St. Paul's Roman Catholic Church

Postscripts

Goodbye to the Golden Agers, Hello to the Encore Club, June 26, 2010

The Golden Agers were started more than 30 years ago to provide social, spiritual and fellowship opportunities for retired parishioners. They also devoted themselves to raising money for various parish needs. Now, the group has been re-formed and re-focused. The new group, which will be called the Encore Club, will still provide social, spiritual, and fellowship opportunities, but it will be open to all retired persons of any age in the Princeton vicinity, both within and without the parish, Catholic or non-Catholic. Even though its focus will be largely social, the group will still continue to help the parish when it can. For example, the new group will still make the PB&J sandwiches for the Loaves & Fishes Ministry in June.

The new Encore Club will meet on the last Friday of each month from September through June, starting at 1pm with a luncheon, and followed by entertainment, talks or other activities. Upcoming events include a comic barbershop quartet, dance exhibition, the Buddy Flip show (a NY stand-up comic and musician), and a trip to Sight & Sound Theater in Strasburg, PA, for their annual Christmas show. Food and events will be either free or heavily subsidized to make it easier for those on fixed incomes to attend.

If you are or know of retired people in the Princeton area who would enjoy a meal and entertainment, please tell them about the new Encore Club, encourage them to drop into the Parish Center on the last Friday of a month to check out what's going on. No RSVPs are necessary. Questions may be directed to StPaulsChurch@princetoncybernetics.com.

Shown below are Msgr. Nolan and the members of the Golden Agers that attended the "farewell to the group" picnic in June, but who will return on September 24 for the start of a new season under a new name and with a new focus.

Loaves and Fishes, June 19, 2010

On June 19, the parishioners of St. Paul provided both breakfast and lunch for almost 800 people at St. Mary's Cathedral. Pictured below are the parishioners who volunteered to prepare, serve, visit with the guests, and clean up afterwards receiving assignments and instructions.

Gloria Lynch, widow of our own Deacon Joe Lynch, took responsibility for this year's event. She is shown leading the volunteers in an opening prayer before the noon food service began.

Many of the guests bring small children. To entertain them, a coloring station was set up and staffed by St. Paul volunteers. Also, a clown, who made balloon animals and painted faces, was on hand to help amuse the little ones during the wait for food. The children of Religious Education made the patriotic center pieces for the tables.

A scene from the kitchen, in which Ed Kimtis, Amy Kimtis, Doug Bothe, our cook, and John Kimtis begin staging the pans of meat loaf and macaroni and cheese that were served for the noon meal.

An event of this size and complexity takes the efforts of a great many people, including the parishioners who made and/or donated the food, as well as those who helped prepare, serve and clean-up. And especially to those who spent time with the clients, talking to them and in some cases, playing chess with them. To all of them, the Loaves and Fishes Committee extends its heartfelt gratitude.

Dedication of the Remembrance Chapel, June 5, 2010

The Remembrance Chapel was blessed and dedicated during the 5:30pm Mass on June 5. Msgr. Nolan poses with members of the Catholic Daughters Court Moran No. 378, whose generosity is responsible for turning the old baptismal space into a remembrance chapel, in which to pray as well as honor our departed loved ones by burning a candle in their memory. From left are Rosemary Shangle-Johnson, Catherine Cirullo, Virginia Wilkinson and Marliss McGuiness. Court Moran No. 378 was named in memory of Msgr. Moran, former pastor of St. Paul. Its members faithfully served St. Paul’s Parish and the Princeton Community until 2008.