Next weekend, we will welcome Fr. Kishore Bathula, who will be joining us for our annual Mission Appeal. Since we will be doing the appeal on the same weekend at both St. Patrick’s & at St. Vincent de Paul, Fr. Kishore will share with us at the beginning of the 4:30 Mass @ St. Patrick’s & then during the normal homily time at the 5:00 Mass @ St. Vincent de Paul.
On Sunday, October 24th, we will be celebrating the Sacrament of the Anointing of the Sick at the 11:00 am Mass. Those who are chronically ill, the elderly, those struggling with serious physical/mental illness, or those preparing for serious surgery. Those who are to be anointed are invited to sit at the end of the pews on either side of the aisle (or in the front row) & following the homily at Mass the Priests will come to anoint you. Let us pray for all of our sick brothers & sisters!
One of the great forms of prayer in our Church is intercessory prayer. So many of us have people and causes that we pray for on a regular, sometimes even daily basis. We pray for people who are sick, people who have died, we pray for peace, we pray for the unemployed, just to name a few. There are many ways and forms that we could ask our Lord’s intercession, one of those ways that we are very familiar with is through the offering of Masses.
We will be having our annual Blessing of the Pets in honor of the Feast of St. Francis of Assisi. The Blessing will be held on the lawn near the Jack Mulhall Center at 1:00 pm on Saturday, October 2nd. All pets should be on leashes or in other appropriate carriers. All creatures of our God & King, praise the Lord!
What’s going on with the Stained Glass Windows? When are they going to be back in place? How much longer will it take? I wanted to answer some of those questions today from an update I received from Azure Studios who is doing the window work. Everything is progressing according to plan & though there are times when it may seem that not much work is being done, rest assured that work is being done.
The Blessed Mother visited the children in Fatima, Portugal from May 13, 1917 to October 13th, 1917, a period that culminated in the Miracle of the Sun, known a “The Day the Sun Danced.” Our Lady of Fatima said to three children, pray the rosary in honor of Our Lady of the Rosary, in order to obtain peace in our world and an end to wars.
How can we reconcile having faith with the faults and failings of the Church that have been done over time? It can be a tough proposition, as we hear the Church proclaim the news of a good and loving God, but then hear and see a very human Church living that divine mission out, to reconcile the two. There is no denying that there have been times in the course of history that evil acts have been committed against other people, sometimes in the name of God.
Where are we going? Every journey that we set out on in life has, among other things, a destination, the place where our journey is taking us. Maybe the destination is to the store to pick up some bread, or to the restaurant to grab dinner, or to a family member or friend’s house to visit. Our destinations may vary, but rarely do we set out on a journey without having at least some idea of where we are hoping to go.
Over the course of the past many years, our parish family has made a tremendous difference in the lives of so many people. We are getting ready to celebrate 175 years of faith & life at St. Pat’s in just over a year, in 2023. We have only been able to do that through the generosity of so many, those of us who call St. Pat’s home now & those who have given & sacrificed so much so that we can be here & worship today. The story of our parish family has been & continues to be a story of life, faith, & generosity. Over the course of the upcoming weeks we will be helping to continue to tell that story as we engage in an Increased Offertory campaign, “Alive in Christ: Building Community & Growing in Faith.” At St. Pat’s, our campaign will be held in the next 2 upcoming weeks, Sept. 12/13 & Sept. 18/19.
2021-2022 PSR and Sacramental Preparation Forms are available at the Rectory-side Church entrance and at the Parish Office. Please register before September 12th. Monthly classes begin on Sunday, October 19th. If you have any questions, please contact Pat Singleton.
The Church prepares adults for Baptism, Confirmation, and Eucharist through a process called the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults (RCIA). The RCIA is designed to form the mind and heart in Christian discipleship through study of the basics of the Catholic faith, prayer, and fellowship.
In 1982 Fr. Banner asked 3 young men from our school to help him build shelves in the basement of the Rectory to hold groceries for those who were coming to the Rectory looking for food. That was the beginning of the St. Patrick Hunger Center! The need grew and over the past 39 years so has our Hunger Center. The Center moved to 4 different locations on our Parish property getting bigger and better equipped to handle the growing need.
One day about a week ago, after daily Mass, a parishioner stopped me with a question, why do we put a part of the host in the chalice at Mass? It’s a good question and one that I thought more than just 1 parishioner might be wondering about so I thought that I would answer the question here.
From August 7th-August 15th, 9 different Churches in the Diocese of Cleveland will be open from 8:15-9 pm for the praying of Night Prayer. You are welcome to pray at the same Church each night, join for one or two nights, or travel to all 9 churches to pray.
I just wanted to write a quick note to say thank you for all the prayers & support at the passing of my father. On behalf of my mom, my 2 brothers & me, my dad’s sisters, & our entire family, thank you!
OUR ANNUAL PARISH SUMMER RAFFLE will be a virtual one again this year. Tickets are available for pickup as you leave Mass. Each family is asked to take a packet containing 10 books of tickets ($50.00). If you have a neighbor or relative who has not come back to church yet, would you please pick up a pack for them too!
This weekend, I wanted to provide an update on some of the capital projects that we have ongoing around the parish campus. First, an update on our stained glass windows. It was a number of weeks ago now that the stained glass window panels in the choir loft were removed. The panels were taken by Azure Stained Glass to their studios where they are working on the renovation & restoration process.
Happy 4th of July! I hope that you are enjoying these summer months and taking advantage of the wonderful weather that we’ve been having! The other day, I read an article about the health benefits of spending time outside. It is so true, spending time outside in nature, whether it be taking a walk in the woods or sitting outside on the back or front deck can have tremendous health effects such as lowering our blood pressure and our stress.
“Teach us to pray.” (Luke 11:1). Those are the words of the disciples to Jesus in the Gospel of Luke right before he taught them the words of the prayer that we know as the Our Father. Prayer is an essential part of our journey of faith and I’ve heard it described, very aptly so, as our relationship with God.
This weekend is Father’s Day weekend & so I certainly want to take the opportunity to wish all of our fathers, grandfathers, & father figures a Happy & Blessed Father’s Day. We pray too, for all those fathers who have gone to their eternal reward, all those fathers who have lost children, & all those who long to be fathers but can’t.
