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Ridgewood NJ, in observance of Good Friday, all Village offices and departments (except emergency services) will be closed on March 29. There will be no garbage or recycling pickup on that day. The Recycling Center also will be closed on Good Friday, but will be open on Saturday, March 30 from 8:00 am to 3:00 pm.
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Ridgewood NJ, an IMPORTANT UPDATE from the Village of Ridgewood:
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Newark NJ, as the season of Lent draws to a close, Catholics prepare to observe Holy Week to commemorate Jesus Christ’s death and resurrection. The nearly 1.3 million Catholics worshiping in the Archdiocese of Newark’s 212 parishes throughout Bergen, Essex, Hudson, and Union counties will mark the days leading to Easter Sunday on March 31 with a full range of liturgies — Mass, Stations of the Cross, prayer services, and more.
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River Edge Nj, Bergen County Historical Society on April 15th presented Friday’s Fare at Historic New Bridge Landing . Hot Cross Buns A traditional spiced/sweet bun eaten on Good Friday, marking the end of Lent, was incised with a cross representing the crucifixion, & with spices used for embalming, as well as believed to carry magical or medicinal properties. The 6th century AD Greeks were making spiced cakes marked with a cross, & Pagan Saxons honored the goddess of spring Eostre [Easter] with loaves marked with crosses, representing the four stages of the moon or four seasons
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March 27,2018
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Ridgewood NJ, Village Manager Heather Mailander issued a few updates on Monday, first the Parks and Street Departments are finishing Section A (using the leaf pickup schedule) today, March 26th, for the Special Pickup for the tree limbs/branches, due to the fact that the volume in Section A was greater than expected. Pickup in Section B will begin tomorrow, March 27th, and once all streets in Section B have been picked up, the crews will then move on to Section C, and then Section D. Please be patient, as our crews work to remove the many tree limbs and branches which fell during the March 7th storm.
As a reminder, the crews will remove the limbs and branches from every street in each section only once and after this pickup has taken place, there will be no additional pickups for these tree limbs and branches.
Also the restoration work on the stairs from Corsa Terrace to Pease Library will begin tomorrow, on March 27th, weather permitting. The stairs will be closed during this restoration work, which means that pedestrians must walk down Corsa Terrace to West Ridgewood Avenue while the work is being done. This restoration work will continue on a daily basis (excluding weekends), weather permitting. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.
All Village offices will be closed on March 30th, in observance of Good Friday. There will be no garbage or recycling pickup on this day and the Recycling Center will also be closed. The Police Department, on the second floor of Village Hall, will be open on this Holiday.
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As the holiest week of the Christian calendar approaches, Christ Episcopal Church in Ridgewood offers a variety of services for worship and celebration. Some of the services are geared toward children and youth, including the JOY! service every Sunday for infants and up, and child-friendly services for Good Friday and the Great Vigil of Easter on Saturday. The church also features a special Lenten breakfast every Sunday in Lent, February 14 through March 13 from 8:45 a.m. – 10:15 a.m. in the Great Hall. The price for adults is $5.00 and kids eat free. A special Maundy Thursday service will be held jointly with The United Methodist Church of Ridgewood and Emmanuel Church and the community is invited to a light meal followed by the service. As well, the Easter Bunny will be in attendance for the church’s annual Easter egg hunt on Easter Day and the community is invited to join in the services and Easter festivities, directly after the 9:15 a.m. and 10 a.m. services.
The Holy Week Schedule includes:
March 20 – Palm Sunday
Holy Eucharist at 8:00 a.m., 9:15 a.m. JOY! and 10:00 a.m.
March 21, 22 and 23 – Daily Mass during Holy Week
Holy Eucharist at 6:30 p.m.
March 24 – Maundy Thursday
Soup and sandwich dinner at 6:30 p.m. followed by Holy Eucharist at 7:30 p.m.
Dinner will be followed by stripping of the Altar and the Minor Vigil.
March 25 – Good Friday
Good Friday Liturgy with Communion from Reserve and Veneration of the Cross at 7:00 a.m., 12:00 noon, and 4:00 p.m. The 4:00 p.m. service is child-friendly.
March 26 – The Great Vigil of Easter
A child-friendly service beginning at sundown 7:15 p.m.
March 27 – Easter Day
Holy Eucharist at 8:00 a.m., 9:15 a.m. JOY! and 10:00 a.m.
Christ Episcopal Church is an open and inclusive community that embraces all people, wherever they may be on their faith journey. The church is located at 105 Cottage Place, at the corner of Franklin Avenue, in Ridgewood; 201-652-2350; christchurchridgewood.org.
Bethlehem Lutheran Church to Host Pancake Breakfast, Easter Egg Hunt & Holy Week Celebrations
March 22,2015
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Ridgewood, NJ,Bethlehem Lutheran Church today announced its Holy Week series of events designed to help local families experience fellowship, fun and community.
The fun kicks off with the congregation’s annual Pancake Breakfast and Easter Egg Hunt on Saturday, April 4, at 9 a.m., in the church’s gymnasium. After breakfast, the Easter Egg Hunt will take place on the church’s front lawn at 10 a.m. There will be all kinds of prizes, including lots of special prizes. It’s a great time for young families – all are welcome. The cost is $5 per person or $10 per family or a food donation for Center for Food Action.
“Our annual pancake breakfast and Easter egg hunt is a wonderful time for young families,” said Rev. Andy Nelson. “Photos from the morning will no doubt appear on hundreds of social media pages by the several hundred parents and their children attending. Our members are excited to share the joy and wonder of Easter with everyone who comes and to see those Easter baskets fill up with plastic eggs.”
