Having trouble deciding what to make for dinner on another Friday in Lent?? Please join us for a meatless pasta dinner on Friday, March 23rd from 5:30 – 7:00pm in Heritage Hall. The torch has been passed from our (recently confirmed!) high schoolers to our current 7E middle schoolers! They will be in charge of selling tickets, setting/cleaning up and serving you a delicious meal which will include pasta, salad, dessert and drink – all as a service to our St. Matthew’s community. Any monies made from the evening will be donated to St. Matthew’s Hope Builders and our teens that travel to Kentucky where they help complete home repairs for local residents. Additional information including ticket price and ticket sales dates will appear in future bulletins. Any questions, please contact 7D religious education teacher Terri La Penna at terlap4@verizon.net. Thank you for your support!!
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EventsHope Builders, in conjunction with Good Neighbors, a grassroots 501c3 charity that provides home and automobile repair exclusively for employed American families, helps to build and repair homes for the working poor in Appalachia. Last year’s trip cost a little over $28,000 for 51 Hope Builders to participate. This year our expenses will be more as we hope to bring along 20 more participants, so we can affect the lives of 3 more families, totaling 10 families we hope to help.
New time, new date, new book! The St. Matthew’s Parish Book Group will be meeting at a new time, 1:30 p.m., a new date, Sunday, Sept. 25, and even suggests a new book, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, a novel by Jamie Ford. The new time is so that, once again, we meet following the final morning Mass. The new date is so that we are not in conflict with the parish picnic. And the new book is suggested in addition to the current summer and September book Parrot and Oliver in America by Peter Carey. It is a great counterbalance to our previous book, Unbroken, and billed as “A wartime-era Chinese-Japanese variation on Romeo and Juliet…” Even if we don’t get time to discuss it, this book is heartwarming—much needed in all of our challenges. The Book Group will be meeting as usual in the library, serving up warm pizza in addition to warm discussions, and is open to all. And, as usual and possibly unique to our group, you do not have to have read either book to participate in the discussions. For further information, Jack and Julia Dugger, jdugger@optonline.net, 973-895-5191.
MASS SCHEDULE September 11, 2011— The Sunday morning Mass schedule will be, 8AM, 10AM & 12PM. The Sunday 5PM Mass will also begin again on September 11th.  St. Matthew's Hope Builders arrive in Kentucky! A group of more than 40 teens and adults from St. Matthew’s recently completed a mission trip to rural Kentucky where they spent 5 days with the local “Good Neighbors” ministry completing various home repairs for local residents. The mission was funded through the fund raising efforts of the teens who also paid their own expense for the trip. Click here for more photos of their wonderful journey.
Our parish picnic has been brought back to St. Matthew’s! As hard as it is to believe, our last picnic was 2005! The picnic will be held on Sunday, September 18th immediately following the 12:00 mass and conclude at 4:00. For the first time, we will hold our picnic right here on St. Matthew’s property. Tickets will be as follows: $10.00 each for adults (17 and older) $ 7.00 each for seniors and kids (16 and under) Children 2 and under are free. Ticket price will include a barbecue of hot dogs, hamburgers, sausage and chicken along with ice cream and drink. As in the past, we will ask parishioners to bring a favorite side or dessert to share with fellow parishioners. To make sure we have enough of both, at sign-ups we will ask even numbers to bring a dessert and odd numbers to bring a side. In order to make clean-up quick and easy, please bring your items in disposable containers only. There will be music and lots of fun activities for adults and kids alike! Tickets will go on sale after all masses starting the weekend of 8/27 and continue the weekend of 9/3. Please note; tickets can be purchased up through and not later than 9/10. Tickets will not be sold the day of the picnic so please purchase your tickets by 9/10. We can always use extra hands in set-up, serving and clean-up so anyone who would like to volunteer (great community service hours for our teens!) - or if there are any questions – please contact Terri La Penna at terlap4@verizon.net. Looking forward to a fun-filled afternoon in September!! Unbroken, June Book Group Pick The riveting, thrilling non-fiction Tinkers The Pulitzer Prize winner and “truly remarkable” Tinkers by Paul Harding will be featured at our April 10 meeting. The book is brief (under 200 pages) but has “great power and originality.” The Book Group will begin shortly after the April 10 noon Mass, with our discussion starting at 1:30 p.m. and ending at 2:30 p.m. in the library of the church. Pizza and drinks will be served. All are welcome to attend. And, as always with our group, you do not have to have read the book to enjoy talking the themes over. Upcoming: May 15 will highlight Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand by Helen Simonson and June 12 the riveting non-fiction Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand. Our summer/Sept. book will be Parrot and Oliver in America by Peter Carey. For further information: Jack and Julia Dugger, jdugger@optonline.net, 973-895-5191 In celebration of all things Irish, our March 20 book will be The Glass Lake (fictional coming-of-age in Ireland) by the ever-popular Maeve Binchy. The Book Group will begin directly following the March 20 noon Mass, with our discussion starting at 1:30 p.m. and ending at 2:30 p.m. in the library of the church. All are welcome to attend. And, as always with our group, you do not have to have read the book to enjoy talking the themes over. Our April 10 meeting will feature Pulitzer winner Tinkers by Paul Harding, May 15 Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand by Helen Simonson and June 12 the riveting non-fiction Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand. For further information: Jack and Julia Dugger, jdugger@optonline.net, 973-895-5191. Adoration: What is it? |
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