Notre Dame of Mt. Carmel Church

75 Ridgedale Avenue, Cedar Knolls, New Jersey 07927

Parish Office: (973) 538-1358 Fax: (973) 538-7403

www.ndcarmel.com

May 28, 2017

EUCHARIST Saturday: 12:10 p.m. & Sunday Vigil 5:00 p.m. Sunday: 7:30 a.m., 9:00 a.m., 10:30 a.m. and 12:15 p.m. Monday - Friday: 12:10 p.m & 5:30 p.m.

(No weekday 5:30pm Mass from Memorial Day through Labor Day.) Holy Day Vigil: 5:30 p.m. Holy Day: 7:15 a.m., 12:10 p.m. and 5:30 p.m. An additional 7:15 a.m. Mass celebrated during Lent, Monday - Friday. BAPTISM: Please call the Parish Secretary to make arrangements. MARRIAGES: Arrangements to be made with priests/deacons.

SACRAMENT OF RECONCILIATION Saturdays 12:40 p.m. - 1:15 p.m. or call to see one of the priests.

MIRACULOUS MEDAL NOVENA & BENEDICTION Monday: 7:30 p.m.

SICK CALLS Please contact Fr. Paddy, Fr. Mariusz, or Parish Secretary. For hospital visits; for Communion for the homebound, contact Dick White at 201-280-8943.

EXPOSITION OF THE BLESSED SACRAMENT Every Friday from 7:00 a.m. thru 7:00 p.m.

Jean Pankow Pastoral Associate, Ext. 122

jpankow@ndcarmel.com

Melissa Demianycz Parish Secretary, Ext. 100

ParishSecretary@ndcarmel.com

Cristina Folan Communications Support,

Ext. 105 commsupport@ndcarmel.com

Jim Keefe Music Director, Ext. 109

jkeefe@ndcarmel.com

Ivette Valori Director Faith Formation

Middle School/Confirmation Ext. 121

imvalori@ndcarmel.com

Diane Byrne, Faith Formation Coordinator

PreK—5th Ext. 111

dbyrne@ndcarmel.com

Karen Calabrese Parish Bookkeeper, Ext. 106 bookkeeper@ndcarmel.com

Jimmy Steiger, Facilities Manager

Ext. 120

Stephanie Twedt Youth Coordinator

stwedt@ndcarmel.com /Ext.102

Pastoral Council President Dick White: (201) 280-8943

Rev. Paddy O’Donovan Pastor, Ext. 101

frpaddy@ndcarmel.com

Rev. Mariusz Gajewski Parochial Vicar, Ext. 103

frmariusz@ndcarmel.com

Fr. Michael Tidd, OSB Weekend Mass Assistant michael@delbarton.org

973-538-3231

Deacon Dave Collins, RCIA/ PACT

(973) 884-0258 dvcollie@optonline.net

Deacon Al Fanelli, Baptismal Prep./Prayer Renewal

(973) 428-8304 assisi410@aol.com

Deacon Ron Forino, Pre-Cana Prep -(973) 887– 2963

ronforino@aol.com

Deacon Joe Harris, Social Justice - (973) 984-7913

josephharris@optonline.net

Deacon Vic Lupi, Funeral Prep/ FOCCUS - (973) 538-4642

mattlupi@verizon.net

Deacon Joe Quinn, Care of Sick/ Faith Sharing Groups

(973) 476-8562 joeq8562@gmail.com

Parish Trustees Joanne McHugh: 973-428-1228 Will Fernandez: 973-515-9039

NOTRE DAME OF MT. CARMEL, CEDAR KNOLLS, NJ

GOD’S GIFT FOR GIVING

Collection 5/20 & 5/21, 2017: $15,921.00 Same Collection 5/21- & 5/22/2016: $16,289.98

