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My Dear Parishioners, This weekend our parish family welcomes Bishop Christopher Cooke, and we thank him for presiding at our Vigil Mass and presiding at my formal Installation as your pastor. Bishop Cooke is a Bucks County guy, his family lives in Richboro and they belong to St. Vincent de Paul Parish. In advance, I…

My Dear Parishioners, Next weekend at the Vigil Mass Most Reverend Christopher Cooke, Auxiliary Bishop of Philadelphia, will officially install me as your new pastor. I am so happy!!!!! The Rite of Installation of a Pastor is a relatively new Rite in the history of the Church.  In the “Good Old Days,” a new Pastor…

My Dear Parishioners, This Tuesday we celebrate the Feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel and the gift of the Brown Scapular. In the twelfth century, a group of men from Western Europe traveled to the Holy Land during the Crusades. They lived as hermits on Mount Carmel in Israel. This is the same mountain…

My Dear Parishioners, This week our Sacred Liturgy warns about a disease of the heart. No, our Sacred Liturgy does not warn about a physical disease of the heart. Our Sacred Liturgy this week warns of a spiritual disease of the heart: the disease of hardness of heart. The Prophet Ezekiel is called by God…

My Dear Parishioners, I again thank you for your warm welcome. Our parish is well known throughout the Archdiocese for its warmth and friendliness. I felt both immediately upon arrival. My first week has been spent unpacking and making myself at home, and I really do feel at home. Your warm welcome has played a…

My Dear Parishioners, I am so happy to be with you and thank you so much for the warm welcome. Just a little about myself. I am 57 and was raised in the Upper Perkiomen Valley area of Montgomery County. I have a brother and a sister and one niece (who is in high school).…

Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, With a heart filled with mixed emotions, I write this farewell message to express my deep gratitude and affection as I prepare to embark on a new chapter in my journey as a priest. It is with a sense of both sadness and excitement that I bid farewell to…

My Dear Parishioners, Happy Father’s Day! Today we honor and thank our dads. Too often, we take them for granted. Today we will close our intercessions with a special blessing for our fathers. Your Father’s Day envelopes with your intentions written on them will stay on the reredos (back altar) for the rest of the…

My Dear Parishioners, This week we celebrated graduation from St. Joseph/St. Robert School. Congratulations to all our parish graduates whether you have graduated from Pre-K, Kindergarten, Middle School, Eighth Grade, High School, College, or Post- Graduate studies. We pray for all graduates that they will have God at their side and carry Him with them…

My dear Parishioners, I recently met with Fr. Pawelko, the priest who will be taking over as pastor. He is very excited to be coming here. I told him about our audio recording of the Saturday Vigil Mass and then sending it to the radio station WRDV so that it can be played on Sunday…