By the Faithful Disciple GROW AS A DISCIPLE Just two weeks ago, when Christians walked around all day with a cross of ashes on our foreheads, we may have received puzzled looks. Who bothers with fasting and almsgiving for 40 whole days? Many of us live with great abundance in this country; the only…
Dear Parents, We had our Lenten Family Formation evening last Wednesday. K-6th grade had a prayer service and “buried” the Alleluia to say goodbye to it for the next 40 days of Lent. 7th & 8th grades had a Lenten retreat called “Under His Wings” teaching about God’s protection of us all. Thank you to…
First Sunday of Lent Let the journey begin! The journey of Lent! The primary purpose of Lent is to prepare us for the celebration of Jesus’ death and Resurrection. The second purpose is to bring us to renew our Baptismal promises of rejecting Satan and accepting Jesus as our Lord and Savior, allowing him to…
Dear Parents, The season of Lent presents families with an opportunity to examine our family life and to re-commit ourselves to the Christian practices of almsgiving, prayer, and fasting. Each of us is invited to do these things as individuals, but we can also do one or more actions as a family. Ash Wednesday is…
Lent is around the corner… This upcoming Wednesday is Ash Wednesday. With the Holy Mass at 9 am and 7 pm, and with the distribution of the ashes we begin Lent. It’s a 40-day season of prayer, fasting, and almsgiving that begins on Ash Wednesday and ends at sundown on Holy Thursday. It’s a period…
If you would like to donate a dessert for the upcoming Parish Fish Fry dinners during Lent, they can be dropped off at the Activities Center on Fridays between 2 – 4pm starting Feb 16th through March 22nd. Volunteers will be there to start cutting, plating and covering individual portions. This is a suggested time…
While I was on vacation, we did a lot of reading and I would like to share this with you … by Bishop Andrew Cozzens in a segment from his keynote address for the Eucharistic Revival; “We need to move the HEART and do something beautiful – when we kneel, when we bow before Jesus,…