Jean is the wife of the late John Bateman, and was a long-time resident of Churchville. The visitations will be held in Church, Wednesday evening from 6:00 to 9:00 P.M. and Thursday morning beginning at 10:00 A.M.

Please remember Jean and her family in your prayers.

Click here for her obituary.

David is the husband of Ok Hui Matrisciano, the father of Michelle, and the grand-father of Christopher, of Churchville. The visitation will be held Thursday evening from 7:00 to 9:00 P.M. at the Wm. Rowen Grant Funeral Home, 659 Street Road in Southampton.

Please remember David and his family in your prayers.

Click here for his obituary.

Every four years, the U.S. Bishops issue a document entitled Forming Consciences for Faithful Citizenship to assist Catholics in preparing to vote. A four page summary of that document has also been prepared.

The Pennsylvania Catholic Conference has promulgated a comparison of the two presidential candidates' positions on key issues from a Catholic perspective.

These resources are being made available to assist Catholics in preparing conscietiously for the presidential election.

For the full text of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' Forming Consciences for Faithful Citizenship, click here.

For a summary of Faithful Citizenship, click here.

For a comparison of the presidential candidates positions on key issues, prepared by the Pennsylvania Catholic Conference, click here.

The Parish Mass for the Twenty-Ninth Sunday of Ordinary Time, October 18^th, is available. It is pre-recorded, and, although not live stream, is available at any time.

The parish continues to stream Sunday and Holyday Masses.

The weekend Mass schedule had to be modified to allow enough time between the Masses for sanitizing:

Face masks must be worn by all attending Mass, and social distance must be maintained while seated and while processing in and out of Church and to and from Communion.

After each Mass the Church (or Chapel) must be sanitized.

In the Church's view, the family is the domestic Church, so Father McLaughlin has suggested that during this crisis when attendance at Sunday Mass is not an option, the head of the family leads the entire family in prayer each Sunday.

A resource has been developed to provide a ritual by which families, "the domestic church," can keep the Lord's day holy by joining together to celebrate part of the Church's liturgy at home. Ideally, the head of the family will lead the service; other members of the family should take on roles as readers. Each ritual for home is for a specific Sunday or holyday; it includes the Readings used at Mass and thus unites the family with the Masses that are being celebrated throughout the world. It could also be used in following the Liturgy of the Word in a televised or live stream Mass.

Click here for more information on People to People Sunday.

The Meals for the Homeless program continues. Frozen casseroles are collected monthly to be used by St. John's Hospice ministry to the homeless in central Philadelphia. The next collection is Sunday and Monday, July 19^th and 20^th. They are dropped off at 20 Worthington Mill Road

The staff at St. John's Hospice have told us they are preparing trays for take-out.

Click here for more information on Meals for Homeless.