If you are not aware, Pope Francis has declared this year a Year of St. Joseph.  We are promoting various devotions in anticipation of his Solemn Feast of St. Joseph, Husband of Mary on March 19.  There is a “retreat” ...
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Here is a brief post just to link to the poster page for the Christmas Masses and those of the Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God.  See the homepage of the parish website for the links (under “This Week”). Page ...
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Dear friends in Christ, There have been a great many challenges facing us lately, among them are how we are to manage liturgies these days.  We have been closed, then opened, then closed and opened once again.  With that, we ...
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I was just recently informed by Regina Civiletti, the Director of Matthew’s Closet, that a kind and generous family approached her to donate a website.  They put her in contact with a web designer who has built a new site ...
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As you may have heard, our parish is in the are that is “orange” status. This means that we are allowed 33% of capacity or 25 persons maximum. Since, by limiting the number to 25, we have no easy way ...
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The Strategic Planning committee has been hard at work for months.  To be truthful, we have had two committees.  One began last year with mostly staff and Finance Council members.  That is the group that planned for the preliminary Town ...
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Things seem to be changing rapidly once again with the pandemic and the battle between information and misinformation is ongoing.  See the Cabrini Notes – 2020-11-13 for further information about parish activities. The Mass of our Parish Patronal Feast is cancelled.   ...
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Cabrini Notes – 2020-11-05 Given the statistics, it was bound to happen.  The virus came to our house this week.  It is possible that it came here before but we’ll never know.  We found out due to a test that ...
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Called to Holiness In all of the craziness and business of these past few months, having given great and necessary emphasis to prayer efforts, strategic planning and a parish retreat, I have forgotten to make mention of the Exult Rochester ...
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Over the summer we were contacted through Facebook by a man who wanted to do a project regarding the interior of St. Michael’s Church. I made contact with Brandon Sartin and he described for me his plans.  He knew of ...
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