Young Adults! Are you discerning a Call to be a Sister or a Priest? What does your heart desire? The National Religious Vocation Conference is hosting a Young Adult “Encounter” Retreat on April 14, 2018 from 2:00 – 8:00pm at the Dominican Sisters Center in San Rafael.

In the past year we have lost quite a few ministers due to age and illness. We now have approximately 16 ministers. We visit clients weekly in their homes and in several nursing and retirement homes: Lytton Gardens, Palo Alto Sub-Acute and Convalescent Home, Channing House, Vi Living, Sunrise, Palo Alto Commons and Avant.

For those working through this challenging change or healing from the past, we have a weekly group that focuses on fellowship, support, discussion and prayer. Newcomers please contact debrancarpenter@gmail.com before attending.

Fr. Matthew D. Stanley's 8 years in office as the sixth pastor of St. Thomas Aquinas Parish will conclude on June 30, 2018. He has accepted Bishop McGrath’s request to become the third pastor of St. Francis of Assisi Parish in San Jose on July 1, 2018. Concurrently, Bishop McGrath has appointed Fr. Estanislao Mikalonis as the seventh pastor of St. Thomas Aquinas Parish effective on July 1, 2018. Fr. Anthony Nguyen has been assigned as a Parochial Vicar at St. Thomas Aquinas Parish effective July 1, 2018.

Mothers Prayers was formed to help those mothers who wished to pray together for their children and grandchildren and to find the support they needed. We pray together at Our Lady of the Rosary Church, every THURSDAY morning, at 9am, after 8:30 a.m. morning Mass. Any question, contact Isabelle Peltier isa.usa1980@gmail.com

An Eastern Catholic Retreat with Bishop John Kudrick: "Seeking the Hidden God" May 11-13, 2018 - Mt. Cross Ministries in Ben Lomond, CA For more info or to register, contact Fr. Anthony Hernandez of St. Basil the Great Byzantine Catholic Church pastor.stbasil@gmail.com or (408) 871-0919 Deadline for registration is April 4, 2018

Over the next three weekends, the Third, Fourth, and Fifth Sundays of Lent at the 10:30 am Mass at Our Lady of the Rosary, we will celebrate the rites of penance and purification with our elect who are preparing to receive the sacraments of initiation at the Easter Vigil. The purpose of these rites is to uncover all that would lead them away from Christ, so that they might be able to come to a full Christian life. The support of a parish community is vital to this process. At the same time, these brief rites call us, the baptized, to uproot the sin in our lives to be more faithful to our own baptism.