July 11, 2021 Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Parish Office: Telephone: 732-291-0272 103 Center Avenue FAX: 732-291-4982 Atlantic Highlands, NJ 07716 Email: church@olph-sta.org Hours: 8am-4pm M-F Website: www.olphstagnes.org Closed for Lunch 12-1pm Nights & Weekends: If you have an emergency requiring a priest, please call 732-291-0272 and press 6.

Rev. Jarlath Quinn, Pastor Frquinn@olph-sta.org Rev. Thomas J. Barry, Jr., Parochial Vicar Ext. 261 Msgr. Cajetan Salemi, Weekend Assistant Rev. Martin Biglin, Weekend Assistant Deacon Robert Johnson Mrs. Kathy Post, Business Manager Ext. 117 kpost@olph-sta.org Mrs. Karen Frank, Parish Secretary Ext. 110 kfrank@olph-sta.org Mrs. Mary McKelvey, Religious Education Coordinator Ext. 116 reled@olph-sta.org Mr. Tom Elliott, Music Coordinator, Choir Director Mrs. Courtney Grogan , Music Coordinator Sacristans: OLPH-Gabriel Tauro St. Agnes-Maureen Pitman, Pasquale Desimini

MASS SCHEDULE

Mon. Wed. Fri. 7:00am St. Agnes Church Tues. Thur. 8:00am OLPH Church Saturday Morning 8:00am OLPH Church Novena to Our Lady of Perpetual Help follows Saturday Evening 4:00pm OLPH Church 5:15pm St. Agnes Church Sunday 7:30am St. Agnes Church 9:30am OLPH Church 10:45am St. Agnes Church 12:00pm St. Agnes Church

BAPTISMS: Baptisms take place on Sundays in both Church-es. OLPH Church 10:30am, St. Agnes Church 1pm. Please call Kathy Post in the rectory office at ext. 117 for more infor-mation. Parents must be registered and active in the parish for at least three months before scheduling a baptism. Godparents must be eligible under Canon Law.

RECONCILIATION: Saturday from 3-3:45pm at OLPH Church, and 4-4:45pm at St. Agnes Church or call the rectory office for an appointment. At this time, we are not using the Confessionals; we must maintain social distancing,

WEDDINGS: Please call Fr. Jarlath at ext. 112 in the rectory office for more information. RELIGIOUS EDUCATION: To enroll your child for Reli-gious Education classes, please contact Mary McKelvey at 732-291-0272, ext. 116.

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Sanctuary Light: The Sanctuary Light at St. Agnes Church this week is for Marie & Henry Wigginton re-quested by their loving family.

Flag: This week the flag is flown at OLPH Church in honor of James Donald.

Flowers: Flowers at St. Agnes Church this week are for Salvatore & Carmella Carnevale requested by their family. Flowers at OLPH Church this week are for Mike Schoales (4th Anniv.) requested by Mary, and Adrienne Belicose requested by her family.

Weekly: 7/4/21 $ 7,170.00

Lector Schedule

OLPH Church: July 10 & 11 4:00pm Frances Gorski 9:30am Deborah Appello July 17 & 18 4:00pm Megan Hesterhagen 9:30am Kenneth Quinn

St. Agnes Church:

July 10 & 11 5:15pm Pete Lopusznick, Barbara Torgersen 7:30am Mike Donlon, Nkechi Osefoh 10:45am Bob Afanasewicz, Cathy yRodriguez 12:00pm Carin Burke, David Legg July 17 & 18 5:15pm Michael Donlon, Maurice Maloney 7:30am Betty Anderson, Paul Anderson 10:45am Deborah Appello 12:00pm Karen Jenkins, Joe Sacco

Annual Catholic Appeal Goal Raised Collected Balance $60,000 $35,651 $32,809 $2,842

CCD NEWS Attention Parents: Registration has begun for the 2021-2022 school year. In-person CCD classes will be held at OLPH on Tuesdays, starting in the fall. Please reach out to Mary McKelvey at reled@olphstagnes.org; The regis-tration forms are available; they can be emailed to you or you may pick the forms in the parish office. Attention Parishioners: Our Religious Education program is in need of volunteers to teach CCD in the fall, in person. If interested, please email Mary McKelvey at reled@olphstagnes.org. Thank you for your continued support. Mary McKelvey reled@olphstagnes.org 732-291-0272, ext. 116.

