WELCOME TO THE DON BOSCO COLUMBIETTES AUXILIARY #7784 WEBSITE!
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2024-2025
​MEETING DATES
Zoom Portal Opens at 6:25 p.m.
 
September 3, 2024—Tuesday
Installation of Officers
​at 6:30 p.m. in Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church
Zoom Portal opens at 7:30 p.m. (9/3/24 only)
October 7, 2024
November 4, 2024
December 2, 2024
January—No Meeting
February 3, 2025
March 3, 2025
April 7, 2025
May 5, 2025
Wednesday, May 7, 2025
(Hosting Western Chapter Meeting
Dinner at 6:00 p.m.)
June 2, 2025

Hope to see you at our meetings!
 
Meetings will be held in-person and via Zoom.  E-mail invitations will be sent to members and virtual attendance may be connected using a computer or phone.  All meetings will begin at 6:30 p.m. in the Sacred Heart Retreat Center unless otherwise noted.​

COLUMBIETTE SCHOLARSHIPS


Attention High School & Homeschooled Graduating Senior Females:

Two 2025 Don Bosco Columbiettes Scholarships are currently open to interested applicants.

Our $250 Good Citizenship Award and $500 Mary Ann Stanek Founder’s Award are uploaded and available on your school’s guidance department’s Naviance.com website.

Complete criteria and filing instructions are included there, along with the printable application packet.

Homeschooled applicants please email Mrs. Draghi, Scholarship Chair, at [email protected] for information and an application packet.
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ALL APPLICATIONS MUST BE RECEIVED BY FRIDAY, MARCH 21, 2025 TO BE CONSIDERED.

OPTIONAL:
1.  Download the Good Citizenship Award Application Packet here.
2.  Download the Mary Ann Stanek Founder's Award Application Packet here.

WE SUPPORT OUR POLICE SIGNS AVAILABLE FOR SALE
​ONLY $5 EACH WITH STAND

Please contact
Jerry Woodring at 973-222-1032
if you wish to order a sign.

                         CAN TABS

Please continue to save can tabs.  These can be brought to any Columbiette meeting and will be saved for the 2024 state convention.   We did an excellent job last year and want to do better this time.  The tabs are given to the Ronald McDonald House Program to help support accommodations for family members whose children are in the hospital.   A Ronald McDonald House is that “home-away-from-home” for families so they can stay close by their hospitalized child at little or no cost.

    THANK YOU FOR ALL OF YOUR  PREVIOUS DONATIONS!

DIVINE MERCY

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For more information on the Divine Mercy, please click here.

To pray the Divine Mercy Chaplet online, please click here.

For information on the Divine Mercy Novena​, please click here.  

For daily Mass at the Shrine of Divine Mercy, please click here.

To view videos and information on the Catholic faith, please visit DivineMercyPlus.org.  This is the Evangelical web outreach of the Marians of the Immaculate Conception.

 BACKPACK AND TOILETRY BAGS
​FOR 2025

Voluntary contributions of backpacks for needy school children and toiletry bags for the homeless shelters will be collected at our June 2024 meeting.   See the links below for suggestions to fill backpacks and/or toiletry bags.  Now is a good time to watch for sales!

​Click here to see suggestions for backpacks.
Click here to see information on The School Supply Store.
​Click here to see suggestions for Purses for a Purpose.
Click here to see suggestions for toiletry bags (men/women)

​Links to Local Churches with
​Online Masses

Good Shepherd in Andover: 
www.goodshepherdrc.org
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​Our Lady Queen of Peace in Branchville:  www.olqpbranchville.org

FOR THE TROOPS

We are collecting unused all occasion cards, notepads and pens (without logos) to send to the troops in order for them to mail notes/greetings  back to family and loved ones.  If you can, please help us with this project. 

All donations may be brought to any Columbiette meeting throughout the year.

PRAYER OF PETITION TO SAINT JUDE

O holy apostle, Saint Jude, great in grace, rich in miracles, faithful intercessor of all who invoke your patronage in times of need, I come to you, seeking your special aid before the throne of Almighty God.

I turn to you, for you are known to be a mighty helper in overcoming seemingly impossible difficulties.  Help me in my present and urgent petition.  (Here state your requests . . . . )

​In gratitude, I promise to make your name known, so that others may invoke your heavenly assistance, to the glory of God and for the good of souls.  Amen.
                                       REMINDERS

~The traveling statue of Mary will be available each month for one member to take home. 
~We are still collecting can tabs to assist the Ronald McDonald House.
~Please bring loose change to the meetings for the Heaven Cents jar to help support seminarians and postulants.
~Start buying for your donation backpack now (due in June).
~Start buying/collecting for your shoebox ministry now (due in June).

