Our Lady Queen of Peace

Rev. Philip-Michael F. Tangorra Pastor pmftangorra@gmail.com Dcn. Vincent Ricciardi Deacon Cooperator Mrs. Jennifer Durso Office Manager Office@OLQPBranchville.org Ms. Claudette Casile Coordinator of Religious Education Ccasile@OLQPBranchville.org Mrs. Mary Chobrda Music Director MaryC@OLQPBranchville.org

Mass Schedule Saturday: 5:00 PM Youth Mass

(Homily Intended for Teens/ Young Adults) Sunday: 8:00 AM 10:00 AM

12:00 PM (Starting 9/13) Daily: 8:00 AM (Monday-Saturday) Holydays: 8:00 AM and 7:00 PM Traditional Latin Mass 5:00 PM First Friday

Reconciliation: Saturday: 4:00 PM-4:45 PM After All Morning Masses During Eucharistic Adoration (Mon & Fri) Anytime by Appointment

Eucharistic Adoration: Mondays: 7:30 PM-8:30 PM Fridays: 8:30-9:30 AM 24 HR Eucharistic Adoration First Friday

We are a Roman Catholic parish family. We respond to Christ’s call to proclaim the Gospel in both word and deed, and in all our relationships and responsibilities. We encourage our members to embrace a lifestyle marked by Stewardship of Time, Tal-ent, and Treasure, engaging in active support of our ministries of the Word, Worship, and Service. We welcome everyone from Branchville, Frankford (Augusta), Lafayette and all who come to share the joy of Christ! All who wish to join us as new

members please call the parish office for more information on becoming a member of our parish family.

209 US Highway 206 Branchville, NJ 07826

The Twenty-Third Sunday in Ordinary Time September 6th

Office Hours: Monday-Friday 9:00 AM-2:00 PM

Parish Office: (973) 948-3185 Fax: (973) 948-4799

Website: OLQPBranchville.org

MEMORIALS

The week of September 6th Sanctuary Lamp burns for : Johnathan Volpe

The Twenty-Third Sunday In Ordinary Time: September 6th

Please remember in your prayers

Hap Rowan, Patricia Poole, Patricia Fiss, Clarence Roberts, Joe Foster, Lisa Dorans, Molly Russo, John Crisman, Philip Baccari, Laura Schaefer, Dottie Hilt,

Angelo Appice, Miryam Rodriguez, Peggy Mahon, Janice Miglin, Bradley Burchfield, Pete Lozar, Aylssa Morgan, Ann Romyns, Mike Galante, Richard Kopycienski, Brian Decker, Jim Steurer, Bill Klecha, Sherry Coleman, Sue Klecha, Judy Moyer, Theresa Barrett, Charles Worthington, David Glowatski, Lee Iliff, Arnold Ligi

Weekly Collection

Sunday Offering 8/29 & 8/30 $ 2,195.00

Online $ 870.00

Total $ 3,065.00

Estimated Weekly Expenses $ 4,500.00

Difference ($ 1,435.00)

Please Consider “Online Giving”

My friends thank you for your continued financial support especially amidst these difficult financial times and the beginning of the school year. Your continued financial support benefits the excellent activities of faith formation , evangelization, charity and healing. - Father Phil

Online Giving

An alternative for giving if you can’t attend Mass.

Thank you to the families that have signed up for Online Giving! You can decide exactly when your gift is made and where it goes. You can even view your giving history and pledge progress at any time, just by logging in. Please visit www.olqpbranchville.org and click the Online Giving link to get started.

