Welcome to Mother of Christ Catholic Church
Rooted in Love
Welcome to Mother of Christ Catholic Church
Rooted in Love
Welcome
Thank you for visiting the Mother of Christ Catholic Church online. We are a member of the Our Lady of Divine Providence Family of Parishes. We celebrate our 77th year of ministry to the Winton Hills Community and we ask you to join us in a prayer of thanksgiving for what God has done over the years and for the lives he has touched through our parish. Please feel free to read more about our church on this site, or join us for Sunday worship. We would love to greet you and share our love for Jesus Christ and you, our neighbor.
Major Change in OLoDP Leadership
Fr. Andrew Umberg, the pastor of Our Lady of Divine Providence Family of Parishes, has received a new appointment beginning this Fall. Fr. Umberg received the appointment during a phone call early afternoon on Wednesday, August 28.
Fr. Umberg has been appointed the new pastor of St. Ignatius Parish (on North Bend Road in Monfort Heights). He will be leaving our Family of Parishes around October 10th. His last weekend as pastor here will be October 5th and 6th. The following weekend, he will be celebrating Masses at St. Ignatius. Soon following, there will be a “From the Pastor’s Desk” article by Fr. Umberg explaining more about this change.
The heart of the matter is that two very large parishes lost their pastors this summer, and they needed two experienced pastors to move from their recent Beacons of Light assignments to fill them.
Fr. Ronald Haft has agreed to serve as temporary administrator of our Family of Parishes until July 1, 2025. He will, therefore, act with the authority of a pastor in all matters of our Family of Parishes.
Fr. Henry Hoffman, who is presently serving as vicar at the SW-7 Family of Parishes (Westwood), has been appointed as a new vicar for our Family of Parishes. Presumably he will be here until July 1, 2025 (perhaps longer; this has not yet been determined).
From the desk of Father Henry Hoffmann
Hello! My name is Father Henry, and I am the oldest of three boys. My younger brother is also a priest in Hamilton, Ohio, and my youngest brother is a Navy officer in flight school. I grew up near Batavia, Ohio, but I was not raised Catholic. My extended family is Lutheran, and my brothers and I were baptized as Presbyterians.
I was homeschooled through high school and attended Hillsdale College in Michigan, where I got a degree in History. As part of my history studies, I came to love the richness of Catholic History and tradition and became a Catholic in 2013. I entered the seminary for the Archdiocese of Cincinnati a year and a half after that. I subsequently joined a religious order called the Oratory of St. Philip Neri in Cincinnati at Old St. Mary’s Church in downtown Over-the-Rhine. I was ordained a priest on March 19, 2021, and after about eighteen months as a priest at Old St. Mary’s, I discerned God’s call to become a diocesan parish priest, and I have since rejoined the Archdiocese of Cincinnati.
Twenty-Third Sunday in Ordinary Time
You are not Alone
No matter what challenges you are facing
Life is God’s greatest blessing, but sometimes women and families face challenges and need help. Look below to find a listing of organizations and agencies in the Archdiocese of Cincinnati that provide compassionate and affordable—and in many cases, free—services to women and families.