COUNTERS

Week 3 OLPH Church St. Agnes Church Patricia McIsaac Joe Bullwinkel Deborah Appello David Legg Carol Legg

WE’RE HAVING A PICNIC!

Plans are being made for The OLPH-ST. AGNES PARISH PICNIC to be held on Sunday, September 26, 2021. If you wish to join in the planning for this fun event, please attend the first Picnic Planning Meeting, Wednesday, July 14th at 7 PM in the St. Agnes Church Hall.

For additional information, please contact John Flynn 732-513-0196 or captflynn@verizon.net

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Weekend Mass Intentions Weekday Mass Intentions

Saturday 7/10 4:00pm OLPH Church Bob Gorski (Fran Gorski) 5:15pm Saint Agnes Church Catherine Veronica Campbell (William Campbell, Jr.) Caitlin Donahue (Louann Szymborski) Sunday 7/11 7:30am Saint Agnes Church Margaret, Bernard, Eleanor & Peggy Jones (Mary Lou Anthony) Pat O’Connor (Arline Emslie) 9:30am OLPH Church Brian Wilson (Jeannie & Larry McCann & Family) John Leonard (Catherine Kraft) Adrienne Belicose (Family) 10:45am Saint Agnes Church Marguerite Dombroski (Mary Snyder) Robyn Fanning Schaggs (Kathy Custer) 12:00pm Saint Agnes Church Olmedo Jaramillo and Edison, Germann & Hugo Pinto, III (Family) Debbie Johnson (Archibald Family) Saturday 7/17 4:00pm OLPH Church Joseph Walsh, Sr. (Ross Family) Gerard Quinn (Barbara Guba) 5:15pm Saint Agnes Church Lester Ray (Irene Higgins) Jean ‘Dolly’ Agolia (Pat, Mary & Mae Service) Sunday 7/18 7:30am Saint Agnes Church Theresa Bakos (Anne & Billy Miller) Jerry Howell (Tom & Candy Veth) 9:30am OLPH Church Mike Schoales (Mary) Fr. Jack McGuire (Mary Schoales) 10:45am Saint Agnes Church Our Lady of Perpetual Help- St. Agnes Parish 12:00pm Saint Agnes Church Peter A. Tactikos (Greg & Noreen Miller) Debbie Johnson (Butler family)

Monday 7/12 7:00am Saint Agnes Church Ivan Jaques, Sr. (Ivan & Linda Jaques) Tuesday 7/13 8:00am OLPH Church Mike Schoales (4th Anniv.) (Mary) Wednesday 7/14 7:00am Saint Agnes Church Maureen Hrbek (Roland Kelly) Antonio Barranca (Cathy & Michael) Thursday 7/15 8:00am OLPH Church Vocations to the Priesthood & Religious Life Friday 7/16 7:00am Saint Agnes Church Raymond Wojcik (Gene & Carolyn Wojcik) Deceased Members of the Fuhro & Comerford Families (Comerford Family) Saturday 7/17 8:00am OLPH Church All Deceased Members of OLPH- St. Agnes Parish

Parish Seniors — Atlantic City Trip

The Parish Senior Club is sponsoring a trip to Caesar’s Casino in Atlantic City on Wednesday, August 11th. The bus departs the Church parking lot 9am sharp and returns approx. 6:30pm. Cost is $35; voucher return $30. For more information, call Marie Nolan at 732-768-4503. If paying by check, please make check payable to OLPH-SA Parish. Thank you!

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As a parish we have been called upon to pray for all, in particular we pray for the following: Marie Abeel, Jason Daggett, Susan Murphy, Ray McCarthy, Ida Tkoch, Anthony Bucco, Corey Jensen, Chris Hansen, Diane Sheehan , John Urbanski, Olga Peterson, Alessandra Giunta, Ralph Aquino III, David Convery, Debra D’Alessio , Josephine Luber, Anita Sullivan, Nettie Dubois, Charise Renner, Donna Kuntz, Nolan Pereless, Janet Grasso, Michael McAfee, Shawn Goode, Sr., Tom Welch, Sr., Palmira Cruz, Sheila Brown, Elmer Potter, Christopher Gillmann, Tom Moran, Margaret Lenihan, Carol Polakowski, France Armstrong, Mary Service, Lori Lettieri, Michael Shamlian, Jean Sol-do, Jeff Soldo, Katelyn Mahon, Fernando Hartswell, Linda Scaglione, Harold Nolan, Ed McGinley, Anne Van Hemmen, Oisin Coughlan, George Gilruth, Ken Macadam, Elizabeth Thompson Dillon, Dorothy Del Duca, Paulette Wall, Brady Waltz , Ida Fisher, Barbara Ram-bone, John Tully, Diane Romeo, Sean Cashin, Jonathan Carloni, Dennis McKeon, Jr., Sharon Cogger, Diana Zaszewski, Cheryl McClelland, Dolores Sullivan, Frank Biscardi, Peter Quinn, Rachael Moran, J. Peter Gaffey, Rene Bruno and Abyna Bruno.

