OLL Oktoberfest - October 16, 2010

SAVE THE DATE!

Our first Oktoberfest celebration at OLL will be held on Saturday, October 16th from 6:30pm to 11:30pm.

$60 per ticket. Live Music! A Bounty of Food! Free Flowing Beer! 50/50, Raffles, Silent Auctions, and More! Rain or Shine under the tent!

OLL Church Parking Lot - Montrose Ave & Hill Street, Verona. Must be 21 or older to attend.

BUY OKTOBERFEST TICKETS!

Limited tickets available at event. To order tickets online, please click here. To pay by check, please download and print the flyer. For a limited time, tables of 10 can be reserved. Have questions? Please email Oktoberfest@ollverona.org or call 973-239-1042.

In order to ensure you receive critical and timely Oktoberfest updates, we encourage you to subscribe to OLL's electronic events email system. Simply complete the form you'll find here and hit submit -- that's it! Once subscribed, you will receive exciting updates about this great event.

OLL Oktoberfest SILENT AUCTION MARQUIS ITEM Announced!

A NIGHT TO REMEMBER, by Frungillo Caterers

Enter your bid to be King and Queen of the beautifully renovated Skylands Castle! You and 8 of your subjects (okay, your friends or family members) will receive an overnight stay in the Castle, located in The New Jersey Botanical Gardens in Ringwood, NJ!

Your stay includes:

• A private five-course sit down dinner for ten (10),
• Wine pairing with each course,
• Use of five (5) overnight rooms, and
• Full breakfast the next morning.

While it is difficult to place a value on such an exclusive package, the bidding will begin at $7,500. This is not something offered to the general public and is only the 3rd time this elegant experience has been offered.

So, how do you make sure you're in the next exclusive group to experience A NIGHT TO REMEMBER? Glad you asked. Determine which 10 people will attend (for example, if you're a couple you may wish to find 4 other couples), determine how much you're all willing to bid on A NIGHT TO REMEMBER, and hope you're the highest bidders!

Don't miss out on being the King and Queen of Skylands Castle for A NIGHT TO REMEMBER!! Think we're exaggerating? Just take a look at Skylands Castle or the overnight rooms at Skylands Castle.

All proceeds from the Silent Auction are for the benefit of OLL.

Can't attend Oktoberfest, but would like to make a donation?

Make a donation online!

If you can't make the event but you would like to make a donation, you can quickly and securely make a donation via PayPal. Just like purchasing a ticket online, you can make a donation via your PayPal account or via any major credit card. To donate, simply click the "Donate Now" button below. This will take you to PayPal's secure site to complete your PayPal or credit card transaction.

Thanks again for your support. We look forward to making this a great event!

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Jobs Ministry

Our Lady of the Lake Pastoral Council is happy to announce a new ministry. The Pastoral Council has taken on the mission of trying to help bring together people seeking employment, with those who have job opportunities. To help bring these two groups together, we have launched a new LinkedIn group: "OLL Verona". If you are interested in joining this group in the hopes of finding a job, or if you would like to post an opening you have, or know of, please take the following actions:

• If you are already a member of LinkedIn, simply request admission into the OLL Verona group. Go to Groups, search for "OLL Verona" and join the group. Once a member, you will have full access to all job postings and discussion areas. It may take a day or so to complete the admission process.
• If you are not a member of LinkedIn, simply create an account (at www.LinkedIn.com) then request admission into the OLL Verona group as listed above. If you have any questions about this program, please feel free to send email to OLL_Lists@comcast.net.

Food For St. John's

St. John's Soup Kitchen is located at St. John's Church on Mulberry Street, Newark across from the New Jersey Performing Arts Center. The kitchen feeds approximately 400 people a day. The food is prepared early in the day. The volunteers serve the food at 11:30am.

The people being served are not inside the kitchen. Rain or shine, snow or sunny the people are served outside in a fenced-in area. They are very grateful for whatever they receive.

On the second Tuesday of each month, a group of O L L volunteers car pool to St. John's to help out at the Soup Kitchen by serving meals to these 400+ people. We leave at 10:50 am and return by 2PM. We park in a fenced-in area with attended parking (it is safe) and we invite you to join us. It is a very rewarding experience. If you are interested, call Ida Emma at 239-7034 or Nancy Canavan at 239-9472.

Most needed items:

• Canned Beans (kidney, white etc.)
• Canned Soup, Cereals, Rice
• Coffee and Tea
• Canned Peas, String Beans

Children's Liturgy Of The Word

Children's Liturgy of the word is celebrated at 9:00 Mass on Sundays except when Family Mass is scheduled. A reading, gospel, homily, act of faith, prayer of the faithful and joyful hymn at the children's level are presented in an interactive fashion.

At a recent liturgy, we described Jesus' age transition over the last few Gospels. Jesus was an infant at Christmas, age 12 when preaching at the temple for Holy Family Sunday, and was 30 years old at his Baptism by St. John. We opened with the question, "How old was Jesus on Christmas Day?" The expected response was 'newborn'. The first answer was "everlasting" followed by "2009" and "very old". The children truly do create the homily!

While discussing the dove as Holy Spirit, an anology was made by one child to the Home Alone 2 movie. One friend had 2 doves and gave one to his best buddy as forever friends, just like we are with Jesus.

When asking why white was worn at baptism, responses included, "God likes that color", "it's like the color of heaven", "it's the color of angels" and "the soul leaves the body and is probably white". Children were asked to check their baptismal date and celebrate it each year in a spiritual way.

Thank you for sharing your faith and allowing the children to continue to develp it.