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Mass Schedule: Saturday - 5:00 PM, Sunday: 8:00 AM, 10:30 AM, 12:00 PM & 5:00 PM
Weekday Masses: Monday-Friday: 8:00 AM* & 12:05 PM, Saturday: 8:00 AM

* NO 8 AM MASS on Friday morning

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Dear Friends,

As we come to the end of Respect Life Month; allow me to share, in part, the amicus brief presented to the U.S. Supreme Court by St. Mother Teresa of Kolkata, in February 1994. Amid the sophistry of word-crafting and the shallow attempts to equivocate the fundamentality of life itself as the condition for the possibility of enjoying any and every other right there is. As usual, Mother Teresa’s insights remain both profound, challenging and consequential.

… I seek your leave to address you on behalf of the unborn child. Like that child I can be considered an outsider. I am not an American citizen. My parents were Albanian. I was born before the First World War in a part of what was not yet, and is no longer, Yugoslavia. In many senses I know what it is like to be without a country. … Since 1950 I have worked with my many sisters from around the world as one of the Missionaries of Charity. … We care for those who are often treated as outsiders in their own communities by their own neighbors—the starving, the crippled, the impoverished, and the diseased, from the old woman with a brain tumor in Calcutta to the young man with AIDS in New York City. A special focus of our care is mothers and their children. This includes mothers who feel pressured to sacrifice their unborn children by want, neglect, despair, and philosophies and government policies that promote the dehumanization of inconvenient human life. And it includes the children themselves, innocent and utterly defenseless, who are at the mercy of those who would deny their humanity.

… In another sense, no one in the world who prizes liberty and human rights can feel anything but a strong kinship with America. Yours is the one great nation in all of history that was founded on the precept of equal rights and respect for all humankind, for the poorest and weakest of us as well as the richest and strongest. As your Declaration of Independence put it, in words that have never lost their power to stir the heart: “We hold these truths to be selfevident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness...” A nation founded on these principles holds a sacred trust: to stand as an example to the rest of the world, to climb ever higher in its practical realization of the ideals of human dignity, brotherhood, and mutual respect. Your constant efforts in fulfillment of that mission, far more than your size or your wealth or your military might, have made America an inspiration to all mankind. It must be recognized that your model was never one of realized perfection, but of ceaseless aspiration. From the outset, for example, America denied the African slave his freedom and human dignity. But in time you righted that wrong, albeit at an incalculable cost in human suffering and loss of life. Your impetus has almost always been toward a fuller, more all-embracing conception and assurance of the rights that your founding fathers recognized as inherent and Godgiven. Yours has ever been an inclusive, not an exclusive, society. And your steps, though they may have paused or faltered now and then, have been pointed in the right direction and have trod the right path. The task has not always been an easy one, and each new generation has faced its own challenges and temptations. But in a uniquely courageous and inspiring way, America has kept faith.

… It was this Court’s own decision in Roe v. Wade (1973) to exclude the unborn child from the human family. You ruled that a mother, in consultation with her doctor, has broad discretion, guaranteed against infringement by the United States Constitution, to choose to destroy her unborn child. Your opinion stated that you did not need to “resolve the difficult question of when life begins.” That question is inescapable. If the right to life in an inherent and inalienable right, it must surely exist wherever life exists. No one can deny that the unborn child is a distinct being, that it is human, and that it is alive. … It was a sad infidelity to America’s highest ideals when this Court said that it did not matter, or could not be determined, when the inalienable right to life began for a child in its mother’s womb. America needs no words from me to see how your decision in Roe v. Wade has deformed a great nation. The so-called right to abortion has pitted mothers against their children and women against men. It has sown violence and discord at the heart of the most intimate human relationships. It has aggravated the derogation of the father’s role in an increasingly fatherless society. It has portrayed the greatest of gifts—a child—as a competitor, an intrusion, and an inconvenience. … Human rights are not a privilege conferred by government. They are every human being’s entitlement by virtue of his humanity. The right to life does not depend, and must not be declared to be contingent, on the pleasure of anyone else, not even a parent or a sovereign. … I have no new teaching for America. I seek only to recall you to faithfulness to what you once taught the world. Your nation was founded on the proposition—very old as a moral precept, but startling and innovative as a political insight—that human life is a gift of immeasurable worth, and that it deserves, always and everywhere, to be treated with the utmost dignity and respect.

Be of good cheer and have a blessed week!

Msgr. Grous

Monsignor Albin J. Grous installed as St. Isaac Jogues Sixth Pastor

On Sunday, October 5, 2025, St. Isaac Jogues Parish celebrated the Installation Mass of Monsignor Alblin J. Grous as our 6th Pastor. Bishop McIntyre installed Monsignor with Archbishop James P. Green and local priests concelebrating the Mass. A reception to welcome Monsignor was held in our Parish Hall immediately following Mass. God bless you, Monsignor!

Prayer for our New Pastor:

Almighty God, You have entrusted to us a new shepherd for our parish. Send forth Your Holy Spirit upon our new pastor, Monsignor Albin J. Grous, to fill him with divine wisdom, pastoral zeal, and unwavering faithfulness.

Grant him a deep understanding of Your holy Word and the grace to teach it with clarity and love. Inspire him with a vision for Your Kingdom and give him the strength to lead our community with courage and compassion.

Help us, the people of this parish, to receive him with open hearts and minds, to support him in his ministry, and to be a unified community of faith that brings new life to our parish.

May his presence among us bring blessings and spiritual growth, and may his ministry bring glory to Your Name and the salvation of souls, through Jesus Christ, Your Son, our Lord, who lives and reigns forever and ever. + Amen.

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The Adoration Chapel is open 8:30am to 8pm daily. Exposition M-F begins after the 8AM Mass. Weekend-exposition begins after the 8am Morning Mass. The main Church is open daily from 8 am to 1:30 pm.

 

The 30th Sunday in Ordinary Time - 10/26/25

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Installation Mass of Monsignor Albin J. Grous - 10/5/25

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The 26th Sunday in Ordinary Time - 9/28/25

The 25th Sunday in Ordinary Time - 9/22/25

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