22nd Sunday In Ordinary Time by The Parish of Saint Mary

The parish of saint Mary

A Catholic Community Proclaiming the Greatness of God in our Time

OnePhalanxRoad,ColtsNeck,NJ07722

Phone:732-780-2666 Fax:732-780-0394

Bishop of the Diocese of Trenton: Most Reverend David M. O’Connell, C. M.

Pastor: Reverend Fr. Jeffrey E. Lee

Pastor Emeritus: Reverend Fr. William J. Bausch

Parish Trustees: Annette Raynor & Roger Zurro

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Labor Day Weekend

Saturday August 31, 5:00 P.M. Mass

Sunday September 1, 10:00 A.M. Mass

Monday September 2, 9:00 A.M. Mass

Parish Office Summer Hours

Beginning since July through the end of August, the parish office is open 9 am to 2 pm Monday through Thursday. Tuesday evening hours will resume the Tuesday after Labor Day September 3rd. The Parish Office will also be open Sunday September 8, 9am - 1pm

Mass Intentions for:

Saturday August 31 2024 - Sunday September 8 2024

Saturday, August 31- 5PM

Rose Rimmele * Barbara Saake

Josephine Diana * Fran Vaina

Sofia Stoia by Rorie and Jack Coppola

Sunday, September 1 –10AM

Pro Populo

Helene Dickinson * Dickinson-Pancila Family

Abel Bocanegra L. * Maria Yaninas

Monday, September 2 - 9AM

Yvonne Buckley Brogan * Hugh and Phyllis Murphy

Tuesday, September 3 - 9AM

Virginia Hamlin * Diane Carnevale

Wednesday, September 4 - 9AM

Palmer Girton * Farrell Family

Thursday, September 5 - 9AM

Ruby Lim * Drs. Gener and Elvira Dapul

Jack Coppola ~ Bill Donahue ~ Kaitlin Donahue Nagle

~ Lori Lettieri

Lauren vinci

TOM JACOBSON ~ Dawn Reinhardt ~ Jeff McBride

Friday, September 6 - 9AM

Ginny Hamlin * Linda Fredda

Saturday, September 7 - 4PM

Pro Populo

George J. Rimmele * Barbara Saake

Anita Stutz * Jane Slattery

Sunday September 8 - 8AM

Helen and John Sionas * Eileen and Michael Stivala, Jr.

John Grabowski * Eileen and Michael Stivala, Jr.

Anne DiFedele * Alice Ganley

10AM

Gina Marie Albano * Danielle Hennessey

Frank Wojtaszek * Joseph and Barbara Hagner

Steven Parkes * Parkes Family

12PM

Special Intention * Bob Amling

Robert A. & Mary Joan McNamara * The McNamara Family

Marie Rachele Ambrosio * The Gruenling Family

Mass Intention Requests

Requests can be made in person by stopping at the parish office, or online HERE. Suggested stipend is $10.

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Owen Shoemaker

Gerard Thompson

Rose walch ~ Joyce daniele

~ Peter Vickers

~ Robert a . monaco, md

Lifelong Catechesis - Week of September 1– September 7

READINGS FOR THE WEEK:

22st Sunday in Ordinary Time

Dt 4:1-2, 6-8/Jas 1:17-18, 21b-22, 27/Mk 7:1-8, 14-15, 2123

MONDAY September 2

1 Cor 2:1-5/Lk 4:16-30

TUESDAY September 3

1 Cor 2:10b-16/Lk 4:31-37

WEDNESDAY September 4

1 Cor 3:1-9/Lk 4:38-44

THURSDAY September 5

1 Cor 3:18-23/Lk 5:1-11

FRIDAY September 6

1 Cor 4:1-5/Lk 5:33-39

SATURDAY September 7

1 Cor 4:6b-15/Lk 6:1-5

Almighty and eternal God, those who take refuge in you will be glad and forever will shout for joy. Protect these soldiers as they discharge their duties. Protect them with the shield of your strength and keep them safe from all evil and harm. May the power of your love enable them to return home in safety, that with all who love them, they may ever praise you for your loving care. We ask this through Christ our Lord.

Pray for Military & First Responders

AMT Colton Boag, USCG

LCpl Devon Francis Chrzan, USMC

Col. John Anthony Coppola, US Army

TSgt Stephen Witherow, USAF

LCpl Edward Zarzecki, USMC

FOR DEEPER REFLECTION:

Question for Children: What steps can you take to more humbly welcome Christ into your heart?

Question for Youth: Jesus warns about the things that will lead us away from God. What tempts you away from being the person that God created you to be?

Question for Adults: Based on this reading from James, what is the sign in one’s life that faith is present?

