St. Katharine Drexel needs your support now more than ever! Join the parishioners who are using Faith Direct for automated giving to St. Katharine Drexel Faith Direct offers a safe and secure way to donate to our parish in this time of uncertainty. There is no cost to you, and the program provides a great benefit to our parish.
On September 20th our second collection will support the Diocese of Obala, Cameroon. Please go to https://arlingtonmissions.org/diocese-of-obala-2/ to find out more about their ministry. If you would like to donate to their efforts click the link at the bottom on the page. Your gifts and prayers will be a blessing to families who benefit from this loving outreach in mission countries!
The Father Jon O’Brien Council of the Knights of Columbus will be sponsoring a Sub-Sale on Sunday, September 13th after 9:00 AM Mass at Four Hills Farm as a kickoff to the NFL season. The sandwiches are on a hoagie roll and include ham, salami, bologna and provolone cheese.
Due to COVID-19, all sandwiches must be pre-ordered and paid in advance at the following website. The price is $6.00 per sandwich and the deadline to order is Sunday, September 6th at 7:00 PM.
Today’s Pastor’s Piece is a letter from Bishop Burbidge regarding a day of prayer and fasting for peace in our communities on Wednesday, September 9, 2020.
Last Friday and Saturday ten people in our parish completed their Sacraments of Initiation and were confirmed in the faith. I wish to
congratulate: • Christian “José Sanchez” Arellano
• Anna “Rita of Cascia” Ferraro
• Eric “Joseph of Cupertino” Montalvo
• Zackery “Sebastian” Montalvo
• Giannina “Fatima” Obando
• Madeline “Augustine” Peters
• César Uriel Cortés-Cortés
• Mayra Graciela Vera-Ramos
• Anthoni Yanel Flores-Arellano
• Candace “Bernadette” Cooper
St. Alphonsus Liguori – August 1, 2020
Although the Easter Vigil was canceled that doesn’t mean that the Lord’s work of sharing the faith was suspended. We still had souls preparing to join the Catholic Church and adult Catholics seeking full initiation into Christ’s Church. As unique as shutting down the Easter Vigil is to Church history, so we find a unique opportunity in our faith this August.
We are pleased to share that a parish family has graciously offered their family barn as a temporary home for us to celebrate Mass! We have been working out the details and are overwhelmingly thankful for this opportunity. As you know, PWC intends to keep schools closed for awhile making it obvious we are without a Spiritual Home. It is so sad that we have had no place to worship.
Thankfully, we now have a new temporary home! The joy of again seeing the families of SKD while praising our Lord, will be wonderful. We have truly missed you!
I’m happy to announce that SSM is safer than ever. Our 5pm Saturday Mass, where there is an extra emphasis on wearing the mask, was met with a positive response. To give you a sense of what you might expect. We had less than thirty in the congregation. In addition, I have spared no expense to equip our air-conditioning system with antimicrobial filters. Of course, there are always the options to take in Mass in the great outdoors (on the patio), in the parish hall with a television monitor (not available Saturday nights), and starting Sunday August 2, for those at SKD, in a barn at the Fall Festival venue Four Hills Farm (4610 Sudley Rd, Catharpin) at 9:00 am.
Excerpts from From Married Love and the Gift of Life.
Men and women considering marriage yearn for certain things. They want to be accepted unconditionally by each other. They want their marriage to be filled with love and happiness. They want a family. In short, they want their marriage to be a source of joy and fulfillment their whole life long. God’s plan for marriage, from the time he first created human beings as male and female, has always included all this and more.
PASTOR’S PIECE
St. Benedict, July 11, 2020
(Mensaje para los que hablan español está abajo.)
The results of the parochial survey are in in. The most important life
altering responses are that 118 of you registered families from SKD
would bring your family to a Mass at a farm, if I offered it. The second
big change indicator is that 46 families from SSM said that they
would attend an exclusive mask only Mass, if I offered it.
So, I’ll get to work to make it happen.
