Eminentissimum ac Reverendissimum Dominum, Dominum Robertum Franciscum, Sanctae Romanae Ecclesiae Cardinalem Prevost qui sibi nomen imposuit LEONEM XIV. (Latin translation). Click to learn more about Pope Leo XIV.

The Second Sunday after Easter is the feast of the Divine Mercy. The establishment of this feast was desired by Our Lord Jesus Christ Himself through St. Maria Faustina Kowalska on February 22, 1931. According to St. Faustina’s diary, the desire was made known on the same day on which the Lord, in a vision, revealed Himself to her in a form that has been preserved and is presented to us as an image of the Divine Mercy...

Time to shake off the winter doldrums and get up and dance! Join us on Saturday, April 26th in Thorpe Hall, 6-10 PM. Bring your friends and family and enjoy the evening of entertainment by The Adjustments band. The dance floor will be open! Admission includes free pizza, pop, and water...

Did you want to come to the Lenten Parish Mission (Part 2), but weren't able to attend? Click the header above to watch it on our parish's YouTube page.

In celebration of the feast day of St. Joseph (Wednesday, March 19th) an altar in his honor will be in the gathering place of our church. The altar will be up and ready to accept donations from Saturday, March 15th through Sunday, March 23rd. The St. Joseph’s Altar is an old tradition from Sicily after its people prayed to him to intercede to end a horrific famine. Their prayers were answered. They made beautiful altars to honor and thank him for his help. Each year on this Feast Day, bountiful altars or tables are created...

Please join us on Monday, March 17, at 9:00 am for Mass in honor of our Patron Saint, St. Patrick. Following Mass we will continue the celebration with a Continental Breakfast. Due to construction in the lower church, the Continental Breakfast will be held in the gym. Stop over after Mass to enjoy scones, assorted fruit, coffee, juice and fellowship with our fellow parishioners.

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We wish to announce that the long-awaited new Mass Schedule for both St. Vincent de Paul Parish and St. Patrick West Park Parish has been released. The new Mass Schedule was created after consultation with the Parish Council of both Parishes...

This weekend, I wanted to put into writing two updates that have been shared verbally at Mass over the past few weeks. For some, one or both of these updates you may have heard already, but for others this may be “breaking news.” Either way, I wanted to put both of them in writing so that everyone heard (or read) the same message.

Change can be hard, change can be difficult, change can be a challenge, but change can also be a sign of growth and of life. Change can bring with it its share of fears, worries, anxieties, and questions.

While revising the schedule is NOT a way of bringing both parishes together into one, the reality is that both parishes will be sharing the same Priest staff and so we needed to set up the schedule keeping that in mind.

 Happy Corpus Christi Sunday! The Eucharist is the source & the summit of our faith. No matter which individual parish we are a member of, St. Patrick or St. Vincent de Paul or any other parish, we are united as one in our celebration of the Eucharist.

This Monday we observe the Memorial Day holiday. The history of our country is marked by countless numbers of men & women who have paid the ultimate price, laying down their lives under the banner of freedom. Men and women who have been willing to pay the ultimate price for a higher ideal & for the good of all.

As we continue our journey through the Mass we’ve spent the last few columns looking at what we do, but for this column I wanted to take a moment to look at what we use. Not only do the words & actions of Mass hold meaning, so do many of the items that we use as a part of the celebration.

   Happy Mother’s Day to all of our mothers, grandmothers & mother figures! And certainly we extend our payers to all those mothers who have lost children, all those who have wanted to be mothers & who never got the chance, & all those who have lost their mothers.

Picking up where we left off last week in our walk through of the Mass, we move into the preparation of the Altar & the gifts. As the Altar is prepared & as the bread & wine that will be transformed into the Body & Blood of our Lord there are a number of different prayers & actions that happen & over the next few weeks we’ll look at a few of them.

Back in the fall we began a walk through, in my column, many of the different parts of the Mass, looking at what we do & why we do it. We had gotten through the first part of the Mass, the Liturgy of the Word, and then Advent began, then Christmas, then Lent soon after that, & we got a bit off course from our walk through the Mass.

Happy Easter! It’s Angel again. I wanted to take the opportunity this weekend to share with you my favorite moment from Easter. It happened about 2:00 in the afternoon that day, when I jumped up on my grandma’s couch & saw my dad getting out of his car. I was so excited!

He is Risen indeed, Alleluia! With the timing of last week’s eclipse, I put off for a week doing something very important, that I wanted to make sure to take the time to do in this weekend’s column & that is to say THANK YOU! As we continue in the joy of the Easter season, I want to take the opportunity to thank all those who have helped to make this joyful time so joyful for us as a parish family.

On this Divine Mercy Sunday, what we celebrate is, in a sense, the eclipse of God’s mercy on our sins. Our shame, our guile over our sins can at times block us from seeing God’s love & mercy at work in our lives.