FATHER'S TWO-CENTS WORTH

                                                                                                                                                           

With this week, we begin the fullness of Lent, with the daily readings in such an order as to lead us to our God through the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ.  Try to take at least six minutes a day to pray, and to love your God better.  Use the Little Black Book as often as possible, even if you miss some days, to keep on this road to heaven.  It is your life, and the way we live it will indicate our eternity.

 

On Monday, we have the first of our Soup Suppers and talks.  Msgr. William Hitpas will be the first of our speakers.  Many of us know “Father Bill” from the time he helped out here at Holy Childhood, l974-l982, with Sunday Mass and other events.  He is a very great speaker, and was nominated one year as the “Out-Standing Preacher” in the St. Louis area.  I am sure you will thoroughly enjoy his talk -  MONDAY, 6:00 P.M. in the parish center!

 

Do not forget our special Lenten services during the week, on Wednesday, Mass at 5:30 P.M., and on Fridays, Stations of the Cross and Benediction, at 5:30 P.M.

 

Next Sunday, the CYO along with many other adults and high schoolers, will conduct a LUKE  18, which is a retreat for our 7th & 8^th grade students.  Pray for all who are involved in this event—the 7^th and 8^th grade students, the presenters, the many other persons involved in making the event go well and without “glitches”.

 

Next Sunday is Commitment Sunday for our CATHOLIC SERVICES AND MINISTRY APPEAL.  Please bring your pledge cards that day, and be involved in this special ministry to the people of our diocese.  I believe all of us get many appeals from various needs of medical groups, school groups, missions, hospitals, and organizations helping others.  Our CSMA appeal helps our own parish and our diocese.  Of the 28 agencies that the CSMA helps, our parish and parishioners benefit from l8 of these agencies in many different ways.  We are building the Family of God in our own locale, and it will come back to us both in life and in eternity.  Make a commitment, one that can do a lot of good, and that you can live with, on an installment basis—monthly gifts, to build the Body of Christ.

 

It is good to be back home, in my own bed, and with the people of the parish, the people that I love and give my life for.  I thank you for the many prayers and concern you have for me and had for me.  I ask you to continue to support our parish and myself in the work we have as the Catholic Church in Mascoutah by your good deeds, your prayers, and your commitment to Holy Childhood Church.  Our Sesquicentennial Celebration is now over, and we have embarked on a new era.  We looked at our past, celebrated the present, and now move into the future.  Set the tone in your homes, for your children and friends, make the days ahead better than the past.  Pray for me that I can help you in this endeavor, and be a good shepherd to all of you.

 

 

 

Announcement for Parents

PSR will be collecting dry goods for the Food Pantry as a Lenten service project.

The 8th grade will be heading up this project and will be responsible for

collecting and assigning items to each grade.

The food pantry is in need of paper towels, tooth paste & brushes,

dish soap, face soap, toilet paper, lotion, shampoo, etc.

PSR will be collecting these items during the six weeks of Lent.

Thank you for your help. 

 

 REMINDER The 2nd grade students will be receiving First Reconciliation

on February 7th, 2008 at 7 PM in the church.

 

Mark your Calendar: There will be NO PSR on

February 17th-President's Day weekend.