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Please join together as a Parish Family to say the Rosary and Divine Mercy Chaplet on Sunday, May 24th @ 7pm in the parking lot of St. Camillus Church. You may remain in your car with windows down or bring a lawn chair while maintaining a safe social distance. If rain occurs, this event will be postponed.

On May 19, the pastoral team met in the morning and the Pastoral and Finance Councils met in the evening. Adoration continues at St. Joseph the Worker site, lower level parking lot, where the Blessed Sacrament is exposed from 8 am to 4 pm. Sunday through Friday. Click on title to see full message.

Gov. Wolf and the PA Department of Education are looking to take most of the funding that Congress wants distributed equitably in COVID-19 relief to ALL schools in PA and across the country. Pennsylvania received $471 million in funding from Washington. But PCC Education Director Sean McAleer says “the Pennsylvania Department of Education (PDE) created its own set of rules to distribute that money that blatantly ignores federal guidance. The end result significantly lowers the amounts to be given to Catholic and nonpublic school students.” McAleer broke down the disparity this way: “the Wolf Administration is calling for roughly $19 million to go to Catholic and nonpublic schools students, while Washington is calling for $66 million. The Wolf administration is misappropriating some $47 million in federal funds and harming families who have chosen to send their children to Catholic and nonpublic schools.” "Catholic and nonpublic school students matter," said McAleer. "We are asking Mr. Wolf And Education Secretary Pedro Rivera to please follow the federal guidelines! In a time when thousands of Pennsylvania’s children and families are suffering and struggling to make ends meet, the administration has chosen to cause further harm by refusing to allocate money as directed by the federal government.” Follow the link below or click the title of this post to log in and send your message: https://www.votervoice.net/BroadcastLinks/bLoi7nwoDwEslKQVryFTuQ

Do not let your hearts be troubled! See the Sunday message in the bulletin at hsplc.org/fr-macs-messages, to read about the state of the parish, the status of the festival and the sale of St. Lawrence site. Click title for video address.

Holy Spirit Parishioners, the bishop is sending a 50 page document to the priests of the diocese at some point this weekend. We will need to review this document and understand its contents regarding suggestions and requirements for our re-opening.

Over the months, the need for a prayer ministry has been a concern. After many discussions, our prayer network, consisting of prayer requests and members committed to praying for those in need, is now operating. See our website at https://hsplc.org/holy-spirit-prayer-network or Google hsplc.org, When the home page opens, put your cursor over HOME under the logo, the blue bar will drop down. Click on the 3rd choice, Prayer Network, to open it.

To aid parishioners, a mail slot has been crafted in the door to the St. Vitus office. Parishioners may now leave their weekly donation envelopes, requests to light candles for specific intentions, monetary donations to the food bank and other miscellaneous donations and correspondence. To request candles, please use a plain white envelope for your donation with the intention requested and your name written on it.

Check out this story about a politician who left it all to become a Jesuit priest. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/11/opinion/sunday/cyrus-habib-jesuit.html?smid=em-share

Join Archbishop Jose H. Gomez, USCCB President, and the faithful of the United States to pray together in renewing the consecration of the United States to the Blessed Virgin Mary on Friday, May 1st! Click on the title for details.

On today's Feast Day of St. Catherine of Siena, we highly recommend checking out Word on Fire's Pivotal Players video on her life, which can now be watched free on https://www.wordonfire.org/study-programs/pivotal-players/ (scroll down the Word on Fire website and you will see the video toward the bottom of the page). For the little ones, check out this cartoon about St. Catherine by EWTN here https://youtu.be/iSVrh5FZ_a4.

Starting today, April 27th, Adoration is available at the St. Joseph the Worker site in the lower parking lot. Scroll up to the top of the website or visit our Youtube to see Sr. Annie's update for more information. Adoration will be available from Sunday-Friday, 8am-4pm. Confessions from your car will be heard on Saturdays in the St. Camillus parking lot from 11am-12pm.

Join us tomorrow, Saturday, April 25th from 11am-12pm for Reconciliation in the St. Camillus parking lot.

Scroll up for the link or click the title of this post to read Bishop Zubik's most recent letter!

The Food Pantry at St. Joseph site is open every Saturday from 10 am to 1 pm. Non-perishable grocery donations are needed and can be left in the tubs outside the parish offices at St. Vitus site and St. James site.

IGNITE's Divine Mercy can be viewed this Sunday @ 3:00pm! https://youtu.be/kaDAQDT-hF8 or click the title of this post to be re-directed.

Beginning next week, Memorial Masses will be held on Thursdays @ 10am.

Join us for Livestream Mass this Sunday, April 19 @ 9am and stay tuned after Mass when we will have Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament and pray the Divine Mercy Chaplet. Also on Sunday, April 19, the IGNITE Divine Mercy Chaplet in song will be released at 3pm. The St. Anthony Novena began on April 14 at 7 pm and will be available on all Tuesdays at 7pm.

Please click the title of this post to be taken to our "job postings" page for more information!

Two additional prayer documents have been added for anyone looking for prayers to fit their needs at this time.

To find the Easter Sunday bulletin with the full list of Easter Flower Memorials, scroll down to the bottom of the Home page and click on the bulletin cover OR just click on the title above. Welcome to the website!