Altar Linens: Catherine Leto

To everything there is a season and a time for every purpose under heaven …

… a time to be born … a time to heal … Sammy Brasco, Trevor Braun, Dcn. Martin Bozulich, Joanne Burghese, Frances Caravaggio, Dehlia Clemente, Sarah Comacho, Frank Coyle, Ida D’Agostino, Julie Esposito, Angela Ferraris, Ron Ferriauolo, Angel Figueroa, Linda Gately, Charles Giordano, Ray Harold, Mary Hawrylak, Jessica Hermans, Marilyn Hudson, Josephine Iacullo, Maryann Johnston, Danielle LaStella, Joe Lazur, Sister Evelyn Lebiedz, SC, Michael Lloyd, Michael & Reid LoSapio, Diane McCormack-Kostrzewa, Susan McCormack, Jackie McGuckin, Susan Nicoll, Dolores Occhipinti, Marilyn Reilly, Russell Salon, Kyle Simonton, Mary Elizabeth Swartz, Kevin Testa, Stephanie Trincanello, Debbie Varga, Loretta Viglione, Bill Waller, Mary Weigh, Dick White

... a time to die

.. a time of great joy

Sanctuary Lamp will burn for Brian Cortright by his mother, Cathy

Mother of Compassion Lamp will burn for Marion Dunn by Lorelei & Mike

St. Benedict Lamp will burn for Intentions of Marge Frank by Juanita Franzini

READINGS FOR THE WEEK

Monday: Acts 19:1-8; Ps 68:2-3ab, 4-5acd, 6-7ab; Jn 16:29-33 Tuesday: Acts 20:17-27; Ps 68:10-11, 20-21; Jn 17:1-11a Wednesday: Zep 3:14-18a or Rom 12:9-16; Is 12:2-3, 4bcd-6; Lk 1:39-56 Thursday: Acts 22:30; 23:6-11; Ps 16:1-2a, 5, 7-11; Jn 17:20-26 Friday: Acts 25:13b-21; Ps 103:1-2, 11-12, 19-20ab; Jn 21:15-19 Saturday: Acts 28:16-20, 30-31; Ps 11:4, 5, 7; Jn 21:20-25 Sunday: Vigil: Gn 11:1-9 or Ex 19:3-8a, 16-20b or Ez 37:1-14 or Jl 3:1-5; Ps 104:1-2a, 24, 35c, 27-28, 29bc-30; Rom 8:22-27; Jn 7:37-39 Day: Acts 2:1-11; Ps 104:1, 24, 29-31, 34; 1 Cor 12:3b-7, 12-13; Jn 20:19-23

O P V —Notre Dame of Mount Carmel is a Roman Catholic community of faith called to be missionary disciples of Jesus Christ, for the purpose of bringing about the Kingdom.

O P M —Formed by the Word, fed at the Table, and inspired by the Holy Spirit, we INVITE, WELCOME and GUIDE each other into relationship with Christ, to GO OUT and MAKE missionary disciples.

SATURDAY, MAY 27, 2017: Easter Weekday 12:10 William Sasso by Sue & Keith Schirmer James Cooney by Theresa & Bob Kerekes 5:00 Salvatore & Grace Vespa by their daughter & family Yvette Coyle by Don & Dorma Strafford SUNDAY, MAY 28, 2017: Seventh Sunday of Easter 7:30 James Loomis by Nick & Connie Cetrulo Michael LaMonica by Mary Grunmeier 9:00 Vincenza & Giovanni Aquino by the Aquino

