Encouraging the Culture of Encounter with Jesus Christ, His Church, and All People Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, Honoring Marriage Month. As you have already noticed, we are praying for married couples and the sacrament of marriage as our post-Mass devotional this month. In the bulletin is a whole page of marriage resources and retreat opportunities. Check it out In addition there will be a special blessing of married couples after all the Masses next weekend (Feb 22,23). If you feel so inclined wear your wedding dresses and tuxedos! Or if that is not possible, dress up special and rejoice in God’s blessing of you marriage!

Beginning Ash Wednesday February 26, we will begin chanting "Ave Regina Caelorum" throughout the Lenten Season.

Encouraging the Culture of Encounter with Jesus Christ, His Church, and All People Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, Catholic Charities Appeal Thank you to all who participated in this year’s Catholic Charities Appeal. This year’s theme is “Faces of Hope: Though We are Many, We are One in Christ.” Please know that even though this is a diocesan collection, the benefits come back to helping people in our parish who benefit from Summit County Catholic Charity services

Encouraging the Culture of Encounter with Jesus Christ, His Church, and All People Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, Catholic Charities Appeal This weekend is the first of two opportunities to support the Catholic Charities Annual Diocesan Appeal. The second weekend will be in a few months. This weekend we will hear a recording from Bishop Perez, who graciously chose one of his final acts as bishop of Cleveland to be with us on our Feast day two weeks ago.

Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, Happy Candlemas Day! Since the Feast of the Presentation (Candlemas) falls on a Sunday this year we will have the traditional procession with candles (weather permitting) at the 8:15 Mass. So when you arrive go to the PAC if want to walk in the procession. We will bless candles.

Encouraging the Culture of Encounter with Jesus Christ, His Church, and All People Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, Happy Feast Day!!! May God’s blessings and joy be with us all during this great celebration of our patronal feast! St. Paul, pray for us! One might be tempted to complain that every year our big celebration is in January usually with cold, snow, ice, or slush. It is tough to get out, it is still getting dark pretty early, and there is a grey “blah” feeling.

Encouraging the Culture of Encounter with Jesus Christ, His Church, and All People Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, Eucharistic Devotions Every year our Eucharistic Devotions coincide with celebrating our parish Patronal Feast. What a busy but grace-filled time, and quite fitting since as a parish we strive to keep our Eucharistic Lord at the center of all we do. This year will be a little different since the Bishop will be here for the Feast Day.

Encouraging the Encounter with Jesus Christ, His Church, and All People Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, Merry Christmas and Happy Epiphany! and Get ready for our Feast Day! I know the Christmas season ends after this weekend, but let’s celebrate and get out of it as much as we can! Hopefully this time has been grace filled and spiritually fruitful for us. May we continue to foster that spirit through the year.

Encouraging the Culture of Encounter with Jesus Christ, His Church, and All People   Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ,   Keep Christmas Going! The season of Advent was all preparation for a major step in God’s saving mission.  Now we celebrate that event and meditate on it for a while.  Going deeper this Christmas season will help get ready for the next steps that lead us to Christ’s Passion, Death, and Resurrection. 

Encouraging the Culture of Encounter with Jesus Christ, His Church, and All People Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, Merry Christmas and Happy Feast of the Holy Family! We continue in this great octave of Christmas celebrating the sublime truth of God the Son, having assumed a human nature to Himself was born of the Virgin Mary to usher in new hope of salvation. God in perfect love condescends to His fallen sinful creatures and is born among them utterly vulnerable.

Encouraging the Culture of Encounter with Jesus Christ, His Church, and All People Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, The “Advent Turn” Toward the Nativity What we might call the “Advent turn” is complete. I do not mean here the turning toward the Lord with “ad orientem” worship (which we have already been doing for 3 weeks). I mean it here like turning a corner.

Perhaps seventy-five or more people attended Saturday mornings Rorate Caeli Mass. It was a beautiful Mass honoring our Blessed Mother. The entire mass was said in candlelight.

Encouraging the Culture of Encounter with Jesus Christ, His Church, and All People Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, Happy Gaudete Sunday and “O” Antiphons The Third Sunday of Advent is Gaudete (Latin for “Rejoice”) Sunday. Today is a little liturgical oasis when we wear rose colored vestments pointing us to the joy that is soon to come. This day also functions as a hinge in our Advent focus.

Encouraging the Culture of Encounter with Jesus Christ, His Church, and All People Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, St. Paul’s “4th Journey” Initiative We continue to give thanks as a parish for this 100th year celebration. Our focus is three-fold: History, Spirituality, and Evangelization. We are now emphasizing the evangelization, which is why we started our “4th Journey” to follow the example of St. Paul who reached out to the greater community and preached the Gospel.

Our Pastor, Fr. Pfeiffer, Jeanne Bearer and Ron McAvoy visited AM1260 The Rock Radio Station on Tuesday, November 12th and were interviewed about our parish. Visit https://am1260therock.com/where-we-worship/ to listen to the broadcast.

Encouraging the Culture of Encounter with Jesus Christ, His Church, and All People Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, St. Paul’s “4th Journey” Initiative I hope everyone had a Happy Thanksgiving! We continue to give thanks as a parish for this 100th year celebration. Part of our focus is to reach out to others, which is why we started our “4th Journey” to follow the example of St. Paul who reached out to the greater community and preached the Gospel.

Encouraging the Culture of Encounter with Jesus Christ, His Church, and All People Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, Christ is King!!! In the early part of the 20th century the spread of modernism was gaining even more sway in culture, philosophy, and politics. We still suffer from this heresy even today. As this way of thinking built up steam the thought that we could arrive at a perfect world through our own efforts became fashionable. Leading to the soviet revolution and the claim that God no longer had a place in the world of politics or government; a new government based in atheism would lead the world to peace. The Church in Her wisdom knew this was to lead to bad things.

Encouraging the Culture of Encounter with Jesus Christ, His Church, and All People Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, St. Paul’s “4th Journey” Initiative As part of this year’s evangelization effort we are in need of volunteers to help reach out to fellow parishioners. The goal is to reach ALL of them as best we can, including those that we have not seen in a while. In part this is a practical matter of verifying our records and to know just how many parishioners we have. This is difficult since the church is not “big-brother” keeping tabs on everyone, and not everyone thinks to stay in contact with the parish if things change.

Encouraging the Culture of Encounter with Jesus Christ, His Church, and All People Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, St. Paul’s “4th Journey” Initiative As part of this year’s evangelization effort we are in need of volunteers to help reach out to fellow parishioners. The goal is to reach ALL of them as best we can, including those that we have not seen in a while. In part this is a practical matter of verifying our records and to know just how many parishioners we have.

Encouraging the Culture of Encounter with Jesus Christ, His Church, and All People Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, Requiescat in Pace, Bishop Lennon Having suffered ill health these past few years, last Tuesday morning our former Bishop of Cleveland, Richard Lennon, died with the consolation of the sacraments. We pray for the repose of his soul. In a special way I thank him for his ministry.