Our pastor is under Covit-19 quarantine until Sunday, December 3 and will not be able to hear confessions on Saturday. We have not been able to find a replacement. However, there are other local options for confession on Saturday. Please click on the title for more information about alternate Confession locations.
The Children’s Liturgy of the Word team invites you to bring your children to a special Christmas event centered on learning about the Birth of Jesus. Register by Sunday November 26. Please click on the title for more information
Sunday, December 3, 2023 at 1:00 pm. $10 free will donation is appreciated Join us for some holiday cheer! Enjoy great food, delicious desserts, exciting door prizes and wonderful entertainment as we celebrate the birth of our Lord at Christmas! Please sign up in the Church narthex. For questions, please call Kris Kelleher at 484-356-3353. Tickets are available at the door. Sponsored by the Knights of Columbus and Ladies Auxiliary.
Please join us for a beautiful way to bring in the Season of Christmas. Please click on the title for more information and how to support this program.
Please join us during our Devotion to the Blessed Sacrament on December 6, 7 &8. More details are attached, please click the title for more information..
Due to the Forty Hours Solemnity, the Knights will have our December Bingo on Thursday, November 30. Please click on the title for all the information.
Our Holy Father, Pope Francis, is asking all Catholics to dedicate Friday, October 27 as a day of prayer and fasting for peace in the world, especially in Ukraine and Israel. Archbishop Pérez also asks us to pray and fast for this intention in our churches. On Friday we will pray a Rosary for peace before the morning Mass at 7:45 a.m. followed by Mass for Peace at 8:15 a.m. Immediately following Mass Father Scott will lead a Stations of the Cross for this specific intention. Everyone is also invited to the cathedral for a Mass for the Preservation of Peace and Justice presided by Archbishop Pérez on Friday at 12:05 p.m. He will be joined by Archbishop Borys Gudziak, Metropolitan Archbishop for Ukrainian Catholics in the United States. You may follow the Mass on Vimeo or the Archbishop's Facebook page https://vimeo.com/event/2470138 and https://www.facebook.com/ArchbishopPerez.
We are extremely grateful with the visit to celebrate our 150th Anniversary from our Archbishop and the turnout from the parishioners for the mass and the reception that followed. Here are a few pictures from that day.
Registration is open until November 10 to all children from the following parishes: Assumption BVM, Sacred Heart, St. Patrick, St. Gabriel of the Sorrowful Mother & St. Rocco Parishes We are offering both boys and girls teams: JV (Grades 5 and 6) and Varsity (grades 7 and 8) The registration fee is $175 per child. If interested in coaching or volunteering, please contact Neil O’Donnell at [email protected] Click on the title to Register..
The Holy Father and the organizers of the upcoming Synod in Rome (October 4-29, 2023) have encouraged prayer to take place around the world for the work of the Synod in the days leading up to this international gathering and during the course of its proceedings. Archbishop Perez invites the clergy and lay faithful of the Archdiocese to respond to this invitation with the attached prayer and intentions for the Universal Prayer. Attached is a copy of the Prayer.
If you are interested in helping to plan our observance of this important anniversary, please contact Father Scott. The cornerstone for the original church was dedicated by Bishop Wood on September 13, 1873. Click on the title for the schedule of activities celebrating our History in West Grove.
Please join us at the 10:00 Mass on Sunday, October 8 when Archbishop Nelson Perez will celebrate Mass. After Mass, we will have a Gala Reception in the Parish Center
Saturday, October 7th Assumption BVM Church, West Grove Rosary begins at 3:45 pm Fellow parishioners will gather at the ABVM Church for this special devotion prior to the Saturday Vigil Mass. The time is now to call upon God, through the powerful intercession of Our Lady of the Rosary, to heal our country and return it to holiness. For more information, please visit RosaryCoastToCoast.com.