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Dear Friends, For we who live after the Resurrection and Ascension, the most direct way to experience the Risen Christ is in the Eucharist, in the gathering together with fellow Christians, in the word we hear at Mass, and in the sharing in his Body and Blood. By “direct”, I mean that it is in the experience of the Eucharist that we can see, hear, and touch the Risen Christ and be seen, heard, and touched by him. A recent study of young Catholics, ages 15-25, found that a significant number of them don’t identify with this experience of Mass. While there are different findings in this study, one stood out to me: for many, their faith is nurtured elsewhere than in Catholicism. Before I or any of us become critical of them, we might reflect on our own need for renewal. That can begin with what we hear from Christ in today’s Mass. Peter says to the Roman leader, Cornelius, who seeks baptism, “I can see that God shows no partiality. All are acceptable to him.” John wrote years later, “everyone who loves is begotten by God and knows God. Jesus stresses in the gospel, “You are my friends if you...love one another." Something happens at every Mass that shows us what Christ means by his use of the word “love.” We all know that it’s easy to love in the abstract. It gets a lot tougher when love means not people in general, but a particular other, someone perhaps we don’t like, don’t agree with, someone we’re suspicious of because he or she is not like us. When Christ talks about “love”, he means something closer to the particular challenge than to the abstract meaning. In the consecration of Mass. he says: “Take this. This is my body...Take this. This is the cup of my blood.” I emphasized the “this” in these sentences to highlight the particularity of what we’re experiencing. Christ doesn’t say “Any bread...any cup of wine.” He says this bread, this cup of wine. It’s not just that Christ is everywhere so he’s also here at Mass. Of course that is true. But that can be vague and hard to pin down. He wants to be far more direct. He wants to be in our faces in the Eucharist, giving himself fully not just to everyone, but to each one, to each special person who comes before him in Communion. What’s more is that our faces can become his face. If that is our direct experience of Christ at Mass, then when we’re there or when we leave, we are challenged to be him to anyone we meet that day, that week. It doesn’t matter what the status of the person - male, female, black, brown, yellow, white, gay, straight, immigrant, migrant, religious, non-religious, political, non- political, old, young, born, unborn. It can’t matter to Christ. It shouldn’t matter to us. We a re all first and foremost, human beings. Peter discovered a new depth to his Friend’s command, “love one another;" a new depth to his fellow disciple’s insight, “everyone who loves is begotten by God and knows God.” Peter realized that “ God shows no partiality.” If we are to be renewed, let’s pray for his desire to be in each other’s faces through his face and act on it...people are attracted more by deeds than words. Love, Fr. Joe
Transcript of Fr. Joe · Schepps John Falcone. Eucharist Adoration † Pray for the happy repose of † Bunny...
Dear Friends,
For we who live after the Resurrection and Ascension, the most direct way to experience the Risen Christ is in the Eucharist, in the gathering together with fellow Christians, in the word we hear at Mass, and in the sharing in his Body and Blood. By “direct”, I mean that it is in the experience of the Eucharist that we can see, hear, and touch the Risen Christ and be seen, heard, and touched by him.
A recent study of young Catholics, ages 15-25, found that a significant number of them don’t identify with this experience of Mass. While there are different findings in this study, one stood out to me: for many, their faith is nurtured elsewhere than in Catholicism. Before I or any of us become critical of them, we might reflect on our own need for renewal.
That can begin with what we hear from Christ in today’s Mass. Peter says to the Roman leader, Cornelius, who seeks baptism, “I can see that God shows no partiality. All are acceptable to him.” John wrote years later, “everyone who loves is begotten by God and knows God. Jesus stresses in the gospel, “You are my friends if you...love one another."
Something happens at every Mass that shows us what Christ means by his use of the word “love.” We all know that it’s easy to love in the abstract. It gets a lot tougher when love means not people in general, but a particular other, someone perhaps we don’t like, don’t agree with, someone we’re suspicious of because he or she is not like us.
