Sun - IS 60:1-6; PS 72:1-2, 7-8, 10-11, 12-13; EPH 3:2- OUR LITURGY 3A, 5-6; MT 2:1-12 WE KEEP IN OUR PRAYERS WORSHIP SCHEDULE Those serving in the Armed Forces: Charles Monday, December 30 Misura; Patrick Liam McKerry; Megan 9:00a Mary Tarabochia Navarro; Chris Kwatkoski; Luiz Maurina; Tuesday, December 31 Colleen McEntegart 9:00a Mervyn Fonseca Those who are sick and shut-in: Muriel & Kathy Matta; Leslie Fagan; Brendan Lynch; 4p HF Alice Lock Anthony Castellano; Jessie Grodziak; Edward Wednesday, January 1 Connors; Pauline Wittman, and Frances Szala, 9:00a SM Rosina Rosa, Daniel Zanetich Cecilia D’Agostin, George & Helen Huss, 11a SM John Srivanich Jeanette Rogers, Jim & Shirley Prato, Jonathan 12:30 Pol. see Polish page Fonseca, Emily Lucas, Mary Anne Grandinetti, Thursday, January 2 Patricia Kerod, Rose Tirone, Agnes Gavigan, 9:00a Grace Sabella Maggie Wright, Donna Schaefer; Anna Friday, January 3 Kozlowska; Kathleen Pinto; Grace Ziadie; John 9:00a Elizabeth Frosch Fossa; Ann Marie Ziadie, Kathy Zoeller, Lavina Saturday, January 4 Gelpi, David Merkel, Helen Fertitta, Corrine & 9:00a Rosemary Montemurno John Kerod, Louis Gelpi, DeMaris Miranda, 4:00p Marie Monto David Heithmar, Josephina Dorn, Anthony Sunday, January 5 DeVito, Marty Rozensweig, Bob Caruso, Marie 8:00a Angelina Kostulakos Bohacik, Eugene Doyle, Thomas Lorenc, Anna 9:30a Lilian Lynch & Juan Rivera, Ken & Natalie, Josephine Babinec, Sister Gloria Barone, RTF; Joe 11:00a Frances Cerebini , In Thanksgiving 12:30p see Polish page Battista, Kevin Bain, Mary Barbarino, Susan Nooman, Julianna Doerr, Marietta & Leonard PARISH JOURNAL Iovelli, Joseph Paci, Mary Ann Conti, John A. Telenko, Bernadine Basinski, Regina Mayer, SCHEDULE OF EXTRA COLLECTIONS Brian Mayer, Agnes“Cissy”Mayer, Ryan Ruane  Dec. 25 Gift We pray for all the deceased of our parish  Jan. 1 Solemnity of Mary family: Grace Sabella, Elizabeth Frosch, Daniel  Feb 16 Saint Vincent de Paul Gallagher, Marie Monto, Angelina Kostulakos Please all checks payable to:St. Mary of the Lake Monday, December 30 to Sunday, January 5 HOLY DAY SCHEDULE Bread and Wine R.Rupert Wittman & Robert Szala HOLY DAY OF Also available: Sanctuary Lamp at SML & HF, MARY, MOTHER Vigil Lights at St. Mary, St. Joseph and Sacred OF GOD Heart Altars VIGIL ON READINGS FOR THE WEEK TUESDAY, Texts of readings can be found at the US Bishops’ ECEMBER OLY web site: www.usccb.org/bible/readings D 31: 4:00 PM (H Mon- 1 Jn 2:12-17; Ps 96:7-8a, 8b-9, 10; Lk 2:36-40 FAMILY CHURCH) Tues- 1 Jn 2:18-21; Ps 96:1-2, 11-12, 13; Jn 1:1-18 WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 1: 9:00 AM; Wed - NM 6:22-27; PS 67:2-3, 5, 6, 8; GAL 4:4-7; LK 2:16-21 11:00 AM; Thurs – 1 JN 2:22-28; 98:1, 2-3AB, 3CD-4; JN 1:19-28 Fri – 1 JN 2:29–3:6; PS 98:1, 3CD-4, 5-6; JN 1:29-34 12:30 PM (POLISH) Sat – 1 JN 3:7-10; PS 98:1, 7-8, 9; JN 1:35-42 SCHEDULE OF EVENTS SVdP Food pantry hours: 9:30 AM to 12:30 Tues, Dec 31: Holy Day Vigil: 4p at HFC in PM Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and English Saturday. There are no longer hours on Tue. Dec 31, Polish New Years Eve Party 8p Tuesday. Tue Dec 31: Parish offices Closed Clothing Donations: If you have any type of Wed, Jan 1: Holy Day of Mary, Mother of God clothing to donate, please consider Catholic Masses: 9a & 11a at SML in English // Charities at the corner of Second and 12:30p at SML in Polish Monmouth Streets. Do not bring any clothes to Wed Jan 1: Parish offices Closed the rectory or churches. Mon. Jan 20: Parish offices Closed MLK Day Monthly food-drive: We appreciate all the generous support of our brothers and sisters in RECURRING EVENTS need each month and going forward we would Sun: RCIA, Community Center, 10:30a like to focus on these high demand items. Due Tue: Legion of Mary, Guild Hall 3p to the increasing costs of items with protein we Wed: Choir, Holy Family, 7p ask at the present time for donations of canned 4th Sun: Ultreya, Holy Family 12p tuna and chicken and also tomato sauce. In Our parish calendar is available and addition canned fruit, raisins, soup, pasta, automatically updated through Google Calendar snacks, paper products, personal hygiene are on our parish website. Click on Calendar of also helpful. Events at the top at the following address: AITH IN UR UTURE