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For the past fourteen years, the youth of the Basilica Shrine of St. Mary have embarked on a wonderful ministry of delivering poinsettias and Christmas cards to our sick and/or homebound during the Advent season.

To help support this very important

We’ve been busy for a few weeks organizing our Thanksgiving project; I’m really pleased with all the people that have contacted me to ‘adopt’ a family and provide them with a basket.  As usual, St Mary School and staff, St

We were recently treated to a visit from our namesake, Sister Isaac; it was great to have her spend the week with us. She jumped right in, helping to serve those in need, as well as socializing with volunteers and

We are very dependent on the Foodbank of Central and Eastern North Carolina for much of our food supply. Our local branch is located here in Wilmington and we work very closely with them. We receive monthly shipments of our

Last week, I had the pleasure of meeting with 6 people that wanted to learn more about the Center, and to find out about volunteer opportunities.  We met after Sunday mass in the morning which worked out great – our

We’ve been really busy the last few weeks; we are seeing larger volumes of people each day.  I’ve had several people contact me regarding volunteer opportunities and I’m glad to have them – we certainly need more help to handle

We are fortunate to be starting the year with another grant from the Making Waves Foundation, through WAVE, the Cape Fear Public Transportation Authority.  The foundation, which started in 2010, provides subsidies to non-profit organizations to enable them to offer

The Center has now re-opened after our much needed August break. Even though we were ‘closed’, there was still some activity going on. Some volunteers came in to do some re-organizing, our cleaning gal worked hard freshening things up, and

2019-2020 Faith Formation Registration Form

K-5th Grades Faith Formation Schedule

6-12th Grades Faith Formation Schedule 2019-2020

When we open our doors each morning, we never know how many people to expect. Sometimes there’s only a few, usually there’s a couple dozen.  Our policy is to allow everyone in when the door opens, no matter how many