You can now submit your Mass Intentions online! Simply follow the link and fill out the information, and it will be processed weekly!

Starting June 19th, we will have our Summer Fun Series consisting of fun and games, food, and social activities after the 10:30am Mass at different sites.

COME BACK TO ME WITH ALL YOUR HEART” (JOEL 2:12) Lenten Day of Recollection, March 12, 2022. This Lent we would like to provide our parish community with a special opportunity to reflect upon the Lord’s call to return to him with our whole hearts by offering a Lenten Retreat, Saturday, March 12. The retreat will take place at Our Lady of the Rosary church, from 9:00am to 2:00pm and will conclude with mass and lunch.  Registration: There is no cost to attend the retreat, but registration is required so that we can plan for materials and food. Please register online (link here) by Friday, March 5th.

This April we will have our yearly youth / confirmation retreat at Mt Toyon, Aptos.

New or returning sacristans are needed at Our Lady of the Rosary. No experience required, and training will be provided. We could use a sacristan 1-2 times a month, and/or as a substitute. Contact Will McDougal for more details or to sign up. william.mcdougal@dsj.org

Every last Saturday of the month our young adult group assists the Missionaries of Charity with their street missions in San Francisco. We meet up at 8:15 to prepare sandwiches at St. Albert the Great Church, and from their we carpool up to Pacifica where we join the Sisters for the street missions, usually finishing up around 12:00, after which we have lunch and return. Join us if you can! (If you are interested or for more information, contact Michael.Sternhagen@dsj.org)

Join us for for 10:30am mass at St. Albert the Great church in Palo Alto, after which we will have a bbq and games at the nearby Rinconada park. We will have spike-ball, volleyball or board games, the park is very nice! On the facebook event just please put if you are interested / going so we can calculate for the food.

Join us Thursdays at 7:00pm, St. Thomas Aquinas Church, for an hour of quality time spent with Jesus Christ in Adoration, after which we go out for food/drinks.

Sunday May 8 at 9:00 we will have our second "youth mass" at OLR, all the youth and their families are welcome to join us for this celebration, which will be followed by games and food. These youth masses will take place the second Sunday of every month. 

The choirs at Saint Albert the Great and Our Lady of the Rosary are seeking more singers!

Parish Strategic Plan including Pastoral — Spiritual Life of the Parish, Finances & Maintenance and Better Use of Our Facilities

Parish Staff — Job Openings 1. Liturgy & Music Director 2. Office Administrator

• 1st Communion • Confirmation • Sacraments of Initiation -- We welcome you to grow your faith and walk with us on this journey. Faith Formation is pleased to inform you that we are now accepting applications. Faith Formation should be a continuous journey, let’s expand our faith by growing it. Initially, everything will be primarily on Zoom. We will try to have some outdoors social distance gatherings when possible. You may start sending your registrations for First Communion to the parish office, attn. Ana Arellano. Click on the title (Registration for Faith Formation Classes) to register online. Confirmation can register by sending an email to Ana Arellano, ana.arellano@dsj.org. Note: The time and place of some of our Faith Formation are subject to change. Questions? Email Ana Arellano, ana.arellano@dsj.org.

Updates on Upcoming activities, Parish Maintenance Projects, COVID Update, and Parish Easter Sacraments / First Communion / Confirmations. Click on the Title for more information.

Dear parishioners, Greetings from Saint Thomas Aquinas Parish staff and clergy. We keep praying that we are all doing ok. Thank you so much for your loving care for our community. We appreciate your prayers, engagement in recent activities and your financial support. God bless you. MORE INSIDE... PLEASE CLICK ON TITLE

Dear all, Happy Easter/Feliz Pascua I felt so rejuvenated after today’s Mass. We are going through family but also lonely days. I loved seeing so many participating in today’s Easter Mass. Huge thank you to all that made it possible. To each of you that joined. Many shared with me your Easter Candles. Lovely! Click the title for more of Fr. Stasys' message and photos of parishioners' Easter Candles...

Dear Parishioners, join us for Mass every Sunday at 11 am. All participants will be mute on entry. Please, do not unmute your mics to avoid background noise. We encourage you to continue trying to keep Sunday as a Holiday. Try to prepare yourself for the Holiday of Obligation and even if you will watch the mass from home, make it special as if you were actually going to Church. We pray for everyone’s needs. For an end to the Corona Virus. For the needs of our Parish. Estanislao Mikalonis is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting. Join Zoom Meeting https://dsj.zoom.us/j/759166471

Blessed Palms are available at all of our church sites. At STA, on the porch, at SAG on the covered side entrance near Clergy parking and across from the school and at OLR at the side entrance to the church between church and school. You may also pick up a Little White Book or The Word Among Us booklet (one per family, please). Either book starts next week.

A letter from your pastor, Fr. Stasys: Dear Parishioners, I pray that you and your loved ones are doing good. We stay strong together in prayer. It’s amazing how beautiful we are. Thank you for all the prayers, initiatives, desires to stay in touch. Thank you for joining Mass, visiting the Lord in the Blessed Sacrament, you financial support and so many other acts of kindness. Due to the Corona Virus pandemic, all communal reconciliation services have been cancelled. You might schedule individual confessions with the priests if you would like to do so. I loved how some families during yesterday’s Sunday mass followed the regular mass postures from home! I invite you to be engaged as you participate in mass. Make it special. Get dressed, don’t have your coffee with you, set yourself in your best prayer mode. I want to share with you a schedule of upcoming online activities for the parish. NOTE: For all meetings the Host will mute all participants. Please Do Not unmute yourselves until host indicates that it is time to share questions or reflections. El anfitrión de la reunión pondrá en silencio el micrófono de todos los participantes. Por favor no habilitar su micrófono hasta que el anfitrión lo indique/permita. Click the title for more details...