Update on Our School and its Board of Limited Jurisdiction
UPDATE ON OUR SCHOOL AND ITS
BOARD OF LIMITED JURISDICTION
As another very exciting year comes to an end at our school, I would like to offer an update for everyone; there’s lots of news to share. As was announced just last week, Adria Crowley, who led our school over the past two years in many new and innovative ways, has resigned to tend to ongoing health issues. I’m sure you join me in assuring her of our prayers. Jeanne Mulvanerty, a longtime parishioner whose four children attended our school and […]
Eleventh Sunday in Ordinary Time
As I work in my rectory office which has a large window facing Aberdeen Avenue, I’m sometimes distracted by bright red, yellow, black and blue flashes as cardinals, finches, starlings and blue jays fly from the tops of the trees across the street and swoop down to feed on the grass and shrubs in front of the rectory. It reminds me of today’s first reading from the prophet Ezekiel, where we hear God foretell the growth of a great nation using the image of a shoot that he will take […]
Philadelphia March for Life/New Principal
PHILADELPHIA MARCH FOR LIFE
PHILLY’S BIGGEST BABY SHOWER
Speaking of the important roles that fathers and mothers play in their children’s lives, the first is to welcome them into the world. Tragically, so many people today do not recognize the infant in the womb as a unique child who has the same right to life as everyone else does. We Catholics do, however, and we lead the effort in protecting and promoting all human life from the moment of conception to natural death. We also support countless pro-life […]
TENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME
Jesus was having a really bad day. The crowd was so big that he and his disciples couldn’t even eat. His relatives were out to seize him, saying, “He is out of his mind.” The scribes claimed that “he is possessed by Beelzebul.” And then, his mother and his brothers arrived. Who knows what they were up to.
But Jesus was unfazed. He knew what he was up to. If you were to read the Gospel of Mark just before the passage we heard today, you would see that Jesus […]
PETER’S PENCE COLLECTION
Throughout the year, you are invited to support a wide variety of Catholic organizations and activities through our second collections. The Catholic Charities Appeal, which is the most important collection each year, allows the Archdiocese of Philadelphia to serve thousands of people in the Archdiocese. In fact, programs funded by the Catholic Charities Appeal assists one in five people in our Archdiocese. Every year, you are very generous in response to this appeal. To provide guidance, the Archdiocese sets goals for each parish. Last year, our parish goal was $152,390 […]
SOLEMNITY OF THE BODY AND BLOOD OF CHRIST
Although they are separated by more than a thousand years, the incidents in today’s first reading and the Gospel have many striking similarities. They both recount a gathering of the faithful during a time of struggle hearing the assurance of God’s continuing presence and care for his people. In both incidents, there is a sacrifice and the expression of a covenant. And, although these two incidents are separated from us by thousands of years, what we are doing here at this sacred moment shares these same characteristics: a gathering of […]
THE BODY AND BLOOD OF CHRIST/WELCOME SEMINARIAN JOSHUA PARMET
THE BODY AND BLOOD OF CHRIST
This weekend, as we are privileged to host those leading the Seton Route Eucharistic Pilgrimage through our archdiocese as we continue the three-year National Eucharistic Revival, we are blessed to celebrate the Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ. I hope you are planning to attend one of the following events:
Evening Event with Young Adults at the Shrine of St. John Neumann (at 7:00pm on Saturday);
Mass at the Cathedral Basilica of Ss. Peter and Paul (at 11:00am on Sunday) followed […]