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February 3, 2023Hi, everyone! It’s Angel again. I hope Tat, like my treats, your blessings are abundant! He doesn’t get to do it all the time during the winter, he says it’s because of the cold and how early it gets dark, but I LOVE when my dad takes me for a walk. When I see him putting his shoes on or when I hear him say those 4 letters, I wag my tail & bark for joy!Read More -
January 27, 2023What would you do if you won the Mega Millions Jackpot? At one point in the past weeks, the Mega Millions jackpot was a total of 1.35 BILLION dollars before someone won it in Maine.Read More -
January 19, 2023Do you hear what I hear? Yes, I know those are the words of a Christmas song, but even though our Christmas season has concluded, I think that those words are words that you and I are invited to reflect upon today. Do you hear what I hear?Read More -
January 12, 2023This week’s “Pastor’s Column” is a special thank you from our Helping Hands Ministry & our Giving Tree Team for your help & generosity in the Advent & Christmas season. The Giving Tree collected many useful items for the men of the Jack Mulhall Center. The most popular donations included socks, t-shirts, hats, Fixodent, and razors. The paper products...Read More -
January 5, 2023As our Christmas season draws to close I wanted to take another opportunity to wish everyone a Merry Christmas! As we conclude these Christmas days, I wanted to take the opportunity in today’s column to say thank you! It’s something that while I always feel it, I don’t always remember to say it, so again, thank you!Read More -
December 29, 2022Hi there, everyone! It’s Angel! My dad’s been doing a lot for Advent & Christmas so I wanted to help him out and write today’s column. Let me start out by wishing you all a Happy New Year! As we begin this new year, we enter, in many ways, into the unknown. While we certainly have our hopes, plans, & dreams for today & the upcoming 364 days of this year, in many ways the course of this new year is unknown.Read More
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December 22, 2022Merry Christmas! On behalf of myself & our entire parish staff please know of our prayers during this holy time of year! A special welcome too to anyone who might be visiting us on these holy days as well as all those who are returning home to celebrate. We are glad that you are here!Read More -
December 15, 2022Throughout the season of Advent we often sing the familiar hymn, “O Come, O Come Emmanuel.” It’s a very haunting & very familiar melody, but how many of us are aware of where the words of the song find their origins? The words of the hymn arise from what are known as the “O Antiphons.”Read More -
December 8, 2022Last month, I took some time for my annual retreat. While many times I like to do group retreats with other priests, for this particular retreat, I packed up my car & headed down to southern Ohio & a cabin in the woods in Hocking Hills for a solo retreat. I love being in nature & I love the Hocking Hills area. There is something so relaxing for me about the woods & the sounds of nature.Read More -
December 4, 2022Due to the generosity of St. Patrick’s Parishioners we were able to give 270 families gift certificates to purchase their entire Thanksgiving dinner. We received many notes of Thank You but want to share one special one.Read More -
December 1, 2022As we continue along our Advent journey, I’d like to begin a new tradition on the 3rd Sunday of Advent (next weekend), an annual Bambinelli Blessing.The Bambinelli Blessing isn’t a tradition that I came up with, but rather a tradition at the Vatican that began with Pope St. John Paul II & has continued through Pope Benedict XVI and Pope Francis.Read More
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November 25, 2022As we enter into the season of Advent & begin a new Church year we are invited & encouraged to pay attention for the new ways that God comes among us. As we draw closer to our celebration of Christmas when we celebrate the historical coming of Jesus into our world, we start the Advent season by focusing on Jesus’ coming at the end of time. But, Jesus doesn’t just come in the past & sometime in the future.Read More -
November 17, 2022In one of my columns last month, I talked about some of the insights that I had gleaned at our Priests’ Convocation that we had at the beginning of the month. Over time I hope to share with you some of those insights with you. This week I want to share some insights that I gained about splitting my time each week between both parish offices.Read More -
November 10, 2022Now is the time to buy 2023’s 300 Club ticket! The price of each ticket is $50.00. You can purchase your ticket at the rectory, by mail, or after any weekend Mass starting November 5, 2022 through December 18, 2022. If you plan on keeping the same ticket number let me know as soon as possible, but no later than November 27, 2022. If you do not plan on keeping the same number, please let me know by that same date, November 27, 2022. Please make your check payable to THE ST. PATRICK 300 CLUB. If you are interested in joining our club, please contact Justine at 440-610-6975 or email me at [email protected]; please write in the subject “300 Club”!Read More -
November 3, 2022In just a few weeks we will begin the season of Advent, entering into a new liturgical year. The season of Advent invites us to prepare the way for the coming of Jesus into our lives. One of the ways that we can do that, one of the ways that we can prepare ourselves to recognize the ways that Christ comes among us is by taking time in silence & prayer.Read More
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October 27, 2022Hi there, everyone! It’s “the boss,” Angel, here again. My dad asked me to write a column again as this week on Monday (Halloween) marks 3 years since I hopped up on my dad’s lap at the rescue agency & told him to pick me. And boy am I glad he did. I am so, so happy to be here with all of you! I hope you are doing well! Here we are, right at the cusp of November. I know that my dad loves November because his birthday is in it, but I dread those months where my bathroom gets covered in snow!Read More -
October 20, 2022Welcome to Amanda Rhoads our new Administrative Assistant! Amanda has been with us now for a few weeks & has brought a great spirit of joy to our parish! She is working to help get me more organized (please pray for her as that is a tremendous task to undertake ;)) & has already helped to get our office running in a smooth & efficient way. Thanks also to Maureen Mountcastle, who helped to keep our office up & running in the interim period, and who has helped to train Amanda and bring her up to speed on office procedures. Maureen will be returning to retired life starting this weekend, but she certainly won’t be a stranger. She’ll still be helping us on Sunday’s and in times when Amanda might not be able to be here.Read More
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October 13, 2022The beginning of October found me gathering with 200+ brother Priests of the Diocese out in Huron at Sawmill Creek Resort for our biannual Priests’ Convocation. I remember when I was in the seminary that the week of the Priests’ Convocation was somewhat a week of vacation with all of our Priest professors being away.Read More -
October 8, 2022St. Patrick will be holding a Clambake on Saturday, November 5th, beginning at 5:30 PM, in Thorpe Hall. Click the headline or the picture for more information. Tickets will be available for purchase beginning Saturday, October 15th, at the Church doors facing the Rectory. And yes...Clam Chowder IS on the menu. Chicken Dinners will also be available for $25. Deadline to purchase tickets is Sunday, October 30th. There will be NO ticket sales at the door. If paying by check, checks should be made out to St. Patrick Church with “Clambake” on the memo line.Read More -
October 6, 2022One of the great forms of prayer in our Church is intercessory prayer. So many of us have people & 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.Read More
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