Rev. Jacek Marchewka Pastor

Weekend Assistants

Salesians of Don Bosco

Anne L. Laura Parish Catechetical Leader

Elaine Kownacki Office Manager

Mary McCarrick

Confirmation Leader

Szymon Gil Director of Music Ministry

Helen Soboleski, Lauren D’Imperio

Dianne Scott Cantors

Arthur Yankowski

Parish Council Chair

Kristen Kopcio Safe Environment Coordinator

Mary Molinelli, John Sulikowski

Trustees

SACRAMENTS Baptism

Every other Sunday.

Reconciliation After all daily Masses and Saturday, 4pm to 4:45pm, or by appointment.

Marriage

Arrangements should be made one year in advance. Contact Rectory for appointment.

Anointing of the Sick

Contact Rectory for appointment for home bound or infirmed.

MASS SCHEDULE

Weekdays and Saturday: 8am Saturday Vigil: 5pm

Sunday: 7:30am, 9am (Polish), 10:30am, 12 Noon

CChurch of the Immaculate Heart of Mary

Roman Catholic Community

47 Island Road Mahwah, NJ 07430 Rectory Phone: 201- 529-3517

Parish Website: www.ihmcmahwah.org Parish Email: pastor@ihmcmahwah.org

Parish Office Hours

Monday – Friday: 10am-Noon, 1pm-5pm; Weekends: Emergency calls only

Sunday, September 3, 2017

WORSHIP MASS INTENTIONS

Saturday, September 2 5pm +Michael J. & Stephanie Remo by the Remo Family +Thomas Quinn by the Freeley Family +Carolyn Lynch by the Freeley Family

Sunday, September 3 7:30am +Rev. Floyd Rotunno by Marilyn & Dave Conklin 9am +Rev. Floyd Rotunno by Florence Demcovitz +Zofia Morsztyn by sons Jaroslaw & Stanislaw & Families Living & +Deceased Members of the Debski Family by Anna Debska 10:30am +Rev. Floyd Rotunno by Mrs. Helen Kownacki, Mr. & Mrs. M. Ceccon & Family, Mr. & Mrs. W. Jockheck & Family 12pm +Rev. Floyd Rotunno by I.H.M. Parish

Monday, September 4 - Labor Day 8am +Constance & Joseph Malinsoki by daughter Michele

Tuesday, September 5 8am +Rev. Floyd Rotunno by Lulu & Family

Wednesday, September 6 8am +Adela & Peter Ostrowski by Anne Ostrowski

Thursday, September 7 8am +Sylvia Kuzmik by Michele Malinoski

Friday, September 8 8am +Tom Halpin by the Murphy Family

Saturday, September 9 8am In Thanksgiving to all the Saints for Blessings received by Dina 5pm +Barbara Tie, Sr. by the Family +Elizabeth Spaldo by the Tie Family +Nicholas Lauerwald by Marilyn Conklin

Sunday, September 10 7:30am +Milla Cribellati-Crevani by nieces Irene & Gloria 9am +Deceased Members of the Polish Club For Living Members of the Polish Club For all Children returning to School 10:30am +Magdalena Unterasinger by sister Anna Bader & Family +Albert & Carmela LaBruna, Americo & Caroline LaBruna & James & Ellen Salemo by Nicholas & Antoinette LaBruna +Edward J. Conklin by wife Elena 12pm +John Oates by the Frustaci Family

HOSTS & WINE In memory of Barbara Piejak from MaryAnn & Family MEMORIAL CANDLES

Blessed Mother (Sanctuary) In memory of Rev. Floyd Rotunno from Eileen White

Saint Joseph (Sanctuary Candle) In memory of Rev. Floyd Rotunno from Maryann Mauro DEVOTIONS

