It’s official! The Disciple Maker Index Survey opens this week and we need your help! Please help us participate by completing a
10-15 minute survey as soon as possible.
Go to: Disciple Maker Index Survey
There are also opportunities to complete the survey after daily and Sunday Mass. You can obtain a paper copy at entrances of the church or by calling the parish office at 610-777-1697. The survey will only be available from February 14 and closes March 27, 2024 and will ask you to reflect on your own spiritual growth and enable you to provide feedback on our parish’s efforts to help you grow. All responses will be confidential and the parish will only receive information about the community as a whole. We are trying to get the highest response rate possible! This information will be invaluable to Fr. Ed and our various ministries as we plan for the future and strive to be the best disciples we can be. We will receive the results this spring/summer at which time we will share what we have learned with the entire parish. Thank you for helping with this important project!
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One of six children born to Paul and Anne Essig. He grew up in the Reading area and was a member of Saint Catharine of Siena Parish in Mount Penn, and attended Saint Catharine’s grade school. He spent his high school years at Saint Joseph Preparatory Seminary, administered by the Vincentian Fathers, outside of Princeton, NJ. He went on to study for the priesthood by attending Saint Charles Borromeo Seminary in Philadelphia for both his college years and theology studies, receiving a B.A. in Philosophy and his Master of Divinity. In June of 1994 he was ordained a priest for the Diocese of Allentown and went on to serve in a number of parishes as an assistant. In March of 2005 he was assigned to his first pastorship at Saints Peter & Paul in Lehighton (Carbon County). In June of 2021 he received his assignment as pastor at Saint John Baptist de la Salle and was officially installed on Saturday, September 25 of that year.