May is Catholic East Month
May is Catholic East month in our Family of Four Parishes! You will see school families at various Masses throughout the month. Please feel free to stop and talk with them and learn more about Catholic East, our parish school. We also invite parish families to an Open House on…
May 2022 Weekly Bulletin Messages
May 29, 2022 – Seventh Sunday of Easter “As Jesus blessed them he parted from them and was taken up to heaven.” (Gospel of St. Luke, Ch. 24) Dear Friends, With one line we hear of the Ascension of Jesus to heaven. Through the years I often reflected on this…
April 2022 Weekly Bulletin Messages
April 24th – Second Sunday of Easter (Divine Mercy Sunday) “The fifty days from the Sunday of the Resurrection to Pentecost Sunday are celebrated in joy and exultation as one feast day, indeed as one ‘great Sunday’.” (St. Athanasius) Dear Friends, It really was a great celebration for our parishes…
Lent 2022 Almsgiving
Lent 2022 Almsgiving – Riverwest Food Pantry Our Mission Riverwest Food Pantry is a community food center that engages volunteers and neighborhood residents to end hunger, isolation, and poverty. Our innovative programs nourish health, belonging, and economic opportunity. About Us Riverwest Food Pantry, founded in 1979 by St. Casimir church…
March 2022 Weekly Bulletin Messages
March 27th – Fourth Sunday of Lent Dear Friends in Christ, Almost one month ago, on the day of Ash Wednesday, you and I were invited to return to the Lord with our whole hearts as we boldly, yet humbly, embarked upon our Lenten pilgrimage. At Holy Mass this weekend,…
Lent 2022 Weekly Reflections
Week 1: March 6 God’s Voice of Love Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit in the wilderness… This is the story of the encounter of Jesus in the wilderness. For 40 days and 40 nights, the evil one attempted to…
Lent 2022
Lent 2022 – We Belong to One Another The Family of Four Parishes is happy to announce that this year’s Lenten theme is “We Belong to One Another: Journeying Through Lent with the Riverwest Food Pantry.” During this season of Lent, we will invite parishioners to get involved with this…
February 2022 Weekly Bulletin Messages
February 27 – Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time Dear Friends, Peace of Christ. As was announced at the weekend Masses of Sunday, February 13, I regret to have to share the news that I will be finishing my time as Associate Pastor on May 1 of this year. It has…
January 2022 Weekly Bulletin Messages
January 30th – Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time Dear Friends, Peace of Christ. This month of January for me has felt very different, in that there have been a number of weekends in which I have been absent from the Sunday Mass schedule. I was quarantined the weekend of January…
December 2021 Weekly Bulletin Messages
December 26th – The Holy Family of Jesus, Mary and Joseph A BLESSED CHRISTMAS AND A HEALTHY, HAPPY NEW YEAR! “Yes, God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him may not die but may have eternal life. For God did not send…
