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Today’s Live-Streamed Worship Aid for the Second Sunday in Advent     Keep in your giving plans for the holidays the annual Catholic Charities’ Christmas Collection December 7 – 8 which provides a large portion of the annual budget for diocesan charitable works. Please be generous.     The Springfield Council of the Knights of…

Dear Good People of Saint Bernadette, Congratulations, newly-confirmed and fully-initiated members of the parish! Celebration last week was beautiful, one of the nicest confirmation liturgies I can remember, and I was in meetings with Bishop Burbidge the two days following and he kept telling everyone that Saint Bernadette’s confirmation class wins the award for the…

Dear Good People of Saint Bernadette, I came across an account of the real stories of the times that our celebrations of Thanksgiving Day look back to, almost with fond memory, and realized that we have more to consider in our Thanksgiving holiday, including our debt to the peoples whose lands we inhabit today. Our…

Today’s Live-Streamed Worship Aid for Christ the King     You are invited to our Burke/Springfield Thanksgiving Interfaith Prayer Service on Tuesday, November 26, at 7:30pm at St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church. Please join us.      Start the Christmas Season making a beautiful Family Advent Wreath! Join the Women’s Group on Sunday November 24 following…

Today’s Live-Streamed Worship Aid for 33rd Sunday in Ordinary Time     Join us for Taizé Prayer Service on Monday 18 November, at 8pm. Come pray for unity in our community and the world. All are invited.     Do you want to create Heaven in Your Home? Join us for a free dinner, family…

Dear Good People of Saint Bernadette, This week I had the luxury of most of a day spent with three retired Lutheran pastor friends, and we talked about the 20 years we worked together as ecumenists in the work of Christian Unity. All three of them were pastors in the northern Virginia area, and all…

Today’s Live-Streamed Worship Aid for 32nd Sunday in Ordinary Time     Join us for Taizé Prayer Service on Monday 18 November, at 8pm. Come pray for unity in our community and the world. All are invited.     There will be only one Mass at 10 am on Thanksgiving Day. To thank God for…

Dear Good People of Saint Bernadette, Not even 12 hours back from pilgrimage last weekend, I celebrated Mass for the Boy Scouts and Cub Scouts at a campground in Haymarket. I talked about this at the 11am Mass. During the Mass I had images in my mind of the many cathedrals and shrines where we…

Dear Good People of Saint Bernadette, Seems like a couple of weeks since I wrote to all of you in the bulletin. We have traveled from one city to another, each time getting acquainted with the saints who lived there, who are recognized by the Church for their heroic virtue, completing the mission and outcome…

Today’s Live-Streamed Worship Aid for 31st Sunday in Ordinary Time   Members of the Knights of Columbus distributed shoe-box sized cartons to parishioners following all Masses last weekend and parishioners were invited to take home a box and fill it with itmes for boy and girls ranging from 2 to 15. Completed boxes are being…