OUR LADY OF THE VIRGIN MOUNT INVITES YOU TO A FIESTA LATINA!!!
COME AND SHARE WITH YOUR FAMILY AND FRIENDS WHILE WE LEARN A LITTLE ABOUT HISPANIC COUNTRIES, TRADITIONS AND TYPICAL FOOD
WHEN: SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 30
TIME: 2:00 – 7:00 PM
PLACE: PARISH CENTER GYM
450 DRAKE AVE, MIDDLESEX, NJ.
THERE WILL BE EXHIBITION TABLES REPRESENTING THE FOLLOWING COUNTRIES:
Colombia, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Uruguay, Puerto Rico, Peru; among others ..
We will be looking for you!! Please do not miss out!! Food and admission is free!!
For more information call 732-356-2149 ext. 1001
Please note that the best way to communicate requests to the parish office for sacramental records or sponsorship eligibility letters is by email addressed to the office manager, Patty Marshall. If you are still inclined to leave a voice mail, please ensure that your voicemail is not full so that the office can respond. Please note, we only try twice. Please do not leave requests to the last minute. We have only one full time office employee, and the records are not computerized. Please leave at least ten business days after we have all the neces- sary information to track down the records. Adults requesting sacramental records must request them themselves, not through parents or spouses. Please leave as much information as possible (including the correct name and spelling) so that we can find the records. For baptismal records, we need at least a date of birth and some indication of when the baptism was held. For all other sacraments we need a window of no more than five years. Help us to make retrieving records an efficient process. Thank you for your cooperation.
Religious Education office will be open on September 6 from 10-3PM; September 12th from 2-6PM and September 13th from 10-3PM.
Regular office hours begin the week of September 18th. Classes begin on September 19th. Letters were mailed home with class assignments.
CATECHIST/AIDE AND HALL SECURITY/LOCK UP DESPERATELY NEEDED FOR THE 2023/2024 ACADEMIC YEAR:
5:30 PM Session – Grade 4 Catechist needed.
7:00 PM Session – Grade 6 Aide needed.
7:00 PM Session – Hall Monitor needed.
8:20 PM – END of Session Building Security and Lock Up Person needed.
All adult volunteers who volunteer in any program involving minors in the Diocese of Metuchen must be background checked and attend a one-time workshop for Protecting God’s Children. Discounts are available for all adult volunteers and service credits are available for student volunteers.
There is a required catechist meeting and training session on Tuesday, September 12th at 6:30pm in the Parish Center Meeng room.
Saturday, September 16th – All Catechists and Aides are invited to receive their commissioning and blessing for the year at the 5pm Mass.
Classes will begin on Tuesday, September 19th.
Sept. 9/10
All proceeds are designated for the charitable use of the Holy Father.
The Mass Book for 2024 will open on Wednesday, September 13th at 9:00 am. Each person is allowed up to 3 Masses. We want to allow everyone the opportunity to get their Masses.
Forms are available on the tables around the church. Please fill them out before coming to the office.
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 18 10:00 AM – 3:00 PM
$25.00 PER TABLE
For details or to reserve a table, please contact Patty Marshall at the parish office: [email protected]/ (732) 356-2149 ext. 1001
Tables are reserved on a first come first serve basis.
Our Lady of Mount Virgin Parish offers online giving through software called ParishSoft Giving. This is a convenient and safe way to make either recurring or one time donations.
When you participate in online giving your gift goes directly into the parish bank account. You will not have to remember to write a check or to stop by an ATM on Sunday mornings.
Online giving provides strong, ongoing financial support to the parish and enables your parish to better budget for and handle its financial needs.
Making a donation is easy. Simply go to the parish website (OLMV.NET). Look for GIVING in the top right corner and then click on Donate Today. Select either One-time or Recurring and complete your generous gift.
Even though you will not be using envelopes, please make sure to include an envelope number when you sign up through ParishSoft Giving. This is necessary to ensure that you receive proper credit for your gift. If you do not have an envelope number, please contact the parish office.
A person seeking a “sponsor eligibility letter” from OLMV to serve as a godparent for the Sacrament of Baptism or a sponsor for the Sacrament of Confirmation must be an active registered parishioner of OLMV for at least 6 months and must have received all three Sacraments of Initiation, be active in the parish and, if married, be in a valid, Catholic marriage. An “active” Catholic is understood to be a person who attends Mass regularly and whose lifestyle is in keeping with the Catholic faith. He or she should ensure that his or her own school age children are attending Mass, are enrolled in religious education, and have received their sacraments.
In order to be considered a registered parishioner, an adult (persons 21 years of age or older) must submit a completed registration form. These forms can be picked up at the parish office. Completed forms must be brought to the parish in person. Please remind young adults (21 and older) who live with their parents that they must be registered separately with the parish.
Ordinarily, for Baptism, First Communion, Confirmation or Matrimony, or to receive a sponsorship eligibility certificate from this parish, a person must be registered and an active member of OLMV.
The Rosary is prayed every Tuesday and Thursday after the 12:00 noon Mass. All parishioners are invited to join in this most devout form of prayer to the Blessed Virgin Mary for peace and the preservation of freedom in the United States.
Please make use of our Meditation Garden. What a beautiful spot to spend a few minutes with our Lord! Our Meditation Garden and Remembrance Walkway project is ongoing, and bricks can be ordered at any time. The next placement of bricks will be during the summer. Remembrance bricks are a beautiful way to remember loved ones or special moments in our lives.
All volunteers are reminded that if their volunteer work at the parish involves working with children, unless each child’s parent or guardian accompanies their child for the entire time, the volunteer needs to have been fingerprinted and have gone through the Protecting God’s Children program, and their credentials must be up to date and on file with our Safe Environment Coordinator at OLMV (Ms. Zmigrodski). Also, no photos that include children may be included on any social media website or platform or in any publication without the prior written consent of the parent or guardian. Many thanks for your understanding and cooperation
While online giving is the best and easiest way to make offertory and special contributions to the parish, many thanks also to all who use the offertory envelopes for making their weekly and special contributions to the parish.
Collection envelopes are currently sent out every other month to about 1300 families in the parish. This is far more than the number of families that actually use them. In order to cut costs and waste, we are in the process of discontinuing envelopes being sent to any family that has not used its envelopes since January, 2019. You should still retain your envelope number and use it whenever you add or make changes to online giving or make a note of the envelope number on the memo line of your check if you make a contribution by check. If for some reason you would still like to receive envelopes, please call Patty in the parish office.
The best way to support the parish is to enroll in our online giving program. Through this program you can determine your donation amount, select the funds or funds of your choice to which to donate, determine the method of payment, and set the frequency of payments (one-time or recurring). Many thanks for your prayerful support and generosity.