Latest Message from Fr. Paul Cao – March 17, 2024


PARISH ANNUAL RAFFLE – This weekend we will continue to sell the Annual Raffles tickets at all the Masses. I would like to thank those who have already bought your tickets and I really appreciate your help to make this fundraising more successful. If you haven’t bought your raffle tickets yet, please do so. I encourage every family to buy tickets or sell them to your friends and coworkers. We give away $10,000 with the first prize $5,000, second prize $2,000 and three third prizes of $1,000 each. You can return your tickets to the Pastoral Center or drop them off in the collection baskets. We will have a drawing on Easter Sunday after the 11 AM mass at St. Celestine Church. Thank you for your financial support to our parish community and thank you for all you do to make our parish to grow spiritually strong and vibrant.

LAST LENTEN DINNER – Please invite your friends, coworkers, and family to come to our last Lenten Dinner this Friday March 22, from 5 to 7 PM in the St. Celestine Gym. The Lenten Dinner includes two pastas, one by a featured restaurant and one house pasta, a salad bar, and dessert with coffee. Enjoy dinner with family and friends and it’s a good way to support our parish. I would like to thank the many parishioners, school parents, and students for coming to the last two Lenten Dinners. I hope the gym will be packed for our last one. I want to thank the staff and many volunteers who’ve helped us at these dinners. May God bless you for your good work. Thank you!

PALM SUNDAY – Next weekend, we celebrate Palm Sunday and the triumphal entry of Jesus into Jerusalem. Jesus is greeted by hundreds of people who wave palm branches and shout “Hosanna to the Son of David, blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.” Palm Sunday of the Passion of the Lord will mark the beginning of Holy Week, the most important week of the liturgical year. At the 9 and 11 AM Masses next Sunday, we will process outside around both churches (if weather permits). Palms will be blessed at each Mass and distributed. We will process together with our blessed palm branches to commemorate Jesus’ entrance into Jerusalem and to remind us that Jesus is our King and Savior. Please invite your friends and encourage your family members to come next weekend to celebrate Palm Sunday together as a community of faith as we enter into Holy Week.

Take time to come to the sacrament of reconciliation every Saturday before the evening mass at both churches. Polish confessions are available at St. Celestine church next Saturday, March 23 at 3:30 PM and we will also have a Parish Reconciliation Service on Monday, March 25 at 7 PM.

May the Lenten season help us to discipline ourselves in order to be closer to Christ!

God bless!
Fr. Paul Cao
Pastor of St. Mother Theodore Guerin Parish