Archives for May 2020

Ordination Mass Saturday at 1:00 P.M.

Deacon Caleb Hile, who spent the better part of the past year serving our Saint Frances Cabrini Community while in his final year at Saint Charles Borromeo Seminary, will be ordained a priest for the Catholic Diocese of Lincoln, Nebraska, Saturday, May 23, at 1:00 P.M. (Eastern Time).

Click here for the livestream broadcast of the Ordination Mass.

Please keep this wonderful young man, and the five others being ordained today, in your prayers as they dedicate their lives to God through their service to His Church.

Check out the most recent weekly message from our pastor, Monsignor McCormac!

When the schools closed on Friday, March 13, nobody knew the students would not return to finish out the 2019-2020 school year. Our 8th grade students were about to enter into the last portion of their time at Holy Family Regional Catholic School. Most of them have been at HFRCS since Kindergarten, some since Pre-K. They had grown up watching the 8th grade lead the school in many fun traditions and it was finally their turn! All that changed on March 13.

There is no safe way, at this moment, to allow the 8^th grade class to have their end of the year traditions. HFRCS is working to make the end of this year special for the class of 2020 and they were able to brighten their day a little last week.

Eighth grade teachers, Mrs. Meredith Konen and Mr. Louis Perry, along with Mr. Snyder, Assistant Principal and Mrs. Haggerty, Principal, delivered yard signs recognizing each 8th grade student! Click here to see the photos of the Saint Frances Cabrini parishioners the day they received their HFRCS Class of 2020 signs.

Since the link to the live broadcast on our Parish website was not working this morning, for your convenience we are providing a direct link to the Mass here.

During the live broadcast of our May Procession, we experienced several technical difficulties. We are happy to share with you now Monsignor McCormac’s homily, as well as a few photographs of the crowning and of our May Queen, Caitlyn Eisenbrey.

May Procession Homily + from St. Frances Cabrini on Vimeo.

We are pleased to introduce Arise: Restoring Catholic Life after the Pandemic. This is the Archdiocese of Philadelphia’s pastoral plan for post-pandemic renewal. Information and additional videos are available on the Arise website, http://archphila.org/arise.

Catholic artists, confined to their homes, offer a hymn of comfort.

We pray for God’s blessing on all mothers; our mothers both living and dead, spiritual mothers, godmothers, foster mothers, stepmothers. We especially pray for women who long to be mothers or who have lost children in miscarriage and stillbirth or have experienced the death of a child after birth no matter what age. We entrust the care of all mothers to Mary, the mother of our Lord, who understands the joys and sorrows of motherhood.

Click here for additional prayers for mothers.

Please remember in your prayers our young parishioners in this year’s First Holy Communion class. Prior to COVID-19, today would have been their special day, their turn to join our Parish Community around the Table of the Lord. Instead, they will continue to pray and prepare and wait. We all look forward to the Fall when we can celebrate with them their First Holy Communion. Until then, please continue to remember our First Holy Communion class and their families in your prayers. Indeed, we should remember all children and adults who were looking forward to receiving their First Holy Communion at this time of the liturgical year.