Explore Our Ministries And Parish Life Organizations. We'd Love To Have You Join Us!

 A Eucharistic Minister is a Catholic who offers their time to distribute Communion at Mass or volunteers to go to a nursing home or visit a homebound parishioner bringing the Blessed Sacrament to them. If you are interested in this Ministry at our parish, call Pattie Condello, Diocesan Pastoral Associate at 330-879-5900 or Email her at: pcondello@youngstowndiocese.org

You can also read the Guidelines and requirements for this ministry on the United States Council 

of Catholic Bishop’s website. 

 A Lector is a Confirmed Catholic who offers their time to be a Reader at Mass. Training is given to learn how to proclaim the sacred words. If you are interested in this Ministry at our parish, contact 

Pattie Condello, Diocesan Pastoral Associate at 330-879-5900 or Email her at: pcondello@youngstowndiocese.org 

You can also read the Guidelines and requirements for this ministry on the United States Council 

of Catholic Bishop’s website.    

An Altar Server is a lay assistant to a member of the clergy during a Christian Liturgy. Within the Diocese of Youngstown, these lay assistants can be men, women, boys or girls who has already received Holy Communion for the first time. If you are interested in this Ministry at our parish, contact 

Pattie Condello, Diocesan Pastoral Associate at 330-879-5900 or Email her at: pcondello@youngstowndiocese.org  

You can also read the Guidelines and requirements for this ministry on the United States Council 

of Catholic Bishop’s website.    

Extraordinary Ministers of the Eucharist deliver Communion to the area nursing homes and the homebound. If you know of someone who is homebound and would like to receive Communion, please contact the office. (This will resume after Covid pandemic)  

If you are going into the hospital or having surgery, please contact Pattie Condello our Diocesan Pastoral Associate, so she can arrange to have one of our Priests anoint you at Mass. She can be reached by phone at 330-879-5900 or Email her at pcondello@youngstowndiocese.org  If you are admitted to the hospital, let them know you are Catholic and would like to have your parish notified.   

In the event of a death, the Funeral Home contact Pattie Condello, Parish Leader.  She will set a time with the family to plan a Mass or for a Funeral Home Service. Pattie will come to the home to help you pick out sacred scriptures and music (if a Mass is to be said). 

Our Bereavement Luncheon Coordinator will work with a family when a loved one dies to arrange 

for a meal following the funerial in either the St. Therese or St. Clement hall. Volunteers will set-up, serve, clean-up and package left over food for the family. To volunteer, contact Pattie Condello, Diocesan Pastoral Associate at 330-879-5900 or Email her at: pcondello@youngstowndiocese.org  

Prayer Shawls are crocheted or knitted by a group of parishioners who pray as they are making the shawl. They don’t know who it is going to – they just know that that someone is hurting, whether 

it is physically, emotionally or spiritually. 

Prayer Shawl Ministry started in 1998 nationally. Our Brewster Parishioner, Mary Damewood, leads this ministry for our Parish. Since she began the ministry, she and fellow parishioners have made well over 300 shawls. If you are interested in donating to this ministry (yarn or gift cards)

contact the office at 330-879-5900 or Email office@holyfamilyparishnavarre.org 

Carolyn Collins-Soehnlen is our extremely talented Minister of Music here at our Parish. 

We have an incredible Adult Choir with Bell Ringers, and an amazing Youth Choir, also with Bell Ringers. The Choir sings each Sunday from September through May at the 11 am Mass, during special services, Christmas Eve and Easter Vigil.​

Adults rehearse in Navarre on Sundays at 9:30 am between the Masses. Youth practice on 

Monday or Tuesday evenings.   

In the Church's Sacrament of Anointing of the Sick, through the ministry ​of the priest, it is Jesus who touches the sick to heal them from sin – and sometimes even from physical ailment. 

The Rite of Anointing tells us there is no need to wait until a person is at the point of death to receive the Sacrament. A careful judgment about the serious nature of the illness is sufficient.

If you or someone you know is in declining health, please contact the office so that we can arrange for a Priest to give them the Sacrament of Anointing of the Sick. 

When the Sacrament of Anointing of the Sick is given, the hoped-for effect is that, if it be God's will, the person be physically healed of illness. But even if there is no physical healing, the primary effect of the Sacrament is a spiritual healing by which the sick person receives the Holy Spirit's gift of peace and courage to deal with the difficulties that accompany serious illness or the frailty of old age.

(excerpt from United States Council of Catholic Bishops website). 

The women of this Society are dedicated to serving our Parish in several different ways ~ Just To Name A Few:  Flowers for the Churches, Purchasing our Hosts for Mass, Sewing and Designing Altar Cloths and Matching Priest Chasubles. To raise funds for these projects, the Society hosts events such as Soup Cook-off, Salad Luncheon, Garage Sal and our annual Fish Fry.    

 GriefShare is a friendly, caring group of people who will walk alongside you ​through one of life’s most difficult experiences. You don’t have to go through the grieving process alone. ​Visit or join 

our group at any time. And attend as many meetings as you like.
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To find out more information, click on the link and go to “Find a Group”. You can search for us by typing Navarre into the location.    

Our Family Life group not only creates the “fun” activities for the Parish, they also work together 

to help guide us spiritually. They create Easter Egg Hunts, Children’s party with St. Nicholas, our Parish Picnic, Welcome and New Baby baskets and much more!   

 Our Food Cupboard distributes groceries to those in the Fairless school district who are in need. The Cupboard and Clothing Closet (all items free of charge) operate the 4th Thursday of each month, except in November and December when it is the 3rd Thursday.

Distribution is from our St. Therese Hall, 10:00am to Noon. 

The Cupboard is in coordination with the Fairless Clergy Association. To volunteer, call the office at 330-879-5900 or Email office@holyfamilyparishnavarre.org . To seek assistance, bring a picture ID and a utility bill showing your address ​to verify you are in the school district.  

Knights of Columbus Navarre Council #5582 embraces the principles of Father Michael J. McGiveny, founder of the Knights of Columbus. ​The Goal of our Council is to exemplify Charity, Unity, Fraternity and Patriotism, provide service to our parish community and youth, affirm the 

"right to life" and lead by example as faithful catholic members of our community.