THE PARISH OF SAINT MARY A Catholic Community Proclaiming the Greatness of God in our Time One Phalanx Road, Colts Neck, NJ 07722 Phone: 732-780-2666 Fax: 732-780-0394 parishoffice@stmaryscoltsneck.org Bishop of the Diocese of Trenton: Most Reverend David M. O’Connell, C. M. Pastor: Reverend Fr. Jeffrey E. Lee Pastor Emeritus: Reverend Fr. William J. Bausch Trustees: Bill LaMorte Irene Weller Worship schedule inside. Refer to website for more detailed information visit www.stmaryscoltsneck.org Deacon: John Wedemeyer
July 12, 2020
Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time The seed sown on
rich soil is the one who hears the word and understands it, who indeed bears fruit and yields a hundred or sixty or thirtyfold.” -Matthew 13:23
Mass will be in the Church Saturday, July 11 5 pm
Sunday, July 12 Masses 8 am, 10 am, and 12 noon
Beginning Saturday, 11 July 2020 the Sacrament of Penance & Reconciliation will be available at 4 pm. Masks are required.
New Parishioner Orientation July 12, 11 am Madonna Hall Attendance is mandatory for those looking to become parishioners at the Parish of St. Mary. The next orientation will be November 1 Please Contact the Parish Office if you wish to attend 732-780-2666
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Mass Intentions for the Week of July 11 - July 19 For * Requested by Saturday, July 11 – 5 PM Church Nelson Bowdish * Barbara Saake Margaret Clime * Jim Schatzle and Family Rachel Verga * Verga Family Sunday, July 12 – Church 15th Sunday in Ordinary Time 8 AM Pro Populo Helen & John Sionas * Eileen & Michael Stivala 10 AM Rose Cantatore * Gabbard Family Sergio Dos Santos & Mark Zarantonello * Dos Santos Family 12 PM Sabrina Giangrande * Connie Bonanno Monday, July 13 – 9 AM Chapel (Parish Hall) Linda and Theodoor Damen * Martha Mary Guild Tuesday, July 14 – 9 AM Chapel (Parish Hall) Ruth Fiedler * Susan and James Gobat
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Please pray for the following members of our parish family who are ill: Marcela Abril Kathleen Amatel Fr Bill Bausch Eileen Beckley Christen Chellis Blake Conley John DeSimone Kaitlin Donahue Nagle Tom Fadale James Fiedler Emily Gioacchini Edward Habrack Tom Hudak Anton Kopp Theresia Kopp Bridget Korn
Lori Lettieri Donna Lodi Leonidas Mavrookas Mary Joan McNamara Walter Moeller Kevin O’Shea Stanley Rembisz Paola Richmond Abel Rodriguez Owen Shoemaker Victoria Slater Dominic Sozio Gerard P. Thompson Seneida Tomasetti Cecilia Vilca Lauren Vinci
Wednesday, July 15 – 9 AM Chapel (Parish Hall) Deceased Fenner Family * Carmel and Peter Vickers Thursday, July 16 – 9 AM Chapel (Parish Hall) Michael Arbolino * Linda and Brian Kelly and Family Friday, July 17 – 9 AM Chapel (Parish Hall) Esther Molinari * Rorie and Jack Coppola Saturday, July 18 – 5 PM Church Intentions of Leonidas Mavrookas * Suzanne Schlesinger Mary Lou Smith * Barbara Saake Julia Camarata * Charles Camarata Sunday, July 19 – Church 16th Sunday in Ordinary Time 8 AM DeStefano/Albruno Families * Mr. and Mrs. Franceschetti Sila and Joseph Myers * Jeanne and Joe Kolakowski 10 AM Pro Populo Bill O’Doherty * Freda O’Doherty Wendy Moeller * John and Dawn Reinhardt 12 PM Romelia Rodriguez * Michele Galpern Susan Duffy Schatzle * Jim Schatzle & Family & Agnes Duffy & Family Mary & Joseph Musicaro * Richard & Maria Gerbino
To add a family member to the sick list for 8 weeks, please call or e-mail the Parish Office. Thank you! 732-780-2666 or parishbulletin@stmaryscoltsneck.org
Mass Intention Request ONLINE Available through the link below is an online form to request Mass Intentions for the remainder of the 2020 calendar. https://bit.ly/3dbHyip GROTTO CANDLES The Grotto Candles are available for your prayer intentions. Offering is $3.00 per candle.
Rest in Peace Please remember in your prayers, those who have recently died. Susan Condon
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3 Lifelong Catechesis Week of July 13 - July 19
Almighty and eternal God, those who take refuge in you will be glad and forever will shout for joy. Protect these soldiers as they discharge their duties. Protect them with the shield of your strength and keep them safe from all evil and harm. May the power of your love enable them to return home in safety, that with all who love them, they may ever praise you for your loving care. We ask this through Christ our Lord.
