UPCOMING SPECIAL EVENTS


December 4:  Annual Christmas Breakfast at the Parish Center
                             Delicious buffet, visit from Santa Claus, followed                             by                       
                             Christmas Show for the children.

December 9:  St. Mary’s Music Ministry Christmas Concert, 7:30 pm in St. Mary of                             the Pines

December 16:  Annual Filipino Advent/Christmas Mass, 8:00 pm in St. Mary’s Church

December 17:  Annual Christmas Toy distribution at parish center.

February 10:  Mardi Gras Beefsteak Dinner and Comedy Night

March 9:  AOH Annual Irish Mass and St. Patrick’s Dinner Dance.

 

Food for Thought

A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.

A compromise is an agreement whereby both parties get what neither of them wanted.

A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking.

Don’t worry about the world coming to an end today.  It is already tomorrow in Australia.

Anyone can win, unless there happens to be a second entry.

Without geography, you’re nowhere.

It’s always darkest before the dawn.  So if you’re going to steal your neighbor’s newspaper, that’s the time to do it.

The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.

Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes.  That way, when you criticize them, you’re a mile away and you have their shoes.

 

Ash Wednesday

Next year, Ash Wednesday, the beginning of Lent, falls on
February 22, 2012.

Ashes will be distributed during Mass:
  
St. Mary’s in Barnegat:       8:00 am
10:00 am
7:00 pm
St. Mary of the Pines in Manahawkin:
9:00 am
5:00 pm.

During the Liturgy of the Word (No Mass):
St. Mary’s, Barnegat:  3:00 pm
                             St. Mary of the Pines, Manahawkin:  3:00 pm
Ashes will continue to be distributed at both churches
until 5:00 pm.