Family Orazio Arrabito by the Gagliardi Family 10:30 Kathy Miklewicz by Chris & Carl Schlotfeldt Deacon Matt McMahon by Vic & Nancy Lupi 12:15 William Solimine by his family Joseph Florio by John & Frank Verducci MONDAY, MAY 29, 2017: Easter Weekday 12:10 Carolina Yap by her husband & children Antoinette Loia by the Scalera Family TUESDAY, MAY 30, 2017: Easter Weekday 12:10 Yvette Coyle by Frank John Sonta by Fr. Paddy WED., MAY 31, 2017: The Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary 12:10 Joseph Robert Ennis, Jr. by Rosa & Al Fanelli John LoBello by Rosa & Al Fanelli THURSDAY, JUNE 1, 2017: St. Justin 12:10 Elizabeth & Joseph Coccia by their children Alex & Violet Pinelli by Joyce Horton FRIDAY, JUNE 2, 2017: Easter Weekday 12:10 Carolina Yap by her husband & children William Sasso by the Heffner Family SAT., JUNE 3, 2017: St. Charles Lwanga & Companions 12:10 Frederick Rudolph by his children Mae Kenny by Bernadette Bracken 5:00 Elizabeth Bertoldo by Rosa & Al Fanelli Antoinette Loia by Patty Gant SUNDAY, JUNE 4, 2017: Pentecost Sunday 7:30 Ann Salerno by Paula & Russ Smith Pat Gawdun by the Quilting Ministry 9:00 Peter Kusik by his wife & children Yvette Coyle by Don & Dorma Strafford 10:30 Dorothy & Dan Campbell by their children Deacon Matt McMahon by Marilyn Hudson 12:15 Christine McLaughlin by Dick & Debbie White Arthur Falgione by his family

GO TO www.facebook.com/ndcarmel and be sure to “LIKE” us!

SEVENTH SUNDAY OF EASTER

SHARE THE HOPE

The readings for today’s celebration of the Ascension of the Lord once again remind us that as Christians we are people of hope. In the second reading Saint Paul eloquently exhorts the Ephesians to enlighten their hearts so that they will know the hope and glory that come from being people who

place their trust in the Lord Jesus. In the story of the Ascension, recounted in the first reading, the Lord Jesus assures the disciples that the Holy Spirit’s power will come upon them. Finally, in the Gospel, the Lord lets the disciples know that their mission is to spread the hope of the gospel to all the nations. This wonderful feast keeps our eyes focused on the hope in which we were grounded on the day of our baptism.

JOIN US AT THE HANOVER TOWNSHIP MEMORIAL DAY PARADE!

Join our parish tomorrow, Monday, May 29, whether marching in the parade or offering support from spectator sidelines! The lineup begins at 9am on E. Fairchild Place, and the parade starts promptly at 9:30am. Markers will be on E. Fairchild

indicating our place in the line. The march ends at American Legion (13 Legion Place), where a ceremony will take place with refreshments following. Join us on this march to honor our veterans and fallen heroes! Transportation will be available back to Whippany Park High School at the end of the parade.

OUR SUMMER MASS SCHEDULE BEGINS MAY 29! Please note that as we follow our Summer Mass Schedule, Monday, May 29 through (and including) Monday, September 4, 2017, there will be no 5:30pm weekday Mass, only the 12:10pm Mass, Monday - Saturday.

The weekend Mass schedule remains the same: Vigil Mass on Saturday at 5pm and Sunday Masses at 7:30am, 9am, 10:30am and 12:15pm. Our regular Mass schedule will resume Tuesday, September 5, 2017. As in past years, the parish office will close at 1pm on Fridays through the summer.

MENTAL HEALTH FIRST AID: GET TRAINED!

You are more likely to encounter someone in an emotional or mental crisis than someone having a heart attack. Learn how to help a friend, family member, coworker or neighbor in need. Get trained in Mental Health First Aid. Join us for this workshop hosted by our Parish Nurses and the Mental Health Association of Morris County, Saturday, June 10, 8am- 4pm, here at ND. Cost is $35 (made out to Mental Health Association of Morris County). To register contact Shirley Bergen: sbergen@optonline.net/ 973-652-6164.

GUATEMALA OUTREACH 2017 Building Four Homes this August!

With our parish support and jointly with the From Houses to Homes organization, 24 disciples representing our parish will journey for one week in August to build four homes for four very deserving families in one of the

poorest areas in Guatemala. What an amazing blessing!

