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April 13, 2022
ST ANTONINUS CATHOLIC CHURCH
337 S. ORANGE ST, NEWARK NJ 07103
SaintAntoninusChurch@gmail.com ~ 973-623-0258
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What's happening at St Antoninus?
√ See the schedule of the Sacred Triduum, which begins tomorrow, Holy Thursday.
√ NO Prayer Meeting today Wednesday ( However, the 7PM Rosary is still on)
√ NO Zoom Rosary on Holy Thursday, Good Friday, Holy Saturday and Easter ( Thursday, April 14 thru Sunday, April 17).
We will resume on Monday, April 18)
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√ There is a change of plans for the pilgrimage to the Divine Mercy Shrine which was scheduled for April 23, the Saturday before Divine Mercy Sunday. Due to restrictions on the number of buses allowed into the shrine this year, we have decided to cancel our pilgrimage. Instead, we will hold a Divine Mercy Prayer Vigil with Eucharistic Adoration & reflections in the rectory chapel- from 6-9pm on Saturday April 23. This is a great way to prepare for Divine Mercy Sunday (following day)
We will be praying the Divine Mercy Chaplet & the last day of novena, as well as some really beautiful prayers derived from the Diary of St Faustina.
√ Divine Mercy Novena . Looking ahead to April 24th, the Sunday after Easter Sunday: That day we will celebrate the great Feast of Divine Mercy. We will be preparing for this Feast through our daily Divine Mercy Novena prayers that begins on Good Friday. Pray this Novena with us or pray it each day with your family.
Click here for a downloadable copy of the Divine Mercy Novena.
√ Urgent prayers needed! The so called “New state education standards” curriculum for our children— some of which relate to sexual orientation and gender identity — adopted in 2020 are set to go into effect this fall. There are very serious concerns from parents about this move to challenge the sanctify of human sexuality and Christian moral teachings. More information will be given about this. Fr Joseph will be sending a letter in this coming days.
In the meantime, keep this spiritual battle in your prayers, especially during these holy days.
√ Watch these new special Holy Week Videos (inside)
The Way of Jesus' Passion in Jerusalem
Watch this meditative & heart-wrenching video with photos of the Holy Places that Jesus traveled from the Last Supper, to Calvary and his burial in the Holy Sepulcher.
Let us accompany Our Lord during these minutes, asking for the grace to be able to console His Sacred Heart this Easter. WATCH inside.
CSI Jerusalem: A Physician Looks at the Crucifixion
Charles J. Dietzen, MD, discusses, from a medical perspective, the crucifixion of Jesus of Nazareth and what some theologians and historians say really happened on that long-ago day atop Golgotha and the resurrection that followed. This presentation includes Roman-period artifacts and a life-sized copy of the Shroud of Turin. WATCH inside.
Holy Week - A Reflection
WATCH inside.
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From Fr. Joseph:
Dear brothers and sisters in Christ Jesus:
As we begin this holiest week of the year, I want to encourage everyone to be moved by the heart wrenching words of Our Lord during his agony in the garden:
"Will you not spend one Hour with me."
Brothers and sisters I strongly encourage everyone to attend each of the Liturgies of the Sacred Paschal Triduum: Holy Thursday, Good Friday & Easter Vigil/ Easter Sunday.
In this week & especially on these 3 days, as much as possible, try to avoid every kind of extra activity, and to spend some quiet time each day in the Lord's presence.
Jesus yearns with deep and profound and heart wrenching longing for our loving company. As so many are busy with many things, may we seek to console his Sacred Heart so wounded for love of us and by our lukewarm love for Him.
May we also ask the Holy Spirit to guide us as to who we might invite to join us at one of these Liturgies or to come with us to Confession.
As Jesus said from the cross "I thirst."
May we thirst with him and seek to satisfy his thirst for the salvation of souls and for our love.
You remain in my prayers.
