Daily: Mon. & Thur.(Eng.) 7:30 am; Wed. & Fri. (Eng) 12:15 pm; Tue. (Sp.)7:00 pm
Saturday: (Eng.) 8:00 am (Only First Sat. of the Month); (Eng.) 4:15 pm at Incarnation Parish
Sunday: (Eng.) 7:00 am; (Port.)8:15 am; (Sp.)10:00am; (Eng.)12:00 Noon
Evenings Before Holy Days:(Eng.)5:15pm
Holy Infancy
My Parish, My Family
“Construction on Holy Infancy, first called Church of the Nativity, started in 1863 on land donated by the Moravians…
The parish’s first church was very small — measuring 70 feet by 40 feet…”
Nourishment for your soul is now available for FREE on Formed.org to our parishioners thanks to a generous donor. How to register today:
a. Go to formed.org/signup
b. Select “I Belong to a Parish or Organization”
c. Search for “Holy Infancy Church and School”
d. Enter your Full Name and Email address
e. Check that email account for a link to begin using FORMED
Our Young Adult Group, for everyone ages 18-35, is now being held in Spanish and is meeting
every Wednesday in Butler Hall below the church. Come and join us!
Our Diocese of Allentown is partnering with Franciscan University of Steubenville’s Catechetical Institute (FUSCI) in offering excellent online workshops and resources to grow in our Catholic Faith. FREE of cost to our parish and school.
TO CREATE A FREE ACCOUNT:
Go to www.franciscanathome.com/diocese-allentown
- Select “My parish or school is already registered and I would like to set up my individual free account under that institution”
- Create your account
– When asked for a Diocese: select “Diocese of Allentown”
– When asked for an Institution: select “Holy Infancy (Parish & School) Bethlehem”
TO LOG-IN:
- Go to www.franciscanathome.com
- Log-in using your email and password
- Select any track or workshop you are interested in
If you have any need or have something to give, contact the Almonry Ministry at HolyInfancyAlmonry@protonmail.com or (717) 429-8082. We will match those who want to give with those who need (typically within 1 week). Please be generous and please ask for whatever you need so that together we can serve the needs of one another.
MyParishNFP is a resource for Parishes to easily offer Natural Family Planning (NFP) to couples seeking guidance about fertility and faith.
Click the link below for more information
MyParishNFP
Uniquely You
From your first moments of existence, you had all the DNA that would determine your sex, facial features, physique, and the color of your skin, hair, and eyes. At 24 days, your heart began beating. By 8 weeks, all your organs were present, and your unique fingerprints were forming. Ultrasounds show that by 18 weeks, you could swim, somersault, suck your thumb, and even cover your ears if you heard loud music. If you’d been born just 23 weeks after conception, your chance of survival would be 50-80 percent; by 25 weeks, it’s over 90 percent, and that’s still months before full-term birth.1
Now, if someone takes an innocent person’s life after he or she is born, it’s against the law; just minutes before birth, it’s legal in many states and called abortion.
1 “Fetal Development,” Perinatology.Com; http://perinatology.com/Reference/Fetal%20development.htm; J.L. Hopson, “Fetal Psychology,’’ Psychology Today, Sept. 9, 1998 (last reviewed June 9, 2016); https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/articles/199809/fetal-psychology.
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Please pray the Holy Rosary for the protection of Life in all its stages!
Renewing God’s House Campaign
We have continued to see the generosity of our parish to maintain God’s house. Thank you for all those that have responded. For those that are still evaluating their pledge, every gift will help with our projects and the continued maintenance of our parish. Over the next couple of weeks we hope to conclude the pledge phase of our capital campaign and we are asking you to please participate in any way possible.
Special Mass in honor of Our Lady of Fatima/Aparecida on Saturday, October 12th
Holy Infancy Parish: Saturday, October 12th – Confessions 4:00 – 4:45 PM and 5:00 PM English and Portuguese Mass. There will be an outdoor procession after Mass (weather permitting), and a dinner will follow the procession at the new school, 551 Thomas St.
