Have you ever thought you’d like to learn how to teach English? Would you like the freedom to discover your own style—with some support? Do you have some time available to volunteer for an hour or two during a weekday morning?

The Building and Maintenance Ministry inspects each of the 11 major buildings the parish owns to make sure that we are noting any maintenance needs. The task of finding a team of 4-5 volunteers to do this task is given to each Site Committee. It will take 2-3 hours to check the referenced items and complete a reporting form.

There are young people in the RCIA process who need sponsors: people from our community willing to support and encourage them as they prepare to receive the sacraments. If you are a fully initiated Catholic aged 16 or older, you could be a sponsor for one of these young people. The time commitment is what you are willing and able to put into it.

Jesus has a special compassion for the sick and suffering. He wants us to look out for them. If you are ill or homebound, or in a retirement home or a care facility or if you know a parishioner who needs pastoral care, please contact the Pastoral Home Ministry. We will visit them, bring them Holy Communion and, if needed, offer them the Sacrament of Anointing of the Sick by one of our priests.

At the time, the steps seemed small, like keeping the doors closed when the heaters are running, reducing the thermostat heating temperature, programming the thermostats with timers, putting covers on the thermostats, changing to more efficient stoves, adding insulation where possible, closing gaps under and around doors. (The warmer weather also helped in 2014.)

What is an ambry? It is a place of honor to reserve the holy oils - Sacred Chrism, Oil of the Sick and Oil of the Catechumens - that are blessed by the bishop every year at the Chrism Mass, usually right before Triduum. The oils received at the Chrism Mass are presented