Mass Schedule: Santa Sophia Church Our Mass schedule will remain the same; however, our church capacity will be limited to 85 people: Daily Mass at 8:00 am Sunday Mass at 8:00 am, 9:30 am, and 11:00 am Sunday Vigil Mass at 4:30 pm on Saturday I request you all to use the side doors (Kiosk…

May 25, 2020 Dear Parishioners, Good Morning! I am wishing you and your families many blessings. I am writing to provide you with some updates of the situation and give you some follow up information to my last letter. As mentioned in my last letter, the diocese provided us with a template and asked us…

May 18, 2020 Dear Parishioners, Good Afternoon! I am wishing you and your families many blessings during this challenging time. The other day someone asked me on the phone, “When will this all be over and when can we go back to a normal life? I miss the Eucharist.” These are good questions, and many…

Dear Friends, As some of you know, the month of May is referred to as the month of Mary, in honor of Our Blessed Mother. Catholics all over the world offer up to Mary, from their hearts, a fervent and loving homage of prayer and veneration. In an encyclical written by Pope Paul VI that…

Dear Friends, Once again, Happy Easter! You might be wondering about those words and thinking “We already celebrated Easter two weeks ago.” This is true, but the Liturgical Season of Easter is not over; it is just beginning. We spent forty days during Lent preparing for the Passion and Resurrection of Christ. Our salvation was…

Dear Friends, Greetings and Happy Easter! May the Risen Lord bless you, your homes and families. Please be safe. If we can assist you in any way, please do not hesitate to contact us Monday through Friday from 9:00 am to 2:00 pm. I am writing to let you know that we continue to print…

“Do not be afraid; go and tell my brethren to go to Galilee, and there they will see me.” The death of Jesus had shaken the faith of the apostles to their core; everything seemed finished, all their certainties had crumbled, and all their hopes had died. However, in the gloom of darkness and in the…

The world has become a very strange place as we respond to COVID-19. Our pandemic has forced us to remain at our homes, but we are always close as brothers and sisters of this faith community. In spite of the many challenges we face being quarantined, we are given time to discern our role and…

On Holy Thursday we commemorate three important events:  1) The institution of the Holy Eucharist, 2) The institution of the Priesthood and 3) Jesus’ new commandment to His disciples to love one another as He has loved us. The washing of the feet of the disciples is part of the love commandment which symbolize service…

A Holy Week Message – Father Devdas Lent is often a challenging time for us, as we struggle to stick to our Lenten commitments. We either commit to doing too much, fall weak or get caught up with our busy lives and forget what we promised to do during this season. This year the Lenten…