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St. Martha Church
THE CATHOLIC COMMUNITY OF SAINT MARTHA March 17, 2019 Second Sunday of Lent
Sunday Mass:
MASS SCHEDULE CLERGY & PASTORAL STAFF Pastor: Rev. David Swantek
Saturday Vigil 4:30 pm Sunday 7:30 am
9:00 am 10:30 am
12:00 noon
Daily Mass: Monday thru Friday 8:00 am
SACRAMENTS Anointing of the Sick: Please call the parish office to make arrangements. Baptisms: 1st & 3rd Sundays at 1:15 pm. Please call the parish office to make arrangements. Parents’ Preparation Session is on the last Friday of the month at 7:00 pm. No Baptism’s during Lent. Confessions: Saturday, 3:00 - 4:00 pm or by appointment, some Fridays during adoration after mass, 8:30 – 9am, if no morning funeral or homeschool mass. Marriages: Please call the parish office to make arrangements one year in advance.
DEVOTIONS Divine Mercy Chaplet: Fridays, 3:00 pm Exposition & Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament: Fridays, 8:30 am – 9:30 am Novenas: Follow 8:00 am Masses – Miraculous Medal (Wednesday) & St. Jude (Thursday) Rosary: Monday-Friday, 7:35 am; Sunday,7:05 am
Assisting Retired Priests: Rev. Dominic Fuccile Rev. Tony Lionelli Rev. Msgr. Bill Stober
Deacon: Fran Groff
Staff: Director of Religious Education: Georgina Kotz Religious Education Secretary: Barbara Rowe Coordinator of Youth Ministry: Bob Morris Director of Liturgical Music: Business Manager/Accountant: Nancy Dormanski Marriage Minister: Marie Mastronardi Parish Secretary: Paddy Morris Parish Receptionists: Fran Olson Mary Siringo
OFFICE HOURS Monday thru Friday 8:30 am - 4:00 pm: closed for lunch on Tuesdays and Thursdays 12:15 -1:30pm Additional Hours: Tuesday 6:00 pm – 8:00pm Wednesday 4:00 pm – 8:00pm Saturday 9:00 am – 12:00pm
Contact Us 3800 Herbertsville Road Point Pleasant, NJ 08742 Phone: 732-295-3630 Fax : 732-295-9315 [email protected] www.saintmartha.net
We welcome all who seek to grow in faith and love just as St. Martha welcomed Jesus into her home.
If you’d like to join our parish, please call 732-295-3630.
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March 17, 2019 Second Sunday of Lent
1st Collection: Regular Collection 2nd Collection: Black & Native Americans
MASS INTENTIONS Saturday, March 16, 2019 4:30 pm Sr. Eufemia Parducci M.P.F.
Sunday, March 17, 2019 7:30 am People of the Parish 9:00 am Vilma & Daro Duzic 10:30 am George J. Lang 12:00 pm Anna Gloriande
Monday, March 18, 2019 8:00 am The Crowley & Shea Families
Tuesday, March 19, 2019 8:00 am Evelyn J. Lipkin
Wednesday, March 20, 2019 8:00 am The Skupski & DeCresci Families
Thursday, March 21, 2019 8:00 am Edith H. Lokerson
Friday, March 22, 2019 8:00 am Jerry Graham
Saturday, March 23, 2019 4:30 pm Susan Shawatt
Sunday, March 24, 2019 7:30 am The Sosnowski Family 9:00 am People of the Parish 10:30 am The Gillespie & Bonner Families 12:00 pm Jerry Harper MEMORIAL Gifts – March 16th – 22nd Flowers to Mary: Bernice Thergesen Tabernacle Candle: Margaret Jacobs
Gospel Readings Sun: Luke 9:28b-36 Mon: Matthew 5:43-48 Tue: Matthew 1:16,18-21,24a Or Luke 2:42-51a Wed: Matthew 20:17-28 Thurs: Luke 16:19-31 Fri: Matthew 21:33-43, 45-46 Sat: Luke 15:1-3, 11-32
Need Help? Our parish is here to help. Call our St. Vincent de Paul Society at 732-295-3630, ext. 33. All calls are confidential.
LOW-GLUTEN HOST – Av ailable upon request before Mass in the Sacristy
Our Dearly Departed Please remember in your prayers the recently deceased members of our parish, especially for Marcello Marasco, Maureen Sullivan Foley, John W. Kaufman and Olympia Barca.
Lenten Series – By Fr. Tony Lionelli - 5 Thursdays, starting March 7, 2019, at 1:00 pm, in the downstairs common area. He will be covering the Lenten Gospels, including the Passion Narratives of all four Gospels.
Lenten Series - with Fr. Dave We read and discussed together the Screwtape Letters by C. S. Lewis on Sundays during Lent at 3:00 pm in the parish hall. You won’t have to have read the letters beforehand, and we’ll aim to end at 4:00 pm. No Class on March 24th or Palm Sunday, April 14th.