When Christ talks about “love”, he means something closer to the particular challenge than to the abstract meaning. In the consecration of Mass. he says: “Take this. This is my body...Take this. This is the cup of my blood.” I emphasized the “this” in these sentences to highlight the particularity of what we’re experiencing. Christ doesn’t say “Any bread...any cup of wine.” He says this bread, this cup of wine.
It’s not just that Christ is everywhere so he’s also here at Mass. Of course that is true. But that can be vague and hard to pin down. He wants to be far more direct. He wants to be in our faces in the Eucharist, giving himself fully not just to everyone, but to each one, to each special person who comes before him in Communion. What’s more is that our faces can become his face.
If that is our direct experience of Christ at Mass, then when we’re there or when we leave, we are challenged to be him to anyone we meet that day, that week. It doesn’t matter what the status of the person - male, female, black, brown, yellow, white, gay, straight, immigrant, migrant, religious, non-religious, political, non-political, old, young, born, unborn. It can’t matter to Christ. It shouldn’t matter to us. We are all first and foremost, human beings.
Peter discovered a new depth to his Friend’s command, “love one another;" a new depth to his fellow disciple’s insight, “everyone who loves is begotten by God and knows God.” Peter realized that “God shows no partiality.” If we are to be renewed, let’s pray for his desire to be in each other’s faces through his face and act on it...people are attracted more by deeds than words. Love,
Fr. Joe
Worship… Called and formed by the Word of God, we
worship our Lord primarily in the Mass. The Eucharist is the
center of our Christian life. It grounds everything else we do,
from prayer to our daily tasks to our ministries. If you have any
comments, please feel free to contact any of the following
Pastoral Council Representatives: Fr. Colin Kay, Deacon
Rich McGarry and Michael Kohler.
Pray for the recovery of: Joan Malafronte, Flerida Marcano, Bruce Howard, Bryan Doherty, Vivina Orozco, Angel Gomez, Trevis Muentener, Baby Walker Grey De Coons, Nicole Salzano, Mary Trentadue, Eleanor Hollit, Shel Goldstein, Daniel Igue, Angel Gomez, Baby Nicholas Pellegrino, William Stasic, Jose Antonio Orozco, Candy Piemonte-Singer, Alice Giegler, Michael DeCoite, John Young, Angel Gomes, Maria Kohlick, Jennifer Reeves, Vicenta Oyog, Lori Mineo, Ann Riffle, Baby Sophia Behrens, James Giegler, Marie Recchione, Bob Nichols, Maria Iozzia, Jerry Marcom, Eileen Meyer, Anthony Esposito, Marissa Anderson, Helen Masefield, Timothy Dolan, Rowen Ru, Charles Cummins, Romeo Malungcot, Angelina Perez, Sean O’Malley, Dave Gondres, Mark Reeves, Tommy Maher, Betty Young, Gabrielle Paradiso, Baby Charles Michael Tansey, Marianne Wilde, Lois Dekker, Mary Golabek, Joy Leonard, Mark Reeves, Mercedes Cepeda, Joey Bulger, Catherine Kurnath, John Coons, Mary McCarthy, Nellie Salazar, Ann Garripoli Petrie, Jennifer Crespo, Jimmy O’Hanlon, Patricia Sisti, Albert Gravel, Margaret Hoether, Debbie Carlotti, Jake Rudd, John Bohlig, Michael Reyes, Frank Morano, Sr., Bill Keegan, Veronica Reichert, Robert O’Byrne, Julia Fedorchik, Jillda DiNardo, Marie Brancato, Helen Konarski, Mary Ludlow, Jason & Justin Leider, Dianna Miranda, Brandon Higgens, Ann Millstein, Carol Gravel, Wendy Gratale, Richie Policastro, Jackie Manning, Stanislaw Tecza, Louis Frances, Sarah Valenti, Stan Tomon, Violeta Arva, Ken Macagna, Todd Hodge, Emily Rao, John Rao, Carol Verbovsky, Kenneth Bodzak, Anne Llewellyn, Les Wolf, Diana Lambouras, Thomas Brown, Nicole Schepps John Falcone.
