Dear Parishioners, I am grateful for the communication to you from FLOCK NOTES as well as your responses back to me from them.  Here is one more note concerning attending Mass and the reception of Holy Communion. An observance while at Mass is your approach to receiving Holy Communion.  It has come to my attention […]

I have competed well; I have finished the race; I have kept the faith. From now on a crown of righteousness awaits me. -Paul’s Second Letter to Timothy Dear Parishioners, As a community of believers, let us unite in compassion, prayer, and respect for the dead. On July 3, 2020, WILLIAM A. (BILL) WEIST (age […]

14th Sunday in Ordinary Time (A) 2020 INTRO: I had a summer job while in the seminary and my boss always made his presence known. He was an exacting kind of boss, and not in the good way, employees were a bit frightened by him when he came to observe or comment on our work! […]

Dear Parishioners, As a community of believers, let us unite in compassion, prayer, and respect for the dead. On July 2, 2020, ALICE MCCOY (age 84) passed away. Visitation at Clifford Shoemaker Funeral Home, 1930 Front St. Cuyahoga Falls, OH 44221, on Tuesday, July 7, 2020 from 4:00 PM – 7:00 PM.. . Funeral Mass […]

Dear Parishioners, THIS IS A SAVE THE DATE FLOCK NOTE! CHRIST ON THE CORNER Saturday – May 22, 2021 8:00 am – 3:00 pm This will be our 3rd annual “Christ on the Corner”. We have had about 150-200 participants each year. It is a parish day of service allowing us the opportunity to go […]

Dear Parishioners, Father Ralph Thomas leaves on Wednesday morning, July 1st, 2020 for his long-awaited hip replacement surgery. As he explains his relief to be FINALLY getting the hip replacement he likewise has some trepidation about “going under the knife”! Any surgery causes anyone to have some fear. Father Thomas has already had the other […]

Dear Parishioners, The Coronavirus still remains a mystery and seems, in Summit County Ohio, to be identifying a growing number of cases this month, rather than decreasing! Many of our elderly parishioners and those with underlying conditions still remain quarantined at home, and rightly so. Because of this, I have invited a few Extraordinary Ministers […]

Dear Parishioners, It has been a great couple of days, as Brian Kudro, Jeff Mills, and I have been planning and preparing to execute THE CONFERRAL OF THE SACRAMENTS OF INITIATION for Friday evening this week. Although this will be a PRIVATE LITURGY, due to church space limitations, it will be live-streamed for the entire […]

12th Sunday in Ordinary Time (A) INTRO: ASK: Are you afraid of anything??? THE PURPLE PEOPLE EATERS Our parents painted our young boy’s room “purple” and my mean sister kept creeping me out that it would now bring the purple people eaters to my room at night when we were sleeping…aghhhh! I was sooooo afraid […]

Dear Parishioners, It was determined a while ago that IHM would hire a YOUTH MINISTER FOR THE LIFE TEEN PROGRAM. We hired ERIN HOGAN in 2017 to lead the teens closer to Christ, through Mary. She has done a fantastic and almost tireless ministry here for our teens. She believes that God had guided her […]