St. Mary of Vernon Catholic Church

Please watch the video below or click here for a written statement:Cardinal's Statement

Join us as we celebrate Father Ignatius, Sunday, June 4th! All are invited for food, drinks, dancing, and fellowship. Mass at 11:15am followed by the party in the Parish Center. Please RSVP: 
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For Our Future Campaign Update
Last weekend we witnessed our children make their donation to the “For our Future” Campaign. I was awestruck to see the little ones, some of them barely old enough to walk, with little buckets of coins in hands, they walked down the aisle and poured those coins into a container in front of the altar. The sound those coins made when
they were poured into the container reminded me of the story of the widow’s mite. I am truly grateful to our children for their generosity.
Several months ago, after we had made the decision to go ahead with this campaign, we formed various cabinets such as the “Prayer Cabinet,” “Hospitality Cabinet,” “Youth and Children’s Cabinet,” etc.
The function of the “Youth and Children’s Cabinet” was to speak with our children, especially children in our Religious Education Program, on how they can donate toward the “For our Future” Campaign. The children made some boxes where they collected their coins. They did this for several months. Two weeks ago was the last religious education class of the year. When the children attended that last class, they donated the coins they had saved toward our “For
our Future” Campaign.

One of our catechists told me the story of a student in her class, Ismael. Ismael had forgotten to bring his collected coin
box on the last day of class. As other students made their donations, Ismael told his teacher he would bring his box of coins to the next class. The catechist reported saying to Ismael, “But, today is the last day of class.” Ismael felt so bad he had forgotten his coins.

At the end of class, as students were leaving the classroom, Ismael walked to his teacher, reached into his pocket, brought out three dollars and gave them to his teacher for the campaign. He told his teacher he felt bad when he could not donate at the time other students were making their donations. Ismael gave three dollars of his own money, not money handed to him by his father or mother but his own money. I am truly grateful to Ismael and parishioners like
him who have made great sacrifices for this campaign. Our children donated $679. 77 in coins and $1092.00 in dollars.

With the youth and children’s donation of $1771.77, I am pleased to announce to you that we have exceeded our minimum campaign goal of $1,500,000. We have pledges totaling $1,541,849.77 from 268 families. Thank you! I am truly excited and grateful. Our focus now is to reach our challenge goal of $2,000,000. This will fully fund all our planned improvements and establish a “Future Fund” for ongoing facility maintenance. Remember this is a three-year commitment.

Also, every penny donated toward this campaign stays at SMV.

I am indeed truly grateful for your generosity. May the promise of the Lord in 1 Kings 17:16 remain always with you and your loved ones. Amen!
Blessings always,
Fr. Ignatius
Campaign Website

FOURTH SUNDAY:  4:00 PM
9:30 AM | Includes signed interpretation on the first, second and third Sundays

We are now Livestreaming all our Masses onto Facebook with worshipers in attendance. One Mass will also be posted on our YouTube channel.  

Livestream: https://www.facebook.com/maryofvernon