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My Dear Parishioners, Thank you for your generous support for our Manna Food Drive.  Once again we collected a tremendous amount of food.  As of the time I am writing this column I do not know exactly how much food was collected but I can say that it was impressive.  Thank you also to our…

My Dear Parishioners, I hope that you had an enjoyable Fourth of July celebration.  As we are in the midst of vacation season, I thought it would be good to remind you of a useful website when traveling, www.masstimes.org.  You can input a city or zip code and it will list all the nearby churches…

Governor Tom Wolf is preventing a network of Catholic adoption providers, commonly known as SWAN (Statewide Adoption Network), from maintaining the ability to uphold its religious convictions that placements should not be made within the context of same-sex parent households. Speaker of the House of Representatives Mike Turzai (R-Allegheny) announced yesterday that he supports a…

My Dear Parishioners, I am very happy to announce that the St. Joseph/St. Robert search committee has found a principal for St. Joseph/St. Robert School.  We hired Mr. Vincent D’Andrea.  He has been a Vice Principal at Villa Joseph Marie High School and at School Lane Charter School.  He has experience teaching on the high…

My Dear Parishioners, In two weeks we will host our annual Manna Food Drive over the weekend of July 6th and 7th. In preparation for that weekend, we are asking you to take home the brown paper bags placed at each of the exits this weekend and next and return them filled with non-perishable food…

My Dear Parishioners, Happy Father’s Day!  Today we honor and thank our dads.  Too often, we take them for granted.  Your Father’s Day envelopes with your intentions written on them will stay on the reredos (back altar) for the rest of the month of June.  It is appropriate that they are there at the base…

My Dear Parishioners, Next Sunday, June 16th, we will welcome Fr. Richard Maisano to say our 11:30 a.m. Mass as he celebrates his 50th Anniversary of his ordination to priesthood.  Fr. Maisano is a priest of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia who retired in 2017.  He is the Pastor Emeritus of St. Gabriel of the Sorrowful…

My Dear Parishioners, I just concelebrated Archbishop Wood’s Baccalaureate Mass on Friday.  It is hard to believe that another school year has passed and now we are entering the graduation season.  I would like to congratulate all of our graduates from Kindergarten, Grade School, Middle School, High School, College, and from Post-College studies.  These are…

My Dear Parishioners, This coming Thursday is the Feast of the Ascension of our Lord, and it is a Holy Day of Obligation.  We celebrate that Jesus was taken bodily into heaven and we look forward with hope that we will follow where He has gone.  Our Masses are:  Wednesday evening May 29th Vigil at…

My Dear Parishioners, This Saturday, May 18th Archbishop Chaput ordained 7 men to the priesthood for our Archdiocese.  They are Fr. David Buffum, Fr. Francesco D’amico, Fr. Alessandro Giardini, Fr. David O’Brien, Fr. Alexander Pancoast, Fr. Anthony Raymundo, and Fr. Jonathan Rice.  Please pray for them as they assume their first assignments.  It is also…