Next weekend, August 17-18 is the last collection for backpacks, so as you do your weekly marketing, please remember the young students who need our assistance in preparing for a new school year.

Suggestions for needed supplies include:

Backpacks, messenger bags, colored pencils, pencils, erasers, crayons, markers, blue, black and red pens, lined paper, glue sticks, soft pencil cases, three ring binders, rulers, three subject notebooks, highlighters, folders with pockets and pencil sharpeners.

Our thanks to all who participate in this project. Your generosity is greatly appreciated! 

New and Re-registrations for the 2019-2020 Religious Formation year will take place on
Sunday, August 18, 2019 from 10:00 AM until 11:30 AM in the Parish Office.
If you are a new registrant a copy of your child’s Baptismal Certificate is required.
If you do not have it at the time of registration, we cannot accept your application.
If your child was baptized at St. Bonaventure, please let us know the year of Baptism.
If you have any questions, please contact Teresa Gallo-Tomcho at tgallo1130@yahoo.com
or 908-209-1437.

If you or anyone you know would like to become a member
of the Roman Catholic Church
or if you desire the Sacraments of Confirmation and First Eucharist,
please contact Teresa Gallo-Tomcho at tgallo1130@yahoo.com
or 908-209-1437 for more information.

Teresa and members of the RCIA Team will assist you in preparing
for the celebration of the Sacraments of Initiation
at the Easter Vigil on the evening before Easter Sunday 2020 or 2021.
Candidates for these Sacraments
are adolescents (age 10 to 18) and adults.

They come together on a weekly basis with catechists for prayer,
catechetical instruction, and reflection on the Sacred Scriptures.
These meetings begin early in October 2019.

SUNDAY MORNING SUMMER MASS SCHEDULE
8:00 AM & 10:00 AM

Beginning Sunday, September 15
the regular Sunday Mass Schedule resumes
7:30 AM, 9:30 AM, 11:30 AM
PARISH PICNIC FOLLOWING THE LAST MASS

 

BEACON PHOTO | RICH GIGLI

REMEMBERING A FALLEN HERO  Franciscan Father Daniel Grigassy, pastor of St. Bonaventure Parish, leads a graveside service on Sept. 11 for Franciscan Father Mychal Judge in Holy Sepulchre Cemetery, Totowa, as firefighters and police salute.
 On 9/11, Father Mychal Judge and all those lost are remembered

TOTOWA  On the 17th anniversary of the Sept. 11th attacks, Franciscan Father Mychal Judge, who served as a New York City Fire Department chaplain and was the first recorded fatality of the Islamists’ terrorist attacks, was remembered at a 9/11 Memorial Service at Holy Sepulchre Cemetery here where he is buried. Father Judge had previously served as pastor of St. Joseph Church in West Milford. A memorial Mass was also held a St. Bonaventure Parish in Paterson before the graveside memorial service. Franciscan Father Daniel Grigassy, pastor of St. Bonaventure, celebrated the Mass and also led the service at the cemetery.

Knights of Columbus Councils 240 and 6574 have hosted the memorial service since 2002, the first anniversary of the attacks. At the service, local parishioners, friends of the fallen chaplain and police officers and firefighters prayed in memory of Father Judge and all victims of 9/11. 

Click Here to Sign up for Automatic Credit or Debit Card Donations.

Haga un Clic Aquí para Inscribirse a Donar Automaticamente por una Tarjeta de Debit o Credit.

We invite you to consider sharing your gifts in the Ministries to our community of faith. If you are interested, please pick up a booklet.

  1. Ministry of Adult Faith Formation      2. Ministry of Altar Server
  3. Ministry of Family Life                          4. Finance Ministry
  5. Hispanic Ministry                                  6. Ministry of Holy Communion
  7. Ministry of Hospitality/Ushers            8. Ministry to Those Who Mourn
  9. Ministry of Lector                                10. Ministry of Liturgy and Worship
11. Ministry of Prayer                               12. Music Ministry
13. Ministry of Religious Formation       14. Ministry in the Rite of Christian
                                                                            Initiation of Adults (RCIA)
15. Ministry to the Sick                             16. Social Concerns
17. Youth Ministry                                     18. Ministry to Justice, Peace, &
                                                                            Integrity of Creation (JPIC)

Organizations
1. Knights of Columbus 
2. Secular Franciscan Order (SFO) 
3. Spiritual Enrichment of Seniors

2ND SATURDAY: 11:30 AM Mass with Anointing of the Sick in March, June, September and December.

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 14 at 11:30 AM
for those preparing for surgery, healing after surgery, for the seiously ill, and the elderly, or anyone who needs physical or psychological healing.

Our Church is open for private prayer and devotions from 8:00 am to 6:30 pm every day of the week.

All are welcome!

Nuestra iglesia está abierta tanto para oración privada como para devociones desde las 8:00 am hasta las 6:30 pm todos los días.

¡Todos son bienvenidos!

Arts & Crafts in Church Gardens
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
August 17th, August 31st 

New and Re-registrations for the 2019-2020 Religious Formation year will take place on

Sunday, August 18, 2019 from
10:00 AM until 11:30 AM in the Parish Office.

RCIA – Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults
If you or anyone you know would like to become a member of the Roman Catholic Church or if you desire the Sacraments of Confirmation and First Eucharist, please contact
Teresa Gallo-Tomcho at tgallo1130@yahoo.com or 908-209-1437 for more information.