www.smlparish.net/sml/Parish F O F MINISTRY TO THE SICK UPCOMING MASS All parishioners should call the SCHEDULE CHANGE parish office if they are in the 2020 hospital and would like a visit Starting on January 19th, from a priest and/or the 2020 we will be combining . Changes to the Hospital’s policy the St. Anthony 9 AM Mass with the 9:30 AM no longer permit Father to visit without a Mass in Holy Family. It will still be a Sunday specific person requesting him. English Mass, scheduled at 9:30 AM in Holy Family Church. We will be joined by our new OFFICE CLOSURES parish family from St. Anthony’s Parish. We’re On the following days, the parish offices are here to serve and support the Lord. All this is closed and all events except for the daily or just the mechanics of how we do that. So we Holy Day Masses are canceled: not only have the merger of different ethnic Tuesday, Wednesday,Thursday Dec 24-25-26 backgrounds both also parish cultures and that's Tuesday, Wednesday Dec 31 & Jan 1 what makes us one Holy, Catholic and SHARING OUR TREASURE Apostolic Church. Stewardship, A Way of Life COHORT 22 HOMELESSNESS Envelopes used December 8 340 Total contributions $9919.00 SUBCOMMITTEE Envelopes used December 15 323 THE BEST GIFT Total contributions $8104..00 We have published articles for the distinct purpose of raising awareness. We focused on UTREACH O the elderly, children, veterans, families, addicts For those seeking financial aid: please visit and the challenged. We talked about who is the SVdP food pantry between 9:30 AM and homeless, why they are homeless and how it Noon on Thursday. Be sure to bring all your documentation. happens. We wrote in English, and Spanish and needy. Also parishioners have reached out to Polish. And we know it made a difference. those who find it difficult to be joyful at Now, we are in the season of busyness (also Christmastime; the sick and those without known as the holiday season). We have family or friends, because of death or clothing drives and food drives and toy drives. estrangement. Christmas should be a time to We collect canned goods, blankets, and socks. express our love to our family and friends in We give out food baskets and turkeys. We prep many different ways. Prayerfully we will for the special time with our families … continue to extend the joy and grace we receive shopping, cooking, decorating, , to our families throughout the year. cleaning, wrapping, writing greetings and cards. Every Christmas we send out cards to family And these are all wonderful things… charity is and friends. They also send us Christmas cards. the message of the Gospel …that we all walk on It’s a time to make peace within our circle of common ground… no one is greater that family and friends, neighbors and colleagues another… it is a gift from God that we are able and have a big dinner with those we love. to do these things. Christmas for many people involves going to There may be a time when we pass one of our Mass brothers or sisters in need and we don’t have The Holy Family enjoyed times of great joy, anything to give. So share a smile, a simple but also suffered through terrible hardships. nod, or a wave of the hand. Acknowledge their The delight of a newborn baby was presence. Give the gift of your heart… it’s the accompanied by the fear that led them to flee to best gift ever. a foreign land. The faith and love shown by the COHORT 22: GOOD NEWS Holy Family is our model. A new warming center was opened at the Seeds is the reason for the season. He was God’s gift to the world. What gifts will we give Of Service Center with Visitation Church in to others? Some of the best gifts in life are free. Brick. It began this past weekend, December Among the gifts that don’t cost any money: th th. 14 and 15 At present it will be opened one One of the great gifts to give to a person is to weekend a month. The next weekend will be on listen to them. We do a lot of talking but not Jan 18/19 and then again on Feb 15/16 March enough listening. 21/22 (Saturday and Sunday 9-4). Another gift is a word of encouragement. It can bring new life to a relationship. PARISH COMMUNITY The gift of prayer is very powerful. When you tell a person that you are saying a prayer for them, it brings them hope. It lets them know that you care about them and that you want to help. Our Blessed Mother and Saint Joseph listened to God. She never asked God for a Son. She was willing to do everything God wanted her to do. Merry Christmas,

