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CONVERT AND INQUIRY GROUP Adult Baptism and Inquiry Group (R.C.I.A) meets Sundays in Kolbe Hall after the 9:00 AM Mass, excluding Summer Months. Please call Irene Felber 732-899-1906. SACRAMENT OF RECONCILIATION Saturday - 4:30 - 5:15 PM; and other times by request. SACRAMENT OF BAPTISM A communal celebration of the sacrament of Baptism is held twice a month on Sunday, at 1:30PM. In order for parents to participate in St. Peter’s Baptismal program, it is necessary to contact the Parish Office at least one month before the Baptism. SACRAMENT OF MARRIAGE Engaged couples must contact one of the priests or deacon one year prior to the date of the wedding and before making other arrangements. Either the bride or the groom must be a registered member of St. Peter’s. MINISTRY TO THE ILL AND HOMEBOUND Please call the Parish Office to arrange for communion in the home and the sacrament of anointing the sick. Call us in the event of any serious illness. Please don’t wait for an emergency to call. |
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Conventual Franciscan Friars
Rev. Curt Kreml, OFM, Conv. Pastor Rev. Paul Varga, OFM, Conv., Parochial Vicar Rev. Crispin Fuino, OFM Conv. Mr. George Korbelak, Deacon Mr. Tom Loughran, Deacon |
Pastoral Ministers
Kathleen Berlino, Grammar School Principal Mrs. Merrie Brambilla, director of Religious Education Mrs. Emer O'Mahony, Music Director |
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WEEKLY WISDOM
From Blaming to Forgiving
Our most painful suffering often comes from those
who love us and those we love. The relationships
between husband and wife, parents and children,
brothers and sisters, teachers and students, pastors
and parishioners – these are where our deepest
wounds occur. Even late in life, yes, even after
those who wounded us have long since died, we might
still need help to sort out what happened in these
relationships.
The great temptation is to keep blaming those who
were closest to us for our present, condition saying:
“You made me who I am now, and I hate who I am.”
The great challenge is to acknowledge our hurts and
claim our true selves as being more than the result
of what other people do to us. Only when we can
claim our God-made selves as the true source of our
being will we be free to forgive those who have
wounded us.  Who can consider himself worthy
to approach the priestly ministry? Who can embrace the consecrated life relying only on his or her own human powers?
Once again, it is useful to
reiterate that the response of
men and women to the
divine call, whenever they
are aware that it is God who
takes the initiative and brings His plan of salvation to
fulfillment, is never patterned after the timid self-interest of
the worthless servant who, out of fear, hid the talent entrusted
to him in the ground (cf. Mt 25:14-30), but rather expresses
itself in a ready adherence to the Lord’s invitation, as in the
case of Peter who, trusting in the Lord’s word, did not hesitate
to let down the net once more even after having toiled all night
and catching nothing (cf. Lk 5:5). Without in any sense
renouncing personal responsibility, the free human response to
God thus becomes “co-responsibility”, responsibility in and
with Christ, through the action of his Holy Spirit; it becomes
communion with the One who makes it possible for us to bear
much fruit (cf. Jn 15:5). |
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