We are a Roman Catholic community and partnered parishes of the Altoona-Johnstown Diocese located in Summerhill, Pennsylvania.
We pray that this website will help deepen your love for Christ and His Holy Church. If you’re checking out our site for the first time, we pray that it will inspire you to learn more about what Catholics believe. For those who have strayed away, we pray that it will help you rediscover your Faith.
Prepare for Lent
Ash Wednesday is March 5 and it begins the Lenten season where Catholics are called to grow closer to Christ through prayer, fasting and almsgiving. Now is the time to start preparing for what you will take on or give up during the 40 days of Lent. Read the practical guide with 20 ideas to help get you started.
Catechism Meditation
Posted on February 28, 2025
Prayer is both a gift of grace and a determined response on our part. It always presupposes effort. the great figures of prayer of the Old Covenant before Christ, as well as the Mother of God, the saints, and he himself, all teach us this: prayer is a battle. Against whom? Against ourselves and against the wiles of the tempter who does all he can to turn man away from prayer, away from union with God. We pray as we live, because we live as we pray. If we do not want to act habitually according to the Spirit of Christ, neither can we pray habitually in his name. the “spiritual battle” of the Christian’s new life is inseparable from the battle of prayer. ―No. 2725
Saint of the Month
Saint Katherine Drexel, Virgin (U.S.A.) 1858-1955
Saint Katharine Drexel is the second American-born saint to be canonized by the Catholic Church. Born into extreme wealth, Katharine Drexel grew up a child of privilege and no one could have guessed she would one day be a nun much less a saint.