In Jesus thru Mary & St Joseph,
Fr Joseph
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What is the Sacred Triduum?
Holy Week is the most solemn and glorious week in Christianity, the pinnacle of the liturgical year.
Holy Week begins with Palm Sunday (when Jesus made his final entrance into Jerusalem) and culminates with Easter Sunday. As Holy Week progresses to its final days the solemnity heightens.
THE SACRED TRIDUUM
Sundown on Holy Thursday to sundown on Easter Sunday is considered the most solemn part of the liturgical year. This three-day period is referred to as the Easter Triduum, also known as the Sacred Triduum, or Paschal Triduum.
The word "triduum" comes from the Latin word triduum, which comes from tris (“three”) + dies (“day”).
Basically, the Sacred Triduum is one great festival recounting the last three days of Jesus' life on earth, the events of his Passion and Resurrection, when the Lamb of God laid down his life in atonement for our sins.
"Though chronologically three days, they are liturgically one day unfolding for us the unity of Christ's Paschal Mystery" (USCCB).
It is known as the "Paschal Mystery" because it is the ultimate fulfillment of the ancient Jewish Passover (or Pasch), which itself was a recollection of how God brought the Jews out of their slavery in Egypt. The spotless lamb was slaughtered at the Passover meal and consumed—that same night the destroying angel "passed over" the homes marked with the blood of the Passover Lamb, and those covered by the Blood were saved. This was the Old Testament prefigurement of Jesus' work at the Last Supper—where he inserted himself as the Paschal Lamb—and Calvary, where the sacrifice was offered to save us from our slavery to sin. With the Holy Eucharist, we consume the victim that died for our sins.
The Paschal Mystery is, therefore, God's plan of redemption for the fallen human race through the passion, death, and resurrection of the God-man Jesus Christ. It is one marvelous event stretched out over three days.
Here is a breakdown of each of the three days that make up the Easter Triduum. (See our parish schedule for each liturgy- following)
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HOLY SATURDAY
On this day Christ is in the tomb.
There is no daytime Mass on Holy Saturday. It is still a day of fasting and sorrow before the Easter Vigil begins that evening. We recall, with Mary and the disciples, that Jesus died and was separated from them for the first time as He lay in the tomb. The faithful often continue their Good Friday fast through Holy Saturday.
In the Apostles Creed we pray "He descended into hell" (translated hades, that is, the temporary abode of the dead—not the eternal lake of fire) which describes what Jesus did in the time between his burial and Resurrection. Jesus descended to the realm of the dead on Holy Saturday to save the righteous souls—the Old Testament patriarchs, for example—who died before his crucifixion.
The Catechism of the Catholic Church calls Jesus' descent into the realm of the dead "the last phase of Jesus' messianic mission," during which he "opened heaven's gates for the just who had gone before him." Before Holy Saturday, there were no souls enjoying the beatific vision of God in heaven!
Christ's work on Holy Saturday is also known as the "Harrowing of Hell."
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EASTER VIGIL / EASTER SUNDAY
A vigil Mass is held after nightfall on Holy Saturday, or before dawn on Easter Sunday, in celebration of the resurrection of Jesus. This is called the Easter Vigil: the most glorious, beautiful, and dramatic liturgy for the Church.
The vigil is divided into four parts and can last up to three hours: 1) the Service of Light, 2) the Liturgy of the Word, 3) the Liturgy of Baptism, and 4) the Liturgy of the Eucharist.
This is also the Mass in which many RCIA catechumens are brought into full communion with the Catholic Church. Read more details about each part of the marvelous Easter Vigil here.
CELEBRATING EASTER FULLY
Easter Sunday is what we've all been waiting for! The forty days of prayer, fasting, and almsgiving during Lent was in preparation for this day, when our hearts and souls can drink in deeply the culmination of the Paschal mystery: the Resurrection.
