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Our Annual Parish Picnic will be held Sunday, June 14th from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. We will be providing hamburgers, veggie burgers, hotdogs and beverages. We ask that you bring a dish-to-pass salad or dessert. There will be games for the kids. Please sign up to help at https://tinyurl.com/2hddkmzc We need help with set-up, clean-up and kitchen help during the picnic.

Come join the discussion on June 4th at 7:30 p.m. on Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi! We will be meeting in the Pastoral Care Room.

Our state legislature is considering two bills that would help protect immigrants: the Dignity Not Detention Act and the New York For All Act. In our May 17th bulletin, we wrote about these two bills and included a non-working link. This is the link to the petition: https://www.change.org/p/protect-ny-immigrants-and-due-process?sign_confirm_error=failed_token

We want to alert everyone to an ongoing scam affecting parishes. Scammers are pretending to be priests or parish staff and contacting people by email or text asking for urgent help or gift cards. Please know that your priest or parish staff will never ask for gift cards or money in this way. If you receive a message like this, do not respond and please contact the parish office directly 607-257-2493. When in doubt, slow down and verify before taking any action.

Pope Leo’s special intention for this month is “That everyone might have food.” Watch this video and pray with him. Then act. You can join the national ecumenical anti-hunger advocacy group Bread for the World in organizing your fellow parishioners to speak up for federally funded nutrition programs, namely SNAP (food stamps), WIC (food for pregnant Women, Infants and Children), and international humanitarian aid. Learn more at www.bread.org or contact [email protected] Pray with the Pope at popesprayer.va

Catholic Charities annual SOAP FOR HOPE personal care products collection drive is going on from now until June 7th. St. Catherine's is one of the key collection sites and has a bin in the Parish Center to collect donations. Donations needed are: bar soap, laundry detergent, dish soap, toilet paper, deodorant (men's and women's), feminine hygiene products, toothpaste and toothbrushes, facial tissue, moisturizing lotion, shampoo, diapers, hand sanitizer, cleaning supplies and shaving supplies. If you are interested in getting involved or in helping in any way, please contact Joe & Jessica Ryan at [email protected]

Beginning Wednesday, January 28, we will be moving the time of Exposition and Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament to Wednesdays at 7:30 p.m. We will also add additional prayers and practices from the Church's long history of Eucharistic Adoration. On the first Wednesday of the month, we will pray the rosary. On the second Wednesday, we will pray Evening Prayer from the Liturgy of the Hours. On the third Wednesday, we will pray the Chaplet of Divine Mercy, and the fourth Wednesday will include a short selection from Scripture or one of the Fathers of the Church and a brief homily. If there is a fifth Wednesday in a month, the entire time will be given over to silence. We hope you will consider adding Adoration to your prayer routine—all are welcome!