Christmas is a time when we are grateful to God st th for sending us His Son, Jesus as a little baby. December 21 was the 45 anniversary of our In recent weeks it is obvious here, that pastor, Father Pedro L. Bou, S.V.D.’s people are very generous to the poor and the ordination to the priesthood. What a blessing he is to our Parish as we grow, in his faithfulness, wisdom and experience. Please Christ was born, the animals were the only pray that he continues to flourish in his honored “eye witnesses”. Oplatek is available at priesthood. the rectory. NEW YEAR’S EVE DINNER-DANCE sponsored by the Polish Community Tuesday, Dec 31, 8 PM SAVE THE DATE until early morning Sight and Sound’s production of Queen Esther School Gym and Cafeteria Tuesday, April 21, 2020 Great Polish - American food, good music! FLU PRECAUTION Tickets are $85 per person, (price of the ticket During the Flu Season (from January thru includes: Unlimited Buffet, soft drinks, coffee, March) we will not be serving the Precious cakes, champagne toast at midnight) BOB. Blood at the Masses. Tickets are available at the rectory. LAKEWOOD POLISH ATTENTION SNOWBIRDS! Please notify the rectory of the dates you will be SCHOOL THANKS away for the winter season. We will be happy to The Lakewood Polish suspend your envelopes until your return in the School would like to thank spring! everyone who participated JOIN THE CHOIR in our annual Christmas It would be an easy gift to give play. The support and the infant Jesus for his birth. generosity of the parish family is greatly The parish is always looking for appreciated. We wish everyone a very Merry new members. Miss Cori Christmas and all the best in the New Year. welcomes all ages, and levels of KNIGHTS OF experience, and will teach you COLUMBUS as we prepare to celebrate this holy season. We will be starting our drive Practice is on Wednesday nights at 7pm. Come for those parishioners, friends, make a joyful noise unto the Lord for & families wishing to pledge Christmas. themselves to MARCH FOR LIFE in OPLATEK Washington DC, on Friday January 24th 2020; The Christmas as in the past the Knights will supply the motor Begun millenniums ago in , , coach bus there and back, along with a rest Lithunia, this Christmas ritual continues station admittance room in the Holiday Inn on wherever the blessed Oplatek, the Christmas C street, for those who wish to take a rest. You Wafer is shared. The ancient ritual united past are only responsible for your meals; we will with present...heaven with earth. An empty stop for a brief rest stop in the morning and a place at table is in memory of ancestors, dinner stop around 5:30 pm. The bus will depart departed loved ones, and for the Unseen Guest, on that Friday Morning 6:45 am and we should Jesus Christ. There is high hope that the be back around 8:30 pm. “Unexpected Guest” will come and bless the We live in very trying and extraordinary times; gathering. “A guest in the home is Christ in the with all that's not being done to protect our home.” 13 courses are served - the 12 Apostles Catholic way of life, our morality, and most and our Lord. A small portion is set aside for important THE UNBORN! We must stand up the animals. In the first Christmas when the and be counted, if you cannot make it in January, write your congress person and grasp key message points, send a letter-to-the- senators and let them know you vote and you editor to their local newspaper and/or care about “OUR RELIGIOUS FREEDOMS" communicate concerns or thanks to their state GIVING TREE representative, senator and/or governor. The parish and the Knights of Columbus would “Alerts” are sent out when a legislative decision like to say thank you to all those generous souls is expected, or when immediate action is who gave above and beyond to make the needed; points at which your involvement will children in our parish have Christmas. have the greatest impact. Sign up at https://trentondiocese.wufoo.com/forms/m1y DIOCESAN EVENTS hds2h04z3don/

