RCIA & Inquiry: Mondays, 7:00 PM, St. John the Baptist
Walking With Purpose I: Mondays, 7:00 PM, Holy Family Room
Social Fellowship Committee: Monday (3/4), 7:00 PM, St. Mark
Called & Gifted: Mondays (3/4 & 3/18), 7:00 PM, St. Matthew
Adult Bible Study: Tuesdays, 9:30 AM and 7:00 PM, St. Matthew
Parish Pastoral Council: Tuesday (3/5), 7:00 PM, St. Luke
High School Youth Group: Tuesdays, 7:00 PM, CLC
Divorced & Separated Program: Tuesdays (3/5 thru 4/23), 7:00 PM, Holy Family Room
Knights of Columbus: Tuesday (3/5), 7:30 PM, St. Matthew
Ash Wednesday Services- Wednesday (3/6): Mass with the distribution of ashes at 7:30 AM & 7:00 PM + Liturgy of the Word with Ash Distribution at 11:00 AM & 4:45 PM
Walking with Purpose II: Wednesdays, 9:30 AM, St. Matthew
Middle School & 8th Grade Youth Groups: Wednesday (3/6), 5:30 PM, St. John the Baptist
Legion of Mary: Wednesday (3/6), after 7:00 PM Mass, Holy Family Room
Women at the Well: Thursday (3/7), 7:00 PM, St. Mark, and Friday (3/8), holy hour in chapel, 9:00 AM + meeting in St. Mark, 10:00 AM
Queen of Peace Marian Prayer Group: Fridays, 1:00 PM, chapel
Stations of the Cross & Benediction: Fridays (3/8 thru 4/12) 7:00 PM, church
Pre-Jordan I: Saturday (3/9), 10:30 AM, ministry center
Living Lenten Cross Project: Saturday (3/9) through Tuesday (3/19), church narthex
Casserole Collection: Saturday/Sunday (3/9-10), before all Masses, kitchen bay doors
Hospitality Sunday Donut Social: Sunday (3/10), 8:30 AM, social hall
First Grade Daisies: Monday (3/11), 3:00 PM, art room
SAM Team: Monday (3/11), 3:00 PM, St. Luke
EFF Lenten Prayer Services: Monday (3/11), 5:00 PM; Tuesday (3/12), 6:30 PM; Wednesday (3/13), 5:00 PM, church
Family Life Ministry Team: Monday (3/11), 7:00 PM, St. Mark
Liturgical Life Committee: Tuesday (3/12), 7:30 PM, St. Luke
Spirit Newsletter Staff: Tuesday (3/12), 7:00 PM, St. Mark
Bereavement Ministry Team: Wednesday (3/13), 9:00 AM, St. Luke
Legion of Mary: Wednesdays, 6:00 PM, holy hour, chapel; 7:00 PM, Holy Family Room
Parish School Advisory Council: Wednesday (3/13), 7:00 PM, St. Luke
SDOS Planning Team: Wednesday (3/13), 7:00 PM, St. Mark
Girl Scout Leaders Local Troops: Wednesday (3/13), 7:00 PM, CLC
SAM Lunch & Learn: Thursday (3/14), 10:30 AM, St. Matthew
Pastoral Plan Implementation Committee (PPIC): Thursday (3/14), 7:00 PM, St. Luke
Boy Scouts Pinewood Derby: Saturday (3/16), 5:30 PM, social hall
Parish Mission: Sunday (3/17), 4:00 PM; Monday (3/18), 7:00 PM; & Tuesday (3/19), 7:00 PM, church
OTHER ACTIVITIES OF INTEREST
Help Wanted: Saint Joseph parish, Downingtown, is looking for a part-time cook to prepare dinners for the priests at the rectory. The ideal candidate must like to cook, have culinary experience or is a cooking professional interested in some additional hours. This position has a flexible schedule, approximately 8 hours per week. If interested, email Allan Anderson, Business Manager, at
Help Wanted: Guiding Star Ministries, a maternity home in the Germantown section of Philadelphia, is seeking candidates to serve as Live-in Resident Assistant in our Maternity Home in Philadelphia. Responsibilities include: support of the residents and overseeing the home. Assistant may work or attend school during the day. Free housing and stipend for live-in position. Forward resume to
Remain in My Love: This Archdiocesan Initiative to reinvigorate marriage and the family is in its third year and is directed to everyone in the Archdiocese, especially married couples and families. Sessions are planned throughout the Archdiocese to look at marriage as created by God, and what is good about marriage and the family as the domestic church. Visit the Remain in My Love Website at http://archphila.org/remain/, to learn all about the opportunities for you during 2019 and register for the sessions in your area.
