New/Renewed Background Checks and Mandated Reporter Training Opportunity
For the safety of our young people, anyone who works or serves in any capacity around children, on Church or School grounds, or goes into anyone’s homes on behalf of the Church, must have background checks and the Mandated Reporter Training. All those who are in Choirs, Extraordinary Ministers of the Eucharist, or those who visit the homes of parishioners.
The Diocese is graciously coming to our Holy Infancy School to offer the Mandated Reporter Training in the evening and offering 15-minute appointments at the school for those who need their fingerprint background check done. Some food and refreshments will be offered to those who attend.
When: Wednesday, October 22nd
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Mandated Reporter Training: 5:00 pm – 8:00 pm (School Hall)
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Fingerprint Background Check 4:00pm – 7:00 PM (School Office)
Please contact Jennifer Velez (our school Secretary) by email at: velezj@holyinfancy.k12.pa.us or by phone at: 610-868-2621 ext. 4 to schedule the time of appointment (it takes 15 minutes)
What you need to bring:
– Photo ID or passport
– Active email address
Proclaiming the Gospel includes welcoming migrants, pope says at Jubilee
The joint celebration of the Jubilee of Migrants and the Jubilee of the Missions is an opportunity to remind all Catholics that the duty to welcome and assist migrants is also part of each person’s obligation to share God’s love, Pope Leo XIV said. “Brothers and sisters, today a new missionary age opens up in the history of the church,” the pope said Oct. 5 during a Jubilee Mass in St. Peter’s Square with tens of thousands of migrants and of missionaries from around the world.
For centuries Catholics have thought of missionaries as people who leave their homelands and set off for distant lands to minister with people who live in poverty and do not know Jesus, said the U.S.-born pope who served for decades as missionary in Peru. “Today the frontiers of the missions are no longer geographical, because poverty, suffering and the desire for a greater hope have made their way to us,” Pope Leo said.
