Announcements & Events
Financial Peace University
Jan 27, 2020 (weekly)
If you are interested in this class, which runs for 9 weeks, contact Parish Outreach at 631-265-2668 or spposm@optonline.net or message Greg at gmb8906@gmail.com.
Scout Sunday
Feb 2, 2020: 10:30am
Religious awards will be presented to some of our scouts. We invite all parishioners who are scouts to join us at the 10:30am Mass!
Happy Anniversary
Feb 2, 2020: 12:00pm (every first Sunday of the month)
All couples who are celebrating their anniversary that month are invited to come forward and receive a special blessing for married couples. Weencourage all to participate in this special tribute.
Super Bowl Party
Feb 2, 2020: 4:30pm
Come enjoy the Super Bowl with the Knight of Columbus on Sun, Feb 2 at the Council Hall, 199 Smithtown Blvd. in Nesconset. Doors open at 4:30pm. All are welcome!
XLT Holy Hour
Feb 7, 2020: 7:00pm - 8:00pm
in the church
Life Teen Night
Feb 9, 2020: 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Sundays from 6:00-8:00pm in the Parish Center following the 5:00pm Sunday Mass
Life Teen is for high school students, incoming freshmen through graduating seniors. For more information, please email us at spslifeteen@gmail.com
Life Teen Night
Feb 23, 2020: 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Sundays from 6:00-8:00pm in the Parish Center following the 5:00pm Sunday Mass
Life Teen is for high school students, incoming freshmen through graduating seniors. For more information, please email us at spslifeteen@gmail.com
EDGE Night
Feb 28, 2020
Held monthly on Fridays from 7:00-9:00pm in Canning Hall
For students in grades 6-8
Edge Night
Feb 28, 2020
in Canning Hall
For middle school students.
Please email us at spslifeteen@gmail.com.
Life Teen Night
Mar 1, 2020: 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Sundays from 6:00-8:00pm in the Parish Center following the 5:00pm Sunday Mass
Life Teen is for high school students, incoming freshmen through graduating seniors. For more information, please email us at spslifeteen@gmail.com
From the Pastor's Desk
Our Moral Direction
With all the attention being paid to what is going on in Washington, D.C., one of the issues that surely needs coverage but is almost totally ignored is the Annual March For Life which took place this past Friday, January 24th in our nation's capital. Tens of thousands of people gathered once again to speak up for the defense of the children growing in the womb whose lives are threatened by abortion. Each year more than 900,000 abortions are performed in our country, and since the legalization of abortion in our country on January 22, 1973, more than 60 million children have lost their lives. There is a lot of controversy about the large number of immigrants seeking to enter our country illegally and what to do with them, but in the media and politically, nothing is be said about the havoc and horror wreaked by abortion. Why? Have we hardened our hearts, dulled our consciences, and become ambivalent? When I pray the breviary one of the introductory Psalms is Psalm 95 and these words jumped out last week as I was praying them:
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