Join our parish in preparing for the coming of Jesus with the Christmas Novena. This novena was composed by an Italian priest, Rev. Charles Vachetta, C.M., in 1721. Most of the material comes from the Old Testament prophecies and the Psalms referring to the promised Redeemer. Download the Novena booklet...
Join us on Monday, January 21 for a free dinner served restaurant style by the parish youth. Dinner will be served from 5:00 – 7:00pm in the Parish Center. A freewill offering will be taken to help support retreats and mission trips for our middle and high school teens. All are welcome and encouraged...
Join us in preparing for the birth of our Savior this Advent! Click the link below to see all the great opportunities to Meet Christ, Follow Christ, and Bear Christ this year. Advent Christmas 2018
Dear Parishioners, Masses on Holy Days of Obligation like this past Saturday—the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception —are obligatory by Cannon Law and the teaching of the Catechism. This obligation makes the subject of Mass attendance on these occasions a serious or grave matter. The Catechism of the Catholic Church...
Dear Parishioners, Advent is upon us, and I will be speaking in my homilies about some of the important spiritual aspects. In order to hear these homilies, you have to come to Mass. There has been a lot of confusion and false prophets out there proclaiming things about attending the...
Finance Council Minutes – September 27, 2018
Dear Friends, It is fitting that I fill in for Father John’s column this week, as my favorite holiday is Thanksgiving. I love this day for many reasons: the great food, time spent with family, football, its proximity to Advent (my favorite liturgical season), and more. As we enter this...
When: February 1-3, 2019 Where: The Kalahari Who: Anyone in High School Deadline: November 30th This coming February, a group of students from St Christopher Parish will be heading up to the Kalahari to attend Frassati Fest. This is a wonderful youth event put on by the Diocese every year....
Dear Parishioners, Last week we began to look at the Celebrations for the month of November, and so we’ll continue with that. On November 10th we have the Feast Day of St. Leo the Great who was Pope in the 6th century, and is most remembered for saving Rome from...
Dear Parishioners, We have some interesting celebrations coming up after All Saints’ and All Souls’ Days. One is called “The Dedication of the Basilica of St. John Lateran.” Why do we celebrate the dedication of a church building—what is so important about that? St. John Lateran was the first legal...