Congratulations to all our graduates! We will be celebrating your achievement with a reception after Mass on Sunday, May 22.

Please remember to save your Community Market receipts. They rebate helps the parish!

Children's Liturgy takes place during the 10 o'clock Mass on Sundays.

Remember to save your Community Market receipts and drop in the basket in the narthex. We receive 1% of the total receipts sent in and it goes into our Religious Education program.

Next week our parish will take up the Collection for the Catholic Communication Campaign. This Collection communicates the Good News through Catholic social media activities and enriches our faith through podcast, television, radio and print media. Please be generous. CCC is how the Good News gets around to you.

Lent begins February 22 with the observance of Ash Wednesday. There will be a Communion service with the distribution of ashes at noon and Mass with the distribution of ashes at 7 p.m. Each Wednesday evening the Stations of the Cross will be prayed at 6:30 p.m. There will be Mass February 22, March 7, and March 21. Vespers will be prayed on the alternate Wednesdays at 7 p.m.: February 29, March 14, March 28. During Lent we are reminded to pray, fast, and give alms in preparation for the renewal of our baptism at the Easter celebration. Ash Wednesday and Good Friday are days of fast and abstinence. In addition each Friday of Lent is a day of abstinence when no meat is eaten.

The high school youth group, SNLY, will have class on Sunday, January 8, after Mass, and will help host the Volunteer Appreciation Supper on Sunday, January 22.

The junior high students will meet from 11 a.m. – 1 p.m. on Sunday, January 8, and on Sunday, January 15.

The Masses for the New Year weekend are the regular schedule: 4 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 31 and 10 a.m. on Sunday, Jan. 1, Feast of Mary, the Mother of God.

A new parish directory is in preparation to be published. Please sign up for pictures either at church in the main entrance or on-line. Dates for pictures are October 28 and 29 or December 20 through 22. Everyone who has their photos taken will receive a $25 certificate toward the purchase of pictures and a free parish directory. We needs everyone to respond for this to be a grand success.

The young men and women of our parish being graduated from area high schools will be recognized and honored at the 10 o'clock Mass Sunday morning, May 22. Graduates come from Bluffton, Cory- Rawson, Pandora-Gilboa, and McComb High Schools. A reception will follow the Mass. Everyone is invited to come congratulate the graduates.

The Easter Vigil Mass at 8:00 PM will replace the normal 4:00 Mass on Saturday.

The bell tower has been sandblasted and powder coated and the bell has been polished and equipped with a Doppler ringer.

The new church doors have been built and installed by Custom Woodworking of Gilboa.