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Appalachia Outreach Car Wash
On Saturday, June 11, from 9am - 2pm in the church parking lot, Appalachia Outreach team will hold a car wash! All proceeds go to their mission trip in Harlan, Kentucky.
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News From the Beacon
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June 30
Diocesan Catholic Charities welcomed some 400 golfers at its 48th annual Wiegand Farm Golf Classic at Crystal Springs Resort in Hamburg June 20. Sponsored by Lakeland Bank, it was a record number for the golf outing that is one of Catholic Charities’ largest fundraisers.Read More -
June 30
On June 24, the Chancery staff gathered to honor six longtime employees, who will retire after serving the Church of Paterson faithfully for many years. These employees are Rosemary Donnelly, executive assistant of the Diocesan Clergy Personnel Office; Deborah Duane, associate superintendent of the Diocesan Schools Office; Barbara Fierro, executive assistant to Bishop Kevin J. Sweeney; Maria Nunez, administrative assistant in the Diocesan Vocations Office; Richard Sokerka, diocesan director of the Communications Office and editor/general manager of The Beacon; and Joan Valk, diocesan director of Human Resources.Read More -
June 30
A new stained-glass window depicting the Visitation of Mary was blessed this past weekend at Holy Family Church here dedicated to all mothers. Frank and Barbara Tinari, co-chairs of the pro-life ministry at Holy Family Parish, sponsored the window of the meeting of the Blessed Mother and her cousin, St. Elizabeth.Read More
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spiritual communion prayer
My Jesus, I believe that you are present in the most Blessed Sacrament. I love You above all things and I desire to receive You into my soul. Since I cannot now receive You sacramentally, come at least spiritually into my heart. I embrace You as if You were already there, and unite myself wholly to You. Never permit me to be separated from You. Amen.
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mass schedule
Mass Schedule
Saturday Vigil Mass at 5pm
Sunday Masses at
7:30am, 9am, 10:30am & 12 noon
Weekday Mass at 12:10pm -
Sacrament of reconciliation
Saturdays 3:45pm - 4:30pm
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Youth Ministry
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Faith Formation K - 8
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Today's Readings
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POPE FRANCIS' PRAYER FOR PEACE
Lord God of peace, hear our prayer!
We have tried so many times and over so many years to resolve our conflicts by our own powers and by the force of our arms. How many moments of hostility and darkness have we experienced; how much blood has been shed; how many lives have been shattered; how many hopes have been buried… But our efforts have been in vain.
Now, Lord, come to our aid! Grant us peace, teach us peace; guide our steps in the way of peace. Open our eyes and our hearts, and give us the courage to say: "Never again war!"; "With war everything is lost". Instill in our hearts the courage to take concrete steps to achieve peace.
Lord, God of Abraham, God of the Prophets, God of Love, you created us and you call us to live as brothers and sisters. Give us the strength daily to be instruments of peace; enable us to see everyone who crosses our path as our brother or sister. Make us sensitive to the plea of our citizens who entreat us to turn our weapons of war into implements of peace, our trepidation into confident trust, and our quarreling into forgiveness.
Keep alive within us the flame of hope, so that with patience and perseverance we may opt for dialogue and reconciliation. In this way may peace triumph at last, and may the words "division", "hatred" and "war" be banished from the heart of every man and woman. Lord, defuse the violence of our tongues and our hands. Renew our hearts and minds, so that the word which always brings us together will be "brother", and our way of life will always be that of: Shalom, Peace, Salaam!
Amen.
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