From the Pastor's Desk (7/27/25)

From the Pastor's Desk

7/27/25


Tuesday Afternoon Confessions
A final reminder that effective August 1, 2025, Tuesday afternoon confessions (currently 4:00PM @ SFC) will end and will be returning in Advent and Lent at a new time.

Feast of San Rocco Mass
The annual Feast of San Rocco Mass will be held on Sunday, August 10 at 9:00AM at St. Titus Church with Msgr. Ronald Cellini, priest of the Diocese of Charleston, South Carolina, as Principal Celebrant. The traditional procession through the streets of Aliquippa will follow the Mass. This year marks the 100th anniversary of this celebration.

Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary
On Friday, August 15, 2025 the Church celebrates the Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, a holy day of obligation. Please see the Mass schedule in today’s bulletin for this upcoming holy day.

Parish Feast Day Picnic 2025
We are now less than one month away from our annual Parish Feast Day Picnic on Sunday, August 24, to be held from 12:30PM to 4:00PM on the SFC campus. Please consider joining us for food, fellowship and fun as we celebrate our parish. Please see today’s bulletin for additional information as well as how to RSVP. Mark your calendars!

Weekday Mass Lectors Needed
We need Lectors for our Daily Mass at Our Lady of Fatima Church on Wednesday at 8:30 a.m. and Friday at 8:30 a.m. If would like to participate in this important liturgical ministry, please contact me at [email protected] or [email protected], or by calling the Parish Office.

Celebrating the Saints this Week

• On Tuesday, July 29, the Church celebrates Saints Martha, Mary, and Lazarus. This memorial was added to the official liturgical calendar of the Church by Pope Francis in 2021.
• On Wednesday, July 30, we celebrate St. Peter Chrysologus, Bishop and Doctor of the Church. As Bishop of Ravenna, he is remembered for his exceptional preaching, hence his last name, Chrysologus, which means “of golden speech” in Greek.
• On Thursday, July 31, we celebrate St. Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Society of Jesus in 1540. He is patron saint of retreatants and soldiers.
• On Friday, August 1, we celebrate St. Alphonsus Liguori, Doctor of the Church, who founded the Redemptorists in 1732. He is remembered for his mastery of moral theology and is patron saint of confessors and moral theologians.
• On Saturday, August 2, we celebrate St. Eusebius of Vercelli, Bishop, and St. Peter Julian Eymard, Priest. Saint Eusebius founded the Canons Regular in the West, uniting clerical and monastic life and Saint Peter Julian Eymard founded the Congregation of the Blessed Sacrament in 1856.

Blessings on your week!
Fr. John B. Gizler, III
Pastor of Mary, Queen of Saints Parish