Today’s Message and this Weekend’s Liturgy


Wednesday of the 3rd Week of Lent

Wednesday, Mar 26, 2025
Matthew 5:17-19: Teaching About the Law
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Reflect on Today's Message
Pray the Rosary
Liturgy of the Hours
Saint Michael the Archangel Prayer
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3rd Sunday of Lent

Sunday, Mar 23, 2025
Luke 13:1-9: The Parable of the Barren Fig Tree
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Latest Happenings



Welcome Jubilee 2025 Pilgrims!

St. Catherine’s is a Pilgrim Site for the Jubilee Year. That means we will be offering additional opportunities for confession! We will be hosting a Lenten Penance service on Wednesday, March 26 at 7pm in the church. In addition:

Every Tuesday after the 7:30am Morning Mass until 9:30am.
Wednesday Afternoons: 4-5pm,
Thursday Afternoons: 4-5pm,
There will be 3 priests available at those times and they will be in the Parish Office. We will also have our regularly scheduled Saturday confessions at 2:30pm in the Church.

Jubilee Mercy for the Homebound

We have many faithful people who would like to do a pilgrimage but unfortunately cannot do it due to illness, imprisonment, elderly, or those providing continuous care for the sick, etc. Therefore, our parish has placed a Jubilee Year 2025 book on the table by the baptismal font in the church. If you are an individual who can make the pilgrimage on behalf of someone, you may sign your name and the names of the incapable, ensuring that the necessary requirements have been met for the reception of an indulgence. Please ensure that all requirements for a Plenary Indulgence have been met before entering a name and write only the name of the one person receiving the indulgence. See the linked document below on the requirements for the Plenary Indulgence:
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The Holy Father's Prayer Intention for March

For Families in Crisis: Let us pray that broken families might discover the cure for their wounds through forgiveness, rediscovering each other's gifts, even in their differences.

Each year, the Holy Father asks for our prayers for a specific intention each month. You are invited to answer the Pope's request and to join with many people worldwide in praying for this intention each month and during your Jubilee 2025 pilgrimage.

Lenten Event & Parish Happenings

The church commenced the holy season of Lent, a 40-day period of prayer, fasting, and almsgiving. This time of penance prepares us to celebrate our Lord's Resurrection at Easter on Sunday, April 20. Our latest events as we continue through our Lenten journey:

Family Directory - We ask all families to submit a current photo of their families to Mary Hitzeman. Please contact the office and ask for her. To ensure that your family is included in the directory, please submit your photo by September 12, 2025.

Wednesday, March 26 - Our Lenten Reconciliation Bilingual Service will be on Wednesday, March 26th at 7:00 pm.

Way of the Cross - The Divine Mercy group invites you to join them in the Way of the Cross every Friday of Lent at 5:00 pm. Meet at the Stations of the Cross outside our church. It is a time of encounter and profound union with our faith.

Lenten Soup Suppers and Fish Fry Fridays During Lent, we are asked to focus on almsgiving. This year, consider fasting from going out to dinner on Wednesday evenings and come with your families for free soup suppers at DiLeo Hall and find out more opportunities to help those in need. Ministries will sponsor the suppers from 4-6pm on April 2nd and 9th. Also join us for Fish Fry Fridays on select Fridays during Lent with the Kinghts of Columbus hosting. Details below.

Join us for our Spanish Lenten Mission

Spanish will be on March 24 & 25 at 7:00 pm which Ana Gmeiner LMSC a Lay Missionary of the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart will facilitate.


Encounter God

  • Join us for Mass this Weekend

    From the start of her 2000 year history, the early church understood the paramount important of the eucharist. It took the church nearly 400 years to collect and assemble the bible, but the holy eucharist has been celebrated since the beginning.

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  • Receive our Lord’s Mercy with the Sacrament of Reconciliation

    Join us for in the church for scheduled private confessions or make an appointment for quality one-to-one time with your confessor by contacting our Parish Office and scheduling a time to celebrate the Sacrament privately.

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  • Visit Jesus in Eucharistic Adoration

    Eucharistic Adoration extends the means for us to adore our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, who is fully and truly present in the Eucharist.

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Parish & Ministry Events

  • Pilgrims of Hope Jubilee 2025
    Sacrament of Reconciliation with Private Confessions


    Tuesday, Mar. 25

    8:00am - 9:30am
    Check in at Front Office


    Wednesday, Mar. 26

    4:00pm - 5:00pm
    Check in at Front Office
    7:00pm
    Penance Service Church


    Thursday, Mar. 27

    4:00pm - 5:00pm
    Check in at Front Office


    Saturday, Mar. 29

    2:30pm
    Church


    Encounter God's Boundless Mercy this weekend with the Examination of Conscience and opportunity to celebrate the Sacrament of Reconciliation.

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  • Mon, Mar. 24
    Tue, Mar. 25

    7:00pm - 9:00pm


    Parish Lenten Mission
    Spanish Session
    Theology of Volunteerism

    Facilitated in Spanish by Ana Gmiener of the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart.

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  • Thursday, Mar. 27

    6:00pm - 7:30pm
    Church


    Thursday Evening Holy Hour of Prayer (Spanish)

    Visit our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, fully present in the Most Holy Blessed Sacrament every Thursday night with our Spanish community.

    4:00pm Reconciliation
    (Front Office)

    6:00pm Rosary
    6:30pm Holy Mass
    7:00pm Exposition of the Blessed
    Sacrament and Benediction

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  • Friday, Mar 28

    5pm-7:30pm
    DiLeo Hall


    Lenten Fish Fry Dinner and Social

    Build up your relationships with your fellow parish members and enjoy the one and only Catholic Lenten Fish Fry Social you won't find anywhere else in Temecula.

    Tickets are $15/each, available for sale after weekend Masses or in the Parish Office.

    Hosted, Cooked and Served by the Knights of Columbus. Funds benefit Diocesan Seminarian Vocations.

    Dinners also held April 4, 11.

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  • Friday, March 28
    thru
    Sunday, March 30


    A Time for Mercy/Rachel's Vineyard Retreat for Post-Abortion Healing

    A safe place to renew, rebuild and redeem hearts broken by abortion. Retreats are confidential and non-judgmental, offered in Catholic tradition, and open to women and men wounded by abortion.

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  • Sunday, Mar. 30

    at 10am & 2pm Masses


    Children's Liturgy of the Word

    This ministry helps our young ones to hear the Word of God in a way that they can better understand. Join us and bring your children to these masses.

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