Announcements

Registrations for First Holy Communion are now available in the parish office and bookstore. They will be due on Sun, Jan 7. Classes will begin on Sun, Jan 14. Fr. McWhirter will be teaching the classes this year.

Veritas, our young adult group, meets this Tues, Oct 17, at 7 pm.

Please keep the FSSP in your prayers this Wed, Oct 18, which is the thirty-fifth anniversary of our founding.

Sam Phillips, the Director of Admissions for Christendom College will give a presentation in Classroom 3 on Wed, Oct 18, at 7 pm. It will last for about an hour and a half.

The Altar Guild meets this Sat, Oct 21.

The All Hallows Eve Party is returning on Tues, Oct 31. We now have the schedule:

▪ 4:30 pm Parade of the Saints

▪ 5:30 pm Litany of the Saints in the Church

▪ 6:00 pm Holy Mass

▪ 7:00 pm Dinner (hot dogs and pot-luck chili)

▪ 7:30 pm Children’s Activities

▪ 9:30 pm Clean-up

Novena for the Dead. In November, the parish will offer nine Masses for the repose of the soul of our parishioners as well as their friends, family, and benefactors. Envelopes are now available in the vestibule – submitted names will be placed in a cloth envelope that is kept on the gradine of the altar for the duration of November.

Women’s Recollection. We will be hosting a day of recollection for the women of the parish on Sat, Nov 11. Registration forms for the recollection are available in the parish bookstore and office. Registration is due by Sun, Nov 5.

▪ 8:30 am Holy Mass

▪ 9:30 am Coffee & Snack in the Parish Hall

▪ 10:00 am First Conference in the Church

▪ 11:00 am Second Conference in the Church

▪ 12:00 pm Lunch in the Parish Hall

▪ 1:00 pm Holy Rosary

▪ 1:30 pm Third Conference in the Church

▪ 2:30 pm Holy Hour & Confessions

▪ 3:30 pm Benediction & Dismissal

Marriage Workshop. On Sat, Jan 27, after the noon Mass, Fr Curtis will be providing an afternoon workshop for marriage. There will be three conferences on the following topics: weighing the options for education; difference modes of fathers and mothers relating to children; the hierarchy of the family and the virtuous exercise of authority; the different vulnerabilities of husbands and wives in marriage; and others, also question and answer.

▪ 12:00 pm Holy Mass

▪ 1:00 pm Lunch (bring your own)

▪ 1:30 pm First Conference

▪ 2:30 pm Second Conference

▪ 3:30 pm Coffee Break

▪ 3:45 pm Third Conference

▪ 4:45 pm Optional Q & A

Some of the young adult ladies of the parish have graciously agreed to provide childcare, with some organized activities, on the classroom side of the property for younger children during the Marriage Workshop.

40 Days for Life began on Sept 27 and will continue until Nov 5. Consider signing up at:

https://www.40daysforlife.com/en/sacramento/