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Our Lady of Good Counsel
137 West Upper Ferry Road West Trenton, New Jersey 08628
2ND SUNDAY OF LENT
MARCH 1, 2015
Msgr. Ralph W. Stansley, Pastor
Msgr. John K. Dermond, Weekend Assistant
Deacon John Bonner
Deacon Steven Szmutko
Brenda O’Callaghan, CRE
MASSES
Weekdays:
Monday thru Friday
7:30 AM
Saturday
8:00 AM
Weekends:
Saturday Vigil
5:00 PM
Sunday
8:30 AM & 10:30 AM
Holy Days:
7:30 AM, Noon, & 7:00 PM
RECONCILIATION
ADORATION OF THE
BLESSED SACRAMENT
Saturdays, 4:00 to 4:30 PM
Mondays, 8:00 AM to 7:00 PM
INFANT BAPTISM
Baptisms are celebrated on
Sundays at Noon with prior
arrangements made at least three months in
advance with the Infant Baptism Ministry. Parents
are required to attend a parish preparation
program. Godparents must be practicing Catholics
in good standing with their local parish. See the
ministry brochure in parish Literature Racks.
MARRIAGES Arrangements should be made at
least one year in advance. Couples
are required to participate in a parish marriage
preparation program and to attend a pre-marital
conference sponsored by the Diocese. Weddings
must be scheduled before 2:00 PM on Saturdays.
MINISTRY TO THE SICK
AND HOMEBOUND
To arrange for the spiritual
needs of the homebound or
sick, contact the Rectory
Office and see the ministry brochure in parish
Literature Racks. Urgent sick calls at any time.
REGISTRATION
All parishioners should be
registered. Please contact the
Rectory Office when entering or leaving the parish.
Parish Ministries & Services
PARISH RECTORY & OFFICE
609 882 3277
Office Hours: 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM
Fax: 609 882 4375
Monday thru Friday
Website: olgcc.net
E-mail: [email protected]
RELIGIOUS EDUCATION
Brenda O’Callaghan, CRE
883 9005
E-mail: [email protected]
ADORATION OF THE BLESSED SACRAMENT
Deacon John
Rosalie Brenna
771 8288
883 1792
ADULT FAITH FORMATION
Deacon Steve
637 0779
CONSOLATION MINISTRY
Deacon John
771 8288
HOMEBOUND OUTREACH
Rectory Office
882 3277
INFANT BAPTISM
Mary Szmutko
637 0779
KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS
Thomas Voorhees, Grand Knight
Frank McGraw, Church Director
306 6609
895 9748
LITURGICAL MINISTERS
Rectory Office
882 3277
MUSIC MINISTRY
Deirdre Hindley, Organist
882 3215
RCIA
Deacon Steve
637 0779
SENIORS CLUB
Mary Pat Voorhees, President
Dolores Sebasto, Vice President
882 2327
882 5085
SOCIAL SERVICES
Dan Morocco
882 0906
YOUTH MINISTRY
Deacon John
771 8288
WEBMASTER
Maryanne Garcia
908 371 1150
Schedule for the Week
MASSES & SERVICES
READERS
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8:00 AM
5:00 PM
8:30 AM
10:30 AM
7:30 AM
7:30 AM
7:30 AM
7:30 AM
7:30 AM
7:00 PM
8:00 AM
5:00 PM
8:30 AM
10:30 AM
Saturday, February 28
Special Intention
Daniel DeFrancesco r/o Mary DeFrancesco
Nicholas Muscente r/o Peter & Deborah Yacyk
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Sunday, March 1
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2 Sunday of Lent
For the Intentions of William A. Doyle r/o Wife, Eileen,
and Daughter, Nan
Francis Kleber r/o Raymond Dietrich
People of the Parish
Nicholas Muscente r/o Kees & Angela Geurds
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Monday, March 2
Theresa Estok r/o Dolores DeBlasio
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Tuesday, March 3
Pamela Suozzo r/o Harry & Eileen Masterson
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Wednesday, March 4
Robert Dietrich r/o Rosary Group
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Thursday, March 5
Special Intention
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Friday, March 6
Robert Dietrich r/o Rosary Group
Stations of the Cross
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Saturday, March 7
Special Intention
People of the Parish
Betty Kiernan r/o Helen Marie Dolton
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Sunday, March 8
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3 Sunday of Lent
Special Intention
Tricia Elizabeth Cook Parziale r/o Parents
Family Liturgy Mass
Stella Bartosiewicz r/o Harriet & Al Waranis
Nicholas Muscente r/o The Williams Family
EXTRAORDINARY MINISTERS
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5:00 PM
8:30 AM
10:00 AM
10:30 AM
Friday Home Visits as arranged, March 6
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Saturday, March 7
Anna Adomaitis, Vickey Aneser, & Ginny Evans
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Sunday, March 8
Carol Lake, Michael Lake, & Tony Jones
CareOne Visits: Claude LeGall
Brenda O’Callaghan, Mary Lou Kramli, & Linda
Reasoner
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Monday, March 9 , Reposition.
