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Twenty-Third Sunday in Ordinary Time September 8, 2019

S . M ’ C September 8, 2019 | Twenty-Third Sunday in Ordinary Time

P S Rev. John Butler, Pastor Rev. Mark Nillo, Parochial Vicar Susan McCullough, Business Manager Paul Bergin, Music Director Kevin Connelly, Director of Religious Education Jamie Plantamura, Director of Youth Ministries Mary Valan, Parish Secretary Jose Rodriguez, Maintenance Manager

P O 800 Ocean Avenue | Long Branch, NJ 07740

Ph: (732) 222-8080 | Fx: (732) 870-1174 www.stmichaelnj.com

Summer Hours: Mon–Thu 8:30am-3:30pm Fri 8:30am-12pm

(Closed daily from 12:00pm–1:00pm)

O C 6 West End Court | Long Branch, NJ

07740 Ph: (732) 483-0360 | Fx: (732) 483-0363

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732-483-0360 ext. 7

D M Mon -Fri: 8:00 AM | Mon: 7:00 PM Sat: 9:00 AM | First Friday in Latin at 12:15 PM

W M Saturday: 4:00 PM, 5:00 PM, 7:30 PM Sunday: 7:00 AM, 9:00 AM, 10:00 AM, 11:00 AM, 12 PM, 4:00 PM, 7:30 PM

R Confessions are heard 12 minutes to 5 minutes before each Mass (except on Monday nights); on First Fri-day before the Latin Mass from 12:00 Noon until 12:10 PM; during the Monthly Holy Hour for Voca-tions; and on Monday nights after (not before) the 7:00 PM Mass until 8:00 PM.

R To register with the parish, please call the Parish Office for information.

M Couples who wish to marry at the parish should con-tact the Parish Office for a Marriage Request Form, and for further information. The bride or groom, or their parents/grandparents must be registered parish-ioners for at least eighteen months to make arrange-ments. There is a twelve month timeline for wedding preparations.

B Baptisms take place Sundays at 1:00 PM. Parents must be registered parishioners, and can call the Par-ish Office for information and scheduling.

H H V There is a Monthly Holy Hour for Vocations that includes Eucharistic Adoration and Confessions. This Monthly Holy Hour is from 7:00 PM to 8:00 PM on the Thursday immediately preceding the First Friday.

R E To enroll your child for our Tuesday or Sunday Reli-gious Education classes, please contact Kevin Connel-ly, ext. 3 at the Outreach Center. All families must be registered with the parish.

A S Please call the Parish Office for anointing of the sick. When the office is closed, the answering service will appropriately direct your call. If you or your loved one is in a hospital, the head nurse could also call for the chaplain to make arrangements.

September 8, 2019 www.stmichaelnj.com

Saturday, September 7

9:00 AM Special Intention: Dylan Lane Toni Seinfeld

4:00 PM † Annette Cannizzaro Husband Tom

† Dominic Ravaschiere Alex & Diane LaSalle

5:00 PM † Libbie Mowat Family

† Geraldine Fogle Domenica Prisciandaro

7:30 PM People of the Parish

Sunday, September 8 7:00 AM † Deceased Members of the

Thorne & Cannon Families Lynn, Al & Family

9:00 AM † JoAnn Trufolo Angela Pfeiffer

† Frank J. Masco Bruce Crowell & Sharon Mazza

10:00 AM † Grandparents of D'Apolito & Buono Family

Joanne & Frank Buono

† Jeanne Strombelline

11:00 AM † John McLaughlin Dotty O'Hara

† Florence Mazzacco Elizabeth Magistro

12:00 PM † Joseph Welter Ella Mae Roessner

4:00 PM † Francis X. Falivene Liz & John Saporito

Special Intention: Louis Carlesimo Jr.

