Parish
Social Ministries (PSM)
Contact info: Anita
Dos Santos: 271-4455 x 309 |
Parish Outreach offers welcome and assistance to those in the local community going through difficult life situations. Outreach workers need a desire to learn resources and techniques to assist the less fortunate as well as being a good listener and having a compassionate heart. Volunteers attend Catholic Charities Skills Development training and usually work one morning a week from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon, as well as attend periodic worker meetings.
If you are experiencing other difficulties and don't know where to turn
for help, contact Parish Outreach.
Volunteers staff the office on Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday
from 10:00 am to 12:00 noon or you may contact Anita Dos Santos, C.S.W.
at 631-271-4455 ext. 120 to set up an appointment for other times.
Assisted Living/ Nursing Home Ministry
Contact info: Anita
Dos Santos: 271-4455 x 309 |
Ministers at our local facilities honor the dignity and value of all human life by providing
Communion Services to those not able to live on their own and connecting them to the life of the parish. This ministry needs members to help assemble residents, ambulatory or
wheelchair bound, Extraordinary Ministers of Holy Communion and Readers of the Word. They typically spend one to two hours at the facility each week.
Eucharistic Ministers to the Homebound
Contact info: Anita
Dos Santos: 271-4455 x 309 |
Extraordinary Ministers of Holy Communion (EM’s) support those not able to join the parish community at Sunday Mass by bring the spiritual strength of Communion and the concern of the minister’s presence. Attendance at two diocesan trainings for EM’s is required. A willingness to be present to those going through medical treatment, the elderly and the dying is necessary. These ministers usually spend one to two hours per week in service. Many also serve the community as EM’s at Sunday masses.
Eucharistic Ministers to Huntington Hospital
Contact info: Deacon
Joe Mercolino: 427-5909 |
Extraordinary Ministers of Holy Communion (EM’s) support those not able to join the parish community at Sunday Mass by bring the spiritual strength of Communion and the concern of the minister’s presence. Attendance at two diocesan trainings for EM’s is required. A illingness to be present to those going through medical treatment in a hospital atmosphere is necessary. These ministers usually spend 2-2½ hours per week one or two Saturdays a month in service.
Huntington Interfaith Homeless Initiative (H I H I)
Contact info: Regina Goodman |
Huntington Interfaith Homeless Initiative (H I H I) provides winter services for some of the most marginalized people of society, the homeless, many of whom are from other countries and are not eligible for government assistance. Members can participate in many ways by providing meals, set-up or clean-up, or by staying and being a presence to these people. They usually serve once a month for two to three hours.
Contact info: Suzanne Flood |
Our drivers take parishioners who do not have transportation to local medical appointments.
Understanding the Sunday Readings: Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time