Fran Golinski
SENIOR’S CLUB NEWS
There were 29 members present the last meeting.
Dennis Lysaght from the Ewing Church Cemetery spoke
to members about burial plots. A representative from the
West Trenton Garden Club will speak at the March
meeting, March 4th at 11:00 AM.
Refreshments for the March meeting will be
provided by Betty Gabauer, Mary Gatto, Edie Guadagno,
and Doris Hartman. New members are welcome. Please
to bring an imperishable food for the pantry.
For information, call Linda Solinski at 883 0350.
It is important, once more, for all of us
to be more mindful about the use of our Church.
Missalettes should be replaced in their wooden brackets.
Church doors should be closed during Mass.
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5:00 PM
8:30 AM
10:30 AM
Saturday, March 7
Jacqueline Crane
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Sunday, March 8
Rita Obed
Religious ED Students, Grades 3 & 4
ALTAR SERVERS
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5:00 PM
8:30 AM
10:30 AM
Friday, March 6 , Stations of the Cross
Sean & Michael Guze & Kevin Toler
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Saturday, March 7
Michael Montagna
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Sunday, March 8
Emily Medwick
Kevin Toler
PARISH EVENTS
February 28th: Novenas follow morning Mass. Reconciliation
will take place at 4:00 PM.
March 1st: The 2nd Sunday of Lent.
The adult faith series The Bible Timeline, the Story of
Salvation continues in the Church Hall at 6:00 PM.
March 2nd: Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament will take place
from 8:00 AM to 7:00 PM. The Rectory-side door of the Church
will be open.
Religious ED Classes will take place at Villa Victoria
Academy from 4:30 to 5:45 PM.
The West Trenton Garden Club will meet in the Church
Hall at 7:00 PM.
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March 3 : The Knights of Columbus Council 3756 will sponsor
a social night at the Incarnation / St. James Church Center at
7:30 AM. Everyone is welcome.
March 4th:
The Seniors Club will meet in the Church Hall at
11:00 AM.
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March 6 : Stations of the Cross will be prayed at 7:00 PM.
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March 7 : Novenas follow morning Mass. Reconciliation will
take place at 4:00 PM.
Set-up for the Annual Pasta Dinner of the Soroptimist
International of Trenton will take place in the Church Hall from
1:00 to 3:00 PM.
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March 8 : The 3 Sunday of Lent. Everyone is invited to a
continental breakfast in the Church Hall after the 10:30 AM
Family Liturgy Mass.
The Annual Pasta Dinner of the Soroptimist International of Trenton will take place in the Church Hall from 4:00 to
7:00 PM.
CONTRIBUTIONS
Registered Parishioners
Parishioners using envelopes
Envelope Contributions
Average Contribution
Loose Cash
Contributions for February 22nd
745 families
152
$4,086.00
$26.08
$446.00
$4,532.00
There will be no pouting.
If you must do so . . .
then go to the back of the room
and stand in the corner.
