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THE HOLY FAMILY OF , MARY AND JOSEPH Saint Mary Parish

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

On behalf of our entire Parish Staff, Happy New Year to all in our Parish Family

May the Year of our Lord 2016 Bring a deeper sense of Christ-centered Peace to our hearts, our homes, and Our world as a whole, especially in the Middle East, the birthplace of Jesus, Mary and Joseph.

Thank you to all who made our Christmas celebration as joyful as it was: Our Parish Clergy, Music Ministry, Guild, Extraordinary Ministers of Holy , , Servers, Ushers/Greeters. We couldn’t have done it without you!

Msgr. Laurence R. Bronkiewicz

Pastor

Living Our Faith

MASS READINGS & INTENTIONS MONDAY, December 28 GOD’S PLAN 1 John 1:5-2:2; Matthew 2:13-18 FOR GIVING 7:00 AM Geno Tarsi

12:00 PM Lina Biagetti WEEKLY YEAR TO DATE TUESDAY, December 29 1 John 2:3-11; Luke 2:22-35 December 13, 2015 $26,855 $1,155,498 7:00 AM Maria Alba de Warren December 14, 2014 $27,134 $1,193,336

12:00 PM Fire Cptn. Jack Sullivan December 20, 2015 TBD WEDNESDAY, December 30 1 John 2:12-17; Luke 2:36-40 2015 Retired Religious Fund $7,745 2014 Retired Religious Fund $7,715 7:00 AM Frank Serfilippi 12:00 PM Carolyn Vierno FROM THE : "How do you express your love THURSDAY, December 31 for God? Some of the ways of expressing love are by

1 John 2:18-21; John 1:1-18 giving and by serving joyfully!"

7:00 AM Frances & Quinto Carboni 12:00 PM Frank Serfilippi CONTRIBUTION TAX STATEMENTS 5:30 PM Frank Serfilippi 2015 Contribution Tax Statements will be mailed in FRIDAY, January 1 January 2016 to all Parishioners who contributed to Numbers 6:22-27; Galatians 4:4-7; Luke 2:16-21 our Parish this year. All contributions 7:00 AM Albert Schmitt be received by December 31, 2015 to be 9:00 AM Conversion of Sinners acknowledged for 2015 contribution status.

12:00 PM Arthur Tuccio, Sr. 7:30 PM Conversion of the Landhoffer & Kiss 2015 DONATIONS Families Remember St. Mary Parish this Christmas! SATURDAY, January 2 The end of the month is approaching. There is still time 1 John 2:22-28; John 1:19-28 to make donations for the 2015 tax year. You can do it 8:00 AM Brendan Fitzmaurice easily with Online Giving. Go to www.smcr.org to sign 4:00 PM Ryan Adams & Intentions for Adams Family up and make giving a snap!

5:30 PM Carey Depuy SUNDAY, January 3 OUR 2016 SAINT MARY PARISH FAMILY Isaiah 60:1-6; Ephesians 3:2-3a,5-6; Matthew 2:1-12 CALENDARS are now available. Please take CHURCH one (per family) after you leave today or 7:00 AM Mary and Conrad Sponberg pick one up at our Parish Office.

9:15 AM John M. Robertson 11:15 AM Parishioners of the Parish HALL BAPTISMS 8:00 AM Dorothy Cronin We welcome to the Roman Catholic 10:30 AM Ana Garcia Brown Family of our Parish, Kaia Aria and 12:00 PM Michelena M. Manto Eleanor Margaret Brennan, who were 5:00 PM Hannah Mikus baptized in our Church last weekend.

PLEASE NOTE: the Mass for the Solemnity of Mary, New Year’s Eve VIGIL, December 31, will Intentions be celebrated at 5:30 pm, and Masses will also be A Church Altar Candle celebrated on January 1st at 7:00 am, 9:00 am, 12 is Burning in Loving Memory of Noon and 7:30 pm in our Church. All our Parish Italo (Pete) Massagli Offices will be closed. Church Sanctuary Candle Please remember our sick in your prayers; especially Theresa Avento, Patti Capilli, Cosme Joseph is Burning in Loving Memory of Deaguero, Angelina Falotico, Gayla Holmberg, Helene Cally Paula Piluso, Rich Sammon and Al Sopper, (To respect individual privacy, only immediate A Church Altar Candle family members may add someone to our prayer is Burning in Loving Memory of list. Individuals will be removed monthly unless otherwise notified.) Edward Weston

Learning Our Faith

SAINT MARY RELIGIOUS EDUCATION

A blessed New Year to

everyone! It’s Not Too Late! Saint Mary School is once again participating in the Stop Classes will resume after & Shop A+ Program. Until March 17, 2016, you can help SMS earn cash by simply using your Stop & Shop vacation on Monday, January 4. card every time you shop. Last year, we earned an amazing $1,489. To register, you can log onto http://www.stopandshop.com/aplus or dial 1-877-275- 2758 to register over the phone. Please register your card to benefit Saint Mary School with the ID number PILGRIM VIRGIN 08386. You can track the points you earn for our school To prayerfully celebrate the birth either on your grocery receipt or online. If you have any of Jesus, consider inviting the questions, please contact Dawn Lopes at [email protected]. Thank you for supporting SMS! Pilgrim Virgin Statue of His Mother to your home during this Saint Mary School is currently enrolling students in season - a wonderful Marian Preschool through Grade 8 for the 2016-2017 school devotion for your family. To year. For more information, or to set up a tour, please schedule a visit or for more contact Anna O’Rourke at (203) 438-7288, or visit information, call Elma Stoveken at 203-894-1341or www.smsridgefield.org.

