Saint Hedwig Catholic Church

06/03/2026

📣Calling all crafters, decorators, & builders! 🎊

Vacation Bible School (VBS) needs YOUR help transforming our halls and classrooms into a rainforest where campers can “Explore the Nature of God”! 🍃🌴🐒

Join us on the following dates to help decorate and prepare for VBS:

Wednesday, June 3 | 6:00–8:00 PM — Decoration Making (Quinn Hall)
Sunday, June 7 | 1:00–3:00 PM — Decoration Making (Quinn Hall)
Saturday, June 20 | 12:00–3:00 PM — Decorating Day (Quinn Hall)

No need to register - just show up to Quinn Hall!

✨ALSO✨
➡ Space is available for campers grades 1-5.
➡ Adult volunteers are needed June 22–26 to help make VBS 2026 a success!

For more information, please visit: www.sainthedwig.org/vbs/

Thank you for prayerfully considering volunteering!

06/02/2026

Thank you to everyone who attended the first Little Saints Playgroup on Tuesday, May 12! Everyone had a blast playing and getting to know each other.

This new Catholic playgroup for families with children ages 5 and under will meet for fellowship and fun every second Tuesday of the month.

Next meeting: Tuesday, June 9 | 9:30–11:00 AM | Rossmoor Park. Come meet other like-minded moms and let the little ones play!

For questions or to be added to the GroupMe, please contact Rebecca at 562-714-3542.

06/02/2026

Are you or someone you know a baptized Catholic who would like to receive First Holy Communion and Confirmation and fully enter into the Catholic Church?

Applications for our 2026 - 2027 Order of Christian Initiation of Adults (OCIA) process are being accepted now through June 30, 2026. For more information, please visit: www.sainthedwig.org/faith-formation/adult-faith-formation/.

Applications can be downloaded from our site and submitted in person to the Faith Formation Office.

Questions? Please contact: Deacon Henry Eagar at (562) 296 - 9028 or [email protected]

May the Holy Spirit guide and bless you as you prayerfully discern taking this next step in your Catholic faith journey! 🕊✨

06/01/2026

Sunday, The Most Holy Trinity, 2026
https://youtu.be/9gFfbAvkgfs
John 3:16-18
"For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world might be saved through him."

John 3:16-18https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/053126.cfm

05/31/2026

Today, we celebrate the Feast of the Most Holy Trinity, also known as Trinity Sunday. ✨

This special feast day is dedicated to the central belief of the Christian faith: that there is one God in three Divine Persons, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. While each Person is fully God, they are not three gods, but one God united in perfect love and communion.

Trinity Sunday is celebrated the week after Pentecost and invites us to reflect more deeply on who God is and how He reveals Himself to us. The Father creates us, the Son redeems us through His life, death, and Resurrection, and the Holy Spirit sanctifies and guides the Church.

The Holy Trinity is woven throughout Catholic life. We begin and end our prayers with the Sign of the Cross, are baptized in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, and participate in the Mass through the worship of the Triune God.

Although we cannot fully comprehend God’s divine nature, the Holy Trinity reminds us that God is never distant. He is perfect love, and He calls us into a relationship with Him and with one another.

“Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit…”

05/28/2026

Volunteers are encouraged to sign up to assist with St. Anthony’s Relic Visitation at St. Hedwig Church on Monday, June 8!

The visitation will be accompanied by Franciscan friars from the Pontifical Basilica of St. Anthony in Padua, Italy. During the visit, prayer petitions and holy cards will be distributed so the faithful may write their prayer intentions to St. Anthony. The friars will then bring the petitions back to the Basilica in Padua, where they will be placed at the tomb of St. Anthony. There, the friars will pray for St. Anthony’s intercession upon all the petitions received.

Volunteers are welcome to assist the friars with setup and the distribution of prayer petitions and holy cards. Youth and young adults are especially encouraged to participate in this special and rare opportunity!

To become a volunteer, please email: [email protected]. For more information about the relic visit and tour in the Diocese of Orange, please visit: www.sainthedwig.org/st-anthony/.

05/27/2026

With joyful hearts, we celebrate the children of our parish who received their First Holy Communion. May this sacred day be the beginning of a lifelong journey of faith, love, and closeness with Christ in the Eucharist. Thank you to our families, catechists, and community for walking beside them on this beautiful milestone. Congratulations, First Communicants. Jesus is truly with you always.

05/26/2026

Pentecost Sunday, 2026
Gospel Reading: John 20:19-23
"Jesus said to them again, "Peace be with you.
As the Father has sent me, so I send you."
https://youtu.be/ITyOc1Grkkw

05/25/2026

“When Jesus saw his mother and the disciple there whom he loved, he said to his mother, ‘Woman, behold, your son.’ Then he said to the disciple, ‘Behold, your mother.’ And from that hour the disciple took her into his home.” — John 19:26–27

The Feast of Mary, Mother of the Church, is celebrated on the Monday after Pentecost to honor Mary as the spiritual mother of all Christians and of the Church itself.

The title “Mother of the Church” recognizes Mary’s unique role as the mother of Jesus, the Head of the Church, and by extension, the spiritual mother of all the faithful. At the foot of the Cross, Jesus entrusted Mary to the disciple John, saying, “Behold, your mother” (John 19:26–27), symbolically giving her to all believers. Mary’s presence with the apostles at Pentecost further emphasizes her maternal care for the Church from its very beginning. 💙