Wishing our Mother's, a blessed Day

Our Lady’s PCCW will be sponsoring a Spring Raffle Ticket, where individuals can win different denominations of lottery tickets totaling $500.00. Tickets will be sold through Friday, 5/21/2021.

This Sunday our children Amelia Mills-Latsha, Bailey Kasper, Cater Shoop, E’lyn Teter, Garrison Reiner, Jericho Cavanaugh-Streets, Mariya Matter and Shilo Garber will receive the Holy Eucharist for the first time. Congratulations and welcome to the Table of the Lord. Jesus blesses us in many ways in the Eucharist.

Registration time! The forms will be e-mailed to all parents next week. Those that do not have e-mail can register May 16th at 10:40 in the social hall.

The Diocese granted permission to Our Lady Help of Christians to conduct a three-year Capital Campaign for repairs to the Church. We decided to name it the “Save Our Lady Fund”.

God is good!!! All the time!!! All the time!!! God is good!!!
On the weekend of June 27/28, 2020, I read, in its entirety and at all the Masses, the Decree from the Office of the Bishop suppressing Sacred Heart of Jesus Mission, Williamstown. The Decree gives a brief history of Sacred Heart – from first being served by Our Lady Help of Christians, to becoming a canonical parish in 1887, and then becoming a Mission of Our Lady Help of Christians in 1995.

I thank God that we are able to worship together again, in person. These last several months have been difficult on all of us and on our communities. I thank each of you for remaining steadfast to our faith and to each other, and I thank you especially for your words of encouragement, phone calls, letters and cards, and continued financial support.

Welcome Back!! If you feel sick or have an underlying medical condition, please stay home! Face mask is required all the time you are in Church. Make use of the hand sanitizer. Keep six feet apart.

The Feast of the Holy Trinity is the celebration of the revelation of God as One God in three Persons: Father, Son and Holy Spirit, and our response to that revelation.

Pentecost Sunday is the day that we rejoice in the birthday of our Church, and in the power of God working in that Church. The first reading and the Gospel show us that the Holy Spirit is the New Law, the force that leads the human person to do good, from within the heart.

First of all, I want to wish all our Mothers living and deceased a Holy and Joyful Mother’s Day! These indeed have been trying times for all of us, but there is light at the end of this horrible tunnel. Hang in there with Our Lord, and He will see us through this, and we can come back again as an assembly to worship at Holy Mass.

Greetings to all and I hope you had a wonderful Christmas and I wish you a Healthy, Happy and Holy New Year! Many people over the years, since I’ve been a Deacon, have asked me, why do we suffer at times?” Why does God allow it? Am I being punished? Does suffering have a purpose?

In November, or anytime, when we talk of the holy souls in Purgatory, we could say that they aren’t wholly holy. they’re more….holey holy. Here’s how the glossary of the Catechism of the Catholic Church defines Purgatory: “A state of final purification after death and before entrance into Heaven for those who died in God’s friendship, but were only imperfectly purified, a final cleansing of human imperfection before one is able to enter the joy of Heaven”.

My how the year is flying! It seems like we just celebrated Easter. Anyway in the month of November, we especially remember the Holy Souls in Purgatory. Why should we pray for the souls in Purgatory? We pray for them just as we’re called to pray for those still living on earth. And we pray for them because we’re part of the Communion of Saints.

Each year during the month of October, we recommit ourselves to the establishment of a culture of Life and to do all we can in prayer (especially the Rosary), in word and in action to protect and defend the lives of all, especially the most vulnerable among us.