Catholic Charities Appeal: Are you ready to start volunteering? The impact you can make on others through volunteering is incredible and you will create a lasting legacy of charity that will be remembered and celebrated for years to come. Visit CatholicCharitiesAppeal.org to learn more about volunteering at various CCC beneficiary sites.
Charismatic Mass and Healing Service: Please join the Archdiocesan Charismatic Prayer Communities of Chester County on Monday, March 4, at Sacred Heart Catholic Church, Oxford. Prayer and Praise at 7:00 PM, Mass at 7:30 PM. Celebrant is Rev. Christopher Rodgers. All are welcome (bring a friend)! Wheelchair accessible! For more information and directions contact Jean Gottel (
Malvern Retreat House: Please join us for the following events: Ash Wednesday Lenten Day of Reflection on Wednesday, March 6, 9:00 AM-3:00 PM, directed by Fr. James McGuinn. This is the perfect day for you to begin Lent with the distribution of ashes, a sit-down lunch with Mass and Confessions. $40 per person; Domenica Retreat for Women, March 1-3, directed by noted evangelist and author, Kathleen McCarthy, and will focus on the theme, “Embracing the Lord’s Peace in Turbulent Times,” and Women Afire Retreat for Women, March 8-10. The theme for this retreat is “For God Has Not Given Us a Spirit of Fear and Timidity, but of Power, Love and Self-Discipline.” 2 Timothy. For more information or to register for any of these events, visit www.malvernretreat.com or call 610-644-0400. We will also be holding a Holy Week Quiet Retreat (for men and women), Monday April 15-Easter Sunday, directed by Fr. James McGuinn. The theme is “Divine Transformation: Becoming the Person You Really Want to Be!” Individuals may choose a day, several days or the entire week as part of the “Holy Week Quiet” retreat with or without a mail package. The amenities vary according to the desire of the retreatant. All details are available online at www.malvernretreat.com/events/holy-week-quiet-retreat/ . Register directly by telephone to Joanne Bouvier (484-321-2535). Limited enrollment for this unique retreat.
Pro-Life Union of Greater Philadelphia: Show your Pro-Life Pride at the Philadelphia St. Patrick’s Parade on Sunday, March 10. Join our contingent at 11:00 AM on the north side of JFK Boulevard between 16th & 17th Streets. For more info, visit www.prolifeunion.org, www.guidingstar.org or call 215-885-8150.
SS. Philip & James, Exton: Our Bereavement Support Group is open to all those who are grieving, no matter how long it has been. Our next session will be held on Thursday evenings, March 7 through April 11, 7:00-8:30 PM in the school library. Light refreshments will be served. For more information and/or to register, please email or call Theresa Ferrari (
Man Up Philly 2019 Catholic Men's Conference: Now in its 11th year, Man Up Philly Men's Spirituality Conference seeks to encourage men to be better fathers, husbands, brothers, and Catholics through enlightening and energizing talks, prayer, Eucharistic adoration, along with the reception of Reconciliation and the Holy Eucharist. Join us on Saturday, March 9, 2019, 7:30 AM-5:00 PM at the Neumann University Mirenda Center, 1 Neumann Way, Aston PA 19014. Speakers include: Eagle star Ron Jaworski, Matthew Kelly, Evangelist Deacon Harold Burke-Sivers, Irish tenor Mark Forrest. Mass will be celebrated by Bishop Timothy Senior. For more information and/or to register, visit our website at www.manupphilly.com.