Life Long Catechesis

Lt. Col. Douglas Coppola, US Army

~ Lt. Mary Herman, USN

SN Christian Houlihan, USN ~

LT. Jason Joseph Howe, USN

SPC Michael John Mento, US Army

LTJG Matthew Motola, USN

LCpl Bradley O’Ree, USMC

SPC Nicholas Poskonka, US Army

Captain Richard Savo, US Army

1st Lt. Adam Sjoholm, US Army

Captain Ryan Tanguay, US Army

Consider donating the sanctuary lamp that burns in the presence of the Blessed Sacrament in the Church or Chapel in honor of a living or deceased loved one. One intention is accepted per week (Sunday - Saturday) for the Lamp. The suggested donation is $25. Request online HERE. This week the Sanctuary Lamp burns for…

Sanctuary Lamp

Andrew J. Macirowski - Pastoral Coordinator for Worship & Music / Principal Organist Worship@stmaryscoltsneck.org Music@stmaryscoltsneck.org Worship & Music

Pope Saint Gregory the Great

served as Pope from 590-604, and his memorial is celebrated on September 3. He is the patron saint of musicians, especially singers, as well as students and teachers. Although his tenure was short, he is noted for multiple accomplishments:

• Emphasized missionary work in Great Britain

• Frequently gave alms to the poor, and suggested that each church have a deacon who would be ordained for the purpose of service to the poor and needy

• Fed the hungry during a Roman famine in the mid-590s, using the farming assets of the Church of Rome.

• Heavily involved in the liturgy of the Church, he began to establish the collecting of chants used throughout the various regions and constructed the standard for which specific chants would be used for specific services. Although the specific way of notating this music would come centuries later, the term Gregorian Chant is attributed to him and remains the official musical form of the Roman Catholic Church to this day. The style of Gregorian Chant is the model for modern styles of chant as well, with flowing and melismatic musical lines. Single-line chant was the precursor to counterpoint, which lead to polyphony, which led to the music of the baroque and classical eras and beyond. Therefore, not only sacred music, but almost all modern music can trace it roots back to Pope Gregory’s insistence on codifying musical practice and form.

Augustine, Bishop and Doctor, 354-430

Augustine was the eldest son of St. Monica and Patricius, a pagan Roman official. As a young man, he studied at the university at Carthage with the intent of becoming a lawyer, but gave up law to devote himself to literary pursuits. Along the way, he abandoned his Christian faith.

For about fifteen years, Augustine adopted the Manichean heresy. The Manichaens believed that evil was caused by an outside force, thus, people were relieved of guilt for their sins. Augustine lived with a mistress who bore him a son. He studied and taught rhetoric at Tagaste, Carthage, Rome, and Milan.

In Milan, Augustine was impressed by the sermons of St. Ambrose, the bishop of the city. His influence, as well as the prayers of his mother, brought him back to Christianity and he was baptized by Ambrose at the Easter Vigil in 387.

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Baptismal Preparation Session

St Mary Parish is offering our next Baptismal Preparation Session on: SUNDAY, September 8, 2024 at 1:00 PM Pre-registrationisrequiredaweek inavance. Contact Us

Richard Gerbino Jennifer Stubbs

TH - Carol Donahue

TH - Gregory Calderaro

ALT - Maureen Geiger

OH - Fran Vaina

TH - Ron Gabbard

TH - Dawn Reinhardt

ALT - Irene Weller

Cohort 13

St. Catharine of Genoa 108 Middletown Rd. Holmdel

Saint Mary Parish One Phalanx Rd. Colts Neck

St. Gabriel 100 N. Main St. Marlboro

St. Leo The Great 50 Hurleys Lane, Lincroft

Faith Formation

Julia Cullen - Pastoral Coordinator of Faith Formation / Religion Ed

ReligiousEd@stmaryscoltsneck.org 732-780-2666 X 309

Religious Education Calendar

14 September 2024

Confirmation Prep Orientation

Grades 7&8, 4 PM

Mandatory for Students &Parents

15 September 2024

Fall RE Orientation & Blessing mass

Grades 1-6 beginning at 12PM mass and following in the church

17 September 2024

Fall RE begins, Grades 1-6

22, 24 September 2024

Confirmation Prep Class

Get your spooky on at our Annual Intergenerational Event:

This year our theme of Saint & Superheroes will take place in our Haunted House in Madonna Hall. In order to make this Spooktacular, we need volunteers to help decorate tables.

