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Masses for the Week

Saturday, June 2nd 8:30 a.m. Weekly Memorial Mass 5:00 p.m. Denise Rimmer, req. The Conte Family Sunday, June 3rdFeast of the Most Holy Trinity 7:30 a.m. John Fitzpatrick, req. Margie and Bernie McGhee 9:00 a.m. Nick Carone, req. Rich and Barbara Maggi 10:30 a.m. Michael Rubino, req. Cathy Valles 12:00 p.m. Joanne Christiansen, req. The Schaal Family Monday, June 4th 7:00 a.m. For the People of the Parish and all their intentions 12:10 p.m. Bo Cattano, req. John and Rose Marie Simone Tuesday, June 5th 7:00 a.m. Genevieve and George Connors, req. The Kirwin Family 12:10 p.m. Marian Pencinger, req. The Quesada Family Wednesday, June 6th 7:00 a.m. Deceased Members of the McEnroe Family, req. the family 12:10 p.m. Emile Cattano, req. Valerie and Luciano Ricciardi Thursday, June 7th 7:00 a.m. Concetta and Ralph Rinaldi, req. Eileen and Lou Rinaldi 12:10 p.m. Maria Perez Penasco, req. The Moragas Family Friday, June 8th 7:00 a.m. Marion Pencinger, req. Barbara McMahon 12:10 p.m. Billie and Bill Kirchner, req. the family Saturday, June 9th 8:30 a.m. Weekly Memorial Mass 5:00 p.m. Helen Rubino, req. Joe and Nancy Randazzo Sunday, June 10thThe Feast of Corpus Christi 7:30 a.m. Nicola Carone, req. Wayne Maurer 9:00 a.m. Leslie Catello, req. Rosemarie Lafiosca 10:30 a.m. Michael Rubino, req. Mr. and Mrs. Gino Valles 12:00 p.m. Irene Ferrazzoli, req. The Schall Family

Calendar of Parish Activities Week of June 3, 2012

Saturday, June 2nd No Scheduled Parish Activities Sunday, June 3rd 10:00 - 11:45 a.m. Rel. Ed Family Based Wrap-up Meeting, Gym / Entire Parish Hall / kitchen No Welcome Coffee And this weekend 6:00 p.m. High School Youth Mass, Church 2:00 p.m. Scout Leader Meeting, Rectory Monday, June 4th 3:004:30 p.m. Girls Softball, Gym / Parking Lot 7:30 p.m. 7th Grade Confirmation Inquiry Meeting, Entire Parish Hall 7:308:30 p.m. Rosary and Novena, Church Tuesday, June 5th 3:004:30 p.m. Girls Softball, Parking Lot / Gym 6:308:00 p.m. Cub Scouts, Cafeteria 7:30 p.m. Adult Choir Practice, Church Wednesday, June 6th No scheduled parish activities Thursday, June 7th 11:00 a.m. The Academy of Our Lady of Peace Graduation Mass, Church 1:002:00 p.m. Holy Hour for Reparation, Church 6:30 p.m. The Academy of Our Lady of Peace Graduation Ceremony followed by Reception, Church / Gym Friday, June 8th Last Day of The Academy Pre-K Classes 10:00 a.m. The Academy of Our Lady of Peace Kindergarten Graduation, Entire Parish Hall 6:308:00 p.m. Confirmation Practice, Gym / Church Saturday, June 9th 9:00 a.m.12 Noon Market Street Mission Clothing Collection, Cafeteria 11:00 a.m. Confirmation, Church Sunday, June 10th No Scheduled Parish Activities

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Relatives and Friends Who eed Our Prayers

Please pray especially for the following people who have recently been added to our prayer list: Christopher Siebelts Abadailla Shenouda Herman Larson Peter Dill Matt B. Rocco Damelio Ed Salmons Shirley Grande-Harrington Lynn Aureli three special intentions Let us also pray for the men and women who are serving in our military in particular those who are from our parish: PFC. Joseph Robert Pecca - Korea COL Paul J. McAneny, Air ForceKuwait PFC icholas Hudspith, ArmyKuwait 2LT. John Truppa, Army Lance CPL. Christopher Sodano, Marines - Afghanistan SSG Joseph Cornall, ArmyKuwait Also, please remember our dearly departed who have passed away recently especially Robert Keating and Iole Bergesio May they rest in peace. Please remember that there is a special intention book located in the Baptistery of the church.

