The Seed
Fiscal Year 2025-26 Collections Goal:
Posted by St. Henry Parish on 7/07/25
As many of you know, last year we made a shift in how we report our weekly offertory in the bulletin. Instead of simply listing what came in each week, we now include a weekly “over/under” based on our budget to help give context, not just what was given, ... Read More »
St. Bernard's Rectory: A House of Discernment
Posted by St. Henry Parish on 7/07/25
Praise Be Jesus Christ!
I am excited to write to you all in the Saint Henry Parish Family to thank you for your prayers and support and to share an update on my life now as a seminarian of the Archdiocese of Cincinnati. My journey towards the priesthood ... Read More »
He Has Given Us Himself
Posted by St. Henry Parish on 3/18/24
There is a connection between faith in the Eucharist and the strength of our faith in general. Reports abound that many Catholics – church-going Catholics – do not really believe Jesus is present in the Blessed Sacrament. Many think It is a mere symbol; others perhaps just a ... Read More »
Vicar's Corner: We are a Holy Week People
Posted by St. Henry Parish on 3/18/24
As we enter into Holy Week, the days in which we remember the passion, crucifixion and death of our blessed Lord, one might be tempted to say that this is a desert, a barren land, something that we would rather not have to endure, something that we would ... Read More »
Vicar's Corner: The School of Mary
Posted by St. Henry Parish on 3/13/24
The rosary has been described by Pope St. John Paul II as the “School of Mary.” He writes, “With the Rosary, the Christian people sit at the school of Mary and is led to contemplate the beauty of the face of Christ and to experience the depths of his love.” ... Read More »
Vicar's Corner: The Power of the Rosary
Posted by St. Henry Parish on 3/13/24
The roots of the rosary go back pretty far in the history of our Faith. It is a very powerful form of prayer to our most powerful intercessor, the Blessed Virgin Mary. St. Dominic preached praying the rosary when he worked to stop the Albigensian heresy. During the ... Read More »
Rejoice, Jerusalem!
Posted by St. Henry Parish on 3/01/24
Rose is the color of joy, and we wear it on the two Sundays in which “joy” is the theme of the day: Gaudete Sunday in Advent, and Laetare Sunday in Lent. It isn’t that only these two Sundays are joyful, but they are uniquely joyful in their ... Read More »
A Season of Healing
Posted by St. Henry Parish on 3/01/24
Lent gets a bad rap; it has negative connotations as a time of drudgery. The whole tenor of these weeks is defined by expressions of repentance, conversion, sacrifices, and the frustration of having to give things up and finding ourselves quite feeble in the face of even the ... Read More »
Vicar's Corner: Don't Waste This Lent
Posted by St. Henry Parish on 2/28/24
Each year in Lent we focus specifically on turning away from our sins and back to the Lord. If there is a certain sin that you have been struggling with, something that you notice yourself falling into on a regular basis, now is the time to make some ... Read More »
Vicar's Corner: Conversion of Hearts by Fasting
Posted by St. Henry Parish on 2/23/24
We will very soon be entering the season of Lent. During Lent we take up the practices of prayer, fasting, and almsgiving. These practices are meant to help us to turn from sin which separates us from the Lord as well as it helps to be freed from ... Read More »