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Sat – Rom 10:9-18; Ps 19:8, 9, 10, 11; Mt 4:18-22 OUR LITURGY Sun - Is 2:1-5; Ps 122: 1-2, 3-4, 4-5, 6-7, 8-9; Rom WE KEEP IN OUR PRAYERS 13:11-14; Mt 24:37-44 Those serving in the Armed Forces: Charles WORSHIP SCHEDULE Misura; Patrick Liam McKerry; Megan Monday, November 25 Navarro; Chris Kwatkoski; Luiz Maurina; 9:00a Edward Britt Colleen McEntegart Tuesday, November 26 Those who are sick and shut-in: Muriel & 9:00a Robert Nagle Kathy Matta; Leslie Fagan; Brendan Lynch; Wednesday, November 27 Anthony Castellano; Jessie Grodziak; Edward 9:00a Frank Wittman Connors; Pauline Wittman, and Frances Szala, Cecilia D’Agostin, George & Helen Huss, Thursday, November 28 Jeanette Rogers, Jim & Shirley Prato, Jonathan 9:00a Thanksgiving Fonseca, Emily Lucas, Mary Anne Grandinetti, Friday, November 29 Patricia Kerod, Rose Tirone, Agnes Gavigan, 9:00a Vincent Filardo Maggie Wright, Donna Schaefer; Anna Saturday, November 30 Kozlowska; Kathleen Pinto; Grace Ziadie; John 9:00a Sally Daly Fossa; Ann Marie Ziadie, Kathy Zoeller, Lavina 4:00p Jimmy and Donna Watson (siblings) Gelpi, David Merkel, Helen Fertitta, Corrine & Sunday, December 1 John Kerod, Louis Gelpi, DeMaris Miranda, 8:00a Dolores Gidro-Frank David Heithmar, Josephina Dorn, Anthony DeVito, Marty Rozensweig, Bob Caruso, Marie 9:30a Elizabeth Tuers Bohacik, Eugene Doyle, Thomas Lorenc, Anna 11:00a Estelle and Robert DiBello 12:30p see Polish page & Juan Rivera, Ken & Natalie, Josephine Babinec, Sister Gloria Barone, RTF; Joe PARISH JOURNAL Battista, Kevin Bain, Mary Barbarino, Susan Nooman, Julianna Doerr, Marietta & Leonard SCHEDULE OF EXTRA COLLECTIONS Iovelli, Joseph Paci, Mary Ann Conti, John A. Dec. 1 Religious Retirement Telenko, Bernadine Basinski, Regina Mayer, Dec. 25 Christmas Gift Brian Mayer, Agnes “Cissy” Mayer Jan. 1 Solemnity of Mary We pray for all the deceased of our parish Please all checks payable to: St. Mary of the family: Martha J. Myers, Gene VanSeveren Lake Monday, November 25 to Sunday, December 1 SCHEDULE OF EVENTS Bread and Wine Thu, Nov 28: Thanksgiving Mass, 10a, Holy R.Rupert Wittman & Robert Szala Family & 7:30p St. Mary’s Polish Also available: Sanctuary Lamp SML, & HF, Thu & Fri, Nov 28 & 29, Offices Closed, all Vigil Lights at St. Mary, St. Joseph and Sacred events cancelled except morning Mass Heart Altars Sat. Nov 30,-Dec 15, K of C giving tree READINGS FOR THE WEEK Friday, Dec 6 – 4 PM, Christmas Tree Lighting, Texts of readings can be found at the US Bishops’ Mary Queen of Peace web site: www.usccb.org/bible/readings Sun. Dec 8, Pancake breakfast with Santa Mon- Dn 1:1-6, 8-20; Daniel 3:52, 53, 54, 55, 56; Lk 21:1- Thur. Dec 12, Our Lady of Guadalupe Mass 12 4 Noon at St. Anthony Claret Tues- Dn 2:31-45; Daniel 3:57, 58, 59, 60, 61; Lk 21:5-11 Sat. Dec 14. Advent Day of Recollection HF Wed - Dn 5:1-6, 13-14, 16-17, 23-28; Daniel 3:62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67; Lk 21:12-19 Mon, Dec 23: Baptismal Prep (must register in Thurs – Sir 50:22-24; pS 145:2-3, 4-5, 6-7, 8-9, 10-11; 1 advance to attend), 7p Cor 1:3-9; Lk 17:11-19 Wed, Dec 18 – Sat, Dec 21: Confessions after Fri – Dn 7:2-14; Daniel 3:75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81; Lk 21:29-33 daily Masses RECURRING EVENTS corner of Second and Monmouth Streets. Do Sun: RCIA, Community Center, 10:30a not bring any clothes to the rectory or churches. Tue: Legion of Mary, Guild Hall 3p Monthly food-drive: Dec. 7 & 8. We Wed: Choir, Holy Family, 7p appreciate all the generous support of our 4th Sun: Ultreya, Holy Family 12p brothers and sisters in need each month and going forward we would like to focus on these Our parish calendar is available and high demand items. Due to the increasing costs automatically updated through Google Calendar of items with protein we ask at the present time on our parish website. Click on Calendar of for donations of canned tuna and chicken and Events at the top: also tomato sauce. In addition canned fruit, www.smlparish.net/sml/Parish raisins, soup, pasta, snacks, paper products, MINISTRY TO THE SICK personal hygiene are also helpful. All parishioners should call the parish office if GIVING TREE they are in the hospital and would like a visit For those in need: If you know from a priest and/or the Eucharist. of a family in need, please call SHARING OUR TREASURE the rectory so the information Stewardship, A Way of Life can be taken: gender, age, and Envelopes used November 10 284 sizes