🍅🍪🍝FOOD PANTRY UPDATE 🍞🥕🥫

Thanks to the generosity of parishioners and other donors, we now serve about 20-30 persons per day on the 2nd and 4th Saturday of each month.

New volunteers are always welcome.  See Warecatholic.org/foodpantry for more info……

Thank you to all who are so faithful with donations!

49th Annual Catholic Charismatic Renewal Retreat will be held October 25-27, 2024 at Holy Family Passionist Retreat Center, West Hartford, CT. with Father Anthony Gramlich, M.I.C. presenting “Marian Apparitions in the History of the World”. And music by SynergyPraise.  This event is presented by the Catholic Charismatic Renewal of the Diocese of Springfield. 

All are welcome. 

Come renew your life in a spiritual weekend.  For more information call Alexandra at 413 320-9177, or email: catholiccharismaticrenewal6@gmail.com

Looking to expand your faith and get more involved with your community? Please check out the Faith Community section of our website to learn more about the many great faith driven programs we have in both our local community and within the Diocese of Springfield. 

First Saturday Meditations at Mary Farm

The Apostolate of the Suffering, joined with the Friends of the Cross, are offering three-fold meditations at Mary Farm year-round (January – December) on the First Saturday of each month from 10am to 12 noon, (rain or shine).

The meditations start with a chosen topic from the Friends of the Cross writings by St. Louis DeMontfort, contemplating on what it takes to carry the Cross with Our Lord.  This is followed by the Holy Rosary meditation to fulfill the last part of the devotion requested by Our Lady of Fatima.* Lastly, the devotion of the Stations of the Cross is prayed outdoors during the warm months. 

The reflections are based on the visions and revelations from Our Lady to Venerable Sr. Mary of Agreda as she recorded them in her book, Mystical City of God.  In Fatima Our Lady asks us all to console her Immaculate Heart due to the vast ingratitude, blasphemies, and offenses against her by making reparations to her on the First Saturday of each month.  This includes:  Going to Confession and receiving Holy Communion, praying five decades of the Rosary, and in addition, meditating on the mysteries of the Rosary. We gather together at Mary Farm to complete this last part of this devotion to Our Lady; to meditate the Holy Rosary mysteries. 

All are invited; you need not be a member of the Apostolate to offer up some of your time to console the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Please contact Stasia Bronner with questions:  413-324-6708 or email:  stasiabronner@gmail.com.  Mary Farm is located at 1915 Ware Street,(Rt 32) Palmer, MA.

*Our Lady explained the First Saturdays to Sr. Lucia dos Santos, one of the Fatima visionaries on December 10, 1925 in the following way: 

“See, my daughter, my Heart encircled by thorns with which ungrateful men pierce it at every moment by their blasphemies and ingratitude.  Do you, at least, strive to console me.  Tell them that I promise to assist at the hour of death with the graces necessary for salvation those who, in order to make reparation to me, on the First Saturday of five successive months, go to Confession, receive Holy Communion, say five decades of the Rosary, and keep me company for a quarter of an hour, meditating on the …mysteries of the Rosary.”  (This is in addition to praying the five decades.) 

Marriage Help Available

If your marriage has become troubled and stressed, unloving or uncaring; even if you are divorced or separated but want to try again, the Retrouvaille program can help. Retrouvaille provides tools to communicate better, resolve conflicts fairly, and rediscover why you fell in love. The program is offered locally three times a year.

For information, call confidentially 1-800-470-2230, email helds4marriage@gmail.com, or visit our website www.helpourmarriage.org for information & registration.