Spaghetti Dinner: The Eagle-Glenmoore Lions Club will hold their annual Spaghetti Dinner on Saturday, March 9, 4:30-7:00 PM in the social hall. You may eat-in or take-out. Adults-$10; children, 4-10 years-$4; under 4 years -free. For tickets call 610-942-4123. Proceeds benefit local Volunteer Fire Companies (Glenmoore, Lionville, Ludwigs Corner).
Good Works Annual Celebration Dinner: All are welcome to join us on Sunday, March 10, 5:00 PM, at the Downingtown Country Club for a sumptuous buffet, inspiring testimonies, fellowship and thanksgiving. Tickets are $35 per guest and guests may choose their seats upon arrival. For more information visit the website at goodworksinc.org or call 610-383-6311.
St. Joseph Parish, Spring City: Join us for a Mass in support of those suffering from addiction, on Saturday, March 15 at 11:00 AM. All are invited! Celebrant is Rev. Charles R. O’Hara, Pastor. Healing blessing offered after Mass. Addiction has touched far too many families and taken away far too many of our loved ones. Join us that we may draw strength from one another in the power of our faith. “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.” Philippians 4:13.
Bishop Shanahan High School: Seventh Grade Visitation Day, Wednesday, March 20, 8:30 AM to 1:30 PM; 7th Grade Practice Scholarship Test, Saturday, April 6, 8:00 AM-12:00 PM; Spring Open House, Thursday, April 4, 7:00-9:00 PM. Visit shanahan.org/whybshs to register and for more information. Contact Carol Dale (cdale@shanahan, 610-343-6206) with any questions.
Our Lady’s Missionaries of the Eucharist, Birdsboro: Join us on Wednesday, March 20, 7:00-9:00 PM, for a presentation by Kathleen McCarthy. The evening includes the Sacrament of Reconciliation, Eucharistic Adoration, the Holy Sacrifice of Mass, anointing and prayer over individuals and Eucharistic Benediction. Register at
Rachel’s Vineyard Ministries: Post-Abortion Healing Retreat, March 22-24 in Malvern-Frazer, PA. For more information and/or to register call or email Lauren (215-720-5828;
Flame of Love Lenten Retreat: Join us on Saturday, March 23, at Annunciation BVM in Havertown. Day begins with Holy Mass at 8:30 AM and concludes with Benediction at 2:30 PM. Speaker and Homilist is Father James Blount, SOLT. Bring your own lunch! Bring a friend! Free of charge. For more information email or call Annie Myers (
Ss. Simon and Jude, West Chester: Honor Flight Philadelphia presents Designer Bag Bingo, Saturday, March 23. Only 100 tickets available. Doors open at 6:00 PM, Bingo starts at 7:00 PM. 10 games/4specials/extra cards available. Tables of 8 can be reserved. Tickets: $35.00; tables: $250.00. All proceeds benefit our veterans with a day of honor in Washington, D.C. For more information contact: Andrew 610-662-1812;
Villa Maria Academy High School: All 7th graders are invited to take the Practice Exam on Saturdays, March 23 and 30. VMA has also scheduled Preview Breakfasts for 6th & 7th grade families on April 8 & 10. This will offer a “sneak peek” at Villa Maria’s high school life. 7th grade Visit Villa Days will be offered on May 13 & 14. Visitors will receive a preview of our school community by attending classes and having lunch with current students. For more information, please contact the Admissions Office at 610-644-2551 or register online at www.vmahs.org.
