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Proper dress and electronics in church.
I
realize like everybody else, it is Summer, but parents are letting
their teens come to church dressed with short shorts, stomachs
exposed, super tight jeans etc. Come
on now, we're talking maybe one hour a week!
What
happened to respect, that is a huge problem. Then to see teens
texting and playing with their phones while their parents are
sitting next to them, that is definitely uncalled for and shows no
respect coming from adults
Maria Ormsby
Inspired
by the lives of Saint Peter and
Saint Paul
, we now lift up these prayers for all who are
in need
That
Church leaders everywhere will be strengthened through the
intersession of Saint Peter and
Saint Paul
: we pray to the Lord; Lord hear our prayer.
That
we will reach out in love to those who seek a relationship with
the living God: we pray to the Lord; Lord hear our prayer.
Let
us continue to pray for our Capital Campaign and for a marked
improvement in the economy. Let us pray for the ground breaking of
the Faith Formation Center and for all our parishioners and
benefactors who support out campaign through their donations, time
and talent; We pray to the Lord.
For
an end to abortion; We pray to the Lord.
For
the Safety of our troops: We pray to the Lord.
For
those who are nearing life’s end, that the Lord will give them
guidance and strength, and for those who have passed from us
especially, Anne Unger, Harold Price, Mary Vitale, your
friends, relatives and benefactors; We pray to the Lord
In a moment
of silence we pray for our own needs. (Pause)
For all
these prayers we hold in our hearts, united in the Holy Spirit
with Mary and with all the saints; We pray to the Lord:
Our
Parish Concerns
The
following are our Parish concerns for this week:
An
adult education program lead by Deacon Len and Fr. Will entitled
“Apostles: Chosen by
Jesus” will be offered on Thursday evenings in the Daily Chapel
during the summer beginning July 10.
The program will be based around a book entitled The
Apostles, by Pope Benedict XVI.
Please see the parish bulletin for times, dates, and
location.
Please
note: Friday night
bingo doors will not open until 6:00 PM.
Reminder.
The 2009 Mass book will open Tuesday, July 1st
at 9:00 AM.
Help
is needed for the Tuesday morning bingo.
Please stop by the auditorium during bingo hours for
information
SOUP KITCHEN
 Visitation
Parish will hold a free soup kitchen on the third Wednesday of
each month from 12:00 to 1:00 PM in the Church Auditorium.
For additional
information, please call Frank and Isabel Kronicz at 732-255-2835
if interested in helping.
Summer
Adult Faith Program
A series will be offered this summer entitled “Apostles: Chosen by
Jesus”.
The program will be conducted by Father Will and Deacon Len. It
will be based on a book entitled The
Apostles, by Pope Benedict XVI.
The Pope emphasizes that the Church was built on the foundation of
the Apostles as a community of faith, hope, and charity and that through
the Apostles, we come to Jesus Himself.
The sessions are offered on Thursday evenings in the Daily Chapel
from 7:30 to 9:00 PM. beginning July 10.
Each topic is independent of the other, so feel free to attend all
or selective sessions
COMING SOON
SUPER 50/50
TICKETS $100
GRAND PRIZE- $10,000
(based on the sale of all tickets)
ONLY 200 TICKETS WILL BE SOLD
TICKETS ON
SALE
BEGINNING MID JULY
FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION OR TO RESERVE YOUR TICKET
CALL 732-477-0028 EXT. 216
 The
next bus trip
sponsored by The Holy Name Society will be to the
Showboat Casino, Wednesday, July 2, 2008. We will
depart from the Church parking lot at 9:00 AM and return
approximately 5:30 PM. The cost is $18.00 per person and
you will receive $20.00 in coins and a $5.00 food certificate.
For additional information and reservations call 732-477-0028
ext. 105. All tickets must be paid for in advance to
guarantee a seat.
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THE NAME GAME
Today’s solemnity
might have been “Saints Simon and Saul” if it hadn’t been
for some renaming. There are numerous examples from the Bible of
people being given new names to
indicate their new status in God’s plan of salvation.
