Our Lady of Grace Parish will be live-streaming Daily Mass Monday-Saturday at 8:00 AM, and Sunday Mass at 10:00 AM while there are no public Masses in the Archdiocese of Phila. due to COVID-19.
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Our Lady of Grace Parish relies on the Sunday collection to pay our bills and payroll. We are most grateful for your support of the parish! If you are interested in contributing, you can do so in the following ways:

• OLG Parish e-Giving site, found by clicking here

  • Sign-up is quick and easy.
  • You have the option to make a one-time or continuous contribution.
  • You can choose the date and frequency of your contribution.

• Drop off contributions in the mail

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The Our Lady of Grace Clergy & Staff thank you for your continued support! You are in our prayers!

Dear Friends,

I hope you are doing well in this unusual situation. Our prayers and thoughts are with you all.

The situation and response is fluid. We are doing our best to cooperate with government requests and regulations to help stem the spread of the virus.

As you probably know by now Archbishop Perez has suspended all public masses. Father Flores and I will continue to celebrate Mass every day for all of you and the particular intentions for the day. We are especially mindful of our the residents at Attleboro Independent Living, Attleboro Nursing Home, Brunswick Assisted Living and Langhorne Gardens as well as all our homebound parishioners. Please join us in praying for them and everyone in our community, country and world as well as all those in the medical fields who are on the front lines in helping people fight this disease.

Our Lady of Grace Church will be open for private prayer from 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. every day. Adoration will be on Wednesdays (in the Church) from 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. concluding with a simple reposition (no Benediction).

Confessions will be available in the Church at the regularly scheduled times: Wednesdays at 7:00 to 7:30 p.m.; Saturday at 3:45 to 4:45 p.m.

We will still continue to celebrate Funerals, Marriages and Baptisms although the number of attendees will be limited according to the guidelines in place by the commonwealth (this is changing regularly so we will just follow the guidelines).

Currently we are working on providing Mass via live streaming (and for recorded viewing) from our Chapel. We will keep you updated - hopefully we will be able to provide this service.

I encourage everyone who participates in Caring for Friends to continue to do so as the homebound are still in need of support.

Parishioners have been generously inquiring about the opportunity to support the parish during this time especially since the public celebration of Mass has been suspended. I am grateful for the concern especially when most families are facing economic challenges at this time. The parish relies on the Sunday collection to pay our bills and payroll. Perhaps the easiest way to contribute is to use the e-giving link on our web-site. The parish has been using this for a number of years and it works well if you have internet access. Those who do not have access can drop it in the regular mail. I am uplifted by everyone wanting to support the parish and am grateful for your continued support.

We will keep you posted via our web-site as well as Facebook. 

We are a people of hope. Despite the anxiety and sometimes fear that accompany situations like the one we are facing now we remember the Lord’s goodness to us and His mercy. He is the rock upon whom we stand, the light that leads us through darkness and the shepherd who guides us to fertile fields. He has done so in the past, He continues to do so now and into tomorrow.

God bless,
Monsignor Prior

In response to the Coronavirus situation and as directed by Archbishop Perez and the Archdiocese of Philadelphia, Our Lady of Grace has implemented the following alternative schedule until further notice:

The following WILL NOT CONTINUE until further notice:

• No public Daily Masses
• No public Sunday Masses
  • As of March 25, 2020, this order includes:
    • Palm Sunday
      • Note: Palm will be blessed on Palm Sunday at OLG. The blessed Palm will be held for distribution once the ban on public Masses is lifted.
    • The Mass of the Lord’s Supper (Holy Thursday)
    • The Celebration of the Passion of the Lord (Good Friday)
    • The Easter Vigil
    • Easter Sunday Masses
  • Holy Week and Easter liturgies at Our Lady of Grace will be live-streamed! Visit our Live-Stream page to find the schedule.
  • The updated statement from the Archdiocese of Philadelphia regarding the suspension of public Masses including Holy Week and Easter can be found here.
• No celebration of Stations of the Cross
• No celebration of Benediction
• No daily Rosary
• No Operation Resurrection
• No Holy Week Confessions at St. John the Evangelist, St. Ignatius, and Our Lady of Grace Parishes
• No Good Friday Candlelight Stations of the Cross at Our Lady of Grace Cemetery
• No Pre-Jordan Class on April 5 (canceled)
• Due to the shutdown continuing through April 30, and since PREP's last day was scheduled to be May 5 (just one week later), PREP will be canceled for the remainder of the 2019-2020 PREP year.
  • PREP Families: Please look for an email from the PREP office with a final assignment for each grade level which will serve to complete the year.
  • Registration will continue for the 2020-21 PREP year.
  • For now, the Summer PREP dates are still June 22-26, 2020.
  • For more information about PREP, please visit the PREP page of this website, or contact Chris Flack at dre@olg1.org.
• First Communion & First Reconciliation will be rescheduled when the shutdown is over. Families will be contacted at that time.
• For the time being, we are halting the RCIA rituals for our elect. The Archdiocese has asked us to postpone Christian Initiation this year until sometime after the Easter Vigil when public Masses resume. As always, please keep Ashaley R. (our elect) in your prayers.
• Parish Marian Consecration will be postponed to a later date (TBD)

Please Note: All the Masses scheduled will be celebrated by one of our priests but these will be celebrated in private.
Click here to join us as we live-stream Daily (8:00 AM) & Sunday (10:00 AM) Mass!

The following WILL CONTINUE:

• Confessions will continue as scheduled in the Church:
  • Wednesdays from 7:00-7:30 PM
  • Saturdays from 3:45-4:45 PM
    • No Confessions on Holy Saturday (April 11)
• Adoration on Wednesdays will be from 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM in the Church
• The Church will be open for private prayer and visits from 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM Monday to Saturday; 11:00 AM to 6:00 PM on Sunday
• Virtual Pre-Jordan class on Zoom on April 23 at 7:00 PM (visit our "How Do I... Have My Child Baptized?" page for the link you'll need!)

Please see below for information regarding the PARISH & CEMETERY OFFICES, SCHOOL, & PREP:

• The Our Lady of Grace IHM Center is CLOSED to the public through April 30, 2020. Therefore, the sale of SCRIP will be suspended until further notice. Our Parish Staff are taking calls and emails off site Monday-Thursday, 9:00 AM - 3:00 PM. Staff contact information can be found on the "Staff Directory" page of this website.

• The Our Lady of Grace Cemetery Office is CLOSED to the public through April 30, 2020. However, Our Lady of Grace Cemetery remains OPEN for burials. While the office building is closed, our Cemetery Staff are taking calls and emails off site and are available to help you with burial arrangements, plot sales, and inquiries during normal business hours: Monday-Friday from 9:00 AM - 3:30 PM, and Saturday from 9:00 AM - 11:30 AM. Contact information for the Cemetery can be found on the "Cemetery" page of this website.

• ALL high schools, parish and regional elementary schools, schools of special education, PREP programs, and early learning centers in the five-county Archdiocese are closed indefinitely. The previous decision to suspend all extra-curricular and co-curricular activities including retreats, athletic events both on and off school grounds, field trips, and social events planned by elementary, secondary, and special education schools throughout the entire five-county Archdiocese stands.

Thank you for your understanding, and please know of our fervent prayers for you during this difficult and uncertain time.

On March 18, 2020, Archbishop Pérez recorded pastoral messages in regard to the Coronavirus for the people of the Archdiocese (English and Spanish), for all Church employees, and for the young people in our schools. Links to all of these videos can be found below:

• Spiritual Message to the Faithful of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia (March 18, 2020)

 

• Mensaje espiritual para los fieles de la Arquidiócesis de Filadelfia (18 de marzo de 2020)

 

• Spiritual Message to the School Students of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia (March 18, 2020)

 

• Spiritual Message to the Employees of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia (March 18, 2020)