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Tomorrow (March 18th) I’ll be leaving with 41 other parishioners for a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. In the back of our church, in the saint’s room, our normal prayer petition binder has been replaced with a different one. Any petitions you write in this binder we’ll carry to St. Joseph’s house in Nazareth and pray for at the Mount of Olives.
Pilgrimage is an ancient way of praying in our Christian tradition. Catholics would go on pilgrimage to the holy sites in Jesus’ life, in the life of major saints, or to places of Marian apparitions. We get the spirituality of pilgrimage from the Jewish people. Whenever a prophet or patriarch encountered God in a profound way, they’d erect a rock cairn or pillar and sometimes pour oil upon it – marking out the site as a special place of encounter between them and God. Some of these would then later serve as sites others could journey too, to pray at, to dwell at asking for God’s wisdom, response, and blessing.
The Pilgrim lets go of being in control of their normal routine, of home comforts, of cherished relationships, to endure a simpler way of living, of hardships endured as penances, and of radical trust in the providence of God – recreating and encapsulating in their own journey the 40 year journey of preparation, penance and trust the Jewish people underwent between their leaving Egyptian slavery and entering the Holy Land.
What does this have to do with St. Patrick?
For 40 days and nights, in the year 441, St. Patrick prayed and fasted on a raw, wild and sometimes wet, mountain top (Cruachan Aigle or later known as Croagh Patrick {pictured here}) in Northern Ireland. Today there is a small chapel at the top and on the last Sunday in July thousands of pilgrims climb Croagh Patrick in honor of St. Patrick and in hopes of God hearing their prayers and petitions as well. Many of them do it barefoot, like St. Patrick, for penance for the times they’ve walked the wrong path in life.
This Sunday’s Gospel we hear of Jesus going up Mount Tabor with his friends – and his Father will speak to him and them there. It’s my hope that God will speak to me and our parishioners as we too ascend Mt. Tabor later next week and ask him to pour down blessings upon our families and parish.
What St. Patrick, our pilgrims, and the Gospel have in common today is that it is good and very necessary to carve out time, to come away from your routine and everyday life, to spend moments in solitude journeying with the Lord. Mountaintops have long been places of divine encounter. Jesus particularly loved to pray on the mountains and walk by the sea. Whether you go to a park, to Croagh Patrick, or the Manasquan Inlet, know that God wishes to speak with you, to spend time with you, and giving him your ears and attention, in a beautiful part of nature, is something that’ll help your prayer life and discipleship; it’s what Jesus himself did – and he invited his friends to join him. Peter listened and went. Patrick listened and went. What about you? In Christ
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Virtus Training and Re-training In accordance with the Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People, all priests, deacons, seminarians, church employees and volunteers who, during the course of their work or volunteer activities, have any direct contact, be it on a regular basis or occasionally, with minors and/or vulnerable adults must attend a Virtus training session. In addition, anyone that has already been Virtus- trained, we are now required to be retrained to remain in good standing as a volunteer for your group or organization. The following is the timetable for re-training: Original Virtus Training Re-Training Deadline Prior to January 1, 2015 June 1, 2019 Jan 1 – Dec 31, 2016 June 1, 2020 Jan 1 – Dec 31, 2017 June 1, 2021 Jan 1 – Dec 31, 2018 June 1, 2022 Virtus Recertification Dates – Please contact Bob Morris to register or with any questions.
Thursday March 21, 2019, 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm
Thursday April 11, 2019, 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm
Saturday April 13, 2019, 9:30 am – 11:30 am
Thursday May 9, 2019, 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm
Around the Diocese Emmet Cahill, award-winning Irish tenor and principal singer with the popular Irish music show, Celtic Thunder, returns to St. Mary, Mother of God Church on Monday, March 18, at 7:30 PM. Emmet will perform selections from his new album of traditional Irish folk songs and ballads, plus well-loved church hymns and Broadway favorites. He’ll also sing with the Adult and Children’s choirs. $45 and may be purchased online at http://www.emmetcahill.com/tour-dates/, at the church, or at the door.
Prayer for Priests
Composed by St. Therese “O Jesus, eternal Priest, keep your priests within the shelter of Your Sacred Heart, where none may touch them. Keep unstained their anointed hands, which daily touch Your Sacred Body. Keep unsullied their lips, daily purpled with your Precious Blood. Keep pure and unearthly their hearts, sealed with sublime mark of the priesthood. Let Your holy love surround them and shield them from the world’s contagion. Bless their labors with abundant fruit and may the souls to whom they minister be their joy and consolation here and in heaven their beautiful and everlasting crown. Amen” St. Therese, pray for us and the priests of our church.
The Rosary Altar Society will hold its Spring Military Bridge on Friday, April 26th, from 11:30 to 3:00 pm in the Parish Hall. Tickets are $17, including lunch by Joe Leone. Tickets may be purchased by calling Terry Noce at 201-456-1348 until April 17th. The Rosary Altar Society will be collecting chocolate bunnies, candy and small toys for Easter baskets. Boxes will be in the church vestibules on March 24, and March 31st. Thank you for all donations.
