Tuesday, October 13, 2026 at 7pm at St. Mary, Geneseo
Wednesday, October 28, 2026 at 7pm at St. Joseph, Penfield
Thursday, October 29, 2026 at 7pm, St. Mary Our Mother, Horseheads
Wednesday, November 4, 2026 at 7pm, Immaculate Conception, Ithaca
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The Catholic Ministries Appeal (CMA)
The theme for this year’s campaign is ALL THINGS NEW EMBRACING OUR MISSION IN CHRIST. The CMA helps us share the hope of the Gospel message throughout the Diocese of Rochester. It supports each of us in our faith life and enables us to live out our purpose as Catholics. Through gifts to the CMA, we support the larger Church so that it may meet real needs throughout its mission.
Our goat at Sacred Heart Cathedral is $87,000. Please pray that we make our goal this year.
2026 Thanksgiving Basket Gift Card Drive
Lets share our Thanksgiving by helping needy families and individuals who request help from our food pantry!
On Monday, November 23, we will be distributing Aldi gift cards and roasting chickens to help our neighbors celebrate the holiday.
Here is how you can support this vital holiday drive:
Aldi Gift Cards: Please donate gift cards in the amount of $25 or $50.
Monetary Donations: Cash or checks are gratefully accepted. Please make checks payable to Joseph’s Place Food Pantry.
How to submit your donation:
Please place your gift cards, cash or checks in an envelope clearly labeled “Thanksgiving Gift Cards”.
Envelopes can be:
Placed directly in the Sunday collection basket.
Dropped off during normal business hours at the Cathedral Office; Monday–Thursday from 9:00 am – 3:00 pm.
(we close for mass and lunch from 12:10 pm – 12:40 pm) and on Friday from 9:00 am – Noon.
Your generosity is greatly appreciated and will bring immediate warmth and nourishment to our neighborhood families this
holiday season.
Thank You from the Women’s Care Center
Thank you so much for the wonderful baby shower for the Women’s Care Center. God is so good. Your love and support is most appreciated. The love goes a long way to ensure that moms and babies and many families have these basic necessities. Thank you so much and Thanks be to God!
Thank you to Annette Hunt and Social Ministry community for setting up this baby shower for the Women’s Care Center.
Advent Giving Tree
The Social Ministry Committee is happy to return to the Cathedral Community the Advent giving tree. The tree will be in the narthex the weekend of November 20 & 21, with gift suggestions for families and individuals referred by the Catholic Family Center. Please return the gift and gift cards unwrappedto the Cathedral office by December 5th. Thank you in advance for your assistance this holiday season.
Faith Formation 2021 – 2022
I’m so grateful to Karen Stevens for helping me to piece together an “in-person” religious ed. program here at the Cathedral, after having an online only program last year due to COVID. Karen worked in this role here at the Cathedral several years ago, and she has been extremely helpful in getting us up and running again. We are still in the early stages of planning but we would like to begin taking signups. The program will start Sunday, September 19th and take place most Sundays from 10:15am until 11:15am. This will allow a family to have their child(ren) enrolled in the program and also attend either the 9:15am Mass (beforehand) or the 11:15am Mass (afterwards).
Signup forms are available in the Cathedral narthex, or can be downloaded here…
or Families can enroll online at the link to the Registration Form found in the Menu above under Faith Formation
The Sacrament of Confirmation is generally administered by Bishop Matano to 9th graders at the end of that second year of classes. Confirmation classes will also take place at the same time as Faith Formation: Sundays from 10:15am until 11:15am.
The RCIA program is an intellectual and spiritual journey for those individuals who have never been baptized, but are interested in exploring the teachings of the Catholic faith in view of potentially seeking baptism and entrance into the full life of the Church next spring. But I also find that RCIA classes can also serve as helpful formation for those nonCatholic Christians who are already baptized, but are considering “converting” to the Catholic faith by being received into full communion with the Catholic Church. Depending on interest, I am hoping to host these Wed. evening from 5:30 to 6:30 pm at the Cathedral starting Sept. 15th.
Help Haiti
Gifts of love benefit St. Damien Pediatric Hospital, Port–Au–Prince, Haiti’s only children’s hospital treating childhood cancer and children in desperate need without cost to their families.
$5 Donation each In the Cathedral’s narthex after all masses on Dec. 4/5. These GIFTS OF LOVE among the last of Holy Childhood’s beautiful ceramic Angels gift card saying you have made a donation in honor of the receiver to “help children in Haiti”.
Sale organized by our Social Ministry group and St. Louis Church, Pittsford Cathedral Community
Contact Annette Hunt ()
If check, please write to The Cathedral Community.
Write “Haiti” on the memo line.
Write “Haiti” on the memo line.
To further help St. Damien Pediatric Hospital, we again have been offered a matching grant for revenues received. We also request your prayers as St. Damien is located in Port–au–Prince, about 80 miles from the area of Haiti hardest hit by the recent earthquake. It’s the only pediatric hospital in the country, and it serves about 90,000 patients every year. Please visit: www.nphusa.org/stdamien to learn the magnitude of our endeavor.
Volunteer Opportunities
Fr. Van Lieshout is in need of more people interested in being ushers or money counters. As an usher, you would serve at the mass you attend. Money counters are a member of a team, that gathers every other Monday morning, from 9:00 am to approximately 11:00 am. Training is available. Please call Lynn in the office with questions or interest (254-3221 ext. 102)
HOMILY SERIES… John, Chapter 6
Beginning July 25, 2021 (The 17th Sunday in Ordinary Time) , the Gospel readings were taken sequentially from Chapter 6 of St. John’s Gospel. This is Jesus’ great teaching on the Eucharist! And it is section of Scripture that all Catholics should know and be able to explain.
What follows is Fr. Van Lieshout’s homily series on this mystery which is the “source and summit” of the Christian life!
Week 1: Eucharistic Implications of the Miracle of the Loaves and Fishes (John 6: 1-15)
Week 2: The Manna from Heaven (John 6: 24-35)
Week 3: Jesus’ Identity and the Centrality of Faith (John 6: 41-51)
Green Team
Choose Life by Choosing to Care for Creation
A JOINT MESSAGE FOR THE PROTECTION OF CREATION
Pope Francis, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople, and Anglican Archbishop Justin Welby of Canterbury, England wrote a joint statement calling for Christians and all people of good will to change their ways. In a short statement they issue a prophetic call saying, “We must decide what kind of world we want to leave to future generations. God mandates: ‘Choose life, so that you and your children might live’ (Dt 30:19). We must choose to live differently; we must choose life.”
To read the joint statement, please see the Green Team tab in the Menu above. (Go to the Green Team tab under the “Ministries” tab. then under the “Outreach Ministries” tab.