Brandywine Hundred Deanery

Prepare your heart for Easter! Reconciliation Monday will be held on April 14 across the Diocese of Wilmington. Confessions will be heard from 3pm-8pm at most parishes. Click here for information on Reconciliation Monday and to download a short guide on how to make a good confession.

Together in Hope: The Faith & Charity Catholic Appeal invites you to join a mission that transforms lives. Supporting over 40 ministries, your gift brings Christ's love to countless people in need, strengthening our diocese and building a vibrant community of faith. Commitment Weekend will take place in all parishes on March 15 and 16. Click for more info and to donate.

The Meeting Minutes from the Brandywine Hundred Deanery Leadership Committee Meeting on February 19 have been published. Click here to read.

Jesus: The Way, the Truth, and the Life is a new and fresh look at Jesus—who he is, what he is really like, what he taught, and what he did for our salvation. This encounter with Christ will inspire and empower you to center your entire life around him as you come to know and love him in an ever deeper and more intimate way. Come and take a fresh look & get to know Jesus Christ more intimately in this study! Meetings occur Thursdays from March 6 to May 22, 2025 at 7:30pm. Initial meetings will be hybrid, starting on Zoom, and ending on site at IHM Parish. The cost for an Online Access is $6.95. To register & participate, click here to email Martha Okafor at [email protected].

This Lenten season, seminarian James Kimmel will present "No Greater Love: A Biblical Walk Through Christ’s Passion" by Edward Sri. We will meet at Immaculate Heart of Mary Parish in the Multipurpose room on Saturday mornings through April 5th at 10:30AM Workbooks are available to purchase at the IHM parish office for $30. To register, please click here to contact Rita McDowell at [email protected]

Choirs of The Brandywine Hundred Deanery present a Lenten Hymn Sing: "MAKE A JOYFUL NOISE!" on Laetare Sunday, March 30, 2025. 3:00 p.m. at St. Helena’s Church, 602 Philadelphia Pike, Bellefonte, DE, 19809. Free admission.

St Mary Magdalen Parishioner, Justin Carisio, OFS, will walk us through the miracle of the stigmata and the examples St. Francis of Assisi left for us 800 years ago that help us live a life today that's pleasing to God. A great Lenten contemplation! RSVP by March 19. Click for more info.

Francis Corrigan, who has served as the interim principal at Immaculate Heart of Mary School in north Wilmington since the beginning of this academic year, has been appointed to the position on a permanent basis. The announcement was made Feb. 18 by Father John T Solomon, the pastor of IHM Parish. Click to read more.

Join us to explore the ways in which aging can be a time of gentle rebirth and creative vitality; of sharing- and celebrating- the wisdom of our more mature years. From Mary and Elizabeth's Visitation to Thea Bowman and Dorothy Day in modern times- with lots of silver-haired saints and artists in between- we will see how The Holy Spirit leads us beneath the surface of life to open our hearts and free our spirits, where Christ dwells. A creative activity will be included as well as thoughts on pondering our own funerals. Click for more info.

14th CYM Pilgrimage Join hundreds of others on Saturday, April 12, 2025, as we walk the streets of Wilmington carrying the Pilgrimage Cross with Bishop Koenig. We are excited to welcome back “The Scally Brothers” to lead worship throughout the day. It will start at St. Elizabeth with prayer and a concert, to St. Francis Hospital for a special blessing of the patients, then Reconciliation at St. Anthony of Padua, followed by the Stations of the Cross at Padua Academy, Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament at St. Paul, and Blessing of Palms and Mass upon our return to St. Elizabeth. Join this event commemorating Jesus’ triumphant entry into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday and His pilgrimage to Calvary on Good Friday. Click for more info and to register.

Bishop Koenig made his first visit to the perpetual adoration chapel at Immaculate Heart of Mary in Wilmington since declaring Jubilee 2025 sites in the Diocese of Wilmington.

Kathleen Jacono, the principal of St. Mary Magdalen School since last summer, has had the “interim” tag removed. Father James Kirk, the pastor of St. Mary Magdalen Parish, informed the school community on Jan. 24 that Jacono has accepted the position on a permanent basis. Click to read the full article.

Bishop Koenig designates the jubilee sites in the Diocese of Wilmington during the ordinary jubilee year 2025, including Immaculate Heart of Mary Parish within our Deanery. Click for more info.

On July 9, the Vatican’s General Secretariat of the Synod released the working document for the second session of the Synod on Synodality, which takes place at the Vatican Oct. 2-27. The document centers on the upcoming discussions on the topic of “how to be a missionary synodal church” — part of the synod’s governing theme of “communion, participation and mission.” Click for more info.