Coffee & Donuts - Join us after both the 8am & 10am Masses today for Coffee and Donuts in the Social Hall in the basement of the School Building.
Homeschool Co-op this Fall - We are currently planning the fall semester of our homeschool co-op. This will be the fourth year of our co-op and the second consecutive year that it will include the chorister program. If you are interested in joining the program for the first time please contact the office at contact@MaterDeiPA.com
Catechism Classes - Registration for our Catechism program is now open. Register by going to MaterDeiPA.com and following the link near the top of the page. A mandatory parent meeting will be held on Sunday, September 23rd at 9:15AM. The first day of classes will be on October 7th. All students must be registered parishioners of Mater Dei.
Online Giving - Online giving is available on our website. You can make a one time gift to Mater Dei or to set up recurring monthly offerings. Visit MaterDeiPA.com and click “Donate.”
Adult Convert / Confirmation Classes Beginning - The Convert classes will be taught by Fr Franco on Thursday evenings at 7pm beginning September 13. They will be given in the downstairs Social Hall. Classes are open
Next Youth Group - Our next Youth Group meeting (ages 13—18) will be on Saturday, September 15. For more information about the evening event contact us at YouthGroup@MaterDeiPA.com
Charitable Bequests - Many of the Church’s most helpful gifts come from the estates of generous donors. As we at Mater Dei look ahead to our future challenges we ask you to please remember Mater Dei in your will or living trust. Contact Fr Eichman with any questions.
Mass Intentions - Mass intentions are all filled for the rest of the 2018 calendar year. We are not currently taking any more intentions. As January approaches we will resume taking new intentions.
Hand Missals For Sale - The parish office has daily hand missals in stock for $55 per Missal. We offer the Missal published in 2008 by Baronius Press in association with the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter.
Truth, not eloquence, is to be sought in reading the Holy Scriptures; and every part must be read in the spirit in which it was written. For in the Scriptures we ought to seek profit rather than polished diction.
Likewise we ought to read simple and devout books as willingly as learned and profound ones. We ought not to be swayed by the authority of the writer, whether he be a great literary light or an insignificant person, but by the love of simple truth. We ought not to ask who is speaking, but mark what is said. Men pass away, but the truth of the Lord remains forever. God speaks to us in many ways without regard for persons.
Our curiosity often impedes our reading of the Scriptures, when we wish to understand and mull over what we ought simply to read and pass by.
If you would profit from it, therefore, read with humility, simplicity, and faith, and never seek a reputation for being learned. Seek willingly and listen attentively to the words of the saints; do not be displeased with the sayings of the ancients, for they were not made without purpose.
Imitation of Christ, Book I, Chapter 5