"Therefore Easter is not simply one feast among others, but the 'Feast of feasts', the 'Solemnity of solemnities', just as the Eucharist is the 'Sacrament of sacraments'. St. Athanasius calls Easter 'the Great Sunday' and the Eastern Churches call Holy Week 'the Great Week'. The mystery of the Resurrection, in which Christ crushed death, permeates with its powerful energy our old time, until all is subjected to him."
—The Catechism of the Catholic Church, 1168 and 1169
by Gretchen Filz
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St Antoninus
HOLY WEEK SCHEDULE 2022
April 10- April 17
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PALM SUNDAY (already celebrated- continue to the rest of the week)
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Palm Sunday Mass (4/10/22
Mass: 10 AM
(NO 8 AM Mass)
9:00 AM Holy Hour in Rectory Chapel
The 10 AM Palm Sunday Mass will begin outside on the rectory front lawn, with the blessing
and distribution of palms and procession.
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Click below for Palm Sunday Mass livestream link |
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Holy Thursday (4/14/22)
8:00 PM Mass of the Lord’s Supper & Adoration of the Most Blessed Sacrament until midnight in Church (with Confessions)
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Click below for Holy Thursday livestream link below.
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Good Friday (4/15/22)
Day of Fast & Abstinence
1:30 PM Stations of the Cross (Church)
2:30 PM Divine Mercy Chaplet & Novena
3:00 PM Good Friday Celebration of the Lord’s Passion, Veneration of the Cross and Holy Communion
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Click below for Good Friday livestream link: |
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Holy Saturday (4/16/22)- day of silence and expectation.
Silent vigil that starts after Jesus' death and burial on Good Friday and before his resurrection on Easter Sunday. There are no liturgies.
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Click here for a brief reflection on Holy Saturday.
"The Silence of the Tomb"
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Easter Vigil Mass (4/16/22)
8:15 PM in Main Church , beginning with Easter Fire on the rectory front lawn, and candlelight procession to Church for Mass.
Chaplet of Divine Mercy & Novena in the rectory chapel at 8 pm.
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Easter Vigil Mass livestream link: |
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EASTER SUNDAY MASS (4/17/22)
9:00 AM Holy Hour with Divine Mercy Chaplet & Novena
10:00 AM - Holy Mass
(NO 8 AM Mass)
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Easter Sunday Mass livestream link: |
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Divine Mercy Adoration & Reflections to prepare for Divine Mercy Sunday
(Saturday - 4/23/22)
An evening of Adoration and Reflection in the rectory Chapel from 6-9pm. Confession will be available during that time
DIVINE MERCY SUNDAY (4/24/22)
Holy Mass: 8 AM & 10 AM
9:00 AM Holy Hour & Divine Mercy Chaplet.
Following Mass, Divine Mercy presentation and light lunch in the rectory.
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CONFESSIONS DURING LENT
Sundays: 9:00-9:45 AM (before Sunday Mass )
First Fridays: 2-5 pm
First Saturdays 2-3 pm
Other Saturdays : 3 - 4:30 pm
Holy Thursday: 10:30 PM to Midnight
Good Friday & Holy Saturday: 9:30 - 10:30 AM
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This Sunday's Bulletin
Read and download by clicking on image
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HOLY WEEK REFLECTIONS
Brief Video Presentations
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Holy Week - A Reflection ( 3 minute video)
Watch and pray!
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Below, The Way of Jesus' Passion in Jerusalem
Watch this meditative & heart-wrenching video with photos of the Holy Places that Jesus traveled from the Last Supper, to Calvary and his burial in the Holy Sepulcher.
Let us accompany Our Lord during these minutes, asking for the grace to be able to console His Sacred Heart this Easter.
From the Religious Family of the Incarnate Word.
