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Month Archives: July 2025
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Pastor's Column Pig Roast this Saturday
Our annual parish festival, now on the first Saturday of every August (this year, August 2), is held in honor of our holy patron, St. Stephen the First Martyr. The festival coincides with the Feast of the Finding of the Relics of St. Stephen, which commemorates one of the most remarkable events in the early centuries of the Church. The discovery of the relics of our holy patron was a great source of encouragement to the early Church that was suffering the collapse of the Roman Empire under internal …
Patrimony Update Passiontide Veils
The contractors have finalized the plan for a pulley system that will draw a curtain over the Crucifix for the duration of Passiontide. They are arranging for the materials before presenting a mockup for their solution in the near future. Then we will schedule an installation using the same boom lift that we used during Holy Week this year to take measurements and make repairs to the Crucifix and altar crenellations. The pulley rope will be installed into a channel along the Epistle-side roof slope and down the …
Pastor's Column Some Chapel Etiquette
1. Stay home if you are ill and contagious. Even on Sunday, you are excused from your Mass obligation if you are ill. Some criteria: if you suspect you are contagious, not only are you excused from your Mass obligation, you are obliged by justice and charity to stay home; if you are not contagious, you are excused from Mass whenever you are ill enough to reasonably call in sick to work (i.e. you need not be bedridden to be excused from Mass). Parents caring for a sick child are …
Patrimony Update New Diaper Cabinet
Drew Bolen has finished the diaper cabinet for the new women’s restroom. Mothers can place extra diapers in the cabinet. They may be used when families find themselves unexpectedly without a diaper while at the parish. I would like to thank the surface fabricator, John, who donated the material and his labor for the quartz surface, which matches the sinks in the restrooms. Enjoy! …
