From Our Pastor: Brothers and Sisters On this Sunday I want to update and thank you for a wonderful response to our Annual HOPE Appeal. After kicking off only a couple of weeks ago, we have gone over the 50% mark of our assessment! This is a great outpouring of…

From Our Pastor: The Diocesan Synod. It’s a fact, that we are a small segment of the diocesan church, the US Catholic Church, and the Church Universal. Yet, we are NOT an insignificant part! God is at work in all of you. Recognizing this, the church invites all of us…

From Our Pastor: Brothers and Sisters: We now find ourselves in the beautiful month of October. Beautiful for many reasons. First, our valley itself is beautiful in its splendor right now. Secondly, our Church dedicates October to Our Blessed Mother and the Rosary. Please see a great way to unite…

From Our Pastor: Brothers and Sisters: Fall is upon us and cooler and more colorful scenes will bless our beautiful valley. The month of October is a wonderful month of available graces for all of us; especially through the generosity of the Blessed Virgin Mary. October is the month of…

From Our Pastor:   Brothers and Sisters:   First of all, a huge thank you to all who attended our combined parish picnic last weekend and especially to all those who did so much to plan, set up, and clean up and donated time and product, and talent to make…

From Our Pastor:   Brothers and sisters:   This weekend we as Americans commemorate the 9/11 tragedy of 2001. 20 years ago we experienced the single most loss of life in one day in American history, on our soil. So many lives have been affected for so long. It’s one…

From Our Pastor: HOPE APPEAL 2021 Friends, each year when the time comes for the Diocesan HOPE APPEAL, you and I are bound to hear something like, “Not again, I thought this was a one-time thing!” Well, by now, about 60 years after its inception, we should catch on that…

From Our Pastor: Brothers and sisters, this week we learned of the passing of three wonderful ministers in our diocese; Fr Guy Baccaro, Sr. Mary Rose Noonan, CSJ, and Sr. Lois Barton, CSJ. May they all Rest In Peace and be rewarded for their earthly ministry and holiness. In our…

From Our Pastor: Peace! We have a wonderful reason for some pride and an opportunity to share in one of our young parishioner’s new ministry, Brandon Tyrrell, of St. Stephen’s Parish in Marathon, has discerned to spend the next year with a missionary group, HARD AS NAILS, a group dedicated…

Today the Church rejoices in the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Mother of the Church, and our Mother. Because of her role in Salvation history as the mother of our Savior, Jesus Christ, she was free of the corruption of sin and death. We celebrate today, her Assumption into heaven and…