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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.

Ultreya will be on January 20, 2020. Spend the evening of your Martin Luther King holiday listening to scheduled speakers, Stephen Oberlies and Deacon Dick Henderson. The event will be at St. James, on Cowan Road, in Gulfport and is open to all cursillistas and anyone in need of a spiritual boost!

We enjoyed our winter break and are ready to get back to work. Our first meeting will be on January 23rd at 6 pm. The first workday of the New Year will be February 1, 2020. Thank you.

I send sincere wishes and thanks to all of you at the great St. Thomas Parish, for a Blessed and Happy Christmas Season, and for a Bright and Healthy New Year. I wish to thank you all for your prayers and know that I am feeling much better. I do not have enough energy to answer all your cards but know that I appreciate you all. Keep me in your prayers. Love from Sr. Consilio

On Jan. 5th we are going Ice skating! We will meet at the church at 10 am and return at 1:45 pm. The cost is $15. Please let Ashlie know if you will attend youthministry@saintthomaslb.org 863-1610

Daily sessions with crafts, snacks, and activities focusing on the gifts of Gold, Frankincense, and Myrrh. Sunday afternoon music and skit open to family and friends. Registration opens Thur, Jan 2, at 8 am, SRE Bldg.

January 7, 6 pm Reception follows Mass in the Community Center

Our second collection is for the Retirement Fund for Religious.  Many senior Catholic sisters, brothers, and religious order priests served for little or no pay.  Today, religious communities often do not have enough savings to meet retirement needs.  Your gift helps provide medications, nursing care, and more for tens of thousands of elderly religious.

Because of the high rate of infant mortality, the Mississippi State Department of Health-Fetal and Infant Mortality Review initiative (FIMR) began here in south Mississippi in 2012. Memorial Hospital in Gulfport will be starting monthly bereavement support group meetings for this select and special group of parents

Begin the last week of Advent by joining us for this beautiful story, retold by our middle school youth. All ages are welcome and encouraged to attend.