SCCR Parish Blog

This is just a reminder that this coming Wednesday, Ash Wednesday, is one of only two days a year  that Catholics are required to fast.  (Good Friday is the other one).  This discipline is required of all Catholics who are between the ages of 18 and 59.  (That is, on or after your 18th birthday and before your 59th birthday).   Catholics younger and older than that are certainly welcome to engage in this fasting as well. Fasting is one of the precepts of the Church -- that is, the bare minimum for all disciples of Christ.  Among those precepts, Catechism paragraph #2043 reminds us of the purpose of fasting: This ancient practice commended by Christ Himself "prepare[s] us for the liturgical feasts and help us acquire mastery over our instincts and freedom of heart." The U.S. Bishops have a concise summary of what is required on the two fasting days.  Those who have medical reasons not to fast are of course exempt from doing so.  If you are i...

  Priest assignment announcement for the South Clermont Catholic Region, February 13, 2022   Archbishop Schnurr has nearly completed the process of assigning priests to the Families of Parishes (FOPs) which take effect on July 1st.  Our four-parish FOP, including St. Thomas More, St. Bernadette, St. Mary and St. Peter, will be served by three priests: pastor Fr. Tim Ralston, assisted by two parochial vicars, Fr. Thomas Dorn and Fr. Bill Wagner.   Fr. Ralston is the current pastor of St. Bernadette and Fr. Wagner is the current pastor of St. Thomas.   However, all three priests will be assigned to serve all four parishes.   Additionally, a seminary professor will likely be serving as a visiting celebrant at some of the Sunday Masses. We are blessed to have so many priests assigned to the region. Fr. Reutter will be given a new assignment, serving as one of three parochial vicars in a northwest rural area of the Archdiocese consisting of seven p...

  There are a lot of great saints in February.  More on them later. But here a few short bio's of two saints who overcame great adversity because of their faith. St. Jerome Emiliani and St. Josephine Bakhita (both February 8th).