Welcome to Little Flower
Little Flower is a Catholic parish dedicated to praising God and to building a strong faith community. The sharing of our gifts through teaching, serving and supporting each other enables us to live as signs of God's loving presence.
Welcome to the St. Therese Little Flower website. It is our hope that the information you find on these pages will prove beneficial to you. If you are a parishioner, perhaps it will help you know your parish better. If you are Catholic, new to the area, and looking for a parish home, it may help you in your decision.
A Message from Archbishop Schnurr
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced last week that almost all employers, including Catholic employers, will be forced to offer their employees' health coverage that includes sterilization, abortion-inducing drugs, and contraception. Almost all health insurers will be forced to include those "services" in the health policies they write. And almost all individuals will be forced to buy that coverage as a part of their policies.
Catholic Schools Week is January 29, 2012 through February 5, 2012. We invite you to attend the Our Lady of Grace Open House on January 29, 2012 from 1:00 pm to 3:30 pm. Tour the school and see all the exciting activities of our students.
Catholic Schools Week Events
- Sunday, Jan. 29: Open House 1:00 pm - 3:30pm
- Sunday, Jan. 29 - Friday, Feb. 3: Scholastic Book Fair
- Monday, Jan. 30: Crazy Accessory Day
- Tuesday Jan. 31: Catholic Schools Mass at 9:40 and students receive a special treat at lunch
- Wednesday Feb. 1: Students are rewarded with an out of uniform day
- Thursday Feb. 2: Student-Teacher Game Day
- Friday Feb. 3 & Saturday, Feb. 4: The Talent Show 7:30 pm at Assumption Parish Center Admission: $1.00
Latest News from Little Flower Connect
Check out the latest news and information from Little Flower Parish Office.
Introducing Little Flower Connect
Little Flower Parish is re-starting an email service we had in the recent past. It is a Listserv called Little Flower Connect. As before, it is a one-way announce-only service. This means you will receive messages coming from or through the Parish Office. These messages will include timely updates on Mass times, funerals, meetings, special events, activities and more.
To sign up, simply send an email to LittleFlowerConnect-subscribe@applesiders.org. Nothing needs to be in the Subject field or the body of the message. You will very shortly receive back a welcome email message, which means you are all set. When messages are sent, you will receive them within minutes of them being sent. You can quickly identify messages coming from this Listserv because the Subject of all messages will be preceded by LFC for Little Flower Connect.
Please be sure to send the above message from the email address you want to receive the messages on if you have multiple email addresses.
You will have the ability to unsubscribe from the service from every message you get from the service. A link will be in the footer of all messages.
We hope you will subscribe and stay subscribed so you can be connected to Little Flower Parish in this electronic way.
Prayer Chain
The Little Flower Prayer Chain is now being handled through the Parish Office and an email service has been set up. If you would like to be a part of the Prayer Chain, you need to subscribe by sending an email to lfprayerchain-subscribe@applesiders.org. You will then get a welcome message and will receive Prayer Chain emails when they are sent out. If you do not receive a welcome message, please call the Parish Office, or send an email to parishoffice@littleflower-church.org.
If you are a current member of the Prayer Chain, you must subscribe to the new Prayer Chain, following the directions above. If you are part of the phone chain, please contact the Parish Office at 541-5560.
Please do not send prayer requests to the former Prayer Chain email (lfprayerchain@fuse.net). Prayer requests should be emailed to ParishOffice@littleflower-church.org or called in to the Parish Office at 541-5560. Please include the person?s first name only and a brief description of the reason.
Roman Missal
Dear Parish Family:
As you may have heard or read, some of the words of the prayers of the Mass have been revised. The Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments has approved revisions in the Roman Missal, the book that the priest uses to pray the words of the Mass. This third typical edition of the Roman Missal was issued by Pope John Paul II in 2000. After it was published in 2002, the work of translation began. During this translation a different model was used than after the Second Vatican Council, so some of the words that we proclaim at Mass have been changed. The United States is not the only country making these changes. The words prayed in the Mass are being revised around the world, no matter what language is spoken. The revised translation will be used beginning November 27, 2011, the first Sunday of Advent.
11/20/11: Letter from Fr. Goebel
11/13/11: Liturgy and Life
11/06/11: Lord, I Am Not Worthy ...
10/30/11: "Consubstanial with the Father"
10/23/11: "And with your Spirit"
10/16/11: If You Believe and I Believe
10/09/11: Changes in the Entrance Rites
09/18/11: Words in the Roman Missal, Third Edition
09/11/11: Scripture and the Mass
09/04/11: Embracing Change in the Liturgy
08/14/11: The Concluding Rights
07/03/11: The Liturgy of the Eucharist
06/12/11: Beyond the Words podcasts
06/05/11: The Liturgy of the Word
05/21/11: The Introductory Rites
05/08/11: Praying with Body, Mind, and Voice
03/27/11: How Does the Liturgy Shape Our Lives?
03/13/11: Ten Questions on the Roman Missal
02/27/11: Why Was The Roman Missal Revised?
Embracing the Future
After a two-year period, during which a team of parishioners conducted interviews with over 100 other parish members and conducted brainstorming sessions to generate ideas, a Steering Committee, selected by and working with the pastor and guided by an organizational consultant with special expertise in Catholic parish life, has developed a five-year pastoral plan for the parish called Embracing the Future. It proposes over 100 individual pastoral recommendations organized under six broad pastoral priorities to help prioritize and guide the work of the parish into the year 2015. The full version of the plan, as well as a more reader-friendly booklet containing highlights of the plan, is available for download; copies may also be obtained upon request at the Parish Office.
View the Embracing the Future Booklet.
View the Embracing the Future Pastoral Plan.