News, Information, and Calendar

 

 

Sundays Masses are celebrated at 8 AM and 10:30 AM

 

Address change If you or your family members changed the address, please update it in our church records.

 

 

Winter Clothing Drive sponsored by our Parish YMS of R will be held from November 1 till December 31, 2020. Please bring clean and gently used clothing for men, women and children. You can drop off your items in the parish hall (Frank Bednash Memorial Hall) on Sundays from 7:30 am till 12 PM.

 

 

 

Thanksgiving Eve Mass for our congregation and friends will be celebrated on Wednesday, November 25, 2020 at 7 PM at Holy Mother of Sorrows

            

 

                                                      Dear Parishioners:

We are happy to announce the resumption of Holy Mass on Sunday, May 31, 2020 at Holy Mother of Sorrows church in Dupont, PA.

The dispensation not to attend mass still is in force. Therefore, if you are sick, not feeling well, afraid for your health, elderly with co-morbidities, please feel free to stay home and watch one of the many PNCC masses on Facebook. You are in charge of your own health and safety. Even if you feel well, we encourage you to take your temperature before attending mass and to stay home if you have a fever.

We will be celebrating our masses at the usual time, 8:00 AM and 10:30 AM. There will be no coffee hour between masses. Please arrive a few minutes early as seats will be assigned by ushers.

We will be following the CDC, State and Local guidelines as well as the May 13, 2020 PNCC Bishops guidelines. With that in regard, the following regulations will be in force:

1. All attendees are required to wear a mask (including children 3 years and older). Anyone without a mask will be asked not to attend until they acquire one. Gloves are permitted, but not mandatory.

2. Everyone respect the social distancing of 6 ft. Pews will be alternated and sanitized between masses.

3. Upon entering the church, you will be escorted by an usher to your seat. Please sit where you are asked- no one will have their “regular” seat (including ANS members). There will be no holy water out for the people to bless themselves.

4. The bulletin and other liturgical materials will be placed in your pew by the ushers. Please remember to take your bulletin home with you.

5. Pew hymnals, Mass booklets and Bibles will be removed from the pews.

6. No congregational singing is permitted and there will be no choir other than the organist.

7. The only attendees at the mass without a mask will be the celebrant and the organist.

8. A collection stand will be placed at the end of the pews (main aisle). There will be no collection during the service. You are welcome to drop your offering at the beginning or end of mass.

9. During the “yellow” phase, there will be no Holy Communion, only the Act of Spiritual Communion. Once we are in the “green” phase, regular communion should resume.

10. At the end of the service, please remain in your pew until an usher comes and escorts you out of the church.

11. Please do not socialize at the church vestibule or entrance before and after mass. There will be no shaking hands before and after mass. Return straight to your car.

12. If you require the use of the restroom during the service, please ask one of the ushers who will be happy to escort you to the church hall.`

Looking forward to seeing you in church,

Very Rev. Zbigniew Dawid and the Parish Committee of Holy Mother of Sorrows

 

 

 

                          Cemetery Reminders (Cemetery By-Laws)

#13. No fences, trees of shrubbery are allowed on a grave site.  Rose bushes and excessive plants are prohibited.  Plants should not be in excess of the with of the grave monument or more that 12 inches in front of the monument.

#14. When cleaning around the grave or lot, it is not permitted to throw stones, dirt, etc. on other lots or over the cemetery fence.

#(17).  The Parish reserves the right to remove any excessive or dead shrubbery, stones, fences, decorations or monuments of any sort from the grave if they do not conform to the By-Laws of the cemetery if the parish Committee deems necessary.  If possible, persons responsible will be contacted and asked to correct any problems.  Failure to do so may result with the Church correcting any problems and submitting the bill for work completed to the person responsible if the Parish Committee feels such action is necessary.

 

 

 E-mail data. It is very helpful to have all parishioners e-mail addresses.

E-mail is the fastest and most reliable way to communicate instantly. Over the last few months we were sending emails to parishioners pertaining to the situation with the pandemic and church closing, but many emails were invalid.  If you want to be notified about the matters of our church, please provide your current e-mail address. The best is if you send your e-mail address by e-mail to holymofs@gmail.com so we can update this information in our database.