October 27, 2024 - 30th Sunday in Ordinary Time

Posted in From the desk of Fr. Tharp on 10/22/24

Next Sunday: Thirty First Sunday in Ordinary Time      Celebrant:  Fr. Tharp   

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October 20, 2024 - 29th Sunday in Ordinary Time

Posted in From the desk of Fr. Tharp on 10/22/24

Next Sunday: Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time      Celebrant:  Fr. Tharp     

Announcing “Together Sunday”

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October 14, 2024 - 28th Sunday in Ordinary Time

Posted in From the desk of Fr. Tharp on 10/22/24

Next Sunday: Twenty Ninth  Sunday in Ordinary Time      Celebrant:  Fr. Tharp 

Announcing “Together Sunday”

Archbishop Schnurr is asking each Family of Parishes to participate in “Together Sunday” this year on the Sunday we celebrate the Feast of Christ the King, November 24.  Since the 1970s, the national trend of attending Sunday services only sporadically or not at all has become an epidemic.  As a Catholic, one of the five precepts of the Church is attendance at Mass on Sunday and Holydays.  How can we say we are part of the Body of Christ if we are not fed by the Body and Blood of Christ at the Eucharist?  The more who come together through the mystery of the Most Holy Eucharist, the greater the presence of Christ radiates through us into a needy world.  Thus, we are asking those who attend regularly to reach out with a personal invitation to friends and neighbors to join them at St. Ann or Sacred Heart on the Feast of Christ the King.  Sometimes all it takes is a personal invitation to find our strength in the community in which Christ is present to us in the Most Holy ... Read More »