THE CHURCH OF
THE SACRED HEART
Oldest Catholic Parish in New Jersey,
Established in 1814
343 South Broad Street
Trenton, New Jersey 08608
Phone: (609) 393-2801 Fax: (609) 989-8997
www.trentonsacredheart.org
STAFF
PASTOR and DIRECTOR OF VOCATIONS &
HOUSE OF DISCERNMENT
Very Rev. Dennis A. Apoldite, Ext. 102
frdennis@trentonsacredheart.org
PAROCHIAL VICAR
Rev. Thomas Kunnath
,
PARISH SECRETARY and COORDINATOR OF
RELIGIOUS EDUCATION
Mrs. Linda Teresky, Ext. 101
lteresky@trentonsacredheart.org
DIRECTOR OF MUSIC
Kelly Hall (609) 558-1966
TRUSTEES
Mrs. Maribeth Hardiman and Mr. Michael Franko
SUMMER OFFICE HOURS
9:00-4:00pm Monday-Friday
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LITURGY SCHEDULE
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday
12:10 Noon
Weekend Schedule
Saturday Evening 5:15 PM
Sunday Morning 9:00 and 11:15
For each Holy Day please reference the bulletin
RECONCILIATION
Saturday afternoon ~ 4:30 to 5:00
Every Friday following the 12:10 Liturgy
and by appointment.
BAPTISM
Please call the Parish Office at least one month in
advance. Baptisms will be held on the first and third
Sunday of the month at 12:15.
Considering Priesthood?
Email: Vocations@DioceseofTrenton.org
ALL ARE WELCOME
Whatever your present status in the Catholic
Church, whatever your current family or marital
situation, whatever your past or present
religious affiliation, whatever your personal history,
age, background, or race, whatever your own selfimage or esteem, you are invited, welcomed,
accepted, loved and respected at the Church of the
Sacred Heart.
ALL SAINTS
NOVEMBER 1, 2015
First Reading: Revelations 7:2-4, 9-14
John recounts for us the details of his vision. An angel
bearing the seal of the living God demands that the land
and sea not be destroyed; huge crowds stand before
the throne of the Lamb crying out that salvation comes
from God; angels gathered round and praised God; an
elder questions John and explains that those dressed in
white are the ones who have survived the great period
of trial.
Second Reading: 1 John 3:1-3
Once again John speaks to us of love. He points out to
us the great love that the Father has for us by allowing
us to be called children of God. John explains that the
world doesn't recognize us because it never recognized
Jesus. Our future will be revealed to us and in that light
we shall see him as he is.
Gospel: Matthew 5:1-12a
When Jesus saw the crowds of people he went up to
the mountainside gathered his disciples around him and
began to teach them. This lesson in love has come to be
known to us as the great "Sermon on the Mount" or
"The Beatitudes.”
MARRIAGE
Please call the Parish Priest at least one year in
advance to set up initial meeting and to confirm a
wedding date and time.
ANOINTING OF THE SICK
Please call the Priest’s residence any time.
COMMUNION TO THE HOMEBOUND
Please call the Parish Priest to schedule home visit.
MASS SCHEDULE
Saturday – October 31
5:15 pm – Margaret Persichetti, Bernard Brogan & Patty
Williams
Sunday – November 1
9:00 am – Joseph Gamble & Helen Kruvczuk
11:15 am – People of the Parish & Charles Ragazzo
Monday – November 2
12:10pm – Deceased Members of the Parish
Tuesday – November 3
12:10pm – Barber Family & Fisher & Astore Families
Wednesday – November 4
12:10pm – Kristine Persichilli
Thursday November 5– No 12:10 Mass
Friday – November 6
12:10pm – Louis F. Beckett & Edna Markulec
Saturday – November 7
5:15 pm – People of the Parish & Virginia Palumbo
Sunday – November 8
9:00 am – Kenneth & Lucille Fisher & Sarah B. Marut
11:15 am – Anna Mae & Stevin Bolge
MINISTRY SCHEDULE
Saturday, October 31 – 5:15pm
Altar Server:
E. Minister: Farruggios, T. Hines, Ronnings
Lector: Kim Annasenz
Celebrant: Fr.Dennis
Sunday, November 1 - 9:00am
Altar Server: Eric & Mariah Ramos, Anthony Gentile
E. Minister: Hardimans, K. Jurczynski, J. Krauss, O. Nagbe
Lector: Jack McDonough
Celebrant: Fr. Dennis
Sunday, November 1 – 11:15am
Altar Server: Ethan & Madeleine Rizzuto
E. Minister: M. Tovar, A. Woloff, A. Barbadore, Silvernails
Lector: Richard Artis
Celebrant: Fr. Dennis
Saturday, November 7 – 5:15pm
Altar Server: Kristen & Nicole Bruno
E. Minister: M. Kate McGrath, R. Hoyer, Kearneys, L. Bellina
Lector: Margot Rick
Celebrant: Fr.Tom
Sunday, November 8 - 9:00am
Altar Server: Tom Zamerowski, Olivia Mangan
E. Minister: McDonoughs, M. Maurer
Lector: Kathy Valentino
Celebrant: Fr.Tom
Sunday, November 8 – 11:15am
Altar Server: Noah Andujar
E. Minister: J. Diaz, D. Kuebler, K. Myers, Figueroas
Lector: Mary Ann Bentz
Celebrant: Fr. George
MONTH TO REMEMBER THE DECEASED
This year we will be honoring all those from our
parish who have died and any parishioner who
experienced a death in their family since
November 1, 2014. If you would like to
participate in this ceremony we ask that you
bring a framed (no larger than a 5 in. x 7 in.)