Sign-ups will begin next week

2024 - 2025

• 2024 - 2025 RE Calendar

• Parent - Student 24/25 Handbook

• Intergenerational List

• Intergeneneration Recording

• Attendance Link

• Service Opportunities 7 Grade and Up

With such a successful summer intensive under our belt, we look forward to a wonderful Fall RE program for our first to eighth graders! Confirmation Prep Orientation is on Saturday, 14 September, beginning at the 4 PM mass & Orientation for RE grades 1-6 is on Sunday, 15 September beginning at the 12 PM mass. We look forward to seeing some new faces and welcoming others back! Please see the box below for important Sacramental Information for upcoming First Holy Communions and Confirmation. Happy Labor Day weekend and enjoy the last days of summer Looking for Fall Class Assistants! 7th grade and up -

Confirmation (9th graders) Rehearsal: Saturday, 12 October, 2024 - beginning at the 4PM mass

Confirmation will be celebrated on: Friday, 18 October, 2024 beginning at 4 PM sharp

First Holy Communions & Rehearsal/Retreat Schedule: 10/6 10AM Communion- Rehearsal/Retreat: Sun, September 29, 2024 12pm mass 10/13 10 AM Communion- Rehearsal/Retreat: Sun, October 6, 2024 12pm mass 10/20 12 PM Communion- Rehearsal/Retreat: Sun, October 13, 2024 12pm mass

The Martha Mary Guild cordially invites all women of the parish and Cohort parishes to attend the first meeting of our new year on Wed., Sept. 11. We will pray the Rosary in the old chapel of the Spiritual Center at 11:30 a.m., followed by BYOL (Bring Your Own Lunch) at noon, with refreshments and dessert supplied by the Guild. Our speaker, is Mark Cartier, who we enjoyed so much a few years ago, that we invited him back. He and his wife, Stephanie are the owners of No Limits Cafe on Rte. 35 in Red Bank. This is a very special restaurant that hires people with intellectual disabilities and they do a wonderful job. Mark will describe how the restaurant was started and what it's like operating such an establishment. His story is heartwarming, and, speaking from experience, their food is delicious! Come and hear about it and I guarantee you will be going there for lunch soon!!

WE NEED YOU !

Men, women, teens and preteens - the Martha Mary Guild would appreciate your help in sorting clothes for the Big September Sale. (Yes, men help too and are especially needed for setting up and breaking down the racks.)

At 1 p.m. on Fri. August 16, we will be setting up in Madonna Hall (in the Spiritual Center). For two weeks starting on August 20, we will be in Madonna Hall every week day from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. to sort clothing. No skills are needed and no "sign-up" is necessary for Set-up - JUST COME!!

We will be accepting donations of clean, gently used clothing from Aug. 17 through Sept. 1 - and just a reminder - the Sale will be Sept. 5,6,7 & 8. Your help is so very much needed and you can sign up HERE

These are the organizations that benefited from the 2023

Clothing Sale:

Sisters of Mercy Convent Maintenance

Yamba Uganda

Collier Youth Services

Sisters of St. Joseph Retirement Fund

Mercy Center

Mary's Place

No Limits Cafe

Soul Kitchen

Special Olympics, NJ

Pathfinder

Quo vadis...

My Dear Parishioners: Today we celebrate the Twenty-Second Sunday in Ordinary Time. It’s easier to clean the pots and pans than to clean one’s heart! It’s also easy to dismiss this gospel because our tradition has never emphasized this kind of ritual impurity. Yet, the gospel hits home closer than we may think. What traditions do we blindly cling to? Perhaps it is enough for us just to go to Mass on Sunday; after all, this is what most of us grew up doing. Or perhaps we cling to rote prayers that we learned as a child rather than stretch our relationship with God to find new prayer expressions. Perhaps we relegate God in our lives to an hour on Sunday. We need to look at the way we live, and this will tell us whether we have hearts truly turned toward God—all the time. Purity of heart is expressed in righteous living self-giving for the sake of others. This is how we have life.

His Holiness, Pope Francis has declared 1 September as a day for us to remember the gifts of creation, especially the earth and all that the earth offers to sustain our everyday living. Building upon the landmark encyclical Laudato si, the Holy Father invites us to pray in a special way for a greater awareness of all creation, human life and the environment in which we live. This call is not one of political or social correctness, but rather one of a moral imperative recognizing that God has set humankind over creation. Therefore, we have a moral obligation to respect all that has been created and work for greater respect of all creation. Some of the practical ways we are striving to become more environmentally conscious here at our parish campus has been: reduced flow fixtures in our restrooms; motion sensor lighting controls; programmable internet hosted thermostats; scheduling activities in space appropriate locations; replacing existing light fixtures with energy efficient LED fixtures; retrofitting older HVAC

units with economizers for fresh air intake; caring for / replacing / managing plantings throughout our campus; install of water fountain with bottle refill component; the installation of the solar farm along the north east boundary of the property. May our deliberate respect for God’s many gifts found in the created order inspire others to work for just environmental policies.

