Mother's Day Spiritual Bouquet cards are available in back of the church and at the school. A beautiful way to remember your mother, living or deceased in the Triduum of Mother's Day Masses. Please return your offering envelope to the rectory before May 7th.
Collection bins will be located in the school lobby the weekends of April 17th & 24th. Please help by donating any one of the following items or feel free to substitute: toiletries (toothbrushes and/or toothpaste), healthy snacks, soft granola/snack bars, dark chocolate (suggested Hershey bite size pieces), bottles juices, bottled water, hand sanitizer, tissues (individual size), Emergen-C 1,000 g vitamin C, and handwritten notes of encouragement.
Join us for Holy Hour on Divine Mercy Sunday, April 11th at 3:00 pm in the church. Adoration, Readings from the Diary of St. Faustina and Confession will be available.
The next Defensive Driving class is scheduled for Saturday, April 24th from 8:00 am -- 3:00 pm in the Parish Center. Contact Bill Owens at 845-756-2481 to reserve your spot.
See the link on the website to view the full schedule. All Holy Week and Easter Masses (with the exception of the Easter Vigil) will be held at St. Christopher's School, 30 Benner Road. If you plan to attend, please arrive early as doors will be closed once capacity is reached. All Masses will be livestreamed. For Easter Sunday Masses held at the school, we will also broadcast over the radio, 93.9 FM, and Communion will be distributed to those outside at the end of Mass. Have a Blessed Holy Week and Easter!
Join us on Divine Mercy Sunday, April 11th at 7:30 pm in the St. Christopher School Gymnasium. "Love and Mercy: Faustina", a docudrama on Divine Mercy and the mission of Sr. Faustina Kowalska, reveals previously unknown facts and recently disclosed documents that shed new light on the truth of the Divine Mercy message. As many know, the Divine Mercy is a devotion to Jesus Christ associated with the apparitions of Jesus to Sr. Faustina in Poland in the 1930s. Jesus urged Faustina to paint an image according to the pattern that she had seen, and requested to have the image venerated, first in the sisters' chapel, and then throughout the world. To a large extent, "Love and Mercy: Faustina" can contribute to fulfilling Jesus' promise that "the spark that will prepare the world for My Final Coming" will come from Poland (Diary of Saint Maria Faustina Kowalska, 1732. There will be a sign-up sheet in the back of the church and in the school lobby.
Easter Spiritual Bouquet cards are available in back of the church and at the school. To have your loved one remembered in the Easter Triddum of Masses, please fill out the envelope and return it with your offering to the rectory office before Holy Thursday.
The next Blood Drive will be held on Saturday, April 17th in memory of Nick LaCourte. 8:00 am -- 2:00 pm at St Christopher's Parish Center, 30 Benner Road. Appointments encouraged. Sign up at nybc.org or call 1-800-933-2566
Our next Movie Night is scheduled for Sunday, March 7th, 2021 at 7:00 pm in St. Christopher's School gymnasium. The featured film will be "The Passion of Christ"-- Mel Gibson's masterpiece depicting the passion and death of Our Lord. Starring Jim Caviezel. Appropriate for high school students and older. Rated R for subject matter. Please sign up in the school lobby or in back of the church so we can make appropriate accommodations. For more information, please call Barbara at 845-597-5226.
Our Lady's Guild has sponsored the Lenten and Easter banners that will adorn our altar at St. Christopher's School. We thank them for their generosity.
Each Lent, Catholic families unite to put their faith into action through prayer, fasting, and almsgiving. Your donation to CRS Rice Bowl helps families experiencing hunger an malnutrition. Please pick up your CRS Rice Bowl in the back of the church or school on February 17th and return them at the end of Lent. You can also donate online at crsricebowl.org.
Our Holy Name Society will be hosting three take-out Fish Fry Events on the following Fridays during Lent: February 26th, March 12th and March 26th. From 5-7 pm at St. Christopher's School, 30 Benner Road, Red Hook. $15 per person, $18 for combos, $20 All Combo, and $9 for children under 12. Menu: Choice of fried cod, fried clams, or fried shrimp. All dinners include fresh cut French fries, coleslaw, dinner roll and dessert. A baked option is now available, but you must call at least a day in advance to order.
February 17th is Ash Wednesday, a day of Fast and Abstinence. The schedule is as follows: 9:00 am Mass in the church, 12:00 Noon Service with Ashes in the church, 6:00 pm Mass at St. Christopher's School/30 Benner Road. Have a blessed Lent!
If you have not already done so, be sure to sign up for Flocknote. This Lent we will be sharing many inspiring messages and video content from Bishop Barron that will spark your interest and renew your faith. See the Flocknote sign-up below to provide your email address and mobile phone number. It's easy and it's free!
The Alight Center would like to thank our parish for the generous donations to their 2020 Baby Bottle Drive. With your help the Alight Center has reached thousands of women since first opening it’s doors in 1991. Through their services, women have not only learned what options they have when faced with an unplanned pregnancy, but have also been equipped to make better choices for themselves and their children.
Watch the Lourdes Virtual Pilgrimage Experience on EWTN: Thursday, February 11th, 2021 at 10:30 am-- Feast Day of Our Lady of Lourdes and World Day of the Sick
Fr. Eloy Romero-Rojas of Cross Catholic Outreach will be visiting our parish the weekend of February 6th & 7th to speak at the Masses on behalf of the poor in developing countries. Cross Catholic Outreach was founded to create a meaningful link between parishes in America and the priests and nuns working in the Church overseas in the Caribbean, Africa, Asia, Central and South America.