Entries for May 2017

SATURDAY, MAY 27 - 9 AM - 1 PM (Behind the church on School Street) Pine Coffee Table - $10 Small Pine Chair with Cushion - $10 Household Items: Knick Knacks, Dishes, Lamps, Vases, Decorations, Wreaths, Pictures, Toys, Books, Seasonal Items New Items Arriving Monthly!

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The third annual summer lunch program is underway once again being held at the Masonic Lodge Fellowship Hall on 5th Street in Jim Thorpe. Volunteers from our parish for this years program are needed for the week of June 26-30 to help greet, serve and assist in clean-up from 10:00 AM - 2 PM. Last year over 2,000 meals were served to individuals ages 2-96. If you can volunteer some time to this worthy cause, please contact Theresa Kattner who is handling the volunteers for our parish at 570-325-2658 or the parish office at 570-325-3731 so that schedules can be completed.

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It was July 1880 that Reverend Mother traveled to Mauch Chunk to visit the Sisters there. Sister Clothilde, Superior of that mission relates it. “The first time we had the joy of greeting our Reverend Mother was shortly after her arrival in New York on her way to Wilkes-Barre when she contacted Mauch Chunk by a telegram. We all went to the railroad station energized with such joyful excitement that we could scarcely wait for the moment when the train would deposit the one so long awaited and so jubilantly to be welcomed. To our great joy we were allowed to ride along for several stations and then partied, in the j...

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This Spring marks 100 years since the Fatima apparitions, and an opportunity to reflect deeply again upon their message. The Angel of Peace appeared three times to the shepherd children, Lucia, Jacinta and Francisco, beginning in the Spring of 1916 in Fatima, Portugal. These visitations prepared the way for the six apparitions of Our Lady of Fatima the following year. The message of Fatima may be lost sometimes in the mysterious and the spectacular: the apparitions; the “three secrets;” the dancing of the sun.” Yet, the main entreaties from Heaven concerned our day-to-day earthly activities and how these ...

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