Scripture Reading for the Week of June 3rd

Feast of The Most Holy Trinity Sunday Dt 4:32-34, 39-40; Rom 8:14-17; Mt 28:16-20 Monday 2 Pt 1:2-7; Mk 12:1-12 Tuesday 2 Pt 3:12-15a, 17-18; Mk 12:13-17 Wednesday 2 Tm 1:1-3, 6-12; Mk 12:18-27 Thursday 2 Tm 2:8-15; Mk 12:28-34 Friday 2 Tm 3:10-17; Mk 12:35-37 Saturday 2 Tm 4:1-8; Mk 12:38-44

Eucharistic Ministers Still eeded for Manorcare in ew Providence

There is a need for additional Eucharist Ministers to bring Holy Communion on Sunday mornings to the residents of Manorcare Nursing Center on Gales Dr. The residents truly look forward to receiving the Eucharist. It takes only an hour or two on a Sunday morning usually only once a month. Wont you please help? If you need more information or would like to volunteer, please call Millie McSherry at 908-464-4143.

St Teresa of Avila, Summit Bereavement Support Group

We have loved our special someone in life. Let us not abandon him, until we have conducted him by our prayers into the house of the Lord. St. Ambrose
St. Teresas parish will be hosting a four week Bereavement Series on Tuesday evenings 7:309:00 p.m. beginning Tuesday, June 5, 2012. No one should grieve alone. Being with others who are experiencing a similar pain and loss can be helpful. Participants in a Support Group are in mourning and their ways of dealing with the process can be helpful and encouraging. If you cannot attend the entire series, drop in whenever you can. For information or to register, call Ann Fahey at 908-771-0784.

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Welcoming Committee ews

Our Welcoming Committee will not be offering any Coffee And. Gathering during the Summer. Our Sunday morning Welcome Coffee Ands will begin again in September. We hope everyone will have a wonderful and safe summer!

OLP Adult Education Ministry Summer Studies

Fr. Robert E. Barrons 10 hour course on DVD

CatholicismJourney around the world and deep into the faith

Monday through Friday June 1822 or August 2024 This course will take place in the Parish Hall - 7:009:00 p.m. This is an incredibly stunning, inspirational and educational exploration of the theological, spiritual, moral and intellectual richness of the Roman Catholic Church There will be opportunity for discussion and refreshments will be served. No pre-registration, no fee. Just come! For details or questions, please contact Connie McKenna at 908-277-1351.

The Sharing etwork 2nd Annual 5K Run / Walk Sunday, June 10, 2012

The early morning hours of Sunday June 10th promises to be a busy one around our borough and for our parish. On that morning, over 200 teams will run or Elizabeth Barabash Manor walk a 5K though out New Providence in support of Church Coalition of ew Providence organ and tissue donation. Our Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI affirmed that Organ donation is a Affordable Housing unique testimony of charity in his opening remarks 101 Academy Street, ew Providence, J 07974 to an international congress organized by the The Senior Affordable Housing Management Committee is Pontifical Academy for Life in Rome 2008. in need of volunteer committee members. Currently there Like all charitable endeavors, the need always outpace supply. The Sharing Network (sharenj.org) is committed to equalizing the imbalance by organized events like the annual 5K. This event brings together all those affected by donation to unite under a common messagewhich is that more of us need to register and express our desire to be an organ and tissue donor. This year, a team has been organized to participate in memory of a parishioner and in honor of those he gave the gift of life to. Please take just a few moments to register your intent and encourage others to do the same. Visit www.sharenj.org for more information. Thank you and God Bless you.
are vacancies in positions of Secretary, Assistant Manager, and Vice President. We would also like to add several at large committee members as well. If interested contact Ken Detlet Sr.President at 908-464-2314 or Ray CooneyManager / Treasurer at 908-464-9420.

JK Basketball Camp
Coach, teacher and basketball official John Kufel is planning to hold his annual basketball camp at Our Lady of Peace gymnasium in New Providence. There are four different camps. Each camp is available for boys and girls. For more information and for an application, please go to JKbasketball.com Basketball for beginners: (age 10 and younger) July 2ndJuly 6th, 9:00 until 11:55 a.m. July 23rdJuly 27th, 9:00 until 11:55 p.m. Offensive Basketball for 4th, 5th 6th and 7th graders July 9thJuly 13th, 9:00 a.m. until 12:25 p.m. Offensive Basketball for 7th, 8th and 9th graders July 16thJuly 20th, 9:00 a.m. until 12:25 p.m. Basketball Shooting Camp July 16thJuly 20th, 1:153:45 p.m.