† Pray for the happy repose of † Bunny Regan, Denis McCarthy
and Robert Tedeschi
The Bread and Wine will be offered this week in loving memory of Lee Pensec as requested by his family.
Monday, May 7th
7:30 - John Byers - Family 8:45 - Carmen Perez – Jeanette Gonzalez Alfred Moran – Rosemarie, David & Helen Mary Cece – Rosemarie, David & Helen
Tuesday, May 8th
7:30 – Carmela Held – Sheila Abate Dominick Rao – Mom & Dad 8:45 - Adeline Stachiotti – Sandra & Paul Angeli & Family Mary Puente Trentadue – Barbara Puente
Wednesday, May 9th
7:30 – Vicente Guades – Family Pat Larger - Sisters 8:45 – Sister Margaret May Dalton – The Dalton Family Barbara Cain – Friends
Ascension Thursday Vigil 7:30 pm – People of the St. Anne Parish
Thursday, May 10th
– Ascension Thursday 7:30 – People 8:45 - of 12:10 - Saint Anne Parish
Friday, May 11th
7:30 - Horace Greeley IV – Sheila Abate Marie Ciezobka (Living) – Jennifer & Family 8:45 - Marie Puente – Barbara Puenta Marie Ciezobka (Living) – Family Katharine Conza – Pat & Carol Pompeo
Saturday, May 12th
8:45 - Catherine R. Raeber – Betty Ann & Brice Tomaso Tarabokija – Mr. & Mrs. Steve Tarabokija Lee Pensec – Loving Family Pascual & Maria Idica 5:15 - All Mothers Living & Deceased
Sunday, May 13th
– Mother’s Day 7:30 - ALL 9:30 - MOTHERS 11:30 - LIVING 6:00 - AND DECEASED
Eucharist Adoration Friday, May 11th
12:00 pm – 6:00 pm Concluding with
Benediction at 6:00 pm Please volunteer to pray one hour before our Lord. Sign-up sheet in the church vestibule.
Let us pray for those in our armed forces especially
for: 2nd
Lt. Frank D. Slawson II, USAF: 1st Lt. Markus
Landers, USMC; Cpl Bobby Cimmino, USMC; PFC
Richard Marchese, US Army; Pvt. John Pagios, US
Army; Pvt. Kristoffer Burger, US Army; SPCE4 Kyle
Milnes, US Army; PO 2nd
Cl Jimmy Guerra, US Navy,
PO 1st Cl Nicholas J. Vanni, US Navy; Major Gregory
Sugalski, US Army; MM2 Nicholas J. Magarelli, USN,
Master Sgt. Michael VanPamel, USAF; Sgt. Michael
Bourke, US Army; PFC Lindsay Newarski, US Army;
Staff Sgt.. Matthew Bauer, USAF; Brandon Motto,
USMC; Lt. Marc Sabatino, USN; LCPL Storm Odom,
USMC; Airman Michael Diffin, USAF; CPL Justin
Scales, USMC; LCPL Dominick Rizzo, USMC; PFC
Jonathan C. Sulinski, Warrant Officer Alan Harty, US
Army; Sgt. Bert J. Frullo, US Army; LCPL. Harrison
James Bruining, USMC; LCPL Steven D’Argenio,
USMC; Capt. Kip Rainey; SP4 Monica Saucier, US
Army; Spec. 4 Brian Tarantino, US Army; PO 1st Cl.
Mike Tarantino, USN; Lt. Col. Marshall Denney; Lance
Corp. Marshall Denney IV; Col. Patrick Frank;
Maj. Daniel Curtin, US Army; Staff Sgt. Joseph Sullivan,
USMC; A1C Richard Baldassari, USAF; Capt. Donald
Pump, USMC; and all those serving in Iraq and
Afghanistan.