This practice begins with Abraham, and we see the fruit of that in
today’s renaming of Simon as Peter
when he makes his great profession of faith
in Jesus as Messiah (Christ) and Son of God.
Saul, though Acts
recounts a significant
conversion experience for him, is renamed rather silently by the
New Testament. Even though the
author of the Acts of the Apostles occasionally slips
and still calls him “Saul” after his conversion experience,
his new name—most likely
intended by the New Testament to differentiate his Christian
mission from his life as a Jew—occurs
most frequently in Acts, and exclusively in
his own letters, as “Paul.” The naming of Peter is reminiscent
of our own naming at baptism,
when our own faith in Jesus as Christ was proclaimed.
Even though most of
us never go through a changing of our proper name later in
life (though this was characteristic of religious profession for
many years), a bit of
reflection will help us to discern the ways in which God has
called us anew or named us
again for our own role in proclaiming the Good News.
BOTH/AND, NOT
EITHER/OR
It’s not
surprising that, as we read through the New Testament, Peter
tended to be a stronger advocate of
adhering to the ways of religious praxis inherited
from the Jewish tradition. Paul, meanwhile, led the church to a
life of more freedom within
religious law, focused more on faith and the Spirit.
Wisely, the
celebrations of these two saints, bedrock of the earthly church,
are combined, for the Church
has always lived and witnessed best when we have respected
and honored our heritage, customs, and traditions of faith, yet
remained open to change and
ongoing revelation from on high. The Body of Christ,
in this way, is the same as any other body: it remains the same
body in many ways, but also
must seek ongoing nourishment, encounter illness, and inevitably
be altered through growth. The Holy Spirit has provided admirable
examples for us in the persons of
Peter and Paul. As they—grounded in their faith,
named and called for Jesus Christ’s mission—sought to spread
the gospel in every place at
every hour, let us likewise joyfully join that same mission.
Through
all the earth their voice resound, and
to the ends of the world, their
message. - Psalm 19:5
Today’s Readings:
Acts 12:1–11; Psalm 34:2–9; 2 Timothy 4:6–8, 17–18;
Matthew 16:13–19
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projects funded by the Catholic Communication Campaign.
AN
INVITATION FROM POPE BENEDICT XVI
‘...and
for this reason I’m pleased to officially announce that we
will dedicate a special Jubilee year to the Apostle Paul
from
June 28th
2008
to June 29th
2009
to
mark the bimillennium of his birth!’
 Celebrating
vespers in St Paul’s Basilica, Pope Benedict affirms that
‘the action of the Church is credible and effective only in as
far as those who are part of her are prepared to pay in person
for their faith in Christ in every situation.’ Dedicated to
the bimillennium of the birth of the Apostle, the year will be
celebrated with pilgrimages, as well as with liturgical and
cultural events.
Rome
(AsiaNews) – The Pauline Year, which Pope Benedict XVI
proclaimed today, will have a particular ecumenical dimension
and will follow the example of the Apostle of the Gentiles,
showing in a special way that ‘the action of the Church is
credible and effective only in as far as those who are part of
her are prepared to pay in person for their faith in Christ in
every situation.’ It is that witness, which united Paul and
Peter right up until their martyrdom, that the Pope recalled
this afternoon in the Roman Basilica dedicated to the Apostle of
the Gentiles during the celebration of the first vespers for the
solemnity of St Peter and St Paul.
Designed
to celebrate the bimillennium of the birth of St Paul, which
historians place between the years 7 and 10 AD, the Pauline
Year, in the words of the Pope, will include ‘a series
of liturgical, cultural and ecumenical events, as well as
various pastoral and social initiatives, all inspired
by Pauline spirituality’ to take place between June 28th
2008 and June 29th
2009. ‘Seminars and special publications on the
Pauline texts will also be prepared in order to
make better known the great wealth of teaching they contain, a
true patrimony of humanity redeemed in Christ.
