Please note that the Tuesday Mass this week will be at 8:15 a.m. due to the Chrism Mass at the Cathedral Tuesday evening.

LADIES SODALITY KENTUCKY TRIP 

Ladies Sodality is planning a fall trip to the Ark Encounter & Creation Museum in Kentucky. The trip will begin early on September 23 with return home on the 24th. Bus is $120.50 per person; admission tickets are $80. Hotel reservations pending, but the plan is to have breakfast at the hotel and use meal vouchers at the Ark ($16.99) and Creation Museum ($13.77) Interested? Contact Pam Winn at 618-641-7274 ASAP. We need commitments by May 15 and money for bus and admission by July 1.

PRO LIFE MINISTRY MEETING 

If you are interested in praying for and suppporting pro life causes in our community and parish, please consider joining us for a pro life ministry meeting on Wednesday, March 27 at 6 p.m. in the PLC.

Neither are officially called yet, but if it continues to be God’s Will, and if both receive calls to Holy Orders from Bishop Paprocki, parishioners may want to attend two ordinations at Cathedral soon. If you are interested in a car pool, please contact the parish office:

 - Friday, April 12 (evening): Ordination of Deacons - could include Seminarian Ryan Kehoe, who was here the 2022-23 school year.

 - Saturday, May 25 (day): Ordination of Priests - could include Deacon Daniel McGrath, who has been with us this school year.

We are still in search of chairpersons for the picnic, please consider helping and getting involved. We need:

• Dining Room chairpersons, one for both, either Friday or Saturday dinners. This is a cool job in the air-conditioned cafeteria. This job consists of table bussing, light cleaning, drinks and ice replenishing and other small tasks. Basically, keeping our dinner patrons coming in to sit down, cool off and enjoy dinner in a clean environment.

• Co-chair to help Rosa Luna with the Mexican Food Booth, the current top gross revenue food booth, fan favorite, and great asset to our picnic.

• Co-chairto help with Valerie Kohl in the Kids Game Booth’s and to transition taking this Leadership over in 2025. This is a fun and rewarding booth to watch and see the kids play challenging games and win prizes

.• Co-chair to help Paul Hellrich with the Parking Lot. This is a vital part for our visiting patrons to leave their vehicles in an organized parking lot, reducing liability damages to vehicles and patrons.

• Chair, co-chair, and team for our ground clean-up day and night. This is an important picnic team(s) that is a vital part of a clean successful weekend. The day (operational times) grounds team would keep our trash receptables emptied and do minor details of picking up trash. The night team (after operational time) will clean up the grounds so we can do it all over again the next day. There is powered equipment that helps with this process during the night and/or early mornings.

Thank you to those already involved and thanks in advance to those considering getting involved. 

Picnic Chairperson, 

Tim Domagalski 

618-304-6074

PRO-LIFE MINISTRY MEETING 

Are you interested in pro-life ministry or events in our community? Please join us on Wednesday, March 27th at 6 p.m. in the Harmony Room for a meeting to discuss pro life issues and how we might form a group to pray for and support these issues. Please pray and consider joining us.