29th Annual Orange & Grapefruit Sale

Fresh orange and grapefruit orders are being taken. Order by Sunday, Dec. 11th and pick up Saturday, Dec. 17th from 8am - 5pm and Sunday, Dec. 18th after all Masses. Flyers are available at the church entrances and here. You can help by giving the flyer to your families, friends, and fellow workers. To order online, please click here. Thank you for supporting St. John's School.

Thanksgiving Mass

We will be celebrating Mass for Thanksgiving on Thursday, Nov. 24th at 9am. We wish everyone a very blessed day.

Christmas Angel Tree

This annual program provides Christmas gifts to needy children. This year the program will be directly focused on providing gifts not only to the children of St. John’s parish families but we are happy to announce that we are adding several families from Holy Angels parish to the Angel Tree program. We are happy to be able to return in a small way the kindness of Holy Angels parishioners who were so generous to us in providing their school for our use until our new school was completed. The Angel Tree will be in the lobby of the Monsignor Harris Center on November 19^th. Tags with numbers representing each child and the gift requested will be placed on the Tree. Names will be kept confidential and will not appear on the Angel Tree. Those wanting to provide gifts can take a tag from the tree and bring the gift to the lobby of the Monsignor Harris Center before or after Masses. We are also seeking donations of Christmas wrapping paper and bows which can be placed in the basket near the tree. We are blessed to have so many parishioners who have always been extremely generous in providing Christmas gifts to the children of our community through the Angel Tree program. Without your charitable giving the program could not be the success it has been over the past years. May God bless you all for your continuing acts of charity.

Daily Mass Change/Communion Service

On Wednesday and Thursday mornings, one of our Deacons will be offering a Communion Service instead of our regularly scheduled 8am Mass.

Since the early days of the Church, the Eucharistic Bread has been reserved in order that the faithful who are sick and those who are unable to be present for the celebration of the Eucharist might be able to share in the fruit of the Eucharistic meal. Since Vatican Council II, we have been given a rite for "Communion outside Mass" which does not specify "sickness" or "inability to attend Mass" but includes the needs of the faithful when there is not, or cannot be a celebration of Mass.

Tuesday and Wednesdays is a good example of such an occasion, since all priests of the Archdiocese have been called to a Convocation at the Eastern Shore of Maryland in Cambridge for three days. the host that will be used were consecrated at Mass on Tuesday morning in the Communion Service. We will listen to the Word of God, and share this Eucharistic Bread as food for our faith journey. We partake of the Bread of Life so that as God's holy people, we might become more and more the Body of Christ in our time and place.