picture of your deceased loved one to Mass on
the weekend of October 31st and November
1st. Please attach your name and phone
number to the back of the picture (all pictures
will be returned). During the Mass you will be
asked to bring the picture up to the altar and
place it on the Table of Remembrance in the
sanctuary, which will remain there till the First
Sunday of Advent. Please consider
participating in this ceremony to honor our
beloved deceased. Thank you.
REMEMBER IN PRAYER
OUR SICK
Kevin Searning, Fr. Art Conlon, Jeanette Rosie,
Matt Egan, Jose Torres, Karen Potter, Thomas
Baiori, Matthew Bartomeo, Melissa Migut, Daniel
F. Lemole, Veronica Mosher, Edivia Molina, Nello
Zuech, Lydia Ajez, Anne Kennedy, Brian McEvilly
Jr., Hailey Scherf, Susan Thornton, Marie Murphy,
Taylor Nagbe, Richard Welch, Carol Balthazar, Sr.
Patricia Watkins, Rosa Cruz Rivera, Ricarda
Chappano, D’Ann Mangarelli, Cathy Falsetti,
Constance Imbalzano, Anna and Daniel Smith,
Edward Marut, Paula Zimmitti, Gabriel Laboy, Mary
Tron, Miranda Morris, Timothy Patrick Grouser,
Mary Hovanec, Ann Oliver, Fred Bastedo, Terry
Tirpok, Christopher Junghand, Helen Valentino,
Lorraine Mottley, Chip Maisto, Don Metcalf, Ellen
Meskill, Rosa Herrera, Robert Kee, Elba Gonzalez,
Kerry Mumola Kelly, Dawn Kungl, and our friends
at South Village and Waters Edge.
OUR DECEASED
Lena Apoldite, the mother of Fr Dennis, Jack
Callery, Mary Ann Carpenter, Jason Capinski, Jay
Destribats, Dot Kleck, Gloria Rios, Ann Convery
and our friends at South Village and Waters Edge.
OUR MILITARY
Air Force Staff Sgt. Korey Bates
Captain Joseph E. Marut III, US Army
Airman, Emanuel Figueroa, US Air Force
Airman, Joshua Blaney, US Air Force
First Lieutenant Brian S. Williams, USMC
First Lieutenant Derrick Syed, US Army
Staff Sergeant Raymond Housal, US Army Sergeant
Robert Colella, 1st Class, US Army
Sergeant Gared Housal, US Army
Sergeant Ryan Mc Sorley, USMC
Lance Corporal Mathew Wolfe, USMC
Lance Corporal William Sinnett, USMC
Lance Corporal Christopher Poinsett, USMC
Private First Class Jay Waalkens, US Army
Private First Class Matthew Conyers, US Army
25TH Infantry Division – Alpha Company 127
Sergeant Alberto Rosario, US Army
Sergeant Ivan Cosme, US Air Force
Sergeant Aimee Figueroa, US Air Force
Hospital Corpsman, Thomas J. Douglas, US Navy
Sergeant Peter F. Miller, Jr. US Army
Captain Matthew Bartomeo, USAF
Major Michael Suter, US Army
COLLECTION
The Collection for the weekend of October 18th
amounted to $4,679.00 Thank you for your
continued support of our parish.
FLYERS FOR BISHOP’S ROME PILGRIMAGE ARE IN
VESTIBULE AND ON WEB PAGE BULLETIN SECTION
HISTORY OF ALL SOULS DAY
NATIONAL VOCATIONS AWARENESS
WEEK ~ NOVEMBER 1nd – 7th
Did you know that in our country, compared to
50 years ago, there are 20,000 fewer priests
and 129,000 fewer religious sisters? At the
same time, the Catholic population has
continued to grow steadily. Many factors have
contributed to the decline: growing secularism,
a lengthened period of adolescence, attitudes
about
celibacy,
etc. During
Vocation
Awareness week, please pray that young
people in today’s society will hear and respond
to God’s call. And do your part to encourage
them to consider the priesthood and religious
life.
PRAYER FOR VOCATIONS
Gracious and loving God, help the men and
women of our parish to hear the call to serve in
the Diocese of Trenton, our needs are great
and our people thirst for your presence. Open
the hearts of many, raise up faithful servants of
the Gospel, dedicated, holy priests, sisters,
brothers and deacons, who will spend
themselves for your people and their needs.
Bless those who are serving now with courage
and perseverance. Grant that many will be
inspired by their example and faith. We ask this
through Christ our Lord
CHOIR
Choir practice has begun, and continues every
Wednesday at 7pm, in the church. Please
consider joining this wonderful group. We
accept all levels of experience. Most of us just
love to sing! If you have any questions, please
call Kelly - 609) 558-1966 or just come up and
talk with her after Mass. Hope to see you
there!