Family


Monday, September 9 8:00 AM Pro-Life Cause Friends of Sylvia Marsico

† Matthew Eckert Tom Bourke

7:00 PM Special Intention: Vocations and for the Priests of the Trenton Diocese during Convocation Week

8:00 AM † Jean Higgins Gerard

† Pearl Funderburk Margaret & Bob Clinton

Tuesday, September 10

Wednesday, September 11 8:00 AM † 9/11 Victims Aida David

Special Intention: Rosemary Ellen Lloyd (Happy Birthday)

Robin

Thursday, September 12

8:00 AM † Ursula Carlesimo Children

† Arlene Albano Agnes & Paul D'Angelo

8:00 AM † Jose Vierira Rosa Tony & Natalina Gomes Friday, September 13

Saturday, September 14 9:00 AM † Pearl Funderburk Lois & Brett Danielson

Pro-Life Cause on National Day of Remembrance for Aborted Children

4:00 PM † Jack McLaughlin Rene & Jack Brignola

† John Puchalik Alex & Diane LaSalle

5:00 PM † Robert Adams Lex & Janet Tucci

† Anthony Migliaccio Vikki & Don Miragliotta & Family

7:30 PM † LaVerne Postel Zeschke Tricia & Louie Vincelli

7:00 AM † Rosa Alba Stranieri Mother Francesca

9:00 AM † Rose Lagrottoria Valerie Rosaly

† Eleanor Birmingham Anne Marie & Joe

10:00 AM † Louis Carlesimo Children

† Silvio Clauser Daughter

11:00 AM † Agnes Eigo Patrick Hickey

† Jane Gambale Joan & Joe Gueci

12:00 PM Special Intention: Health & Blessings of James Edward Lajewski & Family

4:00 PM † Natalie Coppola Ann V. Olivadoti & Family


Sunday, September 15

People of the Parish

† Nelson Rosa-Hernandez

The Center Sanctuary Candle will be lit this week for students, teachers, catechists, administrators, parents, and grandparents as the new school year begins.

The St. Joseph’s Sanctuary Candle will be lit this week for Vocations and for the Priests of the Trenton Diocese during Convocation Week.


Bishop O’Connell’s Wedding Anniversaries Mass, Renewal of Vows, and Blessing on

October 6, 2019 in Freehold

All couples celebrating their 1st, 25th or 50+ wedding anniversary during the 2019 calendar year are invited to gather with family and friends to share the Eucharist, re-new your sacred wedding vows, and receive Bishop O’Connell’s Episcopal Blessing. Anniversary Couples from Ocean and Mon-mouth Counties may attend the Sunday, October 6, 2019 Mass and Blessing at 3:00 p.m. at the Co-Cathedral of St. Robert Bellarmine in Freehold. Couples must register through their home parish; the reg-istration deadline for all anniversary couples is Septem-ber 15, 2019. Please phone our parish secretary Mary Valan to make a reservation.

The Sisters will be selling their Golf Classic 50/50 raffle tickets after all the Masses on the weekend of Sep-tember 14th & 15th. Tickets are $10 each (checks payable to Sisters of Mercy), and proceeds from the raffle will benefit the retired Sisters. The winning tickets will be drawn at the Sisters Golf Classic on September 24th at the Spring Lake Golf Club. For more information please contact Linda Cavallo at 908.756.0994 ext. 4006 or [email protected].

Call for CCD Catechists

God has a plan for you - and it might be as a CCD teach-er, teacher’s aide, or volunteer. Please contact Kevin

Connelly (Director of Religious Ed) at 732-483-0360 ext. 3 to join our teams on Sunday mornings or Tuesday

afternoons. God may be calling YOU.

Opening Mass with Bishop O’Connell

Tuesday, September 24th at 7:00 pm

Mass will be celebrated by the Most Reverend David M. O’Connell,

Bishop of Trenton at the Co-Cathedral of St. Robert Bellarmine,

61 Georgia Road, Freehold NJ 07728. For more information about the mass, contact Tom Panettiere at 908-338-7128 or tpanettie-

[email protected] For more information about 40 Days for Life, go to

www.40daysforlife.com

Second Collection This Weekend September 7 and 8

This weekend September 7 and 8 we will be taking up the National Collection for The Cath-olic University of America in Washington, D.C. Now, more than ever, the University is strate-gically positioned to pave the

way forward and help the laity play a significant role in healing and to educate our students and future leaders. Through hosting a conference series focused on laity response, and in creating an Institute for Diocesan Excel-lence in Administration (IDEA) where lay scholars and professionals can support clergy by providing expertise and accountability and in many other ways, Catholic Uni-versity is serving as a springboard in renewing and strengthening Catholicism in our country. Your support of the National Collection will help us solve issues within the Church and educate graduates who will leave campus ready to impact the Church, the nation, and the world. We appreciate your generosity. You can learn more at: collection.catholic.edu.

Please make checks payable to St. Michael’s Church.

Support the Sisters of Mercy!


