordinary time
8:00 AM Cosmo Romano r/o M/M Ed Kowalenko
10:00 AM Martin Ryan r/o King & Mathews Families
12 NOON John Patten r/o M/M Thomas L. Black
THE BUSINESS OFFICE WILL BE CLOSED ON JANUARY 19th IN CELEBRATION OF MARTIN LUTHER KING’S BIRTHDAY.
Pss III Seasonal prop
Prop Gl Cr Sun Pf I-VIII
69: Neh 8:2-4a,5-6,8-10 Ps 19:8-10,15
1 Cor 12:12-30 or 12:12-14,27
Lk 1:1-4;4:14-21
Ezra proclaims the word of the Lord, which gives spirit and life. Jesus proclaims himself the fulfillment of the Law and the prophets. In him we have become one body with many members.
PLEASE PRAY FOR ALL OF OUR PARISHIONERS who are sick at home, in the hospital or in nursing homes, especially for Joe Weston, Ann Page, Mary Pokotello, Hudson Savarin, Anthony LoSardo, John & Eileen Foxwell, Raffaella Shapiro, Vincent Percianta, Haley Weber, Cole Nesmith, James Murray (uncle of Karen Mathews), Vincent Anatele, Rose Stevenson, Blanche Ferarro, Nancy Santora, Teresa Kunz, Josephine Sarnoski, Maureen Fino, and Joseph Morando. Please also pray for the souls of Ethel Milligan, Aunt of Felix Reid and Nellie Souse, sister of Terri Mahoney who passed away last week. May their souls and the souls of the faithfully departed rest in peace.
PRE-BAPTISMAL CLASS- The next Baptism Class will be held on February 2, 2004.
Let Us Pray…That this nation may never become complacent about the horror of legalized abortion.
"The Spirit of the Lord is
upon me, because he has anointed me to bring glad tidings to the poor, he has
sent me to proclaim liberty to captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to
let the oppressed go free, and to proclaim a year acceptable to the Lord."
-Lk 4:18-19
SUNDAY COLLECTION
January 18, 2004 …………………………$2,490.00
Sunday January 25, 2004
Counters Team # 3
Auerbach/Boyle
Bingo Team #3
Anyone wishing to obtain a statement of contributions for the past year (2003), should either drop a note in the Sunday collection basket, giving name, address & phone, or call the Rectory during business hours.
Thank you for your recent support of the Foundation for Catholic Education Collection. The funds collected are needed now more than ever to help our families in need provide a Catholic education for their children. The financial aid process for families applying for tuition assistance for the 2004-2005 school years will be handled again this year through Private School Aid Service (PSAS). Blank application forms will be forwarded directly from PSAS to each school and will be available during Catholic Schools Week, January 26-30.
The Diocese of Metuchen will celebrate World Day of Prayer for Consecrated Life on Sunday, February 8, 2004 with Evening Prayer at 4:00 pm at St. Francis Cathedral, Metuchen. All are invited to participate in this event with Bishop Bootkoski and those in consecrated life in the Diocese. A light reception will follow the Evening Prayer.
“COULD YOU NOT WATCH ONE HOUR WITH ME?” You are invited to come to spend time with Jesus. Every Thursday from 8:30 AM to 12 Noon there is Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament in our Church. Stop in for just a minute or two. You will find it time well spent.
A day long training session is planned for Saturday, March
6, 2004 from 9:00 AM-3:00 PM in the
We'll begin with a box, and the plural is boxes; but the plural of ox
became oxen not oxes.
One fowl is a goose, but two
are called geese, yet the plural of moose should never be meese.
You may find a lone mouse or
a nest full of mice; yet the plural of house is houses, not hice.
If the plural of man is
always called men, why shouldn't the plural of pan be called pen?
If I spoke of my foot and
show you my feet, and I give you a boot, would a pair be called beet?
If one is a tooth and a
whole set are teeth, why shouldn't the plural of booth be called beeth?
Then one may be that, and three would be those, yet hat in the plural
would never be hose, and the plural of cat is cats, not cose.
We speak of a brother and
also of brethren, but though we say mother we never say methren.
Then the masculine pronouns
are he, his and him, but imagine the feminine, she, shis and shim.
Some reasons to be grateful
if you grew up speaking English;
The bandage was wound around
the wound.
The farm was used to produce
produce.
The dump was so full that it
had to refuse more refuse.
We must polish the Polish
furniture.
He could lead if he would get
the lead out.
The soldier decided to
desert his dessert in the desert.
Since there is no time like
the present, he thought it was time to present the present.
At the Army base, a bass was
painted on the head of a bass drum.
When shot at, the dove dove
into the bushes.
I did not object to the
object.
The insurance was invalid
for the invalid.
There was a row among the
oarsmen about how to row.
They were too close to the
door to close it.
The buck does funny things
when the does are present.
A seamstress and a sewer
fell down into a sewer line.
To help with planting, the
farmer taught his sow to sow.
The wind was too strong to
wind the sail.
After a number of Novocain
injections, my jaw got number.
Upon seeing the tear in the
painting I shed a tear.
I had to subject the subject
to a series of tests.
How can I intimate this to
my most intimate friend?
I spent last evening evening
out a pile of dirt.
SCHOOL NEWS
The Diocesan Marriage Enrichment program will be starting on January 22, 2004. The following is a schedule detailing all sessions:
Marriage Enrichment Sessions-Thursday evenings 7:30 – 9:30 PM and Sunday afternoons: 1:00 – 4:00 PM
Thursdays:
Communications 1/22/04
Listening 2/5/04
Sexuality 2/19/04
Feelings 3/4/04
Conflict 3/18/04
Decisions 4/1/04
Sundays:
Communications & Listening 2/8/04
Sexuality & Feelings 3/7/04
Conflict & Decisions 4/4/04
Please call the Family Life Office for reservations/information 732-562-1990 ext. 1624
The Most Reverend Paul Gregory Bootkoski, Bishop of Metuchen, announced today the formation of the Office of Child and Youth Protection. The Office will be headed by Lawrence V. Nagle, until recently Lieutenant of County Investigators and Supervisor of the Sex Crimes, Child Abuse, Domestic Violence and Megan’s Law Units of The Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office. Mr. Nagle was appointed director of the Office.
The Office of Child and Youth
Protection will serve several functions, including investigating all claims of
sexual abuse, implementing the Diocese’s Protecting God’s Children program
which is designed to educate people on identifying and preventing abuse, and
assisting Church officials in canonical or Church disciplinary proceedings
involving clergy charged with committing sexual abuse.
Lieutenant Nagle will work with
Monsignor William Benwell, the Diocese’s Vicar General and chair of the Diocesan
Review Board. As part of his responsibilities, Lieutenant Nagle will serve as
the diocesan response officer under the Diocese’s Policy in Response to
Complaints of Sexual Abuse. That policy was developed under the Essential Norms
for Diocesan Policies Dealing with Allegations of Sexual Abuse of Minors by
Priests or Deacons adopted last year by the Nations’ bishops. The Diocese filed
that policy in early July with the United States Conference of Catholic
Bishops. More on the Diocesan Website:
diometuchen.org