ALTERNATIVE TO ABORTION If you know
someone who is considering having an abortion, here is a
number they might call that could be of help to them to
consider an alternative to this practice. The number is
1-800-395-HELP (4357).
During the month of May, Pope Francis asks us to pray especially
...that lay Catholics may fulfill their specific mission by responding creatively to the challenges that face the world today.
BTOR Our weekly Gospel Study will meet
this Thursday, May 10th from 1:00-2:00 pm in the Faith Center.
All are welcome.
ASCENSION THURSDAY MAY 10TH
Mass schedule will be as follows:
Wednesday, May 9th
– Vigil Mass at 7:30 pm
Thursday, May 10th
– 7:30 & 8:45 am & 12:10 pm
REFLECTION
A WEDDING GIFT St Francis of Assisi
I hear you singing, dear, inviting me to your limb.
I am coming, for all that we do is a preparation for
love.
I hear you singing, my Lord, inviting me to your throne. We are coming, dear, for all the toil you have
blessed us with is a preparation to know and hold the
sacred.
I hear you singing, my soul, but how can it be that God’s voice has now become
my own?
“That is just a wedding gift for our Divine Union,” my Beloved
said.
STEWARDSHIP REFLECTION
6th Sunday of Easter “This is my commandment: love one another as I love you. No one has greater love than this, to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.” (John 15:12)
Do you love Jesus? Do you consider Him your friend? Jesus says that if we love Him we would be willing to offer whatever we have to Him, not because we want praise and glory, but simply because we love Him. Does your giving seem mechanical out of obligation or do you share freely out of love?
ADOPT-A-STUDENT at St. Anne School
Would you like to make a huge impact in the life of a
young child?
Would you like to be an angel to someone who wants a
Catholic school education but cannot afford it?
Then consider adopting a student for either a partial or a
full tuition scholarship!
Complete this form and drop it in the collection basket at
mass. You will be contacted with more information. God
bless you for being an angel to a child!
Your name
Your phone number
Word… St. Anne’s is a family of faith formed by the Word of God, especially as this is expressed in the person of Christ, in the
Scriptures, and in the Tradition of the Church. As we hear this word and take it more and more deeply into our lives, we become ever
more truly the People of God. If you have any comments, please feel free to contact any of the following Pastoral Council
Representatives: Donna Stickna, Melissa Rovetto-Ruffner & Marianne Cummins .
SAINT ANNE SCHOOL NEWS
Open Registration is now being taken for new Pre-K to Gr 8 families daily from 8:00 AM to 2:00 PM in the school office.
St. Anne School offers a full-day kindergarten. Extended care in the morning and after school until 6:00 p.m. is available for students in grades pre-kindergarten through eight. For further information regarding tuition and fees, call the school office at 201-796-3353 or visit the school web site.
Visit our website at www.stannenj.com Follow us …. @StAnneFairLawn
FAITH FORMATION NEWS
FALLFAITH NEWS Registration forms for all FallFaith programs (grades 1-8) are available on the parish website. Go to
www.stannefairlawnnj.org and follow the prompts!
Home Study/Family Catechesis schedule for the last session is as follows: Home Study 2: Tuesday, May 8
Home Study 3: Tuesday, May 15
THE FILIPINO-AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF FAIR LAWN, INC.
Is sponsoring….
FLORES DE MAYO - NOVENA IN HONOR OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY
PLEASE JOIN US IN THIS SPECIAL CELEBRATION HERE AT ST. ANNE CHURCH
May 10, 2018 Thursday 6:00 pm
May 11, 2018 Friday 7:00 pm
May 12, 2018 Saturday 3:00 pm
May 13, 2018 Sunday 3:00 pm
May 14, 2018 Monday 6:00 pm
May 15, 2018 Tuesday 6:00 pm
May 16, 2018 Wednesday 6:00 pm
May 17, 2018 Thursday 6:00 pm
May 18, 2018 Friday 6:00 pm (After Novena & Mass on 9th day May 18th, fellowship will follow.)
FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE CALL:
HERMIE VOGEL 201-791-4499 DINA CABAERO 201-794-0999 JOSIE ARANIAS 201-794-8598 TERESA DEE 201-254-9695
Service… Impelled by the Spirit of Jesus, St. Anne’s strives to reach out to others. In works on behalf of justice, charity, and human development,
we seek to imitate Jesus in bringing glad tidings to the poor, liberty to the oppressed and captives, and healing to the blind and the sick.
If you have any comments, please feel free to contact Fr. Joe or Fr. Colin.
FROM THE OFFICE OF HUMAN CONCERNS
FOOD PANTRY NEEDS: We need jelly, canned vegetables, pasta, apple juice, cranberry juice, canned fruit,
pancake mix and syrup, bar soap, shampoo and conditioner, laundry soap, dish soap, household cleaning
products. Please make sure the dates are not expired on items dropped off.
Please do not drop off used clothing or household items at the Rectory.
ST. CAJETAN MINISTRY NETWORK for the Unemployed & Under-employed
We meet every two weeks as follows: St. Catharine’s Ministry Center - next meeting: Thursday, May 10th
.
Next meeting at St. Anne’s Rectory is Saturday, May 12th
- from 10am - 12 noon. If you think you may be
interested please contact Ed Grzesiak 201-321-5144, John Lederer 201-286-9354, Lou Cuomo 201-657-3838,
Eamon Jennings, 917-841-2558, Steve Zmuda 201-819-9026, Jim Trousdale 917-363-9977 or Joe Bonis 201-
390-7169. You can also email us at [email protected]
SECOND ANNUAL CATHOLIC COLLEGE NIGHT WHO: All high school students and their parents
WHEN: Thursday, May 10th from 6:30-8:30PM WHERE: Our Lady of Mount Carmel Parish Center Ridgewood (Church Building)
Please use the Passaic Street Entrance
We know how hard it is to find the right school! Other college fairs can be overwhelming with over so many schools to see. We have narrowed our college night to Catholic Schools only!
Join us and visit with the many Catholic colleges and universities that have agreed to be present. For a full list of schools please visit Mount Carmel's website at www.olmcridgewood.com
The College Night is open to ALL. Bring a friend!
PARISH SOCIAL MINISTRY…
What are the needs of the faith community here at St. Anne’s? A Parish Social Ministry
can determine what the particular needs are of the people of St. Anne’s and can provide
assistance to those with basic needs. It might be meals when one has been ill or visits to
the homebound or phone calls to check on those who live alone. The Pastoral Council is
looking for volunteers to organize a Parish Social Ministry who will assess the areas
where our fellow parishioner have a need and determine the best way to be of assistance.
A Parish Social Ministry, according to the National Conference of Catholic Charities, is
“the empowerment of the parish as the people of God to fulfill the Church’s mission of
love, justice, freedom and peace by the community responding in an organized way to
societal and individual human needs.” Are you called to be a part of this new ministry?
If so, please contact Joan Piela at [email protected]
Community… Formed by the Word and by the Eucharist, St. Anne’s builds
community in the ways that we live and work and celebrate
together. In these ways, we experience the living presence of
Christ. If you have any comments, please feel free to contact
any of the following Pastoral Council Representatives:
Junie Fuertes, Laurie Hessman, Joe Murray, Joan Piela,
Stephanie Kedersha, Joe Barone and Terence Curley
EVENTS FOR THIS WEEK Sunday, May 6th Coffee Sunday/Blood Pres. – 8:30 am – 1 pm – CH
Monday, May 7th PTG Board Mtg. – 6:30 pm - SFR Contemporary Choir – 7:30 pm - C AA – 7:30 PM – LCR
Tuesday, May 8th
Men’s Early Morning Group – 6:00 am–Rectory Home Study – 7:00 – 8:30 pm – CAF Pre-Baptism Mtg. – 7:30 pm - CH
Wednesday, May 9th Play Group – 9:30 – 11:00 am – CH Bible Study – 7:00 pm – FC Ascension Thursday Vigil – 7:30 pm - C
Thursday, May 10th Ascension Thursday Masses – 7:30 & 8:45 am & 12:10 pm – C BTOR – 1:00 pm – FC Flores De Mayo – 6:00 pm - C Cub Scouts – 6:30 – 8:30 pm – CAF SCC – 7:00 pm - FC
Friday, May 11th Eucharist Adoration – 12:00 – 6:00 pm – C Flores de Mayo – 7:00 pm – C SAS Student Council Dance – 7:00-10:00 pm CH
Saturday, May 12th Flores de Mayo – 3:00 pm - C AA – 7:30 – 8:30 PM – CAF
HIGH SCHOOL OPEN HOUSES
St. Peter’s Prep. in Jersey City will host an Open House on Sunday, May 6th from 1:00 – 3:00 pm. For more information, please call 201-547-6389.
