Church of St. Anastasia 1095 Teaneck Road, Teaneck, New Jersey 07666 www.saintanastasia.org

Parish Office: Phone: 201.837.3354/Fax: 201.837.3360 Email: secretary@saintanastasia.org Faith Formation Office: Phone: 201.837.3356 Email: StAsFaithForm@gmail.com Youth Minister: Robin Bado Email: StAsYMT@gmail.com RCIA: Deacon Kevin Regan Email: kjr56@aol.com Director of Religious Education: Michelle Bivins Email: mbivins@saintanastasia.org

Baptism Baptisms are held the second week of the month in Spanish and the third week of the month in English. There are no Baptisms scheduled during Advent and Lent. Please call the rectory to schedule. Marriage Arrangements should begin by setting a date with one of the priests ONE YEAR before the wedding. Sacraments for the Sick Please notify the parish office if someone is ill at home or in the hospital.

Reconciliation Saturdays from 12:00-1:00 p.m. outside, or call the parish office for an appointment. Faith Formation Classes K-8 Wednesday 4:00 - 5:30 p.m. 9 Confirmation See Schedule A program for children who don’t attend Catholic school, Faith Formation classes incorporate lessons and liturgies to continue the faith building that parents began with their child’s Baptism.

Served By Fr. Joseph D’Amico, Pastor Fr. Danny Pabon, Parochial Vicar Deacon Roland Bianchi Deacon Larry Bonnemère Deacon Kevin Regan Michelle Bivins, Director of Religious Education Robin Bado, Youth Minister/Local Safe Environment Coordinator Mr. Iouri Grichetchkine, Director of Music

Mass Schedule Saturday evening: 5:00 p.m. Sunday: 8:00 a.m., 10:00 a.m., 11:30 a.m. (Family Mass), 1:00 p.m. (Mass in Spanish), and 7:00 p.m. (suspended until further notice) Daily: 8:30 a.m. Holy Days of Obligation: Vigil Mass: 7:00 p.m. Holy Day: 8:30 a.m. and 7:00 p.m. Special Devotions Rosary: Daily after 8:30 a.m. Mass Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament: On First Saturdays, closing with Benediction at 11:45 a.m.

Please Send Bulletin Notices to: St.Anastasiabulletin@gmail.com Notices should be sent by Noon on Mondays

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MASS INTENTIONS SATURDAY, August 8-Memorial of St. Dominic

8:30 AM

5:00 PM

8:00 AM

10:00 AM

11:30 AM

1:00 PM

MONDAY, August 10-Feast of St. Lawrence

8:30 AM

TUESDAY, August 11-Memorial of St. Clare

8:30 AM

WEDNESDAY, August 12

8:30 AM

THURSDAY, August 13

8:30 AM

FRIDAY, August 14-Memorial of St. Maximilian Kolbe

8:30 AM

SATURDAY, August 15-Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed

Virgin

8:30 AM

5:00 PM

SUNDAY, August 16

8:00 AM

10:00 AM

11:30 AM

1:00 PM

OUR STEWARDSHIP OFFERINGS…The collection for Sunday, July 26, was $8000.05. Go Fund Me pledges were $49.00 (to date: $14895) The collection for Sunday, August 2 was $6980.00. Go Fund Me pledges were $120 (to date $15015.00). Thank you for your continuing generosity.

God bless Saint Anastasia! Did you know that you can also make your pledge via our new parish app? Simply use your phone’s browser and go to “myparishapp.com,” download the app and select St. Anastasia as your parish. This app also has many other features which can enhance your faith life and strengthen your connection to parish life.

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WE GIVE THESE GIFTS… Candles for the week in loving memory of Stephen McKearnin, requested by Marlina McKearnin.

