2019 is here!

Here are just a few things happening in our parish

Sundaes on Sunday Mass at SCS
Spotlight VIP (Volunteer In Parish)- Erin Quinn
Spotlight Ministry- Men's Tuesday Morning Prayer Group
Financial Presentation to the Parish
2019 Catholic Schools Week
Save the Date- 2019 Candlelight Ball

St. Catharine School News

Msgr. Cullen and Mr Dougherty would like to invite you to a very special First Friday Mass scheduled for Friday, December 7th at 9:00 AM in the SCS gymnasium. We will have a special presentation of our National Blue Ribbon award, as well as the raising of our National Blue Ribbon School flag. We recognize that the National Blue Ribbon School Award is reflective of our students’ outstanding achievements, as well as our hard working team of faculty and staff at St. Catharine School. Reaching this goal would not be possible without the collective efforts of our dedicated school families, alumni, parishioners, the PTA, and our School Advisory Council. It’s truly incredible how much we are able to accomplish with the support of our school community!

SPOTLIGHT VIP

(Volunteer In Parish)

Each month we will be putting a spotlight on a volunteer within the parish. Without our volunteers much of which happens would not be possible.

Erin Quinn

Erin lives in Spring Lake with her husband and children. She is an SCS
graduate. Her 3 eldest boys have graduated from St. Catharine School, she currently has a 7th grade son and 5th grade daughter still enrolled. SCS is very near and dear to her heart as well as catholic education!

Erin has served on the St. Catharine School PTA board as President, Vice President, Enrichment Chair, Class Coordinator and Social Concerns Coordinator.

Erin has also chaired many SCS fundraisers such as Casino Night, Santa
sales, Mother/ son outing and walk-a-thons and has served as class mother numerous times. She also volunteers for playground and lunch duty twice a month in addition to coaching SCS Cross Country for the last 7 years and serving as a volunteer organizer for the SCS 5th quarter basketball tournament.

Erin has also had a great impact as a parish volunteer. She was Co-Chair of the 51st Annual Candlelight Ball and has been an integral part in bringing the Candlelight Ball back to one of the premiere events of the summer season and raising much needed funds for Catholic Education.

Erin also serves as a Eucharistic Minister and as a volunteer CCD Teacher where she "team teaches" with her high school aged sons

Contemporary Music Books

Have you seen our contemporary music books in St. Margaret Church

and St. Catharine Chapel?

These books are created by the rectory offices and are for parishioners to follow along with our new contemporary songs that are being used at some of our masses.

We ask that you make yourself familiar with the songs if you wish, but please leave the books in the churches for others to use during mass.

Contemporary Music Books

Have you seen our new music books in St. Margaret Church and St. Catharine Chapel?

These books are created by the rectory offices and are there for parishioners to follow along with our new contemporary songs that we are using at some of our masses. We ask that you make yourself familiar with the songs if you wish but please leave them in the churches for others to use during mass.

Attention Men of the Parish!

Spotlight Ministry

Men's Tuesday Morning Prayer Group

Did you make a New Year’s Resolution to improve your prayer life in 2019?

We can help!

Did you know that the Parish has a Men’s Tuesday Morning Prayer and Sharing Group?

The group meets at 6:45 a.m. – 7:50 a.m. every Tuesday in the Convent.

The meeting starts with Prayer followed by a discussion regarding shared books being read or scripture.

Please come and see what it is all about!

Financial Presentation to the Parish

Members of our Finance Council will be at masses this weekend speaking briefly about the financial status of the parish and the wonderful things we have been able to accomplish over the past year.

More information will be available in the bulletin HERE

2019 National Catholic Schools Week

Catholic Schools Week begins next week, keep an eye out for our students at masses next weekend.

Our 8th graders will be doing the first reading and our little kindergarten students have something very important to tell you.

Parish Photo of the Month

This photo was shared by James McNulty of the beautiful stained glass windows in the chapel of St. Anne Mausoleum.

Want your photo featured next month?

Share it with us on Facebook, Instagram or Twitter or

email to Lcole@stcatharine-stmargaret.org

Young Family Survey

For the 2-minute online survey, please visit:

http://ParishYouthSurvey.com

Have you stopped attending mass?

Have your children or grandchildren stopped attending mass?

Are you looking to see more young faces in the crowd or involved in parish life?

Here at St. Catharine - St. Margaret Parish, the Parish Pastoral Council is working to help address the needs of our younger parishioners. We want to address the issues and work towards to improving as a parish family to gain further involvement from all parishioners, but especially those that are younger.

Note: We do ask that the survey be shared by all parishioners, but only those in the age groups from teenage years to young families complete the survey. This is very important to our results and the actions we take from the survey.

Thank you very much for your help!

Cohort 19 News

A New Cohort website has been created, GatheredAsOne.com

Here you will be able to see mass times, events and news from all five of the parishes in Cohort 19

Get Social With Us

You may have noticed a more concerted effort in the parish's social media department during the past few months. The parish technology team definitely appreciates all the support, follows and likes you have given. If you don't already follow us, we can be found on

Facebook- www.facebook.com/stcatharinestmargaret
Instagram- @stcatharine_stmargaret
Twitter- @stcathstmarg