Pastor’s Note: On two consecutive Sundays in last month’s parish bulletin we published in two parts an Instruc-

tion on the subject of cremation and related matters that was promulgated by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith at the Vatican in Rome. That Instruction brought together in one document the Church’s teaching with respect to the cremation of Christian bodies for burial or entombment. The document was promulgated in August 2016 and was authored by Gerhard Cardinal Muller on behalf of the Congregation. Our bulletin publi-cation of the Instruction resulted in several favorable comments on the relevance, clarity, and usefulness of the information as well as a few comments that the particulars relating to Catholic teaching on cremation were sur-prising to some readers. I thought it would be helpful to re-publish Cardinal Muller’s Instruction in its entirety in one, single issue of the bulletin (here on page 4 and continued on page 5) so that it would be a convenient refer-ence and to make it available to those who might not have seen it in the August bulletins.

The Instruction states the principles that apply and govern when we Catholics are considering, and making plans for, certain end-of-life matters especially when cremation is one of the considerations. Cardinal Muller’s letter is published here for the purpose of providing accurate, definitive, and reliable in-formation on the Church’s teaching to enable our decisions to be well informed and our consciences to be well formed. If there are questions, please feel free to contact the parish priests for further guidance. Funeral directors in and around our area will be provided with a copy of this Instruction from the Vatican and a request that they advise their Cath-olic clients of these teachings of the Catholic Church if these topics become relevant dur-ing funeral planning.

1. To rise with Christ, we must die with Christ: we must “be away from the body and at home with the Lord” (2 Cor 5:8). With the Instruction Piam et Constantem of 5 July 1963, the then Holy Office established that “all necessary measures must be taken to pre-serve the practice of reverently burying the faithful departed”, adding however that cre-mation is not “opposed per se to the Christian religion” and that no longer should the sac-raments and funeral rites be denied to those who have asked that they be cremated, under the condition that this choice has not been made through “a denial of Christian dogmas,

the animosity of a secret society, or hatred of the Catholic religion and the Church”. Later this change in ecclesiastical discipline was incorporated into the Code of Canon Law (1983) and the Code of Canons of Oriental Churches (1990) ... the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith has deemed opportune the publication of a new Instruction, with the intention of underlining the doctrinal and pastoral reasons for the preference of the burial of the remains of the faithful and to set out norms pertaining to the con-servation of ashes in the case of cremation. 2. Following the most ancient Christian tradition, the Church insistently recommends that the bodies of the deceased be buried in cemeteries or other sacred places. In memory of the death, burial and resurrection of the Lord, the mystery that illumines the Christian meaning of death, burial is above all the most fitting way to express faith and hope in the resurrection of the body. The Church who, as Mother, has ac-companied the Christian during his earthly pilgrimage, offers to the Father, in Christ, the child of her grace, and she commits to the earth, in hope, the seed of the body that will rise in glory... burial in a cemetery or another sacred place adequately corre-sponds to the piety and respect owed to the bodies of the faithful departed who through Baptism have become temples of the Holy Spirit and in which “as instru-ments and vessels the Spirit has carried out so many good works”.... the burial of the faithful departed in cemeteries or other sacred places encourages family members and the whole Christian community to pray for and remember the dead, while at the same

time fostering the veneration of martyrs and saints. 3. In circumstances when cremation is chosen because of sanitary, economic or social considerations, this choice must never violate the explicitly stated or the reasonably inferable wishes of the deceased faithful. The Church raises no doctrinal objections to this practice, since cremation of the deceased’s body does not affect his or her soul, nor does it prevent God, in his omnipotence, from raising up the deceased body to new life. Thus cremation, in and of itself, objectively negates neither the Christian doctrine of the soul’s immortality nor that of the resur-rection of the body.

(continued on page 5)

The deceased body of Jesus in the arms of The Blessed

Mother as depicted in the Pieta sculpture of

Michelangelo as the sculp-ture was prepared for ship-

ment from the Vatican to New York City for display at

the 1964 World's Fair.

The photo above is from our church - - the Thir-

teenth Station: Mary holds the body of Jesus.


(continued from page 4) 4. “The Church continues to prefer the practice of burying the bodies of the deceased, because this shows a great-er esteem towards the deceased. Nevertheless, cremation is not prohibited, “unless it was chosen for reasons con-trary to Christian doctrine”... In the absence of motives contrary to Christian doctrine, the Church, after the cele-bration of the funeral rite, accompanies the choice of cremation, providing the relevant liturgical and pastoral di-rectives, and taking particular care to avoid every form of scandal or the appearance of religious indifferentism.