READINGS FOR THE WEEK

Sunday 1 Kgs 19:9a, 11-13a; Rom 9:1-5; Mt 14:22-33 Monday 2 Cor 9:6-10; Jn 12:24-26 Tuesday Ez 2:8—3:4; Mt 18:1-5, 10, 12-14 Wednesday Ez 9:1-7, 10:18-22; Mt 18:15-20 Thursday Ez 12:1-12; Mt 18:21—19:1 Friday Ez 16:1-15, 60, 63 or 16:59-63; Mt 19:3-12 Saturday Vigil: 1 Chr 15:3-4, 15-16, 16:1-2; 1 Cor 15:54b-57; Lk 11:27-28 Day: Rv 11:19a, 12:1-6a, 10ab;

The sick: Natacha Delinois Andrews, Rosalia Andujar, Bernice Augustine, Catherine Baker, Clare Baker, Amanda Barreto, Andrew Beebe, Senora Bennett, Richard K. Betts, Daniel Bisogno, Eugene Bovino, Phyllis Breit, Fr. Hugh Brown, O. Carm., Andrew Bruno, Denise Campbell, Jennifer Campbell, Susan Carter, Maria Caratozzli, Ray Cassidy, Fernando Castro, Frances Chaurtrand, Eric A. Cinotti, Laura Cofino, Jose (Joey) Colon, Ruby Davis, Stephanie Davis, Dawn Davison, Anne De Carlo, Serge Delinois, Antoinetta

Dinardo, Margaret Fleming, Humberto Figuera, Fr. Dominic Fuccili, Eileen Gable, Virginia Gagliostro, Frances Gonzalez, Joan Grande, Patti Grasso, Evelyn Halpin, Sara Hasan, Delores Weirth Hinkson, Alayna Holmes, Meaghan Hobson, Becky Iovino, Maryann Jeffers, Robert Johnson, Antoinette Jones, Sheila Kelly, Bridie Kennedy, Bill Kesser, Kurt Kroner, Christophe Lafontant, Bruce Libutti, Estrella Lomboy, Lillian Luck, Rosemary Luck, James Lynch, Cathy Magnotti, Grace Magsino, Zenaida Marcial, Angelica Lopez Marin, Josephine Marshall, William Marshall, David Martinez, Marquetta McGee, Leaura Materassi, Nitza Barreto-McGill, Lou Miller, John Ralph Morales, Michelle Moultrie, Marilyn Mullins, Lillian Munier, Denise Muniz, McKenna Murray, Louise Nicolich, Katherine Nolan, Diane Novinger, Mary Nunes, Travis Nunes, Ana Maria O’Connor, Marilyn Ollivierre, Luchie Ona, Sellia Pagan, Fr. Abraham Palakudy, Mary Terese Pasquale, Riselda Pineda, Mark Pollack, Toni Preziosi, Carol Rachesky, Daisey Ramos, Barbara Reichert, Craig Reichert, Justino Rivera, Emerita Rivera, Gerard S. Roberts, Joren Roberts, Marybeth Roberts, Maya Roberts, Shavona Robinson, Milagros Robledo, Giovanna Rocha, Didalina Rodriguez, Edilberto Rodriguez, Jesica Rodriguez, Martha Rosado, Anne Marie Rotondi, Edward Rotondi, Taryn Rotondi, Rodrigo Salazar, Ignacio Santos, John Shallow, Navpej Singh, Keith Smet, Frances Smith, Maxine Smype, Maureen Taff, Rose Thorne, Anika Trinidad, Patricia Tull, Raymond Turi, Susan Tuttle, Anne Vaccaro, Brandon Valmores, Elsa Venticinque, Maverick Wenrich, Benjamin Williams, Louise Williams, Billy Wirth, Millie Zampardi and their caregivers. Our men and women serving in the military: Mark Davison, Sr., Mark Davison, Jr., Carlos Delavilla, Bryan Ferrara, Alex Fries, Josh Matthews, Dan O’Neill, and Nicholas Simoni

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Free Medicare Counseling

Free information about any and all Medicare questions, as well as some Medicaid questions is available. Please call the SHIP/Medicare hotline at (201) 336-7413. If no one answers, please leave your name, phone number, and a brief message, and someone will call you back.

There is no charge or obligation. Please note that some counselors speak Spanish.

