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Mar

SVdP toiletry drive

Toiletry Collection: Before and After all Masses on Saturday March 29th & March 30th. Read More»

Mar

Parish Mission

Lenten Mission: Sunday March 30th, Monday March 31st & Tuesday April 1st at 7pm Note: this event will not be streamed. Read More»

Mar

Lent Restrictions

According to canon 1252 of the Code of Canon Law, all Latin-rite Catholics are required observe the laws of abstinence starting at the age of 14. There is no upper age limit on abstinence after which the person is automatically excused, but those who need to eat meat for a medical reason may be dispensed from the abstinence requirement. In the United States, the fasting requirement begins at age 18 and continues “until the beginning of their 60th year” (CIC, Canon 1252). At that age, a person is automatically excused from the requirement to fast on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday, but, if health permits, Read More»

Mar

The month of March is dedicated to St. Joseph.

We don’t know much about him except what is mentioned in the Gospels. Joseph was the husband of the Blessed Virgin Mary and the foster-father of Jesus. Holy Scripture proclaims him as a “just man,” and the Church has turned to Joseph for his patronage and protection. Pope Leo XIII in his encyclical Quamquam Pluries (On the Devotion to St. Joseph) in 1889 explains why we place so much trust in this saint: “Thus in giving Joseph the Blessed Virgin as spouse, God appointed him to be not only her life’s companion, the witness of her maidenhood, the protector of her honor, Read More»

Feb