Dear Fellow Parishioners, As we approach the end of the year, we are also coming to the close of the 2024 Annual Ministries Appeal. Sometimes this is incorrectly referred to as the “Bishop’s Appeal”, when in fact it is overwhelmingly an appeal to support lay ministries that the parishes share at the diocesan level. They […]
Dear Fellow Parishioners, This week we release the annual finance report for SV Parish for Fiscal Year 2023-24. I want to thank you for your generous contributions this past year. This is very much appreciated, as our parish is entirely dependent on your support for our operations. Budgets and financial reports are not self-interpreting, but […]
Dear Fellow Parishioners,Ā Beginning this school year, St. Vincent Elementary School changed its First Friday and Holy Day Mass schedules to accommodate an extra two hours of classroom time on those days. In the past, the First Friday Mass began around 10:40 am, ended before 12 noon, and students were free for the day. From […]
Dear Fellow Parishioners, Iām happy to inform you that the re-gilding and re-painting of the facade of the main entrance of the church has been completed. Some time ago, Ruby Newman, the local craftswoman who has been with our interior and exterior church renewal projects for over 3 decades, said that this would be the […]
Dear Fellow Parishioners, Iām happy to inform you that the re-gilding and re-painting of the facade of the main entrance of the church has been completed. Some time ago, Ruby Newman, the local craftswoman who has been with our interior and exterior church renewal projects for over 3 decades, said that this would be the […]
(PRACTICING) CATHOLIC – RECOGNIZE GOD IN YOUR ORDINARY MOMENTS By Colleen Jurkiewicz Dorman To Whom Shall We Go? A friend of mine, who is a far better Christian than I can ever hope to be, once shared with me that her family sneers at her belief system and lifestyle. She believes in fairy tales they […]
Dear Fellow Parishioners. Coming back from vacation means returning to a pile of mail and emails, plus new tasks for the coming educational and liturgical years. Next week, we have a staff meeting to begin planning for Advent which is, after all, not all that far in the future. Tuesday, I celebrated the First Day […]
Dear Fellow Parishioners, Every year it seems that the end of summer, and the beginning of the new school year, arrive more and more quickly. In the childhoods of many of us who were raised in California, the first day of school was always the Tuesday after Labor Day. Hot on its heels came California […]
Dear Fellow Parishioners, Near the end of June, we celebrate two important solemnities, which is the highest rank of liturgical observance. That means they are celebrated even on Suanday, if they happen to fall on that day of the week. (The only thing they lack is status as Holy Days of Obligations.) These are the […]
Dear Fellow Parishioners, Now that we are nearly at the midpoint of the calendar year, I would like to do a ālightning roundā of completed projects and coming events, in no particular order of importance. Restoration of the church faƧade: thanks to your support of the Maintenance Fund, the restoration of the front facade of […]