For any questions about this, please call Joe Richardson at (201) 836-8991. SHIP means State

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AUGUST 15-16 LECTORS

5:00 PM Candy Martinez Candy Martinez

8:00 AM Anthony Laciura Paul Butterrworth

10:00 AM Cyrene Bolt-Turner Cyrene Bolt-Turner

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Clothing Donations

We appreciate your generosity at this time, but we cannot accept any clothing donations, since

our Bowery Mission has been suspended for the time being. There is a clothing receptacle next to Stop and Shop and at St. Francis of Assisi in Ridgefield Park, as well as at the Knights of

Columbus, 829 Windsor Road.

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Please make every effort to arrive early to Mass. Our volunteers need enough time to take every-

one’s temperature before entering the church, and they should be able le attend Mass on time

As you know, we have been live-streaming Masses for the past few months so that our parishioners who prefer to remain at home can pray with us each week. Please subscribe to our YouTube channel by going to Saint Anastasia Teaneck and click on the subscribe button. We need 1000 subscribers to go live, so please support us in this way. Thanks!

Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin

Saturday, August 15

Mass, Friday, August 14, 7 pm in Spanish

Saturday, August 15 in English

A Thank you from the Office of Concern Dear Father Joe, On behalf of the volunteers at the Office of Concern Food Pantry at St. Cecilia, we thank you for donating a total of 292 bags of groceries to us from January to June 2020. This is a remarkable achievement! It greatly helps the needy families we serve. There are not enough words to express our gratitude for your parish donations. Together with our dedicated volunteer staff we distribute food and other basic necessities to the “invisible poor” in Bergen County: you help to make it possible for us to make a difference, one life at a time. We volunteer our time here because we see first-hand the stress that continues to impact our clients including the working poor, retired seniors and those struggling to feed babies and small children, and we give to all regardless of religion, race or culture. Your continuing support makes it possible for us to provide food and other basic necessities to over 1,000 families registered to receive food each week. Together we are making a difference in many lives. Please acknowledge our gratitude to your parishioners. Sincerely, Donald E. Wuertz Director

Parents, and new parents of Faith Formation

Children. We will have Faith Formation classes for the upcoming school year 2020-2021.

Please be on the lookout for Registration Forms for new and returning students. Check St. Anastasia

website for additional information or call (201) 837-3356 or email:

mbivins@saintanastasia.org.

As the need continues to be great, we at St. Anastasia’s are committed to continue our support of this vital ministry. Please continue your generous donations of non-perishable foods by dropping them off in the Narthex

weekdays 8:30-9:30 am or weekends before and after Mass.

Your generosity is most appreciated.

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O Lord, grant us the grace to respect and care for Your creation.

Lord, hear our prayer.

O Lord, bless all of your creatures as a sign of Your wondrous love.

Lord, hear our prayer.

O Lord, help us to end the suffering of the poor and bring healing to all of your creation.

Lord, hear our prayer.

O Lord, help us to use our technological inventive-ness to undo the damage we have done to Your

creation and to sustain Your gift of nature.

Dear Friends, Greetings to you all as we begin the month of August! Among the very sad realities for me during the Covid quarantine was not being to celebrate the Triduum; those very special and solemn three days of Holy Thursday, Good Friday and Holy Saturday. Those most precious and holy days would have been my first with you and Fr. Danny. Let’s hope, pray, and assume that we will be fully operational for Triduum next year. While those three days of Triduum were taken away from me God gave me another awesome Triduum of sorts. This past Thursday, Friday and Saturday were amazing days for the parish and myself. On Thursday evening we celebrated our parish first Holy Communions, on Friday evening the Confirmation of youths and on Saturday evening our first official visit of Bishop Michael Sapporito as the new Bergen County auxiliary bishop. The Communion and Confirmation masses and reception after the Bishop’s mass were celebrated under tents that the parish rented for the events. We did our best to make the events as solemn and sacred as possible. We used the altar in our rectory/soon to be adoration chapel, we used an electric piano for music and there was a great sense of beauty and liturgical elegance to the celebrations. One of the first communicants, Janseen, said the host tasted like regular bread at first but later on warmed my soul! Due to the covid restrictions and long quarantine Cardinal Tobin delegated pastors to confirm their youths in their own parishes rather than have them wait for local bishops to put the confirmation on their schedules. I was deeply touched and moved by being the confirmation celebrant for our young people and hope they felt the strength of the Spirit as much as I did. And to top it all off we had the lovely mass with Bishop Sapporito. Friends, we are so proud and blessed to have him as our local bishop. For the first time in many decades each County will have their own bishop who is not a pastor of a local parish church. This will allow the bishop to truly be a shepherd for the entire county beyond rare and occasional visits like confirmations and other major events. Many thanks to our regular parish pastoral team and the many hours involved in celebrating these past three days!!! Always a pleasure to share ministry with you daily. Many thanks to all of our Catechists for they witness of love, service and faith in bringing our young people to the sacraments. And many thanks to a mountain of volunteers for their help and volunteering with a smilie in the summer heat. They took temperatures of the attendees, set up cooling stations, moved tables, altars and chairs, set up lights and did so much to make our parish come alive and feel like “normal” again. What a blessed Triduum indeed it was!!!!! Thank you, God! Peace, blessings and fraternal regards, Rev. Joseph A. D'Amico

