Dear Parishioners, It’s back-to-school time and one important school activity that must go on is fundraising. Under the best of circumstances, school operations’ fundraising is a fundamental need. This year, it is even more significant and so I introduce to you once again the IHM elementary school’s third annual car raffle. As you remember, BINGO […]

22nd Sunday in ordinary time 2021 INTRO: Sometimes the end of summer has our school children “shopping” for new clothes, whether online or in person shopping! So, did they BUY the right things???? Are they wearing the right shoes? The smartest footwear in the coolest colors? Is their hairstyle…. The RIGHT way? Are we, whether […]

21st Sunday in Ordinary Time B INTRO: Interesting couple of lines in today’s Gospel: Many of Jesus’s disciples who were listening said, “This saying is hard, who can accept it?” As a result of this many of His disciples returned to their former way of life and no longer accompanied Him. How sad. Jesus was […]

Dear Parishioners, I appreciate your attentiveness to filling out the survey put out a couple of weeks ago about Eucharistic Adoration and making sure that at least one person would be in the church while the Blessed Sacrament is exposed in the monstrance on the altar. More than thirty people responded and selected a convenient […]

Assumption Homily (B) 2021 Sunday, August 15th INTRO: Apparently, every Friday my dad would get paid, and at the end of his workday around 4 o’clock, in his suit and tie would pile us kids and my mom into the big boat of a car; a 1958 light blue MERCURY MONTEREY and we would drive […]

Dear Parishioners, Hope this greeting finds all of you well, especially during hot August 2021! I enjoyed a few days away the first week in August and am re-charged, rested, and relaxed. I have been blessed with a “house on a pond” surrounded by woods in a quiet part of Chardon, Ohio; not too far […]

Dear Parishioners, Here we go again! Out of love for others and because of the resurging and new variants of the virus IHM Church will: Need our sanitization teams back after the Masses beginning this weekend. Provide masks at the doors of the church for anyone unvaccinated or vaccinated to consider wearing a mask. Keep […]

Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time (B) 2021 INTRO: I was not the greatest at MATH in my elementary school days. I just didn’t get it??? My teachers were GREAT though. They would say whoever doesn’t understand the MATH you can stay after, and I will tutor you! I took advantage of that and “passed” my […]

Dear Parishioners, Eucharistic Adoration has been a part of IHM for over a generation, dating back to approximately 1990. These days Eucharistic adoration is on Wednesdays after the 8:00am Mass until Reposition at 5:00pm. I am calling to your attention that at various points of the day there is no one in adoration. Being responsible […]

Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time (B) 2021 INTRO: Undoubtedly every summertime and every now and then, as a youth I would be heard to say: “There’s nothing to do around here!” Or “There’s nothing in this refrigerator to eat!” And surprisingly, SHE HEARD!!! My MOM out of nowhere would immediately say: “Don’t you dare start […]