The Rite of Election will be celebrated at 3:00 p.m. on the First Sunday of Lent, February 18, 2024, at the Cathedral of St. Jude the Apostle in St. Petersburg. R.C.I.A. directors can reserve seating now by completing this form. All catechumens (i.e. the “unbaptized”) who will receive the three sacraments of initiation (i.e. Baptism, Confirmation, …
The deadline for discounted purchasing of 2024 resources ended on October 31, 2023. Each year, Liturgy Training Publications (LTP) of Chicago offers to diocesan Offices of Worship the opportunity to sell many of their liturgical resources at a discounted rate to diocesan parishes and schools. The main resources that parishes purchase are annual publications like …
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Each year at this time, the Office of Worship sends out to parishes an annual Parish Liturgical Ministries Update Form. The purpose of the form is to help us identify and collect accurate contact information about the coordinators of the various liturgical ministries in order to communicate to them as directly as possible about upcoming …
Each year, the Diocese of St. Petersburg is blessed with gifts of time, talent and treasure from our faith family across the five counties that make up our diocese. As Bishop Parkes explains in his introductory note, “The generosity that you have shown through your support of our ministry and services here in the Diocese …
Parish leaders have spent months planning and diligently working to complete recommended activities and run a successful and positive Catholic Ministry Appeal active phase. And now, the first parish has officially exceeded its goal for our new Catholic Ministry Appeal. Congratulations St. Brendan Parish Family for surpassing goal in record time! “This accomplishment has little …
“Advent has a two-fold character, for it is a time of preparation for the Solemnities of Christmas, in which the First Coming of the Son of God to humanity is remembered, and likewise a time when, by remembrance of this, minds and hearts are led to look forward to Christ’s Second Coming at the end …