We are excited to announce a wide variety of performances to encourage the greater community not only to contribute to our building campaign but also to be blessed by our building as we have been too! Come spend some time in our house of God in person or remotely as together we listen to sacred and classical works of music, culminating on January 2 with a Night of Thanksgiving! Go to https://www.stbernardakron.org/restoration-campaign for more info!

The Respect Life Team of St. Bernard/St. Mary is renewing our call to parishioners to join us every First Saturday of the month to pray the Rosary, calling on Mary to intercede for us and our country that has been deceived to choose death and its inherent In this time of increased division, strife and disease, we should pay closer attention to our Lord's admonition to the people of Israel in Deuteronomy 30:19: I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse; therefore choose life, that you and your descendants may live

If it seems that your news feed has been flooded with nerve-wracking updates on the COVID-19 outbreaks, have no fear—there are also plenty of positive updates on the pandemic as well. So without any further ado, here is a list of 10 hopeful headlines on the coronavirus response from around the world.

After serious consideration of the grave health risk involved in public gatherings and in order to curb the spread of the coronavirus, the bishops of Ohio have decided -- effective immediately -- to suspend temporarily all publicly celebrated Masses/liturgies, at least through the celebrations of Holy Week and Easter...

We’ve been here before and we’ll be here again. The unknown and mysterious is no foreign concept to us in the Catholic Church or the rest of the Body of Christ... We have found ways to establish communities and chapels and regular masses in the hills of El Salvador, the towers of England, the illegal basements of China and even several stories underground in the crypts of Rome. We’ve also done so on war fields and in war machines all throughout history. Two of my favorite pictures of altars are the canoe that Saint John Paul 2 used as an altar with his youth group as a priest and a giant steam pipe a chaplain used as an altar for Latin Mass in the 1950’s with a hundred soldiers crowded around. The Paschal Mystery that we consider so intensely and strive to engage through prayer, fasting, almsgiving and penance in this season of Lent is significant for many reasons.

We have had a HEARING LOOP SYSTEM installed in our church. A HEARING LOOP SYSTEM is to hearing aids what WIFI is to a computer

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If you have a child that you would like to have receive Reconciliation, First Holy Communion or Confirmation, please email pcl@stbernardstmary.org, or call the parish office 330- 253-5161. Para espanol llame a extension 1009.