Thank you to all who have pledged to support our capital campaign. To date, we have $1,112,755 in pledges. With the wonderful opportunity of our State (matching) Grant, we only need to raise about $900,000 more to fully complete our church upgrades and community center construction. ground breaking is on schedule for the late spring for both projects. We expect to have the Church portion complete by this time next year and the Gym/Community Center ready well before the start of school in 2023.

We are offering parishioners a secondary way of automated giving, called Parish Giving. This program gives more flexibility for online Sunday contributions, in addition to special collections like Christmas, Easter, Holy days, and diocesan collections. This program also allows for credit cards.

More meals and soups are needed for the AFF freezer. When bringing new meals, please put them in the back of the freezer & bring older meals to the front. Please write #87 on your order food sheet. Any questions, please call Fran Andre 215-322-4333

A ministry within the Archdiocese of Philadelphia, Care Management Services links senior citizens and their loved ones with a wide variety of resources in order to help our seniors address the many challenges they face such as legal issues, emotional and physical health, transportation and housekeeping. Services are free and confidential. Lisa Shousky, our Geriatric Care Manager, can meet with you at your home or at the Parish Office. Please call Lisa at 267-251- 7766 or 215-673-5177 ext. 36 for more information.

Join us after Mass during the Christmas Season to enjoy a selection of Christmas Hymns and Carols sung by our Parish Choir! The choir will be singing for about 25 minutes after the 5PM Saturday January 9th. This will be a great way to celebrate the Season! We hope to see you there!

This Tuesday, December 21st, several guest priests will join Monsignor and Fr. Steve to hear Confessions in Church. We will begin at 7PM and continue to hear Confessions until everyone has had the opportunity to go to confession. If you plan to attend, please arrive as close to 7PM as you can. There will not be a formal prayer service, simply come and take advantage of Confession and then you may depart as you finish. Please note that this will be the only time Confessions will be heard for the next three weeks. There will be NO Confessions on Christmas Day, Saturday, December 25th or New Year’s Day, Saturday, January 1st. Our regular schedule for Confessions will resume on Saturday, January 8th, 2022.

The weekend of December 4th and 5th there will be paper ornaments on the Christmas Tree, each with a gift suggetion for the children in the Mission of St. Joan of Arc Parish (Gingerbread Man) and the Ladies in Dawn’s place (Christmas Stockings). Please take one of the ornaments from the tree! The following weekend of December 11th and 12th, you are asked to bring your gifts forward at the Offertory of the Mass and place them in the baskets on the altar. We ask that you bring the gifts in a gift bag if possible with the ornaments taped securely to the outside of the package. The gifts are sorted for distribution to the different organizations by the ornament. Please make sure to put the dollar amount on any gift cards purchased. Thank You

Boy Scouts Troop 367 is conducting their Annual Wreath Sale The 24” nicely decorated wreaths are $20 & the 30” by 40” grave blankets are $30 Pick ups are in Trainer hall on Monday, November 29th between 6:45PM and 8:00PM and outside of Holy Family Hall on Saturday, December 4th after the 5PM Mass and on Sunday, December 5th between 8:30AM and Noon. All orders should be preordered by e-mail to Packtroop367@aol.com by November 27th. Thank you for your support

Friday November 5, 2021 in Trainer Hall Doors will Open at 6PM—Games will start at 7PM Adults and Children $8.00 each Families of 5 or more $35.00 Ticket price includes 8 games of BINGO ALL CASH PRIZES—50/50’S—DOOR PRIZES There will be snacks and water available for purchase. Please feel free to bring your own food, snacks, etc., Cash, Checks or Venmo accepted Checks payable to St. Chris Home & School Contact the Home & School at Saintchrishs1@gmail.com with questions.

The Scouts of Pack and Troop 367 are participating in the annual Scouting for Food drive. We are collecting canned and non-perishable boxed/bagged food items for use in the Philadelphia region. We will be placing door hanger reminders on as many doors in the parish as possible on November 13th but we will not get to every home. There will not be any bags delivered. We will have a collection box in the vestibule of the Church between November 6th and 20th, if you wish to leave a donation there. A scout should return to your home on November 20th if you received a door hanger.

