St Vincent De Paul Roman Catholic Church - Holiday Florida

Christmas Arts and Craft Fair

        A big THANK YOU shout out to Our Lady’s Guild and all who contributed to the Christmas Arts and Craft Fair. Our Faith Formation Students had a chance to shop for gifts at Santa’s Workshop. Not to be missed is the Christmas Pageant on Sunday, December 19 at 11:30. Hear the Christmas story as sung and told by our children.

St. Vincent de Paul Society

Dear Parish Family,

       Congratulations to the newly commissioned Vincentians. This morning at 7:30 a.m (11/07/2021). Mass the St. Vincent de Paul Society renewed their promise and new members were commissioned into the society.

        The SVdP Society attends to those in need of food and other household assistance. The food pantry is open every Thursday from 1:00- 3:00 p.m. The society spends much time setting up, cleaning up, and serving those who come to the door of our parish. There are so many humble blessings from each and every member it is a gift to be part of a parish that cares so much for those in need. Thank you, St. Vincent de Paul Society for every grace and blessing you bring to our church! 

         To find out more about the SVdP Society please call the parish office.

Laura Worhacz.

 

 

Rummage Sale (11/5-6/2021)!

     Sharing some pictures of the sale! Special thanks to all who set up and are working to support our Parish Rummage Sale!

 

November Birthdays

Dear Parish Family, 

Beautiful gift ideas from OLG!

      Today was the day to celebrate all the November Birthdays - Louise, Marianne and Mike. Mr. Jim was Louise's taxi today and she was able to make quite a surprise entrance and reunion into our group again. So happy to see her again and join us for a morning of fun. Mike and Marianne seemed to be sporting some extra smiles too.
     Bernadine served all her delicious Cheesecake for the Birthday dessert.  Jane also brought in fresh grapes and homemade Apple Kuchen (feel free to correct my spelling, Jane) and it was quite tasty.
     Lots of work was accomplished today again and I think we actually will see the finish line soon - at least that is the hope.
     Okay.  I promised that this week I would divulge something new that we have planned for our Christmas Sale.  What is it, you ask?  Call it a trial run or pilot idea that we got from past sales.  We have often heard, especially at Christmas time, people say "I am looking for a little something to give to my neighbor, someone helpful to me," etc.  You, our shoppers, have spoken and we have not only listened but acted.
      So, we are in the process of putting together little containers filled with a variety of small items, wrapping them up in cellophane with a red bow. We are calling this our Grab N Go section.  You can give it "as is" or simply slip it into your own small gift bag.  We will offer a variety of themes for these mini gifts - Christmas, Personal Care, Kitchen, Stationery, Snacks. At the present time it looks like we might have about 15 or so of these Grab N Go gifts, so if this interests you, come early and of course stay late.  We aim to please.     

     Let us know what you think. Below (after the Birthday photos) I attempted a photo of one of our Christmas themed Grab N Go.  Not the best photo due to the glare of the cellophane, but hopefully you will get the idea.

Bernadine and Marilyn 

 

 

All Saints of Heaven (10/31/2021)

Dear Parish Family,

 

Charlene Vassailli, our Director of Faith Formation, with the catechists processed in the church today with the children who have been preparing a banner to honor the Saints of Heaven.

 

Dear Family and Friends of St. Vincent de Paul Church, 

 I want to take this opportunity to thank all of you for your prayers and good wishes during my downtime from the church.  Without your love, prayers, and good thoughts, I can honestly say that I don't think I would have made it through the most terrifying time of my life.
I feel that I have been thru He** and back.  The doctors told our son that on the day he took me to the hospital, they didn't think I would make it thru the night. But thru the Grace of God here I am.  During my stay in the hospital, I was constantly talking to God and asking him to take the demons out of my body and to please, if it is his (God's) will to heal me. I have said many times that everything is in God's time, not ours and it was not in his plan for me to join him at this time.
 I also want to thank you for the prayers and thoughts that you have sent Rich.  He is Cancer free and has two more cycles to go and he is done with his treatments. He has been a God sent to me since I have been home from the hospital.  Besides taking care of me....he has also been taking care of himself with his cancer treatments and all his doctor's appointments.  He has been doing all the housework, cooking, laundry, etc.  I cannot be more Blessed.  
I am so very grateful to be back at church.  There was such a void in my life while I was gone. I love you all and wish only the very best for all of you. May God continue to Bless you all and may your days be filled with joy and happiness.