5. When, for legitimate motives, cremation of the body has been chosen, the ashes of the faithful must be laid to rest in a sacred place, that is, in a cemetery or, in certain cases, in a church or an area, which has been set aside for this purpose, and so dedicated by the competent ecclesial authority. From the earliest times, Christians have desired that the faithful departed become the objects of the Christian community’s prayers and remem-brance. Their tombs have become places of prayer, remembrance and reflection. The faithful departed remain part of the Church who believes “in the communion of all the faithful of Christ, those who are pilgrims on earth, the dead who are being purified, and the blessed in heaven, all together forming one Church”. The reservation of the ashes of the departed in a sacred place ensures that they are not excluded from the prayers and remembrance of their family or the Christian community. It prevents the faithful departed from being forgotten, or their re-mains from being shown a lack of respect, which eventuality is possible, most especially once the immediately subsequent generation has too passed away. Also it prevents any unfitting or superstitious practices.

6. For the reasons given above, the conservation of the ashes of the departed in a domestic residence is not permitted. Only in grave and exceptional cases dependent on cultural conditions of a localized nature, may the Ordinary, in agreement with the Episcopal Conference or the Synod of Bishops of the Oriental Churches, concede permission for the conservation of the ashes of the departed in a domestic residence. Nonetheless, the ashes may not be divided among various family members and due respect must be maintained regarding the circumstances of such a conservation.

7. In order that every appearance of pantheism, naturalism or nihilism be avoided, it is not permitted to scatter the ashes of the faithful departed in the air, on land, at sea or in some other way, nor may they be preserved in mementos, pieces of jewelry or other objects. These courses of action cannot be legitimized by an appeal to the sanitary, social, or economic motives that may have occasioned the choice of cremation.

8. When the deceased notoriously has requested cremation and the scattering of their ashes for reasons contrary to the Christian faith, a Christian funeral must be denied to that person according to the norms of the law.”

The Sovereign Pontiff Francis, in the Audience granted to the undersigned Cardinal Prefect on 18 March 2016, approved the present Instruction, adopted in the Ordinary Session of this Congregation on 2 March 2016, and or-dered its publication. Rome, from the Offices of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, 15 August 2016, the Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

Gerhard Cardinal Müller, Prefect

A Day of National Remembrance

On Saturday, September 14, our parish will join in the National Day of Remembrance for Aborted Children, calling on Catholics and pro-life Americans to honor the gravesites of our aborted brothers and sisters. Please see the insert in this bulletin for additional information. Solemn prayer vigils are being conduct-ed at gravesites across the United States in memory of aborted children. We are encouraged to carry on the spiritual mission of this Day of Remem-brance throughout the year by visiting a gravesite of aborted children and by offering of prayers of mourning, prayers for healing and reconciliation, and prayers for an end to abortion. Prayers for these intentions will be prayed at all of our Masses here at St. Michael’s on September 14 and the 9:00 a.m.

Mass on Saturday the 14th will be offered for these pro-life intentions.


PRAYERS FOR THE SICK OF THE

PARISH This is a list of parishioners, rela-tives, and friends who are in need of our prayers for healing. Our Rosarians also pray every Saturday for all the parishioners of St. Michael’s. Please note that intentions

will be listed for two months and then removed, unless the requestor calls to renew for another two months. Please also note that according to the HIPPA & privacy laws only the sick themselves or family members may request to be added to the list. Contact the Parish Office for all prayer

requests. Thank you and may Our Lord grant healing to all those who are suffering and in need of our prayers.

Week 1 Joanne Buono

Week 5 Marylou Mirarchi

Katie Shives

Rosarian Prayer Group

Save the Date: Parish Family Games & Movie Night

Friday Evening – October 11, 2019

The committee is still working on a more exciting name for this event but for the time being it’s being called “Parish Family Games & Movie Night”: a parish-hosted “Friday evening get-together under the tent” on the front lawn of the church begin-

ning at 6:00 p.m. on Friday, October 11. The tent will be put in place the previous day for the Parish Ministry Fair, Blood Drive, and Red Mass Reception during the October 11,

