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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Our RCIA Program, will be starting in September.

All who are unbaptized, baptized into another faith denomination, or baptized Catholic but have not received Eucharist or Confirmation, and wish to become Catholic, please see the bulletin for details. 

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
August 26, 2019
September 30, 2019
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!

Parish Office Hours 2019

The Parish Office will be open Monday-Thursday from 9:00AM-2:00PM

(we will not be closed for lunch!)

during the months of July and August and CLOSED on Fridays.
God bless you all, and we hope you have a restful and relaxing summer! 

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, September 11, 2019
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!
 

The Feast of the
Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary

 
Celebrated every year on August 15th, the Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary commemorates the death of Mary and her bodily assumption into Heaven, before her body could begin to decay – a foretaste of our own bodily resurrection at the end of time.  Because it signifies the Blessed Virgin’s passing into eternal life, it is the most important of all Marian feasts and a Holy Day of Obligation.  (It is considered a Holy Day of Obligation, but if it falls on a Saturday or on a Monday, it is not obligatory by the church to attend Mass.  This was amended in the church calendar by the United States bishops in 1991.)
 
The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary into Heaven at the end of her earthly life is a defined dogma of the Catholic Church. As an official teaching,  the Assumption is a required belief of all Catholics;  anyone who publicly dissents from the dogma, Pope Pius declared, “has fallen away completely from the divine and Catholic Faith.
 
On November 1, 1950, Pope Pius XII, exercising papal infallibility, declared “that the  Immaculate  Mother of God, the ever Virgin Mary, having completed the course of her earthly life, was assumed body and soul into heavenly glory”, (supported in scripture in the Book of Genesis 3:15,  and reflected in 1 Corinthians 15:54).  
 

Please join in celebration of the
Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary for Mass on:
Wednesday, August 14, 2019 @ 5:00PM
Thursday, August 15, 2019 @ 6:30AM, 9:00AM, 7:00PM