Candles will be blessed in both Masses on Sunday, 2/2/25. The blessing happens at the beginning of the Mass, so please do not be late, because Father won't do the same blessing for your candles after the Mass.
Per the calendar here on the parish website, announced on FB, and announced at the parish, Father is taking 2 vacation days Friday and Saturday this week. No regular Masses or confessions.
Our parish is quite small still, and we want to foster united across our parish community, allowing people to connect and support each other. For Christmas, there will be a vigil on 12/24 at 6 pm, and Mass on Christmas Day at 10 am. For New Year's Day, a Mass at 10 am. We look forward to a blessed Christmas season coming toward us!
We will move from Anedot to ParishSoft Giving in 2025, enabling to more easily integrate automated giving with accounting and database management. We are working on setting it up for not only normal general fund giving, but also with an option for giving directly to the building fund / capital campaign. The link for this, which will replace the link near the the top of the homepage at the end of the month, is https://giving.parishsoft.com/app/giving/stjo1663562
St. John Fisher will have Masses on Monday, 12/9/24, at 12 pm, noon, and 6 pm for the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
-- Friday is All Saints, a Holy Day of Obligation. To intentionally choose to skip Mass would be a mortal sin. Masses at our parish will be 7 am and 6 pm.
-- Saturday is All Souls, NOT a Holy Day of Obligation, but a wonderful day to pray for the dead anyway.
-- Sunday is the 1st Sunday of November, so TIME CHANGE (fall back 1 hour overnight), and monthly parish potluck after the 10:15 Mass.
1: Please see the All Souls note prior to this. 2: Incarnation, our fellow Ordinariate parish in Orlando, had another incident with fire last night, so please keep them in prayer as they assess what needs to happen moving forward. 3: Immaculate Conception IS a Holy Day of Obligation, even though it is transferred off of the 2nd Sunday of Advent, 12/8/24, to the day following, 12/9/24. Monday Mass is at noon, and there will be a second Mass time, whether 7 am or 6 pm, as yet undetermined.
Each year, we celebrate the Solemnity of All Saints on 11/1, a Holy Day of Obligation (root of the word “holiday”), and the Commemoration of All the Faithful Departed, or All Souls, on 11/2. For the octave that begins November (11/1-11/8), plenary indulgences are available daily, applicable strictly for the Holy Souls in Purgatory. You are invited to devise a list of departed souls that you would like prayed for during this octave. This will be a corporate Mass Intention for the parish, and the list of these souls will remain at the altar throughout the octave, and largely throughout the month of November, which is dedicated to the Holy Souls. The recommended donation (to Father, not in the offering/tithe box) for a Mass Intention is $10, but I’ll never turn anyone away who is in need. Coordinate directly with Father (email or in person). — If the 1 Billion+ Catholics on planet earth were to each receive a plenary indulgence every day of the octave, mathematically, we would empty purgatory.
The Ordinariate, our diocese, has its annual clergy conference in Houston, TX next week. The calendar already reflects this, but please note there will be NO daily Masses, confessions, Adoration, October 7-12. I will depart after Sunday Masses are complete on October 6, and return in time for Sunday Masses on October 13.
If you wish for Mass to be offered for the soul of another, Mass intentions are open for October-December 2024. Please coordinate directly with Father. Recommended Mass intention donation is $10.
September potluck shifted from 9/1 to 9/8 because of Labor Day weekend; we’ll start a novena to St. John Fisher, 9/1-9/9. — Exaltation of the Holy Cross, feast day (not solemnity, as erroneously typed), 9/14, with Ember Days following on 9/18, 9/20, and 9/21.
The parish liturgical schedule on this website is not set. SEE PARISH CALENDAR UNDER “EVENTS & NEWS." New schedule will be finalized in a parish “family meeting” on Sunday, July 28, at 9 am. All are invited.