The Church Administration is currently exploring alternative donation options for the offertory. While this is explored please be aware that your personal check is welcome in the mail as well as dropped off during office hours. Please address correspondence, especially check submission to the Office using the P.O. Box. P.O. Box 1529, Long Beach, MS, 39560

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The Society of St. Vincent de Paul, St Thomas conference, is currently closed due to the coronavirus pandemic.

A number of parishioners have (once again) received email from Fr. Cuddy.

Please take a Bowl as you leave today, fill it with change and bring it back. Let’s make the hopes and prayers of those less fortunate come true this Lenten season.

All three (3) nights, March 9-11, of St Thomas Parish Mission of "Angels and Spirituality Life" with Fr Mike Austin are on St Thomas Church's YouTube Channel

Are you looking for a way to serve your faith community?   Interested in becoming an altar server?   Please email your name & phone number to Christina Parry: BlackBelt4301@aol.com   

The family of Sullivan “Sully” Wilson wishes to thank all in the Saint Thomas Parish Family for their outpouring of generosity, thoughts, concerns and especially, prayers. After having surgery to remove a brain tumor, 15 year old Sully is doing remarkably well. This outcome is attributed to God’s precious gift of grace and your prayers. We thank you and praise God. With all gratitude, The Wilson & Spears Families

Adoration will be on Fridays in the church (except Good Friday) from 8 am until 4 pm. 

The collection of food for the Long Beach Food Pantry is next weekend. Please bring donations of nonperishable food items and leave your bags in the foyers of the church. We will deliver them to the Food Pantry.

The First Sunday of Lent, March 1st is the beginning of Catholic Sharing Appeal. This year’s theme is: “Bring Christ to the World”

The next session of Catholics Returning Home will begin on Monday, March 16, 2020, at 6:30 p.m. here at St. Thomas. 

Our church family, in conjunction with the First United Methodist Church, works to ensure students in need have food over the weekend when school is not in session.

Lenten Small Group Sessions “Forgiven” Facilitators and Hosts are needed for Small Group Sessions during Lent centered around the St Augustine Series “Forgiven” To volunteer, or for more information, call or text Dave Gauthier at 228-596-8835

St Thomas has been blessed for many years with a very faithful group who visit our parish members in the hospital Sunday thru Friday and bring them the Eucharist.

Readers, Altar Servers, and Eucharistic Ministers are needed for Daily Masses throughout Lent.  Mass times are 8:30 am and Noon Monday through Thursday and 6:30 am and Noon on Friday. 

Women's GIFT will present a silent retreat directed by Fr. Dominic Pham based on the Spiritual Exercises of Saint Ignatius of Loyola at the William Kelly Retreat Center in Bay St. Louis, MS, the weekend of February 21-23, 2020.  

This homily is based on the 3rd Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year A). Delivered on January 26, 2020 at St. Thomas, the Apostle Catholic Church in Long Beach, MS

"I am improving in my mobility thank God. Remember me to anyone who asks about me. Tell them to send me their email and I will respond." ellen18091@gmail.com

The next Pastoral Council meeting is scheduled for Feb 10th. If any member of the congregation wishes to address the council on any matter involving the parish, please send a written request, including a summary of the presentation, by Feb 3rd to: Pastoral Council, P.O. Box 1529, Long Beach, MS, 39560.