12, and 13 weekend. The Friday Games & Movie Night will include outdoor games (cornhole bean bag tossing, ladder golf, a fishing pond, miniature golf, KanJam (garbage can Frisbee tossing), and others),

an under-the-stars under-the-tent movie (title to be an-nounced; beginning at 7:30 and preceded by a cartoon or two), picnic-style food (hot dogs, bottled water, popcorn, pretzels, self-served ice cream...all at no charge), and other entertainment. The games and movie are intended for children ages 6-14 and their parents and grandparents. All ages are invited and welcome. Weather-permitting a wiffle-golf-ball-driving contest will be conducted on the rectory lawn for teenage and adult golf-ers. Please feel free to bring your own sandwiches and snacks; tables and chairs will be available on the church’s north lawn for picnic-style suppers. Further details will be announced in the coming weeks’ bulletins. To participate in the planning and staging as a committee member or volunteer, please contact Dotty O’Hara at the parish office.

Mass of the Holy Spirit Saturday, September 21st

at 5:00 PM

We will celebrate a Mass of the Holy Spirit on Saturday, September 21 at 5:00 p.m. in the Upper Church. All are invited and welcome to attend. The special focus of this Mass will be the beginning of the new 2019-2020 academic year. We will pray for God’s blessings upon students, teachers, parents, ad-ministrators, and staff and especially for the Holy Spirit’s gifts of knowledge, understand-ing, and wisdom.

My Dear Parishioners of St. Michael’s Parish Community:

This note is a bit late, but my gratefulness and prayers are constant for you. I have been busy preparing for the beginning of school that started Tuesday, September 3. The children and teachers are happy to be back, and we have quite a few new students who are happy to be here.

The students gave me a very warm welcome and unbe-knownst to me, one eighth grader wrote a welcome for me

that he proudly read during our assembly: “Sister Elizabeth Seton, we would like to take this oppor-tunity to welcome you and to thank you for choosing us as your new family. Thank you for choosing to help us on our spiritual and aca-demic journey. We hope to make you proud and we strive to remem-ber: Faith lifts the soul, hope sup-ports it, experience says it must

and love says let it be.” With these sentiments, I am confi-dent that our students will indeed take our dreams and bring them into the future!

Father Butler, all our wonderful priests and especially our parishioners, thank you for your warm welcome and en-couragement not only on the weekend but in the grocery store, on the boardwalk and beyond. It is so nice to be remembered and encouraged. Thank you to all who re-sponded so quickly to offer your talents. I will be in touch with each one of you.

Remember, every Thursday, there are three nuns down the road a bit praying for each one of you. God bless you. Sister Elizabeth Seton Principal, St. Jerome’s School


The Diocese of Trenton’s 2019 Annual Catholic Appeal is in its sixth month. It commenced here at St. Michael’s during the weekend of February 23rd. The Diocese-wide goal is $7.0 million and approximately $5,022,542 (71.7%) has been pledged or collected toward that Diocesan goal as of August 28, 2019 from 22,351 donors. Our parish goal (as noted in the bulletin and announced at week-end Masses) is $109,000. Our parish reached its goal with pledges during the 22nd campaign week and with actual collections during the 24th campaign week. These achievements were “firsts” for our parish in that we reached both goals (pledges and collections) approximately 19 weeks earlier this year than last year (July compared to November). And last year was the very first year in Ap-peal history and in St. Michael’s history that our parish reached its goal. Thank you to all who have contributed in any form to the Appeal. These successes in the Annual Appeal have resulted in a rebate to our parish of $23,729 last year and an estimated rebate of approximately $16,000 this year (subject to final tabu-lations and adjustments). Those funds have been utilized for the Lower Church ladies room and men’s room renovations, the church’s foundation excavation and waterproofing, masonry and painting repairs in and around the church, CCD books and supplies, and other parish expenses. Also, our parish’s “raised” amount increased last week by $25. Thank you.

Currently, collections are at roughly 94.3% of our $116,940 total raised as indicated in the thermometer at left. And so we will continue to track these “Phase Two” collection efforts and progress reports in the bulletin during the next few weeks in order to seek to achieve 100% collection of all pledges.

May God bless the good people of St. Michael’s. And thank you for your generous contributions that help the Diocese provide the spiritual and social ser-vices that it renders to over 800,000 Catholics and others in our area.

*Our parish goal is $109,000. Pledges plus actual collections are currently an “amount raised” of $116,940; out of that amount the collections received are $110,253. This leaves a “pledge balance” of $6,687 (or approxi-mately 5.7%) in order to achieve 100% collection of all pledges. Contributions have been received from over 301 participants. Thank you!

