Happy Easter! 

Wishing you and your family a happy and joyous Easter season! 

 


Congratulations!!

Prayerful best wishes and congratulations for the two gentlemen who were fully initiated into the Catholic faith during our Easter Vigil Mass:
Perry McMillan & Brandon McMillen

 



REVEREND DANIEL GERRES

FUNERAL INFORMATION IS AS FOLLOWS:

Funeral Service:  Tuesday, April 2, 10:30 a.m.

St. Ann’s Catholic Church
2013 Gilpin Avenue
Wilmington, DE

INTERMENT:  Tuesday, April 2, following services

All Saints Cemetery
6001 Kirkwood Highway
Wilmington, DE 

 

IF YOU ATTEND IN UNIFORM: ASU/Service Dress

You may send condolences to Father Gerres family via his obituary.

 

 


PREP Updates:

PREP Registration 2024-25

Forms for the next school year will not be submitted online. All paperwork will be manually submitted beginning in late April.

 

FIRST HOLY COMMUNION

On April 20, 2024 we have 17 students who will receive their First Holy Communion at a special Mass on a Saturday morning at 11:00.  Please pray for these children so they grow in anticipate of receiving the Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity of Jesus Christ for the first time.

 


The Knights of Columbus Presents a Scriptural Rosary for the Family

Sundays April 7th through May 5th | 9:30 am
St. Gabriel Chapel

The Knights of Columbus will host “Praying the Rosary” before 10:00 am Sunday Mass during Easter Season.

We will provide prayer guides and finger rosaries. Bring your own five decade rosaries to fully participate. We will be following the standard format with scripture reading between decades. We will start right at 9:30 am to ensure we finish 10 minutes before 10:00 Mass.

We look forward to praying with you!

 


 

ABVM Golf Classic 2024

Monday, April 15th at Hartefield National

For more information and to register, visit the ABVM webpage.

 


Level 6 PREP—Camp Caritas

June 17-21, 2024 | 8:30 am—3:00 pm
Bishop Shanahan High School

Middle schoolers attending Camp Caritas require Parish authorization. Please email Mrs. Riofski when you register so that she can notify Bishop Shanahan staff your child has permission to attend in June.

This documented step will ensure your child does not need to attend a year-long PREP next year.

Registration for Confirmation is still required for 5 meetings. The cost is $50.00 and a $40.00 Sacrament fee.

Any questions? Please contact the Church Office.

 


Children’s Liturgy of the Word

Each Sunday | 10:00 am Mass 

Children in preschool through fourth grade are invited to participate in the Children’s Liturgy. We kindly request one or two parents come back each week for assistance with bathrooms, etc.


Mass Intentions

The new calendar for 2025 Mass Cards will be available for scheduling May 1st.


Candle Intentions

Although the Mass Calendar is full for 2024, dedication candles are available for many days within 2024. The Sanctuary Lamp, Blessed Mother Candle, the Pieta Candle and the St. Gabriel Candle are available to honor loved ones.


Lending Library

We are looking for new and used children’s books that are pertinent to the Catholic faith in order to build a children’s library in the Engagement office.

If you would like to donate, please place books in the labeled bin outside the Church Office.

 


Prayer to One’s Guardian Angel for a Happy Hour of Death 
By: St. Charles Borromeo
 
My good Angel, I know not when or how I shall die. It is possible I may be carried off suddenly and that, before my last sigh, I may be deprived of all intelligence. Yet, how many things I would wish to say to God on the threshold of Eternity. In the full freedom of my will today, I come to charge you to speak for me at that fearful moment. You will say to Him, then, O my good Angel:
 
That I wish to die in the Roman Catholic Apostolic Church in which all the Saints since Jesus Christ have died, and out of which there is no salvation.
 
That I ask the grace of sharing in the infinite merits of my Redeemer and that I desire to die in pressing to my lips the Cross that was bathed in His Blood.
 
That I detest my sins because they displease Him and I ask pardon through the love of Him, for all my enemies as I wish myself to be pardoned. That I die willingly because He orders it and I throw myself with confidence into His adorable Heart, awaiting all His Mercy. That in my inexpressible desire to go to Heaven, I am disposed to suffer everything it may please His Sovereign Justice to inflict on me.
 
That I love Him before all things, above call things and for His own sake; that I wish and hope to love Him with the Elect, His Angels and the Blessed Mother during all Eternity.
 
Do not refuse, O my Angel Guardian, to be my interpreter with GOD and to protest to Him that these are my sentiments and my will.
 
Amen