Posts by Rick Caporali

Summer is here!     Please note: due to summer schedules, there will be NO 7AM Mass on Wednesday–Friday July 23–25 and Monday–Tuesday July 28–29.     Registration for Religious Education classes for the 2025-2026 school year have begun. Please visit our link on the parish website.     Thank you to all who have…

Dear Good People of Saint Bernadette, As you know this weekend, I am in Tainan City, Taiwan at a conference of Pure Land Buddhists. It is called the “Ceremony for the Third Year of Venerable Master Chin Kung’s Nirvana.” Master Chin Kung was a great international leader in interreligious dialogue and, like Pope Francis, found…

Summer is here!     Please note: due to summer schedules, there will be NO 7AM Mass on Wednesday–Friday July 23–25 and Monday–Tuesday July 28–29.     Registration for Religious Education classes for the 2025-2026 school year have begun. Please visit our link on the parish website.     Thank you to all who have…

Dear Good People of Saint Bernadette, Some clergy of the Burke-Springfield area meet monthly just to check in and learn what is going on the community. We met this week to plan our upcoming interfaith Thanksgiving prayer service (which we will host here Tuesday, November 25!) and another program in which our congregations hopefully will…

Dear Good People of Saint Bernadette, Recently I was talking with a baptized Christian who is considering joining the Catholic Church through the OCIA Process. (Yes, not a typo – see p. 7.) He had many questions and found aspects of the Church confusing. I said, “I know, right?” It was interesting how most of…

Summer is here!     Please note: due to summer schedules, there will be NO 7AM Mass on Wednesday–Friday July 23–25 and Monday–Tuesday July 28–29.     Registration for Religious Education classes for the 2025-2026 school year have begun. Please visit our link on the parish website.     Thank you to all who have…

Dear Good People of Saint Bernadette, I’ve been wanting to write an article about Catholic Relief Services, a charity that I personally support, and how they have been impacted in the first half of this year. CRS was established by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops 82 years ago, to be the global heart and…

Summer is here!       Registration for Religious Education classes for the 2025-2026 school year have begun. Please visit our link on the parish website.     ECHO is looking for volunteers 13 years old or older to help stuff 1300 backpacks with school supplies. These will be distributed before school starts to families…

Dear Good People of Saint Bernadette, I came across this 2021 article by Kelly Marcum, a writer for the National Catholic Register, addressing the post-pandemic world. I think there are greater things today that people may be fearful of, so I thought I would reprint it here. The world says it wants you to be…

Summer is here!       Registration for Religious Education classes for the 2025-2026 school year have begun. Please visit our link on the parish website.     Plan to stay a little after the 5pm Mass on Corpus Christi Sunday, June 22, for a eucharistic procession, devotions, and benediction.     Please keep our…