Monica Emrock knows there are some lessons kids cannot learn in the classroom. That’s why, in her role as Director of Religious Education for St. Anne parish and school in Bethlehem, she takes students on regular trips to feed the hungry at the Catholic Charities soup kitchen in Allentown.

The Diocesan Commission for Men is offering a men’s Lenten morning of reflection on Saturday, March 9, 2019, at the Cathedral of St. Catharine of Siena in Allentown featuring presentations by Bishop Schlert and Fr. Bernard Ezaki.

St. Ann, Emmaus Parish Life Center, 526 Fairview Street, 8:45 a.m. To register: Call 610-965-6888 or email [email protected]

at the Safe Environment Office (Adjoined to Bethlehem Catholic High School), 5:30 p.m. To register: Call 610-332-0442 (ext. 2016)

at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Parish 7:30 - 9:00 p.m.

Good Friday is an obligatory day of fasting and abstinence from meat.

When fasting, a person is permitted to eat one full meal, as well as two smaller meals that together are not equal to a full meal. 

Lent Begins.  Ash Wednesday is an obligatory day of fasting and abstinence from meat.

When fasting, a person is permitted to eat one full meal, as well as two smaller meals that together are not equal to a full meal. 

Pamela J. Russo, L.S.W, M.S.
P.O. Box F
Allentown, PA 18105-1538
610-871-5200 ext. 2204
[email protected]

Go to Youth Protection by clicking here.

Go to Catholic Senior Housing and Health Care Services, Inc. by clicking here.

Go to Catholic Charities by clicking here.

 

at Holy Family Manor in the Bishop Welsh Education Room,1:00 p.m. To register: Call 610-865-5595

Tony and Theresa Farina are volunteer kitchen helpers at LaSalle Academy in Shillington, serving up equal doses of cafeteria food and octogenarian wisdom to elementary students.