Our Parish Family Welcomes You!
Welcome to your new Parish Web Site! We hope the new look and feel will make navigation and finding information easier for all of our parishioners. Please pardon us as we continue to update all of the pages on the site to make this a more useful tool for you as you continue on your faith journey.
LITURGICAL SCHEDULES:
Newsletters, such as Bringing Home the Word, are no longer going to be printed in the Weekly Bulletin, but are now available online. Click here for the latest issues.
We have created new multimedia guide to the Catechism. Each section includes an explanatory video you can use as an introduction to the actual catechism text that follows. Click here to begin.
All music and liturgical schedules (for altar servers, lectors, eucharistic ministers, greeters, ushers and more) are now located on a new web site hosted by the Saint Margaret Mary Music & Liturgy Department. Click here for more details and Don't Forget... It is a great time of the year to join a Liturgical Ministry! Sign-up after Mass on September 11-12 or click here to sign-up online!
SEPTEMBER EVENTS:
SEPTEMBER 6: Labor Day (Parish Offices are closed).
SEPTEMBER 9: Stewardship Committee Meeting (7:30 - 9:00 PM in the Ministry Center).
SEPTEMBER 12: Youth Quake Mass (4:00 PM)
SEPTEMBER 25: St. Vincent de Paul FRIENDS OF THE POOR WALK at St. Catherine of Sienna (Register after Mass August 28-29 or Sept. 11-12 or online at www.svdpusa.com).
PARISH NEWS:
DIOCESAN STEWARDSHIP
Please contribute to the Diocesan Stewardship Appeal.
The Diocese or Rockford provides those services which are too
large for a single parish to provide. They provide training for
members of the parish in Ministry Formation, for Priest and
Deacon Education and Continuing Education Programs. They
provide Catholic Charities for the needs of the poor. They
provide direction and support for the Education Programs for
our Area Catholic High Schools, our parish School and
Religious Education Programs. It provides for the Retreat
House and the Marriage Programs available to people. It provides
direction for youth development. This is only part of
what the diocese provides.
This is an important Appeal... please give generously.
Our Mission & Vision
Our Mission Statement: We, the Catholic Community of Saint Margaret Mary Church, are called by God to be brothers and sisters of Jesus through His life, death and resurrection. We are challenged, through the power of the Holy Spirit, to recognize, become like, and share Christ Jesus in Sacrament, service to others and the sharing of our gifts and the Good News. In this, God's Reign is established.
Our Parish Vision Statement: We are called to establish God’s reign on earth by becoming one with Christ in word, Sacrament and service, as follows:
By loving God above all else, and by loving others as ourselves.
By participating fully in the sacramental life of the Church.
By seeking God’s grace through prayer and spiritual renewal.
By serving others through corporal and spiritual works of mercy.
By supporting the education and religious formation of children, young people and adults in the Roman Catholic tradition.
By sharing, with joy and generosity, our unique talents, our time, our treasure, our personal witness of faith, and our practice of charity.
By being a welcoming community, respecting the diversity of gifts and cultures.
By evangelizing our community and the world through our example of Christian living and our witness to our faith in Christ and the Church.
This is my commandment: love one another as I love you. You are my friends, if you do what I command you.
Saint Margaret Mary is part of the Rockford Diocese.
