Welcome to our Saint Bernadette Parish Community
DISCIPLE MAKER INDEX (DMI SURVEY)
Saint Bernadette Parish will be once again be participating in a parish survey about discipleship conducted by the Catholic Leadership Institute!
Please help us by participating in a 10-15 minute survey online. The survey can be accessed through an online link through April 4, 2025 and will ask you to reflect on your own spiritual growth and enable you to provide feedback on our parish’s efforts to help you grow. All responses will be confidential and the parish will only receive information about the community as whole.
The Archbishop’s Pastoral Letter
Please visit https://trustandhope.org to learn more about this important time for our Church in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia.
From February through June 2025, Archbishop Perez invites you to join a conversation about the future path we will forge together for our Church. You’ll have opportunities to participate in two sessions at your parish, as well as multiple discussions in each county. Dates and locations for Delaware County can be found HERE.
Please sign up to participate in these important conversations that will shape our shared journey.
Called by our Baptism to be the People of God and formed by the Holy Spirit to be Saint Bernadette Roman Catholic Parish, we its members recognize our need to grow as a faith community.
We accept God’s call to:
– Worship together at the celebration of the Eucharist, enriched by private and communal prayer and graced by the Sacraments;
– Recognize Christ within each other and respond to His Presence with charity, justice and peace;
– Bear witness with our lives to the Gospel of Jesus Christ;
– Teach the Good News proclaimed by Jesus to love God and others;
– Minister to the spiritual, physical, emotional and material needs of one another.
In union with the one, holy, catholic and apostolic Church and mindful of our mission, we resolve to live with Christ at the center of our lives. We pray, through the intercession of the Blessed Mother and Saint Bernadette, for guidance from the Holy Spirit to carry out our mission as faithful members of Saint Bernadette of Lourdes Parish
Saint Bernadette of Lourdes Parish
Prayer for Saturday of Holy Week
Heavenly Father, what great love you have for me that you would send your only begotten Son to die for my sins. How can I ever doubt your love or your ways? Yet in these dark moments, I start to question and doubt. I wonder what comes next and I fail to recall your great faithfulness. Lord, forgive my unbelief and help me believe. Help me to trust you in all things, in all times, even through the valleys and dark seasons of my life. For you are my rock and my refuge, my strength in the storm. Your love never ceases, your mercies never end. You are enough for me – more than enough. Help me to remember that all the days of my life. Lead me to walk in love, as a shining reflection of your love into this world. And help me live the life you desire of me, bringing glory to you in all that I do. Amen.
Prayer for Friday of Holy Week
O Jesus, on this day we remember your death, the day your light went out from this earth. We sit in the darkness today, remembering the trials you faced on our behalf. You have borne our sin and made the ultimate sacrifice to save us. Today, as we recall your final hours, we consider a world without you and hold onto the hope we know we have in you. Lord, commit my heart ever closer to you, because I don’t want to live in a Good Friday world without you. I want you and your light in my life. I believe in you and want to follow you all the days of my life, even knowing the road ahead will be difficult. Come, Lord Jesus, come and fill this world with your light. Amen.
Prayer for Prayer for Thursday of Holy Week
O Lord, the King of Kings, who led and taught not as a mighty ruler, but a servant leader, show me how to lead and live through love. Teach me how to love and serve others with a gracious and humble heart. Help me to always remember your words, being reminded each time I come before your table to share in the cup and the bread. As I come before you to eat the bread of redemption and drink the cup of your salvation, may I recommit my heart to serving you and leading through love. To you, O Lord, who are mighty to save, pour out your mercy and grace and lead me in your way. Amen.