This weekend we observe the Civic Holiday recognizing the dignity of Human Labor. We will observe the abbreviated mass schedule: Saturday 5:00pm & Sunday 10:00am. Let us remember all those who labor for the common good. Let us also pray for a continued increase in the working conditions for all laborers. The parish office will be closed on Monday and mass will be celebrated at 9:00am in the chapel.

This might be a good time for me to reiterate the importance of parents accompanying their children to mass each Sunday and for Holy Days; dressing appropriately, arriving on time, remaining until the final blessing are all ways that we witness to the importance of Sunday Eucharist in the life of every Catholic.

For those who have not participated in the 2024 Annual Catholic Appeal, please do so as soon as possible. For those who have already participated, THANK YOU! A par ish is the responsibility of all involved and not simply a few people. Together let us discern how God is calling us to build the Church in our midst and throughout our Diocese of Trenton. May our Stewardship of Time, Talent & Treasure continue to make the Church vibrant in our time. Have a great week. Let us remember one another in prayer.

Happy Sunday. Peace. F. Jeff

Parishioner

"Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites. You pay tithes of mint and dill and cummin, and have neglected the weightier things of the law: judgment and mercy and fidelity."

Mt 23:23

Corporate Matching

Several firms and corporations offer matching gift programs to benefit religious organizations, charities and other nonprofits to promote philanthropy amongst their employees. St Mary Parish is a registered charitable organization with the IRS and is also listed in GuideStar which is required by some of the corporate matching gift programs. Please consult with your employer to sign up for their matching gift program. If you have any question or need help signing St Mary Parish for corporate matched contributions, please contact Edwin at the Parish Office, 732-780-2666 x312.

Thank you for your support!

Please remember the Parish of Saint Mary in your will.. By naming St. Mary in your will or trust, you will provide a lasting gift that will greatly help St. Mary and our parishioners.

Thank you for your consideration.

A. SevillanoTemporalAdmin@stmaryscoltsneck.org

Sign-in for our Online Giving system to make your parish offerings from your bank account or Credit Card!

To set up an online giving account please visit https://giving.parishsoft.com/smcn

Alternatively, just Text SUNDAY to (732)-889-7800 and follow the instructions to complete your offering. Should you require our assistance setting up your new account, please call the parish office at (732)780-2666.

You can also download the Connect Now Giving App for Android or iOS.Thank you for your continuous support!

As of August 26 2024

THANK YOU ! For all your efforts in supporting the Annual Catholic Appeal! Please continue to make your pledge payments so that our parish can receive the maximum rebate. If you haven't made a pledge yet please go to www.dioceseoftrenton.org/catholicappeal to send your gift electronically. Make sure to select St. Mary Catholic Church, Colts Neck in the Parish Affiliation box so we can receive credit for your gift.

Thank you for your prayers and support

through November 11th at the parish office.

The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius are a core offering at Francis House which deepen your capacity for prayer and intimacy with God, free you from attachments, clarify your purpose and teach discernment of spirits, the art of finding God in all things. Below are our 3 ways:

IN-PERSON OR ZOOM MONTHLY SPIRITUAL EXERCISES

10 Wednesdays 3:00 – 4:30 PM

September 11 February 5

October 9 March 5

November 6 April 2

December 4 April 16

January 8 May 7

Please give yourself the gift of this retreat that invites you to pray with Scriptures each day using the format of the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius. We will use The Jesus Way: Practicing the Ignatian Spiritual Exercises, by Karen Keen and The Gift of Spiritual Intimacy by Monty Williams, SJ. Donation: $200

34 WEEKLY ZOOM MEETINGS SPIRITUAL EXERCISES OF ST. IGNATIUS

34 Tuesdays 3:00 – 4:30 PM

September 17 – May 27

On Zoom to alleviate travel each week. In this full version, we will experience the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius which corresponds to a 30-day retreat at a retreat house. You are committing to one hour of prayer every day and a weekly meeting. We will use The Jesus Way: Practicing the Ignatian Spiritual Exercises, by Karen Keen and The Gift of Spiritual Intimacy by Monty Williams, SJ. Donation: $450

The proceeds of which will benefit New Jersey Right to Life, the state’s oldest and largest pro-life organization, dedicated to protecting all human life from conception to natural death.

Tickets are available UNTIL November 11th for $10 each in the Parish Office.

The prizes this year are:

1st Prize 2025 Volvo XC40 AWD SUV

2nd Prize $1,000 ShopRite Gift Card

3rd Prize $750 ShopRite Gift Card

4th Prize - $500 ShopRite Gift Card

Please show your support for LIFE by buying a raffle ticket. The cost is $10.00 per ticket.

EVENING ZOOM SERIES THE SPIRITUAL EXERCISES MADE EASY

10 Wednesdays 7:00 – 8:30 PM