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Grades 9-12
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!!
Hope 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.
- Upcoming Events – Thank you for your continued Support
- January 21 & 22 Bake and Panera Bread Sale (after all masses)
- February 9 &16 ZUMBA® Classes 7 PM Heritage Hall – $10/class
- February 11 & 12 Chocolate Bar Sale & Panera Bread Sale (after masses)
- February 24 Lenten Soup Dinner 5:30-7:30 with Crown of Thorns craft
- February 25 & 26 Easter Plant Sale (after masses)
- February 28 1st installment payment due $150
 St. Matthew’s is preparing a taste-tempting custom cookbook featuring favorite recipes from our parish and friends. These cookbooks will be professionally published and contain special pages of interest including helpful cooking hints, dedications, special reference, children’s favorite craft recipes, and much more. This cookbook is sure to be treasured for years to come.
As a primary fundraiser for our Hope Builders, we would love for our cookbook to be a huge success; your recipes can help make that happen! If you have a favorite recipe that you would like to share with the world, please submit it! In fact, please submit as many as you’d like; there is no limit to the number of entries. Just a word of caution, however; a recipe can only be published once (variations are ok), so to ensure you’ll be published, it’s better to submit one-of-a-kind, passed down from generation-to-generation recipes than to submit everyone’s all-time favorite “public” recipe! This cookbook will not only be a wonderful collection of favorite recipes, but also a memorable keepsake of those people who have enriched your life. And who wouldn’t be proud to see their name, or their child’s name, in print! These cookbooks definitely become a cherished keepsake and make great gifts to give.
Because the publisher requires a specific format for our recipes, attached is the recipe template which must be used when submitting your recipe. (NOTE: If you are going to type the recipe yourself, or (crisply) photocopy a hand-written recipe, please make sure that all the required elements are outlined on your recipe, i.e., clearly indicate the category, title, etc.) Before submitting your recipes for inclusion in our cookbook, please make sure it is clearly explained because what you send in is what will be typed (barring any changes in standardization, abbreviation, grammatical or spelling errors).
So let’s get cooking! By January 25, 2012, please electronically submit your recipes to Maryann Hoolahan @ hoolahan5nj@yahoo.com. If you prefer, you may also drop off your recipe in the “RECIPE DROP BOX” located in the gathering space. Feel free to contact Maryann with any questions you may have. Bon Appétit!
Classes begin on Sunday, Oct. 16th. If you haven’t registered yet, please do so immediately and include a $25 last fee for each child you will be registering.
 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.
Hope House in Dover is in need of a few people to stuff “Back to School” backpacks during the first and second weeks of August 2011. All supplies and packs will be provided. Please call Kelly Staiger at Hope House 973-361-5555.
Welcome to Horizons, St. Matthew the Apostle’s Confirmation preparation program. Please click here to open the welcome letter.
Also, please add these dates to your work and home calendars.
We believe in one God, the Father, the Almighty, maker of heaven and earth, and of all that is, seen and unseen.
We believe in one Lord, Jesus Christ, the only Son of God, eternally begotten of the Father, God from God, Light from Light, true God from true God, begotten, not made, one in Being with the Father. Through him all things were made. For us and for our salvation, he came down from heaven: by the power of the Holy Spirit he was born of the Virgin Mary, and became man. For our sake he was crucified under Pontius Pilate; he suffered, died, and was buried. On the third day he rose again in fulfillment of the Scriptures; he ascended into heaven and is seated at the right hand of the Father. He will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead, and his kingdom will have no end.
We believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the giver of life, who proceeds from the Father and the Son. With the Father and the Son he is worshipped and glorified. He has spoken through the Prophets.
We believe in one holy catholic and apostolic Church. We acknowledge one baptism for the forgiveness of sins. We look for the resurrection of the dead, and the life of the world to come. Amen.
Hello parents and 10th graders. Welcome to the 2nd year of preparation for Confirmation. Click here to read the welcome letter. To open up the calendar for the year, click here. To see the research on teen faith that is mentioned in the letter, click on this link. Thank you.
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