St Michael Parish Jersey City

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St Michael Parish Jersey City Founded in 1867, St. Michael continues to serve the Roman Catholic Community of Hamilton Park and the surrounding neighborhoods in Jersey City.

Mass Times

Saturday: 4:00 PM

Sunday: 8:30 AM (Vietnamese), 10:30 AM, 6:30 PM

We’re delighted to welcome Mr. Jose Figueroa to the staff of Saint Michael Church as our new Office Manager. Jose began ...
10/17/2026

We’re delighted to welcome Mr. Jose Figueroa to the staff of Saint Michael Church as our new Office Manager. Jose began here at our Rectory offices late last month and hit the ground running: he immediately tackled an all-new online processing platform required by the company that prints our weekly bulletin, then began retooling our parishioner-registration system to soon make it all online. And he did this all effortlessly.

Jose brings more than 20 years of administrative and management experience to his new position. He has been a staff supervisor in a number of settings including an insurance company and a legal firm, and more recently was a manager for Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Newark.

A native of Puerto Rico, Jose grew up in a pro-actively Catholic family. His mother was president of the parish council of Our Lady of Grace, their home parish – where his sister was a teacher in Children’s Religious Education. Jose himself volunteered at the parish for many years, beginning at age 14.

Jose will handle many of the regular functions of our Rectory office: scheduling Baptisms, weddings and funerals; parishioner registration; arranging for Mass intentions (“Mass cards”); managing the parish calendar, etc. But he will also apply his impressive organizational skills and great creativity to help Saint Michael Church continue to grow and thrive. Please join me in welcoming Jose to our parish family.

God bless you!
With my love,
Father Tom

10/11/2026

Another Young Adults Group meetup tonight after the 6:30 Mass!

10/11/2026

The word “eucharist,” as in “Most Holy Eucharist,” comes from the Greek word eucharista, which means “gratitude” or “to give thanks.” Well there was much to be grateful for at Saint Michael’s last Sunday as scores of parishioners gathered outside the church after the 10:30 a.m. Mass to give special praise and recognition to Roxanne Clark. As we have shared, Roxanne, who since 1979 has served Saint Michael’s as Music Director, Pastoral Associate and Office Manager, is stepping away this month from her full-time office duties (she is staying on part-time as Music Director), so the parish came together last week to thank Roxanne for her lifetime of service to the community and to wish her every blessing in this new chapter of her life. I myself could never express enough gratitude to Roxanne not only for the countless ways she has helped me to look after this parish, but for the innumerable times over 47 years that she has been a welcoming, reassuring presence to all who come to our door. And I’m equally thankful that Roxanne will still be planning our liturgical music with her demonstrable talent and skill. Finally, I cannot adequately express my gratitude to all who joined in our celebration for Roxanne, and especially to the small army of Saint Michael parishioners who planned and executed the event. God bless you all!

- Father Tom

Our fall Small Faith Group resumes next Tues, Oct 13 from 7-8 pm in the parish rectory! You are invited!This six-week se...
10/08/2026

Our fall Small Faith Group resumes next Tues, Oct 13 from 7-8 pm in the parish rectory! You are invited!

This six-week session provides a welcoming space to reflect on the upcoming gospel readings. Contact Marybeth at [email protected] to sign up.

A few more photos from the brunch for Roxanne. Huge turnout!
10/07/2026

A few more photos from the brunch for Roxanne. Huge turnout!

We're already busy wiping down the dust covered chairs for Roxanne’s Recognition Brunch taking place THIS SUNDAY followi...
10/02/2026

We're already busy wiping down the dust covered chairs for Roxanne’s Recognition Brunch taking place THIS SUNDAY following the 10:30am Mass!

We hope you'll attend! All are invited!

After 47 years as the full-time Pastoral Associate, Office Manager and Music Director for Saint Michael Church, Roxanne Clark is transitioning out of the office to a part-time role, continuing as our parish Music Director. To show Roxanne our gratitude for all she has done for Saint Michael’s, and to thank her for staying on to guide our liturgical music, we’re asking everyone to join us on October 4th. (We’ll have tents set up, so the festivities will happen rain or shine!)

WHO is like God?Saint Michael the Archangel put this question to the rebellious angel Lucifer just before throwing the d...
09/29/2026

WHO is like God?

Saint Michael the Archangel put this question to the rebellious angel Lucifer just before throwing the devil and his criminal cohort of insurrectionist angels out of Heaven (Revelation 12: 7-12). We remember from this story how Lucifer envied God’s own divine identity; he sought to overthrow Heaven and rule it himself. Instead, Saint Michael and his army of faithful and loyal angels threw Lucifer and his band of traitors out of Paradise and into the abyss. In his final rebuke to Lucifer, Saint Michael asks, rhetorically, “WHO is like God?”

We see this phrase, in Latin, in two locations in our church. On the western wall, look to the third stained-glass window from the left. There is Saint Michael, holding aloft a flaming sword in his right hand. With his left arm he brandishes a golden shield bearing the inscription Quis ut Deus (WHO is like God? Or WHO can compare with God?)

In the church sanctuary, in the right-hand corner just inside the altar rail, is a statue of Saint Michael, posed in much the same way as in the stained-glass window, though without the sword ablaze. But once again, there on the shield, is the same inscription: Quis ut Deus. At the base of the statue, we see a crushed and defeated Lucifer, glaring up from beneath Saint Michael’s feet.

There is a third, beautiful rendering of Saint Michael in our church. It’s another stained-glass window, and it’s glorious. But it’s hard to see. That’s because it’s right behind the large, magnificent marble baldacchino (canopy) that stands high over the tabernacle, behind the altar. According to a history of Saint Michael Church, a pastor who served here during the 1920s oversaw both the installation of that particular stained-glass window and the construction of the baldacchino. I can’t help but wonder what the good pastor was thinking: surely he could have seen that the baldacchino would obscure the stained-glass window. So why did he allow for both of them to be arranged the way they are? We’ll probably never know.

I reflect on all this because this Tuesday, September 29th (Today) is the Patronal Feast Day of our parish: the Feast of Saints Michael, Gabriel and Raphael: the Archangels. Saint Michael, the noble warrior, is the patron of security forces and the sick; Gabriel, the messenger, of postal services and telecommunications; and Raphael, the bodyguard, of travelers and the blind.

Pope Leo XIII, who ruled as Pontiff from 1878 to 1903, composed the Prayer to Saint Michael (below) for the faithful to protect themselves from the Evil One.

God bless you!
With my love,
Father Tom

Saint Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle; be our protection against the wickedness and snares of the devil. May God rebuke him, we humbly pray; and do thou O Prince of the heavenly host, by the power of God; cast into Hell Satan and all the evil spirits who prowl about the world seeking the ruin of souls. Amen

The Young Adults meetings return this Sunday evening after the 6:30pm Mass! In the Rectory.It also has new organizers so...
09/26/2026

The Young Adults meetings return this Sunday evening after the 6:30pm Mass! In the Rectory.

It also has new organizers so this weekend we will start with some social aspects, have a survey going around about the coming months, and we will start a group discussion on prayer!🙏

Hey hey hey, we need your help for Roxanne!DM us to connect!
09/25/2026

Hey hey hey, we need your help for Roxanne!

DM us to connect!

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252 Ninth Street
Jersey City, NJ
07302

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