Our Lady of Hope Catholic Community

Our Lady of Hope Catholic Community We are a Catholic community committed to living out the Gospel message of Jesus Christ. Johnsville and all of Central NY.

Our Lady of Hope Catholic Community, serving Canajoharie, Fort Plain, St. Mass Schedule: Saturday Evening Vigil at 4 pm, Sundays 9:30 am.https://www.parishesonline.com/.../04-0656-20220306B.pdf
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Thank you John
09/08/2026

Thank you John

Faith Formation classes start September 27 after the 9:30 mass. For more information email ffolh@frontier.com
09/05/2026

Faith Formation classes start September 27 after the 9:30 mass. For more information email [email protected]

During my National Grid days I had an incident with a friend that reminds me of the message of Jesus in today’s gospel w...
09/05/2026

During my National Grid days I had an incident with a friend that reminds me of the message of Jesus in today’s gospel where he says to first approach a person who has sinned against you to clear the air so to speak. But if that doesn’t work then take someone else with you to speak with them.

In my case a friend suddenly ceased to speak with me. When I met him in a store he ignored my greeting and walked passed as if I wasn’t there. He wouldn’t allow me to communicate to find out the problem so a mutual friend intervened and spoke with him and explained that I didn’t have any idea why I was being ignored. After the misunderstanding was cleared up we all became friends again.

Many times people are hurt by simple misunderstandings and end up separated for years when a direct communication would clear the problem quickly to prevent unnecessary pain and suffering. Other times it takes the help of someone or even a group to straighten out the problem. But in the end it is up to the offender to finally agree to work out the problem and if they don’t then we can’t force them so Jesus says to accept what we can’t change. Yet we need to be ready to accept them back should circumstances allow at a later time.

Jesus was and is always open to welcoming back anyone who turned away from him. Let’s consider doing the same.

God Bless,
Deacon Joe

In Chapter 16 of Matthew's gospel Jesus tells Peter that "You are thinking not as God does, but as human beings do." Of ...
08/28/2026

In Chapter 16 of Matthew's gospel Jesus tells Peter that "You are thinking not as God does, but as human beings do." Of course, he is. We all do because we are human. But Jesus' point is we need to look at things differently. Look at it the way God does because His ways are not our ways. God loves every human being the same, the good and the bad alike.

That is a difficult concept for humans to imagine. God looks at us as his sons and daughters as we might look at our own children. Many of us would love our children no matter what they did, good or bad as well. We might not like some of the things they do, but we still love them. God does so even more.

So, when Peter was trying to protect Jesus from suffering, he was doing so in a way he thought was right without realizing God's intention that through his suffering his Son would take on our own sins that we could enter the Heavenly realm with him. I would imagine our own sufferings have a purpose as well.

God Bless,
Deacon Joe

Weekend of September 19 We will only be having Mass on Saturday at 4pm. Bishop Mark wil be here for that Mass. He will a...
08/26/2026

Weekend of September 19
We will only be having Mass on Saturday at 4pm. Bishop Mark wil be here for that Mass. He will also attend the potluck dinner after Mass. Come to Mass and the potluck supper to meet our Bishop.

Who do you say Jesus is? We have not had the privilege of being in the company of Jesus as were the disciples so our way...
08/22/2026

Who do you say Jesus is? We have not had the privilege of being in the company of Jesus as were the disciples so our way of knowing him will be different. They spent their days and nights in his presence and got to know him that way. They heard him preach and saw the miracles he performed. Not everyone is blessed to experience Jesus in that way and yet we can come to know him through the writings of his disciples. We can come to know him through our prayer life and the miracles we experience in our own lives. Miracles we often take for granted or simply don’t realize them for what they are.

At the time of today’s gospel passage Jesus asked his disciples not to tell anyone who he was. But after his death and resurrection he told them to proclaim him to all the world. That is our task as well. To tell the world, everyone we meet or get to know that Jesus if the Christ who is our Savior. Help others to know him as we do and bring them to the blessings of Christ that are waiting for them. Our efforts to bring others to Christ will also bring us closer to Jesus as we proclaim our belief that he is “…the Christ, the Son of the living God.” As Peter proclaimed.

God Bless,
Deacon Joe

This Tuesday They can use volunteers also
08/22/2026

This Tuesday They can use volunteers also

Can we relate to the frustration the Canaanite woman must have felt in today’s gospel when we ask Jesus for healing of s...
08/15/2026

Can we relate to the frustration the Canaanite woman must have felt in today’s gospel when we ask Jesus for healing of some kind for ourselves or others? Yet she did not give up. She knew, as we do, that Jesus can heal if he wants to. She probably had seen for herself the healings taking place around Jesus and her faith that he could heal her daughter was so great that she endured insults and being rebuffed by the one she knew could heal.

Our faith needs to be that strong when we pray for God’s help and healing. We can’t give up and say “I knew he wouldn’t help”. If that is what we truly believe, that God won’t intervene because we aren’t worthy or he doesn’t listen to our prayers then we can’t expect much. But when we refuse to be turned away from our faith no matter the answers we receive then even without getting the answer we seek we will draw closer to God and He to us.

Don’t lose faith.

God Bless,
Deacon Joe

08/13/2026

Annual Parish Picnic
Sunday August 16 following the 9:30 Mass

In the reading from 1 Kings chapter 19 the Lord told Elijah to “Go outside and stand on the mountain before the Lord: th...
08/08/2026

In the reading from 1 Kings chapter 19 the Lord told Elijah to “Go outside and stand on the mountain before the Lord: the Lord will be passing by.” There was a strong wind, an earthquake and a fire but the Lord was not in any of these. However, after all that there was a tiny whispering sound and that is where Elijah found the Lord.

How often we, too, look for God in the big and sometimes scary things surrounding us. Sometimes that is where we find him as did the disciples when they were in a boat during a storm and then he can calm our storms when we let him. But most times we are bound to find him in the quite daily events of our lives. Yet no matter the circumstances we need to put our faith in him and trust that life will work out and the Lord will be there no matter what else happens. He is our calm in any storm.

God Bless,
Deacon Joe

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115 Reid Street
Fort Plain, NY
13339

Opening Hours

Monday 9am - 12pm
Tuesday 9am - 12pm
Wednesday 9am - 12pm
Thursday 9am - 12pm

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+15189933822

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