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Many thanks to all who were able to help with the decorating of Church for the Christmas Season and to our faithful Heavenly Dusters who keep the Church so clean.

School is back in session and so far the semester is off to a great start. Our Parish Breakfast will start again next week!

As we celebrate today the Feast of the Epiphany, we remember with joy the making known of Jesus to the world as the Son of God.

I hope you enjoyed your celebration of Christmas Day!  What a great opportunity afforded to us by our Church to celebrate Christmas until January 9th so we can let the truth of this Season of Christ’s Birth soak into our hearts.

I hope you enjoy this last week of Advent and that you have a wonderful and Blessed Christmas.  We welcome our college students and others who will be with us for our Christmas Masses. 

We host the Combined Parish Penance Service tomorrow evening. What a great way for Catholics in this area to come together to pray and celebrate God’s unconditional love and forgiveness while we open ourselves to the coming of the Lord.

I pray and hope that you're taking some time to focus with prayer during these Advent days.

Today we begin our Advent Season and a new liturgical year. Let’s take advantage of this time for prayer, Sunday worship, and celebrating the Sacraments.

Welcome to Thanksgiving week! Masses on Thanksgiving Day will be at 7:00 a.m. and 9:00 a.m. What a great way to start the day with Mass, our great prayer of thanks.

Congratulations to our newly Confirmed parishioners!  It was a pleasure to welcome Archbishop Rozanski for Confirmation this past Thursday.

As Daylight Savings Time ends we are off and running in the month of November and looking forward to Thanksgiving, Advent, and the Christmas holidays.  Time flies! 

Happy Halloween!  And Happy Feast of All Saints tomorrow! At Tuesday's 6:30 pm All Souls Day Mass we will remember our loved ones who have died during this past year at our parish.  All are invited.

Thank you for your support of the Sausage Supper last weekend!  We are blessed beyond measure here and it gives me one more reason to be grateful for the opportunity to be your Pastor. 

Thank you to Danny and Amanda Williams for chairing the Sausage Dinner this weekend and to all of our wonderful volunteers for their help to make this possible for our parish and our neighbors from the community. We are blessed!

Thank you for your support of our Deacons and the Deacon Formation Program. Next Sunday we will be hosting our Sausage Supper!

This weekend we take up a special collection to help support the Deacon Formation Program in the Archdiocese of St. Louis. We are ever grateful to the Deacons who serve our parish!

The Homecoming weekend went well! The first Sunday evening Regional Youth Mass was well attended. Encourage the teens you know to come and join us!

Congratulations to Joe Holtmeier who will be honored with the Cardinal Rigali Service Award from Archbishop Rozanski this Wednesday!

Welcome to Fall Festival Weekend! We are excited to be celebrating this in-person this year and I hope you can join us for at least part of the day on Sunday.

Next Sunday we will be celebrating our Parish Fall Festival.  We sure missed the celebration last year and I’m so glad we will be having it next weekend. If at all possible, please come join in the celebration!