PREP Registrations for 2025-2026 

PREP begins on Thursday, Sept. 7, 2025 from 5:15-6:30.  Paper copies of the registration form can be picked up on the table in the church Narthex.  One packet covers an entire family.  Please return your child(ren)’s registration form and payment to the DRE in the church office office. 

The registration packet for Levels 1-6 can be downloaded by clicking on here.  The coversheet that contains information about dates, events dates, cost scenarios, and discounts if people are PREP volunteers can be viewed here.

Level 7 forms for Confirmation were distributed at the Confirmation Parent Meeting on May 18, 2025.  If you did not attend this meeting you are encouraged to make an appointment with Mrs. Linda Riofski by calling 610-268-0296 or emailing dre@saintgabrielparish.org to get these papers for your middle schooler.  You should begin the paperwork immediately and should not wait until September.

Parish Giving has created two links that take parents to “Tuition” and “Candidate Fee” payment options, if you prefer electronic payments instead of paying by cash or check.  Click here to get to Parish Giving’s Tuition link and here for the Level 3 and 7 Candidate Fee.

 

Sensory-Friendly Mass – New Time!

Third Sundays | 8:00 am | St. Gabriel Church
 
Starting with Easter Mass, the Sensory-Friendly Mass will be held at 8:00 am.
 
Our parish was featured in an article by CatholicPhilly about the new Mass!
 
 All are welcome to this regularly scheduled Mass. A special invitation is extended to any person with sensory issues and their families.  This Mass will include: no music, dimmer lighting, and a condensed version of that week’s Homily.  Families are encouraged to bring materials that can assist with comfort during the liturgy: noise cancelling headphones, wiggle seats, fidgets, etc. Please contact the Office with any questions!

PREP

Are you interested in being a catechist or aide for the 2025-2026 PREP year?  Please contact Linda Riofski at 610-268-5120 or dre@saintgabrielparish.org to begin the process to obtain your clearances.

 
Resources:
 
 
 
This page includes guidelines for PREP curriculum, resources, KidsTalk lessons and more information.
 
 
 
 
Prayer to One’s Guardian Angel for a Happy Hour of Death 
By: St. Charles Borromeo
 
My good Angel, I know not when or how I shall die. It is possible I may be carried off suddenly and that, before my last sigh, I may be deprived of all intelligence. Yet, how many things I would wish to say to God on the threshold of Eternity. In the full freedom of my will today, I come to charge you to speak for me at that fearful moment. You will say to Him, then, O my good Angel:
 
That I wish to die in the Roman Catholic Apostolic Church in which all the Saints since Jesus Christ have died, and out of which there is no salvation.
 
That I ask the grace of sharing in the infinite merits of my Redeemer and that I desire to die in pressing to my lips the Cross that was bathed in His Blood.
That I detest my sins because they displease Him and I ask pardon through the love of Him, for all my enemies as I wish myself to be pardoned. That I die willingly because He orders it and I throw myself with confidence into His adorable Heart, awaiting all His Mercy. That in my inexpressible desire to go to Heaven, I am disposed to suffer everything it may please His Sovereign Justice to inflict on me.
 
That I love Him before all things, above call things and for His own sake; that I wish and hope to love Him with the Elect, His Angels and the Blessed Mother during all Eternity.
 
Do not refuse, O my Angel Guardian, to be my interpreter with GOD and to protest to Him that these are my sentiments and my will.
 
Amen