Please contact Karen at 732-291-0272, ext. 110 in the rectory office to add or remove someone from the prayer list.

Ordinary Time for Extraordinary Growth

Do you like Chocolate ice cream or Vanilla ice cream better? Although there are other flavors, these are the big two that form the basis of ice cream flavors. The one common thing that all flavors share is they are ice cream. Not that this is proper comparison, but it helps us to understand the connec-tion between the Big Two that form the basis of our Catholic Faith. There is a third, but we will explore that at another time. The Big Two are Sacred Scripture and Sacred Tra-dition. Both of these were given to us by Jesus. Jesus is the reason and the basis for all of our New Testament writings. The coming of Jesus in human flesh was unthinkable by hu-mankind. God surprised us but when looking into the Old Testament writings we see that God announced the coming of the Messiah. Jesus came to bring to fulfillment that which humankind could not do. Do you wish to hear God speak to you? Read Sa-cred Scripture. It was given to us from God so that He could have a conversation with us. God speaks to us when we take the time each day to welcome His Word into our thoughts, mind, feelings, and heart. This is one way that God deepens His relationship with us. Another way that God deepens His relationship with us is through Sacred Tradition. One way to understand Sa-cred Tradition is how we come to be a member of a group. The group God desires everyone to be a member of is the Catholic Church. This is the group that Jesus came to earth to be the foundation. With any organization or group, it en-tails codifying expectations, achieving aims and ultimately a final goal. Sacred Tradition helps us to accomplish these things and reach the goal of Heaven. The Apostles were trained and taught by Christ the Traditions which are important to God. As the Apostles walked with Christ, He showed them and trained them in His Way. The Sacred Scriptures are alive in the person of Jesus Christ. The Sacred Scriptures need to become alive in each one of us. The best way they become alive is when we par-ticipate in Sacred Tradition. Jesus becomes more present to us the more often we engage in Sacred Tradition. There is a relationship between Sacred Scripture and Sacred Tradition.

Sacred Tradition is the oral teaching of Jesus Christ handed down to his apostles, who in turn handed it down to their disciples (the early Church Fathers), and then to the next generation, and then finally to us. In Dei Verbum (The Word of God), we read, “the relationship between Tradition and Scripture is explained: “Hence there exists a close con-nection and communication between sacred Tradition and sacred Scripture. For both of them, flowing from the same divine wellspring, in a certain way merge into a unity and tend toward the same end. For sacred Scripture is the word of God inasmuch as it is consigned to writing under the inspi-ration of the divine Spirit. To the successors of the apostles, sacred Tradition hands on in its full purity God’s word, which was entrusted to the apostles by Christ the Lord and the Holy Spirit. Thus, by the light of the Spirit of truth, these succes-sors can in their preaching preserve this word of God faithful-ly, explain it, and make it more widely known. Consequently, it is not from sacred Scripture alone that the Church draws her certainty about everything which has been revealed. Therefore, both sacred Tradition and sacred Scripture are to be accepted and venerated with the same devotion and rev-erence.”

Continued...

By living, eating, and resting with Jesus, the Apostles came to know Sacred Scripture better because the true author of Scripture was leading them. God was fully present to them in the person of Jesus Christ. The unwritten Jesus is the reason for the existence of Sacred Scripture, Sacred Tradi-tion, and the Catholic Church. God knows we need more than the written Word of God. Sacred Tradition compli-ments Sacred Scripture by providing concrete visual set-tings and activities to worship God.

Always In Christ, Fr. Thomas J. Barry Jr.

We welcome Olivia Jane Burbank and Kaylee Grace Infantino to our parish family. Olivia and Kaylee will be baptized in our parish this weekend. We congratulate their parents and Godparents.

