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HELPING HANDS
Food Collection to Help Local Families
St. Genevieve’s Helping Hands Group is seeking food and paper product donations to support local families in need. Note: If you are a person or family in need, we can help you. Donations of checks/ food gift cards also accepted. Checks payable to: St. Genevieve Helping Hands and sent to the Rectory.
Dear Parishioners,
Best Wishes for a continued Merry Christmas Season!
As we continue our celebration of Christ’s birthday, we are also very aware that this week we also begin a new calendar year. On behalf of all of us here at St. Genevieve’s please accept my prayers and best wishes for a truly blessed new year. While we certainly all hope for a year free from difficulty and strife, know that God is with us on our bad days and our good, in celebration and in tears.
At the start of a new year, it is common for people to make resolutions; things to do to better ourselves. If you are looking for some resolutions to make, may I respectfully offer my traditional list for your consideration:
1. I resolve to spend more time with God in prayer this year.
2. I resolve to attend Mass more regularly this year.
3. I resolve to show up before the opening hymn and stay until the end this year.
4. I resolve to celebrate Reconciliation on a regular basis this year.
5. I resolve to spend a few minutes each day reading Sacred Scripture.
6. I resolve to learn more about my faith this year.
7. I resolve to more regularly tell my spouse and children that I love them this year.
8. I resolve to not worry about little things this year.
9. I resolve to be less judgmental of others this year.
10. I resolve to love myself as a wonderful child of
God this year.
Pick just one and start with that. The others will flow naturally in time.
Again thank you for all you do for our parish, and Happy New Year!
Sincerely,
Fr. Armand
KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS
The Knights of Columbus is a fraternal organization for Catholic men. All men of the parish are invited to join. For information please contact : Council 253 at (908) 355-2253 or Chris at (908) 351-4444.
UPCOMING EVENTS
Mark Your Calendars to Join Us !!
January 11—Soup Stroll—Warm up your winter with a variety of delicious homemade soups—there’s something for every taste!
February 1—Mardi Gras Celebration—Laissez les bons temps roulez! Come enjoy jambalaya, gumbo, and festive fun for all!
May 3—Pancake Breakfast—Bring your appetite and enjoy a hearty helping of homemade pancakes served with a side of good company!
Interested in donating?
Please contact Kelly@kamteacher1994@gmail.com
CAFÉ GENS IS BACK!
Join us after the 9:00 and 10:30 Masses to enjoy coffee, tea or juice and a bagel, roll or pastry with your family, friends, and future friends. Children of all ages are invited to enjoy games, puzzles, crafts and other activities during Café Gens in Karen’s Corner. These supervised activities are provided after the 10:30 Mass until noon each week. Please join us and bring a friend!
HOLIDAY MASS SCHEDULE
Wednesday, Dec 31—(Morning 8am Mass)
Wednesday, Dec 31—(New Year’s Eve) - 5:30pm Mass
Thursday, January 1—8am, 10:30 (No Evening Mass)
WEBBYS WOOD SHED IS BACK
You can stock up on firewood now for your Chimenea in your backyard or for roasting marshmallows for S’mores while you relax after a cool day. You can get well-seasoned split hardwood logs right here at St. Gen’s for half of what you pay in the supermarket. And at the same time, you will be supporting the camping program of Boy Scout Troop 23. Help yourself from Webby’s Wood Shed, located behind the Rectory near the garages that face Livingston Road.
UPCOMING EVENTS!
MARK YOUR CALENDAR
January 4 - St. Gen’s Blood Drive. Please consider giving the gift of life this holiday season!
SCOUTING NEWS
COAT DRIVE
Our Confirmation students will be having their annual coat drive until January 4. There will be boxes in the back and side of the church to drop off any gently worn coats you are able to donate. Thank you!
ELIZABETH KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS NEWS
The Elizabeth Knights of Columbus Council 253 is holding an Irish New Year’s celebration with music by Eamon Ryan on Wednesday, January 31 from 5 to 9pm. The cost is $70 per person and includes music and dancing, appetizers, buffet dinner, open bar and champagne toast at 7pm-midnight in Dublin. Please call the club at (908) 355-2253 before December 20 if you plan to attend.
THANK YOU!!!
A sincere “Thank You” is extended to all those who offered Christmas cards, gifts and other remembrances to the Priests and Staff of the parish. Your generosity is much appreciated and please know of our prayers for you and your families.
Thank you also to those who made genuine sacrificial offerings to the Christmas Collection. Your church depends on your faithfulness to help continue the mission of Jesus in our world.