Can you help? The cost per volunteer is approximately $1,200 and includes a $500 donation per volunteer to FHTH, to help cover the cost of building materials for the homes. If you would like to make a donation to support this mission, please send your donation (check made out to Notre Dame of Mt. Carmel Church, “Guatemala Outreach” noted on the memo section of your check) to our parish office, attention, Cristina Folan. Any amount will be an amazing blessing in helping our parish fulfill this outreach mission!

To find out more about our Guatemala Outreach ministry, please visit our website at www.ndcarmel.com (click on Ministries and select Guatemala Outreach). To learn more about From Houses to Homes, please visit www.fromhousestohomes.org.

*********************** CAN YOU JOIN US?

We are hoping to have 2 additional disciples join our mission! We will travel Friday eve., August 11 and return early Saturday morning, August 19. Cost is approx. $1,200 per person (offset to some extent through fundraising). Must be at least 14 years of age; 21 and under must be accompanied by a parent. For more information please contact Cristina Folan at commsupport@ndcamel.com / 201-213-4702.

Seeking to renew your relationship with Our Lord? In need of physical, spiritual or emotional healing? Seeking deliverance?

Join us for a CHARISMATIC FESTIVAL OF PRAISE

Pentecost Sunday, June 4, 2017 at 5pm In our Church

A spiritually uplifting hour of Prayer, Praise & Worship with contemporary Christian music,

Adoration and ending with Benediction.

IMPORTANT MESSAGE FROM OUR DIOCESE

If any person may have been abused by any priest, they should immediately contact their local County Prosecutor’s office and the Diocese’s Victims Assistance Coordinator: Peggy Zanello at 973-879-1489. You may also contact either of the Diocesan Response Officers: Rev. Msgr. James T. Mahoney, Vicar General and Moderator of the Curia, 973-777-8818, ext. 205, or Sister Joan Daniel Healy, S.C.C., Chancellor/Delegate for Religious, 973-777-8818, ext. 248. The entire text of the Policy of the Diocese of Paterson in response to Complaints of Sexual Abuse is available on the diocesan website: www.patersondiocese.org.

May 28, 2017

DATES TO REMEMBER

Sunday - May 28

Sunday Masses: 7:30 am, 9 am, 10:30 am, 12:15 pm

Monday - May 29 Memorial Day

Daily Mass: 12:10 pm 9 am Line-up for the Memorial Day Parade 7 pm Rosary/Novena 7:30 pm Antioch Follow-Up Session.

Tuesday - May 30

Daily Mass: 12:10 pm 7 pm Centering Prayer 7:30 pm FM: Contemplative Living 7:30 pm Spiritual Book Club 8:30 pm AA

Wednesday - May 31

Daily Mass: 12:10 pm 6:30 am MGD Group 9:30 am Moms & Tots 6 pm Quilting Ministry 7 pm Adult Choir Rehearsal 7:30 pm Pastoral Council Mtg.

Thursday - June 1

Daily Mass: 12:10 pm 10:30 am Centering Prayer 6 pm Scouts Den 4 Mtg. 7:15 pm Scripture/Faith Sharing 7:30 pm PACT: Preparation for Adult Confirmation 7:30 pm Family Support & Recovery 8:30 pm AA / Al-Anon

Friday - June 2

Daily Mass: 12:10 pm Adoration, 7 am -7 pm 11 am Overeaters Anonymous

Saturday - June 3

Daily Mass: 12:10 pm / Sunday Vigil 5pm 8 am Deacon Mtg. 8:15 am Following Christ Retreat 12:40 pm Reconciliation

Sunday - June 4 Pentecost

Sunday Masses: 7:30 am, 9 am, 10:30 am (PACT Confirmations), 12:15 pm 9 am & 10:30 am: Shepherd’s Call 5 pm Charismatic Festival of Praise

For the latest view of our parish calendar, please visit us at www.ndcarmel.com

VACATION BIBLE SCHOOL: MAKER FUN FACTORY!

