Entries for December 2025

May this new year bring peace to you and your family!
10 New Year’s Resolution Ideas for 2026 Inspired by Pope Leo XIV’s Advice to Youth in 20251. Go to confession regularly.2. Begin and end each day with Jesus.3. Make Eucharistic adoration a habit.4. Commit to real friendship with Jesus in prayer.5. Find and invest in one “faithful friend.”6. Pray the...

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Share your talents with us...

Posted on December 30, 2025 in: General News

Share your talents with us...
Join Church of Notre Dame Volunteer Marketing & Communications Team!Our parish community is seeking creative volunteers to help share our mission and community spirit. We’re looking for:• ✍️ Digital content writers• 📱 Social media contributors• 🌐 Website supportCommitment is light — about 1–2 hour...

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2025 End of Year Tax Statements

Posted on December 29, 2025 in: General News

2025 End of Year Tax Statements
Tax statements for 2025 Sacrificial Giving to Notre Dame will be available January 15, 2026. Tax statements will be printed and mailed by request ONLY.Please contact the parish office at 724.981.5566 or email at [email protected].

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Eucharistic Adoration here at Notre Dame...
Over this holiday season, there will be NO Eucharistic Adoration on Wednesdays, Dec. 24 or 31. However there will be Adoration on Tuesdays, Dec. 23 and 30 and we are looking for help covering all of the hours with at least two people.Please sign up on the sheets in the back of the chapel.May you an...

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Please pray for Bishop Persico on his retirement and for our next bishop...
As Bishop Persico celebrates his 75th birthday, he has shared a Prayer for a New Bishop. Beginning the First Sunday of Advent and continuing until a new bishop is appointed, we invite you to pray with us for the one whom the Holy Father will send to shepherd our Diocese of Erie.

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Oplatki (Christmas Wafer) & Wendell August Forge Ornaments
Oplatki (Christmas Wafer) and the order form for the Wendell August Forge 2025 Ornament "Santa - Checking it Twice" are in the back of the church foyer. Many of our church families have collected these beautiful Ornamets for over 30 years. The ornament has our "Notre Dame Church&quo...

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This Monday, Dec. 8, 2025

Posted on December 03, 2025 in: General News

This Monday, Dec. 8, 2025
The Blessed Virgin Mary, under the title of the “Immaculate Conception,” is patroness of the United States. She was proclaimed unanimously on May 13, 1846, by the Catholic bishops of the United States under that title. Pope Pius XI affirmed that decision July 2, 1847. That decision occurred seven an...

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