Additionally, Bethlehem will host Holy Week services with inspirational music and messages,
and the presence of the Lord’s Holy Spirit. The schedule is as follows:
PALM SUNDAY – March 29
Worship Services at 8:45 a.m. and 11 a.m.
MAUNDY THURSDAY – April 2
Worship Services at 11 a.m. and 7:30 p.m.
GOOD FRIDAY – April 3
Services at 11:00 a.m. and 7:30 p.m. (Tenebrae, service of light to darkness, one of the oldest
traditional services in the Christian church.)
EASTER SUNDAY – April 5
Sunrise Communion Worship – 7:30 a.m.
Praise Communion Worship – 9 a.m.
Festival Communion Worship – 11 a.m.
We truly hope to see you and wish everyone a joyous Easter. The members of BethlehemEvangelical Lutheran Church, Ridgewood want you to know that God has a plan for you and He loves you. Our faith is in Christ. Our guide is in the Bible. Our love is for all. Come celebrate with us. Bethlehem has active ministries in music, education, community outreach and sports.
For our regular worship schedule, we offer 2 Sunday services: Contemporary Praise Service at 8:45am and Traditional Worship at 11am with Sunday School and Bible Class at 10am. Please join us at 155 Linwood Avenue, Ridgewood.
The mission of Bethlehem Evangelical Lutheran Church is to Trust God and care for His people by sharing the Good News of Jesus Christ in our world, community, work, church, and home. Please visit our website www.bethlehemchurch.com .
Christians are under attack not just abroad, but also here in the United States, Franklin Graham said on Good Friday.
“We are seeing it across the globe, no question about it, and it’s frightening,” Graham, the president and CEO of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association and son of Billy Graham, told John Bachman and J.D. Hayworth on “America’s Forum” on Newsmax TV.
“We see the anti-Christian position in this country. We see so much of it coming out of the entertainment industry, especially in certain segments of the news media.”
“Christians are being attacked and … we see it now in Europe. Anti-Semitism, no question, it’s there. We are living in a world that is changing, and it is frightening to see how quickly [it] is changing, and we’re going to see real persecution of Christians and Jews in the years to come,” said Graham, who followed his father into the ministry.
Franklin Graham said Christians should not suppress their spiritual beliefs even in the face of growing religious apathy.
“I would encourage Christians not to back down, to stand firm, to share your faith, to stand for your faith, not to be afraid of the secularists who will scoff at you. You know, we live in a world where we want to be politically correct, we live in a world where people want to be accepted and standing for Jesus Christ. You’re not going to be accepted in some circles and you just have to be willing to accept that,” he said.
“But don’t be afraid. I would encourage Christians to stand and be proud of your faith and not to be shy, to tell others about what God has done for you, what Christ did when he died on the cross and rose from the grave, let people know that. That’s extremely important.”
Now more than ever, Graham said Christians should embrace the concept of charity and love toward their fellow man.
“You follow the example of Jesus Christ. Jesus fed people, he healed people, he used his power as the Son of God to lift people up, but he didn’t do that just because he wanted to give people a better life, he did that so people would put their faith and trust in him as the living Son of God, but at the same time Jesus had compassion for suffering and he healed people, he cared for people. I just think we as Christians today, we should do the same,” Graham said.
“We should be concerned about our fellow man, we should give, we should give to charity, we should take care of those that are hungry. In this country, the churches used to do that and now we have given this over to the government.
“The government was not in the charity business 100 years ago, but now the churches are almost completely out of it and it’s the government trying to run healthcare when the churches used to … and the churches did a much better job of it than what the government can do.”
That notion of charity is something Franklin Graham tries to bring to the world through his organization, Samaritan’s Purse.
“We’re working right now in the Ukraine. We have teams of people in the southern Sudan where there has been civil war. There’s a lot of suffering around the world,” he said.
“We’re working in Liberia with Ebola; our planes are flying the World Health Organizations and different people to these affected areas and getting people out of these areas. But Samaritan’s Purse, we … do it in the name of Jesus Christ.
“We operate in over 100 countries and we do need people’s prayers, we need people’s financial health; we can’t do the work without that. But I always covet peoples’ prayers more than anything else.”
Graham also spoke about the health of his father, the evangelist Rev. Billy Graham, spiritual adviser to a number of presidents. Franklin said his father is stable after being hospitalized late last year.
“My father is at home,” he said. “He’s doing just a little better. He was in the hospital back before Christmas, right after Thanksgiving, but he’s just a little bit better and the warm weather has been an encouragement to him. He’s been outside a little bit, so we’re grateful for that.”
https://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/Franklin-Graham-Christians-persecution-Billy-Graham/2014/04/18/id/566456#ixzz2zL2uEHBy
Pope breaks rules as he washes feet of disabled people in pre-Easter ritual
ROME – Pope Francis washed the feet of 12 disabled and elderly people Thursday – women and non-Catholics among them – in a pre-Easter ritual designed to show his willingness to serve others like a “slave.”
Francis’ decision in 2013 to perform the Holy Thursday ritual on women and Muslim inmates at a juvenile detention center helped define his rule-breaking papacy just two weeks after his election. It riled traditionalist Catholics, who pointed to the Vatican’s own regulations that the ritual be performed only on men since Jesus’ 12 apostles were men.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/pope-breaks-rules-as-he-washes-feet-of-disabled-people-in-pre-easter-ritual/
Village of Ridgewood NOTICE : Friday, April 18 – Village Hall & Stable Closed – No Sanitation or Recycling Collection
On Friday, April 18th in observance of Good Friday, Village Hall and The Stable offices will be closed. Additionally there will no garbage or recycling collection on that date.
The Recycling Center, 205 E. Glen Ave., will be open Saturday, April 19 from 8AM to 3PM.
