Christ The Redeemer - Roman Catholic Church, 98 South 2nd Ave., P.O. Box 924, Manville, NJ 08835 Phone: 908-725-0072
REDEMPTORIST SAINTS
Saint Alphonsus Liguori (1696-1787) Founder of the Redemptorists, Bishop, Doctor of the Church, Patron of Confessors  and Moral Theologians, and one of the greatest moral theologians and spiritual writers in the history of the Church.

The founder of the Redemptorists, St. Alphonsus was born near Naples on September 27, 1696. Alphonsus studied in the University of Naples and graduated as a Doctor of Civil and Church Law. He practiced with outstanding success in the Neapolitan courts for ten years but he abandoned his legal career owing to a grievous disappointment over an important case that he lost, probably due to a bribed judge. Read More
Saint Clement Hofbauer (1751-1820) Redemptorist missionary who brought the Congregation to northern Europe from where it spread to the Americas, Asia, and Africa. An apostle to the poor and an influential figure in Catholic Romanticism. St. Clement was born in Moravia (the present Czech Republic) on December 26, 1751. In baptism he received the name of John. The death of his father in 1757 reduced the family to such poverty that John had little time for schooling in his early years. He became a servant in a monastery and learned the trade of baker. He used much of his free time for study with a view to becoming a priest. Read More
Saint Gerard Majella (1726-1755) Redemptorist Brother, Patron Saint of new mothers and families; guide to simple prayer.

St. Gerard was born in southern Italy on April 6, 1726. His father died while Gerard was still young, forcing him to be apprenticed to a tailor. His frail health, quiet disposition, and gentle ways led him to being bullied by fellow workers and by his employers. He was refused admission to the Capuchin Order on account of his youth, so he lived for a time as a hermit. His great love for Jesus crucified caused him to lead a very ascetical lifestyle. Read More
Saint John Neumann (1811-1860) Redemptorist missionary to the United States; Bishop of Philadelphia, founder of the parochial school system in the United States, author of the first Baltimore Catechism; only American man canonized.

St. John Neumann (pronounced Noi-man to distinguish him from the English writer, John Cardinal Newman) was born in Bohemia on March 28, 1811. He attended school in Budweis and entered the seminary there in 1831. Two years later he passed to the university in Prague, where he studied theology. Read More
Blessed Peter Donders (1809-1887) Redemptorist missionary who spent his life caring for lepers, slaves, and native peoples in South America. Blessed Kaspar Stanggassinger (1871-1899) Young German Redemptorist teacher with special love for the Eucharist; youth guide and consoler.

Peter Donders was born in Holland in October 1809. Because his family was poor, the two sons could be given little schooling but had to work to support the family. From an early age, however, Peter had formed the desire of becoming a priest. Read More
Blessed Gennaro Sarnelli (1702-1744) Close friend of St. Alphonsus, who gave special care to the poor, an ardent social reformer to remove the scandal of Neapolitan youngsters whose poverty forced them into prostitution. Author of many books on spirituality.

Gennaro Maria Sarnelli, the son of the baron of Ciorani, was born in Naples on September 12, 1702. At the age of 14, he decided to become a Jesuit, but his father dissuaded him because of his youth. So he began the study of law and received a doctorate in ecclesiastical and civil law in 1722. Read More
Blessed Francis Seelos (1819-1867) Great Redemptorist missionary throughout the United States; ministered especially to the sick, and died from yellow fever contracted from victims during the plague in New Orleans. His beatification took place in 2000.

Francis Seelos was born in the diocese of Augsburg on January 11, 1819. He studied philosophy and began the course of theology in the University of Munich before he considered joining the Redemptorists. After visiting their house in Altötting he decided to go to America to enter the Congregation. Read More
Blessed Kaspar Stanggassinger (1871-1899) In 1899 the Redemptorists opened a seminary in Gars, Bavaria. Father Stanggassinger was sent there as director. He was 28 years old at the time, but was only able to preach one retreat to the students and to participate in the opening of the school year before succumbing to a case of peritonitis on September 26. His simple holiness was of such power that in April 1988 Pope John Paul II declared him "blessed," a saintly model of Christian life. "Saints have special intuitions", wrote Father Stanggassinger. "What is important for me, who am not a saint, are the simple eternal truths: the Incarnation, the Redemption, and the Holy Eucharist." Read More

MASS AND DEVOTIONS

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SATURDAY EVENING:
CTK 4:30 pm English
SH 6:00 pm English
SUNDAY:
SH 7:00 am Polish
CTK 8:30 am English
SH 8:30 am English
SH 10:00 am English
CTK 10:30 am English
SH 11:30 am Polish
HOLY DAYS ANTICIPATED EVENING MASS:
SH 6:00 pm English
HOLY DAYS:
CTK 7:00 am English
SH 11:00 am English
CTK 6:00 pm English
SH 7:00 pm Polish
WEEKDAY MASSES:
CTK 7:00 am M - F English
SH 8:00 am M,T,Th,S Polish
SH 11:00 am M,T,Th,S English
SH 7:00 pm W,F Polish
NOVENA TO OUR LADY OF PERPETUAL HELP:
SH 11:00 am Tuesday English
SH 7:00 pm Wednesday Polish
CONFESSION:
SH 6:30-7:00pm Wednesday & Friday
SH 11:30-12:30pm Saturday
4:45-5:45 pm  Saturday
CTK 3:30-4:15 pm Saturday


*SH Sacred Heart Church
98 South 2nd Ave.
Manville, NJ
*CTK Christ the King Church
211 Louis Street
Manville, NJ 08835







COMING UP



PRAYER INTENTIONS OF THE HOLY FATHER ENTRUSTED TO THE APOSTLESHIP OF PRAYER FOR THE YEAR 2017

APRIL

Young People. 
That young people may respond generously to their vocations and seriously consider offering themselves to God in the priesthood or consecrated life.


FROM THE PASTOR’S DESK

HAPPY EASTER dear Friends!
With our celebration of Easter, we proclaim “Christ is risen,” and call each other and the world to renew our hope. That call to hope is actually a very daring invitation. Who are we, then, to proclaim hope? How do we dare to say that there is a reason for hope? Our response is simple, and our conviction is firm. We have come to know Jesus, the Risen Christ. We have come to know Jesus in his word and in his sacraments. We have known him in each other, in the faces of those whom we love and in the faces of the poor and marginalized. Our knowledge of him has brought us before his cross on which he destroyed sin and death. Our knowledge of him has brought us to stand before him as the Risen One who breathes the new life of the Spirit into those who believe in him.
We dare to hope, because the eternal Word of God dared to take our flesh and passed through death to new and glorious life. He opened the way for us to embrace eternal life. And so we dare to hope and, even more, dare to share that hope with a wounded struggling world.
Let us continue to grow in love for the Lord every day and pray for one another as we together journey to an ever deeper faith and reawaken faith in those whose faith is in slumber.  May our faith and confidence in the Risen Christ will bless this world with the renewed hope that it desperately needs.
In the Risen Lord Jesus,





Our God is a God of justice, but also a God of mercy. Through the blood of Jesus, God's mercy is available to us now. It is up to us to decide to accept it. We don't want to be camping out in "Sin Forest" when judgment time comes.

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