of children, along with Total Contributions $6614.00 their needs. Envelopes used November 17 325 For those who are giving: The Total contributions $6514.00 giving tree will be in the vestibule of each Christmas Flowers $2319.00 church the weekend of Nov 30 & Dec 1. Please 2019 ANNUAL take a tag to fulfill a family request. If you CATHOLIC APPEAL chose to give a gift without a tag, then we will try to find a home for that gift with one of our SUMMARY REPORT families or it will be passed on to Catholic Our projected goal was Charities. Please return your gift(s) to either $55,000.00, of which the Diocese of Trenton church the weekend of December 7/8 or 14/15 has collected $35,406.59. We have a pledged so they can be distributed in a timely manner. balance of $724.16 which will leave us a balance of $18,869.25, which is needed to meet PARISH COMMUNITY our goal. Thank you to all who have supported FEAST OF OUR LADY OF this goal. Please prayerfully consider your GUADALUPE contributions. December 12th 12 Noon OUTREACH St. Anthony Claret For those seeking financial aid: please visit Our Lady of Guadalupe, the the SVdP food pantry between 9:30 AM and Virgin Mary, is the patroness of Noon on Thursday. Be sure to bring all your the Americas. It was in her documentation. womb that the Light was brought into the SVdP Food pantry hours: 9:30 AM to 12:30 world; and so, like in biblical times when there PM Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and were processions with the Ark of The Covenant, Saturday. There are no longer hours on we too process with the new Ark of the Tuesday. Covenant, our Mother Mary. On Dec 12 of Clothing Donations: The winter coat drive has each year, the Catholic Church celebrates the ended. If you have any type of clothing to Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, marking the donate, please consider Catholic Charities at the date, when in 1531 the Blessed Mother appeared in Mexico to Saint Juan Diego. This year we have a beautiful celebration at Saint with present...heaven with earth. An empty Anthony Claret for the holy day. It is good to place at table is in memory of ancestors, come together to pray to Our Lady. departed loved ones, and for the Unseen Guest, On Thursday, December 12, our parish will Jesus Christ. There is high hope that the share in the celebration with our linked parish at “Unexpected Guest” will come and bless the 12 noon in a special Bilingual Mass. All are gathering. “A guest in the home is Christ in the invited to attend. home.” 13 courses are served - the 12 Apostles OUR ADVENT DAY OF and our Lord. A small portion is set aside for RECOLLECTION the animals. In the first Christmas when the Christ was born, the animals were the only “THE COMING OF THE honored “eye witnesses”. Oplatek is available at LORD” the rectory. December 14th Holy Family 11:30am - 4pm Mass. “So, could you not watch with me one hour?” Matthew 26:40 We have been offered an additional chance to experience the life-giving Spirit this Advent. St. Mary of the Lake Parish invites you to an Advent Reflection afternoon SAVE THE DATE of music and scripture. This is a retreat from all Sight and Sound’s production of Queen Esther the pressures of the season and an opportunity Tuesday, April 21, 2020 to place our hearts and minds in the presence of LECTORS the Lord. Our presenter will be Ms. Denise Workbooks for the lectors are now available in Contino, the Director of the Department of Catechesis for the Diocese of Trenton. Music the rectory office and sacristies. They begin will be provided by St. Mary of the Lake’s next weekend, on the first Sunday of Advent, Choir. Lunch will be served. $5.00 suggested which is Dec 1st. donation-payment at the door. Join us for a day NEW YEAR’S EVE DINNER-DANCE to reflect on preparing for the coming of our sponsored by the Polish Community Lord, Jesus Christ. For more information, and Tuesday, Dec 31, 8 PM until early morning to RSVP before December 6, 2019 please School Gym and Cafeteria contact Ms. Cori Scotti at 732-363-0139 Great Polish - American food, good music! JOIN THE CHOIR Tickets in pre-sale to December 18 are $70.00 Wouldn’t it be fun to sing in the Choir for per person after December 18 all tickets are $85 Christmas? It would be an easy gift to give the per person, (price of the ticket includes: infant Jesus for his birth. The parish is always Unlimited Buffet, soft drinks, coffee, cakes, looking for new members. Miss Cori welcomes champagne toast at midnight) BOB.