Catholic Daughters of the Americas: Join us on Saturday, March 23, at SS. Simon & Jude (Sacred Heart Chapel) for a presentation by Sr. Sheila Galligan, IHM, entitled “Forgiveness: The Name of Love in a Wounded World.” The presentation begins at 9:45 AM following the 9:00 AM Mass. Please contact Martha Schmidt (267-772-3630) for more information. Check out our website on http://cdapa.com/2739/index.html. Regular meetings are held the second Sunday of each month (1:30 PM) at SS. Philip & James (rectory conference room).
Office for Persons with Disabilities & the Deaf Apostolate: All are welcome to join us on Saturday, March 30, 10:30 AM at the Cathedral Basilica of SS. Peter & Paul for our annual Mass for Persons with Disabilities. To RSVP visit www.opdarchphilly.org or call 215-587-3530.
Bishop Shanahan High School News: Join us on Saturday, March 30, 7:00-10:00 PM for “An Evening at Shanahan” for our Annual Auction & Restaurant Fair. You can sample treats from ten restaurants and three bakeries including Whitford Country Club, P.J. Whelihan’s, Bakers of Buffington and Nothing Bundt Cakes and bid on many exciting Silent Auction items. Please register at www.501auctions.com/bshs. Contact Wendy Chapman (
Retrouvaille: Is your marriage hurting? Do you feel helpless? Hopeless? Retrouvaille (retro-VIE) can help and offers hope for a better relationship. Retrouvaille can help heal your marriage. For more information, or to register for one of our weekends, visit www.HelpOurMarriage.org or call 1-800-470-2230. All inquiries are kept strictly confidential. There will be upcoming programs in April and August.
Mothers of Children with Disabilities Retreat: Join us on Wednesday, May 1, at Malvern Retreat House for a retreat for mothers and grandmothers who are raising children with disabilities and also those who have adult children with disabilities. For a flyer or registration information, visit www. opdarchphilly.org, call 215-587-3530 or contact Malvern Retreat House directly at 610-644-0400.
Spiritual CPR: A Retreat for All Nurses: Paging all nurses! Come join us for a morning of spiritual reflection, fellowship & fun with other nurses. As nurses, we face unique spiritual challenges that often go unaddressed. Come share a morning with other nurses who share some of the same joys and burdens. Nursing personnel of ALL professional and spiritual backgrounds welcome. Please join us on Saturday, March 30, 8:30 AM-12:00 Noon at Daylesford Abbey, 220 S. Valley Road, Paoli. Breakfast will be served. A donation of $20 is requested. For more information and/or to register, please email Theresa (
Marianist Family Retreat Center, Cape May Point, NJ: Join us on the weekend of March 29-31 for the Spirituality of Knitting & Needle-crafting Retreat. Come explore how the work of your hands is also the work of our Creator’s hands. All who knit, crochet or needle-craft with some experience are welcome. Cost is $140 per person (includes, program, lodging & meals). Sign up on line at www.capemaymarianists.org or call 609-884-3829 for more information.
Little Sisters of the Poor: Spring Concert, Scythian and McLean Avenue Band. Come and enjoy lively Irish music, March 30, at Villanova University’s Jake Nevin Fieldhouse. Concert benefits the elderly poor of the Holy Family Home. Doors open at 6:00 PM. Bands begin playing at 7:30 PM. Tickets are $50 ($20 for students and $10 children 12 and under). Ticket price includes admission, food and drinks. For reservations please send name, address, phone and check to Sister Veronica, Holy Family Home - Dept. PB, 5300 Chester Ave., Philadelphia, PA 19143. For more info, or credit card payment visit www.littlesistersofthepoorphiladelphia.org.
St. Mary of the Assumption, Phoenixville: All engaged couples planning to marry are invited to our Pre-Cana Program on Saturday, April 12. Program begins at 9:00 AM and ends with 4:00 PM Mass. The day includes talks, lunch, snacks and an opportunity for the Sacrament of Reconciliation. This one-day program meets all the requirements of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia. A certificate is provided upon completion of the day. Call 610-933-2526 or visit www.stmaryassumption.org - click on Forms/PRE-CANA for more information and to register.
