All are invited and encouraged to participate in our next Parish Open Forum which will be February 28th from 7pm-8pm using Zoom. These are scheduled roughly four times a year to provide the parish with an opportunity to discuss together what is taking place at our local parish, the community, and the world. These sessions should help us to work together to achieve common goals as well as provide input that can be discussed among the Parish Pastoral Council for the good of our parish.
Ash Wednesday is this Wednesday, March 2nd, and is a day of fasting and abstinence from meat. This is not a Holy Day of Obligation, but is the perfect way to begin the Lenten season of Lent for it reminders us that we must repent of our sin. Mass opportunities will be 7am, 8:30am, 6pm, and 7:30pm (Spanish). There will also be an Imposition of Ashes service (not Mass) at 12:15pm.
Friday is an important day throughout the year because this is the day that Jesus died upon the cross. For this reason we are abstain from meat on all Fridays during Lent. The Stations of the Cross will also be prayed in common each Friday during the season of Lent. Stations are at 6pm (English) and 7pm (Spanish). The Knights of Columbus will provide their fish fry on the Fridays throughout Lent from 5pm-7pm.
Lastly, I ask that you please mark your calendars for our Lenten Day of Recollection which will be April 9th from 9:30am-12:30pm. This will be presented by Father Michael Hendershott who is the parochial vicar of Holy Ghost Parish in Knoxville and who was once assigned here as a seminarian. He will be presenting on being sent out as we were told at the Great Commission, “Go therefore and make disciples all all the nations.”
In Christ,
Fr. Dustin Collins
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