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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…

Dear Good People of Saint Bernadette, We look around today and are bewildered by the intolerance that people have for one another. It would be naive to expect everyone to agree, but is it naive to expect people to at least try to agree? And we’ve seen a lot of protests in recent years and…

Happy Father’s Day!       Registration for Religious Education classes for the 2025-2026 school year have begun.     Please plan to join us for an evening of sung prayer in the Taizé tradition. All are welcome. Monday evening, 16 June 8-8:45m the church.     Parish offices will be closed on Friday 20…

Dear Good People of Saint Bernadette, You might think that Christmas or Easter might be the busiest times of the year for the parish. They are busy, for sure, especially when you think of all the confessions leading up to them and preparations of the church and liturgies. But this year, I think the last…

      Join us on Pentecost Sunday, June 8 for Solemn Vespers, following the 5pm Mass at 6:15pm.  A most beautiful way to close the Easter Season celebrating the birthday of the Church. The Novena to the Holy Spirit began Friday, May 30. You will find the text of the prayers in a handy pull-out…

Dear Good People of Saint Bernadette, One sad effect of moving Ascension Thursday to Sunday is that we don’t hear the Gospel from the Seventh Sunday of Easter, when Jesus’ last prayer to the Father before his arrest is that we be one as they are one. Pope Leo gave a beautiful homily about it…