🔔 No Daily Mass in Arcade: May 4 – 8, 2026.
There’s plenty of work to do, PLEASE come and help! Bring your gloves, tool box, energy and enthusiasm and let’s get our parish in tip top shape for Easter! Coffee, doughnuts, other beverages will be served throughout the work day. Please help!
Based on the bulletin of March 5, 2023. Year indication added for future viewers.
Based on the bulletins of March 5 and March 19, 2023. Year indication added for future viewers.
We need to develop a Buildings and Grounds Committee for our parish. I am inviting anyone who may be interested in helping to make sure our buildings and grounds are in tip top shape as we prepare to move forward as a family of parishes.
I would like to invite all interested on Tuesday, February 28 (2023) at 7:30 pm after the 7 pm Mass in East Arcade. We will meet in the rectory there.
Excerpted from Fr. Bryan’s letter in the bulletin of February 12, 2023. Emphasis added to worship site location via underline; small edit for clarity; year indication added for future viewers.
I don’t know about you, but I can’t believe that we are into Lent already! Where has the time gone? As our parish looks to transition in the Renewal, Lent is the perfect opportunity to look at our lives and discover how Jesus is calling us into a deeper relationship, and how we can be better disciples.
Lent is an opportunity for us to take our spiritual life seriously, and recognize that we could do more in our relationship with God. During Lent we will offer opportunities for you to grow closer to Christ through reconciliation, Mass, Stations of the Cross, as well as, your personal prayer, fasting and almsgiving. As you know, I am temporarily helping out and will do my best to offer Lenten opportunities for confessions and Stations.
*Please note; I am hoping that I can celebrate all Masses and stations during Lent, however, my schedule many not allow me to do so. Please watch the bulletin each week! If for some reason I am not able to be here for Mass on Tuesday or Friday, the Stations of the Cross will still take place, led by a lay person.
Please watch the bulletin for information on a parish penance service.
Lent is all about Renewal, the renewal of our relationship with Jesus, as well as, the Renewal needed in our parishes as we come together as a family. Please keep praying for our Renewal, family of parishes and all that is happening in our parish. Also, please keep inviting people to come back and see what is going on.
Keep smiling :)
Fr. Bryan
Adapted from Fr. Bryan’s letter in the bulletin of February 26, 2023.
In order to continue to maintain our beautiful Churches and to support the mission and the ministries of our parish, we depend on our weekly offertory donations.
Offertory envelopes can be placed in collection at Mass or mailed to the Rectory Office. We are grateful for your ongoing support of St. Mary’s Parish.
Thank you!
Adapted from the bulletin of February 26, 2023 — for more details, please see the bulletin.
Lent … what’s going to be different?
This week we begin the season of Lent with our celebration of Ash Wednesday. Are you ready? As you can see, we are offering MANY opportunities for people to come to Mass and receive ashes. Please take advantage and invite others to join. This is the most sacred season of our liturgical year and is an opportunity for all of us to grow closer to Christ. Please pay attention to next week’s bulletin, as we will be sharing our Lenten schedule of activities for you to grow in your relationship with Christ.
So what’s going to be different for you this Lent? As we move forward with the Renewal as a parish, this is a great time to renew our relationship and dedication to Jesus. Remember, faith is a choice and requires a commitment. Lent is the perfect time to ask ourselves, what is our commitment to our faith life and how is it visible to the world? All of us are called to share the joy of God’s love with others. If our parish wants a future, then all of us need to be committed and ask ourselves, what’s going to be different as we go forward? It begins with you!
Invite … share faith … share the reasons you follow Jesus …pray … fast and give alms! Now’s the perfect time to recommit. Let’s have a transforming and renewed Lent!
Keep smiling :)
Fr. Bryan
Based on Fr. Bryan’s letter from the bulletin of February 19, 2023.
As I’m sure you’re aware, we have two prayer lists in our weekly bulletin. One for ‘The Sick of Our Parish’, and the other for ’Friends and Family of Our Parishioners.’
I am hoping to update our prayer lists and attempt to keep them current. Once a name is added, it will remain on the list for one month. If you would like to add your name or the name of a close relative or friend with their permission, please call the rectory to have their name added to the list. Thank you!
Based on the bulletin of February 19, 2023.
Its time for Renewal! I am so excited that I have the opportunity to be assisting at my home parish to help us move forward with the Renewal. As I mentioned last weekend in my homily, everything needs to be on the table so we have a real understanding of how our church needs to respond. I ask you to pray for our parish and the work of the Renewal as we move forward. As a parish we have a lot of work to do to get our parish in a good position to move forward as a family. Please take note of all of the following:
1. Please pay attention to the daily Mass schedule. I will do my best to have daily Mass each week, but with my full time renewal schedule, I can’t guarantee that it will be consistent. I will update the schedule weekly until our family of parishes is able to establish a new Mass schedule.
2. Look for details, we are planning a Mardi Gras event on Tuesday, Feb. 21st (2023) in conjunction with daily Mass at our East Arcade site.
3. Ash Wednesday is fast approaching. We are making every effort to make sure all are welcome and able to attend Mass with distribution of Ashes. The schedule for Ash Wednesday (2023) is as follows: 8:30 am, Noon and 5:30 pm at the Arcade Worship site, and 7:30 pm at the East Arcade Worship Site. I want to encourage everyone to invite someone you know to begin their Lenten journey with us. This is an important time to develop and strengthen your relationship with Jesus.
4. From my conversations with people already, it is clear that not many people really know the state of our parish; how it is financially, spiritually, etc. Therefore, we will have a ‘State of the Parish Address’, on Thursday, February 23rd (2023) at 7 pm in the church at Arcade. All are welcome and encouraged to attend. I will share trends and important information on where the parish stands for the future.
5. We need to develop a Buildings and Grounds Committee for our parish. I am inviting anyone who may be interested in helping to make sure our buildings and grounds are in tip top shape as we prepare to move forward as a family of parishes. I would like to invite all interested on Tuesday, Feb 28 (2023) at 7:30 pm after the 7 pm daily Mass in East Arcade. We will meet in the rectory there.
In the midst of all of this, please take advantage of Eucharistic Adoration on Thursdays’ and Fridays’. The Church is warm, and ready for you to come and adore the Lord who is the one ultimately in charge of all that is going on.
Keep smiling 🙂
Fr. Bryan
Based on Fr. Bryan’s letter in the bulletin of February 12, 2023. Links added; year indication added “(2023)” for future viewers; emphasis added to worship site locations via underline.
Following the 7pm Mass on Tuesday, February 21, 2023 at the East Arcade Worship Site in the multipurpose room.
Refreshments will be served!
This information based on the bulletin of February 12, 2023.
Ash Wednesday is fast approaching. We are making every effort to make sure all are welcome and able to attend Mass with distribution of Ashes.
The schedule for Ash Wednesday — February 22, 2023 — is as follows:
I want to encourage everyone to invite someone you know to begin their Lenten journey with us. This is an important time to develop and strengthen your relationship with Jesus.
Excerpted from Fr. Bryan’s letter in the bulletin of February 12, 2023.
