Highlights

• Ash Wednesday Masses:  9:15 am  including School Community & 7 pm
• Ecumenical Mid-Week Lenten Service…. Kick off with Holy Family March 1st
• Spring Alpha!  Starting March 8th, see details below
• Income Tax Receipts are ready for pickup.  Please help us save postage and pick yours up in our Narthex.
• New Photo Directory – we look forward to having you included in the new photo directory!  Participate to receive your FREE photo directory!  We will be at Holy Family church starting March 14th.  Click here to participate    or call for your appointment toll free at 1-888-769-7339 (Ext 1)  speak with Brenda.  Soon we will be placing invitation calls out to those who have not yet booked.  If you do not want to receive a call, please let the parish office know.

Enrolment for Confirmation & First Communion

All Parents with children in Gr. 7  and Gr. 2  are asked to consider enrolment for the Sacraments of Confirmation or First Reconciliation & First Communion.  Enrolment for these Sacraments for 2023 is Sunday, March 5th following the 9 am Mass.  It will be a short meeting and time to complete enrolment forms.  Details about the preparation and celebrations of the Sacraments will be given out at this Enrolment.

Ash Wednesday:  A day of fast & Abstinence

Intensify your prayer!  Everyone is encouraged to intensify your prayer for World Peace.   We must examine our own lives, repent and pray for God’s mercy which is so greatly needed.  Let us live in hope and confidence,  rejecting fear yet doing all we can to pray and offer penance in reparation of our own, and world sin.

Attending weekday Mass / Adoration & taking time for daily prayer, devotions and reflecting on scripture are all ways we can move forward in our prayer life.

Spring Alpha 

 A video series about life’s biggest questions!  Join the conversation on Wed. March 8th at 6 pm

Mid-Week Lenten Ecumenical Services   

Note:  Time Change:  2 pm Wednesdays

March 1 – March 29th  Held each week at St. Matthews Evangelical Lutheran Church.   We (Holy Family) are the sharing the hosting on the first week March 1st.  Coffee, tea & fellowship follow the service.

CWL Change for Charity Collection

Monthly the CWL will set a jar in the Narthex for anyone who would like to help donation towards the Saugeen Hospice.  It will be out this weekend, but then normally the 2nd Second Sunday each Month.  At year end the CWL will send in a cheque for the year’s contributions.  We will keep you informed on the growing donation.

World Day of Prayer   Friday, March 3rd at 2 pm at Grace United Church, Hanover  This service is organized by church in the Hanover Ministerial Association.    The invitation is out for everyone, men, women and children of all ages to celebrate the theme, “I have heard about your faith”  We hope you can join us for this meaningful and shared prayer service, written by the World Day of Prayer committee of Taiwan

40 days for Life starting Ash Wednesday  Read more here

Healing retreat in Milton

Sat. March 4th at Holy Rosary Parish    Registration in advance is required.  For more info and to register go to https://www.regnumchristiontario.org/event-details/healing-retreat-whole-again

Earthquake & Relief Efforts

Special Collection Envelopes will be available next weekend   Click here for more info

Adoration Chapel

Weather permitting, our chapel operates from Mondays at 9 am continuous until Thursday at 9 pm, (less a 6 hours during Tues. midnight – 6 am)    Daytime visitors welcome or speak with Don about committing to a specific hour.  Chapel Coordinator:  Don Waechter  364-1185.

Invitation:  Tying Quilts for the Missions

We are tying quilts every Monday during the winter months, from 1:00 pm to 4 :00 pm at the Carlsruhe Church Hall.  Everyone is welcome!  Any more information needed please call Anne Schwan 519-367-5466 or Cathy Weber 519-881-1448

Card Party on Tuesday Afternoons  – All are welcome 

Join with others for a friendly game of euchre or solo on Tuesdays at 1:30 pm, in the Holy Family Lenhard Room.  All are welcome, bring a friend.  $2.  Admittance

Note: Sacred Heart Church Walkerton holds their Card Party on Thursdays at 1:30 pm in the Walkerton Church Hall

This Sunday’s Gospel

Matthew 5: 38-48

Discussion Questions

· Have you ever experienced love and kindness when you were being ‘difficult’ shall we say to that person?

· Have you been the recipient to a random act of kindness by an unknown person?

· How did these experiences altar your behaviour?  Did it create a desire in you to also treat others with greater compassion?

· How can we use such opportunities as a means of evangelization?

This Week’s Schedule & Mass Intentions