Dear Friends, This year, our Parish Mission preacher is Fr. Dermot S. Roache, SMA. Fr. Roache is a member of the Society of African Missions (SMA Fathers) since 2001. He is a native of Brooklyn, New York and a former middle school teacher. After ordination, Fr. Roache spent several years serving as a missionary priest in Kenya as well as in the northern region of South Africa following the charism of his order’s founder, reaching out and proclaiming the Gospel to “the poorest

Catholic author Michael Brown once stated that Maria Esperanza is one of the greatest mystics of the twentieth century. In many ways, she was like her spiritual director, Padre Pio. For example, among Maria Esperanza’s spiritual gifts were the discernment of spirits, prophesy, speaking in tongues, counsel, and locutions and visions of Jesus, our Lady, and the saints. Additional gifts she manifested included: the gift of healing, the ability to read souls, deliverance prayer,

Michelle and Jason Bowers are former parishioners. They now live in Bay Head, New Jersey. Their youngest son, Jaxon, was admitted to Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia on February 25, 2010. He was three months old and rapidly succumbing to swine flu. Just a few days earlier he was a healthy newborn, receiving the total attention of his four older brothers at the Bower home. And now, the doctors and medical staff at CHOP were trying to bring Michelle and Jason to acknowledge