Coffee & Donuts - Join us after the 10am Mass today for Coffee and Donuts in the Social Hall in the basement of the School Building.
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.
Youth Group this Saturday - Our next Youth Group meeting (ages 13—18) will be on Saturday, September 15. Join us for an Escape Room and a talk by Fr Eichman. For more information about the evening event contact us at YouthGroup@MaterDeiPA.com
Rosary for the Unborn - Following 8am Adoration and 9am Mass on Saturday, July 16, we will pray the Rosary and Litany of the Sacred Heart at St. Lawrence for the protection of the unborn. Please join us and pray, united with our Lady. Contact: panisangelicus46@gmail.com
Adult Convert / Confirmation Classes Beginning - The Convert/Adult Confirmation class will be taught by Father Franco on Thursday evenings at 7pm beginning September 13. They will be given in the downstairs Social Hall. Classes are open to all who wish to attend. Direct any questions to Fr. Franco at Fr.Franco@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.
Ordination Ceremonies at St. Lawrence - Over the course of this coming year, Brother Thomas Mary of Jesus of the Hermits of Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Fairfield, PA will be receiving the Minor Orders, Subdiaconate, Diaconate and Priestly Ordination. These ordinations will be conferred by Bishop Gainer at St. Lawrence under the direction of Fr Eichman and Fr Franco and with the assistance of our Knights of the Altar and Mater Dei choir. This is a very unique and privileged opportunity for a parish to host these sacred ceremonies which rarely take place anywhere beside a Cathedral.
The Hermits of Our Lady of Mount Carmel is a religious community with canonical status as a Roman Catholic Private Association of the Faithful under the canonical jurisdiction of the Diocese of Harrisburg. . .I encourage the support of this community’s charism, growth and apostolate.
~Excerpt from a letter by Bishop Gainer, March 5, 2018
The Hermits of Our Lady of Mount Carmel is a Roman Catholic religious community that observes the eremitical Carmelite charism. Following the first hermits on Mount Carmel who, “in imitation of that holy anchorite the prophet Elijah, led solitary lives,” the charism and Constitutions of the community are based upon the observance of the Primitive Rule of St. Albert in its original character of eremitical contemplative religious life. They make exclusive use of the Missal and other liturgical books in use prior to 1962. For information concerning the Hermits visit: www.eremitaednmc.org.
Save the Dates
Sunday, October 21, 11:30am: All Saints Party at St Lawrence
Sunday, October 28, 12:30pm*: Pontifical Low Mass by Bishop Gainer with Conferral of Minor Orders on Br. Thomas Mary of Jesus
Saturday, December 8, 10:00am**:Solemn Pontifical High Mass by Bishop Gainer with Conferral of Diaconate on Br. Thomas Mary of Jesus
Sunday, March 10—13, 2019: Lenten Mission Preached by Fr Joseph Tuscan OFM Cap.
Saturday, June 8, 2019, 10:00am: Confirmations conferred by Bishop Gainer
*The Sunday schedule will include the regular 8:00am & 10:00am Masses. But if possible parishioners are encouraged to attend this 12:30pm Mass with ordination.
**Mass schedule will be: 7:00am Low Mass, 9:00am Solemn Pontifical Mass. No Holy Hour.