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CSI Jerusalem: A Physician Looks at the Crucifixion from the Medical Perspective
Charles J. Dietzen, MD, discusses, from a medical perspective, the crucifixion of Jesus of Nazareth and what some theologians and historians say really happened on that long-ago day atop Golgotha and the resurrection that followed. Dr. Dietzen, an Indianapolis pediatric physical medicine and rehabilitation specialist and founder of Timmy Global Health, explains the Roman practice of execution, the physiological aspects of Jesus' death and a medical analysis of opposing theories on the resurrection. He also discusses what medical and scientific analyses reveal about the Shroud of Turin, an ancient linen many believe to be the burial cloth of Jesus. This presentation included Roman-period artifacts and a life-sized copy of the Shroud of Turin. WATCH!
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Restore: Lent with Sr. Miriam James Heidland, SOLT
In this video of the Restore Lent series, you will walk with Jesus into Jerusalem, to the Cross, and finally to the joy of the Resurrection!
Sr. Miriam James Heidland, SOLT, encourages you to allow the Lord to draw close to you during this holiest of weeks—to restore your life, your brokenness, and your relationships. As the priest prays in the Easter Vigil Mass, “may the light of Christ rising in glory dispel the darkness of our hearts and minds.”
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Every Wednesday night- our Holy Spirit midweek refreshment! ( No Prayer Meeting this Wednesday)
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COME IN PERSON!
Passcode: Rosary
One tap mobile
For audio only - phones +1 929 205 6099 US
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Scripture Study
We have added a video series by Dr. Brant Pitre to our Tuesday Night Scripture Study. Join us in person and on Zoom! Start with the Rosary at 7pm (Rosary every nite at 7pm), then the Scripture Study starts at 8pm.
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A note about Dr Pitre:
Dr Brant Pitre is a renowned & insightful Bible scholar.
What blessing it is to listen to Dr Pitre's study on the Mass readings, to " be instructed in the Old Testament background of the Gospel, the Jewish rabbinical tradition, the testimony and interpretation of the early Church Fathers, the Church's magisterial teaching, and the personal insights of a leading Catholic Scripture scholar.
Dr. Pitre makes the Scripture come alive, and his love for God's Word comes through loud and clear. He communicates profound insights into Scripture in a manner available to everyone, from the beginner to the accomplished student or scholar"
Fr. Miles Walsh, S.T.D.
The discussions following the video presentation is led by our own Fr Peter Okafor.
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Below: our "Hybrid" Scripture Class is now both in person and via Zoom. Join us every Tuesday night at 8pm.
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For those who can only join via Zoom, here is the link:
(Same link for Rosary & Prayer Meeting)
Just click
Passcode: Rosary
One tap mobile
For audio only - phones +1 929 205 6099 US
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Visit JESUS in the Most Blessed Sacrament!
Tuesday thru Saturday
9am to 8pm
Our Lady of Guadalupe Chapel.
Could you not watch with me one hour?
Mark 14: 40b
Our Lady of Guadalupe Chapel is open for personal visits with our Eucharistic Lord. Spend precious time alone with Jesus!
Register
To obtain the door combination, you will need to register simply emailing us at SaintAntoninusChurch@gmail.com Give your full name, tel #, and your address. This will give you an access to our security key pad.
Oh come, let us worship and bow down;
let us kneel before the Lord, our Maker!
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Click here. For more detailed information on our schedules, including online links, click on image below.
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Please consider making an offering to the Lord on behalf of St Antoninus, that we may continue our mission. Thank you and God bless you!
We are accepting Zelle for online contributions.
All you need to do is enter on the Zelle info:
Name: St. Antoninus Catholic Church
Email: saintantoninuschurch@gmail.com
This means that you can open a Zelle account and put St Antoninus as a recipient.
When you sign up, please include your email or phone number. Thank you.
Other options for Offering:
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You also have the option to mail in your tithe:
St Antoninus Church
337 S. Orange Ave, Newark NJ 07103
Thank you and God bless you!"
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973-623-0258
337 South Orange Ave, Newark NJ 07103
Rev. Joseph A. Meagher (Pastor)
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