Dominican Sisters of Hawthorne: We invite women (ages 19-45) who are discerning a religious vocation to join us for a weekend of sharing in our life of prayer and apostolate. 2019 weekends will be held in Hawthorne, NY on March 8-10, July 26-28 and November 15-17; and in Atlanta, GA, on May 24-26 and September 20-22. Reservations are required. For information and/or reservations please contact Sr. Catherine Marie (845-745-1319 or
Shanahan High School: Spring Open House - All are Invited! Thursday, April 4 - 7:00 to 9:00 PM. Featuring tours; academic presentation; classroom demonstrations; Q&A with department chairs, teachers and coaches and refreshments. Visit shanahan.org/whybshs to register and for more information.
Shanahan High School: Seventh Grade practice scholarship test, Saturday, April 6 - 8:00 AM to Noon. Visit shanahan.org/whybshs to register and for more info.
Shanahan High School: All middle school students are invited to an Ignite retreat! Experience faith, friends and fun! All are welcome. The next Ignite retreat will be held on April 27, 2019. For more information and/or to register visit shanahan.org/ignite or email
Daughters of Mary, Mediatrix of Mercy: We are in the process of forming a new congregation of teaching Sisters, who, by God’s grace, will serve within those Catholic primary and secondary schools that implement a classical curriculum. If you would like more information concerning a vocation of the Daughters of Mary, Mediatrix of Mercy, email
Save the Date: Daylesford Abbey welcomes back Don Bisson, FMS, for “Healing the Hole in the Heart”, on Saturday, May 5, 2019, 9:00 AM-3:30 PM. General Admission-$60; Religious & Clergy-$45; Students-$15, includes conference & lunch. For more information and/or to register call 610-646-2530, ext. 133 or visit www.daylesfordabbey.org.
Our Lady of Mount Carmel Parish: All are welcome to join us for a Catholic Pilgrimage to Italy, June 2-14, 2019. We will be visiting Venice, Florence, Bologna, Siena, Assisi, San Giovanni Rotondo and Rome. Holy Mass will be held daily. Cost if $4,199 per person which include air from Philadelphia and breakfast and dinner daily. For a flyer or more detailed information, please call Cathie or Michael Milano (1-800-773-2660).
Safe Haven Sunday
Archbishop Charles J. Chaput, O.F.M. Cap.
[posted at Catholic Philly.com on February 18, 2019]
Here's a simple fact: Today, anyone on the internet can get hardcore pornography for free. Even the most extreme content — no matter how abusive or strange, legal or illegal — can be had for a price. Most American boys encounter pornography by their early teen years. Millions of men, and increasingly women, seek it out addictively. Users make roughly 70 million porn web searches every day. Persons uneasy about their pornography habit can easily hide it from others. Explicit content is now so mainstream that it runs on network television.
The taste for pornography isn't new. No society in history has ever been free of it. What is new are the technologies that enable the porn business to have massive scope, easy access from anywhere, and the shield of domestic privacy. Americans will never return to a world without widespread porn. Too many people make money from it: nearly $100 billion annually around the world and more than $13 billion here in the United States. Too many people see porn as a matter of personal choice. And too many people refuse to see its wider social impact; it's a rare candidate for office who even mentions it as a problem.
And yet, pornography literally changes the brain. Psychiatrist Norman Doidge describes the process in The Brain That Changes Itself. Porn impacts the part of the brain related to exciting pleasure, not satisfying it. In fact, denying satisfaction is part of pornography's power. "[Porn's] neurochemistry is largely dopamine-related, and it raises our tension level," he notes. "Pornography, by offering an endless harem of sexual objects, hyper-activates the appetitive system" and actually rewires the brain. It creates what he calls "maps" that the user wants to keep activated. Doidge compares men using pornography to lab rats in an experiment, pressing a bar to get another shot of dopamine. They've "been seduced into pornographic training sessions that [meet] all the conditions required for plastic change of brain maps."
