HFRS Cross Country Team and Toys For Tots! Members of Holy Family Regional School. Cross Country Team donated to the Toys for Tots

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3 HFRS Cross Country Team and Toys For Tots! Members of Holy Family Regional School Cross Country Team donated to the Toys for Tots drive held at the Catholic Middle School Athletic Association Championship on November 12 th at Sunken Meadow State Park.

4 ST. JOSEPH'S FAMILY MASS! St. Joseph's Parish is excited to announce the Family Mass Schedule for ! November 18 th December 2 nd and 16 th January 6 th and 20 th February 3 rd and 17 th March 3 rd and 17 th April 7 th Please join us for Family Mass at 11:00 AM in Travis Hall and experience the joy that comes from attending Sunday Mass as a family! The liturgy will be specifically inclusive of our youngsters who are attending with their families. Immediately following Mass we will enjoy hospitality together!

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7 Please join us for our Children s Christmas Pageant Saturday, December 1 st at 3:00 PM in the Church! Our children have been practicing diligently to bring us a wonderful interpretation of the Christmas Nativity Story. This will be a fun and memorable family event for our parish. All are welcome! Refreshments will be served immediately after the Pageant in Travis Hall, so that you can meet and thank all our little actors!

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10 Focus on Religious Freedom From Catholics For Freedom of Religion "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. George Santayana, philosopher, poet, cultural critic Pilgrims, Thanksgiving, And a Failed Experiment: Part 2 Few Americans realize that New England s first form of government was collectivism (socialism) and practiced what Karl Marx would promote two centuries later as: each produced according to his ability and each received according to his need. The Pilgrims, a pious and decent people, discovered that even the best men cannot thrive under an incentive-crushing system. Within two years of the First Thanksgiving, the colonists had reaped shortages and starvation. Writing in the History of Plymouth Plantation, Gov. William Bradford said that with the survival of the colony at stake, they contemplated upon how they might raise as much corn as they could, and obtain a better crop than they had done, that they might not still thus languish in misery. They decided to abandon the collectivist model of government in favor of a more free model. So - they assigned to each family a parcel of land, according to the proportion of their number, for that end A happy Gov. Bradford wrote, This had very good success, for it made all hands very industrious, so as much more corn was planted than otherwise would have been... The women now went willingly into the field, and took their little ones with them to set corn; which before would allege weakness and inability; whom to have compelled would have been thought great tyranny and oppression. Thus, the Pilgrims now wished to work because they got to keep, and then trade, the benefits of their labor. They discovered that freedom is a much greater stimulus than force. Instead of famine, now God gave them plenty, wrote Gov. Bradford, "and the face of things was changed, to the rejoicing of the hearts of many, for which they blessed God... Any general want or famine hath not been amongst them since to this day. (libertyunderfire.org; townhall.com; historyofmassachusettes.org; History of Plymouth Plantation) Posterity - you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it. John Quincy Adams

11 St. Joseph s Children s Choir Children in grades 2-7 are invited to sing with us! Help us to serve God with music at mass, festivals, concerts and musicals. Rehearsals on Tuesdays at 5:00 PM in the Centennial Room, School of Religion. Join now to sing for Christmas. All are welcome! Please contact Deanna Muro, Director of Music at (631) , ext. 218 for more information.

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15 St. Joseph s Music Ministry invites you to the Advent/Christmas Concert December 9, 2018 Sunday, 2:30 PM Featuring the Chamber Choir, Teen Choir, Children s Choir, Handbell Choirs, Young Adult Schola and St. Joseph s Ensemble St. Joseph s Church 59 Church St. Kings Park, New York Celebrate the season with choral favorites! Tree lighting and reception following.

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17 Religious Education Grades 1-6 5:00 PM 6:30 PM CYO ~ Ball Fields 1, 2 and 4 8:00 AM 8:30 PM Religious Education ~~ Grades 1-6 ~~ 5:00 PM 6:30 PM CYO ~ Ball Fields 1, 2 and 4 8:00 AM 8:30 PM

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