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FIFTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME FEBRUARY 5, 2012
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2012 5:30 P.M. Antoinette Sommese Adolfina Ortiz Connie Dazet Alfred Lehman SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 2012 7:30 A.M. People of the Parish Evelyn Sparacino Anthony Mangano Angelina Bogushefsky Frances
Pevour 10:00 A.M. Connie Dazet Frank Dazet John J. Mangini 12:00 P.M. Dr. Richard Meehan MONDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2012 7:30 A.M. Nora Deignan Marge Korker TUESDAY, FEBRUARY
7, 2012 7:30 A.M. Valentine Dymowski Victor & Rose Tachine WEDNESDAY,
FEBRUARY 8, 2012 7:30 A.M. COMMUNION SERVICE 7:30 P.M. MASS FOR PEACE Regina Sullivan THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 2012 7:30 A.M. Nunzio DiLaura FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2012 7:30 A.M. Elena Sutula SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2012 5:30 P.M. Pasquale & Pauline Rocco Dennis Guerin Frank White Intentions
of Sister Renĕ SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2012 7:30 A.M. Amanda Casazza 10:00 A.M. Marie Blessinger Connie Dazet Margo Zuppa In Thanksgiving Nazario, Livia & Ciro Quispe 12 NOON Joe Roberto Cordelia Cafone Pray daily
for the safety of our servicemen and women serving their country. PLEASE
REMEMBER IN YOUR PRAYERS SICK: Ann
Morici Stacey Caropreso Pat Rocco Linda Santucci Joe Nolan
Virginia Taylor DECEASED: Our Deceased Parishioners
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I take this opportunity to thank our Principal Mrs. Karen Wilson, our Teachers and Staff, and our students for being visible and extra gracious during this past week. Our Open House last Sunday with the indoor carnival was a huge success because of the cooperation of so many helping hands and generous hearts: school parents, grandparents and parishioners. God bless and reward you for your loyalty to St. Francis of Assisi. LENT begins with Ash Wednesday, February 22nd. We are inviting everyone to make this Lenten Season a time of grace; make it God’s time for all of us. You are made aware of the Lenten Groups and we wish everyone to join a group. The promise is that you will enjoy your time with parishioners who talk about their faith journeys. You will enjoy fellowship and camaraderie. You will enjoy knowing about your faith and your church. We will above all enjoy God’s Love, and enjoy being yourself. Our Confirmation Candidates will be meeting for the six weeks of Lent as a large, united group. They, too, will follow a similar workbook “Living the Eucharist”, and be guided by volunteer parents. We also have a Family booklet for Living the Eucharist and invite families with little children to gather once a week in your own home, to learn about your faith and enjoy being God’s family. Kindly talk to me and I will be glad to provide you with this booklet. Next weekend, we shall put out The Little Black Book. These will be placed before the statue of St. Francis of Assisi and you may take one Little Black Book per family. This lenten booklet has been very well accepted by all, and enjoyed, too. Also, the Operation Rice Bowl cardboard boxes will be offered to every family. Your generosity will help feed needy children in our nation as well as in many parts of our hungry world. My interest in writing about Lent is to ask that each of us looks forward to this Holy Time, not as an obligation, but as a spiritual season for personal growth, personal improvement, and personal relationship with God, his saints and his people on earth. God bless us all - Fr. Lance BUS TRIP TO ATLANTIC CITY St. Francis Ladies Guild
is sponsoring a bus trip to Showboat in Atlantic City on
Monday, February 6th. The bus will leave St. Francis parking lot
at 10 AM. The cost is $25 and upon
arrival you will receive a $30 voucher.
Please call Mary Trentacosta at 973-835-8648 to reserve your seat on
the bus. WEEKLY
OFFERING Sunday - $5,867.00 Thank you for your continued support. Blessed Mother Flowers Donated by Sandy & Frank Polglaze In honor of their 40th Wedding
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3 “SOUPER BOWL” 3rd Grade Class at St. Francis of Assisi School is sponsoring a Soup drive for the hungry in the community. This will take place during Catholic Schools Week – January 29 – February 3. Please help support the children in their efforts to feed those in need by bringing your soups to church and place them in the ‘soup pot’ in the Narthex. All soup will be collected after 10AM Mass on February 5th . The 3rd Grade thanks
you in advance for all the help and support you give to their “Souper
Bowl”. WORLD DAY FOR CONSECRATED LIFE First of all, congratulations to the parents and grandparents who have had the courage to support their sons and daughter’s/grandson’s or granddaughter’s call to consecrate their lives to the Lord as women and men religious in service to the Church, the People of God. Pope Paul VI aptly describes the significance of religious life for the Church when he says in Evangelica Testificatio, #3, that religious life presents the church “with [a] privileged witness of a constant seeking for God, of an undivided love for Christ alone, and of an absolute dedication to the growth of His kingdom. Without this concrete sign there would be a danger that the charity which animates the entire church would grow cold, that the salvific paradox of the Gospel would be blunted, and that the ‘salt’ of faith would lose its savor in a world undergoing secularization.” Second of all, congratulations and prayers for those who are embracing or have embraced the gift of a religious vocation. Sister Dorothy Ann Dirkx, SSM KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS COLUMBIETTES Start the St. Patrick’s Day
festivities off with good food, good entertainment and laughter. St.