HAIL MARY CAMPAIGN FOR THE PRESERVATION OF OUR CONSTITUTION AND FREEDOMS STARTED ON JUNE 1, 2024

The 2023-2024 Hail Mary Campaign of “DIVINE MERCY FOR ALL THE WORLD” has ended.  The final tally was 2,483,409.  Thank you for all of your prayers.  Our new campaign is based on the “PRESERVATION OF OUR CONSTITUTION AND FREEDOMS.”  We are seeking our Blessed Mother’s intercession to help our nation.  We need to prayerfully reflect on the origins of our country and the original framework of a legal system that ensures fairness, equality, and due process.  This has been threatened by abolishment in the belief of one nation under God.  The Declaration’s proclamation of "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness” has been marred by private interests.  We need to pray for the return of Christian moral values and the protection of citizens’ rights, domestic tranquility and freedoms.  This campaign will run from June 1, 2024 until May 31, 2025.  A dedicated e-mail address has been set up at: 
​[email protected]  to receive tallies from anyone at anytime.  Please ask family members, friends, neighbors, church groups, etc. to pray Hail Marys to help in obtaining this goal.  The cumulative tally of all Hail Marys prayed will be updated on this website as responses are received.  The rosary is essential.  It is a powerful weapon.  Our Lady came from heaven at Fatima to ask us to pray the rosary every day.  We should have no excuse to not honor her request.   Click here to see/print double-sided mini flyers for distribution.
CURRENT TALLY = 1,659,663
​Let there be peace on earth and let it begin with you!
​Love God and love your neighbor.

Bring God back into our country!
​Pray!  Pray!  Pray!
PRAY THE ROSARY FREQUENTLY!
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"Say the Rosary every day . . . Pray, pray a lot and offer sacrifices for sinners . . . I'm Our Lady of the Rosary.  Only I will be able to help you. . . . In the end My Immaculate Heart will triumph." 
~~Our Lady at Fatima
Click here for instructions on how to pray the Rosary.

NOVENA PRAYER TO THE
​BLESSED VIRGIN MARY

Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of Mercy,
by the holy will of your Son,
Our Lord Jesus Christ, you are our Mother in Heaven.
I am comforted in knowing your heart is ever open
to those who ask for your help.
Your Immaculate Heart is full of
tenderness and compassion
for sinners like me.
I ask that you intercede for me today for . . .
 
---(mention your prayer intentions)---
 
I trust in your intercession before the throne of God
for my needs.
Please pray also that if my requests
are not in accord with the will of God,
I may be, like you,
conformed to His will and not my own.
To obtain this precious gift,
I honor your loving mercy by praying:

Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee.
Blessed art thou among women
and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.
Holy Mary, Mother of God,
​pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death.
Amen.
 PRAYER FOR THE HELPLESS UNBORN
Gracious God, in Your infinite love, protect those helpless unborn little ones whose lives are threatened by abortion.  Touch with overflowing compassion the hearts of pregnant women who are desperate, fearful, anxious, frantic or who may feel they are incapable of carrying this child who now lives within them.  Help them understand that this baby is made in Your image and likeness--as well as their own--and that You have given this child a soul and You desire its life and health.

Inspire young mothers to move beyond fear and selfishness.  Place within their hearts the strength and courage only You can give.  Grant them great love to bring this child to birth, and to provide all the nurturing and care that only a mother can offer.   Amen.

PRAYER FOR THOSE WHO HAD AN ABORTION

Heavenly Father, hear the cries of our hearts.  Look with kindness and compassion upon those who have ended a pregnancy, assisted another in some way, or performed an abortion.  Heal their wounds and forgive their sins.  Let the healing rays of Your Blood and Water pour forth from the Heart of Your Son upon them and fill them with Your love.  Help them not to despair of Your mercy and grant them the grace to turn with trust to our Savior Jesus Christ.  Heal their minds, bodies, souls, and their memories.  Help them to expose the wounds of their heart to Christ in the Sacrament of Reconciliation and allow His healing mercy to reach every hurt and hidden pain.  Grant them the grace to receive Your forgiveness and to forgive themselves.  Transform their pain by the Cross of Jesus and the swords that pierced Mary’s Heart so that it might become redemptive in Your sight.  Help to open their hearts to receive Your love and mercy.  Grant them an outpouring of Your Holy Spirit so that they might become witnesses to Your mercy for souls and the dignity and sacredness of human life from conception through its natural end.  We ask this through Christ our Lord.  Amen.
2024-2025 VOLUNTARY MEETING DONATIONS

​If you are unable to attend any meetings, donations may be left at the Father Michael J. Burke Thrift Store during store hours on Thursday-Saturday or the St. Joseph Parish Center ​from Monday-Friday during office hours.  Thank you.

THANK YOU TO ALL COLUMBIETTES FOR YOUR VOLUNTARY DONATIONS AND PRAYERS FOR 2023-2024!
​If you are unable to make donations, prayers are always greatly appreciated!
  • September:  Shop-Rite/Weis gift cards for Mt. Carmel Food Pantry
  • October:   Father John's Animal Shelter
  • November:  Items for children's lunches (juice boxes, snacks, etc.—no peanut products) for Saint Mother Teresa's Food Pantry
  • December:  Men's/Women's white socks for residents in local nursing homes
  • January:  No Meeting—no donation
  • February:  Children's character band-aids for Zufall Health Center in Newton
  • March:  Shop-Rite/Weis gift cards for Manna House & new/gently used towels for Father English Center
  • April:  Non-perishable items for Queen of Peace Food Pantry
  • May:  Baby items for local organizations--to be distributed at the May 7th Western Chapter meeting hosted by Don Bosco
  • June:  Backpacks for needy school children, toiletry bags & Purses for a Purpose for homeless shelters, can tabs for Ronald McDonald House Program
                                           
Note:  November is Retention Month!  Please try to attend our meeting.  This is important for the State Columbiette Retention Award.  Thank you for your loyalty and support!