Rev. Malak Samy Zaky Saadalla will celebrate Mass, which is in full communion with the Catholic
Church, every Sunday at 9:00AM in the St. Anthony Room in the Parish Office, beginning on August 4th
All are welcome to join in this Mass and fellowship immediately following. Please take a moment to
welcome Fr. Saadalla and Deacon Sabry Abdelmalak to St. Ambrose!

Bishop James F. Checchio invites couples celebrating their 25^th or 50^th wedding anniversaries to join him for a Silver & Gold Wedding Anniversary Evening Prayer Service at 4:00PM on Sunday, October 21, 2018 at the Cathedral of St. Francis of Assisi, 548 Main Street, Metuchen.  Celebrating couples will be invited to renew their vows and there is no cost to attend.  This event is sponsored by the Diocese of Metuchen’s Office of Family Life, and registration is required and due by October 3^rd.   To register online please go to:
diometuchen.org/silverandgold
or call
(732) 243-4573, or email amatos@diometuche.org
for more information.
 

Mass of Remembrance
Friday, November 2, 2018
7:00PM
 
All Souls Day is set aside to remember the faithful departed, those members of our families and parish who have died in Christ.  The names of those for whom we celebrated a Mass of Resurrection here at St. Ambrose Church within this past year, will be announced and a candle will be lit in memory of your loved one.  Additionally, our Book of Remembrance will be available for you to include any name of a deceased member of your family, a friend, or neighbor, and this book will bel displayed throughout the month of November.  We Catholics believe that through the prayers of the faithful on earth, the souls of those who have gone before us, are cleansed of their sins so that they may enter Heaven.  I hope you, or a member of your family, will be able to join in this Mass to commemorate our loved ones in prayers. 
 

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The Diocese of Metuchen’s Office of Family Life
 is pleased to announce the beginning of an exciting and new ministry for men and women who are suffering from the pain and loneliness of divorce.  “The Catholic’s Divorce Survival Guide” is a 12-week program, featuring a thirty-minute DVD session each week, which covers the topics of: shock, denial, anger, grief, guilt, forgiveness, money, children, the courts, the ex-spouse, annulment, dating, sexuality, spirituality, re-marriage or staying single, and much more.  This program, while based on the teaching of the Catholic Church, is open to anyone who needs comfort, counsel and clarity after a divorce. 
pre-registration is required ($25.00 fee)
contact Ro Bersch @ (908) 313-5947 or (909) 470-0678
 

The Egyptian Coptic Catholic Church will be sponsoring a Flea Market on our front lawn October 14, 2018! Sponsored by Fr. Malek, the proceeds of the flea market will be set aside to benefit an ongoing campaign to construct a church for the Egyptian Coptic congregation sometime in the future.  In the meantime, please stop by to greet Fr. Malak and members of his community, or gather to worship every Sunday at 9:00AM in the St. Anthony Room. 
 

The New Jersey Right to Life organization will be selling tickets for their car raffle after all Masses on October 20-21, 2018  at the doors of the church.  Please take a moment to buy a $10.00 ticket and a chance to win a 2019 Volvo XC40 SUV, valued at over $40,000!!  There will also be 2^nd , 3^rd, and 4^th prizes for Shop Rite Gift Cards, valued from $500.00 to $1,000.00.  Proceeds from the raffle will benefit NJ Right to Life, the state’s oldest and largest pro-life organization, dedicated to protecting all human life from conception to natural death.  Please show our support by buying a ticket. 
For more information, contact Ted Tyszkiewicz at treasurelife33@gmail.com
 

All Saint’s Day
 
The Feast of All Saints Day, will be celebrated on Thursday, November 1, 2018, and it is a Holy Day of Obligation for Catholics in most countries.  In the United States, the feast is abrogated (moved to Sunday) if it falls on a Saturday or Monday.  If it falls on any other day of the week, as is the case this year, attendance at Mass is required unless a serious reasons exists preventing  the person from attending, such as illness. 
 
