From Our Pastor

Next Sunday, you are invited to join in the celebration of the Sunday Mass at our sister parish, St. Martin de Porres.  It is always a pleasure to join in their lively celebration and I invite you to join us there for their 10:00am Sunday Mass!  As always, we will have a bus leave at 9:00am in our school driveway.  Please contact Maria Carrillo (610-357-2392 or mariamcarrillo@icloud.com) if you would like to reserve a place on the bus.  It will return here at around 1:00pm after we enjoy some refreshments [...]

It may be hard to believe, but October is almost half over!  Every October, the Catholic Church in the United States observes Respect Life Month and we are called to consider more deeply why every human life is valuable and reflect on how to build a culture that protects life from conception to natural death.  With such issues as abortion, in vitro fertilization and immigration among the most important and controversial topics being debated in preparation for the upcoming elections, this is certainly a providential moment for us to reflect [...]

Next weekend, we will join with the Church Universal in celebrating World Mission Sunday with its theme: “One in Christ, United in Mission”.  This year’s World Mission Sunday celebration is unlike any other in our lifetime!  First, 2026 marks the centennial milestone of this worldwide observance.  Second, we celebrate it with a theme chosen by Pope Leo XIV who was himself a missionary priest and bishop for many years in Peru.  While there, he spoke often about how dependent he was on the support generated by World Mission Sunday.  Now, [...]

After the celebration of the Eucharist itself, what better Eucharistic event is there than our annual Forty Hours Eucharistic Devotion?  It’s a great opportunity to linger with our Lord, recalling all that he has done for us and preparing for our eternity with him.   Our annual Forty Hours Eucharistic Devotion will begin next Sunday after the 11:30am Mass and conclude with a 7:00pm Mass on Tuesday.  I encourage everyone to join in this wonderful devotion! As you know, we believe that, when we celebrate Mass, we participate in the Paschal [...]

 Artificial Intelligence has certainly been a big topic on the news this past week!  Last Saturday, Dario Amodei, the chief executive of Anthropic, called for a global slowdown of artificial intelligence development.  The leaders of two other top AI companies – Sam Altman, the chief executive of OpenAI and SpaceXAI founder, Elon Musk – quickly voiced their agreement with Mr. Amodei’s ideas.  During the week, King Charles III of Britain met with leaders from major artificial intelligence companies, including Nvidia, Google, DeepMind, OpenAI and Anthropic, “to discuss how AI can [...]

Now that Labor Day is behind us, many of our parish organizations and activities resume.  Our parish school opened on Wednesday with 410 students.  Our parish religious education program (PREP) will begin on Monday with 245 students.  We are blessed to have so many children in our parish learning about God and growing in their faith and so many teachers and catechists eager to help the parents of these children share their faith! On this Catechetical Sunday, we pray for them and their parents, the primary teachers of their children [...]