We are looking to put together a group of parishioners with the interest and background to be a part of organizing and running programs to provide faith formation for adults. Currently at St. Anthony’s we offer a Bible study program for women called Walking with Purpose and R.C.I.A. for adults interested in receiving the sacraments of the Catholic Church. We would like to put together a team to initiate and run the following programs: Baptismal Preparation Program, Marriage Preparation Program, an English as a Second Language Program, Bible Study groups, spirituality and formation groups for men and women, a Catechism study group, and others. If you are interested in helping out in any way or have ideas of your own, please reach out!
Evangelization is an important part of our mission as a Catholic Church. Building up the our Church, the Body of Christ, through participation at Mass is at the heart of every evangelization effort. God chose to reveal Himself through the uniqueness of each person, each family, each community, and each culture. Each is a unique and indispensable expression of God. We must, therefore, treasure and preserve this gift. The comparison to what happens when light hits a diamond may help to illustrate this point. The light (God) shines upon the diamond (humanity). Each person and/or groups of persons (families, communities, and cultures) like the facet of a diamond reflect a particular aspect of God that could not be known in any other way.
By joining this team, you will help to explore ways that we can celebrate faith through culture as a way of coming to know God in a fuller and more complete way. If you are interested in working with a group of parishioners to help with this evangelization click on the button below.
Our parish is dependent on fundraising activities to satisfy our financial obligations, as weekly and special collections do not generate sufficient funding to pay all of our bills. While the Festa remains the principal fundraising event of the year for the parish, the Fundraising Committee plans, organizes, and implements other events during the year to generate additional funds. Hence, the work of the committee is critical to the parish’s financial well-being.
The committee serves the important function of organizing and serving refreshments after special parish meetings, Masses, and other functions, e.g., the annual Blue Mass, the celebration of 50th and 25th wedding anniversary couples, Advent services, etc.
The purpose of the Holy Rosary Society is to promote the Spiritual Mysteries of the Holy Rosary so that we may be worthy of the promises of Christ. The mysteries of the Holy Rosary are designed to help focus are prayers on the life, ministry, and passion of our Lord.
This group of parishioners would assess, oversee, and manage the repair, maintenance, and upkeep of our parish buildings and grounds. This team would also be tasked with the planning and managing of parish projects. Parishioners with any experience with trades, facility management, and/or project management would be perfect for the job!
Our parish recently started Parish Health Ministry. The Team is composed of parishioners, both health professionals and non-health professionals interested in enhancing the physical and spiritual health of our parish. As part of its Mission, the Team will begin by providing weekly "Health Tips" in the parish bulletin and on our website. All of this information has been reviewed by a health professional for accuracy and includes links to respected and credible sources of health information.
This team of parishioners would plan, oversee, and organize all of our outreach efforts here at St. Anthony’s. This could include any of the following and more: assessing and ministering to the needs of the sick and homebound, responding to the needs of the poor and needy here at home and around the world, bereavement ministry, offering or directing people to emergency services including AA, NA, the Salvation Army, and other support groups and agencies, support for Moms and Dads in need with regard to care for their newborn, coordinating with our Religious Education Program’s community service work, coordinating our parish Giving Tree Program, food drives, clothing drives, and outreach fundraisers, and coordinating with Catholic Charities and other local outreach programs and agencies.
The Church as a whole and our parish recognize the need and responsibility to reach out to those in need within our own family and in the greater community in which we are located. Social action initiatives such as our blood donation programs and Giving Tree project at Christmas time reflect our effort to help. Our ability to do more in the area of social action requires the participation of a greater number of parishioners, and those who can help are encouraged to join our effort.
After prayer, discussion, and discernment, this team would meet to plan our response as the Roman Catholic Church of Saint Anthony of Padua to the many challenges in our secular world to all that we as a Catholic family of faith hold sacred. Some of these issues would be abortion, discrimination, inequality, end of life issues, religious persecution, violence, human trafficking, poverty, and many other concerns that are, sadly, too numerous to list here. With the dignity of so many lives being threatened in so many ways by our culture of death, we have a moral obligation to respond in the name of our Lord and in the Franciscan spirit of our patron, Saint Anthony of Padua.
The parish Respect-Life Committee was set up to make parishioners better understand and act upon the issues and the importance of meeting the needs of those who are most vulnerable-especially mothers and their unborn children, and those who are seriously ill or dying and their families. The Respect-Life Committee is seeking committed Catholics to get personally involved in the protection of life, marriage and family. Participation in the committee will be through meeting attendance, phone or e-mail. It is urgent that Catholics become more pro-active in defending the values that stand at the very core of our religious beliefs and of a healthy society.
Social occasions are such an important part of our parish life. We would like to build a team to help plan and organize these events and activities here at St. Anthony’s. Events like the FESTA have been a long-standing tradition along with many others. Whether it is about bringing back some of the family favorites of the past or coming up with new ideas, this group will help St. Anthony’s to be both a spiritual and social center in our community. Parish trips, pilgrimages, dances, parish parties, breakfasts, Christmas and Easter activities for children, concerts, welcoming events for new parishioners, and many more are all possibilities! This committee is responsible for identifying, developing, planning, and implementing a host of activities for the parish as a whole. Help is always needed in setting up and conducting these kinds of events.
We would like to get a small team together to oversee the planning of our liturgies and spiritual devotions throughout the year. This would encompass our regular Mass schedule, special days of the liturgical year (such as Christmas, Easter, Marian Feasts, All Saints Day, and other Holy Days of Obligation), Eucharistic Adoration, our parish devotions, and other events and occasions. The oversight of the various liturgical ministries such as altar servers, lectors, extraordinary ministers of Holy Communion, ministers of hospitality/ushers, and music ministers would also be a part of the work of this team.
Celebrating Faith Through Culture is a program sponsored by this team.
If you are in your twenties, please join us! This ministry aims to provide Catholic enrichment for young adults through spiritual, social, and outreach opportunities. Click here for more information.
If you have an interest in working with this team regarding the overseeing, organizing, and planning of youth events and activities for our young people here at St. Anthony’s and in our local community, please contact us! Please check out our parish website as well to see if your skills and talents could be used to help with any of the programs that we already have in place for youth.
This is Bible study group for women that means on Thursday evenings. This program is sposored by the Adult Faith Formation Team. Please reach out for more information about the program and how to sign up.