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PARISH STAFF
Pastor Reverend Jeffrey J. Kegley
Parochial Vicar Reverend Richard Osborn
Parochial Vicar
Reverend Jordan McConway O.P.
Deacons
Carlo Squicciarini
Martin K. McMahon
Business Manager
Hank Pekarsky ext. 232
Sacristan/Altar Server Coordinator
Mrs. Laney Wilkens
Parish Trustees
William “Bill” Large
John “Jack’ Kurkemelis
Faith Formation:
Mrs. Peggy Dunne ext. 240 [email protected]
Suzanne Pfirrman
ext. 241 [email protected]
St. Vincent DePaul Society Assistance
732-671-4062
Director of Music
Malena Towers ext. 239
Youth & Young Adult Ministry
Cassandra Abbud
Pastoral Associate
Chris Carlo
HR/Finance Administrator
Mrs. Sharon Crossnohere ext. 228
Bulletin Editor Jessica Parks
RCIA - [email protected]
Usher Coordinators
George Rahey - [email protected]
Brian Dolan - [email protected]
Perpetual Eucharistic Adoration ext. 240
MASS SCHEDULE Mary Mother of God Church
Saturday Vigil: 5:00 p.m. Sunday: 8:00 a.m., 10:00 a.m., 12:00 p.m. and 5:00 p.m.
Please note that the 10:00 a.m. Mass will be livestreamed on our YouTube Channel (Saint Mary, Mother of God Church) and the 12:00 p.m. “in car” parking lot Mass will continue until further notice.
The Daily Mass schedule remains: 8:15 a.m. and 12:00 p.m. in Mary, Mother of God Church. The Church will remain open daily from 7:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. for private prayer and Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament.
In the Bishop’s directives, the Sacraments of Confession, Baptism, Marriage along with Funeral/Memorial Masses resumed on June 8th. Confessions must be held outside and with proper social distancing. Confessions will be heard in the courtyard in front of the church. The Confession times will continue to be Thursday at 3:30 p.m. and Saturday at 1:00 p.m. or by appointment. Baptisms will be celebrated one baby at a time. Only Wedding ceremonies will be celebrated.
RECONCILIATION/CONFESSIONS Saturday 1:00 to 2:00 pm & Thursday 3:30 to 4:30 pm
SACRAMENT of BAPTISM The First & Third Sundays 1:30 pm (MMGC)
BAPTISM PREP CLASS 2nd Thur.7:00 pm in the Bulman Center - to register call est. 221
SACRAMENT of MARRIAGE ext. 222
ST. MARY SCHOOL PRINCIPAL Mr. Craig Palmer [email protected]
ST. MARY SCHOOL
538 Church Street,
Middletown, NJ 07748
732-671-0129
PARISH OFFICE
19 Cherry Tree Farm Road Middletown, NJ 07748 732-671-0071 Fax 732-671-6125
OFFICE HOURS
9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
Week ending February 9, 2021
Weekly drop offs and envelopes $12,594.00
Parish Giving $8,398.75
Children $17.46
Youth $498.00
Ave Maria $692.25
Diocese Assessment $120.00
Solemnity $36.00
Ash Wednesday $138.79
E-Catholic $356.00
Healing Mass $472.76
Mortgage $660.19
In Jesus and Mary,
Father Jeff Kegley Pastor
JESUS IS LORD!
