Planning is underway for our annual 80-booth St Brendan Craft Show sponsored by our Knights of Columbus on Saturday, November 2. Several booth spots are still available! Vendor application and details can be found by clicking on “Craft Show” down below on this web page, or by contacting Fred Kierner at stbcraftshow@gmail.com
Due to your generosity, St Brendan parish is headed back to North Carolina to help another community in need, to rebuild after the damage from hurricane Helene.
Saturday, November 2 through Monday November 4, St Brendan’s will send a team to help the community of Swannanoa, NC. This is one of the hardest hit areas. In Swannanoa we will help in rebuilding a community of 30 mobile homes that were gutted due to Helene’s flooding. These families have no flood insurance and now have no work and no money to purchase the needed building materials to rebuild their homes.
Thanks to your previous generous offering of your treasure, we are able to provide heaters for each house as well as fire safety equipment, and will purchase as much building material (like insulation, dry wall, and flooring) that we can.
To come and join us, you do NOT have to be skilled in reconstruction. There will be contractors to guide us in what we will be doing. We will be lifting heavy sheets of dry wall and operating drills, saws, and other tools. Due to the rough conditions, we ask that only adults (over 18) come on this trip.
Please bring a sleeping bag (we will sleep on the floor of a church’s social hall), an air mattress, pillow, tools for rebuilding, and any special food you may need.
If you would like to join us, please text or call Deacon Doug at 614-674-3461.
In Christ,
Deacon Doug Yglesias
Registration for 2025 Catholic Summer Youth Camp opened, Wednesday, October 23 (for current grades 5-11.) Again this year for Catholic Youth Summer Camp, St Brendan parish will provide $100 towards each of our first 100 students to register (cost per session is $620). If anyone is in need of financial assistance, please contact Jacob Doran at jdoran@stbrendans.net. Register HERE and use the code BRENHILL25 to receive the discount.
ALL SOULS MASS OF REMEMBRANCE this year is Wednesday, October 30, at the 5:30 PM Mass (normally offered on Nov 2) for those who have experienced a loss in the past year and for all of us who want to pray for departed souls. Mass will be followed by a Holy Hour. The names of our deceased parishioners who have had funerals at St Brendan in the last year will be inscribed on banners that will be hung up during the month of November. Blank banners will be in the gathering space for you to write the names of your own deceased loved ones.
ALL SAINTS DAY – A Holy Day of Obligation this year. Mass times are:
Thursday, October 31 – 5:30 PM (Vigil)
Friday, November 1 – 7 AM, 12 PM, 7 PM
Monday, November 4 at 7 PM (doors open at 6:30 PM for light refreshments), join the Inviting Catholics Home Ministry for a practical and prayerful workshop in the Davidson Rooms. Through video instruction, testimony, small group discussion, resources and giveaways, learn new insight on what to do and what not to do, to bring your loved ones who have left the faith back. End the evening with an opportunity for “Praying Them Home.” Register now HERE Questions? Contact Janet at jlwalsh1@gmail.com