PRAY for Military & First Responders SN Colton Boag, USCG LCpl Devon Francis Chrzan, USMC Lt. Col. John Anthony Coppola, US Army Major Douglas Coppola, US Army Lt. Mary Herman, USN SN Christian Houlihan, USN Ensign Jason Joseph Howe, USN SPC Michael John Mento, US Army PFC Nicholas Poskonka, US Army Captain Richard Savo, US Army 1st Lt. Adam Sjoholm, US Army 1st Lt. Ryan Tanguay, US Army SSgt Stephen Witherow, USAF LCpl Edward Zarzecki, USMC
READINGS FOR THE WEEK Monday: Tuesday: Wednesday: Thursday: Friday:
Ex 1:8-14, 22; Mt 10:34 -- 11:1 Ex 2:1-15a; Mt 11:20-24 Ex 3:1-6, 9-12; Mt 11:25-27 Ex 3:13-20; Mt 11:28-30 Ex 11:10 -- 12:14; Mt 12:1-8
Sunday, July 19 - 16th Sunday in Ordinary Time Wis 12:13, 16-19; Rom 8:26-27; Mt 13:24-43 Questions for Deeper Reflections: Question for Children: What are the things that keep you from being a friend of Jesus? Question for Youth: The good and the bad have the same opportunity to rule our life. What are you doing (bad habits, poor choices, etc.) that you need to weed out? Who can help you with that? Question for Adults: How would you describe “the weeds� which have polluted your own faith, or the faith of people whom you know. - Lifelong Catechesis
If there is a family member you wish to be placed on the list, please contact the Parish Bulletin at 732-780 -2666 or parishbulletin@stmaryscoltsneck.org.
Sanctuary Lamp Intentions Consider donating the sanctuary lamp that burns in the presence of the Blessed Sacrament in the Church or in the Chapel in honor of a living or deceased loved one. The suggested donation is $25. Intentions are available
CHURCH Christine Volpe Rorie, Jeanne, Linda
LISTEN Listen and attend with the ear of your heart. --St. Benedict
Sanctuary Lamp Intentions Request ONLINE Available through the link below is an online form to request Sanctuary Lamp Intentions for the remainder of the 2020 calendar. https://bit.ly/37RKz5p
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Andrew J. Macirowski Pastoral Coordinator for Worship & Music / Principal Organist Worship@stmaryscoltsneck.org Music@stmaryscoltsneck.org For all parishioners: Congregating before and after Mass is prohibited, as per the bishop. There will be no children’s liturgy of the word dismissal. Volunteers are greatly needed to wipe down the wood of the pews after all Masses (weekend and
weekday). We will have a cleaning crew take care of the floors, bathrooms etc, but need this little bit of additional help. Please contact Andrew if you are able. At weekday Masses, no one is to arrive prior to 8:30 AM. All Masses will be in the Chapel in the Parish Hall. Exposition remains suspended for now. Private adoration of the Blessed Sacrament reserved in the tabernacle is welcomed and encouraged at any time.
EXPECTATIONS AS WE PREPARE TO GATHER FOR MASS
Parishioners can choose which Mass they will attend. Enter through the center main doors. There will be personnel there to insure that each person is wearing their mask and to advise that social distancing is to be observed when entering/exiting, selecting a seat, processing/recessing to receive Holy Communion. It will require all to come earlier than usual to be processed and to search for seating that observes social distancing. Because of this entrance will be restricted once the Mass has begun. Masks and Social/Physical distancing are required. There can be no physical collection of Stewardship Offerings; Two designated boxes will be placed in the Narthex/Gathering Space for the placement of envelopes or offerings. Thank you for your generosity. Missals, Missalettes, Bulletins, and other papers have been removed. Holy Water has been drained from all locations. Parish Clergy will distribute Holy Communion; we ask all coming forth to observe distancing front to back and side to side. We have been advised that socializing before or after the Mass inside or outside is to be discouraged; clergy are not permitted to greet parishioners before or after the Mass. Online Mass viewing continues with the newest weekend Mass becoming available for Saturdays after 5 pm The Parish of Saint Mary - You Tube Channel (https://bit.ly/2SkpRET)
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Dr. Jim Bridges Pastoral Coordinator of Faith Formation and Adult Catechesis FaithFormation@stmaryscoltsneck.org Julia Cullen Pastoral Coordinator for Elementary Religious Education ReligiousEd@stmaryscoltsneck.org
Rose Farrow Pastoral Coordinator for Elementary Religious Education YouthRE@stmaryscoltsneck.org
