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While our parish and school family was rocked and devastated by the passing of Lauren Hewski in May, her parents Dennis and Kim, have channeled their grief into an opportunity to honor her legacy and promote the gifts and talents of students both here at SBS and St. John Vianney HS, where Lauren was a senior. Read more.

It sure seems that summer is flying by, and we are entering those fateful last two weeks of August when somehow we seem to have to scramble to do all of those things that we swore we would do this summer. Good luck! Read more.

This week we observe the Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Mother, a Holy Day of Obligation. Mass times are in the bulletin. Friday we celebrate the Mass of Anointing of the Sick. Anyone who has a serious medical condition should consider attending for the sacrament. Read more.

Today we celebrate the Solemnity of the Transfiguration, one of the few events on the calendar of the church that is so important that it supersedes a Sunday celebration. Tradition holds that the Transfiguration happened forty days before the crucifixion of Jesus, so that the two paramount and defining moments in the life of Jesus point back and forward to each other. This is the second time this year that we will have heard this account, as the Transfiguration Gospel is always proclaimed on the Second Sunday of Lent. Read more.