HOLY ROSARY & MERCY CHAPLET
Prayed after 9:00 AM Daily Mass

SIGN LANGUAGE MASS
12 NOON, 2nd & 4th Sunday of the Month

FILIPINO MASS
2:00pm, 3rd Sunday of the Month

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Spiritual Adoption Program
October – Month 1

Your spiritually adopted baby has been quite active over the past month.

Already your baby is 10,000 times bigger than at conception.
Your baby has developed the foundations of his brain, spinal cord,
and nervous system by the 20^th day.  His heart began to beat on the 21^st day,
pumping blood through its own circulatory system and
the blood type can be different from the mother’s.
Your baby is most vulnerable during this next month,
and we pray that the Lord of Life might move the heart of the mother
to continue to give the gift of life – the most precious gift of all.

All Saint’s Day

 
The Feast of All Saints Day, will be celebrated on Friday, November 1, 2019, 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 Friday, November 1^st at
6:30AM, 9:00AM and 7:00PM
 

St. Padre Pio Prayer Group of St. Ambrose
Old Bridge, New Jersey
 
All parishioners are warmly welcome to attend our
 
St. Padre Pio Prayer Group
 held monthly at St. Ambrose Church at 7:00PM.  The prayer group includes Mass of the day, prayers to St. Padre Pio, and veneration of a first class relic.  Everyone will go home blessed and feeling great and we hope you can plan to share in this awesome experience.
Upcoming dates are
October 28, 2019
November 25, 2019

St. Padre Pio was born in 1887 in Pietrelcina, Italy, and was an Italian priest,  known for his charity and love for the people around him.  He bore the wounds of Christ, which is still something that cannot be explained.  In August of 1918, he began experiencing a painful stigmata that eventually remained permanent for the next 50 years and disappeared, miraculously, a few days before his death in September 1968.  St. Padre Pio welcomed the pain for all of mankind, and was canonized  on June 16, 2002 by Pope John Paul II. 

We hope you can join us in prayer each month!

Pro Life/Respect Life Ministry

Please mark your calendars and join us as we witness God’s truth and embody our Lord’s command to love one another as He loves us!  Thanks to our Pastor and the commitment and interest of so many of our parishioners, our group will meet in the St. Anthony Room of the Parish office at 7:00PM on:

Wednesday, October 9, 2019
Wednesday, November 13, 2019
Wednesday, December 11, 2019
(2020 dates to be determined)

On-going areas of discussion will include education, outreach, public policy and prayer, all focused on the restoration of respect for human life as an essential task of the Church.  We will work closely with our Diocesan coordinator and be a part of the work of our Diocesan Office of Human Life and Dignity.  It is our duty as Catholics to respect all human life, help promote public awareness, promote laws that defend and protect life, and endorse programs of prayer so that the culture of death will be replaced with a culture of life.  Come and join the work of this critical ministry!

SILVER AND GOLD ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION
 
Congratulations to our parishioners who will be celebrating their 25^th Wedding Anniversary at the Diocese of Metuchen Silver and Gold Anniversary Mass.  Couples will be renewing their vows at St. Francis Cathedral in Metuchen on October 27, 2019 and receive a personalized certificate from Bishop Checchio.  May God bless each of them and we wish all of them many more years of happiness.
 

Anthony and Guilia Calco
Joseph and Maria Grande
Salvatore and Theresa Sgroi
Raymond and Kelly Smalz
 
(for more information, please go to
diometuchen.org)

All Saint’s Day
 
The Feast of All Saints Day, will be celebrated on Friday, November 1, 2019, 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 Monday, November 4, 2019
(in consideration of the Sunday Mass Schedule)
 
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.