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Fr. Cassidy Stinson

@TheHappyPriest

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Catholic priest, wildlife chaser, aspiring apostle / Let us make of ourselves the pen and tongue of Jesus Christ, our Master

Radford, VA
Joined February 2009
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@TheHappyPriest
Fr. Cassidy Stinson
5 years
I’ve had a few people apologize for their kids making noise at Mass, so it’s time for another seasonal affirmation for my parents out there: Your babies are awesome, and personally, I’m delighted to see families together in church. I can preach louder if I really need to. 😉
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5 years
A friendship in four photos 😇
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5 years
I am a priest of Jesus Christ, now and forever. Praise god.
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2 years
New vestment, celebrating Our Lady, and offering Mass for the repose of the soul of Pope Benedict. What a way to end the year
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Fr. Cassidy Stinson
4 years
The Seven Deadly Sins As Goats: A Thread Pride
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Fr. Cassidy Stinson
5 years
Please pray for the repose of the soul of Fr. Evan Harkins, who took his own life this morning. I know from experience that it can be very hard to seek help and support when you’re the one called upon to support everyone else. Pray for your priests. Love your priests.
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Fr. Cassidy Stinson
5 years
Reminder that St. Thomas Aquinas suggests several foolproof solutions for when you’re having a bad day: - cry about it - cry about it with someone else - when in doubt, take a nap and a bath also, contemplate the truth, obviously
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Fr. Cassidy Stinson
4 years
Shoutout to all the babies making noise during my morning Mass and all the parents who worked hard to get them there
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Fr. Cassidy Stinson
5 years
Me, a new Father, meeting my father after the Rite of Ordination
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Fr. Cassidy Stinson
4 years
One year a priest. The best year of my life. Praise God. What a gift.
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4 years
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@Chris_Grosse
𝘾𝙝𝙧𝙞𝙨 𝙂𝙧𝙤𝙨𝙨𝙚
4 years
Post a pic of you next to someone who is slightly more famous than you.
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5 years
I get to do this for the rest of my life.
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Fr. Cassidy Stinson
2 months
Baptized another baby today. Original sin got absolutely wrecked
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Fr. Cassidy Stinson
4 years
A bunch of parish kids are trying to persuade me to bless a frog they found in the lake
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Fr. Cassidy Stinson
3 years
Funny how everyone's critical of the Catholic Church until their walls start bleeding
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4 years
I still have the coolest job
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Fr. Cassidy Stinson
4 years
When you promise to go and sin no more and immediately do the same sin all over again
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Fr. Cassidy Stinson
4 years
I’ve heard a lot of confessions, but for whatever reason, this was one of the most intense evenings since I began ministry. Miracles of conversion, over and over again. I feel like I just got done with an all-out brawl with the devil. Go to Confession! It will change your life.
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Fr. Cassidy Stinson
4 years
I’ve never seen so many people receiving the Eucharist with tears in their eyes.
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Fr. Cassidy Stinson
5 years
you before you after Confession Confession 😭 \😇/ /| |\ | | / \ / \
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Fr. Cassidy Stinson
3 years
*buying groceries while wearing my clerics and Roman collar* Cashier: *stares at me* Me: 😐 Cashier: *stares some more* Me: 🤨 Cashier: “...so, are you... a chef?”
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Fr. Cassidy Stinson
2 years
Friends: I have some personal news to share. Starting in July, I will be moving from my current assignment as a parochial vicar to become the new administrator of St. Jude in Radford, VA as well as serving as their university chaplain. This is a huge change. Pray for me!!!
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2 months
Controversial idea, but what if the Church instead supported the arts and artists to create sacred images that were actually made with prayer and intention
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Let's Use AI For 'The Glory of God': Priest & Teacher Unite to Make Beautiful Saint Images with AI Technology Amid a technical revolution, many questions about the goodness of technology arise.  Currently, these questions center around Artificial Intelligence (AI) – and many
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Fr. Cassidy Stinson
5 years
Shoutout to these amazing Pauline religious sisters in Korea, who would normally be making vestments, but have switched to making masks to give to the poor for protection from the coronavirus
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Fr. Cassidy Stinson
4 years
Seventeen years ago today I entered the Catholic Church and received the Eucharist for the first time. I will be thanking God for that grace from now until eternity.
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Fr. Cassidy Stinson
10 months
Priest: let us offer each other a sign of peace parishioners:
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Fr. Cassidy Stinson
5 months
Five years ago today, I was ordained a priest of Jesus Christ. What a gift. Praise God.
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Fr. Cassidy Stinson
3 years
We, uh, have a situation in the parish parking lot
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Fr. Cassidy Stinson
5 years
Sorry to interrupt the party tweets, but if you could send up a couple prayers, right now, for an urgent intention I would really appreciate it
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Fr. Cassidy Stinson
5 years
Your soul, before and after Confession
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a washed and dried sheep
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Fr. Cassidy Stinson
4 years
A old seminary friend, now a Marine chaplain, celebrating Mass in the field
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Fr. Cassidy Stinson
3 years
I am very done with sin. Everyone needs to quit sinning. Sin is canceled. That is all.
