WELCOME HOME!
Join us this weekend for worship.
Sunday at 9:00 am
The service is also posted on our website
Evening Prayer: Saturday evenings at 5:30 pm in the chapel.
Holy Hour: Thursdays at 3 pm in the chapel.
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As we continue our celebration of Easter, we are challenged this Sunday by the Lord’s “new” command. He calls upon us to love one another. This commandment is already challenging, and Jesus makes it even more challenging by commanding us to love one another in the way he loves us. This is not a love that most of the world would recognize. We are to love like the one who died for us and forgave us for our failings and ingratitude. This is love that sacrifices and suffers for the beloved. To love like Jesus is possibly the greatest challenge, we will ever attempt.
How would we be able to love in this way? We need the help of the Holy Spirit, and it is only through grace that we are empowered to love others as Jesus loves us. We need help to live as we should.
Jesus offers us that help in the Holy Spirit. As we read the Acts of the Apostles in this Easter season, we see how the Holy Spirit gave powerful life and renewal to the early Church. He also brought love and unity to the assembly of believers. If we want to love as Jesus loved, we need to surrender to his new life and invite the Holy Spirit to transform us. The Holy Spirit can help us turn away from selfishness and learn to sacrifice for others. The Holy Spirit can adjust our values so that people are more important than possessions or wealth. Jesus saves us so that we can change. The Holy Spirit is his gift to us so we can live according to his commandment to love. Jesus tells us that this is the very sign that we are his disciples and love one another.
In this holy season of Easter, we proclaim that Jesus is risen from the dead. In lives marked by love, we are signs that it is true.
Blessings in Christ,
Mo. Allison+
Important Dates to Note:
May 21st- 1 PM Memorial service Fred and Ruth Maiden
May 22nd - 10:30 PM Vestry Meeting
May 29th - 6 to 8 PM - Strawberry Festival
June 3rd - Wedding Rehearsal
June 4th - the wedding of Chelsea Schuster and Andrew Hickman
June 4th: NO Saturday Service.
June 5th - (Baptism) Details to follow.
June 11th- 11 AM Celebration of Life Grace and Bill Repp
June 12th - 9 AM Service The Rev. Canon Joan Izzo
June 18th - 11 AM - 75th Anniversary Celebration of St. Barnabas by the Bay, Villas
July - We are looking forward to the Science Explorers returning, Thursday's on the Lawn, and Saturday Evening Beach services.
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Membership at St. Mary's consists of several different groups of "members." Some are Confirmed Communicant Members or who have transferred their membership by Letter of Transfer to St. Mary's. Some are Baptized into St. Mary’s or have requested that their names be entered in the Parish Register. Others are “members” by virtue of the fact that St. Mary’s is their church—the Christian community of which they are a part and where they worship regularly. Still, others are “summer members" or friends of
St. Mary's. Many are part of St. Mary’s life, worship at St. Mary’s when in town, and support St. Mary’s financially. Canonically, they are not members in the legal sense, but they are every bit as much members of our parish family as those who are official members.
Please contact the church office if you would like to become a member of St. Mary's and be added to our data base.
We welcome you to join us!
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Strawberry Festival May 29th |
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Sign up to help with Strawberry Fest
Sunday, May 29th, 6 to 8 pm
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One of our favorite and most delicious fundraisers is our Strawberry Festival! Please help to make this year's a success by contributing a Strawberry dessert to the event.
ALSO: This year we will be raffling Baskets. If you would like to donate something to be used in a basket or a basket itself, please contact Dina Ziemba.
Help is needed with serving and clean up. Sign up sheets are on the parish hall bulletin board. Thank you!!
Questions? contact Lou & Cynthia Schweickhardt.
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Stewardship Workshop
Year-Round Giving:
Use Summer Well for Your Fall Pledges and More
May 25 @ 7:00 pm — 8:30 pm
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This workshop is designed to help congregations develop a year-round approach to stewardship and giving. You’ll come out of the session ready to use the summer well. Prepare for the fall annual giving season now by forming a team, setting goals, and beginning planning.
