YES went to Great Adventure on Sunday for the N. J. Catholic Youth Rally. To see photos from the event, please go to the News/Events tab above and click on Photo Album.
Congratulations to Susan Kraemer, our Business Administrator, pictured with her sons, Tim and Kurt, for graduating Saturday with a Masters of Science-Church Management and Business Ethics degree from Villanova University.
On January 22, 2019, Governor Andrew Cuomo signed the most radical abortion bill in the nation, allowing abortion through the entire pregnancy. Join a growing movement to pray for the conversion of pro-abortion New York Governor, Andrew Cuomo. Click the title above to Offer Prayers.
The May Procession was held at the school on Wednesday morning. To see photos from the May Procession, please go to the News/Events tab above and click on Photo Album.
Please vote for St. Mary of the Lakes School the 2019 Best of the Best Awards! These awards celebrate and recognize the best Burlington County has to offer. Nominations will be accepted until May 20 as the first part of the competition. You can nominate SML School in both Preschool & Private school categories also! It's easy to do. Simply choose a category, make your nomination, and fill in your email address. Continue and complete the registration form. You MUST register in order to nominate. The most nominations in each category will advance to the voting round that will run in June. Winners will be recognized in a special print and online section once the voting round has ended and the votes have been tallied and verified. Please click on the title above for easy link to the voting. Thanks !
The renovated Parish Office opened on Monday, May 13. To see photos from Friday's Office Move, please go to the News/Events tab above and click on Photo Album. Click on the title above to see a video of the ribbon cutting ceremony.
Father Dan and Father Roy had dinner Saturday night at the Rectory with the winners of the "Dinner with the Priests" auction at the Carnival last June. To see photos from Dinner with the Priests, please go to the News/Events tab above and click on Photo Album.
At all Masses this weekend, the Blessed Mother was crowned. To see photos from the May Crownings, please go to the News/Events tab above and click on Photo Album.
Thank you to all who responded to our survey in March. Your feedback was thoughtful and meaningful. The primary purpose of this survey was to determine if there are gaps in our ministries. Is there a new need in our community, whether our parish or our town, where we could be providing help? An example could be a response to the growing and disturbing trends of prescription drug addiction. In analyzing the survey responses, there doesn’t seem to be a serious gap in how we are serving the needs of our local communities. Should you feel differently, you still may provide suggestions in this area. You may send an email to Stella.denn@verizon.net with any feedback or suggestions.
I would like to thank parishioner Nicole Fox, MD, for her informative presentation to "Stop the Bleed," held Monday evening, May 6th. In addition, thanks to parishioners and FBI agents Bill Hyland and Scott Kerns, and MTPD Officer Jason Deroya for attending and adding their knowledge based on their experiences, to help keep St. Mary of the Lakes safe. I am also grateful to the approximately 150 parishioners who attended the meeting. If you have any questions, please email me at father_dan@smlparish.org. To see photos from Monday night's Stop the Bleed event, please go to the News/Events tab above and click on Photo Album.
After a seven-year fight in the New Jersey Legislature, Governor Murphy has made assisted suicide the law in N.J. by approval of S1072/A1504 on April 12. In spite of this heartbreaking result, our parishioners fought a tough fight that apparently made this a close vote. We are now the 8th State to have made doctor assisted suicide legal. Bishop O'Connell has made many public statements on the issue of assisted suicide, which clearly show the Church cannot compromise the sanctity of life. He said that God is the only Creator and source of all human life and that, therefore, God alone has the right to determine its natural end. The Committee would like to thank everyone who contacted their elected officials to encourage them to vote no on this bill. In the future, many state and federal issues will arise that we will again need to address. Our diocesan respect life committee will continue to alert the parishioners of Burlington County pointing out the issues where they can voice their opinion and hopefully swing the legislation in a direction that promotes Catholic moral policy. Thank you for all your past and future support in respecting life.