Come celebrate St. Patrick's a few days early! After the Saturday 5pm Mass we'll gather for a FUN Potluck Dinner. If the A-L families will bring some kind of salad and the M-Z families will bring potatoes or a vegetable, we'll provide the rest! Please RSVP to 598-3595 so we know how much we'll need - see you then!

Lent began with the distribution of ashes. Have you been spending time with the Lord daily? Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament is every Thursday from 7:30am - 8:00pm.

Come spend time on the Fridays during Lent; we start at 5:30pm with Evening Prayer in the Sanctuary, followed by either a Fish Fry or Soup Supper downstairs, then the Stations of the Cross back in the Sanctuary. Fish Fry dates by Knights of Columbus:  3/12 and 3/26. The Soup Suppers are sponsored by our ministries.

Pray with those going thru the RCIA process:
March   7 - 9:30am Mass - The First Scrutiny
March 14 - 9:30am Mass - The Second Scrutiny
March 21 - 9:30am Mass - The Third Scrutiny

March 14 - 11:30am Mass - RCIA Rite of Full Communion for those who are ready to receive Eucharist and Confirmation.

The St. Pat’s Social Concerns Committee is offering Engaging Spirituality, a 21-week intensive adult program in spirituality and social justice. Weekly gatherings began on Monday, October 12th, from 6:30 – 8:45pm; immersion experiences and retreats are part of this 21-week program, which connects faith and spirituality to social justice.

Courage in Giving...Living in Faith

St. Patrick's kicked off the Capital Campaign in May, 2009. We listened to your requests and researched our needs. We assessed our current financial status and we're making plans for the next 5 years. Our offertory wasn’t keeping up with our demands and we still had a debt of $1.3 million. We believe that by working together over the next 3 years, we can plan for the next 5 years and beyond.  Just think of what we could do if we used that money for ministry and outreach.

Our message for 2010 is "The Work of Faith" taken from James 2:15--17:  "If a brother or sister has nothing to wear and has no food for the day, and one of you says to them, "Go in peace, keep warm, and eat well," but you do not give them the necessities of the body, what good is it?  So also faith of itself, if it does not have works, is dead."

The Returning God's Gifts  appeal provides funds necessary to support over 30 charitable and educational programs throughout the diocese, in addition to providing for the formation of our next generation of priests.  You can make your commitment online at www.returninggodsgifts.org.

Please open your hearts and your checkbooks to help those in need!

Our parish is pleased to announce that we are now offering Online Giving thru Our Sunday Visitor.  Just click on the DONATE NOW button and it will take you step by step thru the process. Once you set up your registration form, you can designate how you want your gift applied. It will be transferred conveniently from your bank account or your credit card account directly to our parish. It's that simple!

Your gift will go farther than ever, allowing our parish to reduce administrative costs, plan future projects with greater efficiency, and spend more time on ministry, less on envelopes and contribution recording.

No more envelopes or check writing!  Thank you for your participation!

Feb 27 at 6:15pm - Join us in a discussion of Matthew Kelly's book "Rediscovering Catholicism". We will discuss chapters 6-11.

Mar 7-10 - Parish Lenten Mission - Deacon Norman Carroll of Ft. Lauderdale FL will speak at the weekend Masses as well as the evenings on Sun-Wed; the topic will be the "Embracing Scripture" - it will be a power-packed mission.

Men, don’t miss it! The 2010 Rocky Mountain Catholic Men’s Conference will take place 8:30AM to 4:30PM March 20 at Pikes Peak Center in downtown Colorado Springs.  Read more about this dynamic conference in the January 15th Catholic Herald article!  Register at www.RockyMountainCatholicMensConference.com  For more information contact Kathy Bull at the Diocese 719.636.2345.

"When you take part in the Liturgy by carrying out your altar service, you offer a witness to all. Your absorption, the devotion that wells up from your heart and is expressed in gestures, in song, in the responses: if you do it correctly and not absent-mindedly, then in a certain way your witness is one that moves people."

Pope Benedict XVI addressing altar servers on August 2, 2006