THIS COLLECTION WILL BE TAKEN ON THE WEEKEND OF JULY …

1 PRAISE GOD FROM WHOM ALL BLESSINGS FLOW Stewardship Report Treasure WEEKLY COLLECTION Budgeted Amount: $5, Weekly COLLECTION information is not available for Sunday, July 1 at the time of bulletin publication. It will be reported next week. ** The Sanctuary Lamp is given this week: In Memory of: Patrick O Shea Given by: Mike and Grace Casalino MASS INTENTIONS THIS WEEK 7/9 MON: 9:00a People of the Parish 7/10 TUES: 9:00a People of the Parish 7/11 WED: 9:00a No Mass today 7/12 THU: 9:00a People of the Parish 7/13 FRI: 9:00a People of the Parish 7/14 SAT: 5:00p Doris Gude Bernhard Oesen (LIV) The Pandorf Family (LIV) 7/15 SUN: 8:30a Special Intention for a Special Soul 10:30a Peter P. Horvath Rita & Edwin Puzio George Fluhr Ernestine Gratzl ST. MONICA S CHURCH Contact information Phone: 973-875-4521 Fax: 973-875-7538 Parish Office Hours: 9:30am 1:30pm Mon-Fri Website: Email: Deadline for bulletin submissions: Tuesday of each week for information to be printed on the following Sunday.

2 Email to NEW SUMMER MASS SCHEDULE BEGINNING THE WEEKEND OF JULY 7/8 MASSES WILL BE AS FOLLOWS: SATURDAY: 5:00 SUNDAY: 8:30 AND 10:30 THERE WILL BE NO 11:45 SUNDAY MASS. REGULAR MASS SCHEDULE WILL RESUME ON THE WEEKEND OF SEPTEMBER 8/9. FOURTEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME JULY 8, 2018 When we gather together as a faith community to give glory to God, we expect that our experience will be similar to what it was the week before, or the week before that. Most likely this is how the faithful of Nazareth felt when they went to synagogue. Then one day, a carpenter, son of Mary, whom some may have known when he was just a boy, stood up to preach. Unlike the crowd in today s Gospel, may we be open to the Word of God entering in unexpected ways. WEEKLY/MONTHLY PARISH EVENTS COFFEE & DONUTS will resume in September. ** SCRIPTURE REFLECTION Wednesdays at 6:30pm in the Rectory Meeting Room. Weekly reading/ reflection of the Sunday Scriptures fellowship time & refreshments follow.

3 ** ST. MONICA S LEISURE GROUP The next meeting will be on Wednesday, July 11 (second Wednesday) at 12:00 noon in the Church Hall. Annual dues are $ For more information, please call Grace or Mike Casalino at 973-702-8569. ** BOOK DISCUSSION GROUP will not be meeting during the summer months. The next meeting will take place on Monday, September 17th at 7:30 in the rectory meeting room. Mark your calendar all are invited. ** HELPING HANDS meets the second Tuesday of each month in the Rectory Meeting Room at 7:30 New members are always welcome! There is no meeting in July. The next meeting is Tuesday, August 14. ** SPECIAL DEVOTIONS AT ST. MONICA S Novena to Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal every Tuesday after the 9:00 Mass. Chaplet of the Divine Mercy - Every Friday after the 9:00 Mass. Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament First Friday of the month after the 9:00 Mass until 10:00 PARISH REGISTRATION INFORMATION Are you new to our parish?

4 If so, welcome! Do you wish to register? If you are attending Mass and using our blue blank visitor envelopes and wish to receive our weekly envelopes in the mail, please register with us. If you wish to become a registered member and placed on our parish mailing list, there are blank registration forms on the table near the Church Hall exit. Please fill it out and give it to Fr. Jan after Mass, or either drop it in the COLLECTION basket or visit the rectory during the week between the hours of 9:30am and 1:30pm. Solemn Commemoration of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Sunday, July 15, 2018 11:30 am Mass with Scapular Enrollment at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church, 90 Euclid Avenue, Middletown, NY 10940. Procession to follow to the National Shrine of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel for Benediction, 70 Carmelite Drive, Middletown, NY 10940. Refreshments will be available for purchase: hamburgers, hot dogs & salads, chips, soda/water in the picnic grove on the Shrine grounds.

5 For further information, call Carol Bezak, Shrine Director, 845-343-1879 or Dottie Lanos, Mt. Carmel Church, 845-342-3347. If you can t come to the Sunday Celebration, join us for Mass on the Feast Day, Monday, July 16th at 11:30 am and spend the day at the Shrine! ** CHRISTMAS IN JULY WORKSHOP HOSTED BY HOLY SPIRIT ORTHODOX CHURCH, WANTAGE, NEW JERSEY In the spirit of CHRISTMAS IN JULY and community outreach and fellowship, Holy Spirit invites you to join us for an afternoon of fun, fellowship and Christmas card making! There will be two Christmas card designs and you will reproduce them and make five cards of each design. You ll go home with ten beautiful Christmas cards that you have personally created. The only supplies you will need to bring with you will be coloring pencils or water color pencils. All other supplies will be provided. This workshop will be under the direction of renowned artists and instructors, Anna Seniw and Sue Speck.

6 The event will be held at Holy Spirit Orthodox Church, 102 Route 284, Wantage NJ 07461 on Saturday, July 14, 1-3pm. Fee: Adult $20. Children $12 and must be accompanied by an adult. To make a reservation or for more information, email or call 845-856-4147. Please see the flyers at the church and hall exits. If you have questions, contact Mary Osinski at or 973-838-0590. Congratulations to Nick Boyle and Kristina Garrera on their marriage which took place at St. Monica s Church on Friday, June 29, 2018. May God grant you all of life s blessings and love s joys! his word today by rev . william J. reilly Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time July 8, 2018 Three times I begged the Lord about this. That it might leave me, but he said to me, My grace is sufficient for you. For power is made perfect in weakness. I would rather boast most gladly of my weaknesses, in order that the power of Christ may dwell with me. Therefore I am content with Are we not all plagued by difficulties and problems?

7 Do we have the courage to turn to the Lord as Paul did especially in moments of crisis? The litany of his hardships and those of most people far exceed the troubles which come my way. The source of Paul s contentment is the remedy for our difficulties as well. His grace, His life, His power is available to us, especially in time of need. I only need to turn and express my dependence upon Him, to face whatever comes my way, the good and the bad. Weakness is certainly not the so called American way. Yet the secret is found in the Lord s hidden presence if we but seek it and use it. May I repeat Paul s mantra I can do all things in Him who strengthens me. Paul did not give up but asked three times. Do I persevere? THIS COLLECTION WILL BE TAKEN ON THE WEEKEND OF JULY 14/15.