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Fr. Cassidy Stinson
4 years
My friend Kassandra leaves this month to start her candidacy with the Carmelite Sisters of the Most Sacred Heart of Los Angeles! Think you can send up some prayers for her? 😇
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Fr. Cassidy Stinson
4 years
I promise I will baptize your children correctly
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Fr. Cassidy Stinson
5 years
All I’m saying is, imagine if we actually used the hoods on our copes
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Fr. Cassidy Stinson
4 years
Here are some religious sisters with kittens to help you get through the day
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Fr. Cassidy Stinson
5 years
Me: *incenses the livestream camera* Some parishioner, somewhere: *starts coughing*
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Fr. Cassidy Stinson
4 years
Even if you’re fully vaccinated, the CDC recommends going to confession
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Fr. Cassidy Stinson
5 years
Do me a favor and offer up a Hail Mary or three in reparation for a Satanic Black Mass happening across the bay from us in Norfolk
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Fr. Cassidy Stinson
2 years
I got a message from someone claiming to be a fellow priest seeking help with an emergency situation. Not impossible: we reach out to each other for these sorts of things from time to time. The only problem? The priest he claimed to be... was me
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5 years
The priesthood is incredible, guys
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Fr. Cassidy Stinson
8 months
Today I had the special joy of helping welcome Joseph Charles, my first godson, into the Catholic Church!
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Fr. Cassidy Stinson
3 years
CDC guidelines now recommend going to confession outside of Advent and Lent
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Fr. Cassidy Stinson
2 years
I think I finally used enough incense
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Fr. Cassidy Stinson
5 years
HE IS RISEN, ALLELUIA!
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Fr. Cassidy Stinson
5 years
👇🏿👇🏿👇🏿👇🏿👇🏿👇🏿👇🏿👇🏿👇🏿👇🏿👇🏿 👉🏿👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾👈🏿 👉🏿👉🏾👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👈🏾👈🏿 👉🏿👉🏾👉🏽👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👈🏽👈🏾👈🏿 👉🏿👉🏾👉🏽👉🏼👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻👈🏼👈🏽👈🏾👈🏿 👉🏿👉🏾👉🏽 Go to Mass. 👈🏽👈🏾👈🏿 👉🏿👉🏾👉🏽👉🏼👆🏻👆🏻👆🏻👈🏼👈🏽👈🏾👈🏿 👉🏿👉🏾👉🏽👆🏼👆🏼👆🏼👆🏼👆🏼👈🏽👈🏾👈🏿 👉🏿👉🏾👆🏽👆🏽👆🏽👆🏽👆🏽👆🏽👆🏽👈🏾👈🏿 👉🏿👆🏾👆🏾👆🏾👆🏾👆🏾👆🏾👆🏾👆🏾👆🏾👈🏿 👉🏿👆🏿👆🏿👆🏿👆🏿👆🏿👆🏿👆🏿👆🏿👆🏿👈🏿
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2 years
Three years of priesthood! What a blessing.
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Fr. Cassidy Stinson
5 years
Sixteen years ago today, I attended Mass for the first time. Today, I’m offering that same sacrifice of prayer for my first parish community as a priest. It’s amazing what God can do in your life if you remain open to his call. It really is.
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5 years
Hey. We need to talk about something. Pornography. I knew this before I became a priest, but now it’s become all the more clear to me that this is an absolute scourge for so, so many of us, spiritually and psychologically. And you know what? I’m tired of it. (Thread time.)
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Fr. Cassidy Stinson
6 years
Some good news: I learned this week that my seminary faculty voted and approved me for ordination to the priesthood!!! 😁
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Fr. Cassidy Stinson
2 months
By my calculations, the total number of Catholics attending my parish has increased about 10% in the past year from conversions and baptisms alone. Praise the Lord
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5 years
┏━━┓┏━━┓┏━━┓┏━━┓ ┗━┓┃┃┏┓┃┗━┓┃┃┏┓┃ ┏━┛┃┃┃┃┃┏━┛┃┃┃┃┃ GO TO MASS AND CONFESSION ┃┏━┛┃┃┃┃┃┏━┛┃┃┃┃ ┃┗━┓┃┗┛┃┃┗━┓┃┗┛┃ ┗━━┛┗━━┛┗━━┛┗━━┛
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5 years
Reminder that if you become Catholic you get to keep celebrating Christmas for several weeks yet
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5 years
1 day to #OrdinationDay . It’s time. Please pray for me.
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5 years
If you think the priesthood is a life without intimacy, you clearly haven’t considered what it’s like to literally hold God in your hands every day.
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Fr. Cassidy Stinson
2 years
Your first mistake was thinking a cat would ever repent of anything it did
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Cat at confession. What sins did he commit?
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Sixteen years ago today, my family and I entered into full communion with the Catholic Church. That one choice opened our lives to the greatest gifts, and the greatest joy, that any of us have ever known.
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4 years
My parish kids are too good to me 😢
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5 years
I wish you could be here. I’m still praying for all of you.
