Category: Pastor’s Note

The Catholic Charities 2019 Appeal season has started. Parishioners should be receiving letters with an invitation to participate.  Thank you for all the past support and I encourage all to support this year's campaign, which again is independent from the Upon This Rock commitments. I thank all who so generously continue to support our parish… Continue reading Pastor’s Note 3/17/2019

We entered into the Liturgical season of Lent, preparing us for the celebration of Easter.  We invite everyone to stop at the chapel on Wednesdays to spend some time visiting Our Lord truly present in the Eucharist during the day-long Eucharistic Adoration.       Stations of the Cross devotion will be prayed on all Wednesdays of… Continue reading Pastor’s Note 3/10/19

Thank you to all who came to Msgr. Leo McCarthy's celebration of his 60th priesthood ordination a week ago.  Special thank you to Judy and Jim Cagney and all the members of the Special Ad-Hoc Committee and the parish staff for all their hard work to make it a most memorable event.       Our parish is… Continue reading Pastor’s Note 3/3/2019

Our parish Youth Ministry is happy to send five young people to the Annual Diocesan Youth Convention in Buffalo March 1-3rd.  There they will meet, pray, and grow in faith together with hundreds of other young people from all over the diocese. In turn, after coming back to the parish, they will strengthen our youth… Continue reading Pastor’s Note

Our parish Youth Ministry is proud to send a few young people to attend the Annual Diocesan Youth Convention in Buffalo, where they will meet, pray, and grow in faith  together with hundreds of other young people from all over the diocese March 1st – 3rd.  In turn, after coming back to the parish, they… Continue reading Pastor’s Note January 20, 2019

This Sunday we celebrate the Feast of the Baptism of the Lord.  It marks the end of the liturgical Christmas Season. St. John the Baptist baptized Jesus with a non-sacramental baptism, recognizing and introducing him to the world as the promised Messiah.  That event calls us to daily renewal of our own baptismal promises to live a… Continue reading Pastor’s Note January 13, 2019

This Sunday we celebrate the Solemnity of the Epiphany of the Lord.       This new year a few area parishes will start  celebrating new special monthly regional Masses for youth on the last Sunday of the month,           alternating hosting sites.  Our parish will be hosting one on February 24th at 5:00 pm.      Thanks very… Continue reading Pastor’s Note January 7, 2019

These twelve days we celebrate the second most important and the shortest liturgical season - Christmas. The Emmanuel "God is with us" has come to make His dwelling with us in our hearts, homes, and daily lives, to transform the darkness and suffering of our human experience into the splendor of His glorious light, love,… Continue reading Pastor’s Note December 30, 2018

Our Christmas Mass schedule has changed slightly from prior years. There will be three    Christmas Masses: on Christmas Eve, a 4 pm Vigil Mass with the choir and a homily for children, 10 pm Vigil Mass, and on Christmas Day, Mass at 10 am with the choir. I am sincerely grateful to everyone who will… Continue reading Pastor’s Note December 23, 2018

The Advent Penance Service will be celebrated this  Monday, Dec. 17th at 7:00 pm, with four confessors (priests). Additional Confessions will also be heard this Wednesday, Dec. 19, from 5:30-6:00 pm in the church's  crying room   (face-to-face). At the same time, Eucharistic Adoration will continue in the Divine Mercy Chapel. All are welcome to stay… Continue reading Pastor’s Note December 16, 2018