Saint Anne's Seniors The next meeting will be on May 14th at 1 pm in the Church Hall. Our guest speaker this afternoon will be Jeannie Barnett. Ms. Barnett's talk will center on Saint Mary. John Rendzia, our Tour Director, has put together a great night at the Meadowlands. Bus departs from the front of Saint Anne's at 6 pm sharp on Friday, May 18th The first race is 7:15 pm. The cost of $25 will include the transportation, the entrance fee and your program to the night time races at the Meadowlands. Dinner is at your own choosing - restaurants and a quick hamburger are available. Reservations can be called into John Rendzia at 201-509-8490. Remember no meeting May 28th, which is Memorial Day - a day to remember our Veterans and Military personnel. June 11th - Ice Cream Social, June 25th - Salad Day - cost $2 which includes coffee and cake. If you don't want to be left out of all the activities that the Seniors hold - come to a meeting. Call Joyce Larena, President (201-791-0172.)
Are you a stay-at-home mom or dad of children age 5 and under? Or perhaps you care for your grandchildren during the week? If so, come join us for our weekly Play Group which will meet next on
Wednesday, May 9th from 9:30 – 11:00 am in the Church
Hall. For information, please call Ali Curley at 201-693-3474.
SAINT ANNE CARNIVAL & FOOD FEST
Committee Volunteers Needed
The 2018 Carnival & Food Fest is looking for some
additional volunteers to be on the planning committee.
The committee meets once a month and twice a month as
we get close to the faire date in September!
We are looking for folks with Marketing, Organization,
Finance, & Entertainment planning experience.
If you are interested in being part of this great committee
please contact us through email at: [email protected]
Please include your name, contact info, and area of interest.
Thanks, John Hill,
Carnival & Food Fest Chair
Finance/Administration… A Christian community strives to steward its resources so that they can provide the material by which its various ministries can
reflect the parish’s mission to reflect Christ’s presence in all that we do and say. Finance Committee Members: Ed Hughes,
Bill Ball, Sheila Abate, Loretta Stachiotti, Steve Palermo, Jerry Cunningham and John Weiss.
Buildings/Grounds: Carl Shoemaker, Dave Lee, Kate Humble, Steve Zmuda, Ron Barbarulo, Adrian Menichelli
and Michael La Rocca
We are grateful to the 1,436 people who worshipped with us last weekend and contributed $11,044.00 in the offertory and $2,398.00 through Online Giving offertory,
which along with other fees and donations totaled $18,133.00. Our weekly expenses average out to $20,348.00.
St. Anne Carnival & Food Fest
September 14, 15, 16, 2018
St. Anne’s Carnival & Food Fest committee
has established a GoFundMe page seeking
donations to replace our Zeppole oven & other
needed equipment for our event.
Our goal is to raise $3000.
In creating the GoFundMe link on our
Facebook page we have made it easy to make
a contribution by using a credit card.
However contributions can be made by check
or cash at the rectory. No gift is too small!
Here is the link:
https://funds.gofundme.com/dashboard/stannechurch
