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Want to make an online gift? Click the above link to give online, or you can now text 'Donate' to 908 739-6524. You may also consider the tax advantage of providing a stock gift and taking advantage of a tax deduction of appreciated securities. Contact Nancy Finn (x14) or Pat Manfredonia (x17) at 908 756-6524 for details.

On Saturday, December 2nd, our Religious Education Program held an Advent Workshop. It was a wonderful morning of learning about many Advent traditions!

“The Power of the Sacraments”, session 3 of “Following Christ” this past Tuesday, explained to us how the Sacraments of Reconciliation and the Eucharist are visible signs of God’s invisible Grace and are free, undeserved gifts from God. Through them .....read more

The Retirement Fund for Religious Collection will be taken up at all Masses this weekend—December 9th &10th. All proceeds are designated exclusively to support retired religious Sisters and Brothers of the United States. Thank you for your consideration.

Once again this year, our Seniors Group “adopted” a local family for Christmas. The group purchased gifts for the family — wrapping those for the parents, and providing unwrapped gifts & paper for them to wrap all the gifts for their children. Pictured above is Msgr. Benwell with some of our Seniors Group members. The gifts filled an entire SUV! Thank you to our Seniors Group for helping to make a “Merry Christmas” for a local family!

A generous parishioner has donated “finger” rosary beads, which are in a basket on the table in the Narthex. Please take one, along with the prayer card.

For the third straight year, our Knights of Columbus council presented a check to the Food Bank Network of Somerset County for the funds raised by selling discount cards to local restaurants. The check, for $8,500 was $500 greater than last year’s donation. Making the donation to Steve Katz, executive director of the Food Bank, were Msgr. Benwell, Knight Dick Wellbrock and Knight Chuck Recenello (photo at left). Dining Cards are still available by calling Dick Wellbrock, 908-753-0590.