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July 20, 2022

The Sacrament of Confirmation 2023

The Sacrament of Confirmation 2023 Dear Families, Hope you are having a wonderful summer. In the upcoming school year, your children will be preparing for and receiving the very special sacrament of Confirmation. What an exciting time! Please see below some important information. Confirmation Information packets will be distributed in the fall, which will contain more specific details regarding the sacrament masses. We look forward to working with you and your children this year! Jenna Tarantino Director of Religious Education Annunciation-Our Lady of Fatima Parish Crestwood, NY Important Dates (all apply to both AES + Rel. Ed students): Parent […]

July 19, 2022

Special Needs Religious Education Calendar | Pope Francis Mercy Center 2022-23

Dear Families, Hope you are enjoying your summer! Please find attached the 2022-23 Special Needs program calendar. Please note, not all students will start on the same day. You will receive an email from me by the middle of September, confirming your child’s start date and time! Stay safe, stay well and many Blessings, Doreen

July 15, 2022

Letter From the Pastor – July 17, 2022

Have you ever wondered or thought about how people got their names? With us, the explanation is fairly obvious. We were given our first names by our parents. And we inherited our last names from our fathers, just as they did from their fathers. But there was a time when most people had only one name. The world was younger. The population was smaller. People moved less – spent all of their lives in the same place. One name was enough. If two people in the same village ended up with […]

July 8, 2022

Fr. Figueroa’s New Assignment

Fr. John Figueroa has been reassigned to the parish of St. Augustine’s in Ossining effective Wednesday, July 13. He will return to Annunciation-Our Lady of Fatima for a Farewell Mass on Sunday, July 31st at 12 Noon. We wish Fr. Figueroa well and thank him for his hard work and kindness while he has been with us!

July 8, 2022

Letter From the Pastor – July 10, 2022

Central to our Catholic Faith is a conviction that human personality is sacred, and that human life has meaning both now and forever. That is one thing that makes the Christian Gospel the most redemptive force on earth – it believes in and proclaims the eternal worthwhileness of all human life. So, we have schools and hospitals and orphanages and rest homes; we send missionaries all over the world, we feed the poor; we befriend the lonely and forgotten. Why this tremendous expenditure of time and effort and money? It is because we believe […]