A Prayer for Vocations IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF ST JOHN Lord of the Harvest, we petition PAUL II you as you have instructed us to Wouldn’t it be a wonderful gift to give ask for more laborers to serve in someone? Join the Diocese of Trenton the vineyard of Your Church. and Father Marian Kokorzycki, April 29 - You have told us that the harvest

May 8, 2020 on a beautiful ten-day Pilgrimage is rich and laborers are few and to celebrate 100 years since the birth of Saint we experience this great need in the face of the John Paul II. Visit Krakow, Częstochowa, challenge of the New Evangelization. Niepokalanow, Auschwitz, Wadowice, Prague We ask the Holy Spirit to inspire young men to and more! For information, contact Carolyn seriously consider vocations to the priesthood. Norbut, Director of Diocesan Pilgrimages at Help all of us to be effective instruments to 609-406-7446 or encourage and support those whom you are [email protected] calling to serve and lead the Church in the Or to register online go to future. www.catholicheritagetours.com/DTPP Lord, you told the Apostles to put out into the deep. We ask for the grace and courage to SVdP VINCENT'S LEGACY accept your call as we pray and work for an Launched by the Diocese in the late 2016, increase in vocations to the priesthood. We ask Vincent's Legacy collects quality gently used this in the Name of Jesus Christ, the Great High furniture and household items to provide to Priest, Amen. those in need. Legacy volunteers JOIN THE CATHOLIC ADVOCACY arrange to view, pickup, clean and deliver donated items. NETWORK Originally focused on Monmouth As Catholics, we are part of a community with a rich heritage that helps us consider the and Ocean Counties, Vincent's challenges in public life and contribute to Legacy has expanded throughout greater justice and peace for all people. the Trenton Diocese. If you have The Catholic Advocacy Network is intended to furniture or household good to donate, please familiarize users with legislative issues and contact the VL Volunteers at social action needs communicated by the [email protected]. If you are able to national and state bishops’ conferences or other help, visit the website or call 609-557-7837. authoritative Church agencies. It is a centralized BE A CENSUS TAKER source of information giving “alerts” on current For a chance to earn extra income, and get issues and events. The Network will provide involved in the process. They offer flexible links to additional sites and articles for further hours, weekly pay and paid training. Fore more education, in-depth review and action steps. It information please contact the U.S,. Census offers Catholics the ability to read about issues, Bureau an Equal Opportunity employer at 1- God and you. Just look around, visit our 855-JOB-2020. chapel, and see the beautiful grounds HANDS FOR ALL surrounding our new Francis House of Prayer! A division of Homes For All, Inc. All are welcome! www. Homesforallnj.org/hands-for-all/ SIMPLIFYING LIFE 309 Hooper Avenue, Toms River, NJ 08753 CLEANING UP & CLEANING OUT Monday – Friday from 9:30 PM – 3:30 PM Monday, January 13 9:30 AM – 1:00 PM Need an emergency home repair? The Hands Do you find yourself complaining, “I have too for all program offers emergency home repairs much stuff!” Is de-cluttering one of your to households that qualify as low–to–moderate desires for 2020? We are going to make a plan income within Ocean County. At Hands For to clean up and clean out, to simplify and enjoy All, they prioritize quality service by utilizing professional contractors and personnel to fix life more, to have a lighter grasp and a freer your emergency repairs at no cost to you. They heart for the more important things of life. are sponsored by grants from Ocean County and With God’s help and with one another, we can want to make a difference. do it! Donation: $25, includes lunch. FRANCIS HOUSE OF PRAYER SILENT DIRECTED RETREAT WEEKEND Trenton Diocesan Spiritual Center January 17 – 19 7:00 PM Friday to 1:00 PM 84 Walnford Road • Allentown, NJ 08501 Sunday 609-877-0509 or [email protected] Due to the frantic pace of contemporary life, it Please check www.FHOP.org for directions is essential for our spiritual and physical health END OF THE YEAR RETREAT to take time to pray. A weekend directed retreat Tuesday, December 31 9:30 AM – 2:30 PM offers you the