Palms at Saint Helen will be available for pick up after Sunday, April 5th. They will be on a table outside of the main doors in the entry way. Holy Trinity Palms may be picked up from a table inside of the entryway of the Church.
Regarding Confessions during this time: According to the precepts of the Church, Catholics are to go to confession at least once a year, during the Lenten Season. Father Fred has set up the following guidelines for us: He will be available for Confessions at St.Helen Monday, April 6th through Friday, April 10th From 8:00 am – 11:00 am & 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm. Holy Trinity: Sunday, Tuesday & Thursday, 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm Please call for an appointment if you are coming to St. Helen. That will assure you of the time you want. Those without appointments will be worked in. Here is how it will work: The doors into the hall will be open. 10 parishioners in the hall, 1 waiting in the narthex and 1 waiting inside the door into the Church. When you go to Confession enter into the Conference room through the double doors and Father will be on the other side of the screen. No face to face confessions. Pray your penance at the front of the church so that the person waiting can see that you have left the Conference Room. Everyone moves up one person. After you have completed your penance exit through the handicap door. When you enter the hall, if there are already 10 people please wait in your car until you see a person exit the Church from the handicap exit. Holy Trinity’s 10 can wait inside of the church using social distancing. If there are 10 inside when you arrive, please wait in your car until you see someone exit.
IMPORTANT! Two Opportunities to attend Holy Mass online: 1) The Archbishop is live-streaming via Facebook the Holy Week liturgies (check www.archdpdx.org for times) and at 11:00 AM every Sunday from the Cathedral Church Just put "Archdiocese of Portland" in the search line on Facebook, click on the first entry presented and you will be there. 2) You can join Bishop Robert Barron online for all Masses at our "Faith" tab at the top of our web site's HOME page.
Alex Paul announced at Mass on Sunday, March 15th, that our local Knights of Columbus Council is offering to assist any parishioner who has a need of any kind during this time of combating the corona virus. Examples would be assistance with shopping, chores, delivering items, transportation to appointments, etc. Please contact Alex Paul ( phone number is in our paper bulletin) or our parish office, 541-367-2530. A Knight will be most happy to help!!!
Go to www.sweethomecatholicchurch.com and check out our new website. Janey will also be posting a bulletin every week so, if you are out of town and miss Mass here, you can still keep up with our news on this website. Let us know what you think. We have started out simple but do plan in the coming months to add features to the site. We welcome your thoughts about our new internet presence.