Saint Patricks Church

06/14/2026

“The harvest is abundant but the laborers are few.” (Matthew 9:37)
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As an Army chaplain during the Korean War, Venerable Emil Kapaun brought the sacraments to soldiers, cared for the wounded and served fellow prisoners after his capture.
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His witness still speaks clearly: the Church needs laborers willing to go where mercy is needed most.
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On the Army’s birthday, we pray for soldiers, veterans, chaplains and all who serve under the weight of duty.
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Venerable Emil Kapaun, pray for us.

06/13/2026

📖 Memorial of the Immaculate Heart of the Blessed Virgin Mary
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Today's Gospel (Luke 2:51) ends with one of the quietest lines in all of Scripture: "His mother kept all these things in her heart."
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Mary and Joseph had just spent three days in anguish searching for the twelve-year-old Jesus. When they found him in the Temple, his answer made no immediate sense to them. Luke notes plainly that they did not understand what he said to them.
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And yet... Mary kept all these things in her heart.
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The day after the Sacred Heart of Jesus, we honor the Immaculate Heart of Mary because her heart was formed entirely by love for Him.

06/12/2026

Pope Pius XII opened his great encyclical on the Sacred Heart with Isaiah’s words: “You shall draw waters with joy out of the Savior’s fountain.”
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That is a beautiful way to understand today’s Solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus
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O most holy Heart of Jesus, fountain of every blessing, I adore you, I love you, and with a lively sorrow for my sins, I offer you this poor heart of mine. Make me humble, patient, pure, and wholly obedient to your will. Grant, Good Jesus, that I may live in you and for you. Protect me in the midst of danger; comfort me in my afflictions; give me health of body, assistance in my temporal needs, your blessing on all that I do, and the grace of a holy death. Amen.
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The Heart of Jesus is a fountain of mercy, grace, and life for the Church. Catholics come to that Heart with trust because everything we need for salvation flows from Christ.
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Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, have mercy on us.

06/10/2026

💡 "The light of faith is unique: it is capable of illuminating every pathway of human existence." ~Pope Francis (Lumen Fidei)
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Today's Gospel reminds us that our mission is to be light-bearers. The light we shine is a reflection of Christ burning inside us.

06/07/2026

Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ | June 7
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At the end of the Bread of Life discourse, recorded in John 6, many of Jesus' disciples walked away. Not enemies, not Pharisees... but disciples. The people who had been following him.
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They weren't confused. The Greek text is precise: where Jesus had previously used the ordinary word for eating, he switched at the critical moment to trōgō...to gnaw or to chew, the verb used for animals at feed.
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The USCCB's own footnote on the passage acknowledges the shift directly. His listeners grasped what he was saying. That was the problem.
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He did not call them back. He turned to the Twelve and asked: Do you also want to leave?

06/04/2026

06/04/2026

Please join us in praying for these seven men as they are about to be ordained to the Diaconate on Saturday.
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All are welcome to attend the Mass being held at St. Joseph the Workman Cathedral on Saturday at 10am.

05/29/2026

St. Lawrence was a deacon in Rome during a time of vicious persecution.
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When Roman authorities demanded the “treasures of the Church,” Lawrence gathered the poor, the sick, the widows and the vulnerable, then presented them as the Church’s true treasure.
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St. Lawrence, pray for us.

05/25/2026

Update for Memorial Day: The Honor Guard will be at St. Patrick Cemetery at 8am, but the Mass will now be in the Church at 8:30.

05/25/2026

“Behold, your mother.” (John 19:27). These words are spoken from the Cross.
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"... thus the blessed Virgin Mary, after participating in the redeeming sacrifice of the Son, and in such an intimate way as to deserve to be proclaimed by Him the Mother not only of His disciple John but - may we be allowed to affirm it - of mankind which he in some way represents,(21) now continues to fulfill from heaven her maternal function as the cooperator in the birth and development of divine life in the individual souls of redeemed men."
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~Pope St. Paul VI