Meals Together



At St. Thomas More, our fellowship gatherings frequently involve breaking bread together! Ranging from simple potluck lunches to all-day feasts like our annual Parish Picnic, sharing meals together provides the time and opportunity to make new friends and deepen longstanding relationships. 

Often these are "potluck" meals in which everyone brings a simple dish (there's always plenty, so spur-of-the-moment guests are still welcome!), and sometimes the food is provided for all, with donations welcome. In any event, this critical aspect of our fellowship echoes that most important fellowship meal, our gathering at the Eucharistic Table for the Mass - itself a foretaste of the Heavenly Banquet.

Regular opportunities for fellowship meals at St. Thomas More include:

Weekly

• Potluck lunches after 10:00 a.m. Sunday Mass during Advent and Lent, preceding our Adult Education series.

• The men's Holy League offers a light potluck supper at 6:15 p.m. on the first and third Wednesdays of the month, between 5:30 p.m. Mass and 7:00 p.m. Holy Hour.

Monthly

• Potluck lunches after 10:00 a.m. Mass on the second Sunday of each month, preceding our Family Enrichment program.

• Free pizza is provided at all of our Neighbor Nights, on the third Saturday of each month.

Annually

• Anniversary Potluck commemorating the founding of our congregation on the Eve of All Saints (on or about October 31).

• Three Kings Celebration Supper, our Epiphany potluck during which three guests are crowned our Three Kings and receive gifts from the Parish (Epiphany Sunday, early January, after 4:00 p.m. Lessons & Carols).

• Shrove Tuesday Pancake Supper, an opportunity to "fatten up" on the evening before Lent begins on Ash Wednesday (late winter).

• Family Enrichment Annual Picnic, concluding each season of our kids' clubs activities (second Sunday in June).

• St. Thomas More Novena Feast, an English pub lunch usually on the Sunday falling within our annual Novena to St. Thomas More (late June).

• Annual Parish Picnic, a full day of food, fellowship, and fun at Lackawanna State Park (early August).