Internet pornography also leads users to the content most especially addicting for them. All persons, Doidge notes, have sexual triggers, sexual acts that uniquely excite them, often much darker than anything they imagined. In the past, most men could go through life without ever finding those triggers. Today a man clicking through porn sites will eventually stumble on them, with addictive results.
Here's the point: Pornography damages more than the addict. It demeans and humiliates spouses. It destroys real intimacy. It reduces people — created in the image and likeness of God — to mere objects. And those are just the immediate human costs. The real impact is much wider.
The porn industry fuels and feeds on the exploitation of women and minors forced into "sex work." Porn is also a major factor in divorce, infidelity, and breaking apart families. This in turn has a geometric effect. Children from broken families exhibit lower achievement in school, poorer emotional health, and higher levels of delinquency and incarceration. An intact marriage and family, in contrast, reduces the chance of a child growing up in poverty by 80 percent. A wide range of studies have shown that marital breakups increase poverty rates, teen pregnancy, crime, drug abuse and illness, and cost the American public scores of billions of dollars every year - and porn is a major, invisible trigger in the resulting cascade of pain.
On March 2-3, the Archdiocese will mark its first "Safe Haven Sunday." It's an effort by our local Church, in partnership with the organization Covenant Eyes, to help men and women protect themselves, their marriages and their children, against the spread of pornography in their homes and relationships. To date, 55 of our parishes have signed up for Covenant Eyes resources. Key among those resources is the book Equipped: Smart Catholic Parenting in a Sexualized Culture.
Equipped includes instructions on how to join a free, opt-in email series. The series' emails contain important video links to help parents strengthen their homes as safe havens, explaining the latest apps, Google Safe Search, YouTube Restricted mode, the risks of social media, and with tips on how to address online pornography. Implementation materials for local parishes and dioceses can be found at https://learn.covenanteyes.com/safe-haven-sunday/.
Finally, more information is always available at our Office for Life and Family at www.philly catholiclife.org, or by phone at 215-587-0500.
Please join me in praying and working for the success of this good project.
Charles J. Chaput, O.F.M. Cap.
Archbishop of Philadelphia
Some informational resources:
1) About Safe Haven Sunday: https://learn.covenanteyes.com/safe-haven-sunday
2) For ideas on using technology in a God-honoring way: www.protectyoungeyes.com
3) For keeping current with kids & technology: KeepingTech-Savvy Kids Safe/Parent Map
4) For reviews of movies, video games & apps: www.commonsensemedia.org
5) USCCB, Create in Me A Clean Heart (November 2016)
Ash Wednesday Schedule
The season of Lent begins this Wednesday, March 6, when we will celebrate Mass with the distribution of ashes at 7:30 AM and at 7:00 PM. In addition, a Liturgy of the Word with distribution of ashes will be held at 11:00 AM and at 4:45 PM. NB: ashes are not available at other times.
Special Lenten Activities
Stations of the Cross & Benediction: in the main church on Fridays at 7:00 PM, March 8, thru April 12. On March 29, all are welcome to a special Stations of the Cross for Young People presented by our High School Youth Group. All are also encouraged to attend the Lenten Soup Supper in the social hall at 5:30 PM before the Stations of the Cross that evening.
On Friday, April 12, the eighth graders of the parish school will present a Living Stations of the Cross at 1:30 PM and again at 7:00 PM. All are most welcome to attend this Lenten service, as well as the K of C Fish Fry in the social hall, 5:00-7:00 PM.
Sacrament of Penance/Reconciliation: Individual confessions are heard in the daily Mass chapel on Saturday mornings at 9:00 AM. Confessions will also be heard in the daily Mass chapel, 6:30-7:00 PM, on four Lenten Wednesdays: March 13, 20, 27 and April 3. The Lenten Communal Penance Service with Individual Confessions will be held on Wednesday, April 10, at 7:00 PM. There will also be an extended period of confessions (9:00-11:00 AM) on Saturday, April 13.