Registration for our jaw-dropping Maker Fun Factory summer program for both kids and volunteers is currently open. Camper registration will close June 9. Younger teen volunteer registration is now closed. Older teen/Adult Volunteer registration will end when all available

positions are filled. Kids entering grades PreK4-5th in September, as well as volunteers entering 6th grade-adult, are invited to join us the week of July 10th from 9am-12:15pm. To register, visit www.ndcarmel.com.

MINISTRY CONVOCATIONS

As of today, we have held two of four Ministry Convocations in the Parish Hall, with over 110 participants!

We encourage ALL involved in ministry (not just leaders!) to attend one of the two remaining convocations scheduled for Saturday morning, June 10 and June 17.

We also welcome at these gatherings anyone who wants to explore more deeply this path of renewal we are experiencing as individuals and as a faith community. Please visit our website to register for one of the remaining gatherings. The Holy Spirit is showering our ministry convocations with enlightenment, receptivity and great hope for our future!

ANTIOCH 72: TEENS EVANGELIZING TEENS

“My Antioch weekends (back in 1985-1987!), and the people I met there, had a profound effect on my life. Even though I live down the shore now, my teenage daughter attended Antioch at Notre Dame of Mt Carmel a few years ago, and had a wonderful weekend! I am so grateful for all the folks, past and present, who work tirelessly to give the gift of this weekend to so many teenagers.”

— Past Antioch Participant

Antioch 72 took place last Friday evening and all day Saturday, May 19 & 20, 2017. We were blessed to host 26 teens from various high schools! We are so grateful for God, our pastor and pastoral staff, adult and youth volunteers, our teens and their families and members of our parish who generously offered their time, talent, monetary donations, love and prayers, in support of our youth retreat. These gifts helped make the weekend the powerful faith journey it was, bringing some very special teens closer to Christ.

Please visit our website at www.ndcarmel.com (click on the Events/News tab), or visit our Facebook page (you do not have to have a Facebook account to view our content) to browse through pictures shared from this wonderful youth experience!

NOTE ABOUT OUR FOOD & CLOTHING COLLECTIONS

A couple of gentle reminders regarding our Food & Clothing collection:

Collections take place on the 3rd weekend of each month (food bags are given out by our ushers the previous weekend). In order to help us maintain our space in an organized and welcoming manner (especially during funerals which can happen any day during the week), we would be grateful if these donations are dropped off only on the 3rd weekend of the month.

To help with the transportation of donations, please use the paper bags the ushers hand out for food donations (not for clothing) and plastic garbage bags for the clothing donations.

We are always so grateful for your donations; so many in need right here in our local

community are served by your generosity!

MOMS & TOTS NOTE

Please note that our last Moms & Tots session for the school year will be held on Wednesday, June 14. We will resume our gatherings on Wednesday, September 14 at 9:30am in the Music Room. May the Lord

continue to fill your homes with faith & music for your little ones, a beautiful reminder of God's joy and presence in your lives. Have a safe and "Son-filled" summer!

SEVENTH SUNDAY OF EASTER

BE IN HIS PRESENCE Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament

Fridays, 7am-7pm, in our St. Benedict’s Chapel

NEW RESOURCES FOR DISCIPLESHIP! In our Christ Corner Gift Shop, we now have four books available which are excellent resources for cultivating personal discipleship and for making our parish even more evangelization-driven: Strengthsfinder 2.0: Discover your innate personal strengths through this proven tool for identifying where God might be calling you!

Divine Renovation: The book that revisits the Church’s founding purpose of making disciples presents a model for parish life that is the basis for our own ND parish renewal.

Forming Intentional Disciples: Learn why many in Catholic parish life, even those serving in ministry, are not yet genuine disciples – and how to change this trend and begin to follow a personal path of discipleship.