Plants need fertilizer to grow healthy and strong and so does your marriage
Without some nurturing and care it will remain weak and unfulfilling. Spread a little fertilizer on your relationship. Make a Worldwide Marriage Encounter weekend and watch your love for each other grow stronger. For more information contact Mike
and Eileen Morgan 973 827-9606 (njwwme@peoplepc.com) or go to WWME.org.

From the Catechetical Office

HAVE YOU CONSIDERED BECOMING A CATECHIST? One of the most rewarding things you can do is share your faith with the youth of our parish as a catechist in our Religious Education Program. The requirements are simple: a love for God, love for our Catholic faith, and a willingness to spread the news of Jesus Christ. Catechists are needed for the following grades: Wednesdays Grades K, 3, and 6 Thursdays Grades K, 1, 5, and 6 For details, call the Parish Catechetical Office at (908)464-7600 and enter 8 when you hear the recorded greeting. By sharing your faith, you grow in faith!

RELIGIOUS EDUCATION REGISTRATION

Registration for fall sessions is now underway. All Catholic children attending public or private schools should attend religious education classes so that they may be well grounded in our faith and be prepared for the sacraments. Religious Education registration packets for September 2012/2013 have been mailed to families of current students. Additional packets and information will be available in the rectory, on the parish website (www.olpnp.com), and on the tables in the rear of the church for families with children new to the program. Religious Education sessions for children in grades K through 6 are held on Wednesdays or Thursdays from 3:30 to 4:45 p.m. Sessions for grades 7 & 8 are on Wednesday evenings from 7:15 to 8:30 p.m. You may either mail or drop off your completed forms to the Catechetical Office in the rectory. By registering before June 15, it enables us to plan class sizes and recruit the needed number of catechists. Registration for First Grade Dont delay registering your first grader! Our First Reconciliation and Eucharist preparation begins in grade one. Children generally receive First Reconciliation in the second grade and First Communion in the third grade after they have experienced full preparation during those three years. Call, email, or visit the Catechetical Office with any questions (at 908-464-7600 and enter 8 when you hear the recorded greeting or at catoff@olpnp.com). The Catechetical Office is located in the Rectory and is open from 9:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. daily. Other hours are available by appointment.

Confirmation June 9, 2012 11:00 a.m. Mass Most Reverend Dominic A. Marconi Required Practice: Friday, June 8 6:30 8 p.m. A OLP Gym & Church Candidate & Sponsor (or another adult) must attend.

Pray the Rosary for Religious Liberty Sponsored by the Knights of Columbus Council 783
Serving St. Teresa of Avila, Our Lady of Peace and Church of the Little Flower You are invited to join us in praying the Rosary for the protection of religious freedom and conscience rights. The next procession will be at Our Lady of Peace church following all masses on June 16 and 17. We will start at the altar and process through the church to the statue of Our Lady outside. The Fourth Degree Knights will lead the procession. This is also in celebration of the 95th anniversary of the second Our Lady of Fatima apparition.

To be conducted monthly following selected Sunday masses through October in celebration of all six apparitions.