Anthony’s Knights of Columbus and Columbiettes will be hosting Finnegan’s
Wake, an interactive comedic dinner theatre on Friday, March 16, 2012
at the Knights of Columbus Hall 65 Hamburg Turnpike, LOCAL ROOM FOR RENT Call Ron at 862-452-3861 (cell) FEBRUARY EMMAUS MEETING The Emmaus group will meet on Monday, Feb. 13 at 7:30 in the church hall. We will discuss arrangements for the up-coming Fish and Chicken Fry dinner. Fr. Lance will lead us in prayer at 8:00pm. All are welcome to join us for the entire meeting or for prayer. ST. FRANCIS KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS Council #2617 extends a sincere “Thank You” to everyone who took a part in their yearly blood drive held on Saturday, March 28th , either by donating their blood or helping in any capacity. It was another successful blood drive. |
Parent/Toddler
Program Mondays 10 am to 11:30 am February 6th to April 2nd Call School Office 973-835-3268 for more info LADIES GUILD MEETING St. Francis Ladies Guild will
meet on Monday, February 6th at 7:30pm in the Church Hall. Refreshments will be served. All ladies of the parish are welcome. 2012 FISH AND
CHICKEN FRY DINNER: DONATIONS NEEDED Good News! It is only a few weeks to our Lenten Fish and Chicken Fry dinner which will be on Saturday, March 3. Tickets for the dinner (includes a drink, fish or chicken, fries, dessert, coffee or tea) will be $12.00 each, the same as last year and the year before. We enjoy seeing our St. Francis community sharing a meal together, and we want you to come. Take Out will be from 5:30 to 6:15 PM, and Eat In will be from 6:15 to 7:30 PM. You can pick up your tickets at the rectory or wait until they are sold in the Narthex the weekends of Feb.18-19, and Feb.25-26. We are in need of donations of soda—Coke, Pepsi, Sprite—diet and regular, and bottled water. We also need chips and pretzels, napkins and decaffeinated coffee and tea. If you can donate, please bring the items to the rectory. Thank you very much. ! GROCERY GIFT PROGRAM Did you know that the Gift Certificate Program is a fund raiser for St. Francis? Did you know that St. Francis receives back 5% for every dollar in Gift Certificates it sells? If just 100 parishioners that spend $50.00 a week at the grocery store purchased a $50.00 gift card each week, St. Francis would benefit $13,000 a year!!!! Imagine if you had $13,000 more a year to spend. That is serious money and would be a true Blessing to Fr. Lance. The best part is, you contributed, and it didn’t cost you anything extra, you purchased a $50.00 gift card and you will receive $50.00 in food and other items you truly need and can use!! That is a win-win. Please consider supporting St. Francis with this fundraiser, the gift cards are sold in various denominations, $25.00, $50.00 and $100.00. They do not cost you anything more than their face value. If you purchase a $50.00 gift card and you only spend $20.00 at the store, you still have $30.00 on the card for your next shopping trip to that store. You just keep using the same card over and over again until you have exhausted the face value of the card. The cards are available for Shop Rite, Pathmark, A&P, Stop and Shop and now, Corrados. You are food shopping anyway; this little extra step will be a GIANT step toward supporting St. Francis and the programs it offers. On behalf of Fr. Lance and the Parish and School Communities, thank you for your consideration in participating in this fund raiser. See you at the end of mass when you purchase your gift cards. |
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Parent/Toddler
Program Mondays 10 am to 11:30 am February 6th to April 2nd Call School Office 973-835-3268 for more info LADIES GUILD MEETING St. Francis Ladies Guild will
meet on Monday, February 6th at 7:30pm in the Church Hall. Refreshments will be served. All ladies of the parish are welcome. 2012 FISH AND
CHICKEN FRY DINNER: DONATIONS NEEDED Good News! It is only a few weeks to our Lenten Fish and Chicken Fry dinner which will be on Saturday, March 3. Tickets for the dinner (includes a drink, fish or chicken, fries, dessert, coffee or tea) will be $12.00 each, the same as last year and the year before. We enjoy seeing our St. Francis community sharing a meal together, and we want you to come. Take Out will be from 5:30 to 6:15 PM, and Eat In will be from 6:15 to 7:30 PM. You can pick up your tickets at the rectory or wait until they are sold in the Narthex the weekends of Feb.18-19, and Feb.25-26. We are in need of donations of soda—Coke, Pepsi, Sprite—diet and regular, and bottled water. We also need chips and pretzels, napkins and decaffeinated coffee and tea. If you can donate, please bring the items to the rectory. Thank you very much. ! GROCERY GIFT PROGRAM Did