July 4, 2010 - Fourteenth Sunday In Ordinary Time

"Whatever town you enter and they welcome you, eat what is set before you, cure the sick in it and say to them, 'The kingdom of God is at hand for you.'" - Lk 10:8-9

THANK YOU!
On behalf of the Central Asia Institute (CAI), we are grateful for your kindness and support for your recent contribution to our mission of promoting literacy, especially for girls, in remote regions of Pakistan and Afghanistan.

Your donation of $500 from your event held in May at St. Mary's-Stony Hill, (Pennies for Peace), was very much appreciated.

For more information on Central Asia Institute, our project, or to sign up for our e-newsletter, please visit our website @ www.ikat.org. Thank you for helping create a world of hope, opportunity and peace.

Laura Andersen,
Public Relations Manager

BAPTISMS
We are happy to welcome the following children baptized into Christ this past weekend:

David K. Mankowski, parents; Benjamin & Judith
Satine T. Nader, parents; David & Tuyet-mail
Tate C. Morris, parents; Brian & Christa

Congratulations and God’s blessings to all!

THE CATHOLIC SPIRIT
Beginning this week, The Catholic Spirit, the official newspaper of the Diocese of Metuchen, will be distribute every other weekend after all Masses.

The Catholic Spirit contains diocesan as well as parish news, stories of people giving witness to their faith, inspirational articles and much more. Individuals can still subscribe to the newspaper, but the copies in church are free. We encourage you to take The Catholic Spirit home with you.

MOUNT ST. MARY HOUSE OF PRAYER
Mount St. Mary House of Prayer, Watchung, will offer the following programs. Registration required for all programs; call 908-753-2091 or e-mail: msmhope@msmhope.org

HEARTS CENTERED IN GOD~Welcoming You to a Deeper Spirituality Year-long adult contemporary spirituality program. For more information, contact us now! Program begins in September Limited to 16 - Register early!

SUMMER SACRED PLAY: SPIRIT, WIND AND CLAY Enjoy a creative reflection on the movement of the Holy Spirit in your life. Celebrate creating clay wind chimes. No clay experience necessary. Sat, July 24, 9:00-11:30 a.m. ($30 includes materials) Tina Geiger, RSM Registration required!

IN AND ABOUT THE DIOCESE OF METUCHEN
 - National Family Planning Awareness Week July 19-25: Trust – God has a plan for your marriage- “a call to celebrate and reverence God’s vision of human sexuality.”

This program is open to married and engaged couples who want to learn about NFP.
The benefits of using NFP:
 Low cost
 No harmful side effects
 Effective for achieving, spacing or limiting pregnancy
 Can be used throughout a woman’s reproductive life
 Marriage enrichment and mutual understanding
 Appreciation for the value of children
 Fosters respect for and acceptance of the total person
 Morally acceptable.

Please call the Family Life Office/Diocese of Metuchen @ 732-562-1990 ext. 1624 or e-mail familyfe@diometuchen.org for more information or to register for classes at a location nearest your home. 2010

- 12th ANNUAL FLAME OF CHARITY DINNER Join us on Tuesday evening, October 26 at the Hyatt Regency, in New Brunswick. The two outstanding individuals being honored this year are:

HUMANITARIAN OF THE YEAR: William D. Ard, (Senior Vice President Morgan Stanley Smith Barney, LLC and parishioner of St. Mary’s-Stony Hill.

COMMUNITY SERVANT: Rev. Msgr. Gregory E.S. Malovetz, Pastor of St. Charles Borromeo Church. Pastor of St. Charles Boreromeo Church, in Skillman, N.J. Proceeds from this event help support many social service programs of Catholic Charities, Diocese of Metuchen, including homeless shelters, health clinics, youth programs and low income housing. Please call 732-562-2438 for more information, or www.diometuchen.org/event-viewer

POPE: BE MORE RADICAL IN FOLLOWING CHRIST- Calls Saying Yes to God a “Beautiful Experience”

VATICAN CITY, JUNE 27, 2010 (Zenit.org).- On the last Sunday of the month dedicated to the Sacred Heart, Benedict XVI invited the faithful to be more willing and radical in responding to a call from Christ.

The Pope made these comments today in a short address before praying the midday Angelus with crowds gathered in St. Peter's Square, which he dedicated to the theme of "Christ's call and its demands." "Whoever has the fortune to know a young man or young woman who leaves their family, their studies or work to consecrate himself or herself to God [...] has before him a living example of radical response to the divine calling," the Holy Father began.

He called the affirmative response to God's call "one of the most beautiful experiences that one has in the Church," in which one sees "the Lord’s action in people’s lives, touch[es] it with one’s hand; experienc[es] that God is not an abstract entity, but a Reality so great and powerful that he can fill man’s heart in a super-abundant way. He is a Person who is alive and near, who loves us and asks us to love him."

The Holy Father reflected on several passages from the Gospel in which Christ is "very demanding" with several disciples who express their desire to follow him. Christ informs the would-be disciples that "whoever chooses to work with him in God’s field cannot change his mind," and must "completely sever his familial bonds." "These demands might appear too harsh," Benedict XVI continued, "but in reality they express the newness and absolute priority of the Kingdom of God that is made present in the Person himself of Jesus Christ. In the final analysis it is the radicality that is owed to the Love of God, whom Jesus is the first to obey."

The Pontiff continued: "Whoever renounces everything, even himself, to follow Jesus, enters into a new dimension of freedom that St. Paul defines as 'walking according to the Spirit.' "'Christ has freed us for freedom!' the Apostle writes, and explains that this new form of freedom acquired for us by Christ consists in being 'in the service of each other.' "Freedom and love coincide! Obeying one’s own egoism, on the contrary, leads to rivalry and conflict."