There will be no in-person classes this year at St. Kateri Church due to the fact that the religious education house is being sold and a new facility is being built. We do not know the date of completion on the new center, for this reason we will hold classes at St. Peter Parish for the St. Kateri students. Families will also have the choice of homeschooling or attending at Our Lady of Lourdes.
Thank you for your understanding.
We Need Catechists at all three parishes in our Collaborative. Please prayerfully consider sharing your faith with the children of our parishes. We will equip you with everything you need to succeed and be there to support you every step of the way!
If you would like to inquire more about what is involved please reach out to us.
Our Collaborative has been working for several months on a new collaborative website to replace the three individual parish websites. The website is currently up and running. Beginning next week, all three current websites will automatically forward to the new website. We strongly believe this new, more robust website will better meet the needs of all parishioners in our Collaborative.
More News... A New Youth Minister for the Collaborative!
Stay Tuned for more information in the next newsletter!
Spotlight on Adult Formation Opportunities
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Book Discussion
The Pilgrim Catholic Collaborative’s Social Justice Committee is hosting a book reading and discussion during the month of September for 4 Thursdays on zoom from 7:00PM - 8:30PM.
The book, Let Us Dream: The Path to a Better Future, was written by Pope Francis in 2020 to encourage us to not lose hope because we have access to God’s strength and wisdom to choose a better future for ourselves and our children. As he writes, “God asks us to dare to create something new!”
Individuals and families are invited, especially those with high school students, to join us on zoom. Please pass this on to the young adults in your family as well!
Let’s have an intergenerational discussion about creating a peaceful and sustainable future!
The format will be as follows:
Sept. 9 Introductions and Prologue, Part 1.
Sept. 16 Part 2
Sept. 23 Part 3
Sept. 30 Now What? General review discussion of the book and its impact on our daily lives.
The book is easy to purchase online; A few copies are available at the parish office at St. Peter’s if you want to borrow one. Stop by!
Jonathan Joseph Kay and Charlotte Laine McVeigh were baptized at St. Peter Parish on August 8, 2021. Please welcome our newest Priests, Prophets and Kings unto eternal life.
Jonathan Joseph Kay (below)
Jonathan is feeling the Holy Spirit! (above)
Charlotte Laine McVeigh (below)
Praying over Charlotte
Collaborative Bulletin
As you may have noticed, our bulletin looks a little different. We recently switched to Pilot Printing. Due to the changeover, the bulletin may be temporarily unavailable on the old websites, but you may access it here. It is now available on the new website atpilgrimcatholiccollaborative.org
“What do you do when life gets difficult? When a relationship or a job gets rocky? Or when your spiritual belief is challenged?
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Spotlight on Molly's Dynamic Reviews
Meet Molly Garcia, parishioner at St. Peters and our New Dynamic Catholic Ambassador! Check out Molly's Second Review of the book entitled Ask Him by Jane Trufant Harvey.
Let us pray especially for civilians, soldiers, emergency personnel, and world leaders as they navigate these extremely difficult circumstances. Lord, give us all the peace that only you can give.
"I join in the unanimous worry about the situation in Afghanistan. I ask you to pray along with me to the God of peace so that the din of weapons ends and that solutions can be found around a table of dialogue."
- Pope Francis
Cardinal Sean Calls for Prayers and a Special Collection for Haiti
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This past Saturday, August 14th, an earthquake struck Haiti causing enormous damage and resulting in a significant loss of life.
Catholic Relief Services (CRS) announced that it “is sending teams to provide clean water, sanitation, shelter and emergency supplies in response to a major earthquake that struck southern Haiti early Saturday morning. While the severity of the damage is still being determined, with communications down in parts of the country, hundreds of deaths have already been reported as well as extensive damage to buildings and homes.”
Recognizing the suffering of the Haitian people and growing need for assistance, Cardinal Seán has asked that a special collection for Catholic Relief Services and the Church in Haiti be taken. We will take up this collection next weekend at all masses.
To process this collection, please ask parishioners to address their checks to your parish, with “Haiti Earthquake Relief” in the memo.
Spotlight on Mass
Mass Schedule
Beginning June 1st the daily Mass schedule will rotate between the three parishes. Click below to see the schedule.
What better way to support our Collaborative and build community than to wear a versatile, stylish custom cotton tee-shirt! Available in short-sleeve ($15) and long-sleeve ($20) styles for both men and women, these easy-to- care for shirts feature our Collaborative logo in white on a navy background.
And there’s one-stop shopping at the main entrance of each of our Churches, where you’ll find shirt samples, order forms, and a dropbox for completed forms. Payment is requested at time of pickup at your Parish office - details will be sent to you upon receipt of your order form.
Order deadline is August 30, with expected delivery date of September 30. If you have any questions, please call Jeanne at 508-591-3510 or email jeaniezee10@yahoo.com. Thanks for supporting our Pilgrim Catholic Collaborative!
Thank you to all who responded to the prayer survey. Below you will find the results of the Prayer Life Survey. These results will be used to promote prayer in our Collaborative. - The Prayer Team
Did you participate in The Bible in a Year with Father Mike? Father Mike reflects on the tremendous success of the program!
In 2021, Ascension brought the Bible back to millions of Catholics with The Bible in a Year podcast. With the USA’s #1 religious podcast, the most popular Catholic Bible, and best-selling Catholic Bible study, if you’re looking for biblical confidence, knowledge, and relationship, you’re in the right place.
Is the news making you nervous? Is Fear of the unknown creeping back in? Fear of words like vaccine, variant and masks. Bishop Barron reminds us how we can overcome our fears.
A Prayer for Parents Anxious About Back to School!
Dear God, send us your Spirit, with wisdom:
for making decisions for students returning
to day care, preschool and kindergarten,
elementary, middle and high school,
tech and trade schools and college...
Send us your Spirit, with counsel:
to cool our heated opinions,
to temper our conversations,
to inform our deliberations
and to shape our decisions, policies and rules...
Send us your Spirit, with patience:
to lead us from partisan passion
to impartial, respectful consensus
and plans to serve the welfare of all,
the common, greater, collective good...
Send us your Spirit, with knowledge:
to open our eyes, our minds and our hearts;
to focus our vision, sharpen our insight,
lead us to facts and help us discern
what you'd have us do
for our children, ourselves and the world...
Send us your Spirit to bend us, Lord,
when we're stubborn, unyielding and rigid...
Send us your Spirit to move us, Lord,
where we're stuck, entrenched and dug-in...
Send us your Spirit to mold us, Lord,
in your truth, in your ways, in your peace...
Send us your Spirit, A.S.A.P.
we need your help, Lord - we need it now!
Amen.
As we say goodbye to summer let us count our blessings!
Thank you, God, for the pleasures of summer,
the bright sunny days and perfect moonlit evenings,
the smells of mowed grass and air thick with rain.
Thank you for days at the lake
and evenings chasing fireflies,
for vacations and festivals,
picnics and cookouts,
baseball and concerts and swimsuits and popsicles.
Thank you for the fireworks and thunderstorms,
for watermelon sweetness,
for summer’s pace and summer’s grace,
for all your beauty and power, faithfulness and fecundity displayed in summer,
