Announcements & Events
RCIA: Rite of Christian Initiation for Adults
RCIA has started, but it is not too late to join us!
Pro-Life Rose
Your participation helps bring a greater awareness of the sacredness of all human life, especially the unborn.
Bread & Wine Memorial
Donation for the week is $50. Cards will be sent to the family.
To arrange a memorial for Altar Bread and Wine, please call Diane Sperzel at 265-3307.
Something for Seniors Group
Second and fourth Wednesday of the month at 1:00pm in the Parish Center.
Parish Lenten Project: Rebuilding Kerala
Devastating floods in Kerala, India last summer left hundreds dead and hundreds of thousands homeless. With no insurance or government help to count on, their situation is truly dire. Our Parish Lenten Project this year is to help rebuild homes for those left homeless in Kerala. Collection containers are at the exits of our church.
St. Patrick’s Basketball Spring & Summer Leagues
Register at http://st-patrick-youth-community.siplay.com/site/
Click on “Registration Now Open”
From the Pastor's Desk
Accepting Jesus' Invitation
When I was in my next to the last year in the seminary before ordination the first semester we went to Pilgrim State Mental Hospital on Wednesdays. We would begin our day with Mass with the residents celebrated by the chaplain. We brought guitars and sang music at the Mass. But each time we came to communion, one of the residents would beat us to the punch and start singing the old traditional hymn “O Lord I Am Not Worthy.” The first verse is: O Lord, I am not worthy That Thou should'st come to me, But speak the words of comfort, My spirit healed shall be. Those words came to mind as I was praying evening prayer last week in Psalm 114 which had the verse: “Lord, what is man that you care for him, mortal man, that you keep him in mind; man, who is merely a breath, whose life fades like a shadow?” That verse and the first verse of the hymn “O Lord I Am Not Worthy” jump out as we listen to and reflect on the Gospel for today, Palm Sunday, the Passion according to St. Luke. Why did Jesus suffer what He did?
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