Results to Date

$116,940*

$50,000

$25,000

$110,253*

Rite of Christian Initiation for Adults

Would you like to become a Catholic? Or perhaps you have been baptized yet never received First Holy Com-munion or made your Confirmation?

The Rite of Christian Initiation (RCIA) classes begin in the fall. If you are interested in attending these classes to complete your Sacraments, please contact Kevin Connelly (our Director of Religious Education) at 732-483-0360 ext. 3 or Mary Valan at the parish office.

The PATHWAY TO HEAL is for those that need sup-port with life's new paths and journeys.

We are a ministry for separated, divorced and widowed persons.

If you need a place to come and feel safe please plan on attending our group.

Our next meeting is on Thursday, September 12th at

7:00PM St. Michael's Living Room

6 WEST END COURT, Long Branch, NJ

Please Join Us. All Are Welcomed. Please contact the Rectory if you need

immediate assistance.

The Baptism preparation classes for parents are conducted every third Thursday of the month. The next class is September 19. Classes begin at 7:00 p.m. in the Lower Church. Please call the Parish Of-fice to register in advance.


If I am not, (in the state of grace), may it please God to put me in it; if I am, may it please God to keep me there. (St. Joan of Arc)

There are many simple and yet profound things we know as Catholics, but often take for granted and fail to grasp the significance of them in our own lives. I say this because of my past experience

speaking to adult groups and more recently doing baptismal preparation for new parents. I always find people most grateful for any insight that helps them to understand what they already know. (How’s that for a contradiction?) For example, when asked why they want the grace of baptism for their child the answer, if tenuously, is “to wash away Original Sin.” “Oh,” I respond, “so that dear, beautiful baby of yours is a dirty little sinner I guess,” I reply to now astounded parents. Before I lose my head I quickly add, “there must be something about Original Sin, and sin itself, we don’t quite get.” So I ask them to explain Original Sin and besides “eating the apple,” perhaps “disobedience” might be whispered. “Has your child been disobedient or done anything wrong?” I ask. “Well of course not!” My explanation for everyman then ensues:

As created human beings we are born into this world but we are not ready for Heaven. For that we require God’s grace to share in His divine nature, the Trinitarian life of God. This is the sanctifying grace God desires for every soul. This grace was given to Adam and Eve in the Garden. Seduced by Satan into believing it was “fake news,” in disobedience Adam and Eve rejected this unmerited gift and hence, Original Sin. Adam and Eve could not give to their children what they did not have and so all people – though created naturally good – come into existence “sinfully,” which means without supernatural grace. And without this supernatural gift we are geared more to self-ish motives, self-preservation over all things and worldly desires instead of pursuing everlasting life. Sin can be thought of as lacking God’s grace and results in all the actions, thoughts and inaction that we identify as sinful.

In baptism we are reborn by receiving the life of the Spirit who breaths charity into us and who forms the Church. It begins our supernatural vocation to eternal life. (Catechism of the Catholic Church (“CCC”)1997,1998) That’s why Tertulian could say Without baptism, salvation is attainable by none. The grace that was lost is restored, but as with Adam and Eve it can be rejected or go untapped. Baptized persons living uncharitable lives regrettably have not opened their gift. “So what is grace anyway?” I then ask. After a few blank stares “a gift from God” is the standard retort. “But what is that gift?” is the next question and it almost always goes unan-swered. This is what we need to absorb: Grace is a participation in the life of God. (CCC 1997) And what does that mean? Grace offers us the potential to free ourselves to love immeasurably, irretrievably, sacrificially and cre-atively as Christ did on the Cross. As such it is something we should passionately ask for ourselves and for all peo-ples.

Finally, it’s nice to be good but we are called to be holy, as I am (God the Father is) holy. Surrendering our-selves to the life of God, grace supernaturally and mystically brings us into union with Christ, perfecting us in love - the only way we can be made perfect. No, not in some lofty and grandiose way, but very down to earth in the “little way” St. Therese wrote about. If we can train ourselves to do our daily chores and to care for others without complaint but in gratitude for God’s love, every act from washing the clothes to patiently listening to others will bring us deeper into the life of God. It really is available right there at your very fingertips.

