News - October 2023

Click through the link for a list of Black Saint Feast Days in November.

The RotaCare Pittsburg Free Medical Clinic at St. Vincent de Paul is hiring a Nurse Care Coordinator. This position is essential to the operation of the free medical clinic. Details through the link.

Please join Bishop Michael Barber, SJ in a day of prayer and fasting for peace on October 17, 2023. Read the letter from the Patriarch of Jerusalem through the link.

Through extraordinary parishioner generosity, the 2023 Bishop’s Ministries Appeal – I Am With You Always – has raised 73% of the $3 million goal! With everyone’s help, we can not only reach our goal, we can surpass it! Please help your parish towards its goal – funds raised over and above your parish’s goal are returned to the parish for its own needs. Appeal ends December 31 – please donate today at https://oakdiocese.org/bishops-appeal-donation-page.

Updates to The Catholic Voice mailing list are made monthly. Thank you to the parishes that keep us up to date. Any changes received this week will be made for the December issue. After that, they will be made for the January 2O24 issue. Please send mailing list additions, subtractions and changes to [email protected].

Submissions of events in March, April and May 2024 are welcome. If there is a major event in 2024 -- a 50th or 100th anniversary celebration for your parish, for example -- please let us know so we may get it on our calendar. Submissions to [email protected].

We enthusiastically encourage and invite a representative of EACH of the communities to submit the name and year of death information for saints of their ethnic group for the entire year. (*Note: Accuracy of information included here is entirely the responsibility of those submitting it.)

Read through the link for clergy assignments and appointments to the College of Consultors and 2023 Presbyteral Council.