Sandra Koenig       Marie O’Hara
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We provide support to those whose lives are affected by addiction.  In addition to hosting informative and educational speakers in the fields of recovery and prevention, our volunteer CORE TEAM with long-term and personal addiction and recovery experience, offer a compassionate listening ear and can provide referrals and guidance to those seeking further assistance.

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There are also 12-Step recovery meetings at St. Mary's:

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Monthly Meetings

 All monthly meetings are held on the 1st Wednesday of the month at 7pm with the exception of January when we do not meet in Monsignor Reinbold Hall (Barnegat) and on Zoom (844 2929 5999).

PRAY FOR THE ADDICTED!

The ENOUGH! ADDICTION RECOVERY AND SUPPORT MINISTRY would like you to join them in praying a Novena to ST. MAXIMILIAN KOLBE, PATRON SAINT OF THE ADDICTED, beginning on August 5th and ending on his feast day, August 14.

St. Maximilian Kolbe, a Polish priest and Conventual Franciscan friar, had a strong devotion to the Blessed Mother from the age of ten, when Our lady appeared to him and presented him with two crowns, a white crown of chastity and a red crown of martyrdom. In 1917 he founded the “Militia Immaculata,” a movement dedicated to encouraging people to make a total consecration of themselves to Jesus, through Mary. In 1927 he founded the “City of the Immaculata,” a monastery that became a leading center for publishing pamphlets, books, and a daily newspaper (“The Knight of the Immaculata,” with a circulation of over 1 million). Kolbe eventually caught the attention of the Nazis, and in 1941 the monastery was shut down. Kolbe was arrested and taken to Pawiak prison in Warsaw, Poland, and three months later to Auschwitz. When men were chosen to be starved to death as a deterrent against escapes, Kolbe volunteered to take the place of a man with a family. After two weeks of starvation, Kolbe was the only man still alive. On August 14, 1941, he was given a lethal injection of carbolic acid. He was canonized by Pope St. John Paul II on October 10, 1982. The man whose place Kolbe took, Franciszek Gajowniczek, survived Auschwitz and was present as a guest at St. Kolbe’s canonization.

St. Mary’s has been gifted with icons of St. Kolbe, which are displayed near the statues of Mary next to the altars in both Churches. Here you can also find St. Kolbe prayer cards, which you can use to pray for a loved one caught up in addiction, or place the card in the basket to encourage others to pray for them.

If you would like to pray a Novena to St. Kolbe, here is one:

A Novena to St. Maximilian Kolbe for the Grace to be Freed from Addiction

St. Maximilian Kolbe, your life of love and labor for souls was sacrificed amid the horrors of a concentration camp and hastened to its end by an injection of a deadly drug. Look with compassion upon (NAME) who is now entrapped in addiction to drugs/alcohol and whom I now recommend to your powerful intercession. Having offered your own life to preserve that of a family man, I turn to you with trust, confident that you will understand and help. Obtain for me the grace never to withhold my love and understanding, or to fail in persevering prayer that the enslaving bonds of addiction may be broken and that full health may be restored to him, whom I love. I will never cease to be grateful to God who has helped me and heard your prayer for me. Amen

Additional Novena prayers for the intercession of St. Kolbe can be found at various websites such as www.catholicdoors.com and www.americaneedsfatima.org

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