you know that the Gift Certificate Program is a fund raiser for St. Francis? Did you know that St. Francis receives back 5% for every dollar in Gift Certificates it sells? If just 100 parishioners that spend $50.00 a week at the grocery store purchased a $50.00 gift card each week, St. Francis would benefit $13,000 a year!!!! Imagine if you had $13,000 more a year to spend. That is serious money and would be a true Blessing to Fr. Lance. The best part is, you contributed, and it didn’t cost you anything extra, you purchased a $50.00 gift card and you will receive $50.00 in food and other items you truly need and can use!! That is a win-win. Please consider supporting St. Francis with this fundraiser, the gift cards are sold in various denominations, $25.00, $50.00 and $100.00. They do not cost you anything more than their face value. If you purchase a $50.00 gift card and you only spend $20.00 at the store, you still have $30.00 on the card for your next shopping trip to that store. You just keep using the same card over and over again until you have exhausted the face value of the card. The cards are available for Shop Rite, Pathmark, A&P, Stop and Shop and now, Corrados. You are food shopping anyway; this little extra step will be a GIANT step toward supporting St. Francis and the programs it offers. On behalf of Fr. Lance and the Parish and School Communities, thank you for your consideration in participating in this fund raiser. See you at the end of mass when you purchase your gift cards. |
A FEW SIMPLE SECRETS There is a story from long ago
that I really love. A young novice had entered a monastery run by a wise
abbot. One day the abbot told his monks that he was going to share a secret
teaching with them that would bring them lasting peace and happiness, but if
they shared it with anyone else they would be expelled from the monastery.
The next day several of the older monks saw the young novice sharing the
secret teaching with everyone in a nearby town. They ran back and told the
abbot what they had saw. The abbot just smiled and said, "I can teach this
young novice nothing further. He is already an abbot in his own right." LAKELAND NURSING HOME SCHEDULE SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2012 Margaret Markot
& Grace Butler LECTORS SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2012 5:30 P.M. Ted Luciani SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2012 7:30 A.M. Erika
Reid 10:00 A.M Chris Marren 12 NOON Armando Haro EUCHARISTIC MINISTERS SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2012 5:30 P.M. Pat Demarest & Josie Venezia SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2012 7:30 A.M. Sue
Raoul & Mary Kearns 10:00 A.M. Melissa Rivera & Lizz Burns 12 NOON Carol Steiner & Nick Spina ALTAR SERVERS SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2012 5:30 P.M. Jacqueline Vogel Christine & Elizabeth Marshall SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2012 7:30 A.M. Elizabeth Esguerra 10:00 A.M. Kendra Capalbo Ann Marie & Joey Rivera 12 NOON Paige Halverson Freddy
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THANK
YOU to all who have helped in celebrating Catholic Schools Week: thanking God
in our Sunday Eucharist;ST. FRANCIS LENTEN MISSION
Lent is a time for us to
think about our relationship with God. It is about conversion. How do we make
time to do this?
Commit ourselves to attending
the St. Francis Lenten Mission.
Participants will meet in
small groups of 6 to 9 people during the weeks of Lent. We will meet in parishioners’ homes; one or
two groups may meet in the Church hall.
Each group will meet one day a week for seven weeks. We will arrange for
groups to meet at different times, different days of the week, and different locations. We hope that one will suit your schedule. We
will begin meeting the week of February 12 to pick up our Lenten Mission
materials.
What will we do? Using booklets from the Living the
Eucharist program, we will read the scriptures for the next Sunday’s mass,
probe their meaning through lectio divina, a way of praying with
scripture, and share our insights. We will grow in faith and community, deepen
our participation in Sunday mass, and become more fully disciples of Jesus.
This is the fourth year of our program. We started with 60 participants, last
year we had 90, and we welcome more.
Please consider attending the Lenten Mission. Fill out the following form and place it in the box in the Narthex, in the Sunday collection basket or bring it to the rectory. You can also sign-up on line: stfrancishaskell.org. We will call you about where and when your group is to meet. If you have questions, you can call Pat Demarest at 973-831-6513.
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