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Month: June 2018

June 17, 2018

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Phillipsburg Thrift Store needs your donations

The Thrift Store at Catholic Charities, Phillipsburg, is in need of items.

The store, open to all community members, sells a variety of gently used and new items that have been donated. Proceeds go towards social service programs.

Items currently needed are:

  • Gently used clothing
  • Small household items
  • Accessories
  • Decorative items
  • Jewelry, linens
  • New toys
  • Books
  • Seasonal items
  • CDs and DVD tapes.

Donations are gladly accepted Monday through Friday from 10am to 3:30pm. The store is located at 383 South Main Street, Phillipsburg. (Read more…)

Helpers needed for Family Promise, July 1-8

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Family Promise is a movable shelter where families live for a week at a time at various local churches. St. Catherine’s next scheduled time to “host” these families at the Bethlehem Presbyterian Church on Race Street will be July 1-July 8.

You can help by either cooking a dinner meal; spending time at the shelter or donating ShopRite gift cards, which are used to help pay for the meals that are prepared.

If you would like more information about this Ministry, please give Mary Jo Haggerty a call at 908-730-8989 or email to celticstamper@gmail.com with questions. (Read more…)

Online signup sheet available for monthly Eucharistic Adoration

The Knights of Columbus coordinate a signup sheet for Eucharistic Adoration, which is held on the first Friday of each month. All parishioners are invited to spend a half an hour (or more) in the presence of the Blessed Sacrament.

What is Eucharistic Adoration?

Here’s how Catholic-Church.org describes it:

Understood simply, Eucharistic Adoration is adoring or honouring the Eucharistic Presence of Christ. In a deeper sense, it involves “the contemplation of the Mystery of Christ truly present before us.”

The online signup for is available here. (Read more…)

Parish needs don’t take a vacation—Online Giving keeps your support going

Going on vacation? Please use Online Giving to keep current on your offertory support. Download the Online Giving app for iPhone or Android phones, search for our parish and begin giving, or visit our Online Giving page.

Your support during summer months helps sustain our parish. Not an online giver? Register for online giving by visiting our Online Giving page. (Read more…)

Confirmation

On Monday, May 21st, twenty-one young people of our Parish Family and eight young people of the Church of the Annunciation celebrated the Sacrament of Confirmation at St. Catherine of Siena Parish Center. It was an uplifting celebration not only for the Confirmandi and their families but also for us who received this sacrament many years ago.

Special thanks to Mrs. Judy LaTournous for facilitating the Confirmation program. I am very grateful for her work and selfless efforts to prepare these young people for the Sacrament of Confirmation over a series of weeks. (Read more…)