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1st Holy Communion–Sunday, May 19th 2PM

stvadmin — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 16:48:50 +0000

Confirmation–Tuesday, May 28th 7pm

stvadmin — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 16:47:51 +0000

Corpus Christi Procession–Sunday, June 2nd following 11:30am Mass

stvadmin — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 16:46:14 +0000

NO DAILY MASS APRIL 1ST – APRIL 4TH

stvadmin — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 17:21:28 +0000

EASTER VIGIL SAT 8PM; EASTER SUNDAY 8AM, 10AM, 11:30AM

stvadmin — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 22:21:49 +0000

GOOD FRIDAY SERVICE MARCH 29TH 3PM

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Annual St. Vincent de Paul Auction and Dance March 9th @ 6pm

stvadmin — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 17:43:20 +0000

Annual St. Vincent de Paul Auction and Dance to be held March 9, 2013 from 6:00 PM until midnight at The Gallagher Centre (Ohio Eastern Star). There will be food, spirits, silent auction followed by a live auction, and hoofing until midnight.

Click Here to make your reservations TODAY!

Fish Dinners and Stations of the Cross Begin February 15th

stvadmin — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 15:50:04 +0000

St. Vincent Lenten Fish Dinners begin February 15th from 4:30-7:00pm in the school gym. Stations of the Cross begin at 7:00pm in the Church. Both events are held every Friday (except Good Friday) during the Lenten Season. Stations of the Cross are also celebrated in church Tuesday mornings during Lent with the school children.

Wed, Feb 13th Ash Wednesday Mass Times 8:30am, 12:15pm, & 7PM

stvadmin — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 15:37:41 +0000

Ash Wednesday is not a Holy Day of Obligation. However, it is the beginning of the Lenten Season which is the primary penitential season in the Church’s liturgical year reflecting the forty days Jesus spent in the desert in fasting and prayer. Lent, the 40 days before Easter Sunday, is a season of the Church calendar set aside for Christians to do penance in preparation for the celebration of the resurrection of Jesus Christ, the principal event of the Christian calendar. Every catholic is encouraged to develop an individual Lenten schedule of fasting, prayer, and almsgiving. The Church requires every Catholic to do the following:

Every person 14 years of age or older must abstain from meat (and items made with meat) on Ash Wednesday, Good Friday, and all the Fridays of Lent unless a Solemnity falls on a Friday.
Every person between the age of 18 and 60 must fast on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday (the day Jesus was crucified). Anyone over the age of 18, but under the age of 60, should eat only one full meal on those days, although they can also have small amounts of food in the morning and the evening.
Every person 14 years of age or older must abstain from meat (and items made with meat) on all other Fridays of the year, unless he or she substitutes some other form of penance for abstinence.

For more information on this topic please click on the following link: http://catholicism.about.com/od/catholicliving/f/Fasting_Rules.htm

January 18-25 Week of Prayer for Christian Unity

stvadmin — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 04:49:55 +0000

The Week of Prayer for Christian Unity has been celebrated for more than a century: each year from the 18^th to the 25^th of January. A Catholic convert, Paul Wattson, proposed the dates in 1908, because they coincide with the traditional feast of the Chair of St. Peter and feast of the conversion of St. Paul.

“In this Week of Prayer for Unity (18-25 January), Christians — Catholic, Orthodox, Anglican and Protestant —meet with greater fervour to pray together. The division between Christ’s disciples is so obvious a contradiction that they cannot be resigned to it without feeling in some way responsible for it. The purpose of this particular week is to encourage the Christian community to devote itself more intensely to prayer, in order to experience at the same time how beautiful it is to live together as brothers and sisters. Despite the tensions sometimes caused by existing differences, these days give us in some way a foretaste of the joy that full communion will bring when it is finally achieved.” Blessed John Paul II

“All this is from God, who through Christ reconciled us to himself and gave us the ministry of reconciliation” (2 Cor 5:18).