PROTECTING CONSCIENCES
USCCB Nationwide Bulletin Insert June 2012

WHY CONSCIENCE IS IMPORTANT

During the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s, Americans shone the light of the Gospel on a dark history of slavery, segregation, and racial bigotry. The civil rights movement was an essentially religious movement, a call to awaken consciences. In his famous Letter from Birmingham Jail in 1963, Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. boldly said, The goal of America is freedom. As a Christian pastor, he argued that to call America to the full measure of that freedom was the specific contribution Christians are obliged to make. He rooted his legal and constitutional arguments about justice in the long Christian tradition: I would agree with Saint Augustine that An unjust law is no law at all. A just law is a man-made code that squares with the moral law or the law of God. An unjust law is a code that is out of harmony with the moral law. Some unjust laws impose such injustices on individuals and organizations that disobeying the laws may be justified. Every effort must be made to repeal them. When fundamental human goods, such as the right of conscience, are at stake, we may need to witness to the truth by resisting the law and incurring its penalties. The church does not ask for special treatment, simply the rights of religious freedom for all citizens. Rev. King also explained that the church is neither the master nor the servant of the state, but its conscience, guide, and critic. Catholics and many other Americans have strongly criticized the recent Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) mandate requiring almost all private health plans to cover contraception, sterilization and abortion-inducing drugs. For the first time in our history, the federal government will force religious institutions to fund and facilitate coverage of a drug or procedure contrary to their moral teaching, and purport to define which religious institutions are religious enough to merit an exemption. This is a matter of whether religious people and institutions may be forced by the government to provide such coverage even when it violates our consciences. What we ask is nothing more than the right to follow our consciences as we live out our teaching. This right is not only about our ability to go to Mass on Sunday or pray the Rosary at home. It is about whether we can make our contribution to the common good of all Americans. Can we do the good works our faith calls us to do, without having to compromise that very same faith? Without religious liberty properly understood, all Americans suffer, deprived of the essential contribution in education, health care, feeding the hungry, civil rights, and social services that religious Americans make every day. What is at stake is whether America will continue to have a free, creative, and robust civil societyor whether the state alone will determine who gets to contribute to the common good, and how they get to do it.

What can you do to ensure the protection of conscience rights?

The U.S. Bishops have called us to get informed, pray and advocate. To send your message to HHS and Congress telling them to uphold religious liberty and conscience rights, go to www.usccb.org/conscience today! Thank you for joining the effort to end this unprecedented government coercion. The Bishops have called for a Fortnight for Freedom - June 21-July 4. Please go to www.fortnight4freedom.org for more information on this important time of prayer and action!

Prayers for Religious Freedom

Thursday, June 21 through th Wednesday, July 4 Weekdays 12:10 Mass followed by the Rosary in front of the Church and 7:30 p.m. Evening Prayers Saturdays and Sundays the Rosary will be recited after each Mass
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May the Holy Spirit dwell in the hearts and minds of our young parishioners who will receive the Sacrament of Confirmation on June 9, 2012 Corey Barnwell Carmine Boccellari James Brett Michael Browe Cristian Cabral Sebastian Camacho Lisa Caprara Patrick E. Carney Joshua Carter Alexandra Cassano Nicolas Chan Amanda Chin Erin Clewell Hunter Conti Francesca Coppola Brian Cosgrove Conor Culleton Tyler Curto Kelly Donahue Andrew Fennell Zachary Friedrich Jenna Grande Kristian Grimm Claire Heffernan Kyle Higgins Joy Ho Mark Hodges Sarah Illis Marissa Jankow Veronica Kelly Kathryn Knorr Zak Kosiecki Patricia Koziol Allisandra Lamhing Carmen Machalek Lauren Mahler Christopher Marzo Matthew McCann Sean Mead Kathleen Meell Kassandra Mendez Catherine Mercanti Matthew Mondelli Tyler Moragas John OConnor Mark OMeara Matthew Pappas Nicholas Petrosino Kelsey Quinn Anthony Randazzo Matthew Romeo Mary Scheader Kara Schwerdt Rachael Serillo Griffin Stummer Kimberlee Styple Dana Tokarzewski Alexandra Valerio Conor Vinaixa Neal Vinaixa Peter Vislocky Luke Weber Christopher Yocco Robert Zabel

Our Lady of Peace Vacation Bible School 2012

For Children Entering Kindergarten to 4th Grade

When: Monday, June 25 through Friday, June 29 Time: 9am to 12pm Cost: $35 per child; $90 family Maximum
Please complete the information below and return with payment to OLP Rectory, 111 South Street, New Providence, NJ 07974. Make checks payable to OLP Church.

Childs Name (first and last)

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Age
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Grade entering in Sept. 2012

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Parent Contact Information

Parent/Guardian Name(s): ____________________________________________ Mailing Address: ___________________________________________________ E-Mail Address: ____________________________________________________ Home Phone: ________________________ Cell:_________________________ Emergency Contact: (Name) _____________________(Phone) _____________

Adult and Student (MS/HS) Volunteers Needed:

Dates Available: (circle) Mon. 6/25 Tues. 6/26 Wed. 6/27 Thurs. 6/28 Fri. 6/29 Name: (circle) Parent or Student: ______________________________________ E-Mail Address: ___________________________________________________ Home Phone: _________________________ Cell: ________________________