Rebuilt: The story of a spir itually dying par ish outside Baltimore and how the pastor and his associate reversed the trend and created one of the most vibrant and spiritually alive parishes in the East.

Stop in and take a look!

DO YOU HAVE AN AILING LOVED ONE WHO NEEDS SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT?

If your loved one is scheduled to be hospitalized, or is currently in the hospital, and would like to see a priest or a deacon, call us at 973-538-1358, ext. 100.

Do you have a homebound family member, or do you know someone, who would like to receive

Eucharist? Please contact Dick White at 201-280-8943

SAVE THE DATE! An invitation from Bishop Serratelli

ANNUAL RESPECT LIFE MASS On Saturday, November 18, 2017 at 10am, Bishop Serratelli will celebrate the Annual Respect Life Mass.

“This year we are blessed to be at the Cathedral, and I look forward to it being filled to capacity! The Mass is a wonderful way for our faithful to come together in prayer and in mutual support for protecting all of our children and all life. Again, please save this date on your calendar.” -Bishop Serratelli

This Mass is sponsored by the Paterson Federation Knights of Columbus Councils. All priests, deacons, parish staff, schools - staff and students, parishioners, families and friends are invited and encouraged to attend.

DISCIPLESHIP: IT STARTS WITH YOU An excerpt from an article by by Karl Johnson, Lt. Col.,

USMC C.S. Lewis Institute Fellow

So what’s involved in this vision? Patience, for one thing. Disciples are not mass-produced. In today’s high-tempo world, we like everything fast, but it’s not enough to hold a discipleship conference. As useful as this is for training and education, it will not bring about transformation. We must recognize what Ogden describes so well in Transforming Discipleship: the most effective way to make disciples is a few at a time over time—life-on-life engagement in which we pour ourselves into the lives of others the way our Lord did with the Twelve.

We do not need all the answers. We do not need to corner the market on spiritual maturity. We simply need a vision to share our lives with others and commit to seeing them grow and to grow with them. This can be done in simple, everyday life. In fact, it’s essential that it be done in everyday life.14 This vision must reject shortcuts and focus on commitments; it must avoid expediency and insist on relationships.15 In short, it must focus on helping others conform to the image of Christ via small, quality, long-term relationships. And it must reproduce. Similar to how I learned to balance knowing with doing, we must encourage those we disciple to do likewise. The vision must not culminate in a “holy huddle.” We must move into new relationships and help others discover what it means to follow Christ, and one of our goals must be to make disciples who will disciple. That’s what disciples do. If we don’t, we’re not.

To access the full article, visit our website (enter Discipleship Resources in the search box at the top of the page).

COMPASSIONATE FRIENDS

The Compassionate Friends, a self-help group for bereaved parents, siblings, and grandparents will be meeting on Thursday, June 8, 2017 at 7:30pm at St. Christopher's Church, 1050 Littleton Road (Rt. 202), Parsippany, in room 101. The evening’s program will be “Vacationing Without Your Child”. For more information please call Lily Capriglione at (973) 568-4164.

ALTAR SERVERS URGENTLY NEEDED!

Altar Serving is a great opportunity for children and teens to be active in ministry and serve their parish, and it also counts toward Confirmation service requirements. If your child is in 4th grade or above and you regularly attend any of our weekend Masses, please consider participating in this ministry. For more information, please contact Maria Caivano at 201-602-3657, or mcaivano65@gmail.com.

BIG MOUTHS: What should not be heard by little ears should not be said by big mouths.— Anonymous

INFORMATION SHEET CHURCH NAME: Notre Dame of Mount Carmel BULLETIN NUMBER: 656100 Date of Publication: Sunday, 05/28/2017 Number of Pages Transmitted: Cover + 4 text pages + this page = 6 Special Instructions: Please call Melissa @ 973–538–1358 x100