“Come back to Me”
Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, It’s hard to believe, but it was shortly after Ash Wednesday 2020 that we found ourselves in the midst of the pandemic. This week we again begin the Holy Season of Lent on Ash Wednesday, still navigating the many challenges the pandemic presents to us gathering as a parish community. Like Advent and Christmas Seasons, we are able to gather for the Lenten and Easter Season to celebrate beautiful Liturgies where the Lord is worshiped and glorified, but they will be a little different for the safety of all our people. For example, on Ash Wednesday, ashes will be applied to your forehead with a fresh Q-Tip at the end of the Masses and Services. Please see the Ash Wednesday Mass and Service Schedule in this bulletin. On Ash Wednesday Perpetual Eucharistic Adoration will resume at Saint Mary Chapel. I want to honor and thank all our parishioners who signed up to become adorers at the Chapel. Without your commitment, we could not have this amazing ministry of Perpetual Eucharistic Adoration. Currently, we are close to 375 committed adorers. I am confident we can get a solid 500 adorers to come and adore Jesus. With that being said, during these forty days of Lent, I am asking all parishioners to commit to just one hour a week in Eucharistic Adoration at Saint Mary Chapel. It will be our parish response and your personal response to the question Jesus asked his disciples on the night of his Passion, could you not just spend one hour with me? When you think of it - what better time is there to commit to an hour of Eucharistic Adoration each week than in the Holy Season of Lent? Lent is an intense time of fasting, almsgiving, and prayer – it is an opportunity for all God’s faithful to get our spiritual life “back on track” or to “go deeper” in our relationship and love for Jesus. Committing to just one hour a week in Eucharistic Adoration will richly assist and bless you on your Lenten journey.
You can reserve your hour with Jesus at www.stmarychurchnj.org/adoration.
As we begin the Holy Season of Lent, please know that you and your family are included in the intention of my daily holy hour before our Eucharistic Lord. Have a blessed week.
Pope Francis encourages catechists to lead others
to a personal encounter with Jesus
Vatican City, Jan 31, 2021: Pope Francis said Saturday that catechists have the vital responsibility of leading others to a personal encounter with Jesus through prayer, the sacraments, and Scripture. “The kerygma is a person: Jesus Christ. Catechesis is a special space for fostering a personal encounter with Him,” Pope Francis said in the Clementine Hall of the Apostolic Palace Jan. 30. “There is no true catechesis without the testimony of men and women in flesh and blood. Who among us does not remember at least one of his catechists? I do. I remember the nun who prepared me for my First Communion and was so good to me,” the pope added. Pope Francis received an audience with some of the members of the National Catechetical Office of the Italian bishops’ conference at the Vatican. He told the catechetical leaders that a catechist is a Christian who remembers that the important thing is “not to talk about himself or herself, but to talk about God, about His love and fidelity.” “Catechesis is the echo of the Word of God … to transmit the joy of the Gospel in life,” the pope said. “Sacred Scripture becomes the ‘environment’ in which we feel part of the same salvation history, encountering the first witnesses of faith. Catechesis is taking others by the hand and accompanying them in this history. It inspires up a journey, in which each person finds his or her own rhythm, because Christian life does not even out or standardize, but rather enhances the uniqueness of each child of God.” Pope Francis recalled that St. Pope Paul VI had said that the Second Vatican Council would be “the great catechism of the new times.” The pope went on to say that there is a problem today with “selectivity with respect to the Council.” “The Council is the magisterium of the Church. Either you are with the Church and therefore you follow the Council, and if you do not follow the Council or you interpret it in your own way, as you wish, you are not with the Church. We must be demanding and strict on this point,” Pope Francis said. “Please, no concessions to those who try to present a catechesis that does not agree with the Magisterium of the Church." The pope called catechesis “an extraordinary adventure” with the task of “reading the signs of the times and accepting present and future challenges.” “Just as in the post-Council period the Italian Church was ready and able to embrace the signs and sensibilities of the times, so too today she is called to offer a renewed catechesis that inspires every area of pastoral care: charity, liturgy, family, culture, social life, economics,” he said. “We must not be afraid to speak the language of the women and men of today. To speak a language that is outside the Church, yes, we must be afraid of that. [But] we must not be afraid to speak the language of the people,” Pope Francis said.