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Announcements
PARISH NEWS
LENTEN REGULATIONS
Soroptimist Pasta Dinner The Annual Pasta
Dinner of the Soroptimist International of Trenton will be
held next Sunday in the Church Hall from 4:00 to 7:00
PM. Tickets may be purchased at the door and take-out
is available: adults, $10.00; children under 10 years of
age, $6.00; children under 3 years of age are free. For
information, call Joy Ribsam at 883 8668.
Catholic Radio Parish Visit On the weekend
of March 14th and 15th, representatives of Domestic
Church Media Catholic Radio will be present in our
Church Foyer after all Masses with information and radio
schedules. Tune into Catholic Radio 1260 AM, or
download the WFJS smart phone app, or listen live
online @ www.domesticchurchmedia.org.
Morris Hall Gift Shop Volunteers Looking for
an opportunity where you can make a difference?
Volunteers are needed at the Morris Hall Gift
Shop known as the Saints Corner Boutique. The Shop is
open from 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM daily and is an integral
part of the social fabric of the facility.
Currently,
volunteers are needed who can work regularly on a
weekly basis or as occasional substitutes. For more
information, contact Mary Lou Kramli at 215 693 1061.
Notre Dame Applications Notre Dame students learn to apply lessons of faith, leadership, and
learning to the big test of life. Applications for fall
admissions to the Class of 2019 are being accepted with
an Admission Test on March 20th at 8:00 AM. For more
information, call 8820 7900, X139.
VVA Accepting Applications
Villa Victoria
Academy is now accepting applications for the 20152016 school year. Villa Victoria offers small classes and
a faith-based curriculum structured to meet girls’ unique
needs. Lower School Information Sessions (Grades PK6) will be held on Tuesday, March 24th from 1:00 to 2:30
PM. For information. Call 882 1700.
Knights of Columbus Scholarship The Ewing
Knights of Columbus are again sponsoring its scholarship
contest for students who will be attending Catholic high
school next year. The contest is open to students
sponsored by a member of the Knights, graduates of
Incarnation / St. James School, members of Incarnation /
St. James and Our Lady of Good Counsel Parishes,
residents of Ewing Township, and students attending
Villa Victoria Academy Grades 9 – 12.
Interested students should submit an essay of
200 – 500 words on the topic: How My Faith Helps Me
Face Challenges. Essays must be received by March
31st and addressed to the Scholarship Committee c/o
Thomas Falco living at 132 Bull Run Road in Ewing, NJ
08638. Mr. Falco’s phone is 882 6480.
Trenton / Ewing Meals on Wheels Meals on
Wheels is again seeking volunteers or substitutes for its
weekly deliveries. To volunteer call Stephanie Bradley at
695 3483.
These forty days of Lent, O Lord, with you we fast and
pray . . . this line from a popular hymn we sing in our parishes
during the season of Lent contains a very important truth. During
the days and weeks of penance that lie ahead, from Ash
Wednesday, February 18th until Holy Thursday, April 2nd: It
is with YOU, Lord, with YOU we fast and pray. The model Jesus
gave us for “these forty days” was his own experience of the
desert and the temptations that followed him there where he
encountered Satan face to face. And yet, Jesus, there in the
desert ― alone, fasting and in intense prayer ― beat back the
devil and triumphed over temptation, as strong and as
unrelenting as it was throughout those forty days.
We enter the desert of Lent like Jesus, led by the Holy
Spirit, to face our devils, our temptations head on. But we are
not alone. With YOU we fast and pray is our song. The Lord
Jesus Christ is with us. And so, too, is the Church, the entire
community of faith observing Lent. With YOU, too, we fast and
pray. Here is what the Catholic Church in the United States asks
of us as baptized Catholics:
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The days of fast (only one full meal) and abstinence (no
meat) are Ash Wednesday and Good Friday.
All other Fridays of Lent are days of abstinence (no
meat).
Those between the ages of 18 and 59 are obliged to
fast (only one full meal) as above. From the age of 14, people
are also obliged to abstain (no meat: this obligation prohibits the
eating of meat, but not eggs, milk products or condiments of any
kind, even though made from animal fat). The obligation to
observe the laws of fast and abstinence is a serious one for
Catholics. Failure to observe one penitential day in itself is not
considered a serious sin. It is the failure to observe any
penitential days at all, or a substantial number of days, which
must be considered serious.