ALL SOULS ENVELOPES
Please remember to hand in your All Souls
remembrance envelopes. They will be placed
of the table of Remembrance.
The importance of All Souls Day was made
clear by Pope Benedict XV (1914-22), when he
granted all priests the privilege of celebrating
three Masses on All Souls Day: one for the
faithful departed; one for the priest's intentions;
and one for the intentions of the Holy Father.
While All Souls Day is now paired with All
Saints Day, which celebrates all of the faithful
who are in Heaven, it originally was celebrated
in the Easter season, around Pentecost
Sunday (and still is in the Eastern Catholic
Churches). By the tenth century, the
celebration had been moved to October; and
sometime between 998 and 1030, St. Odilo of
Cluny decreed that it should be celebrated on
November 2 in all of the monasteries of his
Benedictine congregation. Over the next two
centuries, other Benedictines and the
Carthusians began to celebrate it in their
monasteries as well, and soon it spread to the
entire Church.
On All Souls Day, we not only remember the
dead, but we apply our efforts, through prayer,
almsgiving, and the Mass, to their release from
Purgatory. There are two plenary indulgences
attached to All Souls Day, one for visiting a
church and another for visiting a cemetery.
(The plenary indulgence for visiting a cemetery
can also be obtained every day from
November 1-8, and, as a partial indulgence, on
any day of the year.) While the actions are
performed by the living, the merits of the
indulgences are applicable only to the souls in
Purgatory.
Praying for the dead is a Christian obligation.
In the modern world, when many have come to
doubt the Church's teaching on Purgatory, the
need for such prayers has only increased. The
Church devotes the month of November to
prayer for the Holy Souls in Purgatory, and
participation in the Mass of All Souls Day is a
good way to begin the month.
Our History
New Jersey’s first Catholic Church, dedicated to St. John the Baptist on June 12, 1814, and was built
at Market and Lamberton Streets in Trenton. A small simple brick building 30 feet wide by 50 feet
deep, St John’s drew a congregation of 30 families from both sides of the Delaware River, who
continued to depend on traveling Philadelphia priests until 1837 when Rev. Daniel Magorien, was
appointed the first resident pastor.
Fourteen years later, Irish immigrants fleeing the potato famine, had begun to swell the ranks of a
congregation of German, French and Irish origin. The cornerstone for a new, much larger St. John’s
Church was laid that year at Broad and Centre Streets. Completed and dedicated on August 27,
1848, the new church was classical in design, built of stucco brick with a three-story bell tower. The
growth of the parish of St. John was so rapid that wing was added in 1856.
On Sunday night, September 30, 1883, fire destroyed St. John’s Church, leaving only the exterior
walls, belfry with its bell and cupola standing. Undaunted, Pastor Rev. Thaddeus Hogan inspired his
congregation of St. John’s Parish and plans were drawn up for a new church building slated to be
dedicated to the Sacred Heart.
On August 3rd, 1884 Bishop Jeremiah Shanahan of Harrisburg laid the cornerstone for a new church.
On June 12th, 1885 the surviving St. John’s bell, rang out again to signal the partial completion of the
new church as Mass was celebrated for the first time in the basement chapel. The basement chapel
was designed to seat 1,300, although the pews hadn’t arrived and parishioners stood.
Sacred Heart was dedicated on June 30th, 1889 by the Most Rev. Michael S. O’Farrell, first Bishop of
Trenton. On the north side of the church a rectory was built and on the south side a Catholic club
house was built, both matching in design of the new Church of the Sacred Heart. The Catholic Club
where gentlemen could be molded according to the highest standards was dear to the heart of Msgr.
Hogan and he achieved his ambition so successfully that it was a cultural center for the men of
Trenton for many years.
Romanesque Revival in style, Sacred Heart Church was designed by Patrick Charles Keely (18161896), himself an Irish immigrant. He was 19th century America’s most prominent and prolific
Catholic architect - the designer of many cathedrals in Boston, Hartford, Buffalo, Albany and Chicago,
as well as some 150 churches, including ones in New Brunswick, Jersey City, Mount Holly and
Newark.
In 1918, Msgr. Hogan’s successor, Rev. Peter J. Hart built a modern school and convent adjacent to
the rectory. On June 17, 1966 Msgr. Leonard R. Toomey was appointed the thirteenth pastor of the
Church of the Sacred Heart (formerly known as St. John). In 1972 the stores, houses and a tavern
adjacent to the Catholic Club were purchased from the City of Trenton through an Urban Renewal
Program and transformed into a landscaped parking yard for the parish, thus completing the current
Parish Campus.
Still attracting parishioners from surrounding areas of New Jersey and Pennsylvania, the Church of
the Sacred Heart continues its mission to be a source of help and education, a place of vibrant
worship, and the security of being a solid Catholic Christian community for all who come. Having
been listed on the National Historic Registry for the United States Department of Parks and Wildlife,
As the Church of the Sacred Heart moved into the new millennium, our 200th anniversary celebration
was held on October 12, 2014.