Pope Francis has asked our parish to support the Pontifical Good Friday Collection, which helps Christians in the Holy Land, where they are now less than 2% of the population. Your support is essential to help the Church minister in parishes, provide Catholic schools, and offer religious education. The Pontifical Good Friday Collection also helps to preserve the sacred shrines of Christianity, including in Jerusalem, Nazareth, and Bethlehem, to name only a few.

The war in Gaza has also affected Christians in the Holy Land. Most of them depend on pilgrimages for work. The war made their situation even more dramatic. In these times of crisis, the Pontifical Good Friday Collection is necessary to meet the basic needs of the People of God still living in this Land and to maintain a Christian presence where the Church was born. When you contribute to the Pontifical Good Friday Collection, you join with Catholics around the world in solidarity with the Church in the Holy Land.

You can give online or in the collection taken up in church on Good Friday.

For more information about Christians in the Holy Land, visit myfranciscan.org or custodia.org.

Our parish has two Easter giving opportunities, which you can support the Easter giving through the following links to our online giving platform or by placing your envelopes in the collection box at the rear of the church:

• Annual Easter Gift to the Parish – Easter is the greatest celebration in the Catholic church as we commemorate Christ’s resurrection from the dead. This collection is an extra holiday offering which our parish depends upon to cover our expenses over the year.
• Easter Flowers for the Church – This Easter season, we will decorate the church to celebrate Christ’s Resurrection and memorialize loved ones with flowers.

We are grateful for your continued support of our parish. As we look forward to celebrate Christ’s resurrection together as a parish community, may you and yours have a joyful and blessed Eastertide.

We will have an Easter egg hunt for the toddlers and young children in our parish. It will be held in the rectory backyard on Easter Sunday, April 20 after the 9 AM Mass. The rectory address is 31 Sidney Place.

Calling All Jesus’ Youngest Disciples and their families!
WHEN: Easter Sunday Morning, April 20
WHERE: Rectory Garden
TIME: After the 9 AM Mass
WHY: To celebrate Jesus’ resurrection

On Friday, April 11, 2025, we’ll have our fourth annual fish fry at the rectory. There will be Evening Prayer (Vespers) at 5 PM with dinner starting at 6 PM.

Please let us know if you can make it so we can order the right amount of food. You can RSVP below. If you are able to, we’d ask you to contribute either online or at the door to defray the costs and support our social gatherings. (Suggested contribution is $20.)

This Sunday, March 16, we invite you to the rectory to celebrate the feasts days of St. Joseph and St. Patrick. In addition to food and drink, our ministry groups will be there to talk about their work and answer questions about how to get involved.

Please join us at the rectory after the 11:15 AM Mass (around 12:15 PM)