Events at St. Mary, Mother of God
St. Mary's Women's Discipleship begins a multi-week study of The Book of
Revelation on February 10, 2021. Each Wednesday evening from 7:30-9 PM
on Zoom, Darlene Line will guide us through the final book of the New
Testament and break open God's Word for us. All women of the parish are
invited to attend. Please email Pat Moller at [email protected] to register and receive our safe,
secure ZOOM log-in. Registration is free.
THE 2022 MASS BOOK
Will open on Monday, February 22
9:30 AM in the Narthex.
Calling all children ages 7 - 12
to join the Saint Mary’s Choir
Practices are every Thursday
3:30 pm in Mary Mother of God Church
For more information call: Malena Towers
(732) 671-0071 ext. 239
Please Note: All state mandated guidelines will be followed - social distancing, use of masks, & sanitizing.
MASS INTENTIONS
Saturday - February 13, 2021
5:00 Angela Bifulco r/o Friends
5:00 Richard O’Connor Jr. r/o Kathy O’Connor
Sunday - February 14, 2021
7:30 Mr. & Mrs. John Tomei r/o The Ruane & McCurnin
Families
9:00 Sammy & Joan LaSpata r/o Mr. & Mrs. LaSpata
10:30 Thomas Ryan r/o His Family
12:00 George Bailey r/o Wife
5:00 People of the Parish
Monday - February 15, 2021
8:15 Eugene V. Brennan, Sr. r/o Gene Brennan
8:15 Gerald Thomas Driscoll r/o Janet Felice
12:00 Alice Byrne r/o The Godsey Family
12:00 John Koerwer r/o The Mongeau Family
Tuesday - February 16, 2021
8:15 Barbara Scaramutz r/o Wayne & Joanne
8:15 Margaret Dicks r/o Carol Christiansen
12:00 Richard Urbealis, Sr. r/o Doreen Mazzola
12:00 Albert Noone r/o Patricia & William O’Connor &
Family
Wednesday - February 17, 2021
8:15 Kimberly Benson r/o The Centrone Family
8:15 Joseph Vetere r/o Kathy & Steve Hungerbulhler
9:30 Dee Scaramutz r/o Wayne & Joanne
12:00 Theresa Presato r/o Roe Marsico
Thursday - February 18, 2021
8:15 Patrick McGee r/o The Duffys
8:15 Jean Helen Mobley r/o Doris Durino
12:00 Assunta Amore r/o Doreen Mazzola
12:00 Emil Remaglia r/o Janet Moscuzza
Friday - February 19, 2021
8:30 Richard O’Connor Sr. r/o Kathy O’Connor
8:30 Special Intentions of Father Jeff r/o Carlucci Family
12:00 Anna & John McCormack r/o Patricia & Martin
McCormack
12:00 Richard Urbealis, Sr. r/o Donna & Thomas Carroll
Saturday - February 20, 2021
8:15 Patty & Ally r/o The Graham & Stengel Families
8:15 Richard Conley, Sr. r/o Mark Conley
Saturday - February 20, 2021
5:00 James Mulligan r/o Patricia & Robert McGinn
5:00 Eileen Gilmartin r/o The Dalbero Family
Sunday - February 21, 2021
7:30 Marie Brown r/o Richard & Barbara Derusso
9:00 People of the Parish
10:30 Bette Maltese r/o Mr. & Mrs. James Maltese
12:00 Severa Gelito r/o Phil, Nita, & Jim Pyce
5:00 Christos Gouzouassis r/o Nicole, Yannis, Caroline, &
Carolyn
CANDLES SUNDAY TO SATURDAY
FEBRUARY 14 TO FEBRUARY 20
St. Mary Chapel Candle St. Mary’s Ministries Adoration Chapel Candles Tom Walsh r/o Loving Wife Pasquale Guadagni r/o Fitzgerald Family Mary, Mother of God Sanctuary Candle Vita Marie Colella r/o The Donohue Family
Presley Joelle Banta
Julianna Deborah Ricco
Bridget Grace Farley
BORN TO ETERNAL LIFE
Anthony Mamola
Elizabeth Copeman
Paul A. Clark
FIRST SUNDAY OF LENT SIXTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME
FOR OUR MILITARY
Lord, hold our troops, home and abroad, in
Your loving hands. Protect and bless them
and their families, as they protect us. Amen.
