Used Book Sale at Lacordaire Academy

If you're out and about town in the next few days, please check out the book sale at Lacordaire Academy to queue up your summer reading.
The annual book sale will benefit technology upgrades at the school this year. The sale starts tomorrow May 15th at 4:00 PM and runs through Sunday May 18th at 5:00 PM. Thousands of gently used-hardcover, paperback, and audio books to choose from. Admission is free. Lacordaire Academy is at 155 Lorraine Avenue, Upper Montclair. Sale hours are: Thurs 4:00PM- 8:00, Fri. 9:00AM - 8:00 PM, Sat & Sun 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM. For more info email LacoBookSale@msn.com


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International Pilgrim Statue of Our Lady of Fatima

The Hispanic Apostolate and Legion of Mary of the Archdiocese of Newark hosts a visit of the International Pilgrim Statue of Our Lady of Fatima from May 4 - 24th.
The statue will come to St. Peter Claver on Tuesday, May 20th at 3:30 pm and will depart on Wednesday, May 21st at 10:45 am.

TUESDAY, MAY 20TH
3:30 PM – Welcome 4:00 PM – Rosary
6:00 PM – Music 7:00 PM – Healing Mass
8:15 PM – Procession 9:00 PM – Exposition of the
10 PM Closing Prayers Blessed Sacrament

WEDNESDAY, MAY 21ST
7:30 AM – Meditation
10:45 AM – Final Blessing

To learn about the history visit the Official Site


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French Creole All Night Prayer Vigil: Friday, May 23rd

The St. Peter Claver Creole Charismatic Prayer group, Notre Dame de la Porte du Ciel and the Famiy Alliance will host an All Night Prayer Vigil at St. Peter Claver on Friday, May 23rd beginning at 7:30 pm.

Join us as we welcome special guest Moise Roland !


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SPC Healing Mass, Tues., May 13th 7 PM

The Healing Ministry of St. Peter Claver Church invites you to attend
our weekly Healing Mass and Anointing each Tuesday at 7:00 pm.


Jesus is the Great Physician, come to Him in the Holy Eucharist
and experience the healing power of His love.


The SPC Healing Mass is a Mass to pray for those who are sick. Come to pray for healing or to pray for loved ones to be healed. All are invited, especially those who are sick, caretakers, or worried loved ones. You will find comfort in the healing power and love of Jesus.


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Important Information for Catholics Admitted to a Hospital

If you or someone you love is admitted to a hospital, Federal regulations prevent hospital administration from contacting your parish for pastoral care, unless you requested. Read More for information for families with a loved one in the hospital.


Because of the restrictions of HIPA (Healthcare Information Privacy Act), the Pastoral Care Office of a hospital is prohibited from notifying the parish clergy of any patient, unless specifically requested by the patient himself/herself or the family of the patient.

If they do not request the director of pastoral care to do so, the family should call their own parish to request a hospital visitor to the patient. It is also up to the patient or a family member to request that the Pastoral Care Office provide for reception of the Holy Eucharist.

The office will then arrange for a clergyman or a eucharistic minister to provide Communion to the patient as often as the patient requests it. It is also up to the family to request inclusion of the patient in the General Intercessions at Masses at their parish.


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MontclairCatholics.org Spring Photo Contest!

They say a picture paints a thousand words. Your photo only has to paint six: "Spring Renewal in the Catholic Spirit." The photo that fits that theme best will appear on MontclairCatholics.org's main page and the photographer will win great prizes.
Click Read More! for more details and rules. Good Luck!


Take an original picture that fits the theme above. Tulips in front of the church, a beautiful sun rise that touches heaven, or any other original shot. Then email your digital to power91big@photos.flickr.com. Important: In the body of your email, add a short description (where the photo was take, when, etc.) and your name and email address, so we know who shot the photo. Your photo will be posted on the group photo blog.

Submit your photo and view what others have submitted. Then, cast your vote for the that best describes Spring Renewal in the Catholic Spirit. The winner will receive valuable prizes and the honor of having his or her picture appear on MontclairCatholics.org.

More Details about the prizes will follow shortly, so stay tuned.


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American Boychoir to Perform at IC

The internationally recognized American Boychoir will perform at Immaculate Conception on May 21st.
On Wednesday, May 21st at 7:00PM the American Boychoir will present a concert here at Church of the Immaculate Conception which will feature our own children’s choirs in collaboration with the Boychoir for some numbers.  The American Boychoir is an internationally recognized boarding school in Princeton, NJ following the ancient tradition of a choir school.  For more information on the Boychoir tradition, please see their website: www.americanboychoir.org.  Please watch this page in the coming weeks for information about ticket purchase and plan to attend this wonderful event in support of the Children’s Choirs at Immaculate Conception and throughout the Montclair parish cluster.


