Laudato Si Circle Meeting November 5th Following the 10:30 Mass, Mary Cortese, a member of Saint John’s young adults group and a PhD candidate in Ocean Ecology at Temple University, will lead a discussion on Pope Francis’ new Apostolic […]
Second collection for Debt Reduction Our monthly collection for Saint John Church debt reduction is this weekend, October 28-29. Please be generous. Jack’s Yacs, our young adult outreach, will have a Holy Hour in the lower church after the 5:15 […]
Mission Sunday, October 21-22 The annual Mission Sunday collection is an important collection for the universal church. Every mission diocese in the world receives a basic subsidy from this collection. The mission subsidy is the basic support for the Catholic […]
Fr. Tom, OFM Cap. Pastor Please check out our weekly update on our bulletin and website.
Fr. Tom, OFM Cap. Pastor Please check out our weekly update on our bulletin and website.
Thanksgiving calls to my mind childhood celebrations at my grandparents’ home with my extended family— grandparents, uncles, aunts, cousins. I can still remember the overwhelming smell of food cooking when I entered the house. There was laughter and love. And […]
I have mentioned several times in this bulletin column that we have a major capital project ahead. Although I don’t have the specifics of cost, I do know now the scope of the project. Overall, our buildings are in good […]
Every October the Archdiocese requires each parish to count those attending Mass on Saturday evenings and Sundays. This gives each parish and the Archdiocese a glimpse of a parish’s vitality. For October 2023, our average Saturday/Sunday attendance was 358. The […]
The 2022-23 summary financial statement is included in today’s bulletin. Here are some highlights: We ended the year with a deficit of $32,650. This was primarily because of two reasons: We received $19,006 in Poor Box contributions and we gave […]
Black Catholic History Report by Nadine Boulware On July 20-23, 2023, Brother Andrew McCarty OFM Cap, Deborah Lewis and Nadine Boulware attended the 13th National Black Catholic Congress in National Harbor, Maryland. The following is a report from Nadine on […]