St Mary's Church, Swormville

Today is St. Mary's Parish Picnic, 11 AM-5 PM! Famous Chowder $5/bowl, $10/qt., I GOT IT, Kids Zone with games, inflatables, crafts, & face painting, Balloon Man, main stage entertainment, beer/wine tent, basket raffle, Chiavetta's chicken, burgers/dogs/sausage & desserts, picnic raffle w/ $10,000 grand prize at 5 PM.

Tonight is going to have wonderful weather! 4:30 PM Outdoor Mass Cutting of Chowder Veggies after Mass (bring knife, peeler, board, bowl) 7 PM Chowder Chase Race 6:30 - 11 PM Beer and Wine Social (Live music begins at 7:30)

St. Mary's Trinkets & Treasures IS NOT Accepting any more Donations. Thank you for your support.

Wow! St. Mary's gym is packed with Trinkets and Treasures! Our team of volunteers has been working for days preparing for this Sunday's sale during St. Mary's Parish Picnic (11a-5p).

St. Mary's Picnic Set-Up begins at 6 PM tonight! Come on over; we need you!

Picnic tents are being set up today. Now we need you!!!! We are very short of help for Thursday evening's SET -UP for this Sunday's Parish Picnic! MANY hands are needed: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/20F054CABA72FA7FD0-50009072-2024#/ Help is really needed in all things CHOWDER: early Sunday AM prep, bulk sales, sales by the bowl, and more: Please volunteer just a few hours of your time: https://m.signupgenius.com/?#!/showSignUp/20F054CABA72FA7FD0-50008364-2024 All volunteer opportunities are listed here: https://www.stmaryswormville.org/o/smsp/page/parish-picnic-volunteer-opportunities #stmaryspicnic #StMarys175 #welovestmarys #stmaryspicnic2024

Register now to showcase your classic car, truck, or motorcycle at St. Mary's Car Show on Friday, July 19! Register by tomorrow, 7/12 for just $10/vehicle! Registration goes up to $15/vehicle 7/13-7/18. Registration closes Thursday, July 18.

BREAKTHOUGH will have four summer get togethers! Students entering grades 6 - 12 are all welcome and encouraged to bring a friend (friends do not have to belong to St. Mary's). This Monday, July 15, will feature Wild Wet Wiffle Ball and the theme for Monday, July 27, is Tie-Dyed Lives! Join us from 6:30 - 8 PM. Sign up to attend: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/20F054CABA72FA7FD0-breakthrough1#/ If you are recently confirmed, you can volunteer for any BREAKTHROUGH Youth Nights from 5:30-8:30 PM for service hours. Contact the Youth Ministry office to volunteer.

Are you an early riser? St. Mary's needs many more hands to prep the cooked chicken and beef for our famous chowder and to stir it in the kettles. Please consider signing up with this link to help with many areas of chowder prep and serving: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/20F054CABA72FA7FD0-50008364-2024#/ or go to stmaryspicnic.com

VBS is going swimmingly! Our scuba divers are swimming into undersea missions including one-of-a kind Bible adventures, splashing songs, fin-tastic crafts, tidal treats and reef rec.! Our divers are also getting buoyed up learning about inspiring saints.

We wish everyone a happy and safe Independence Day. God bless America!

From St. Mary's Parish Office: St. Mary's campus will be closed Thursday, July 4 and Friday, July 5, except for 9 AM Mass in the church. Therefore, First Friday Adoration on 7/5 has been canceled.

Work began last week to update St. Mary's cafeteria! Our entire faith community will benefit from the refurbishing of this focal space on our campus which serves as school cafeteria and meeting/event space. Don and John have been working with the lighting contractors and volunteers helped them with some of the painting. New tables and chairs are on order! The furniture is partially funded by those that donated to Raise the Paddle at this April's Spring for Success Auction Gala. Thankyou for Raising Your Paddle!!

CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR TWO EARLY BIRD PICNIC RAFFLE WINNERS of $250 EACH: MARY DIEBOLD and ANNETTE & DAN PFENTNER Their tickets, and yours, are now eligible for the cash prize drawings on Picnic Sunday, July 21. Tickets are only $20 each! Still $19,500 to give away! Grand Prize of $10,000!

Picnic Raffle Tickets must be purchased online or turned in to the Parish Office by Noon Tomorrow (Wednesday, 6/26/24) in order to be eligible for the Early Bird Drawing of 2 cash prizes of $250 each on Thursday, 6/27. Winning tickets are returned to the drum for the Picnic Sunday drawing.

St. Mary's Church Swormville is currently unable to live stream Masses due to technical issues.. We hope to be back online by mid-July 2024. We apologize for the disruption of this service to our homebound parishioners and long-distance friends of St. Mary's.

Hot off the press! Join us on Friday, June 19th for a fun new addition to our Parish Picnic Weekend - St. Mary's 175th Anniversary Car Show! To display your car, use the QR code or register here: https://stmaryswormville.ejoinme.org/2024PicnicCarShow

Today is the Solemnity of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus. Here is a link to the Litany of the Sacred Heart of Jesus: https://www.usccb.org/prayers/litany-sacred-heart-jesus

St. Mary's new church was dedicated on June 5, 2010 by Bishop Kmiec. Fr. Yetter was the Pastor of St. Mary's Parish at that time. A wonderful celebratory Mass took place with participation by parishioners in many ways and recognition of the committee members that worked tirelessly to make the vision of a new church for our faith community come alive. Over the next few weeks, we will take a look at this exciting time period in more detail. Please enjoy these photos from the dedication Mass. Many more to come!

From St. Mary's: We will be paving the chapel’s parking lot today (W) and tomorrow (TH). The chapel will still be open for prayer but you will need to park in the front Transit Rd. school lot and enter by the chapel's Transit Road entrance only. The parish office will be open.