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Bereavement Ministry
Bill's Wheels
Catholic Ladies Relief Society
Community Meal
Creation Care Team
Extraordinary Ministers of Holy Communion
Extraordinary Ministers of Holy Communion to the Hospital
Gabriel Project
Habitat for Humanity
Interfaith Food Ministry
Knights of Columbus
Prison Ministry
Bereavement Ministry support group works to provide a safe journey through the grieving process, reassuring the griever that caring people are listening and recognizing their grief.
Contact: Mark Frederick, 530-432-1739, [email protected]
Bill’s Wheels is operated by members of the Knights of Columbus and is available for those in need of power wheelchairs, manual wheelchairs, walkers, crutches, etc. Please call for an appointment. Located at 425 Dalton St. in Grass Valley.
Contact: Greg Peters, 530-273-1550, [email protected];
Doug Epperson, [email protected]
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Provides charity and assistance to those in need, supports charitable organizations, and assists the bishop and clergy in their work. CLRS meets the first Thursday of each month, September through June, in St. Patrick’s small hall after morning Mass.
Contact: Sue Petersen, 530-906-4707, [email protected]
The Creation Care Team is a new ministry, answering the call of Pope Francis’ encyclical Laudato Si’ to “care for our common home”. Our current goals include helping our parish to learn about the mission of Laudato Si’, assisting with a project to install solar panels at St. Patrick’s, and road adoption for litter pickup. For more information, see the weekly bulletin and parish website. Please join us.
Contact Bobbie Cane, 360-929-6370, [email protected]
Extraordinary ministers are trained to handle with reverence the consecrated body and precious blood for distribution to those in nursing homes, confined at home and at Mass (pending return to both Species, i.e., Precious Blood).
Contact: Parish Office
Extraordinary Ministers take Holy Communion to and visit with Catholic patients in Sierra Nevada Memorial Hospital. (Special requirements may exist for Hospital visits.)
Contact: Lynn McDaniel, 530-798-9994, [email protected]
The members of the Gabriel Project Ministry offer immediate and practical help to any pregnant mother experiencing difficulties. Our church communities see in the conception of each child a fresh expression of God’s unfailing love.
Contact: Marilyn Peters, 530-432-1223, [email protected]
Nevada County Habitat for Humanity is a nonprofit organization that helps families build places to call home. There are many ways to use your skills to support our mission, including working at the build site, assisting customers at the Habitat ReStore, providing lunch at the construction site, or being a general office volunteer. Come and be a part of providing affordable housing and helping us to build strong and stable communities.
Contact: Frank Sobrero, 530-272-3726
Coordinates food supplements each week to needy families in western Nevada County along with other community churches. No meetings.
Contact: Linda Grube, 530-477-5098, [email protected]
This K of C Council is part of an international fraternal organization of Catholic men dedicated to supporting our members, St. Patrick’s and St. Canice Parishes, through participating in various ministries, supporting MSM school and local community organizations through fundraisers. We support one another in strengthening our faith, dedication to the Rosary and commitment to the Pro-Life movement. We meet on the first Tuesday of the month in the small hall.
Contact: Joe Farey at [email protected]
Color Guard members escort the bishop when he presides at church functions and at ceremonial council and Fourth Degree funerals. Meets on the third Tuesday in the small hall.
Contact: Marco del Rio at [email protected]
As a jail minister, we assist those that are incarcerated. We help them by fostering a spiritual relationship with God through Scripture, prayer and group discussion using the teachings and morals of Jesus Christ. “When I was in prison you visited me” (Matthew 25:36).
Contact: Mark Frederick, 530-432-1739, [email protected]