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Dedicating Altar flowers is a wonderful way to remember or honor a loved one. If you would like to sign up for a Sunday, the altar flower chart can be found on the bulletin board in the parish hall. Please note who the flowers are for and given by, and note in honor or memory. A donation to St. Mary's Altar Guild may be sent to the church office. You may take the flowers home after the service. |
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Thank you for your continued support of St. Mary's |
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Our Father’s Work
O master workman of the race you Man of Galilee,
Who with the eyes of early youth Eternal things did see.
We thank you for your boyhood faith that shone your whole life through.
“Did you not know it is my father’s work to do?”
O you who did the vision send and give to each his task,
And with the task sufficient strength show us your will, we ask.
Give us a conscience bold and good, give us a purpose true,
That it may be our highest joy our father’s work to do.
Ways to donate are:
- The Sunday collection plate
- Send a check payable to St. Mary's to:
St. Mary's Church,
9425 Third Ave., Stone Harbor, NJ 08247
(Your envelope and number is not necessary, only your name.)
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Setting up a personal online banking "bill pay" option. The bank will mail the check for you to the church office.
Please note: Offering envelopes have been discontinued. Only your name is needed in order for the counters to record your giving.
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Can you help provide groceries? |
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The Branches is in need of help with groceries. Between the Mobile Ministry, Community Food Pantry, and providing breakfast and lunch, The Branches is going through a lot of food. They depend on the generosity of faithful supporters to help out when supplies run low. They are in need of the following: eggs, butter, coffee, sugar, cookies, crackers, spam, hot dogs, hot dog rolls, bread, ketchup, mayo, Cup of Noodles, breakfast bars, hamburger, chicken, fresh fruit, salad dressing and diapers, sizes 4 and 6. Groceries may be dropped off at The Branches, 1304 Rt. 47, Rio Grande. Questions? contact Sandra Lockhart 609-886-5091
Thank you so much for your faithful support of our mission at The Branches!
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Happy Birthday to
Marlene Casper on May 15th, Melanie Pfizenmayer on May 16th, Bailey & Jake Mericle on May 20th, and Craig Mericle on May 21st!
Happy Anniversary to
Travis & Julie King on May 16th!
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May 21st- 1 PM Memorial service Fred and Ruth Maiden
May 22nd - 10:30 PM Vestry Meeting
May 29th - 6 to 8 PM - Strawberry Festival
June 3rd - Wedding Rehearsal
June 4th - the wedding of Chelsea Schuster and Andrew Hickman
June 4th: NO Saturday Service.
June 5th - (Baptism) Details to follow.
June 11th- 11 AM Celebration of Life Grace and Bill Repp
June 12th - 9 AM Service The Rev. Canon Joan Izzo
June 18th - 11 AM - 75th Anniversary Celebration of St. Barnabas by the Bay, Villas
July - We are looking forward to the Science Explorers returning, Thursday's on the Lawn, and Saturday Evening Beach services.
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12 Step Meetings in the Church Hall
Narcotics Anonymous (NA) Monday at 8:00 pm
Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) Tuesday at 8:00 pm
Alanon on Friday at 10:00 am
A seasonal additional Alanon meeting will be coming this summer on Tuesday at 8:00 pm in the chapel
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St. Barnabas Hoagie & Bake Sale |
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St. Barnabas by the Bay, 13 West Bates Avenue, Villas, will hold it's annual Hoagie and Bake Sale on May 28th. Questions? contact the church office:
609-886-5960, or email: SaintBarnabasVillas@comcast.net.
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The Fifth Sunday of Easter |
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Tuesday - Thursday 8:30 am Morning Prayer via Zoom
Thursday Holy Hour 3:00 pm (Chapel)
Saturday 5:30 pm (Chapel)
Sunday 9:00 AM in person (church)
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