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The 2025 Parish Picnic is on September 21! More information will be available soon, and volunteer sign-up is now available now!

Sign up on the website at https://www.stmarkstlukeparish.org/home/volunteer/

or use the sign-up sheets in the church.

Order forms are due to be returned by Sunday August 24 2025, so be sure to pick up a form if you haven’t already! The forms are available in the St. Mark social hall, the office, and at St. Luke by the organ.

Thank you for your support!

Just a reminder: Mass at St. Mark during August is still at the usual times but will be held in the Social Hall. Construction in the Sanctuary is expected to be finished in early September and Masses will return to the Church!

Mass livestreams from St. Mark will resume when Mass returns to the church. In the meantime, if you are looking for a Mass livestream, check out our Diocese’ St. Patrick Cathedral YouTube site:

https://www.youtube.com/@cathedralparishofsaintpatr8006/streams

Please call the parish office if you’d like to volunteer. We need help welcoming moviegoers and serving refreshments.

This Sunday EVEYONE is invited to join us after the 9AM Mass for a family of family breakfast, celebrating our Grandparents! Hope to see you there!

Pope Francis has established the World Day of Grandparents and the Elderly to be celebrated every year on the fourth Sunday of July. The choice of the fourth Sunday of July is transparently to connect it, as closely as possible, to the July 26 feast of Saint Joachim and Anne, the parents of Mary and grandparents of Jesus. This link to Jesus’ family tree and to salvation history suggests that everyone’s genealogy and personal prehistory is part of the providential plan of God. Family is priceless, and the role of grandparents is truly one of a kind. With a lifetime of experience and wisdom, they offer guidance, laughter, and love, making them some of  the most treasured members of  any family, and that’s why cherishing time with them is so important.

• Projects at St. Mark – Brochure with Pictures
• Capital Campaign Letter from Fr. Augusty
• Video of Campaign Kick-Off Presentation during Mass on July 20 2025

There will be adoration all day this Friday, June 27^th starting after the daily Mass at 10:00 AM till 6:00 PM when there will be Evening Prayer and Benediction.  All are invited to spend an hour or more with our Lord.

The Knights of Columbus Traveling Sacred Heart Icon is currently reposed in the Church at St. Mark. There is a sign-up sheet on the church bulletin board for anyone to commit an hour to be in the presence of the Sacrament.

After the procession we will come together in the social hall for a spaghetti dinner hosted by the Knights of Columbus. All are welcome to join us for a beautiful afternoon of prayer, song, procession and fellowship.

Last weekend we were blessed to have a visiting priest from Cross Catholic Outreach. Thank you, Father Mac!
More than ever, the poor in developing countries desperately need food, water, shelter, medical care and spiritual nourishment. To support those ministry efforts, please go to CrossCatholic.org/outreach.

Fr. Farrell E. “Mac” McLaughlin will be visiting our parish next weekend (May 17-18 2025) to speak at all the Masses on behalf of Cross Catholic Outreach, which was founded to forge a stronger and more supportive link between parishes in America and the priests and nuns serving the poor in the Caribbean, Africa, Southeast Asia, and Central and South America.

Father McLaughlin was ordained in 1971 in the Diocese of Providence,
Rhode Island. He spent several years in youth ministry as a teacher, chaplain
and spiritual director. Most of his priesthood was spent in parish work, where
he served as a pastor for 25 years. Fr. Mac has done postgraduate work in
alcohol and substance abuse and recovery. He has given Matt Talbot Retreats
and 11th Step Retreats here in the U.S. and in Prince Edward Island. He
belongs to the National Catholic Council on Addictions, the Guest House
Institute, the Spiritual Advisor of the Diocesan Council of the St. Vincent de
Paul Society and the 4th Degree Knights of Columbus.

To learn more about the ministry of Cross Catholic Outreach and its mission to mobilize the global Catholic Church to transform the poor and their communities materially and spiritually for the glory of Jesus Christ, please visit CrossCatholic.org/outreach.