Families gather to ask God's blessing on their home and those who live in and visit the home. “Chalking the door” is a way to celebrate and physically mark the occasion of the Epiphany of God’s blessing of our lives and home. With time, the chalk will fade. It is a reminder to let the meaning of the written symbols sink into the depths of our hearts and be manifest in our words and actions. Click on the title of this article ("Feast of the Epiphany") for the prayer blessing to pray with your friends and family.

Registration for our Appalachia Help Weeks 2025 is now open. To participate, teens must be confirmed by their assigned week to help. Those planning to be confirmed this spring, teens that have already been confirmed and adults are welcome to register. Please click on the title of this news article to be directed to the Appalachia webpage on our website. Registrations and donations can be made through our Appalachia webpage.

Back by popular demand, Country Line Dancing will be offered on Friday, January 10, 2025 at 7pm in the Parish Center gym. No experience required! A professional will give all instructions needed to kick-up your heels and dance the night away! Lite refreshments will be served. Please sign up on our website. Tickets purchased prior to the event are $20 per person. Tickets sold at the door are $25 per person.

January 1, 2025 is a holy day of obligation for the Solemnity of Mary. Masses will be celebrated on Tuesday, December 31, 2024 at 5pm and Wednesday, January 1, 2025 at 11am in the Church. The January 1st Mass will be livestreamed.

Christmas Eve Masses will be held at 4pm in BOTH the Church and the Parish Center. We will also offer a 6pm Mass in the Church and 11pm Mass in the Church. Christmas Day Masses will be held at 10am and 12noon in the Church. New Year's Eve Mass will be celebrated at 5 pm and New Year's Day Mass will be celebrated at 11am in the Church.

Congratulations to our young parishioners that participated in the 2024 Living Nativity. Children performed as angels, animals and of course, the Holy Family as they retold the Nativity story both acting and in song!

Thank you to all who participated in this year's Christmas in a Box program! Our parish provided over 400 gifts to our brothers and sisters in need including families, veterans and children! Not only did our school support this wonderful program by sponsoring many of the large families, but our Faith Formation families donated several large boxes full of toys! Thank you for making the Christmas season brighter with your gifts filled with much needed items, love and care!

Our annual Christmas Concert performed by our own Music Ministry is this Saturday, December 7 at 7:30 pm in the church. All are invited. Join us and be filled with Christmas Spirit! Admission is free!

For our parishioners that signed-up to sponsor a family, child or veteran this season as part of our Christmas in a Box program, drop-off is this Sunday December 8 between the hours of 8:30am and 11am in the Parish Center gym. The truck to pick up all donations will arrive shortly after 11am, so it is very important that donations are dropped off by 11am Sunday. For more information about drop-off and forms needed to be attached to boxes containing donations, please click on the title of this news article. Thank you for your help and participating in this important ministry!

Thank you to all who donated turkeys and food for our annual Turkey and Trimmings Food Collection to benefit the Fr. English Center! 82 turkeys, 95 bags of non-perishable food and over $1,000 in ShopRite gift cards were donated! THANK YOU for your generosity and helping our brothers and sisters in need have a happy and food-filled Thanksgiving!

Thank you to all who signed up to sponsor a family, child or veteran this Christmas as part of our Christmas in a Box program. Thanks to the generosity of our parish, we were able to assign ALL recipients within a few short days! If you missed out on our sign-up, please consider selecting a tag from our Giving Tree located in the church narthex for a young mother and her baby supported by Mary's Hands, a new ministry within Catholic Charities. Thank you for your support and helping make someone's Christmas a little brighter!

Join us for our annual Christmas Concert on Saturday, December 7 at 7:30 pm in the church performed by our very own choir led by Maggie Hanson and Elias Scultori. It is an event not to be missed!

Mandatory Information Session for Youth Ministry teens interested in the 2025 Appalachia Help Weeks is this Sunday, November 10th at 7 pm or Tuesday, November 12 at 7 pm in the Parish Center East/West Room. Confirmed teens, those expecting to be confirmed this spring as well as adults interested about learning more about this very rewarding ministry are invited to attend. No advance sign-up necessary.

This weekend, November 9 & 10, we will be collecting food for the One Bag a Month program to help local families dealing with food insecurity. Please drop donations off in the priests' garage. Donations will be brought to the local food pantry at the United Methodist Church in Chatham where local families in need will "shop" the pantry on Wednesday, November 13.

This weekend, October 26 & 27, is our Diocesan Ministries Appeal In-Pew weekend. Parishioners will have the opportunity to pledge a one-time or reoccurring gift that will go to different agencies within our Diocese. Donations will specifically support seminarian education, Catholic urban education, Nazareth Village and retired priests' healthcare need and Catholic Charities programs and ministries. Thank you for your continued generosity in helping those in need in our own backyard!

Our annual Mass of Remembrance will be held on Monday, November 4, 2024 at 7 pm in the Church. If you have a loved one that passed away in the last year, please contact the parish office or register them on our parish website to remembered at this very special mass. A candle will be lit as their name is said. Family members are invited to keep their loved one's candle after the conclusion of Mass. Click on the picture of the candles above to connect to the registration page.

Our monthly Forget-Me-Not Food Collection will be held the weekend of November 2 & 3. Please drop off non-perishable donations in the priests' garage. Catholic Charities will pick up the donations Monday morning, November 4. Thank you for your generosity and helping those in need.

Join us in the Church on Saturday, November 2, 2024 for our monthly Marian Devotion Mass at 8 am. All are invited. Breakfast immediately following mass dismissal in the Parish Office Building. No sign-up needed!

Join us on Sunday, October 20 after the 11:30am mass for our annual Fall Festival in the Parish Center. Lots of food, beverages, contests and kids' games and activities. The event is free but please bring a fall dessert to share. No RSVP necessary!