Furthermore, in all parts of the world, similar initiatives can
be organised in dioceses, shrines and places of worship by
religious institutions, by social or educational institutes
bearing the name of St Paul or inspired by his character and
teaching.’
‘Finally,’
the Pope added, ‘there is one particular aspect to which
careful attention must be paid during the various celebrations
of this bimillennium of Paul’s birth: I am referring to the
ecumenical dimension. The Apostle of the Gentiles, who
was particularly committed to bringing the Good News to all
people, gave everything he had for unity and harmony among all
Christians. May he guide and protect us in this
bimillennium celebration, helping us to go forward in the humble
and sincere search for full unity between all the members of the
mystical body of Christ.’
As
if to give a concrete vision of that desire for unity, a
delegation from the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople,
sent by Bartholomew 1st,
was also on hand to hear Pope Benedict’s words. The Orthodox
delegation was in Rome following on from an exchange visit of a
Holy See delegation to Istanbul to mark the feast of St Andrea,
considered the founder of the Orthodox Church. ‘These
encounters and initiatives,’ the Pope said, ‘are not merely
a courteous exchange between the Churches, but instead they wish
to express our common commitment to do everything in our power
to increase the momentum towards full communion between
Christians of the East and the West.’ ‘This
basilica, which has witnessed significant ecumenical events,’
Pope Benedict added, ‘reminds us how important it is to pray
together to implore the gift of unity, that same unity for which
St Peter and St Paul gave of themselves completely, right up to
the supreme sacrifice of their lives.’
For more information on the
Jubilee Year see the special web site
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"Brother
Can You Spare a Dime"
If like me, you
were a "Depression Baby" your parents had their own
story about how they survived. Listening to all the news about
today's "Recession" reminded me of the above song of
the day.
I guess I'm not
the only one that made the connection. I found 6 inspiring
videos on YouTube worth watching.
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Christ Our Hope
in Defense of Life
by Deirdre A. McQuade
May 2, 2008
I’ll remember those sunny
spring days for a long time. The skies here in Washington, DC
were clear and blue…the temperature, perfect with colorful
banners waving in the breeze. The very daffodils stood tall and
fresh – all to welcome His Holiness Benedict XVI during his
first apostolic visit to the United States. It was as if
creation itself were giving witness to what his predecessor had
called the “new springtime of evangelization” already
blossoming in the Church.
What fruit might the papal
visit now bear as we continue working for the protection of all
life?
The theme of the visit was
“Christ Our Hope.” Throughout his various addresses, Pope
Benedict XVI invited Catholic Christians to enter more deeply
into relationship with Jesus Christ. Happiness, peace, freedom
and justice cannot authentically derive from any other source,
even though the secular influences in culture might have us
believe otherwise – that it is possible to live without Christ
and still live well.
The Holy Father cautioned
against “a growing separation of faith from life: living ‘as
if God did not exist’,” and exhorted us to remain steadfast
in objective truth:
May
you find the courage to proclaim Christ…and the unchanging
truths which have their foundation in him…They are the truths
which alone can guarantee respect for the inalienable dignity
and rights of each man, woman and child in our world –
including the most defenseless of all human beings, the unborn
child in the mother's womb (Pope Benedict XVI, Homily at Yankee
Stadium).
Cultivating this kind of faith
takes some work on our part. As it says in Hebrews, “faith is
the realization of what is hoped for and evidence of things not
seen” (Heb 1:11), and so much remains “unseen” in our
fight to defend the unborn: When will we have enough justices on
the Supreme Court with the wisdom and courage to overturn Roe v.
Wade…and when that finally happens, will States be ready to
enact laws protecting women and their children from abortion?
What other cultural and legislative measures will help make
abortion unthinkable to men and women alike? Will the
multi-generational wound of abortion ever start to heal? Will
the most hardened abortion advocates come to see their deep
error and start defending innocent life?