opportunity to experience the Since God gives us life and time and is Lord graced rhythm of life in which silence and rest over all, it seems appropriate to end the year in restore your body and God revives your soul. prayer. Francis House offers time, space and Liturgy, spiritual direction and optional quiet for naming the graces of 2019 and contemplative prayer periods are included. expressing gratitude to God. The afternoon will Donation: $130/$50 non-refundable deposit focus on our goals, hopes and desires for 2020. with registration. Please bring a bag lunch. Love Offering. To register, call 609-877-0509. Please check SETTING THE DIRECTION FOR 2020 www.FHOP.org for our other Thursday, January 2 9:30 AM – 1:00 PM offerings! What better way to spend this day! Start out SPECIAL CHRISTMAS 2020 with a morning retreat to set the direction COOKIES for the year. “Well begun is half done,” they Ingredients: 2 cups of JOY, 2 say, and establishing a direction is essential for cups of PEACE, 2 cups of LOVE the journey. Where am I going in 2020? What Combine these three ingredients together until is the desire of my heart, and God’s as we begin well blended ADD 2 cups of HAPPINESS, 2 this year together? Donation: $25, includes cups of LAUGHTER, 2 OPEN ARMS lunch. Mix ingredients all together until well blended, WELCOME TO OUR NEW HOME sprinkle with a small amount of cinnamon and OPEN HOUSE sugar and bake in your heart until melted all Sunday, January 12 2:00 – 4:00 PM over the world and then share your cookies with Come for a visit, to explore this holy place and everyone. . make it your home, and a new meeting place for DUSZPASTERSTWO POLSKIE

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Duszpasterz: Ks. Kanonik Marian Kokorzycki Polska Szkoła Dokształcająca im. Aleksandra Tel. 732- 363-0139, ext. 421 Cell. 484-368-4636 Janta Połczyńskiego w Lakewood NJ msze święte w niedzielę – 12:30 pm - w święta dyrektor: Kasia Pawka Tel. 732-901-9546 obowiązkowe o godzinie 7:30 pm w kościele Email: [email protected] Saint Mary. Website: www.lakewoodpolishschool.com

29 Grudnia,2019 – Świętej Rodziny:Jezusa,Maryi i Józefa Intencje Mszy Świętych: 29 grudnia - podziekowanie za miniony rok i o błogosławieństwo Boże na nadchodzący Nowy Rok 2020 12:30pm 1 Stycznia Nowy Rok 2020- ś.p. Mieczysław Burdzy, intencja córki z rodziną ś.p. Jacek Perłowski, int.żony i dzieci (Saint Mary) 12:30pm 3 Stycznia Pierwszy piątek miesiąca adoracja i spowiedź - Saint Mary 6:00pm o blogosławieństwo Boże w Nowym Roku dla naszych rodzin 7:00pm 5 Stycznia - ś.p.Leokadia i Władysław Winiarski, ś.p. Regina i Jan Osemlak, intencja Rodziny 12:30pm

Kolęda w naszej parafii, w naszej polskiej tradycji błogosławimy domy w okresie świątecznym, z kapłanem na kolęde (ks. Marianem) można umówić się telefonicznie i zostawić wiadomość: telefon kom: 484-368-4636 lub 732-363-0139, ext. 421. oraz e-mail: [email protected] lub po każdej polskiej mszy świętej.

SERDECZNIE ZAPRASZAMY na Polski Bal Sylwestrowy 2019/2020 31 grudnia (wtorek) 2019, początek zabawy z DJ Wojtkiem o godzinie 8 wieczorem w budynku Holy Family School przy 1141 E County Line Rd. Lakewood, NJ 08701. Bilety w przedsprzedaży będą dostępne $70 od osoby (Studenci z ważną legitymacją (ID) do 21 roku życia $25 od osoby), W ramach biletu oferujemy: obfite zimne i gorące posiłki, desery, napoje oraz szampan o północy. W czasie balu odbędzie się LOTERIA, główną nagrodą jest – iPad. Bilety można nabywać poprzez kontakt: Miss Sylvia Burdzy -732-551-8145. Mrs. Katarzyna Sobol- 732-534-2114. Mrs.Irena Kapuscinska -848-525-0031. Mrs.. Stasia Latkowski - 732-421-7164. Mr.Maciek – Biedronka Polish Deli 65-75 E County Line Rd. Lakewood, NJ 08701 Mr. Maciek - Biedronka Polish Deli 1256 Indian Head Road, Toms River, Nj 08755 Mr. Darek – Polish Deli 751 Rt. 37 West, Toms River NJ 08755

…Drodzy Bracia i Siostry, Rodacy, Niech się weseli święty, bo bliski jest zwycięstwa, niech się raduje grzesznik, bo dane jest mu przebaczenie. Niech powróci do życia poganin, bo do życia jest powołany. W małym Świętym Dziecku Bóg daje nam zbawienie. Niech Gwiazda Betlejemska zwiastuje nam, w sercu na nowo tę dobrą nowinę, niech się rozraduje serce i uwierzy Jezusowi, niech się umocni nadzieją na cały Nowy Rok 2020! - Wasz brat w Chrystusie Panu - ks. Marian