57th World Day of Prayer for Vocations
April 23, 2020 by ·
Novena for Vocations
On Sunday, May 3, 2020, the universal Catholic Church celebrates the 57th World Day of Prayer for Vocations. We invite you to pray for increased grace in young people to respond to God’s call to the priesthood and religious life throughout the world, but especially in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia.
To celebrate this World Day of Prayer for Vocations, we invite you to join the seminarians from St. Charles Borromeo Seminary in praying a Novena for Vocations between April 25th and May 3rd. A novena is a devotion consisting of prayer said on nine successive days, asking to obtain special grace. The seminarians have videotaped their daily reflection/prayers and each day of the Novena the videos will be available on the website heedthecall.org/novena and on Facebook at facebook.com/phillypriest. For your convenience, we will be sharing the Phillypriest Facebook postings on our Parish Facebook page.
A Prayer-Song of Comfort
April 21, 2020 by ·
A prayer-song from Father Jan Michael Joncas, composer of On Eagle’s Wings, offered as a possible source of comfort during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Message from Monsignor 4/16/2020
April 17, 2020 by ·
Photos from Palm Sunday, Holy Week & East
April 14, 2020 by ·
Click here for screenshots from our Parish celebrations of Palm Sunday, Triduum and Easter Sunday. Many thanks to everyone involved in making this unique experience of Holy Week so meaningful: Monsignor McCormac, Deacon Mace Mazzoni, Christian Thompson, Karen David, Audrey Wilson, Hank Wajda, Joe Tufo, Rick Trailes, Deborah Eater, Victor Sorace, Matthew Graglia, Marybeth Haberstick, JoAnne Osborn, Julianna Rifkin, Tom Stefanik, John McClure, Jean Madden, and the hundreds of people who prayed with us from their homes. Happy Easter!
Behind the Camera during Every Broadcast Mass
April 14, 2020 by ·
Parishioners might be wondering how we are able to produce such professional broadcasts of our beautiful Parish Liturgies. The answer is our very own parishioner, Hank Wajda! Thank you, Hank, and thanks to your wife, Cathy, for her patience and support as you spend so much time setting up, testing, and producing each Mass and Pastor’s Message.
An Easter Message of Hope from Archbishop Perez
April 11, 2020 by ·
Archbishop Perez Announces Virtual Lenten Retreat
March 28, 2020 by ·
A Message from Archbishop Pérez Announcing the Launch of
“The Power of Faith and Hope in a Time of Uncertainty: A Virtual Lenten Retreat”
Our Lenten journey has taken an unexpected turn with the worldwide outbreak of the Coronavirus (COVID-19). In an effort to impede the spread of the virus and to protect those most vulnerable among us, all of us have changed the way that we live. Life as we understand it has temporarily changed, but this too shall pass. We are people whose hearts are grounded in our faith and in our hope, that is the strength that helps us during this time of uncertainty. Click here to read more…
Retreat begins Monday night, March 30, at 7:00 PM. To participate on that evening, and every evening after that leading up to Palm Sunday, visit one of the following sites: Archbishop Pérez’s Facebook page, the Archdiocesan Vimeo Channel, the Archdiocesan website, or CatholicPhilly.com. Click here for information on the presenters.