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Solemnity of the Ascension

Thursday, May 1 is the Solemnity of the Ascension, a Holy day of Obligation for Catholics. Read on for Mass schedule at Immaculate Conception.
At IC, Masses will be celebrated for the Holyday at 5:30 PM on Wednesday, April 30 and at 7:30 AM, 12:10 PM and 7:30 PM on Thursday, May 1. There will be no 5:30 PM Mass on Thursday, May 1.


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Three-part Lecture Explores Catholic End of Life Medical Ethics

A three-part lecture series sponsored by Immaculate Conception Seminary school of Theology will discuss spirituality and end of life medical ethics at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Parish Center in Ridgewood, NJ.

Are you seeking greater knowledge and understanding of our Catholic perspective on end of life issues? The lecture series will cover three important ethical questions:

  • May 8 - The Case for Life in the Face of Death. What is the Christian understanding of suffering and death?
  • May 15 - How to Make the Right Medical Decision. How do we entrust our medical care to God’s plan?
  • May 22 - The Law and End of Life Decisions. How do we weigh the moral implications of our legal decisions?

    Lectures Thursday Evenings 7:30PM – 9:00, Location: Our Lady of Mount Carmel Parish Center Ridgewood, NJ, Cost: $10 per lecture or $25 for all three. To register or to obtain more information, contact Debbie Kurus at (973) 313 - 6329 or email her at kurusdeb@shu.edu


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  • Interfaith Service: “Evening of Witness” to Mark Yom Hashoah

    The Montclair Clergy Association will once again host the annual Interfaith observance of Yom Hashoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day. MontclairCatholics are urged to attend this important interfaith service on Wednesday, April 30, at 7:30 PM at Congregation Bnai Keshet in Montclair.


    In this Service, we will gather as a community of faith to remember the victims of the Holocaust of European Jewry in World War II and to recommit ourselves to take action against present-day examples of genocide. We will listen to the story of a Holocaust survivor - a living witness - and we will read from Bnai Keshet’s ‘Czech Torah’, recently acquired from a collection of sacred scrolls that were rescued from being destroyed in the Holocaust in Czechoslovakia, and which bear silent witness to its lost community of Holocaust victims.

    Speaking at a Vatican concert commemorating the Shoah in 1994, the late Pope John Paul II said, “It is not enough that we remember; for in our own day, regrettably, there are many new manifestations of the anti-Semitism, xenophobia and racial hatred which were the seeds of those unspeakable crimes. Humanity cannot permit all that to happen again.

    With the help of Almighty God we can work together to prevent the repetition of such heinous evil”. Come and be part of this special Service of interfaith prayer and solidarity.

    "Memories of that horrific time in our common history demand that we continue to remember, purposefully, both the individuals lost and the attitudes that tolerated or allowed the systematic assault on Jews, and other victims of Nazi hate, to go unchallenged," said Msgr. Timothy Shugrue of Immaculate Conception.

    "We must never forget, because it is too easy for people to slip into the trap of rationalizing suspicion and to ignore similar attacks upon the fundamental dignity of the human person at other times and in other places. Sadly, the lessons we should draw from the Holocaust need reinforcement in our contemporary world, and that is the point behind the annual Yom Ha Shoah observance."


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    Msgr. Shugrue (ICC): There is Nothing Routine about a 3rd Papal Encounter

    Monsignor Timothy Shugrue of Immaculate Conception eloquently and emotionally writes about his experience at the Holy Mass celebrated by Pope Benedict XVI.

    The following address was extracted the April 27 weekly Bulletin.

    Many have asked for my reaction to participating in the Mass offered last Sunday by Pope Benedict XVI at Yankee Stadium, and to all I have said simply that it was wonderful.

    I have had the privilege now to have been in the presence of three Popes - Paul VI, John Paul II and Benedict, and in the case of John Paul there were two personal encounters and the grace of celebrating Mass literally at his side - and I can testify that it doesn’t get to be routine: it is always an exciting experience, less because of any ‘celebrity factor’ than because of the spiritual import for a Catholic of recognizing in the Pope a living connection to Christ, Who designated Peter as His Vicar, the mission that we believe continues in Peter’s successors as Bishops of Rome. That is something we must take seriously, and there is, I think all who were at the Stadium last week would agree, a near-involuntary thrill when the Holy Father appears.

    In Pope Benedict, I believe we all saw a compelling example of the love of Christ, our Good Shepherd, for His entire flock. And that was most evident as he celebrated Mass, with representatives of the whole Church in the United States gathered around him.

    I was struck above all by the silent reverence that enveloped 57,000 worshipers at the moment of Consecration - an occasion of spiritual union with our Savior and with His People. It is a great grace to belong to the Catholic Church, and I for one felt a strengthening of that tie, like what the believers at Samaria must have felt when Peter came among them in company with John. May we all know that strength and encouragement every day. God love you!

    - Msgr. Tim Shugrue


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