The obligation, the privilege really, of receiving the
Eucharist at least once a year ― often called Easter duty ― for
those in the state of grace should still be fulfilled during the
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period from the 1 Sunday of Lent, February 22 to Trinity
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Sunday, May 31 . However, the Church’s law does permit this
precept to be fulfilled at another time during the year when there
is a just cause.
I want to encourage Catholics to get to confession and
to make use of the sacrifices and traditions that have always
been part of our Lenten practices in the Church. We do, indeed,
fast and pray with the Lord Jesus and with our fellow Catholics.
May this Lent be a time of penance, grace and joy for us all.
Sincerely yours in Christ,
Most Reverend David M. O’Connell, C.M.
Bishop of Trenton
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Reflection
2nd Sunday of Lent
This is my beloved Son. Listen to him.
Jesus took the three apostles up to the
mountain for three reasons: first, to show them the glory
of his divinity, then to declare himself Israel’s redeemer
as he had already foretold by the prophets, and thirdly to
prevent the apostles’ being scandalized at seeing him
soon afterward enduring those human sufferings which
he had freely accepted for our sake.
The apostles knew that Jesus was a man; they
did not know that he was God. To their knowledge he
was the son of Mary, a man who shared their daily life in
this world. On the mountain he revealed to them that he
was the Son of God, that he was in fact God himself.
Peter, James, and John were familiar with the
sight of their master eating and drinking, working and
taking rest, growing tired and falling asleep,
experiencing fear and breaking out in sweat. All these
things were natural to his humanity, not to his divinity.
He therefore took them up onto the mountain so
that they could hear his Father’s voice calling him Son,
and he could show them that he was truly the Son of
God and was himself divine.
He took them up onto the mountain in order to
show them his kingship before they witnessed his
passion, to let them see his mighty power before they
watched his death, to reveal his glory to them before
they beheld his humiliation.
Then when the Jews took him captive and
condemned him to the cross, the apostles would
understand that it was not for any lack of power on his
part that Jesus allowed himself to be crucified by his
enemies, but because he had freely chosen to suffer in
that way for the world’s salvation.
He took them up onto the mountain before his
resurrection and showed them the glory of his divinity,
so that when he rose from the dead in that same divine
glory they would realize that this was not something
given him as a reward for his labor, as if he were
previously without it.
That glory had been his with the Father from all
eternity, as is clear from his words on approaching his
freely chosen passion: Father, glorify me now with the
glory I had with you before the world was made.
Raphael
The Transfiguration of Jesus, 1520
And he was transfigured before them, and his clothes became
dazzling white. Then Elijah appeared to them along with Moses,
and they were conversing with him.
MORNING STAR HOUSE OF PRAYER
The quiet, rustic atmosphere of the Morning Star
House of Prayer, located on the Villa Victoria campus,
invites all to come apart and to deepen their relationship
with Jesus.
Programs include: the Hermitage Experience, an
opportunity to enjoy solitude apart from the main house;
Conference Retreats, including conference and reflection
time; Private Retreats, a coming apart for quiet reflection;
Directed Retreats under the direction of a spiritual guide;
Group Directed Retreats under the direction of staff;
Spiritual Direction, hourly meetings to share our spiritual
journeys; and Days of Recollection as scheduled.
The Morning Star events for the month of March
are as follows:
• March 3rd, Ladies Auxiliary Meeting at 2:30 PM.
• March 8th, Day of Reconciliation, RCIA, at Sacred Heart in Trenton at 11:30 AM.
• March 14th, Day of Reconciliation, Blessed Sacrament Altar Rosary in Trenton at 9:30 AM.
• March 24th, ASLF Meeting at 5:00 PM.
For more information about these and other events, call
882 2766.
Ephrem, 373
The only Syrian Father
who is honored as a Doctor of the Church
was ordained Deacon in 363
and gave an outstanding example
of a Deacon’s life and work.
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