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    Rise Against Hunger / Saint Bernadette Dining Nights Out Monday, 14 September, El Paso, Commerce Street, All Day present our flyer or mention Saint Bernadette when ordering! ANNOUNCEMENTS for the 23rd Week in Ordinary Time        Watch your mailbox! All registered parishioners will be receiving our Parish Renewal Handbook, Ministry Catalog…

Dear Good People of Saint Bernadette, Labor Day every year gives us a chance to review Catholic Social Teaching which views work as a participation in God’s creation and insists that the economy must serve people rather than people serving the economy. There is “no time like the present,” as my mom used to say,…

    Rise Against Hunger / Saint Bernadette Dining Nights Out Monday, 31 August, McAlister’s Deli Rolling Road, 4-8pm present our flyer or mention Saint Bernadette when ordering! ANNOUNCEMENTS for the 21st Week in Ordinary Time       Mark your calendars! Our parish multicultural observance of the bishops’ National Prayer Service “Honoring the many…

Dear Good People of Saint Bernadette, A couple of things this week. You’ll be seeing a lot from the Church during the next few weeks about the upcoming election in which the people of Virginia will vote about three constitutional amendments. You are welcome to read Bishop Burbidge and Knestout’s letter on pp. 8-9 of…

Dear Good People of Saint Bernadette, Once I asked A.I. the origin of the word “pastor.” The word “pastor” originates from the Latin word “pastor,” meaning “shepherd.” This term, in turn, comes from the Latin verb “pascere”, which means “to lead to pasture, set to grazing, cause to eat.” In religious contexts, particularly within Christianity,…

    Rise Against Hunger / Saint Bernadette Dining Nights Out Monday, 31 August, McAlister’s Deli Rolling Road, 4-8pm present our flyer or mention Saint Bernadette when ordering! ANNOUNCEMENTS for the 21st Week in Ordinary Time       Mark your calendars! Our parish multicultural observance of the bishops’ National Prayer Service “Honoring the many…

    Rise Against Hunger / Saint Bernadette Dining Nights Out Thursday, 18 August, Delia’s, Backlick Road, Open to Close present our flyer or mention Saint Bernadette when ordering! ANNOUNCEMENTS for the  20th Week in Ordinary Time       Saint Bernadette School Alumni are warmly invited Sunday evening, August 16 to the 5pm Mass.…

Dear Good People of Saint Bernadette, Youth of Saint Bernadette: pay attention! (Adults, you can, too!) Send this page to your children away at school, or to youth in your neighborhoods who are starting out on their own with a wide future ahead. I came across this article in Vatican News about what Pope Leo…

    Rise Against Hunger / Saint Bernadette Dining Nights Out Thursday, 18 August, Delia’s, Backlick Road, Open to Close present our flyer or mention Saint Bernadette when ordering! ANNOUNCEMENTS for the 19th Week in Ordinary Time       Saint Bernadette School Alumni are warmly invited Sunday evening, August 16 to the 5pm Mass.…

Dear Good People of Saint Bernadette, Until I started looking into it, I wondered what the big deal was about Artificial Intelligence. I think of the Matrix movie: scary. The rise of the machines? Is that where we are headed? We see robots on TV from time to time but they seem a little clumsy,…