Given all the unknowns, we may
sometimes be tempted to discouragement. And yet, we are called
to remain bold and joyful in our work, confident that Jesus
Christ has already won the war against death. As the pope
encouraged us at St. Patrick’s Cathedral:
The
proclamation of life, life in abundance, must be the heart of
the new evangelization. For true life – our salvation – can
only be found in the reconciliation, freedom and love which are
God’s gracious gift…[O]ur most urgent challenge is to
communicate the joy born of faith and the experience of God’s
love (Pope Benedict XVI, Homily at St. Patrick’s Cathedral).
The pope's visit surely gave
witness to God’s love in the world. Let us pray that it will
inspire all Christ's followers to do the same – in service to
neighbor and enemy alike. The most vulnerable members of our
human family are counting on it.
Deirdre A. McQuade is Assistant Director for Policy &
Communications at the Secretariat of Pro-Life Activities, U.S.
Conference of Catholic Bishops.
July 25, 2008
Rachel's Vineyard Retreat
For anyone seeking healing after abortion. If you are in need
of healing from an abortion, a retreat will be held Friday,
July 25, 2008, 6 p.m. through Sunday, July 27, 2008, 3 p.m. at
the Upper Room Spiritual Center, Neptune, New Jersey 07753.
For registration and details, please contact Judy Warenkiewicz,
phone: 732-536-6871 or e-mail: judywarren543@msn.com
July 25-27, 2008
Justice-Family...Partners
in the New Evangelization
Crowne Plaza, Cherry Hill. An
historic convocation of Respect Life, Family Life and Social
Justice leaders to explore new ways to work together to
advance human dignity. The convocation will include;
presentations on bioethics, environment, science and religion,
human rights and family life; and panel discussions with
leading Bishops of USCCB Committees. Continuing medical
education credits are available. Registration information is
available in April at www.usccb.org/prolife.
Sponsored by the USCCB Secretariat of Pro-Life Activities, the
Knights of Columbus, the Archdiocese of Philadelphia and the
Diocese of Camden.
Every Wed. and
Fri.—Wednesday from 10 a.m. to 12 noon,
and Friday from 2 pm to 4 pm members of the St. Elizabeth
Ann Seton Respect Life Committee witness at the
Options abortion site in Candlewood Commons in Howell.
Pray the Rosary, Mercy Chaplet and prayer to end
abortion. All are welcome. Call M. Sherry for information
at 732-350-5474.
SPIRITUAL
ADOPTION
 We pray
for our
spiritually adopted unborn babies who are now 38 weeks and only
2 weeks away from birth.
Jesus, Mary and Joseph, we love you, thank
you for sparing our unborn spiritually adopted babies.
Amen
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BREAST
CANCER FUNDRAISER
 The
Crystal Point Yacht Club is hosting a Cocktail Party/Silent
Auction on Thursday July 31, 2008 from 6:30-9:30 PM. All
proceeds will benefit "The
Crystal
Point
Yacht Club Making Strides Against Breast Cancer 2008"
team at the annual Making Strides Against Breast Cancer Walk in
Point Pleasant Beach on October 19, 2008. Tickets are $20.00 and
there are a limited number of seats available. For more
information or to purchase tickets contact The Crystal Point Inn
at (732) 899-3444.
CARNIVAL: ST.
ALOYSIUS/ST. MONICA CHURCH
St. Aloysius/St. Monica Summer Carnival, located at
935 Bennetts Mills Road
,
Jackson
,
NJ
will be held from Wednesday July 9 through Saturday July 12,
2008. The hours of operation will be, Wednesday and Thursday
6:00-10:00 PM and Friday and Saturday 6:00-11:00 PM. Enjoy
entertainment, food, games, rides, nightly 50/50 and Mega 50/50.
Wrist Band Night will be Wednesday, July 9. Pay one price
of $20.00 per person for all rides.
PILGRIMAGE
Join Spiritual Director, Fr. Gavin Muir, July 23– August 1,
2008 on a
Lourdes
and
Paris
Pilgrimage. The cost is $2,555.00 + Airport Tax. For more
information call Lorraine Echevarria at 610-847-2306.
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