Mass Intentions

SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 5th 8:00 AM NEITA GREEN (THE FLAHERTY FAMILY) 5:00 PM NICHOLAS MARINO (THE FAMILY) SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 6Th 8:00 AM PEOPLE OF THE PARISH 10:00 AM MRS. ALICE FERNANDES (THE KELLEHER FAMILY) MONDAY 8:00 AM INTENTIONS OF ROSE LOPIANO (ANNE MARIE LOPAIANO) TUESDAY 8:00 AM CLAIRE MCALLISTER (BARBARA BAYLES) WEDNESDAY 8:00 AM LINDA M. GROCHOWSKI (THE FAMILY) THURSDAY 8:00 AM CHRIS FARLEY (THE FLAHERTY FAMILY) FRIDAY 8:00 AM PAUL WORTHINGTON (RITA WENNING) NOVERLY WEHRLI (FLORIAN WEHRLI & DEL LIPSKY) SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 12th 8:00 AM RICHARD BAYLES (BARBARA BAYLES) 5:00 PM DICK BURCHFIELD (THE GRANDCHILDREN) SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 13th 8:00 AM INTENTIONS OF FRANCIS MAYER (JENN DURSO) 10:00 AM INTENTIONS OF BISHOP KEVIN SWEENEY (THE KELLEHER FAMILY) 12:00 PM ISAURA DIAS (THE KELLEHER FAMILY)

ALTAR FLOWERS MEMORIALS

The week of September 6th the Altar Flowers are presented for: Noverly Wehrli

Devotions:

Miraculous Medal Novena

Monday morning before the 8:00 AM Mass

Eucharistic Adoration:

Mondays: 7:30 PM-8:30 PM, Fridays: 8:30-9:30 AM

First Friday: 8:30 am Sat. 8:00 am (24 Hours)

Rosary: After every morning Mass (Mon-Sat)

9:00 am Sunday

First Saturday Devotion to Our Blessed Mother:

First Saturday of every month after the 8:00 AM Mass.

Eucharistic Adoration

Eucharistic Adoration

Mondays

7:30pm—8:30pm

Fridays

8:30 am-9:30am

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Mass For Deliverance

The Feast of the Sorrowful Mother September 15th

3:00 am Mass

This mass is offered for our country and our parishioners that we may be delivered from the darkness of evil that is affecting our

country and our own spiritual lives.

Rite of Christian Initiation For Adults

(RCIA) If you would like to become a Catholic or

have not received all of your Sacraments such as First Holy Communion or Confirmation this program is for you! The RCIA program is designed to help adults grow in their faith and become fully initiated into the Church. Please call the office for more information.

Planned Parenthood Prayer Vigil

for 40 Days of Life

9:30 am

Planned Parenthood

8 Morgan Street, Newton

Every Thursday during the

40 Days of Life Campaign

September 24th

October 1st, 8th, 15th, 22nd and 29th

Christian Civilization Class

Saturdays

9:00 am–10:00 am In Queen of Peace Hall

Starting Saturday September 12th

After the huge success of Father Phil’s Christian Civilization

Class last January, (suspended due to covid ) it will reconvene

on Saturdays starting September 12 in the Queen of Peace

Hall. Please join Father Phil and parishioners to learn more

about the foundation that our church is built upon. We will

be starting with the first Ecumenical Council of Nicea 325 AD

from which we derive the Nicene Creed.

Mass Card Request

You can now request Mass cards by visiting our website or going directly to this link: https://giving.parishsoft.com/App/Form/0f00ab02-1984-4682-b50b-17a0e3ec78f5 Mass Cards are also available by calling the office.

Mass Offerings: Masses For The Dead

On June 30, 1968, three and a half years after the close

of the Second Vatican Ecumenical Council, Pope St. Paul VI

promulgated the “Creed for the People of God” so as to

summarize the faith of that Council and to correctly transmit the

faith of the Church to the people of our times. In this apostolic

letter Solemni Hac Liturgia, Pope St. Paul VI affirms the

traditional teaching of the faith about the communion of saints:

“We believe in the communion of all the faithful of Christ, those

who are pilgrims on earth, the dead who are attaining their

purification, and the blessed in heaven, all together forming one

Church; and we believe that in this communion the merciful love

of God and His saints is ever listening to our prayers, as Jesus

told us: Ask and you will receive. Thus, it is with faith and in

hope that we look forward to the resurrection of the dead, and

the life of the world to come.” The People of God, the Church, as

a communion of saints, is intimately bound to each other and the

prayers that we offer for each other have a real effect.