Sgt. Tim Hayes, Special Ops.
Cpl. Robby McCann, U.S. Marines
Pvt. Timothy McCann, U.S. Marines
Louis Adamo, Army Reserve
Sgt. James A. Conklin, U.S. Navy
Staff Sgt. Michael J. Mangan, Marines
James Chinnici
Staff Sergeant Craig Kubolka II, Army Ranger, 7th Deployment to Middle East
Greg Charpek, U.S. Coast Guard
H.M Ashley Thompson
U.S. Navy, Col. Kevin Meisle Army Reserve, Captain Iraq; Lt Christopher Baum US Navy
Jonathan Bagnato
Andrew Leroy
Ryan Trachman, Marines
Josh Pershing, U.S. Air Force, 3rd tour Iraq
Master Gunnery Sgt. C.T. Gregoire, Marines, SFC
Wesley Briggs, U.S. Army 2 tours in Iraq, stationed in Egypt;
U.S. Marine Jonathan Alfano
Tanay Mahadik, AirForce, Deployed over seas
Master Chief Ryan Gerdon, U.S. Navy
Army 2nd Lt. Evan Crowell
Maryanne Cuthbert Anne Davis John Day June & Emil DeMarco Tony DeMarco Dino DeSantis Mary DeVuono Sophia DiPietro Marie Duffy Debbie Faaland Richie Harrison Margaret Heap Angie Herrera Barbara Herring Donna Horel Debbie Johnson Karen Kaszuba Eugenina Kelly Manny Konstantinidis
To include someone on the Prayer List call the Parish Office 732-671-0071 x221 or email: [email protected]
Cynthia Alvarez Maria Ammertia Jack Andrews Tom Ashe Charlie Ball Sr. Gloria Barone Bill Bellini Susan Blanchard Gene Brennan Diane Brown Joan Buck Bob Burke MaryAnn Calamo Colin Casey Beatrice and John Catania Jane Cella John Chiarini Pamela Collins Ryan Cook
Carol Kryczko Addo Kuhlmann Mary Kwiakowski Tara LaBarca Anna Lauricella Lorraine Lauricella Nicole Lucchini Fanny Marulanda Melissa Maucione Jason Massey John Mauer Corrine Mayor Megan Mazza Barbara McLeod Gale Miller Dave Mullins Jack Mullins Cathy Murray Allison Murray
Carol Natoli Frank Nolan, Sr. Sr. Mercedes O’Boyle Mary O’Brien Jimmy Ocampo Carolann O’Neill Grace Orlando Adelina Pelle Michael Pelle John Petersen Arlene Ryan Peter Saggalewich Adriana Sanchez Balmes Sanchez Irma Sanchez Juliana Sanchez Linda Scaglione Becky Scharen Estela Sharp
Joanne Silver Jimmy Stanislawczyk Darleen Striker Jim Sullivan Chris Vaughn Mark Vern Barbara Woezer Michael Wynn Warren Young
FOR OUR CHILDREN
Brianna Orlando Arden McPhee Alexandria Iscaro Addison Noelle Feirstein Liam Joseph Kelly John James Schultz, Jr Jake Wilson
PRAY FOR THE SICK
Catholics United For Life
Please join the Rosary Vigil for Life
every Saturday,
9:00 - 10:00 am at the
Planned Parenthood abortion facility,
69 East Newman Springs Road, Shrewsbury
COMMEMORATIVE PAVERS
St. Mary’s Parish has room available for commemorative pavers
in the area in front of the Church entrance. Stop by the
Parish Office for an order form,
or email [email protected] or call 732-671-0071 x237.
