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The Code of Canon Law of the Catholic Church calls for two consultative bodies to be present in each parish: 1) a Finance Council, which is an obligation of each parish and stands on its own within a parish; and 2) a Pastoral Council, which is the personal and pastoral board of consulters to the pastor. A Pastoral Council requires a pastor to be in place. There is actually no such body as a Parish Council envisioned by the law. Read more.

This weekend we are launching the Annual Catholic Appeal in our parish. While we normally do so in February with the rest of the diocese, because we were in the midst of the Faith to Move Mountains campaign we were granted an extension. Read more.

This weekend we are happy to welcome seminarian Frank Flaherty for the summer. He will be here on a pastoral assignment from June 10th until July 23rd. Frank just completed his first year of theology at St. Charles Borromeo Seminary in Wynnewood, Pennsylvania. Read more.

Another Sunday afternoon, another call from Bay Shore Community Hospital, another overdose from heroin, yet another family huddled around a gurney awaiting the results of testing. Whether or not the patient survives her life and the lives of her family, friends, boyfriend, will be changed forever. While this might – hopefully – be the rock bottom moment needed to confront the addiction for this one person, the chances now of life returning to a familiar normal seem unlikely.