Kevin Connelly Director of Religious Education

Catechism classes at St. Michael’s begin Sunday, September 15 and Tuesday, September 17. Every child in grades 1-8 should be enrolled unless they attend Catholic school. Pre-K and kindergarten children are also wel-come. Registration is still on-going; however, materials and book orders will be completed soon. Please register your children ASAP. Please call Kevin Connelly, Director of Religious Education at 732- 483-0360 ext. 3 to reg-ister or for more information.

From the Desk of Our Director of Religious Education

+AMDG+


NEIGHBORING PARISHES OF

Precious Blood (churchofthepreciousblood.org) The Church of the Precious Blood is looking for a part-time business manager. If you are interested please send your resume to [email protected] and

you will be contacted to come in for an interview. This weekend we will be kicking off our Adopt a Haitian

Child Program. For $60 a month, you can provide an edu-cation, a uniform and two meals a day for a child at our

sister parish in Laserre Haiti. You can adopt the child for a month, for a number of months or for a year. Please help

us to improve the lives of our neighbors who live in extreme poverty.

St. Dorothea (www.stdorothea.org) This month’s Family Charismatic Prayer Meeting hosted by the Servants of the Lord Prayer Group will be held on Sep-tember 21 at 6:30 p.m. in the Meeting Room. Come join us for an hour of prayer, praising, and scriptural reflection. All

are welcome!

Our Lady of Hope Paris (www.ladyofhopeparish.org) If you are interested in joining us on September 22, 2019 for a special luncheon at Gibbs Estate at Suneagles Golf

Club honoring the legendary Sister Angelina Pelliccia, please call 732-222-8686 for more information.

Annual Catholic Appeal 2019 The campaign’s primary phase has concluded. Books remain open. Contri-butions, pledges, and pledge payments

may be sent to the parish office.

CCD Classes Resume Sunday Classes on September 15, 2019 Tuesday Classes on September 17, 2019

Baptism Preparation Class Thursday, September 19, 2019 7:00 p.m.

Mass of the Holy Spirit for Bless-ings Upon the New School Year

Saturday, September 21, 2019 5:00 p.m.

Parish Ministry Fair Weekend (“under the tent”)

Saturday and Sunday October 12 and 13, 2019

Monmouth County Red Mass Bishop O’Connell presiding/preaching

Sunday, October 13, 2019 12:00 p.m.

Family Games & Movie Night(“under the tent”)

Friday, October 11, 2019 6:00 p.m.

Novena to St. Michael and the Archangels

Friday, September 20 to Saturday, September 28

Bishop O’Connell Mass & Bless-ing for Wedding Anniversaries

Sunday, October 6, 2019 3:00 p.m.

St. Robert Bellarmine in Freehold

Mass of Remembrance for Aborted Children

Saturday, September 14, 2019 9:00 a.m.

On the Calendar at St. Michael’s Church

Weekend Collection & Attendance

Thank You! Saturday, August 31, 2019

4:00 PM Mass $2,105.00 278 people 5:00 PM Mass $1,900.00 156 people 7:30 PM Mass $835.00 142 people

Sunday, September 1, 2019 7:00 AM Mass $1,664.00 151 people 9:00 AM Mass $2,556.00 207 people 10:00 AM Mass $1,096.00 134 people 11:00 AM Mass $1,328.00 159 people 12:00 PM Mass $1,765.00 139 people 4:00 PM Mass $1,025.00 143 people 7:30 PM Mass $910.00 222 people _______________________________________ TOTALS: $15,184.00 1,731 people

PROPAGATION OF THE FAITH

WEEKLY MASS I NTENTION † Ronald Lubischer r/o Joyce Lubischer † Rachel Marker r/o Kathy Agresto

YEARLY MASS I NTENTIONS

OCTOBER 2019

Salvatore J. Mirarchi r/o Joe & Carmel Mirarchi

Ronald Lubischer r/o Family NOVEMBER 2019

Louis Carlesimo r/o Children Ursula Carlesimo r/o Children

DECEMBER 2019

Dorothy Brady r/o Daughter Dee Celli JULY 2020

Walter & Veronica Skowrenski r/o Robert Skowrenski & Family

St. Michael’s (www.stmichaelnj.com) Mass and Rosary on Saturday, September 14 at 9:00 a.m.

for National Day of Remembrance for Aborted Children. The next monthly Baptism Preparation Class for parents and godparents will be on Thursday, September 19 at 7:00 p.m. Please register in advance by phoning the parish of-

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