If you would like to have a mass offered or the Sanctuary Candle burning in memory of a deceased loved one, please CLICK HERE to contact the Parish Office. Once you receive confirmation that the date is available, the names will be posted in the Parish bulletin and the parish community will pray for them during mass. If you choose to have the Sanctuary Candle burning as well, it will burn for a week from the date requested. A free-will offering is suggested.
"He also took up a collection, man by man, to the amount of two thousand drachmas of silver, and sent it to Jerusalem to provide for a sin offering. In doing this he acted very well and honorably, taking account of the resurrection. For if he were not expecting that those who had fallen would rise again, it would have been superfluous and foolish to pray for the dead. But if he was looking to the splendid reward that is laid up for those who fall asleep in godliness, it was a holy and pious thought. Therefore he made atonement for the dead, so that they might be delivered from their sin."
2 Maccabees 12:43-45