Email to [email protected]

Project Rachel – RESPECT LIFE MEETING Entering Canaan Day of Prayer and Healing Our next monthly Respect Life Committee Saturday - January 16, 2016 - For women suffering meeting will be held on Thursday, January 7, from a past abortion. Come begin your healing at 7:00 pm in the School Library. journey and experience God’s hope and mercy. For more information and confidential registration contact Maureen at Project Rachel at

203-416-1619 or [email protected] DEFENDING OUR RELIGIOUS LIBERTY

The passage of the federal health care mandate was supposed to provide affordable health care to all Americans. By many accounts, this is not the FAMILY FAITH FORMATION case, and in the process our First of Amendment

Right, which is supposed to safeguard our religious Judgment freedom has been taken away. "Christ came to be Father’s compassion to the If you haven’t done so already, please voice your world. Be kind in your actions. Do not think that opposition to the federal health care mandate by you are the only one who can do efficient work, calling U.S. Secretary of Health and Human work worth showing. This makes you harsh in Services Sylvia Mathews Burwell at 202-205-5445, your judgment of others who may not have the and your elected representatives. Let them know that the mandate is in violation of our First same talents. Do your best and trust that Amendment right to religious freedom. others do their best.” --Mother Teresa

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Sharing Our Faith CATHOLIC ACTION phone 203-733-4658. Thank you for your understanding. Effective means to redress the marginalization of the world's poor through globalization will only be found if people everywhere feel personally outraged by the injustices in the O= permanent or sub urgently needed. X=1 add is needed. world and by the concomitant violations of human rights.” Blank boxes=there are 2 or more adorers. Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Pope Benedict XVI, Celebration of the World Day of Peace, 12M-1am X X X X X X X January 1, 2009 1am-2am X X X X X X X 2am-3am O X X X X X X

DONATE: Midnight Run Date: January 22 3am-4am X X X X X X X 4am-5am X X X X X X There will be a Midnight Run on January 22. Items 5am-6am X X X X needed to distribute to the homeless in New York 6am-7am X X X X X City: Heavy coats, blankets, sleeping bags, hooded 7am-8am X X X X X 8am-9am X X X sweatshirts, new thermal underwear (M-XL), socks, 9am-10am X X X X X X jeans, hats and gloves, lightly used shoes and 10am-11am X X X O X sneakers, travel size toothpaste, soap, shaving 11am-12N X X X X X 12N-1pm X O X X cream, razors, and tooth brushes. Drop items off at 1pm-2pm X X X X O X the Barn Between7:30 am and 3:00 pm. Volunteers 2pm-3pm X X X X needed to sort and fold clothing, pick up and drop 3pm-4pm X X X X X X X off the van, and go on the run. For more info call 4pm-5pm X X X X X X 5pm-6pm X X X X Elma Stoveken at 203-894-1341. 6pm-7pm O X X X 7pm-8pm X X X X DONATE: Food Pantries On-going 8pm-9pm X X X Our Parish food collections for the needy will 9pm-10pm X X X X continue throughout the year, rotating monthly 10pm-11pm X X X X 11pm-12M X X X X X X through several local charities, including the With the New Year approaching, let us not forget what Ridgefield Food Pantry, Dorothy Day Hospitality the main reason is for the season. St. Francis of Assisi House in Danbury, and the Saint Joseph Parenting said, “If God can work through me, He can work through Center in Stamford. The basket of food brought up anyone.” We should pattern ourselves after St. Francis’ during the offertory symbolizes our gifts of food to words & respond by doing what God has planned for us. Please take an hour in the Adoration Chapel & call Bill or those in need. Please consider bringing a Monica @ 914-533-2832 to sign up. God bless us all! nonperishable item of food with you to Sunday Mass. Bins are located outside the Hall and the EVERY Thursday evening, 7-9:00 pm, in our Adoration Church. Chapel, the Chaplet of Mercy, 7 Sorrows of Our Blessed

Mother and 15 decades of the Rosary are sung and

prayed. Please join us! ST. MARY CEMETERY

CHRISTMAS DECORATIONS ST. MARY PARISH MEN'S MINISTRY To paraphrase Paul, one of our founders: Beginning on or about February 1st (weather We come to MM to be fed in our faith. We come to build permitting) we will begin the process of fellowship. We strive to be better fathers, friends and cleanup in preparation for the spring season. If coworkers. We have each other’s back in good times and in bad; and we always leave our egos at the door .Come you wish to retrieve any Christmas any Saturday@6:30 in the Hall and check it out for st decorations, please do so by February 1 . yourself. Go to Stmmm.org for more info Please refer to the posted Cemetery Decoration Schedule and Regulations, Marquette Council of the Knights of Columbus which can be found on either the Parish Don’t you want to be the best role model for your child? website or at our Cemetery office/garage. If The easiest way is to share the faith with your children by spending time with them and “walking the talk.” you have any questions, please contact Donna Connect the words to action! Join the Knights of Barber at the Cemetery Office 438-3606 or cell Columbus for the opportunity to serve our church and community together WITH your children. We are #936

looking for Dads and their kids to help us throughout the year. Contact John McNicholas [email protected] or visit www.kofc245.org for more info.

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