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5 years
Dear @TheAtlantic , The Catholic priesthood will be abolished over my dead body. Sincerely, Becoming a priest in 15 days
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5 years
I celebrated Mass today!!! It was simple. Only my family and a couple parishioners present. And it was so beautiful and wonderful to do. I know this will eventually become normal for me, but I pray that I never take it for granted.
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4 years
I recently had dinner with a parish family. This was my table setting.
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3 years
One day after Mass, a parishioner asked me to bless their St. Benedict medal. As I finished the prayer of exorcism, they asked, wide-eyed, "...Is it normal for the medal to get really hot when you do that?" No... but it was a nice reminder that these things are real, and serious
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5 years
Okay, that was amazing. I still can’t believe I get to be a priest. What a joy. Merry Christmas, my friends. 😇
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3 years
Two years a priest. The best, craziest, most blessed years of my life.
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5 years
I'm here to save souls and witness your weddings, and I'm all out of weddings
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I spent years preparing for priesthood I’ve studied philosophy, theology, all kinds of practical skills and disciplines But I still have no idea how to get these cows out of the parking lot
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Fr. Cassidy Stinson
4 years
In the pulpit In the confessional
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4 years
A bunch of tiny parish kids just ran up to my office window and made me give them a blessing 🥺
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Fr. Cassidy Stinson
3 years
Me: in the middle of getting a haircut Barber: “So... do you have a girlfriend?” Me: “well, no, I-” Barber: “I bet your parents are going to be asking you at Thanksgiving!” Me: “Uh, well, you see...” Barber: “You’re still so young, though.” Me: 😐
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Let‘s see if your predictive text can tell you what your patronage would be if you ever became a Saint! 😇 Type “I’d be the patron saint of” and see what you get... I’d be the patron saint of the parish parking lot. (It could use the help)
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Fr. Cassidy Stinson
3 years
All your priests this afternoon:
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Fr. Cassidy Stinson
4 years
Go to Confession or I'll tell your guardian angel to punch you
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4 years
HAPPY EASTER CHRIST IS RISEN 😇🥳🐝🕯🐝🥳😇
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4 years
Pandemic or no, I'm here to baptize your kids
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Fr. Cassidy Stinson
3 years
I just finished meeting with someone who is returning to the Catholic Church this week after forty years away. It's such a joy to see God saving souls.
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Fr. Cassidy Stinson
3 years
I would like to extend a formal apology to the baby whom, due to my excess of enthusiasm, got nailed with a face full of ash
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Fr. Cassidy Stinson
4 years
Happy Sunday
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5 years
A lot of folks at our parish have been returning to confession for the first time in decades Satan is going DOWN, y’all Join the fight, get that Divine Mercy
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3 years
Broke out the ordination chasuble for Spanish Mass 🤩
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Parish ministry is incredible Preached on Confession yesterday, had people in line for THREE HOURS worth of them after Mass Baptized the world’s cutest baby My hands still smell like chrism Seriously, why every guy doesn’t want to be a priest is beyond me.
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Stressed about the pandemic? Concerned about the health of your soul? The confessional is open. 👍
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Assistant to the regional manager of God’s local franchise
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Jeremy Padawer
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Poorly explain what you do for a living.
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This, this right here, is Catholicism
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Amazing how my life improves when I sleep enough, eat healthier foods, exercise regularly, and reliably pray a holy hour in the morning Simply shocking
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I regret to inform you the cows have seized control of the parish
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Things I experienced when I drove to the FSSP parish to go to confession: - Moms taking their babies in the confessional - about 50 people praying the rosary at 9:45am on a Saturday - all ages represented - an incredibly healing confession They’re clearly doing something well
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Kid in CCD class: “So, Jesus is God?” “Yep.” “Wait, but he’s also the Son of God.” “Right!” “... that doesn’t make sense!! What about Mary? Is she God?” “No, but she’s the mother of Jesus... so she’s the mother of God!” “WHAT?!?”
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Go to Mass, my dudes
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4 years
I have received many fascinating gifts in my short time in parish ministry, but few so sublime as the Cheeze-It biretta
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3 years
If you are married, the best way to love your children is to first love your spouse - and the best way to love your spouse is to first love God.
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Fr. Cassidy Stinson
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Just survived my first full weekend of Masses as a parish priest, and it was terrific I’m living the dream over here
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4 years
The sacristans have informed me that I have created a parish incense shortage
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5 years
When your sins meet Divine Mercy
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Hold on to hope. Jesus Christ is still King.
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3 years
Me: “Hi! I’m Fr. Cassidy, the new school chaplain.” Kid: “I don’t know... you look like you might be one of the 12th-graders.” 🤔
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3 years
If you want the Church to be holier, start by going to confession
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3 years
Roses for Our Lady
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Fr. Cassidy Stinson
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We offer confession here daily Today, we had people lined up out the door at 7:15 for our 8:00am time We heard confessions for an hour before Mass, all during the liturgy, and half an hour after Mass concluded Divine Mercy: come get some.
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On a personal note: If you or a family member end up seriously ill, whether from coronavirus or anything else, please don’t hesitate to let your priests know. We’ll still be out there bringing you the sacraments for as long as we are humanly able to do so.
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