God Bless,
JoAnn Corlett

 

Happy and blessed anniversary Christine & Joe DeLieto! (10-10/2021)

With grateful hearts, we join with you in giving thanks for the 28 years of the sacrament of marriage you celebrate! 

  

Dear Parish Family,

It was a blessing to see Gunther and Katharine Leili at church today. They are grateful to share these photos with you. This past May 28th they celebrated

 56 years of the sacrament of matrimony!

 

God Bless you, Gunther & Katharine.

 

40 Days for LIFE (10-05/2021)

Dear Parish Family thank you to all who are uniting in prayer for 40 Days for LIFE! Thank you to all who are able to go to the abortion clinic to pray in public witness in the defense of LIFE from the moment of conception to the moment of natural death.

 

If you have any photos you would like sent to the parish please send them to me I will be glad to share them.  I was at the clinic this morning until noon today and will share the photos I have from the group gathered at that time to pray. 

 

All present prayed the rosary and chaplet of Divine Mercy repeatedly interceding for God's grace.  

 

Special thanks to Joan Milloy for her work in Chairing our Social Justice/Respect Life Committee of our parish and Tom Sipera for helping facilitate at the site.

 

 

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY ANGELA AND JOHN!

Dear Parish Family, 

 

Happy and blessed 63 Years of the Sacrament of marriage to Angela and John Cinfio. Father Dominic gave them a special blessing over the weekend.

 

Congratulations!

 

Angela and John, we are grateful for you and all you do to Live the Eucharist in Loving Service. 

 

It is with great joy that we receive this message from Glenda Price who was so kind to send this photo.

 

 

Blessing the newly installed Mosaic (09/26/2021)

 A joyful prayer of thanksgiving was offered in blessing the newly installed Mosaic of the fruitful vine and branches. The work was the creation of Janice Van Der Henst who from the beginning to completion encouraged many to be part of this message of invitation into our church.

     In the prayer of blessing Fr. Bill said, “Bless this dwelling place of life and love, for you alone assure the peace and strength, the care that covers all our differences. Let your Spirit dwell in us and open us to all who need our hospitality and care.

     This was the finial message Jesus spoke after the meal in the upper room before his betrayal. “I am the true vine, you are the branches. The one who abides in Me and I in you will bear much fruit, because without me you can do nothing. (v5). As the father loves me, so I also love you. Abide in My love. (v9).

     A Labor of Love! Saint Vincent de Paul invites all people to come and share life with us. It is the life and love of Jesus that lives here among us. In this time of the pandemic we experienced the requirement to close our doors to public worship. The church remained open for private prayer and our Food Bank to distribute food to people driving by. When permitted to reopen the church for public gathering while observing masks and social distancing we wanted to show a symbol of healing to all those returning. The idea was to create a mosaic made from many pieces of stones coming together as living stones of the church.  Each piece represents we who are many all contribute our gifts in building up the Body of Christ. This was an awesome undertaking for all who gave their time to bring it to completion. Grapes become wine, a gift of our lives to become the blood of Christ. May all be welcomed in our praise to the glory of God.

Arts & Crafts (09/13/2021)

    We met again this morning for another day of craft making.  

    We are so blessed to have such a dedicated and talented group of elves working together for a common goal.  We appreciate and thank every one of them for their hard work.

     Each session we open with our Crafters Prayer and I thought I would share that prayer with you in the hope that you might recite this prayer for us:
  "Our Father, we thank you for this time together to share in your work.  We ask you to bless our efforts. Please send your Holy Spirit to inspire us to make things that will inspire others.  Guide our hands as you guided the hands of Your Son, Jesus the Carpenter.  We ask this in His Holy Name and for His Glory.  Amen."

      Today's session was extra special since we had the opportunity to celebrate Jackie's 94th birthday with Bernadine's famous cheescake (baked in her honor), a surprise visit from Father Bill, and of course singing Happy Birthday to her.  We told her we look forward to celebrating with her again next year.  See photos below for all in attendance.

     ATTENTION:  New START time for Arts & Crafts continues from 9:30am to 11:30am.

Bernadine and Marilyn

Hanna & Andrew Wedding Photos

Wedding bells were ringing on

July 17, 2021 as Teresa Tran Nguyen married Dominic Huy Dang