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To show our appreciation for your service to our parish as an altar server, we invite you to attend an outing to Citizen’s Bank Park for  the Phillies vs Arizona Diamondbacks game on Wednesday June 12. Departure from St. Mary of the Lakes Church parking lot will be at 4:30 p.m.  and return at approximately 11:00 p.m.  Since we have a limited number of tickets available for the game, the sooner you respond, the better your chances we will have a ticket for you.  We will need adult chaperones to provide transportation and supervision at the ballpark. An email invitation has been sent to all altar servers, so please ask your parents to return the form to the envelope at the Sacristy bulletin board or to the parish office! If you have any questions please call the parish office, (609) 654-8208, Ext. 111. 

YES went to Great Adventure on Sunday for the N. J. Catholic Youth Rally. To see photos from the event, please go to the News/Events tab above and click on Photo Album.

Congratulations to Susan Kraemer, our Business Administrator, pictured with her sons, Tim and Kurt, for graduating Saturday with a Masters of Science-Church Management and Business Ethics degree from Villanova University.

On January 22, 2019, Governor Andrew Cuomo signed the most radical abortion bill in the nation, allowing abortion through the entire pregnancy. Join a growing movement to pray for the conversion of pro-abortion New York Governor, Andrew Cuomo. Click the title above to Offer Prayers.

The May Procession was held at the school on Wednesday morning. To see photos from the May Procession, please go to the News/Events tab above and click on Photo Album.

Please vote for St. Mary of the Lakes School the 2019 Best of the Best Awards! These awards celebrate and recognize the best Burlington County has to offer. Nominations will be accepted until May 20 as the first part of the competition. You can nominate SML School in both Preschool & Private school categories also! It's easy to do. Simply choose a category, make your nomination, and fill in your email address. Continue and complete the registration form. You MUST register in order to nominate. The most nominations in each category will advance to the voting round that will run in June. Winners will be recognized in a special print and online section once the voting round has ended and the votes have been tallied and verified. Please click on the title above for easy link to the voting. Thanks !

The renovated Parish Office opened on Monday, May 13. To see photos from Friday's Office Move, please go to the News/Events tab above and click on Photo Album. Click on the title above to see a video of the ribbon cutting ceremony.

Father Dan and Father Roy had dinner Saturday night at the Rectory with the winners of the "Dinner with the Priests" auction at the Carnival last June. To see photos from Dinner with the Priests, please go to the News/Events tab above and click on Photo Album.

God Bless our Mothers. To see photos from Mother's Day, please go to the News/Events tab above and click on Photo Album.

At all Masses this weekend, the Blessed Mother was crowned. To see photos from the May Crownings, please go to the News/Events tab above and click on Photo Album.

To see photos from Saturday's First Holy Communion, please go to the News/Events tab above and click on Photo Album.

Thank you to all who responded to our survey in March. Your feedback was thoughtful and meaningful. The primary purpose of this survey was to determine if there are gaps in our ministries. Is there a new need in our community, whether our parish or our town, where we could be providing help? An example could be a response to the growing and disturbing trends of prescription drug addiction. In analyzing the survey responses, there doesn’t seem to be a serious gap in how we are serving the needs of our local communities. Should you feel differently, you still may provide suggestions in this area. You may send an email to Stella.denn@verizon.net with any feedback or suggestions.

I would like to thank parishioner Nicole Fox, MD, for her informative presentation to "Stop the Bleed," held Monday evening, May 6th. In addition, thanks to parishioners and FBI agents Bill Hyland and Scott Kerns, and MTPD Officer Jason Deroya for attending and adding their knowledge based on their experiences, to help keep St. Mary of the Lakes safe. I am also grateful to the approximately 150 parishioners who attended the meeting. If you have any questions, please email me at father_dan@smlparish.org. To see photos from Monday night's Stop the Bleed event, please go to the News/Events tab above and click on Photo Album.

After a seven-year fight in the New Jersey Legislature, Governor Murphy has made assisted suicide the law in N.J. by approval of S1072/A1504 on April 12. In spite of this heartbreaking result, our parishioners fought a tough fight that apparently made this a close vote. We are now the 8th State to have made doctor assisted suicide legal. Bishop O'Connell has made many public statements on the issue of assisted suicide, which clearly show the Church cannot compromise the sanctity of life. He said that God is the only Creator and source of all human life and that, therefore, God alone has the right to determine its natural end. The Committee would like to thank everyone who contacted their elected officials to encourage them to vote no on this bill. In the future, many state and federal issues will arise that we will again need to address. Our diocesan respect life committee will continue to alert the parishioners of Burlington County pointing out the issues where they can voice their opinion and hopefully swing the legislation in a direction that promotes Catholic moral policy. Thank you for all your past and future support in respecting life.

The Easter Vigil was celebrated on Holy Saturday at the 7:30 p.m. Mass. Congratulations to Victoria Villalba, who received the Sacraments of Initiation at The Easter Vigil. Also, congratulations to the newest members of our Catholic community: Bradley Denn, and Romley Raines, who were received into the Full Communion of the Catholic Church at The Easter Vigil. We also celebrated with Natacha Besancon, Eric Judy and Colin Thein, who completed their initiation through Confirmation. Our community welcomes and congratulates them and continues to offer them our prayers and support as they continue on their spiritual journey. To see photos from The Easter Vigil, please go to the News/Events tab above and click on Photo Album.

Thank you to the volunteers - Frank Babinchock, Chris Benstead, Gene Brandt, Mary Gallagher, Maureen Mallon, Elizabeth McDonald, Anne and Garry Roettger, Father Dan Swift, Heather Troy, Carol and John Wagner - who helped on Saturday morning to decorate the Church for Easter.

Good Friday included The Commemoration of the Lord’s Passion at  3:00 p.m. at St. Mary of the Lakes followed by the Sacrament of Penance and the Stations with Veneration of the Cross at 7:30 p.m.  To see photos from Good Friday, please go to the News/Events tab above and click on Photo Album.

Holy Thursday was celebrated with The Mass of the Lord’s Supper at the 7:30 p.m. Mass and Procession of the Blessed Sacrament. Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament was until Midnight. To see photos from Holy Thursday, please go to the News/Events tab above and click on Photo Album.

It was a privilege for St. Mary of the Lakes to host the Funeral for Specialist Nicholas DiMona III of Medford Lakes, who was killed in the line of duty on March 30th serving in the US Army. A wake was held in Church on Monday, April 15 from 6:00 - 9:00 p.m. A Mass of Christian Burial was offered on Tuesday, April 16 at 10:30 a.m. Eternal rest grant unto him, O Lord, and may perpetual light shine upon him. To see photos from the wake and the funeral, please go to the News/Events tab above and click on Photo Album.

The Knights of Columbus and YES held their annual Breakfast with the Bunny Sunday morning.To see photos from Breakfast with the Bunny, please go to the News/Events tab above and click on Photo Album.