ANNUAL MISSIONARY COOPERATIVE

 Last week, we announced that Fr. Celestine Madubuko, representing the Archdiocese of Onitsha, would come this weekend for the annual Missionary Cooperative Appeal.  This is one of the two times throughout the year (the other is World Mission Sunday in October) that we focus on the universal Church and our union with fellow Catholics around the world.  We hear Jesus invite us in today’s gospel passage “Come to me, all you who labor and are burdened, and I will give you rest.  Take my yoke upon […]

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 good news to share.  As you certainly know, Adria Crowley has completed her first year as our principal, succeeding Bud Tosti who retired last June after 17 very successful years as our principal.  Adria has already demonstrated her outstanding leadership and, working very closely with our exceptional faculty and staff, has led our school through an excellent […]

“The cup of blessing that we bless, is it not a participation in the blood of Christ?  The bread that we break, is it not a participation in the body of Christ?” (1 Cor 10:16).  Last week, we celebrated the central mystery of our faith – the Blessed Trinity.  Today, as we celebrate the Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ and join with all parishes throughout our country in initiating the parish phase of the Eucharistic Revival sponsored by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, […]

Next week, as we celebrate the Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ, we will join with all parishes throughout our country in the introduction of the parish phase of the three-year National Eucharistic Revival that the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops has initiated to renew the Church by enkindling a living relationship with our Lord, Jesus Christ in the Holy Eucharist.

In preparation for this National Eucharistic Revival, the USCCB published “The Mystery of the Eucharist in the Life of the Church,” a compelling document to […]

When the time for Pentecost was fulfilled, they were all in one place together.  And suddenly there came from the sky a noise like a strong driving wind, and it filled the entire house in which they were.  Then there appeared to them tongues as of fire, which parted and came to rest on each one of them.  And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in different tongues, as the Spirit enabled them to proclaim.

(Acts 2:1-4)

 With this dramatic description from today’s first […]

Throughout the year, you are invited and encouraged to participate in a variety of food drives, both here in our parish and – I’m sure – from a number of charitable agencies in our area and around the world.  In the name of all of those you feed with the support you provide, I thank you for responding to our Lord’s call to feed the hungry.  The summer is a particularly challenging time for these agencies and I would like to invite you to participate in a food drive that […]

This weekend and next, at the 5:00pm and 9:30am Masses, 71 of our parishioners will receive our Lord in Holy Communion for the first time!  This is a very important event in their faith lives as they now join with the rest of the believing community in participating fully in the Celebration of the Eucharist.  As the Catechism of the Catholic Church explains so clearly, Holy Communion is “our fellowship with Jesus and other baptized Christians in the Church, which has its source and summit in the celebration of the […]