Dear parishioners, Welcome once again to Advent! I always find this liturgical season to be particularly beautiful, but it always goes too quickly. However, there is something fitting in that reality- the time of anticipation fading quickly into the celebration of the birth of our Savior! Speaking
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Dear parishioners, Looking ahead on the parish calendar, we will have our usual Thanksgiving Day Mass at 9:00 A.M. in the Paulding church. As we spend the day thanking God for all the good things he has given us, please consider starting the day off with the
Read more →Dear parishioners, Welcome to Advent! This might seem strange to some, but Advent is my favorite season of the liturgical year. In it, we enter into the deep longing with which the Israelite people of the Old Testament pined for the promised Messiah. Many of the traditional
Read more →Dear parishioners, Bishop Thomas recently released a couple of memos to all the parishes of our diocese with some important information regarding parish/liturgical matters during COVID in the coming months. Below are some excerpts from his memos: Regarding the dispensation from the obligation to attend Mass on
Read more →Dear Parishioners, +JMJ One of the priests to whom I am most indebted from my years of seminary training, and even from my later years on faculty at the seminary is Father Bill Lynn, SJ. He died about ten years ago. Father Lynn was very
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