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• Plan to attend Skills for Bridging the Divide, a special faith formation workshop on Thursday October 20, at All Saints Church, in Lansing.  It will be led by Braver Angels, an organization dedicated to healing partisan ill will by encouraging civil dialogue among people with differing ideas and beliefs.  RSVP at 607-272-5062 ext. 12 or Laurie.Konwinski@dor.org.  Soup supper at 6pm, program at 6:45pm.
• If you want to know about the results of the Synod 2021-2023, click here.

1. Because of the feast of St. Francis of Assisi, which is celebrated on October 4^th, N.E.T. Catholic will bless our pets. St. Anthony will bless the pets on October 1^st at 2 pm, All Saints on October 2^nd after Religious Education (around 12:30 pm), and Holy Cross on October 2^nd at 4 pm. Our pets are important members of our families, and they also need blessings. Let us bring them and pray together for these wonderful creatures of the Lord.
2. St. Anthony’s will celebrate an Anointing service for all our family of N.E.T. Catholic on October 15^th at 11:00 a.m. If a family member is sick and wants anointing or even yourself want this sacrament, please come to St. Anthony’s for to receive this sacrament. Let us celebrate together this Sacrament of Healing.

September 20, 2022


September 9, 2022

• Please, let us keep Fr. William M. Barrett in your prayers who died this past September 6, 2022. Fr. Barrett was named pastor of Holy Cross Church in 1985 and remained in that position until 1993. He will have a private funeral. Messages of Sympathy may be sent to:

September 9, 2022



August 30, 2022

Word for Life
September 4^th
“The Church has consistently taught that every human life is precious and worthy of protection.”
USCCB Secretariat of Pro-Life Activities
“Another Look at Abortion”
respectlife.org/another-look-at-abortion

July 26, 2022
URGENT NEWS  Sunday night/Monday morning (July24-25)  our NET Catholic Business and Finance Office was broken into. The State Trooper and his investigators spent most of Monday taking depositions and investigating the scene. The only item that appears to have been taken is our bank vault. No files or parishioner records have been disturbed. We have notified all the pertinent people at the diocese at this time, including Father Jorge. 
What can you do?  If you have written or sent in checks that would have been received at our office or your parish on or after July 19, including this weekend’s Saturday/Sunday collection, the Holy Cross Garage Sale, or Fr. Peter’s Mission, you may wish to call your financial institution to stop payment on them. This also includes the automatic checks from your financial institution to our Finance Office through our regular United States Post Office. It does not include the We Share checks which get sent to us electronically. They will still arrive to our accounts as usual.  As with any check that goes missing, please be vigilant in keeping careful watch over your checking accounts in the coming weeks.
At this time all churches will need to be locked up when Staff is not on the premises.  The churches will be open during Mass times and regular office hours.
Keeping you all in our thoughts and prayers as we try to process and navigate through these feelings of loss, helplessness, and anger.

Let us renew our faith in the real presence of Jesus in the Eucharist through this Eucharist Revival that our Diocese of Rochester is introducing to us. If you want to know more about the Eucharist Revival, please click here.

The Parish that we dream is the Parish that I help to build!

Dear brothers and sisters in Christ.

The peace of Our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.

As you know, I have been working on my pastoral plan under the slogan, “The Parish that we dream is the Parish that I help to build!” This phrase encourages all of us to participate in the different liturgies, ministries, prayers, and activities that we have in our community of N.E.T. Catholic in each one of the three parishes. All the pastoral work is not exclusive to the Parish Administrator/Pastor and staff, but for each one of the members of our loved community to become involved in.

For this reason, I invite each one of you to participate more actively in the different ministries of our parishes making a commitment to be a volunteer. In each parish we need new lectors, altar servers, sacristans, people who set everything up for coffee hours, new members of the pastoral and finance councils, catechists, extraordinary ministers of Holy Communion, cleaners, decorators of the churches, liturgy committee, CMA, weekly collection, and so on. We really appreciate your help because all of us should demonstrate our love for our parishes through our active participation in the life of N.E.T. Catholic. We need to work hard to announce the Gospel to all people, and your participation is very important in this mission.

We cannot forget that we not only go to Church, but we are the Church.

If you follow God’s call to work in any of our pastoral ministries, please let Mary Ann Kozak or Andra Benson know. They are the Pastoral Associates of the parishes and can help you to discern what is the best way you can participate in the life of our parish communities. Also, I am available if you have any questions or suggestions.

Let us remember,

The Parish that we dream is the Parish that I help to build!

God bless you, and may the Blessed Virgin Mary be with you always!

Fr. Jorge Ramirez


 

We stand before You, Holy Spirit,
as we gather together in Your name.

With You alone to guide us,
make Yourself at home in our hearts;
Teach us the way we must go
and how we are to pursue it.

We are weak and sinful;
do not let us promote disorder.
Do not let ignorance lead us down the wrong path
nor partiality influence our actions.

Let us find in You our unity
so that we may journey together to eternal life
and not stray from the way of truth
and what is right.

All this we ask of You,
who are at work in every place and time,
in the communion of the Father and the Son,
forever and ever.
Amen.

This is a letter from Bishop Matano regarding the XVI Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops. 

To read the letter please click here

St. Anthony Church has a great collection of religious books. Please, come and borrow one of these books. Once you finish, give them back. The library is opened after Mass.

You can find the list of the books clicking here

Please call Catholic Charities directly at 

(607) 272-5062

(607) 288-2350
Please text or call and leave a
voice mail

Main Parish Office Phone Number

(607) 533-0145
347 Ridge Road, Lansing, NY  14882

   Monday-Thursday
9:00 am-3:00 pm
 

Parish Office Hours

Holy Cross
Wednesday 9:55 a.m. - 2:05 p.m.
375 George Road, Freeville, NY  13068

Saint Anthony
Tuesday 9:55 a.m. - 2:05 p.m.
312 Locke Road, Groton, NY  13073

All Saints
Monday - Thursday 9:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.
347 Ridge Road, Lansing, NY  14882

Report financial fraud and suspicious activity.

Anonymously call the Hotline at
585-328-3228, ext. 1266
(or toll-free to 800-388-7177, ext. 1266)

or file written reports to
Internal Audit Department
Roman Catholic Diocese of Rochester
1150 Buffalo Road
Rochester, New York 14624

Victims of sexual abuse should always report to the civil authorities.

To report a case of possible sexual abuse and to receive help and guidance from the Roman Catholic Diocese of Rochester, victims are encouraged to contact the Victim Assistance Coordinator:

Deborah Housel
585-328-3228, ext. 1555
1-800-388-7177, ext. 1555
victimsassistance@dor.org

For more information on the protection of children:

N.E.T. Catholic Safe Environment and response to the crisis:
Follow this link https://www.netcatholic.org/safe

DOR Safe Environment
Follow this link https://www.dor.org/safe/ to the many resources in the Protecting Our Children portion of the diocesan website.

Creating A Safe Environment Newsletter

USCCB Safe Environment
Follow this link https://www.usccbprevention.org/ to the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops Prevention Website.