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Our parish of 2,100 families located one hour by car outside of Philadelphia is seeking an accomplished organist and piano player to serve as Director of Liturgy and Music.

Please see below for Father Scott's reflection for this week

Thank you to all of the parishioners, school families, alumni, and community members who attended the Five Parish Town Hall Meeting at St. Gabriel Church on May 30th and the Visitation Day at Assumption BVM School and Sacred Heart School on June 6th. Your opinion and insight matter! Please complete this survey by Friday, June 22nd. It can be accessed by clicking on this tab. Many thanks for your support of Catholic Education. God bless.

The Parish Development Council was established by Father Scott in April 2016. The purpose of the Council is to develop alternate sources of funding for Assumption BVM Parish, including the Parish school. The Development Council has raised more than $200,000 for the Parish and School in non-offertory funds and non-tuition funds this past year, Please see below for the detailed report.

Thank you to all of the parishioners, school families, alumni, and community members who attended the Five Parish Town Hall Meeting at St. Gabriel Church. Here is the video that was shared at the meeting.

Manna Food bags will be distributed this weekend, May 19/20. Kindly return your filled Manna bag to Church on June 2/3 weekend. Canned food items in greatest need are beef stew, tuna fish, canned fruit & vegetables, pasta and soup. Thank you for reaching out to people in crisis situations. The food items will help stock our local food pantry at St. Rocco’s in Avondale for the summer months when donations are low, but the need for food continues.

Join us next Sunday, May 20th for the Noon Mass. Sunday May 20 4 PM - 6 PM CAR WASH in Church Parking Lot 6:30 PM - Youth Group meeting in the Parish Life Center. Bring a friend! The Youth Group is going to Queens, New York from July 20 - 22, 2018 for the Steubenville NY Youth Conference! For information, please contact Bob Moran at daddyof6.bm@gmail.com or Sean Moran, spmoran76@yahoo.com.

Good News! Over a number of years, the Parish fell behind in payments to the Archdiocese for our annual assessment for services. The assessment is the percentage of Parish income which is assessed by the Archdiocese to help pay for its operations, to support parishes in economically poor sections of the Archdiocese, and to contribute to the Archdiocese contributions to the Vatican. In the period in which ABVM did not pay assessments the amount was 10.5% annually. In October 2013 we owed $294,619. At that time, with the generous support of our parishioners, we initiated a fast track schedule to pay off the back assessments. We are pleased to report that effort has been successful. Our back assessments have been paid completely. Thank you.

Please click here for the job description for this position. If interested please send cover letter, resume and salary requirements to ABVM@comcast.net. No phone calls please.

Meet in front of the Assumption BVM Church We are in need of volunteers to help with the Parish Clean-Up Day. Since we have done such a marvelous job over the years with the inside of the buildings, we will concentrate on the exterior areas this year. Please come prepared to work outside cleaning up overgrown brush, downed trees and general clean up. If available, please bring work gloves, rakes, wheel barrows, pick up trucks,……you get the idea!! For questions, contact John Brennan at 610-869-4100 or JJBrennan@AssumptionBVMWestGrove.org

Saturday, May 5th, Assumption BVM Church 9:30 am Mass—ABVM School Students and Sunday Religious Education Classes 12:30 pm Mass—Tuesday and Wednesday Religious Education Classes

Celebrate Easter with a special egg hunt co-sponsored by Assumption BVM Parish's The Knight of Columbus Pius X Council 3858 and the Columbiettes. Saturday, March 24h Parish Center 290 State Road West Grove, PA Be sure to bring your own basket! No registration is necessary. Hunt times below

Come and enjoy a fresh cooked Lenten meal including:Baked Flounder w/lemon butter, Battered Cod Fried, Breaded Shrimp Fried, French Fries,Fish Sticks Fried, Mac & Cheese, Cole Slaw, Cornbread, Desserts and beverages. Advanced tickets are available from any Knight or after masses this weekend. Adults are $11 and children 3 to 12 are $6 (at the door, $12 & $7). Proceeds support the charitable works of the Knights in Southern Chester County.

There will be no daily Mass or adoration at church; the office is also closed. School is closed along with all school activites.

Due to the inclement weather conditions, all church and school activities are cancelled for today.

Assumption BVM School is part of a strategic analysis to strengthen Catholic education in Southern Chester County. See below to view the communication from the Southern Chester County Steering Committee.

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Pope Francis is believed to be the first to offer an indulgence in the 45 years ofthe march. Pope Francis is offering an indulgence — a centuries-old practice involving the cancellation of certain spiritual debts — to any Catholic who attends the antiabortion March for Life in Washington on Jan. 19 and who participates in related acts of piety.

Men of Assumption BVM Parish: This is the first call to the Tenth Annual Archdiocesan Men’s Spirituality Conference to be held this year on Saturday, March 3, 2018 at 7:30 AM at the Mirenda Center of Neuman University in Aston, PA. Last year twenty-seven (27) men and young men of Assumption BVM Parish attended the Conference - the best in the Archdiocese. Our goal this year is thirty men.