Welcome
Welcome, and thank you for visiting our website at St. Thomas the Apostle Catholic Church. We are a parish community centered on Jesus Christ. We welcome you to join us for the holy sacrifice of the Mass. Please feel free to check out our website for details about Mass and confession times, or, to learn more about this great parish. May God Bless you!
~Fr. Corey Nelson
Welcome
Welcome, and thank you for visiting our website at St. Thomas the Apostle Catholic Church. We are a parish community centered on Jesus Christ. We welcome you to join us for the holy sacrifice of the Mass. Please feel free to check out our website for details about Mass and confession times, or, to learn more about this great parish. May God Bless you!
~Fr. Corey Nelson
Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe
We celebrated Our Lady of Guadalupe at St. Thomas on December 12th, 2018. Our spanish speaking members organized a beautiful evening of music and prayer, followed by a meal. Thank you to all who helped make the evening special and to all who attended!
From the Catholic News Agency:
In 1531 a "Lady from Heaven" appeared to Saint Juan Diego, a poor Indian from Tepeyac, a hill northwest of Mexico City. She identified herself as the Mother of the True God and instructed him to have the bishop build a church on the site and left an image of herself imprinted miraculously on his tilma, a poor quality cactus-cloth. The tilma should have deteriorated within 20 years but shows no sign of decay after over 470 years. To this day it defies all scientific explanations of its origin.
Apparently the tilma, in the eyes of Our Lady of Guadalupe, reflects what was in front of her in 1531! Her message of love and compassion, and her universal promise of help and protection to all mankind, as well as the story of the apparitions, are described in the "Nican Mopohua," a 16th century document written in the native Nahuatl language.
There is reason to believe that at Tepeyac Mary came in her glorified body, and her actual physical hands rearranged the roses in Juan Diego’s tilma, which makes this apparition very special.
An incredible list of miracles, cures, and interventions are attributed to Our Lady of Guadalupe. Each year an estimated 10 million people visit her Basilica, making her Mexico City home the most popular Marian shrine in the world, and the most visited Catholic church in the world after Saint Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican.
Weekend Mass Times
St. Thomas (Tioga)
Saturday 5:00 p.m.
Sunday 8:30 a.m.
St. Michael (Ray)
Even Months - Sunday 10:30 a.m.
Odd Months - Saturday 7:00 p.m.
St. James (Powers Lake)
Even Months - Saturday 7:00 p.m.
Odd Months - Sunday 10:30 a.m.