Immaculate Heart of Mary Novena Every Monday following the 8am Mass

Divine Mercy Chaplet Every Friday following the 8am Mass

Rosary Every Saturday following the 8am Mass

PRAYERS FOR PARISHIONERS

For those who are ill: Christine Sanese-Brett, Joan Malone, Stella Moran, Nora Dempsey, Peter Rice, Maryann Titko, Fred Bader, John LaPlaca, Frances Konior, James & Barbara Straut, Nancy Mayer, Dave Conklin, Carol Zarcone, Betty Mihok, Cookie Rutella, Veronica Ullrich, John Giuffrida, Elizabeth Smith, Mary Saladino, Sam Iorio, Helen Kelly. For the recently deceased: Rev. Floyd Rotunno, Teresa Maretzo, Anna Sudal, Stanley Strysko, Nicholas Lauerwald, Margaret Borish, Michael Cardinale, John Link, Teresa Jarzebowska, Robert E. Weglicki, Sylvia Kuzmik, Patricia Sorgine, Yolanda Kotos, Zofia Morsztyn, Bernadette Bokota, Maria Guzman, Florence Imparto, Rudolf Margaritondo, Gregory Morris, Sr. Clare Marian Holak, SSMI, Gisela Sokol, Steve Maleszewski, Nicholas S. Mihok, Peter Rosano.

FAITH FORMATION

ST. TERESA OF CALCUTTA Patron of World Youth Day

Tuesday, September 5 Mother Teresa of Calcutta was born on August 26, 1910 to Albanian parents in what is now Skopje, Macedonia. Gonxha (Agnes) Bojaxhiu was the youngest of the three children who survived.

At 18, she entered the Loreto Sisters of Dublin. In 1928, she said goodbye to her mother and made her way to a new land and a new life. The following year she was sent to the Loreto novitiate in Darjeeling, India. She chose the name Teresa and prepared for a life of service. She was assigned to a high school for girls in Calcutta, where she taught history and geography to the daughters of the wealthy. But she could not escape the realities around her—the poverty, the suffering, the overwhelming numbers of destitute people. In 1946, while riding a train to Darjeeling to make a retreat, Sister Teresa heard what she later explained as “a call within a call. The message was clear. I was to leave the convent and help the poor while living among them.” She also heard a call to give up her life with the Sisters of Loreto and instead, to “follow Christ into the slums to serve him among the poorest of the poor.”

After receiving permission to leave Loreto and establish a new religious community, Sister Teresa took a nursing course for several months. She returned to Calcutta, where she lived in the slums and opened a school for poor children. Dressed in a white sari and sandals - the ordinary dress of an Indian woman - she soon began work with the poor and sick. Volunteers who came to join her in the work, some of them former students, became the core of the Missionaries of Charity. Others helped by donating food, clothing, supplies, and the use of buildings. In 1952, the city of Calcutta gave Mother Teresa a former hostel, which became a home for the dying and the destitute. As the order expanded, services were also offered to orphans, abandoned children, alcoholics, the aging, and street people.

For the next 40 years, Mother Teresa worked tirelessly for the poor. 1979, she was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. On Sept. 5, 1997, God called her home. She was canonized by Pope Francis on Sept. 4, 2016.

“If you judge people, you have no time to love them.”

St. Teresa of Calcutta

CONFERRAL OF THE PALLIUM on JOSEPH W. CARDINAL TOBIN, C.Ss.R.

ARCHBISHOP OF NEWARK

THE CATHEDRAL BASILICA OF THE SACRED HEART

Thursday, September 14 at 2pm

ALL ARE WELCOME

In 2015, Pope Francis made a change to how the pallium - the Y-shaped, narrow liturgical vestment made of silk and wool, and worn by popes and metropolitan archbishops as a symbol of authority - is conferred.

The pallium has been given by the Pope to new metropolitan archbishops at a Vatican investiture ceremony held each year on June 29, the Feast of Sts. Peter and Paul, since the early days of the Pontificate of St. John Paul II. However, the investiture now takes place in a public ceremony at the home dioceses of the archbishops, rather than at the Vatican. At the conclusion of the Mass, Pope Francis handed each archbishop a pallium folded up in a small, simple wooden box tied with a brown ribbon. Vatican Master of Ceremonies Msgr. Guido Marini, said the new process will continue to symbolize communion between the See of Peter and the Successor of the Apostle and those who are chosen to carry out the episcopal ministry as metropolitan archbishop of an ecclesiastical province, and it will favor the participation of the local Church in an important moment of its life and history.