In the ever-true and applicable doctrinal teachings of the

Ecumenical Council of Trent, in it’s twenty-second session,

chapter 2 teaches: “Therefore it [the Mass] is quite properly

offered according to apostolic tradition not only for the sins,

penalties, satisfactions and other needs of the faithful who are

living, but also for those who have died in Christ but are not yet

fully cleansed.” Who are those who have died in Christ but are

not fully cleansed? All of those yet to receive their eternal reward

in Heaven, the holy souls in purgatory.

It is the definitive dogmatic teaching of the Church that

those who have died in Christ, but who had venial sins on their

soul or who had not perfect charity in their heart are purified

from all affection for sin in Purgatory. (See Council of Florence,

Decree for the Greeks: D, 693) The Catechism of the Catholic

Church teaches: “All who die in God's grace and friendship, but

still imperfectly purified, are indeed assured of their eternal

salvation; but after death they undergo purification, so as to

achieve the holiness necessary to enter the joy of heaven. (CCC,

1030)” Our prayers for the dead, especially by having the holy

sacrifice of the Mass offered for their purification, has a real

effect upon the purification of the holy souls in purgatory and

assists them on their pilgrimage to heaven. “This teaching is also

based on the practice of prayer for the dead, already mentioned

in Sacred Scripture: ‘Therefore Judas Maccabeus] made

atonement for the dead, that they might be delivered from their

sin.’ From the beginning the Church has honored the memory of

the dead and offered prayers in suffrage for them, above all the

Eucharistic sacrifice, so that, thus purified, they may attain the

beatific vision of God. (CCC, 1032)”

It is for these reasons that it is appropriate that Masses

and other prayers, sacrifices, penances and suffrages be offered

to God frequently for our brothers and sisters in Christ who have

gone before us. Why? Because our prayers do count!

The Bible Timeline:

The Story of Salvation

Is back in person at the parish!

The story of God’s love for us is written throughout

the Bible—how do you fit in to that story?

This study takes you through the entire narrative of

the Bible, by studying 14 books of the Old and New

Testament both historically and spiritually. Come

and learn and see the Bible in a whole new way.

The AM group meets at 9:10 AM, Tuesdays, the PM

group meets at 7:15 on Tuesday evenings for

approximately 90 minutes. Each session begins

with a video, featuring a lecture by Jeff Cavins the

author of the study, followed by discussion. We

meet in the Queen of Peace Pavilion. Masks must

be worn.

For a preview of the study, go to https://

ascensionpress.com/collections/the-bible-timeline-

the-story-of-salvation.

There is no cost for the program, only the cost of

the workbook which can be purchased at Ascension

Press.

For newcomers, we will be holding review/catchup

sessions, Tuesdays, September 8,15th and 22nd at

7:15 pm in the Queen of Peace Hall. The program

will resume on 9/29 with the section entitled “The

Divided Kingdom,” focusing on why the Royal

Kingdom of David divides.

For more information, or to sign up for the review

sessions, please contact Maria Albanese at 973-570

-7984.

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Outdoor Family Movie Night

Sunday , Sept. 20th

7:00pm

Rain date:

Sunday, Sept. 27th

7:00pm

Bring a lawn chair /picnic blanket

Religious Education News and Updates Classes Start September 19/20

Classes for Grades 2, 7 (Confirmation I), 8 (Confirmation II) will be held in

person, on site. Grades 2 & 7 meeting in Queen of Peace Hall. Grade 8 will be in

Varricchio Hall.

Classes for Grades 1, 3, 4, 5, 6 will have in-person and/or remote-learning options at least for the

Fall.

In person Registration will occur before and after all Sunday Masses on August 29/30 and

September 12/13. You can also register online:https://olqpbranchville.org/registration. There will

also be phone call reminders to all Religious Ed. families to register on August 21.

We are looking for teaching assistants and volunteers for all grades, particularly for disinfecting,

bathroom monitoring, parking lot monitoring, and we invite our newly confirmed to consider

sharing their faith with our parish community in this way. Thank You!

The Next Parent Meeting will occur on Friday 9/11 at 7:00pm.

I.T. Help Needed

We are looking for an I.T. professional who is

able to donate a couple of hours to check our

computers systems to make sure everything is

running efficiently. Please call the office, (973)

948-3285 x1, if you are able to help.