Calling All Cooks! Recipes are needed to compile a cookbook for St. Isidore the Farmer parish that should be available for sale in time for our 1st anniversary. Send in your best and favorite recipes that you’d like featured in the cookbook, feel free to submit multiple recipes, the more recipes we collect, the better our book will be. Please include the following information: Recipe name, Clear and accurate ingredients, measurements, and instructions, your name as you’d like it to appear as well as the town you live in. Please indicate if a recipe is in memory of someone. Contributions can be sent to: Stisidorecookbook@yahoo.com.

Our Parish is hosting a virtual Speaker Series this Lent. Every Monday at 4pm, a new talk will premier. For more information, and to see the talks, click here.

Our parish has released a list of ministries that we currently offer or hope to offer soon. Please click here to see the list. You can learn more about each ministry and get involved by filling out this form and sending it to the parish office.

Click here for a summary of Lenten fast and abstinence regulations, and also some information on the distribution of ashes.

This Lent, the parish is hosting a food drive. From Feb. 17 - 28, please bring to Church any box dinner items such as Hamburger Helper, tuna helper, macaroni and cheese and box pizza mix. From Mar. 1-14. please bring baby items to support Lifeline. From Mar. 15 - 28 please bring cereal. All food items will be donated to the three food pantries in our area.

Calling all Pierogie makers! We will be making pierogies Sat., Feb 6th at 8am, at St Bernadette hall (Our Lady of Lourdes). If you can come earlier to make the cheese filling balls that would help greatly! Masks and social distancing. Coffee, snacks and sweets provided! We need all the help we can get! NO EXPERIENCE NEEDED!!!!

All are invited to a Bible Study led by Dave Keene on the Gospel of Mark. Sessions will be held over Zoom, every Tuesday, from 6:30pm-8pm, starting Feb. 16 and ending Mar. 30. You can join by computer, tablet, smartphone, or a regular telephone. Click here for information on how to connect.

Please click here for a statement from Bishop Zubik regarding the incident in the U.S. Capitol.

If you wish to receive an end of year contribution statement for 2020, please click the above link and fill out the form. The form can be dropped in the collection basket or mailed to the parish office.

Bishop Zubik has written a letter to the faithful regarding the Independent Reconciliation and Compensation Program. You can read it here.

Each year the Diocese recognizes the crowning achievement of those couples celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary with a Mass presided by Bishop Zubik at St. Paul’s Cathedral, followed by a cookie reception. For more information on the upcoming 50th anniversary Mass, click here.

Confessions at Saint Columbkille on Saturday from 12:00-12:30 will move inside the parish hall beginning Saturday, November 21, 2020. Please enter the parish hall side door (near the church). Please wear a mask and practice social distancing. Please exit the Church Road doors. The Church building will not be open. Thank you for your cooperation.

Click here to read a statement from Bishop Zubik regarding the release of the McCarrick report.

The parish would like to thank anyone who in any way helped to make St. Isidore the Farmer Turkey Dinner at St. Alphonsus Church another wonderful experience of community fellowship. Many thanks to those who prepared, helped with the curb-side pick up, and all those who supported the delicious dinner.

Beginning November 15, Sunday Mass at St. Ann will once again be held in the church. You can still stay in the parking lot without a reservation and listen to the Mass on 100.5 FM, but if you wish to attend Mass in the church or hall, a reservation is required. Click here for more information.

Because of the pandemic, this year there will not be a special "All Soul's Day" Mass that families of the recently deceased may attend. However, the 8am Mass at St. Ann on Monday, Nov. 2, will be livestreamed and offered for all the faithful departed. To see a list of deceased parishioners from the past year that was included in the Nov. 1 bulletin, click here.

We are in need of additional teachers for faith formation. Please pray about the opportunity to help young people in the journey of faith. For more information, contact Ms. Donna Lew-Buechel at dlew-buechel@stisidorethefarmer.org or 724-695-2146.

Click here to read a statement from Bishop Zubik regarding Pope Francis's recent comments on civil unions.

The Sisters of the Holy Spirit run a retreat center in West View. They host various retreats and other programs throughout the year. For more information, please click here.

Please click here to see several Catholic resources from the Diocese regarding the upcoming election.