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Month: August 2018

The Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary—September 8, 2018

We know that everyone has a birthday. The Bible doesn’t say anything about Mary’s birth, but we know that she was born. Like all parents, Mary’s parents—we call them Joachim and Ann—probably took one look at their newborn daughter and knew that she was special.

Joachim and Ann loved God very much, and they were filled with gratitude to God for the gift of a child. They raised Mary as a child of God, teaching her to love and serve God. (Read more…)

September 2, 2018

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The Passion of Saint John the Baptist-August 29, 2018

The drunken oath of a king with a shallow sense of honor, a seductive dance and the hateful heart of a queen combined to bring about the martyrdom of John the Baptist. The greatest of prophets suffered the fate of so many Old Testament prophets before him: rejection and martyrdom. The “voice crying in the desert” did not hesitate to accuse the guilty, did not hesitate to speak the truth. But why? What possesses a man that he would give up his very life? (Read more…)

August 26, 2018

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Support St. Catherine’s by shopping at Amazon—just ‘smile!’

If you shop at Amazon, you can support St. Catherine’s with your purchases without costing you anything. Just visit AmazonSmile when you do your shopping.

AmazonSmile is a website operated by Amazon with the same products, prices, and shopping features as Amazon.com. The difference is that when you shop on AmazonSmile, the AmazonSmile Foundation will donate 0.5% of the purchase price of eligible products to the charitable organization of your choice.

Every item available for purchase on the regular Amazon site is also available on AmazonSmile (smile.amazon.com) at the same price. (Read more…)

Handbags help Rosary Society benefit women in need

The St. Catherine’s Rosary Society will once again be collecting “new or gently used” handbags for women and teens, and filling each handbag with 10-12 new items (see list below). Handbags will be donated to the Domestic Abuse and Sexual Assault Crisis Center, Washington/Oxford, NJ and Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church, Bronx, NY.

The Rosary Society is asking parish members to help us with the collection by donating new and gently used handbags and/or new filler items. (Read more…)