Living Lenten Cross Project: The Adult Faith Formation Committee, Family Life Ministry Team and Pastoral Plan Implementation Committee invite all parishioners - adults and children, individuals and families - to participate in a new Living Lenten Cross project this year. Between March 9 and March 19, two large wooden crosses will be in the narthex (like the Advent Giving Tree) with small paper crosses affixed, each suggesting a commitment to carry out during Lent. Please choose one or more spiritual or hands-on activity to carry out during Lent to honor Jesus and your faith. For more information, contact Diane Shoemaker (
Spiritual Disciplines for Lent
The Bishops of the United States prescribe, as minimal obligation, that all persons who are fourteen years of age and older are bound to abstain from eating meat on Ash Wednesday, the Fridays of Lent and Good Friday. All persons eighteen years of age and older, up to and including their fifty-ninth birthday, are bound to fast by limiting themselves to a single full meal on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday, while the other two meals on those two days are to be light.
All are encouraged to participate in Mass and to receive Holy Communion regularly; to celebrate the Sacrament of Penance/Reconciliation; to make time for spiritual reading, especially the study of Sacred Scripture; to attend Lenten devotions such as the Stations of the Cross, and to participate in stewardship activities during Lent, including Operation Rice Bowl.
Don’t forget to stop by the AFF/FLMT resource table in the narthex on Ash Wednesday!
Saint Elizabeth Parish School News
New Pre-Kindergarten 4 Program: Saint Elizabeth Parish School is now accepting applications for our new Pre-K4 program starting in the 2019-2020 school year. Choose from several options: three full days, five full-days or five half-days - whichever works well with your family schedule! Children will receive individualized attention for social, physical and emotional development. Specials such as Art and Music will be offered. Students will work with the Handwriting Without Tears program, and have an introduction to religion. For information or to schedule a tour, please call 610-646-6540 or submit an admission inquiry on our website: www.stelizabethparishschool.org/admissioninquiryform.
Sneak-a-Peek: One more Sneak-a-Peek session is scheduled for prospective students entering Pre-K4, kindergarten or first grade in September 2019. See what a typical school day is like at Saint Elizabeth Parish School. No appointment is needed; just drop in anytime between 9:30 and 11:00 AM on Wednesday, March 13. For more info, call 610-646-6540.
New Student Enrollment for 2019-2020: It's not too late to enroll for the next school year in Pre-K4 through grade 8. If you need an application packet, please contact Mrs. Liz Oulton (610-646-6540 or
Re-Registration for 2019-2020: Current parish school families are asked to return their re-enrollment forms for next year to the school office ASAP! Knowing your intentions helps us to plan and budget for the next school year. We make decisions on staffing, classroom sections and new programs based upon reliable numbers for the next school year. Please call the parish school office (610-646-6540) if you have any questions.
Financial Aid Applications: FACTS Grant & Aid must be completed for EITC BLOCS and Saint Elizabeth Parish Financial Aid. The application fee is $35.00. Next year's Pre-K4 students are also eligible for aid – simply indicate Pre-K for the grade level. Your 2017 tax return is required to complete your application. Please go to https://online.factsmgt.com/aid. All families intending to apply for any financial aid are strongly encouraged to do so as soon as possible.
TuitionCare 2019:
If you could help reduce the current tuition rate for students enrolled in Saint Elizabeth Parish School by $500 and possibly as much as $1,000 per family, would you do it? Here’s how easy it is: Join TuitionCare!
This program has been developed by the Foundation for Catholic Education in order to provide a Tuition Reduction Grant (TRG) for participating Catholic elementary schools while at the same time increasing participation in the PA Educational Improvement Tax Credit (EITC) and Opportunity Scholarship Tax Credit (OSTC) Special Purpose Entity (SPE) program.
For more information on how you can participate in TuitionCare 2019, please contact Judi McLane Neeld (610-793-8503;