Knights of Columbus will be holding a Lenten Fish Fry next Friday, March 22, 2019 at saint Peters Elementary School stating at 6:00 PM. The cost of a complete fish dinner is $15.00 per person. Dinner will be offered for both table service as well as take out service. If you would like pre-order meals please call the Knights at 732-295-3630 ext. 42. Please leave a message with your name and the number of dinners needed and we will have them ready for you.
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Religious Education Information 732-295-3630 x 35
[email protected] “The state of grace is nothing other than purity, and it gives heaven to those who clothe themselves in it. Holiness, therefore, is simply the state of grace purified, illuminated, beautified by the most perfect purity, exempt not only from mortal sin but also from the smallest faults; purity will make saints of you! Everything lies in this!” – St. Peter Eymard Faith at Home: Make a plan to bring the family to confession during Lent.
Church Teaching on: Confession of Sins – “The confession (or disclosure) of sins, even from a simply human point of view, frees us and facilitates our reconciliation with others. Through such an admission man looks squarely at the sins he is guilty of, takes responsibility for them, and thereby opens himself again to God and to the communion of the Church in order to make a new future possible.” – CCC 1455
Lent – Make use of Formed for your Lenten reflections: saintmartha.formed. org The Society of St. Vincent De Paul, St. Martha Conference, will have Stations of the Cross on Monday, March 25th at 7PM in the church. All are welcome to attend. Lost and Found If you have lost keys or jewely. Please check with Paddy in the parish office.
Youth Ministry with Bob Morris
732-295-3630 ext. 31 [email protected]
Instagram: saintmarthayoungchurch Happy St. Patrick’s Day! and safe travels to Fr. Dave and all the parishioners on their pilgrimage to the Holy Land! St. Vincent DePaul Friendship Dinner: Every month several of our area churches take turns hosting a dinner for community members in need. The March dinner is located at Harvey Memorial Methodist Church and run by our St. Vincent DePaul Society. Many thanks to about a dozen of our youth from St. Martha’s that helped set up and serve at last week’s dinner. Attendees only had to find a seat and our youth asked them what they wanted and brought their festive St. Patrick’s Day dinner of ham, potatoes, cabbage, Irish soda bread, and drinks to them. Altar Server Training: Father Dave will be conducting training for anyone interested in being an altar server on Saturday, May 11 at 10:00 AM. Any child from 10 years old and up is eligible. Please contact me with any questions or to register for this training. Since we haven’t had a regular schedule for altar serving in a while, if there are any existing altar servers who haven’t been serving in the last couple years or so and would like to get back on the schedule, please let me know. I will be humbly assuming the duties of scheduling altar servers from our beloved late deacon, Ted Kotz. Virtus Recertification: As mentioned elsewhere in the bulletin in the past several weeks, we are now conducting recertification workshops. Please see the chart on pg. 4 to see when you need to have your retraining completed by (based on when you had your original training) as well as the workshop dates between now and early May. If you’re not sure when your current training expires, please let me know. Please contact me to register for a session or for any other questions you may have.
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Sharing Our Treasure
Weekend of March 9th - 10th & Ash Wednesday Weekly Offerings $ 22,386.00 Online Giving* $ 1,696.75 Bequests/In Memory 0.00 Religious Education 187.50 Online Giving – Rel Ed Tuition 0.00 *www.saintmartha.net/Contribute/(ParishSoft or PayPal)
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2019 LENTEN & HOLY WEEK LITURGIES
Daily Masses Monday – Friday: 8:00 am
Stations of the Cross Fridays: 7:00 pm during Lent
Reconciliation Some Fridays during adoration after Mass, 8:30 am – 9:00 am, if no morning funeral or home school Mass.
Saturdays: 3:00 - 4:00 pm
Lenten Reconciliation – St Peter’s April 10, 2019, 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm.
Lenten Reconciliation - St Martha’s April 11, 2019, 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm.
Passion (Palm) Sunday – April 14 Regular Weekend Mass Schedule
Holy Thursday – April 18 Mass of the Lord’s Supper - 7:00 pm, followed by Adoration until midnight
Good Friday – April 19 Stations of the Cross: 12:00 noon Liturgy of the Lord’s Passion: 3:00 pm
Holy Saturday – April 20 Easter Vigil, Saturday, 8:15 pm
Easter Sunday, April 21 7:30 am, 9:00 am, 10:30 am, 12:00 noon (No afternoon or evening Masses)
The days of FAST (only one full meal) and ABSTINENCE (no meat) are Ash Wednesday and Good Friday. No dispensations are granted on these solemn days except for reason of sickness or those provided in canon law below. All other Fridays of Lent are days of ABSTINENCE (no meat).
D G Q E L J D H P R D G C P R C Q F J X A U N O H Y R N D A Z Z L I N G A L S A X C M S H W B C N G B R Y E R T A E M Q G A S A W I O E C I E T E R D E O L N A H L N S D C N P C X M G I T X T D S A P D E A H T R A M Z H I A Q Y W A H O H F U V V H X Y D A E J S A S E N I N K O W H I T E While he was praying his face changed in appearance and his clothing became dazzling white. Saint Martha, Father Dave, Cragly
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