Thank you to everyone who sponsored, supported or participated in this weekend’s Mardi Gras Celebration! I’m very grateful to Gina and Ed Sharbaugh and their team as well as all those who donated baskets and sold tickets. Mark Mijavec, our chef, did a fabulous job as always! Please see future bulletins and our website for photos and the Flambeau Cash Raffle winners’ names. A financial report will also be coming. This is one of our major fundraising efforts the year. Blessings on all of you for your loving support.
Our FABULOUS fish dinners begin on Ash Wednesday and continue of Fridays of Lent. Thanks to all who have volunteered to prepare the dinners, and welcome to those who dine with us!
Of course, the Holy Season of Lent is not about eating, but growing in our spiritual life. To that end, please see Page 17 for special opportunities to grow spiritually during Lent. The following Catholic media groups offer daily meditations that you may like. Check out: ¨Dynamic Catholic’s Best Lent Ever—sign up through a Flocknote sent on Monday, Feb. 20 ¨Bishop Barron’s Word on Fire offers Lenten Text Challenge— sign up through a Flocknote sent on Monday, Feb. 20. ¨FORMED’s Daily Lenten Reflections.— sign up at https://daily.formed.org/lent For a further explanation of the programs, visit https://holyspiritparishoflawrencecounty.org/lenten-reflections-2023 Our Ash Wednesday Mass Schedule for February 22nd is 7:00 am | St. Vitus Church 9:00 am | St. Vitus Church 12 Noon | St. Mary Church 4:00 pm | St. Mary Church (service with ashes) 7:00 pm | St. Camillus
Please note that the weekday Masses for Lent will be at St. Mary Church at noon beginning February 23rd and the following weekdays during Lent. There will not be a 9:00 am Mass at St. Vitus during this time. Stations of the Cross will be led by the presiders at Mass every Friday after the noon Mass at St. Mary Church. Our teenagers will lead the 7:00 pm Stations of the Cross on the first four Fridays of Lent at St. Camillus. On March 10th there will be song and Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament following the Stations. On March 24th, Bishop Zubik along with our diocesan seminarians will be at our parish for the Fish Fry at St. Vitus. Bishop Zubik, along with the RCIA members, will lead the 7:00PM Stations at St. Camillus. On March 31st, our teens will present the Living Stations at St. Vitus Church at 7:00 pm.