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Please click on the above link for complete article visit: https://www.vermontcatholic.org/vermont/st-marks-covid-community-commemoration/

For the Bishop's letter, please click on the title above or go to vermontcatholic.org/vermont/bishop-coyne-re-establishes-sunday-obligation/

All are invited to participate in this opportunity for prayer in the presence of our Lord. Open daily from 7:00 a.m-9:00 p.m. If you would like to sign up for a committed hour, please go to our website: stmarksvt.weadorehim.com or click on the title above.

Join us for an hour of praise to God with adoration of the Blessed Sacrament, Every first Monday, from 7-8 p.m. For more info, click the title above.

This year, the annual March for Life in Washington, DC is primarily a virtual event, and all participants are asked to stay home and to join the March online. To sign up to watch and for details on other pro-life events, click on the title above.

If you plan to attend the 9:00 a.m. Thanksgiving Day Mass, please consider bringing non-perishable food donations. These items will be used to fill Christmas Baskets to be distributed to the poor of our Parish at Christmas. During this pandemic and with the heightened food insecurity, St. Mark Church is always accepting food donations at our Parish Office. We have a cart inside the entrance to the Parish Center where you can leave your donations for distribution for our holidays and to serve the poor. Contact the Parish Office for directions, (802) 864-7686.

All families are warmly welcomed to join "A Family of Faith" this fall! The goals of this program are to encourage and equip you to live and teach your children the Catholic Faith at home. With one adult meeting and one family meeting each month, the program will give you all the knowledge and tools you need to bring your children up in the Faith. The first adult meeting is on Monday, September 28, 7-8 p.m. in the Family Center, and will introduce the concepts of the program and the main subject of the year - the Sacraments. For more information, please visit our website: stmarksvt.com/family-faith-formation or contact the parish office at 802-864-7686 or [email protected]

St. Mark Parish was blessed with a successful and prayerful 40 hours of devotion to Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament this past weekend.

We are preparing to celebrate Pentecost and soon to open our church to public worship. May we open our hearts to the outpouring of the Holy Spirit so that we may be filled with the love, courage and strength we need to live always in communion with Jesus.

Mass is coming back soon! Also please read through to the end for the special announcement that will happen tomorrow, Sunday, May 24th at the live stream mass.

This week we prepare to celebrate the feast of the Ascension and if is important for us to reflect on the significance and meaning of this event in the life of Jesus. It is the completion of the Paschal Mystery!

Today I complete with you the reflections on the parts of the Mass with the Concluding rites of the Mass.

Adore Him as Jesus has given everything for us. He suffered everything even to the point of shedding blood for our salvation. Come, let us adore.

The Eucharist is truly Jesus Christ really present to us today and this is an extraordinary truth. How should we come to Him? Let's explore some ways we can properly prepare our heart and soul for this truly awesome encounter.

Saints are the best witness so today I would like to share with the wisdom of St. Peter Chrysologus on the truth that we too along with Jesus, are meant to offer ourselves to God in sacrifice at the Mass.

There is only one way to heaven and it comes from sacrifice, which ironically, is the one way we truly experience happiness, peace and joy even now.

Now that you have listened, it is time to respond. A faithful, convicted response is what is desired from us by God.

God has something to say to us...our life depends upon it...are we ready to listen?

The Book of Revelation is mysterious with strange and abstract imagery that does not seem to have much relevance to our lives. Yet in this time of pandemic perhaps it is truly revealing something important and critical for us.