Mass on the Grass has moved Indoors.
10/2082018
Due to the excessive winds outside, 5:00pm Mass on Oct. 20th has been moved indoors to the Church. Afterwards, the Pot-Luck Picnic has been moved to the Cafeteria and the Movie "Peter Rabbit" has been moved the Activity Center.
10/2082018
Due to the excessive winds outside, 5:00pm Mass on Oct. 20th has been moved indoors to the Church. Afterwards, the Pot-Luck Picnic has been moved to the Cafeteria and the Movie "Peter Rabbit" has been moved the Activity Center.
All Saints Day - Thursday, November 1st
Holy Day of Obligation Mass Times: 8:00am & 6:30pm 
All Souls Day - Friday, November 2nd
Mass Times: 8:00am 
Weekend Mass times
Saturday 5:00pm Sunday 9:00am *Saturday, Oct. 20th at 5:00pm, Mass will be located outside on the front lawn, please bring a lawn chair. (In case of rain, it will be held in church). Weekday Mass Times Monday 8:00am Mass Tuesday 8:00am Mass Wednesday 6:30pm Mass Thursday 8:00am Mass Friday 8:00am Mass Please note these changes: *Tues, Oct 23rd - 8:00am Liturgy of the Word Wed, Oct 24th - No Mass Thurs, Oct 25th - 8:00am Liturgy of the Word ** Wed, Oct 31st (Halloween) No Mass Thurs, Nov 1 - All Saints Day (Holy Day of Obligation) 8:00 am Mass 6:30 pm Mass Reconciliation: Saturdays 4:00-4:45 pm Or by appointment. *Reconciliation will not be made available on Oct. 20th before Mass. Office Hours: Monday - Friday 8:00 am - 4:00 pm Click here for the
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From our Associate Pastor:
From The Pastor
Fr. Sudhakar & I will head out on Monday to go to the priest convocation at Clifty Falls state park in Madison, IN. We will be there through Thursday. This year will be a retreat, so do please pray for us & our brother priests. I spoke about it a couple of weeks ago. It is a great opportunity for us as brother priests to be together. I have to say for myself that unfortunately I don't make enough opportunities to gather with them. This time reminds me of that importance
I will continue after the convocation with some time of vacation as Fr. Sudhakar will return to watch over things here. I'll be visiting my friend Fr. Eric Augenstein in Nashville, IN and then some friends outside of Morgantown, IN. I plan to be back home in time to hopefully greet many saints seeking full-size candy bars on Halloween. That offer goes for adults too who dress as saints and can tell me a bit about the saint.
I make a point about dressing as & knowing a bit about saints because I enjoy our friends in heaven so much. There are so many different witnesses for us to connect to & see in their lives what God may be calling us to as well. It is very easy to see or hear only the triumphant stories of the saints and forget that they were just people too. Certainly they were cooperating with God's grace in a particular way, but sometimes as we get further away from them in time we can lose some of their ordinariness in the struggles of life that they had. Certainly St. Mother Teresa of Calcutta is still close enough for us to hear about the spiritual darkness that she felt for the last fifty years of her life. As these things were revealed almost a decade after her death, the world used it to point out that there was no God...how could a loving God allow her not to feel his presence? Other believers understood though countering with the question of how could anyone continue to do the incredible and difficult work she did if there wasn't a God...not by sheer human will power would one be able to give so much to others for such a long time.
The saints are our brothers and sisters and they certainly had tough times just as we do. But because of their closeness with God they were able to do more than we might imagine doing by ourselves. Let us continue to seek out the real stories and struggles of the saints recognizing their beautiful closeness with God (even through their own struggles and imperfections). Let us ask them for their prayers just as surely as we might ask a family member or friend here on earth to pray for us. May their example and prayer draw us through our struggles to the closeness they now share with God in heaven.
God Bless, Fr. Jason Gries
Fr. Sudhakar & I will head out on Monday to go to the priest convocation at Clifty Falls state park in Madison, IN. We will be there through Thursday. This year will be a retreat, so do please pray for us & our brother priests. I spoke about it a couple of weeks ago. It is a great opportunity for us as brother priests to be together. I have to say for myself that unfortunately I don't make enough opportunities to gather with them. This time reminds me of that importance
I will continue after the convocation with some time of vacation as Fr. Sudhakar will return to watch over things here. I'll be visiting my friend Fr. Eric Augenstein in Nashville, IN and then some friends outside of Morgantown, IN. I plan to be back home in time to hopefully greet many saints seeking full-size candy bars on Halloween. That offer goes for adults too who dress as saints and can tell me a bit about the saint.
I make a point about dressing as & knowing a bit about saints because I enjoy our friends in heaven so much. There are so many different witnesses for us to connect to & see in their lives what God may be calling us to as well. It is very easy to see or hear only the triumphant stories of the saints and forget that they were just people too. Certainly they were cooperating with God's grace in a particular way, but sometimes as we get further away from them in time we can lose some of their ordinariness in the struggles of life that they had. Certainly St. Mother Teresa of Calcutta is still close enough for us to hear about the spiritual darkness that she felt for the last fifty years of her life. As these things were revealed almost a decade after her death, the world used it to point out that there was no God...how could a loving God allow her not to feel his presence? Other believers understood though countering with the question of how could anyone continue to do the incredible and difficult work she did if there wasn't a God...not by sheer human will power would one be able to give so much to others for such a long time.
The saints are our brothers and sisters and they certainly had tough times just as we do. But because of their closeness with God they were able to do more than we might imagine doing by ourselves. Let us continue to seek out the real stories and struggles of the saints recognizing their beautiful closeness with God (even through their own struggles and imperfections). Let us ask them for their prayers just as surely as we might ask a family member or friend here on earth to pray for us. May their example and prayer draw us through our struggles to the closeness they now share with God in heaven.
God Bless, Fr. Jason Gries
From our Bishop:
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Click here to read a letter from Bishop Joseph Siegel addressing the current reports of misconduct by members of the clergy and the release of the Grand Jury report in Pennsylvania.
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The Divine Mercy Chaplet:
In reparation for the Catholic Church in light of recent reports of misconduct.
In prayerful response to the recent reports of misconduct by members of the clergy in the Church in the United States, we will be praying the Divine Mercy chaplet 10 minutes before our weekend Masses for the weeks to come. The chaplet was given to St. Faustina Kowalska in Poland in the 1930's through revelations of Jesus. The chaplet is prayed using a rosary and is easy to learn. Prayer aids will be in the missalettes. In the devotion, we pray for God's mercy for ourselves and the needs within the Church as well. Please do join us as we pray.
In reparation for the Catholic Church in light of recent reports of misconduct.
In prayerful response to the recent reports of misconduct by members of the clergy in the Church in the United States, we will be praying the Divine Mercy chaplet 10 minutes before our weekend Masses for the weeks to come. The chaplet was given to St. Faustina Kowalska in Poland in the 1930's through revelations of Jesus. The chaplet is prayed using a rosary and is easy to learn. Prayer aids will be in the missalettes. In the devotion, we pray for God's mercy for ourselves and the needs within the Church as well. Please do join us as we pray.
Did You Know?
St. Louis de Montfort wrote: When people say the Rosary together it is far more formidable to the devil than one said privately, because in this public prayer it is an army that is attacking him. Pray the Rosary Daily.
~ A Message from the Legion of Mary
St. Louis de Montfort wrote: When people say the Rosary together it is far more formidable to the devil than one said privately, because in this public prayer it is an army that is attacking him. Pray the Rosary Daily.
~ A Message from the Legion of Mary