Masses will be celebrated at St. Ambrose Church on November 1^st at
6:30AM, 9:00AM and 7:00PM
 
            All Saints Day honors all saints, known and unknown.  It is a feast for remembering all the holy men and women who have attained the reward of Heaven.  While the Catholic Church recognizes thousands of saints officially, there are, undoubtedly, many more saints who are in Heaven, enjoying the beatific vision, but who are not know to be in Heaven.  While many saints have their own feast days, the feast of All Saints gives the due honor to all the saints who have done so much good in their lives for Christ, and His Church, and we celebrate these holy individuals, asking for their prayers and intercessions. 
 
            The Feast of All Saints, on its current date, began with the dedication by Pope Gregory III (731-741) of an oratory in St. Peters for the relics “of the holy apostles and of all saints, martyrs, and confessors, of all the just made perfect who are at rest throughout the world”, with the day moved to  November 1^st and the May 13^th feast suppressed.  It was made a holy day of obligation throughout the Frankish empire in 835, by a decree of Louis the Pious, issued “at the instance of Pope Gregory IV and with the assent of all the bishops”, which confirmed its celebration on November 1.  The octave was added by Pope Sixtus IV (1471-1484).
 
All Soul’s Day
 
            All Soul’s Day is not a holy day of obligation, and is set aside to remember the faithful departed who have died in Christ.  We Catholics believe that through the prayers of the faithful on earth, the souls of those who have gone before us, are cleansed of their sins so that they may enter Heaven.
 
A Mass of Remembrance will be celebrated at 7:00PM on Friday,  November 2, 2018
 
and our Book of Remembrance will be available for you to include any name of a deceased member of your family, a friend or neighbor, and this book will be displayed throughout the month of  November.  All Souls Day was instituted at the monastery in Cluny in 993 CE and quickly spread throughout the Christian world.  People held festivals for the dead long before Christianity.  It was St. Odilo, the abbot of Cluny in Franc, who in the 10^th century, proposed that the day after All Saints’ Day be set aside to honor the departed, particularly those whose souls were still in purgatory.  Today the souls of the faithful departed are commemorated on November 2^nd and although it is observed informally by some Protestants, it is primarily a Roman Catholic, Anglican, and Orthodox holy day.
 

Do you feel lost, alone or bored in your marriage?

 •   Are you frustrated, hurt or angry with your spouse?

 •   Are you constantly fighting?  Or, do you simply shut down?

 •   Have you thought about separation or divorce?

•   Does talking about it only make it worse?

RETROUVAILLE is a Lifeline to Help Couples Heal and Renew their Marriages sponsored by the Office of Family Life, Secretariat of Pastoral and Family Life, Diocese of Metuchen, NJ.

RETROUVAILLE consists of a weekend experience for married couples (no group discussions) with six follow-up sessions.  All inquiries are confidential.  For further facts, kindly contact the Family Life Office 732-243-4573, Rich & Annette Colasuonno 732-236-0671.

The word Retrouvaille (pronounced retro-vie) is a French word meaning rediscovery.  The program is intended for couples with marital problems in including those who are considering marriage separation and those who are already separated or divorced but want to try again to save their marriage. 
 
Some couples come to Retrouvaille during the initial signs of a marriage problem.  Other couples are in a state of despair and hopelessness when they attend the program.  These latter couples often consider the Retrouvaille program their final option. 
 
The Retrouvaille  Program consists of a weekend experience combined with a series of six post-weekend sessions over 2 months.  The Diocese of Metuchen offers two such programs a year.  The program provides the tools to help put a marriage in order again.  The main emphasis of the program is on communication in marriage between husband and wife.  It will give a couple the opportunity to rediscover each other and examine their lives together in a new and positive way.
 
The program offers tools needed to rediscover a loving marriage relationship.  Thousands of couples headed for cold, unloving relationships or divorce have successfully overcome their marriage problems by attending the program.
For more information please contact:
amatos@diometuchen.org

Prayed after 9:00 AM Daily Mass

12 Noon, 2nd & 4th Sunday

2:00PM - 3rd Sunday of the Month