Join our brothers and sisters from Saints Clare and Kateri parishes for the film,
Triumph of the Heart: The Passion of St. Maximillian Kolbe
There will be two showings this Sunday, September 14, one at 6:00 pm and the other at 7:30 pm
at the Laemmle Theater in Newhall (22500 Lyons Avenue, Santa Clarita 91321).

There is a discount for parishioners at these two showings if you purchase your tickets in advance and mention Catholics in SCV. We celebrated the feast in honor of St. Maximilian just a few weeks ago (August 14). He was a Conventual Franciscan priest who among other things founded a monastery in Poland and served as a missionary in Japan. He had a powerful devotion to our Lady. Eventually, he was arrested by the Gestapo and interred in the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz. When ten prisoners were selected for execution he volunteered to replace one of them who had a wife and children. He led the prisoners in prayer and was eventually killed by a lethal injection on August 14, 1941.

UPDATE:
Anyone who is interested in volunteering, please contact Cheri Whelan our volunteer coordinator.

You can email her at: [email protected]. Thank you for volunteering!

Sunday October 19 from 9am to 3pm in the Parish Hall and Conference Center

​SOLEMNITY OF THE ASSUMPTION OF MARY 
 
The Solemnity of the Assumption of Mary is Friday, August 15.  This is a marvelous festival in our Church and a Holy 
Day!   
 
This celebration and its beautiful liturgy focus upon Mary’s special role in God’s plan of salvation, as well as our own 
hope to be raised up with her to resurrected life and joy.   
 
This is also a great day to pray, either individually or as a family, the glorious mysteries of the rosary.   
 
Our Mass schedule for the Solemnity of the Assumption will be:   
 
August 14: 6:00 p.m.  
    7:30 p.m. (Spanish) 
 
August 15: 7:00 a.m. 
    8:15 a.m. 
         12:00 noon 
    6:00 p.m. 
    7:30 p.m. (Spanish) 
 
All members of the parish are invited to join us for one of these joyful celebrations in honor of our Blessed Mother.   
 
We will have our usual Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament on this day, but the time of exposition will be interrupted 
for the noon Mass

English RE– [email protected] 661-2594266 
Spanish RE – [email protected] 661-259-9616 
Confirmation – [email protected] 661-288-1073 
OCIA English – [email protected] 661-259-4266 
OCIA Spanish – [email protected] 661-259-2276  

“Get on the Bus” (GOTB) is an organization whose mission is to bring children and their caregivers from throughout the State of California to visit their mothers or fathers who are in prison. This program was inaugurated in 1999 after a number of women religious visited prisons and learned that many of the women had not seen their children for the entire duration of their incarceration. A group of sisters and lay women sponsored the first Get on the Bus trip and the organi zation has grown since then, for many years under the leadership of Sisters of St. Joseph, Suzanne Steffen and Suzanne Jabro.

GOTB provides transportation to and from prisons, travel bags for the children, comfort bags for the caregivers and meals while in transit. This is all at no cost to a child’s family.

Our Lady of Perpetual Help is among several parishes within the Archdiocese of Los Angeles that have been asked by GOTB for support. To do this, an OLPH parishioner is needed who will act as the primary point of contact with GOTB in order to coordinate preparation of travel bags, comfort bags, meals and if desired, accompanying families traveling to and from the prisons.

If you would like to be considered for this, please call, text or email:
OLPH Business Manger Deacon Terry Irwin (213 646-2928)
[email protected]

We have the wonderful opportunity to experience the love and mercy of Christ in the Sacrament of Penance. It was on the very day of his Resurrection that Jesus entrusted to his apostles the mission of forgiving sins and we continue to benefit from this Sacrament of Mercy.

In addition to our regularly scheduled times for confession, we have the blessing of having three Penance Services with many extra confessors available that are scheduled here in the Santa Clarita Valley.

On Monday, April 7 there is a penance service at St. Clare’s Parish.
On Tuesday, April 8, there is a penance ser vice at St. Kateri’s parish.
On Wednesday, April 9 there is a penance service here at OLPH.
All three services begin at 7:00 p.m.

We will have fifteen confessors available that evening, many of whom are bilingual. Perhaps sharing in one of these services is just the special grace the Lord has for you in this Lent. Please plan ahead and mark your calendars to take advantage of these services. 

The Health Ministry is offering Blood Pressure checks and counseling on:

Sunday, March 23 after the 8:45, 10:30 and 12:15 Masses.

It only takes 5 minutes to find out if you have high blood pressure, the "silent killer".