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Mahjong! Join us for Mahjong in the Parish Hall. Click here for dates and to sign up. |
Weekly Advent Adoration
Every Wednesday in Advent, from 4pm-5:30pm. Take this opportunity to spend time in the Chapel with our Lord. Feel free to stay for a few minutes or the entire hour and a half.
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Holy Hour Come spend time in the presence of Jesus. Thursday, December 12 at 7pm in the Church. Please feel free to stop by for a quick prayer or stay for the hour. Bring rosary beads. |
Basic Needs Advent Project: Ornament Sale The Basic Needs Committee will be selling ornaments after each mass during Advent, now-December 22. The ornaments are $20 each, proceeds will benefit Mercy Center in Asbury Park. In addition to the ornament you purchase, you will also see paper ornaments available for special intentions. Parishioners are invited to write the name of someone who they would like prayed for or a special intention on the paper ornament. Those ornaments will be placed on the Advent Trees on the altar so the parish can pray for those intentions. After Advent the paper ornaments will be placed under the statue of Mary. |
KOC 50-50 Raffle The Knights of Columbus, Council 3187 will be selling 50-50 raffle tickets after Masses the weekend of December 14/15. The raffle will support Coats for Kids, the Arc of Monmouth, Birthright of Red Bank, and Catholic education. $10 per ticket. $5,000 maximum prize. Raffle drawing will be December 16, 9pm at the Columbus Club. Need not be present to win. For questions or direct purchase, contact Jack Hayes at (732) 742-8155. |
Bambinelli Sunday Bring the Baby Jesus from your family crèche for a special blessing on Bambinelli Sunday, December 15 at 9:30 Mass. Join us for a hospitality breakfast hosted by the Nativity Women’s Group in the Parish Hall afterwards! |
Advent Confessions There will be confession on Thursday, December 19 from 7pm-8:30pm in the Church. |
Christmas Masses
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Book Club The Nativity Book Club will meet on Monday, December 30 at 7pm in the Parish Library to discuss The Spectacular by Fiona Davis. All are welcome. |
Notre Dame Chorale Concert at Nativity Please join us for an evening of music! The Notre Dame Chorale, the University of Notre Dame’s premiere mixed voice choir, will present a concert of classic works and Christmas pieces, including works from Handel’s Messiah, at the Church of the Nativity on Wednesday, January 8, 2025 at 7pm. Admission is free, but goodwill donations will be accepted.
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An Irish Christmas at Kylemore Wednesday, December 11, 2024 at 7pm Christian Brothers Academy, at Quinn Library 850 Newman Springs Road, Lincroft Join us for a virtual trip to Kylemore Abbey in Ireland as Dr. Mark Doerries presents the musical and cultural traditions of an Irish Christmas at Kylemore. This event is part of the University of Notre Dame Hesburgh Lecture Series and is sponsored jointly by the Notre Dame Club of the Jersey Shore and Christian Brothers Academy. It is free and open to the public. |
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