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St. Agnes St. Vincent DePaul Society

We Need Your Help!

If you need our help, or know of anyone in our parish area that does, we can be contacted by calling 732-291-0272, ext. 113 and leaving a name and num-ber. What do we do with the generous donations we re-ceive on the 4th Sunday of the month?

Support 2 Food Pantries Help clients with back rent or housing bills in time of need Help clients with unpaid utility bills to prevent shut off Provide referrals to other agencies, including free legal services in the event of a possible eviction Vet all clients by visiting them (virtually, at this time), and offering our support Give holiday help on Thanksgiving and Christ-mas Meet once a month Pray together!

If you would like to join us in this wonderful ministry, please call and we will get back to you with more in-formation. God Bless!

RCIA The responsibility for evangelization and ed-ucation properly belongs to all baptized Christians through the Rite of Christian Ini-tiation for Adults, commonly known as RCIA. Adults who want to become Catholic or haven’t received all of their Sacraments of Initiation (Baptism, First Holy Commun-ion, Confirmation), are fully initiated into the Church through this Rite. Adults inter-ested in learning more about RCIA, please contact the rectory office at 732-291-0272, ext. 110.

OLPH St. Vincent DePaul Society Lift up your spirit, your heart, your arms…all in thanksgiving… that better days are closer now! Everything around us is brightening up: Covid-19 is more under control; the days are longer, sunnier, warmer; our area has greened-up; trees and flowers are alive again and we are enjoying seeing smiles and the warmth of cautious hugs. All of these have helped to renew and strength-en our sense of HOPE. A perfect world is still beyond our reach but it is now again within our vision, our aspirations and dreams. We’ve grown a bit older but a little wis-er at how to take care of ourselves through times of challenge. Still, some of us have specific con-cerns, worries and needs. These, we bring to God in prayer for His guidance and peace. And, in your moving forward to find ways out of your troubles, please be assured that your St. Vincent de Paul Society is here to help you too. We have an extraordinary number of resources within our network and at our fingertips. Sometimes we are able to help financially but, we are so much more than a checkbook. You need only to call us at our rectory phone line: 732-291-0272 Ext. 120, (M-F) leave your name, phone number and a brief message. One of our members will return your call within a day or two to see how we may be able to help you. Thank you and God bless you!

“No work of charity is foreign to the Society”

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RESPECT LIFE WALKING WITH MOMS IN NEED Pregnant and parenting Moms in need are in our par-ish and in our neighborhoods. Many who choose abortion feel that they have no other option. They may be pressured to abort by the baby’s biological father, or by their own parents. They may lack fi-nancial support or a place to live. They may be overwhelmed by the commitment to care for a help-less human being. They may believe that they can-not afford to add to their family. We can give them another choice. There are so many resources that can be offered to those strug-gling with this major, life-changing decision. Please reach out and share with them the Pregnancy Re-sources on our Parish Website and Facebook Pages. You can also call the Rectory and leave a message for our OLPH-St. Agnes Respect Life Ministry at ext. 262. We are praying for the opportunity to help.

TOGETHER WE CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE FOR LIFE

COUNTERS ARE STILL NEEDED REVISED

A note from the office… I thank everyone who has volunteered to count the weekend collections, but the schedule is still not full. I need 3 more vol-unteers to complete the OLPH schedule.

Counting at OLPH takes place on Sunday mornings and I still need 1 more person for Week 1, and 3 more for Week 3.

Please call Karen in the rectory office at 732-291-0272, ext. 110 or kfrank@olph-sta.org for more information. Thank you!!!!

Knights of Columbus Rev. Joseph Donnelly Council Contact: David Convery 848-207-6357 Please visit us at: kofcdonnellycouncil11660.org Meetings are held on the first Thursday of the month at 7pm in the OLPH Gym. We also host a weekly Rosary on Monday evenings in the St. Agnes grotto at 7:00pm. All are welcome! Bring a friend! We invite you to join us. For additional information, please contact David Convery at 848-207-6357.

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Eucharistic Ministers Needed There are a few openings for persons to bring com-munion to residents at the Care One Care Center Sunday mornings at 11 a.m. Vaccinated volunteers are preferred and very little training is necessary to begin this very rewarding ministry. Both weekly and substitute Eucharistic Ministers are needed. For more information, call Muriel Smith at 908-461-1769, to sign up, e-mail kfrank@olph-sta.org.

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