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 1:15 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.

The Home & School Association provides tuition assistance through the script program, to a current St. Chris family in need. When purchasing your script, please let them know you would like your money to go to the “Sister Phyllis Tuition Assistance” account.

Calling all cooks! 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. Thank You for all of the meals that have been donated

May During May, we take the time to remember our mothers, – both living and deceased. At the doors of the Church are Mother’s Day envelopes on which we ask you to inscribe the names of your Mothers and those women in your life who have shared maternal qualities with you. The large envelopes containing a card are for living Mothers to whom you will actually send the card. The smaller blueish envelopes are for you to put the names of your Mothers and special women in your life. They are for deceased Mothers and women or for your living Mothers if you don’t need a card. We will place on the altar all of those whose names we have on Mother’s Day and on the remaining days in the month of May. While it is customary to enclose a financial donation in these envelopes, it is not necessary for you to do so. We just want to remember your Mothers and special women at the Masses on Mother’s Day and beyond.

St. Christopher School will be having a “Raffle Event” this month. Although we can not gather the way we have in years past, we will have fantastic baskets and items to be raffled off! We will have all baskets on display and sell tickets in Holy Family Hall after masses 4/24 & 4/25. The winners will be picked on Facebook live on Friday, April 30th

St. Christopher Parish Schola will provide the liturgical music for this year's Annual Archdiocesan Mass Honoring the Gifts of Persons with Disabilities, The Deaf Community, Family, Friends and Caregivers. Archbishop Nelson J. Pérez will be the principal celebrant and homilist, There will be an outside reception following the Mass. All are Welcome. To RSVP go to www.opdarchphilly.org, email opd@archphila.org or call the Office for Persons with Disabilities at 215-587-3530 with the number attending.

40 Days for Life is an internationally coordinated 40-day campaign that aims to end abortion locally through prayer and fasting, community outreach, and a peaceful all-day vigil in front of abortion businesses. You can help protect mothers and children by joining this worldwide mobilization!

Man Up Philly 2021 invites the men of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia to the 13th Annual Men’s Spirituality Conference. The Man Up Philly volunteer team has made the decision to change the format to a Virtual Event due to the COVID-19 status. The virtual conference will be available via a webcast and tickets will be available for a reduced cost of $10. We invite all men to join us for an inspiring day of faith and fellowship. Become the man God is calling you to be. Rediscover the power and meaning of your faith! For more information and to register visit MANUPPHILLY.COM

The 2021 Catholic Charities Appeal is officially underway! When you support the Appeal, it means that a special needs student has access to a quality Catholic education designed to meet his or her individual needs. It means that through Nutritional Development Services, the hungry are nourished through one of the many food pantries across the region. It means that families across the Archdiocese are provided with core social services, including much needed baby items like diapers and formula, pregnancy and parenting classes, family strengthening programs, emergency rent, and utility assistance. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic so many families and individuals need our support now more than ever. When you support the Catholic Charities Appeal, you shine a light of hope. You feed the hungry, aid the poor, and bring joy to those most in need. To learn more about the 2021 Catholic Charities Appeal, please visit: www.catholiccharitiesappeal.org

February 3rd is the day of the traditional blessing of throats. This year we are going to do a general blessing after all of the Masses this weekend, January 30-31. Like almost everything else, the pandemic has changed the usual way we do things. We will give the same blessing on February 3rd, the actual feast day of St. Blaise.

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