Pope Francis presents a box containing a pallium to Cardinal Joseph W. Tobin of Newark, NJ, at the conclusion of the Mass marking the Feast of Sts. Peter and Paul in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican on June 29th, 2017. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)

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ONE DAY FATIMA PILGRIMAGE

Wednesday, September 13 The 100th Anniv. of the Fatima Apparition

World Apostolate of Fatima Blue Army Shrine

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HIGH SCHOOL PLACEMENT TEST

(CO-OP EXAM) Attention families of 8th grade students planning to attend Catholic H.S. in Fall 2018. The H.S. Placement Test (HSPT®) administered as part of the Cooperative Admissions Program for Catholic High Schools will be given on Friday, Nov. 10, 2017. Registration is online at www.njcoopexam.org beginning Sept. 1st. For more info about the Cooperative Admissions Program go to www.catholicschoolsnj.org or call 973-497-4260. Additionally, Catholic High Schools are holding their annual HS Expo admission fairs. Parents/students can meet with reps from schools, 7:00-8:30pm, as follows:

Tues., Sept. 26: Visitation Academy 222 Farview Ave., Paramus

Wed., Sept. 27: The Archdiocesan Center 171 Clifton Ave., Newark

Thurs., Sept. 28: Primary Prep/St. Aedan 41 Tuers Ave., Jersey City

RACHEL’S VINEYARD RETREAT

September 8, 9, 10 The psychological and spiritual wounds from abortion can be vast and crippling. If you are suffering from a past abortion and have isolated yourself from help and forgiveness, we’ve been there. Consider attending this Retreat weekend here in the Archdiocese. For confidential help and info, please call us: Newark Respect Life office, 973-497-4350 or email rileyche@rcan.org. www.Rachelsvineyard.org

PARISH CALENDAR, CONTACTS & STEWARDSHIP SEPTEMBER 9/14 Conferral of Pallium on Cardinal Joseph Tobin 9/17 Catechetical Sunday 9/18 Religious Education classes begin 9/19 Religious Education classes begin

STAFF CONTACT INFORMATION Rectory: 201-529-3517 Pastor: Rev. Jacek Marchewka, Ext. 12 pastor@ihmcmahwah.org Office Manager: Elaine Kownacki 201-529-3517 Fax: 201-529-4401 parishoffice@ihmcmahwah.org Parish Catechetical Leader: Anne L. Laura 201-529-2294 religiouseducation@ihmcmahwah.org Confirmation Leader: Mary McCarrickconfirmation@ihmcmahwah.org Women’s Spirituality Leader: Eileen Matarazzo spirituality@ihmcmahwah.org Safe Environment Coordinator: Kristen Rocio kristen@ihmcmahwah.org Youth Ministry: youthministry@ihmcmahwah.org Bulletin Editor: bulletin@ihmcmahwah.org

STEWARDSHIP August 27, 2017 Collection: $4,674.

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Family Life Office is offering support groups specific to the needs of single parents. There are currently two parishes in the Arch. of Newark who offer this support: Notre Dame RC Church, No. Caldwell, 973-497-4327 or Lauren.Egan@rcan.org; Our Lady of Grace, Fairview, 201-370-1758 or SPSG.bergencounty@gmail.com .

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"Whoever wishes to come after me must deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me.” In today’s Gospel of Matthew, Jesus is realistic with his disciples telling them that He must suffer,

die and rise. Peter rebukes the Lord, disagreeing with him, perhaps neither hearing nor understanding what it meant that Jesus would be raised. Jesus, in turn rebukes Peter, and teaches the disciples that if they wish to follow, the Cross is also theirs. The cross is ours, too, and we know that death leads to Resurrection.

As we all can see from the news media, the devastation in Texas from Hurricane Harvey is heartbreaking. The US Conference of Catholic Bishops is working closely with affected local dioceses, Catholic Charities USA and St. Vincent de Paul, along with other relief organizations, to assess their needs. In the upcoming days, we will share more about the best ways to assist in the Gulf region. Let us pray for all those that have been impacted, our families and friends, that God may watch over them, keep them safe, and help all those homeless in their desperation and despair.

Let us remember and keep in our prayers our beloved Pastor, Fr. Floyd Rotunno, as well as his brother, Fr. Philip Rotunno, on the first Anniversary of Fr. Floyd’s death on September 3rd.

Lastly, on this Labor Day weekend let us pray: “Lord, on this Labor Day, we thank You for the blessing of work. We ask for strength to complete each day. We ask for rest when we are weary. We ask for Your guidance for everyone seeking employment, and we ask that You be with those whose faces we might never see but who work tirelessly each day for the good of us all. Amen”

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