St. Catherine of Siena Catholic Church

St. Catherine of Siena Catholic Church Mass: 5pm (Saturday vigil), 7:30, 9, 10:30am, Noon; Monday-Friday: 7am, Noon; Saturday: 8am; Holy Day: 7am, Noon, 7pm

06/14/2026

ELEVENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME!

Today, the Gospel shows us Jesus looking upon the crowds and His Heart is moved: they are tired, disoriented, “like sheep without a shepherd.” That scene is not only ancient history. If the Lord walked through our streets today, He would see the same hunger, the same confusion, the same longing for meaning.

And what does Jesus do before this great human need?
He calls, He chooses, and He sends. He calls for prayer. He chooses twelve apostles. He sends them to proclaim: “The kingdom of heaven is at hand.” He entrusts them with healing, cleansing, lifting up, freeing and He reminds them: “Without cost you have received; without cost you are to give.”

This is not only their mission. It is ours.
Not only bishops and priests, but every baptized person in communion with them is sent into the world as a living continuation of the Apostles. The Lord places into our hands the same task: to guide the searching, to heal the wounded, to bring His peace where life is fractured.

This mission unfolds in the concrete places where we live:
in the family, the first school of faith;
in classrooms and universities;
in the media and the world of ideas;
in healthcare, workplaces, friendships; everywhere a Christian stands, Christ desires to stand.

Saint Francis de Sales reminds us that God asks each of us to bear fruit according to our own character, our station, our calling. Holiness is not uniform; mission is not identical. But the source is the same, and the urgency is the same: the world needs shepherds, and Christ sends us.

So today, let us allow His compassion to move us.
Let us hear His call.
Let us go where He sends.
For the Kingdom is near and it is entrusted to our hands.

Have a Blessed Sunday to all❤️🙏

05/31/2026

THE SOLEMNITY OF THE MOST HOLY TRINITY!

Today we stand before the mystery of the Trinity, the mystery of a God who is Love. “For God so loved the world…” (Jn 3:16) is not just a verse; it is the heartbeat of our faith. The Father gives the Son, the Son gives His life, and the Spirit fills us with divine fire. Everything God does is love.

This truth changes us. When we let it enter our minds and shape our actions, love becomes simpler, purer, more like God’s own love. As St. John of the Cross reminds us: “Where there is no love, put love, and you will find love.” This is how God acts, not condemning, but saving; not taking, but giving.

To love is to serve, to trust, to give without counting, to lose and find everything in God. Love is what makes us resemble God, and love is already eternity growing within us.

In the Eucharist, the sacrament of Love, we receive the very Love that saves us. It forgives us, renews us, and sends us out to love with God’s own Heart.

May this feast awaken in us the desire to love freely, generously, and joyfully, for where love is, God is present.

Have a Blessed Sunday to all ❤️🙏

05/24/2026

PENTECOST SUNDAY!

On this solemn day of Pentecost, the promise of the Lord is brought to fulfillment. He who, on the evening of the Resurrection, breathed upon the Apostles and said, “Receive the Holy Spirit,” now pours out that same Spirit in manifest power, bringing the Paschal mystery to its radiant completion.

The Spirit bestowed by Christ fashions within the disciple a new humanity and gathers all peoples into unity. Where human pride once sowed division at Babel, the Holy Spirit now restores harmony: through His grace, the Apostles are understood by every nation and tongue.

He is the inner Master, leading hearts into all truth; the Consoler, strengthening the weary; the Sanctifier, transforming from within and bestowing new courage upon those who receive Him.

On that first Pentecost, the Apostles were united in prayer with the Blessed Virgin Mary. Into that silence of faith the Spirit descended like a mighty wind, and tongues as of fire came to rest upon each of them. Filled with divine power, those once fearful men became bold heralds of the Gospel, unafraid of chains, suffering, or death, for the Spirit of the Lord dwelt within them.

This same Holy Spirit, the Third Person of the Most Holy Trinity is the soul of our soul, the life of our life, the gentle Guest of our inmost being. To grow in faith, our relationship with Him must become ever more conscious, intimate, and steadfast.

Therefore, on this sacred feast, let us open wide the doors of our hearts.
Let the Spirit enter.
Let Him unite, sanctify, and send us forth.
May His fire purify us, His light guide us, and His presence make us new.

HAPPY PENTECOST TO ALL💓🙏

05/17/2026

SOLEMNITY OF THE ASCENSION OF THE LORD!

Ascension calls us to lift our eyes and our hearts. Today we stand before the Lord whose hands bless as He rises, whose footprints on the mount trace the path we are now called to walk. The cloud that receives Him, light and shadow together, reminds us that God’s glory is near, even when hidden.

Saint Leo the Great tells us that what was once visible in Christ now lives in His mysteries, entrusted to the Church. His blessing continues in the liturgy, His footsteps become the sacraments, His presence fills the mission He gives us.

For forty days the Risen Lord “let Himself be seen,” preparing the Apostles for His new way of being. Now, at the moment of departure, their amazement becomes mission. They will not only speak His Word, they will communicate His life, His healing, His grace.

And to us He says:
“All power in heaven and on earth has been given to me… Go… Teach… Baptize… I am with you always.”

So let us go forward with courage.
Let His blessing rest on our hands.
Let His footprints guide our steps.
Let His promise sustain our hope.

Christ ascends, not to leave us, but to draw us upward, to make our lives a living sign of His presence until the day we meet Him in fullness.

Happy FEAST of the ASCENSION 🙏❤️

11/05/2024

MEMORIAL MASS FOR SISTER ALESSANDRA LENTINO - SACRO COSTATO MISSIONARY SISTERS (MSC)

11/05/2024

Memorial Mass for Sister Alessandra LENTINO - Sacro Costato Missionary Sisters (MSC)

11/19/2023

Saturday Vigil Mass for the Thirty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time: November 18, 2023

07/09/2023

July 9, 2023 - 10:30am Mass - 14th Sunday in Ordinary Time

Simbang Gabi December 22,2021St. Catherine of Siena churchWishing you all a blessed Christmas!
12/23/2021

Simbang Gabi
December 22,2021
St. Catherine of Siena church
Wishing you all a blessed Christmas!

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