Hello Parents, Palm Sunday, also called Passion Sunday, marks the beginning of Holy Week. During this week, we prepare ourselves for Easter by prayerfully reflecting on the events of Jesus’ passion and death. During this week, your family might display a crucifix in a prominent place as reminder of the salvation that Christ won for…
Holy Week How fast time flies?! Don’t you have the feeling that we just started Lent? Today these 40 days are almost gone! What have we done with this time of prayer, fasting and almsgiving? What have we done with our Lenten resolutions? Do we remember that this time has been given to us every…
Palm Sunday Mass (3/24) 5 pm Saturday 9 am & 11 am Sunday 24-Hour Adoration (3/25-26) 7 pm Monday – 7 pm Tuesday Holy Thursday (3/28) 7 pm Mass followed by adoration until 11 pm Good Friday (3/29) 12:15 pm – Stations of the Cross 1 pm – Liturgy 3 pm Divine Mercy Novena Holy…
Dear Parents, Family life is often a balancing act in which we prioritize and attend to a variety of competing needs. We learn the value of putting others’ needs ahead of our own. In family life we also learn that when we make personal sacrifices to serve others, we gain so much more than we…
By the Faithful Disciple GROW AS A DISCIPLE As we quickly approach Easter, we’re reminded of the reason why we are celebrating. God’s chosen people stumbled quite a bit throughout the Old Testament, so God intervened time, and time, and time again to set them back on the straight and narrow. Whereas we would likely…
Dear Parents, Next week, March 13th, is our Family of Parishes Penitential Service at St. Valentine. This is a great opportunity for the 8th graders to receive the Sacrament of Reconciliation before the Sacrament of Confirmation. Any student that would like to attend can leave class early as long as I am told beforehand by…
By the Faithful Disciple GROW AS A DISCIPLE “The floor is lava!” We used to play this game as children, and it still seems popular today: you arrange furniture and other objects in such a way as to make it from point to point, and even room to room, without touching the floor. There may…