A special thank you to the Knights of Columbus for purchasing a new commercial refrigerator and freezer for the PLC! The Knights not only generously donated the units, they also helped unload and install them! This gift will serve the parish for years to come! Thank you Knights! And since some of you are asking, yes, we tried to get orange units, but they only had stainless steel! Check out a picture below.

This week we have two great feasts: 1, Tuesday’s Holy Day of Obligation, All Saints Day and 2, Wednesday is The Feast of All Souls.
To be clear: Tuesday (All Saints) is a Holy Day of Obligation with lots of Masses.

Wednesday (All Souls) is not a Holy Day of Obligation, but an important enough feast to have extra Masses, including one by candlelight, at 7pm.

All Saints: Imagine that your grandmother were to be canonized a saint by Pope Francis. Your friends would all congratulate you, and you would joyfully make arrangements to go to Rome for the Mass and party. This feast is for celebrating all the uncanonized saints in heaven. This is the Church celebrating your friends and relatives who have gone to God forever and entered into eternal bliss beyond our imagining. We don’t have to go to Rome for the canonization, but can all gather in our parishes to celebrate our loved ones’ union with God.

All Souls: Here we get to mercifully pray for our loved ones because the Lord doesn’t tell us which of our loved ones are in heaven, purgatory, or oops. True friends are always there to help each other. Souls who are in purgatory can no longer merit for themselves, as their souls are set in their eternal destiny. However, what they can’t do, we do for them when we pray to the Lord to have mercy on their souls! Every prayer, every Hail Mary, every loving thought, is like a glass of water to a thirsty soul.