December 11, 2021 Immediately following the 5:00 PM Mass Adults 21 and over Catered Food BYOB + a dessert to share Music & Sing-a-longs Sign -ups after each mass-in the Old Social Hall Or call the parish office to reserve your seat. In the event of unsafe weather conditions, we will post information on the parish website. Snow date: December 12 - 5:00 PM

December 15, 2021 at 7 PM To help more fully prepare for the birth of Jesus, St Francis de Sales will present A Festival of Lessons and Carols. The Evening will feature short readings from Genesis, the prophets and the Gospels. The Scripture is combined with singing Christmas songs and carols. We will also have light refreshments in the Social Hall afterwards.

This past Friday our administrative assistant Ginger Wynne and her family suffered a devastating house fire that destroyed their home. They are in need of help in many different areas as they begin the difficult process of rebuilding all they have lost. We will be taking a free will offering after all the masses this weekend to help them. Click the article for more information.

Even though we are having in person Masses (Sat.,5PM, Sun., 8AM, 10AM, 12 Noon) We will continue to LIVE STREAM Mass from St. Francis, Go to our facebook page at 10:00 AM Sundays to see Father Chris celebrate Mass. You must have a Facebook account to see it. Look us up and follow our page. https://www.facebook.com/StFrancisVernon/ At 10 AM click the live link.

St. Francis de Sales - Mailing Address: P.O. Box 785, McAfee, NJ 07428 We also have a newly installed mailbox to the left of the main Church doors, for any paperwork to be dropped off for the office.

Bishop Serratelli has granted us permission to lower the age of receiving Confirmation starting in our 2020 -2021 school year to grade 8. Receiving Confirmation earlier will enable high school students to better participate in our parish community by serving as Lectors, Eucharistic Ministers, and Youth ministry to name a few. As next school year will be the transition year, provisions will be made to have grades 8, 9 and 10 also confirmed here at St. Francis de Sales. We trust this change will greatly benefit the young people of our parish.

The Columbiettes are collecting POP TOP TABS for Ronald McDonald House. We will place a container in the Church Social Hall for all you have collected. Bring them in a baggie and drop them in the container. The Columbiettes will get them to Ronald McDonald House. This will be an on-going project.

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We are still in need of Religious Education teachers for Grades 6, 7, & 8, on Tuesdays 4:30 - 5:45PM & 7th grade on Saturday mornings 9:00 - 10:15 AM Please contact the parish office office@stfrancisvernon.org 973-827-3248 x 300