Category: Pastor’s Note

Catholic Charities Appeal continues. When mailing your donation cards and checks to the parish office, please remember to include in the check memo our parish number "0507." Thank you for your support of this needed cause.   Msgr. McCarthy and I continue to celebrate Masses daily for intentions scheduled in our parish bulletin, but without… Continue reading Pastor’s Note 3/29/20

Catholic Charities Appeal continues. When mailing your donation cards and checks to the parish office, please remember to include in the check memo our parish number "0507." Thank you for your support of this needed cause.  Last week the Apostolic Administrator Bishop of Buffalo Scharfenberger cancelled all regularly scheduled Masses and most of other groups… Continue reading Pastor’s Note 3/22/20

Catholic Charities Appeal continues.  When donating to it, please remember to include in the memo our parish number "0507."  Thank you for your support of this needed cause.      We invite people to submit or resubmit the names of the seriously chronically sick or terminally ill or requiring general anesthesia for surgery so that the… Continue reading Pastor’s Note 3/15/20

The season of the annual Catholic Charities Appeal continues. We thank all supporters for their generosity, caring for the needs of many people receiving help in various ways through Catholic Charities. When donating, please include in the memo our parish number "0507". To help refresh the bulletin’s "Praying for the Sick" list, we removed all… Continue reading Pastor’s Note 3/8/20

The season of the annual Catholic Charities Appeal continues.  We thank all supporters for their generosity, caring for the needs of many people receiving help in various ways through Catholic Charities.  When donating, please remember to include in the memo our parish number "0507".     To help refresh the bulletin "Praying for the Sick" list, we… Continue reading Pastor’s Note 3/1/20

Sr. Emily and Sr. Pawla from the Congregation of the Sisters of Merciful Jesus came to us from Pittsburgh last weekend to lead us in a parish mini-retreat on the Feast Day of Blessed Father Michael Sopocko, the Spiritual Director and Confessor to St. Faustina. The participants were greatly inspired by their joyful prayerfulness, compassion,… Continue reading Pastor’s Note 2/23/20

Last year we had a rare opportunity to be spiritually inspired and enriched by two sisters of the Congregation of the Sisters of Merciful Jesus, started by Father Michael Sopocko following the Diary of St. Faustina.  He was the Christ-appointed confessor of St. Faustina.  Sr. Emily and Sr.  Pawla are the founding members of that… Continue reading Pastor’s Note 2/17/20

Last year we had a rare opportunity to be spiritually inspired and enriched by the two sisters of the Congregation of the Sisters of Merciful Jesus, started by Father Michael Sopocko following the Diary of St. Faustina.  He was the Christ-appointed confessor of St. Faustina.  Sisters Pawla and Emily are the founding members of that… Continue reading Pastor’s Note 2/9/20

This Sunday, we finish the individual private book retreat based on the 33 Days to Morning Glory booklet by Fr. Michael Gaitley.  As per the original request of our diocesan Apostolic Administrator Bishop Edward B. Scharfenberger,  we invite those who made the retreat and are ready to make their personal Marian Consecration to come to… Continue reading Pastor’s Note 2/2/20

This January we started a new parish adult faith formation program, involving Catholic movies and/or presentation sessions; a  variety of topics and titles will be presented.  The third video will be an hour-long entitled Heaven; this is based on a Church approved private revelation, with a group discussion to follow.  It will be shown on… Continue reading Pastor’s Note 1/19/20