JANUARY 7—SPEIGLETOWN—6-7pm Please join us for a FREE Zumba Class with a New and Dependable instructor. Christine Williams will facilitate with new music and routines. Great for beginners! Fun, Fun, Fun! Everyone is welcome!
We will be serving another delicious dinner at a reasonable price. We offer a salad, roast beef, potato, a vegetable and roll w/ butter. Adults $11, Seniors (65+) $10 and children under 12 $5. We also have available beer, wine, soda and dessert for purchase. Tickets will be on sale December 29 & 30 after the Masses. You can contact the parish offices to make reservations and purchase tickets. A limited number of tickets will be available at the door. As always, we will be looking for parishioners to make desserts for us to sell with the meal. We always need help in the kitchen and wait staff to continue to make our dinners a success. Please take time to sign-up before or after Masses, or contact Mary Hurley at (518) 235-6479.
The Book Nook would like to take this opportunity to thank all of you for your support of this great parish fund-raising effort , as well as becoming a wonderful community project. It could not happen with out you. The Book Nook will be open on Saturday morning, January 5 from 9:00AM until noon, with our January sale. All books whose authors first or last names begin with “J” will be half-price. For example, James Patterson Iris Johanson, J.A. Jance, etc. It’s a great opportunity to keep stocking up on your winter reading! Please stop by and see all of the new donations that have come in. Donations can be dropped off at the entrances during office hours. Thanks again and have a Blessed Christmas and a Happy, Healthy New Year.
Thanks to all our parishioners who helped make the Christmas centerpieces for our parishioners homebound or in nursing homes. They all came out so beautiful. A special thanks to Mary Agnes Arnold, Karen Della Rocco, Cheri Foster, Susan Martin-Cippola, Laurie Polley and Pam Schmidt who helped make this happen and Mark Murray who provided the greenery. Couldn’t have done it without you all.
We pray for deceased relatives and friends at every Mass. If you have requested a Mass for a friend or loved one, we invite you to participate in the Offertory by bringing the gifts to the altar. Please notify one of the Ushers prior to Mass if you want to bring up the gifts to honor your deceased friend or loved one.
We have received word from several parishes, all of them located in Troy, that many of their parishioners have received scam emails that appear to be from the pastor or parish life coordinator, and seek donations, mostly gift cards. Transfiguration Parish will never send you emails requesting donations, gift cards and personal information such as credit card numbers. If you receive such an email, even if the email address seems legitimate, know that it is a scam. Do not respond to the email, and report such emails to the parish office so that we can inform the Diocese and ensure the appropriate communications are sent out to warn others.
Christmas is just around the corner and what better gift for someone than books! The Book Nook has had some great donations in the past few weeks and many of these books would make great gifts for this Christmas. Please stop by and see what we have to offer. The Book Nook is open Saturday morning, December 1 from 9:00a.m. until noon. Thanks for your support, and we hope to see you at the Book Nook!
Assistance is still needed to unload and sort the fruit orders when they arrive on Thursday, December 6. Please call Ellie Debonis at the Speigletown site if you can volunteer.
All new and improved this year! The Children’s Christmas Party December 9th 2:30—4:30PM Games, Crafts and more! Everyone and anyone is welcome!!!! A fun day for all your relatives, friends & neighbors
Christmas is just around the corner and what better gift for someone than books! The Book Nook has had some great donations in the past few weeks and many of these books would make great gifts for this Christmas. Please stop by and see what we have to offer .The Book Nook is open Saturday morning, December 1 from 9:00a.m. until noon. Thanks for your support, and we hope to see you at the Book Nook!
Please consider donating an item for our baskets for local families is need. We have 30 families this year and we are greatly in need of many more items, or monetary donations, to complete the meals.
The Christmas Pageant will be presented on December 24 at the 4:00 Mass in Speigletown. Children in grades K – 3 are invited to participate in the pageant, youth in grades 4 and up participate in the choir. Practice will be at 7:00PM at Speigletown on Thursdays December 6, 13, and 20. All participants will need to be at the Speigletown site December 24 by 3:15. If you have any questions, please contact Beth Thayer at 235-0337.
An emergency collection will be taken up this weekend (Nov. 3-4) for humanitarian aid and the needs of churches devastated by the storms in the South and Southeast regions of the United States in September and October. This emergency collection is intended to cover needs created by future 2018 storms/calamities. To donate, make your check payable to the parish – in the memo portion write: 2018 Disasters Emergency Collection. Our parish will send one check to Catholic Charities and 100% of the donations will go to the 2018 Disasters Collection.
We have been given the opportunity to establish a profile using the On-Line Giving button on the Transfiguration Parish website. Some of our parishioners are using this computerized way to make regular contributions via the internet. We are encouraging everyone to do so. The direct link to set up your individualized profile is https://goo.gl/3v3t3A. You cannot access On-Line Giving through the My Parish App. Please consider this easy way to make regular contributions to Transfiguration Parish. If you choose this option you will not receive boxed envelopes.
The Book Nook is open November 17 from 9:00 am until noon. We have had a great se-lection of donations dropped off, so you should stop by and see what’s new! The November half-priced authors are Mary Higgins Clark, Harlan Coben, Clive Cussler and Debbie Macomber. The children and young adult books are 6/$1, as are the cookbooks, religious and history. Thanks for your continued support and see you at the Book Nook!
BIRTHRIGHT extends a sincere “Thank You” to all parishioners who participated in our Respect Life Sunday Baby Bottle Boomerang fundraiser. Your generous outpouring of love and support enables us to continue assisting pregnant women and families who desperately need help. We would like to remind you that any outstanding bottles are due back. Please drop them in the designated boxes as soon as you can.
Willard Mountain - ages 8 to adult - begins on Friday, January 11th - 5 to 6:30 pm Lift and lesson—$130 before Nov. 25 Lift, lesson & rental—$165 before Nov. 25 After November 25, please add $20 to these prices. Please contact Sharon Frazee at 518-235-8693 or bfrazee@nycap.rr.com for more information and for registration form.