Cover photo: His Excellency Most Reverend Walter Edyvean with the newly confirmed and the Mass servers after last Sunday’s Confirmation Mass, September 20th, 2015.
Pastor’s Note: Sleep – Rest – Pray; Weekly Scripture Study on Luke 22:66-71; Weekly Bible Study on the Epistles of St. Paul; Parish Fellowship; Nursing Home Masses; Parish Religious Education; Music Program; Mass Propers; Calendar of Masses and more.
Cover photo: The symbol of Christ as the Lamb of Victory painted in the apse over the high altar of our parish church.
Pastor’s Note: The Virtue of True Humility; Weekly Scripture Study on St. Luke 22:54-65; Weekly Bible Study on the Epistles of St. Paul; Parish Fellowship; Padre Pio Feast Day; Adult Formation; Parish Religious Education; Music Program; Mass Propers; Calendar of Masses and more.
Cover photo: Procession of the illuminated Holy Cross inside Mary Immaculate of Lourdes church for the Mass of the Holy Cross, September 2014. Fr. Bassim Shoni, chaplain of the Syriac-rite mission Our Lady of Mesopotamia carries the Cross.
Pastor’s Note: In the Time of Ebola Plague; Weekly Scripture Study on St. Luke 22:47-53; Weekly Bible Study on the Epistles of St. Paul; Parish Fellowship; Parish Announcements; Annual Parish Picnic; Requiescant in Pace; Adult Catholic Faith Formation; Parish Religious Education; Music Program; Mass Propers; Calendar of Masses and more.
Cover photo: The sanctuary of our parish church, “Gospel side” of the high altar: the two angel sculptures on either side of the altar remind us of the presence of the Holy Angels, in particular the “Angel of the Mass,” who is St. Gabriel Archangel, and the Guardian Angel of the parish, who is invoked in the closing prayers of the Asperges (“The Rite of Sprinkling” with Holy Water, which reminds us of our Baptism) in these words: Hear us, Holy Lord, Almighty Father, Eternal God: and be pleased to send Thy Holy Angel from heaven to guard, cherish, protect, visit and defend all that dwell in this house: through Christ our Lord. Amen.
The Sodality banner in the background is of the Immaculate Conception of Mary. (PHOTO by Jan Paul Von Wendt.)
Pastor’s Note: September Parish Calendar; Weekly Scripture Study on St. Luke 22:39-46; Weekly Bible Study on the Epistles of St. Paul; Parish Announcements; Parish Fellowship; Annual Parish Picnic; Requiescant in Pace; Adult Catholic Faith Formation; Music Program; Mass Propers; Calendar of Masses and more.
