Husband, Dad, Permanent Deacon at @AllentownDioces, Executive Director @PadrePioInc and I offer daily Gospel Reflections at https://xitter.gq/t.co/BTGf1N6eIA
Pennsylvania, USA
Joined March 2009
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Deacon Jim Friend retweeted
Join us beginning today, Thursday, November 5, through Sunday, November 8 as we celebrate All Saints Week with our Exposition of Holy Relics.
To prepare for your visit, check out this video from Tristan and Kennedy, two local Catholic school 8th graders, as they explain what you will find here over these next few days!
All are welcome!
Our Lord, Our Lady, and all the saints and blesseds of the Catholic Church, pray for us!
Deacon Jim Friend retweeted
Friends, I don’t think we Christians fully understand how radically we must think about the goal of the Christian life. It is not to become a nice person. An atheist can be a nice person.
The goal is to become a new creation, someone living the very life of God. Jesus is the Son of God by nature, but we become sons and daughters of God by adoption, brought into a share in his life like a child welcomed into a family and their home.
That’s what it means to be a saint: to be invited into the household of God, and to worship God by eating and drinking the body and blood of Jesus, becoming assimilated unto him.
Deacon Jim Friend retweeted
Wednesday
Pray the Glorious Mysteries
of the Holy Rosary
✨
1️⃣ Resurrection
2️⃣ Ascension
3️⃣ Descent of the HolySpirit
4️⃣ Assumption
5️⃣ Coronation
✝️
#Catholic #Pray #Rosary #WednesdayWisdom #WednesdayThought
#WednesdayMotivation #PrayTheRosary
🙏youtu.be/3UbhPm43h-c
Deacon Jim Friend retweeted
Sunday
Pray the Glorious Mysteries
of the Holy Rosary
✨
1️⃣ Resurrection
2️⃣ Ascension
3️⃣ Descent of the HolySpirit
4️⃣ Assumption
5️⃣ Coronation
✝️
#Catholic #Pray #Rosary #SundayMotivation
#PrayTheRosary
🙏youtu.be/3UbhPm43h-c
Deacon Jim Friend retweeted
Holy Mass & The Joyful Mysteries of the Rosary- October 17, 2026 xitter.gq/i/broadcasts/1nGeLMpBY…
Deacon Jim Friend retweeted
Sunday
Pray the Glorious Mysteries
of the Holy Rosary
✨
1️⃣ Resurrection
2️⃣ Ascension
3️⃣ Descent of the HolySpirit
4️⃣ Assumption
5️⃣ Coronation
✝️
#Catholic #Pray #Rosary #SundayMotivation
#PrayTheRosary
🙏youtu.be/3UbhPm43h-c
Deacon Jim Friend retweeted
Monday
Pray the Joyful Mysteries
of the Holy Rosary
✨
1️⃣ Annunciation
2️⃣ Visitation
3️⃣ Nativity
4️⃣ Presentation
5️⃣ Finding of Jesus in the Temple
✝️
#Catholic #Pray #Rosary #CatholicTwitter #MondayThoughts
#MondayMorning #Faith #PrayTheRosary
🙏 youtu.be/Au4_3TZ12uU
Deacon Jim Friend retweeted
Sunday
Pray the Glorious Mysteries
of the Holy Rosary
✨
1️⃣ Resurrection
2️⃣ Ascension
3️⃣ Descent of the HolySpirit
4️⃣ Assumption
5️⃣ Coronation
✝️
#Catholic #Pray #Rosary #SundayMotivation
#PrayTheRosary
🙏youtu.be/3UbhPm43h-c
Deacon Jim Friend retweeted
The Joyful Mysteries of the Holy Rosary - Oct 10, 2026 xitter.gq/i/broadcasts/1RKZzBNXk…
Deacon Jim Friend retweeted
Saturday
Pray the Joyful Mysteries
of the Holy Rosary
✨
1️⃣ Annunciation
2️⃣ Visitation
3️⃣ Nativity
4️⃣ Presentation
5️⃣ Finding of Jesus in the Temple
✝️
#Catholic #Pray #Rosary #SaturdayMotivation
#CatholicTwitter #PrayTheRosary
🙏youtu.be/Au4_3TZ12uU
Deacon Jim Friend retweeted
🙏 All Saints Week Relic Exposition • November 5–8, 2026
Celebrate All Saints Week at the National Centre for Padre Pio with an exposition of over 600 holy relics, including relics of Jesus and the Holy Family, the apostles and evangelists, and first- and second-class relics of many of the most consequential saints and blesseds from within the history of the Catholic Church!
Part of our Year of Saint Pio, this extraordinary opportunity invites you to draw closer to Christ. In venerating relics, we honor God’s grace at work in the saints and seek their intercession. Bring your intentions, burdens, and gratitude to the Lord, and allow the saints’ example to strengthen your faith, renew your hope, and inspire your own journey toward holiness.
EXPOSITION HOURS
📅 November 5–7: 9:00 AM–4:30 PM
📅 November 8: 11:00 AM–4:00 PM
MASSES & CONFESSIONS
• Thursday, November 5: Mass at 10:30 AM; Confessions 9:30–10:15 AM.
• Friday, November 6: Mass at 10:30 AM; Confessions 9:30–10:15 AM.
• Saturday, November 7: Masses at 10:30 AM and 2:00 PM; Confessions 9:30–10:15 AM and 12:30–2:00 PM.
• Sunday, November 8: Mass at 1:30 PM; Confessions 11:30 AM–1:00 PM. No 12:30 PM Mass.
Relic Presentation by Joseph Santoro: Saturday, November 7, at 1:00 PM.
National Centre for Padre Pio
111 Barto Road, Barto, PA 19504
Share far and wide, and bring your family and friends for these four special days!
#padrepio #allsaints #relics #catholic #ncfpp
Deacon Jim Friend retweeted
Friday
Pray the Sorrowful Mysteries of the Holy Rosary
1️⃣ Agony in the Garden
2️⃣ Scourging at the Pillar
3️⃣ Crowning with Thorns
4️⃣ Carrying the Cross
5️⃣ Crucifixion
✝️
#Pray #Rosary #CatholicTwitter #FridayMorning #FridayMotivation #PrayTheRosary
🙏youtu.be/372YtaNXAWI
Deacon Jim Friend retweeted
Join us for the Feast of Saint Michael next Tuesday, September 29, 2026!
#stmichael #archangel #catholic #feastday #ncfpp
Deacon Jim Friend retweeted
Padre Pio - Rare Footage 🙏💜 youtu.be/sQRxYCepS3Q?is=5xJ-…
