Changes effective May 29, 2021 Preparations before/after Mass: The obligation to attend Sunday Mass remains  dispensed until further notice. Those attending Mass are encouraged to  wear masks, but masks are no longer required. Anyone with fever or flu-like symptoms should not enter the church.   It is important to remember that there is still a risk for anyone who attends a public Mass to contract the coronavirus. The Cedar entrance will continue to remain closed, and entrance will be through the…

The Catholic practice of assigning a special devotion to each month goes back to the early 16th century. The best known of those devotions is probably the dedication of May as the month of the Blessed Virgin Mary. In the early years of the 19th century, it quickly spread throughout the Western Church, and, by the time of Pope Pius IX’s declaration of the dogma of the Immaculate Conception in 1854, it had become universal. May Crownings and other special…

Foster Care Awareness MonthMay is Foster Care Awareness Month. There are thousands of children of all ages in need of homes. There are three different kinds of foster care: Family Foster Care (foster children are taken in and treated as family, can be short term or long term), Kinship Foster Care (family of the child takes them in), and Respite Foster Care (providing short term relief to long term foster parents for a few hours to a few days). To…