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Ember Days (Optional) Four times a year, the Church sets aside three days to focus on God through His marvelous creation. These quarterly periods take place around the beginnings of the four natural seasons. These four times are each kept on a successive Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday and are known as “Ember Days,” or Quatuor […]

What do our wee PPA Kindergarteners and First Graders do when Christmas is near and they want to take a field trip? Why, Knotts Merry Farm of course; it’s nearby, it’s a ton of fun and it’s all things traditionally Christmas! Our students saw the Calico Carolers, colorfully dressed in Dickens’ Victorian garb, who sang […]

The Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe is this Thursday, December 12. Won’t you please join the student body of Padre Pio Academy at morning Mass for this occasion? After Mass we’ll process around the campus carrying the image of Our Lady and singing Marian hymns. A stop will be made at each of the […]

As we celebrate our Thanksgiving, let us be ever faithful and grateful to Most Blessed Trinity, who gave us our life, our families, each member as gifts to us, our Savior Jesus, who gave Himself for us, our Hope, that Heaven is awaiting our reaching IT and for the gift of the Holy Ghost cleansing […]

DOMINICA XXIV ET ULTIMA POST PENTECOSTEN “And unless those days had been shortened, no living creature would be saved. But for the sake of the elect those days will be shortened” This is one of three phrases I want to highlight today. Many people have asked me several times how is this possible. How can […]

*Remember to pick up your calendar for the coming year. Monsignor worked very hard to prepare this for our parish. As Monsignor said at Mass, “It is a journey on which the Liturgical Year takes our souls on throughout the entire year”. Monsignor began the sermon by reciting the Hail Mary. My dear faithful, what […]