Vigil location: Outside Planned Parenthood, 2751 Comly Road (at Roosevelt Blvd.) Vigil hours: 7AM—3PM, Monday thru Saturday Local Contact: Ed Moffit, 215-333-6966 Learn more … get involved … and sign up for prayer times by visiting our campaign at the following address https://www.40daysforlife.com/northeast-philadelphia

Join us on Sunday, November 7th at 1:00 pm in Holy Family Hall as we kickoff our Capital Campaign which we are calling 70 Years of Faith, Honoring our Past, Building our Future. As we look forward to our 75th anniversary as a parish in the year 2025, we hope to get there with a renewed Church and a community center housing a gymnasium. A gym is a magnet for a parish drawing children and others of all ages to our parish campus. Our parish has waited a long time for this moment, and it is finally going to happen.

Deacon Gene is inviting all parishioners to come to the RCIA sessions. You may pick and choose when you come depending on the topic of the session. All are welcome! Join Deacon Gene and our inquirers and grow in your own understanding of the Faith. Bring your questions! Meetings are in the Parish Office at 7:00 PM

This new year brings together a total of 10 dynamic speakers from a range of backgrounds. The Fight of Faith equips and enables men to engage in the cosmic, spiritual battle raging in our day. Men will rediscover and reclaim their identities as soldiers, saints, brothers, disciples, sons of God and friends of Christ. Al Men are welcomed to join us. Meetings are held in the Parish Office. Any questions, email deacongene@stchrisparish.org

We are in need of leaders of song for our Sunday liturgies. Anyone from 7th-grade and up is welcome. Seniors too! For more information please call Pat Gallo-Terrenzio, Director of Liturgical Music, at 215-947-4759 or email at pgt@stchrisparish.org

We are re-starting a bereavement group at St. Christopher Parish. It will be led by Katie Rotondo, LMFT, a trained professional in the mental health field. The group will be a safe and non-judgmental environment for the purpose of supporting each other through the grieving process. All forms of grief are welcome (i.e., death of loved ones, infertility, job loss). The first meeting of this group will be September 13th at 6:30PM in the Parish Office.

Each Catholic Bishop in Pennsylvania will reinstate the obligation to attend Mass in person on Sundays and Holy Days beginning on Sunday, August 15, 2021, the Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

Join us for a summer faith formation series in honor of the Year of St. Joseph. We will meet for 4 Thursday evenings beginning July 8th at 7:00PM in Holy Family Hall. Each session will last no more than an hour and will feature various reflections and devotional prayers to St. Joseph. There is no need to commit, simply come when you are able to. Refreshments will be served each evening. We will also offer a streaming option each evening on the Parish website (Event & News tab) as well as on the Parish Facebook page for those who cannot attend in person.

On the thirteenth of June we will honor Mrs. Mary Tremper as she retires as principal of our school. Mrs. Tremper has served with distinction, first as vice-principal of our school and later as principal. Following the 12 noon Mass on June 13th, will have a reception for Mrs. Tremper in Holy Family Hall. Mrs. Tremper’s daughter Elizabeth and her family will be present as well. You are all invited to the Mass and reception. I will have more to say about this in next week’s bulletin. We will miss Mrs. Tremper very much, and we are fortunate that Mrs. JoAnne Osborn, one of our current sixth grade teachers, will succeed her.

Father’s Day envelopes are available at the doors of the Church. We invite you to inscribe the names of your living and deceased fathers, grandfathers, godfathers, and any other special men in your lives that you would like to remember. The envelopes will be placed on the altar on Father’s Day and will remain there until the end of June. While it is customary to place a financial donation in the envelopes, it is not necessary to do so. We just want to remember the special men in your lives. If you would like to have a card for your living Dads, they are available in the priests’ sacristy in Church and at our parish office.