Jesus Christ invites us to return to the Source and Summit of our faith—his Real Presence in the Holy Eucharist. The Eucharistic Revival is a national movement to renew the Church by enkindling a living relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ in the Holy Eucharist. 

Journey through Scripture with a 12-part series on FORMED about our Blessed Mother. “The Bible and the Virgin Mary” is an excellent 12-part series that examines the role of Mary in salvation history, including her role as the New Eve, Ark of the Covenant and Queen Mother.

July is the month devoted to the Most Precious Blood of Jesus. Jesus Christ invites us to return to the Source and Summit of our faith—his Real Presence in the Holy Eucharist.

FORMED is an ad-free Catholic Streaming Service for Mobile Phone, Tablet, PC and TV, designed to support personal faith formation and spiritual growth! All parishioners can enjoy a one-year free subscription. Get started today!

FORMED brings beautiful and faithful Catholic content to parishes, families, and individuals. There is something for everyone here: award-winning studies and parish programs, inspiring audio content, movies, e-books, and family-friendly kid’s programming.

SSPJ Parish is pleased to announce the introduction of FORMED, an ad-free Catholic Streaming Service designed to support personal faith formation and spiritual growth! All parishioners can enjoy a one-year free subscription!!

All registered children, new and returning in Kindergarten and First Grade, will recieve a $1,000 grant towards tuition. Now is the time to regiseter your child at SSPJs Award Winning Parish School! Contact our Advancement Director, Samantha Foster at advancement@sspj.net or 610-363-6530, x107.

Congratulations to Sister Teresa Ballisty and our outstanding staff, faculty, and students as once again our Parish School has been recognized as a 2021 Archdiocesan School of Distinct Instruction. We are very proud that our school has been recognized for both Growth and Exceeding Potential.

Amid all the pain and disruption, a year of coronavirus has given Americans a new respect for those working to keep daily life as normal as possible, from the frontline nurse to the Amazon delivery man. Near the top of this honor roll is an especially unsung hero: the Catholic-school teacher. The National Catholic Education Association reports that its schools boast a total enrollment of 1,626,291. In ordinary times their teachers do an extraordinary job, especially for their poor and minority students. As Justice Sonia Sotomayor once said, “Catholic schools have been a pipeline to opportunity” for people like her—poor, Latina, raised by a single mom. Since the Covid-19 outbreak, Catholic-school administrators have moved heaven and earth to keep their classrooms open to new generations of Sotomayors. Read the article: https://www.wsj.com/articles/catholic-schools-are-beating-covid-11612221948?st=wo6xlbndaz8sqju&reflink=article_email_share

Our SSPJ thrift shop is accepting at the present time only wearable clothing items. They can be dropped off any Saturday from 10 AM until 2 PM. The shop is not as yet reopened for business. Please do not drop off any non-clothing items until further notice. Thank you and God bless you for your support of this vital help to our parish finances. Last year our great little shop brought in a whopping $48,000 dollars to our budget. God bless our faithful workers and all who contribute or purchase items!

Gov. Wolf and the PA Department of Education are looking to take most of the funding that Congress wants distributed equitably in COVID-19 relief to ALL schools in PA and across the country. Pennsylvania received $471 million in funding from Washington. But PCC Education Director Sean McAleer says “the Pennsylvania Department of Education (PDE) created its own set of rules to distribute that money that blatantly ignores federal guidance. The end result significantly lowers the amounts to be given to Catholic and nonpublic school students.”

This new initiative begins Monday, March 30th and will take us to Palm Sunday. Each night a video will be released at 7:00 p.m. (EDT). I invite you to spend time in prayerful solidarity as over six nights, dynamic presenters from across our Archdiocese bring Catholic Families closer to Christ through scripture, reflection and prayer, in these final days leading up to Palm Sunday and the holiest week in the Church.

This Friday, March 27th, in Saint Peter’s Square, Our Holy Father will offer a special, Urbi et OrbiBlessing. Translated as “to the City [of Rome] and to the World, this blessing is typically reserved for Easter and Christmas.”