SAINT MARY CATHOLIC CHURCH

(Queen of the Apostles Parish)

715 Hawthorne Street, Avoca. Pennsylvania 18641

Mass Schedule:

Weekend Masses: Saturday Vigil at 5:30 PM, Sunday at 8:00 AM

Holy Day Masses: 5:30 PM on the day

Weekday Masses: 9:00 AM Tuesday, Thursday

The “Cemetery Care” envelope appears each May in our packs. This month was chosen to correspond with Memorial Day. All money collected in this envelope will be deposited in our cemetery account and will be used solely for the upkeep of our venerable parish cemeteries in Dupont, Avoca and Moosic. Please be generous in your financial support of the burial places of our spiritual forefathers, especially if you have relatives or ancestors buried there. Please take time in May to put your envelope in the collection basket. **Queen of the Apostles parishioners may wish to indicate on their Cemetery Care envelope if they would like their donation to be deposited in either St. Mary’s Cemetery Account or Ss. Peter & Paul Cemetery Account.

SAVE THE DATE! Join us for the celebration of the parish feast day of Queen of the Apostles Parish on Sunday, August 23, at the Mercatilli-Segilia picnic pavilion in Moosic! An outdoor rosary will be prayed at 12:30 p.m., followed by a potluck picnic lunch in the pavilion. This is an event open to parishioners from both our parishes and is sponsored by the SM Altar & Rosary Society.

HOLY DAY OF OBLIGATION – Ascension Thursday
Wednesday, May 13: (SH) 4 p.m.
Thursday, May 14: (SH) 7 a.m. & (SM) 5:30 p.m.

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SAVE THE DATE! Join us for the Diocesan Celebration of the
250th Anniversary of the USA on the Solemnity of the Most Sacred
Heart of Jesus on Friday, June 12, here at Sacred Heart of Jesus
Church, Dupont! A Solemn Pontifical Mass with Bishop Bambera
will be celebrated at 5:30 p.m., followed by a catered/potluck social
in the picnic grove. This is an event not to be missed!

New altar servers are needed: Are you a young person who attends Mass every Sunday and Holy Day in our parishes? Are you interested in growing in the Church’s spiritual and liturgical life? Why not become an acolyte (altar server)? Fr. Petro needs new acolytes to serve Mass. Please contact either Parish Office or Fr. Petro if you are interested in learning how to serve. Training will be held in June after First Holy Communion.

Children from our parishes will receive Our Lord in Holy Communion for the first time on Sunday, May 3, at 8 am (SM) and 10:30 am (SH). “May Crowning” of a statue of the Blessed Mother will be celebrated on Sunday, May 10, at 8 am (SM) and 10:30 am (SH) by our First Communion children. A plenary indulgence is granted the Christian faithful when they receive their first Communion and when they devoutly assist at a first Communion.