This message includes the following:
- The Week at a Glance
- How Do I get Added to Faith Formation Groups and Events?
- 4 Reasons for Fasting
- Lenten Healing Service
- Sacramental Formation During Lent
- Music Ministry Needs Your Help!
- Ralph Martin Online Mission
- Sisters in Faith
- Suffering Saints
- Young Adult Group
- Lenten Mission Update
- Jewelry Auction Online
- Piano/ Keyboard Player Needed
Calendar
Saturday, February 27:
- 4:30 Mass
Sunday, February 28:
- 8:30 Mass - Streamed
- 9:45 Catechism Class
- 11:00 Mass
- 1:00 Spanish Mass- Streamed
- 5:00 Youth Group
Monday, March 1:
- 9:00 Mass/Adoration
- 10:00 Passion Bible Study - Online and Marian Hall
- 11:15 Online Rosary
- 11:30 Bible in a Year - Room 5 and Online
- 6:30 Passion Bible Study - Online
Tuesday, March 2:
- 10:00 Disciples of Jesus and Mary
- 10:30 Music Appreciation Online
- 11:15 Online Rosary
- 12:30 DJM
- 7:30 On-Line Prayer via https://sfprayerministry.online.church
Wednesday, February 3:
- 10:00 Prayer Ministry -Room 5
- 11:15 Online Rosary
- 12:00 Mass
- 1:00 Prayer Talk #3 Marian Hall
- 1:30 Catechism in a year Online and Conference room
- 7:00 Saint Study
Thursday, March 4:
- 9:00 Mass
- 9:45 Discipleship Group
- 11:15 Online Rosary
- 1:00 Laudato Si- online
- 7:00 Lost Sheep- online
Friday, March 5:
- 9:00 Mass/Adoration
- 11:15 Online Rosary
- 4:00 Grace Force Marian Hall
- 5:00 Confession and Adoration - Church
- 6:00 Stations of the Cross - Church
How Do I get added to Faith Formation Groups and Events?
Have you seen a faith formation group or event that you would like to try but aren't sure how to join? We've got you covered! All you have to do is contact Colleen Orchanian (adultformationstfrancisblairsville.com) or leave a note on any flocknote that goes out. If technological concerns are keeping you away please let us know so that we can assist you! We hope to help you find a group that helps nourish your soul and provide spiritual growth this Lenten season!
4 Reasons for Fasting
Healing Mission
Sacramental Formation During Lent
Adoration
- Continuously for 40 hours from March 25 at 11:00 p.m. until March 27 at 3:00
p.m. (Please sign up so we can be assured that there are two guardians at all
times.) - After morning mass Monday and Friday until 11:00 and Wednesday until 2:00.
- After the 6:00 Spanish Mass on Wednesdays until 7:30.
- Fridays before and after Stations of the Cross from 5:00-7:00
- Holy Thursday after mass until 11:00.
- Check signup sheets and commit to be guardians for an hour during Lent.
Confession
- Fr. Mario will be available for the Sacrament of Reconciliation after all masses during Lent, before the Friday Stations of the Cross beginning at 5:00 (with Adoration), and by appointment in your home or at church.
- Stations of the Cross at 6:00 on Fridays. Bilingual. (Adoration begins at 5:00.)
- Living Stations of the Cross on Good Friday before celebrating the Passion of the Lord.
Music Ministry Needs Your Help!
We need your help! If you can use your TV remote, you have the skills we need! The new TV screens, related equipment, and software were donated by parishioners to allow displaying the words of our hymns, eliminating the need to handle hymnals during the Covid pandemic. We need a few volunteers at each Mass to run the displays. The process is quite simple and training will be provided. If you are interested please contact John Wysocki 321-960-6334 or johnjwysocki316@gmail.com
Ralph Martin Online Lenten Mission
Ralph Martin and Renewal Ministries is offering a 4-week Lenten Mission online on Sunday nights from 8:00-9:00 beginning February 28. The live online mission will explore what is commonly called the Illuminative stage of the spiritual journey and growing in freedom, love, and prayer. Registration is free but required. Go to RenewalMinistries.net to register. Those who attended his Advent mission found it very enlightening.
Sisters in Faith
Sisters in Faith will not be meeting in March while Colleen Orchanian is out of town. Meetings will resume in April.
Suffering Saints
The Church in her wisdom has given us the great gift of our beloved Saints. They are an inspiring model of heroic virtue and human excellence achieved through Christ. In this group, we seek to explore the historical and spiritual lives of these Holy men and women. In so doing we hope to learn more about them and how their example can lead us towards Sainthood in our own lives. For the season of Lent, we will be discussing the Suffering Saints. Our Saintly lineup will be:
- St. John Maria Vianney- March 3
- St. Faustina- March 17
If you have any questions or want to be added to the group you can contact:
Young Adult Group
The Young Adult group is meeting again! Using THE SEARCH series with Chris Stefanik, explore this journey in between the event we call “birth” and the one we call “death”? Is the journey taking you somewhere, or are you leading yourself to some kind of destination – a destination that could extend beyond your last breath? What do you want from your life during the in-between? The questions are there. And, the answers are too. Meetings are on selected Saturday mornings. Contact Jessica Ashcraft at: jessicasmithashcraft@gmail.com for more information.
Parish Lenten Mission Update
It is with great joy that during this second week of Lent, the four acres donated for TO THE NATIONS St. Joseph Vocational Institute has been graded, and using some of the clay-like soil brick fabrication has begun! The boys pictured have been participating in the pilot program, a school without walls, learning and working along with certified mechanics who are also members of the Masaka Cathedral. The boys have learned much already during this short time and now have hope for a brighter tomorrow. Together with other mission partners, we have already raised $7,500 of our $24,000 goal.
Thank you so much for your generosity in your time and talent in supporting our we are excited to let you know that an anonymous donor will MATCH every donation to St. Joseph’s Institute! In other words, every dollar will be doubled. And all donations are tax-deductible.
Father Martin teaching some of the Street Kids after the meal
Three of the Street Kids currently learning motorcycle repair
The Parish Festival Jewelry Auction has Gone Digital!
Do You Play the Piano?
Do you play the Piano or Keyboard? Would you be willing to volunteer your time and talent at Mass? We would love to have you join our choir! please contact Bill Haller at: music@stfrancisblairsville.com
