SPECIAL NOTICE
(1/27/2021-Updated 3:30 pm)
- The school is closed today (Wednesday) following EVSC's decision in light of the impending snow storm.
- Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament will finish at 4 pm today.
- 6 pm Evening Mass & 5:45 pm Reconciliation are canceled.
- The evening events of Wednesdays at the Well and the Cursillo Virtual Ultreya gathering are canceled.
- Thank you for your understanding. Let us be safe, keeping one another in prayer.
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A Note from Fr. Jason,
Thanks to you all for your prayers on my vacation. It was a good time to catch up with a number of friends including Fr. Eric Augenstein from Indianapolis. Between reading in the warm sun some mornings in the sun room, taking a few hikes, eating way too much and just generally not having a schedule it was a nice vacation. It sounds like Fr. Dave Nunning did a great job here in my absence as I know to always be the case with him.
As this year of 2021 quickly gets started, there is much on the horizon for us. Lent starts with Ash Wednesday on February 17. This will be a bit unique as, like many other things with COVID-19, we will not be marking foreheads with ashes. Wait though as we will still be using the blessed ashes, we will instead be sprinkling a bit of them on the top of your head. This may sound unusual, but it is the way that it takes place in many countries, including Spain and Italy. In fact, it is a little more biblical as we might remember the penitential practice of putting on “sackcloth and ashes.” We hear in the Book of Nehemiah: “ On the twenty-fourth day of this month, the Israelites gathered together while fasting and wearing sackcloth, their heads covered with dust” (Neh 9:1). We will also be saying the formula “Remember that you are dust and unto dust you shall return” once over everyone instead of to each individual person. No matter how we might exteriorly receive the ashes on Ash Wednesday, more important is our interior disposition of repentance and turning back to the Lord.
Just before Lent begins we will begin as a parish family our consecration to St. Joseph during this Year of St. Joseph (Dec 8 2020-Dec 8, 2021) proclaimed by Pope Francis. We will begin these thirty-three days of prayerful preparation starting February 15. That consecration preparation can take many forms from a simple consecration prayer prayed daily, to some more prayerful daily meditation, to following the deeper format laid out by Fr. Don Calloway in his book CONSECRATION TO ST. JOSEPH: THE WONDERS OF OUR SPIRITUAL FATHER (www.shopmercy.org). Our consecration itself will happen with praying the consecration prayer on the feast day of St. Joseph (March 19) at a special evening Mass. More information on each of these ways will be advertised in the coming weeks. Simply put, whatever way we choose to do it, consecration to St. Joseph is entrusting ourselves and our families to his care and intercession, desiring to draw closer to God in imitation of Joseph’s holiness. (If interested in using Fr. Calloway’s book please be aware that ordering it sooner is encouraged due to demand.)
Brothers and sisters as we move ahead in this year of 2021, let us continue to seek the ways to draw closer to God in the many ways that He lays out for us. May we be faithful children of such a loving Father.
God Bless,
Fr. Jason Gries
As this year of 2021 quickly gets started, there is much on the horizon for us. Lent starts with Ash Wednesday on February 17. This will be a bit unique as, like many other things with COVID-19, we will not be marking foreheads with ashes. Wait though as we will still be using the blessed ashes, we will instead be sprinkling a bit of them on the top of your head. This may sound unusual, but it is the way that it takes place in many countries, including Spain and Italy. In fact, it is a little more biblical as we might remember the penitential practice of putting on “sackcloth and ashes.” We hear in the Book of Nehemiah: “ On the twenty-fourth day of this month, the Israelites gathered together while fasting and wearing sackcloth, their heads covered with dust” (Neh 9:1). We will also be saying the formula “Remember that you are dust and unto dust you shall return” once over everyone instead of to each individual person. No matter how we might exteriorly receive the ashes on Ash Wednesday, more important is our interior disposition of repentance and turning back to the Lord.
Just before Lent begins we will begin as a parish family our consecration to St. Joseph during this Year of St. Joseph (Dec 8 2020-Dec 8, 2021) proclaimed by Pope Francis. We will begin these thirty-three days of prayerful preparation starting February 15. That consecration preparation can take many forms from a simple consecration prayer prayed daily, to some more prayerful daily meditation, to following the deeper format laid out by Fr. Don Calloway in his book CONSECRATION TO ST. JOSEPH: THE WONDERS OF OUR SPIRITUAL FATHER (www.shopmercy.org). Our consecration itself will happen with praying the consecration prayer on the feast day of St. Joseph (March 19) at a special evening Mass. More information on each of these ways will be advertised in the coming weeks. Simply put, whatever way we choose to do it, consecration to St. Joseph is entrusting ourselves and our families to his care and intercession, desiring to draw closer to God in imitation of Joseph’s holiness. (If interested in using Fr. Calloway’s book please be aware that ordering it sooner is encouraged due to demand.)
Brothers and sisters as we move ahead in this year of 2021, let us continue to seek the ways to draw closer to God in the many ways that He lays out for us. May we be faithful children of such a loving Father.
God Bless,
Fr. Jason Gries
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