Religious Education Happens Everywhere To the parents of our July Summer Intensive students: Our July summer session begins July 13. We will be having a brief orientation session on the weekend of July 11-12. You have a choice of coming to the Saturday 5 p.m. Mass or the Sunday 12 noon Mass. The brief orientation will immediately follow each Mass. The student texts will be distributed at that time. Since all the classes will be taught using Google Classroom, it will be necessary for the child to have access to a St. Mary email account. Instructions with the login details will be provided for all students. The St. Mary email account gives you access to Google Classroom. However, if you will have more than one child attending our program in July, there will be a different S. Mary email account for each child to avoid confusion when connecting with their individual teacher. This is also true even if they are twins. Your child's teacher will send you an email at the email address the parish has on file for you that will contain the link for the Google Classroom. The teacher's name will be part of their email address, and they will end with @stmcn.org. In fact, we will be providing families with a list of all the July teachers, including the email addresses they will be using for our program. We also wish to remind you to create your personal Formed account. The subscription for this has been paid for by the parish. Visit www.stmaryscoltsneck.formed.org. Dr. Jim Bridges Pastoral Coordinator of Faith Formation Julia Cullen Pastoral Coordinator of Elementary Religious Education
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Sharing Our Treasure July 5 - 14th Sunday in Ordinary Time Weekly Sacrificial Stewardship
$ 14,943
Envelope Contributions
$ 8,235
Electronic/Online Contributions
$ 6,554
Loose Contributions
$ 154
CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE PARISH OF SAINT MARY
$6,300 Mr. & Mrs. Anthony Martorana to be applied toward our Building & Mortgage collection, to continue the work of Saint Mary Parish especially with the restrictions in these difficult times. Thank you for your generosity!
Avg. Contribution per Household this week $56.45 # of Contributing Households # Registered Parishioner Households
262
1,059
Building & Mortgage Reduction Fund $ 2,846 (Our monthly mortgage payment is $6,289.04) THANK YOU for the Sacrificial Stewardship Offerings as we support the ministries, programs and facilities of our parish. May God Bless you for the sacrifices that you make.
2020 ANNUAL CATHOLIC APPEAL UPDATE As of 29 June 2020
Parish goal: $75,000 Total raised: $45,055 Percentage of goal: 60% # of Donors: 179 Payments received: $37,879 Average gi : $252 Thank you to all parishioners who have already made a pledge. If you have not done so yet you can do it here: https://www.dioceseoftrenton.org/aca-donate-page
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PANTRY FOOD ITEMS
Learning, Loving, and Laughing!
FUTURE GENERATIONS EARLY LEARNING CENTER Are you looking for a safe, loving, educational and nurturing environment where your child will get the attention and care that they deserve? Give Future Generation a call! Located at The Parish of Saint Mary 1 Phalanx Road, Colts Neck 732-780-0135 jessica@fgkids.org
Make Me an Instrument of Your Peace: A Prayer for Civility Lord, make me an instrument of your peace. Where uncivil words prevail, show me how to model love. Help me remember the God-given dignity of all and invite others to do the same. Show me how to build bridges and not walls and see first what unites us rather than how we diverge. Let me seek to understand before asking to be understood. Give me a listening heart filled with empathy and compassion. May I be clear in sharing my own position and respectful and civil in describing those of others. Let me never tolerate hateful ideas. May I invite all to charity and love. Lord, help me to imitate your compassion and mercy. Make me an instrument of your peace. Amen. Inspired by Nine Rules for Civility from the Catholic Tradition, Bishop Zubik Copyright Š 2019, United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.
Food is accepted weekly. Please place donations in the grey cart in the gathering space of the Church. Please, no expired items. Thank you to all for your continued support in helping to feed others in the community. MOST NEEDED LIST Razors, shaving cream Macaroni & Cheese Canned Vegetables Instant Mashed Potatoes Cooking Oil Ketchup, mustard, Mayo Bottled Water (all sizes) Cookies, Pretzels, Crackers Peanut Butter Salad Dressings Cake mixes, frosting Soups: Chicken, Beef Baby food & Formula Baby Diapers (size 4 & up) Feminine Care Products Soap, shampoo, toothpaste Adult incontinence (all kinds)
Cereal Instant Oatmeal Rice Juice Canned Puddings Jell-O Canned Fruit Canned Tuna Canned Salmon Raisins Healthy Snacks Tea Coffee Deodorant Sunscreen Body Lotion
Catholic Charities News The economic impact of the pandemic has increased the number of homeless families. Catholic Charities provides transitional housing, job skills and budgeting training to people in Monmouth county, who have lost their homes. For assistance call 732-922-0400.