Queridos amigos, ¡Saludos a todos al comenzar el mes de agosto! Entre las realidades más tristes para mí durante la cuarentena del Covid está el no poder celebrar el Triduo; esos tres días muy especiales y solemnes del Jueves Santo, Viernes Santo y Sábado Santo. Esos días más preciosos y sagrados habrían sido los primeros con ustedes y el P. Danny. Esperemos, recemos y asumamos que estaremos completamente operativos para Triduum el año que viene. Mientras me quitaban esos tres días de Triduo, Dios me dio otro Triduo impresionante. El pasado jueves, viernes y sábado fueron días increíbles para la parroquia y para mí. El jueves por la noche celebramos en nuestra parroquia las primeras comuniones, el viernes por la noche la confirmación de los jóvenes y el sábado por la noche nuestra primera visita oficial del obispo Michael Saporito como nuevo obispo auxiliar del condado de Bergen. Las eucaristías de la primera comunión, confirmación y la recepción después de la misa del obispo se celebraron bajo carpas que la parroquia alquiló para los eventos. La razón para celebrar afuera fue hacer que la gente se sintiera más cómoda en lugar de una ceremonia en el interior. Hicimos todo lo posible para que los eventos fueran lo más solemnes y sagrados posibles. Usamos el altar en nuestra rectoría que pronto será capilla de adoración, usamos un piano eléctrico para la música y había un gran sentido de belleza y elegancia litúrgica en las celebraciones. Uno de los primeros comunicantes, Janseen, dijo que la hostia sabía a pan normal al principio, ¡pero luego me calentó el alma! Debido a las restricciones codiciosas y la larga cuarentena, el cardenal Tobin delegó a los párrocos para confirmar a sus jóvenes en sus propias parroquias en lugar de hacer que esperen a que los obispos locales pongan la confirmación en sus horarios. Me conmovió profundamente y me conmovió ser el celebrante de confirmación para nuestros jóvenes y espero que sintieran la fuerza del Espíritu tanto como yo. Además, tuvimos la hermosa misa con el obispo Saporito. Amigos, estamos muy orgullosos y bendecidos de tenerlo como nuestro obispo local. Por primera vez en muchas décadas, cada condado tendrá su propio obispo que no sea pastor de una iglesia parroquial local. Esto permitirá que el obispo sea verdaderamente un pastor para todo el condado más allá de las visitas raras y ocasionales, como confirmaciones y otros eventos importantes. ¡Muchas gracias a nuestro equipo pastoral parroquial y las muchas horas involucradas en la celebración de estos últimos tres días! Siempre es un placer compartir el ministerio con ustedes diariamente. Muchas gracias a todos nuestros catequistas por su testimonio de amor, servicio y fe en traer a nuestros jóvenes a los sacramentos. Y muchas gracias a la gran cantidad de voluntarios por su ayuda y quienes estuvieron con sus caras sonrientes incluso en el calor del verano. Ellos tomaron la temperatura de los asistentes, instalaron estaciones de enfriamiento, movieron mesas, altares y sillas, instalaron luces e hicieron mucho para que nuestra parroquia cobrara vida y se sintiera "normal" nuevamente. ¡Qué bendito Triduo fue! ¡Gracias Dios! Paz, bendiciones y saludos fraternos, Rev. Joseph A. D'Amico

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