Effective Tuesday, September 8th, the celebration of Mass has resumed at its normal times. We thank you for your patience and understanding during these times.

Effective immediately, all Masses and activities are cancelled thru and including September 7th.

We are now entering the final week for you to pick up your Summer Raffle Tickets. Tickets can be found in the envelopes at the doors of the church. Raffle tickets with cash are due in to the Parish Office no later than Monday, August 10th. The drawing of the raffle tickets will be held virtually on the Parish's Facebook page (St. Vincent de Paul and St. Patrick WP) on Tuesday, August 11th at 12:00 Noon

Please help us with the biggest fundraiser of the year, St. Patrick’s Parish Raffle. The money raised goes for the many repairs and improvements that are needed on our Parish grounds. Tickets are available on the tables at the church entrances after the 4:30 pm Saturday and 11 am Sunday Masses or at the rectory during regular business hours.

OUR ANNUAL PARISH RAFFLE will be a virtual one this year. Tickets will be available for pickup as you leave Mass this weekend. 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 is our biggest fundraiser of the year. Please help us to raise money for the many repairs that are necessary on our Parish grounds. The drawing of the winners of $1,000, $500 and $300 will take place virtually on August 11 here at the Church.

This weekend we celebrate Father’s Day & so I certainly want to take the opportunity to wish all of our fathers a Happy & Blessed Father’s Day! Thank you too for the continued prayers for my father, at this point he continues to do well & so we are grateful for that. Here in Church, we enter once again into the liturgical season of Ordinary Time in a time that has been pretty much anything but ordinary. These past months have certainly changed us, our Church, & our world in so many ways. Right now we are living through a time that is in pretty much no way an ordinary time.

Over the last few months, we've heard words such as "cancelled" or "postponed" or "rescheduled" many, many times due to the coronavirus pandemic. We too have had to cancel or postpone a number of different events. Our year-long parish mission, for example, is on hold & I am in touch with our planned speakers to figure out when we want to try giving that a go again.

St. Patrick's Hunger Center is open Monday, Wednesday, Friday. If you live within the following boundaries: Lorain Ave. to the North, Brookpark Rd. to the South, W. 150 to the East and The Valley to the West, you are eligible to receive food every 30 days. Please call 216-251-8258 between 9:15 and 11:00 am to place your request. Food can be picked up the same day. If you wish to help at the Hunger Center please call 216-251-8258 and leave your name and number. You will receive a call back as help is always needed!

 In order to assist in maintaining Social Distancing guidelines as provided, Confessions will now be held in the Sacristy until further notice. Confessions will still be held at the normal times: TUESDAYS:  7:30 PM to 8:30 PM, and SATURDAYS:  11:00 AM to 12:00 Noon.

One question that I have often received as we prepare to return to the celebration of public Mass is the following..."Are you going to continue to livestream the Masses & other prayers like we've been doing in the time where public Masses have been suspended?"

Dear Parish Families, this weekend, we have 3 important celebrations to remember. First, this Sunday we celebrate Mother’s Day, & so certainly I join with you in wishing all of our Mother’s a most happy & blessed day! Due to the restrictions of the current pandemic, we may not be able to be with our mother in person on this day, or if we do, we may have to see her from 6 feet away, but still the love of a mother knows no distance or time.