From Ashes to Glory: A Virtual Lenten Retreat with Dan Schutte

Stay at home and make a Lenten retreat on your own time with eighteen music reflection videos by Dan Schutte. Access to the videos will last from Ash Wednesday through Palm Sunday.

At the end of the retreat, you’ll have the option to join a virtual Zoom conversation with Dan and others like yourself who’ve done the retreat.

Registration includes a downloadable retreat workbook/journal to help you reflect on your experience and offer you a place to keep notes if you find that helpful

Registration fee is $100 per person. Registration fees go directly to Dan Schutte Music and do not benefit St. John the Baptist. The link below will take you to the retreat website.

https://sjtbcc.org/from-ashes-to-glory-a-virtual-lenten-retreat-with-dan-schutte/

We Need Five Minutes

FIVE MINUTES

Five minutes is all we are asking. In the next week you will be receiving a letter from the parish. We are asking everyone to let us know if we have your correct phone number, email and names of people living in your home. We need this information as the archdiocese is moving to a new database system.

All you need to do is to review your information, make corrections as needed and then place the letter in the postage paid envelope and return it in the mail to the parish. Thanks!

Ash Wednesday February 17

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Ash Wednesday is February 17. This marks the first day of Lent, our Catholic season of penance and preparation for Easter. Join us for one of the following services:

- 9 am Mass and Ashes
- 5:30 pm Liturgy of the Word and Ashes (no communion)
- 7 pm Mass and Ashes

Registration is required. Please register at https://sjtbcc.org/mass-registration/. Anyone who comes may receive ashes. As a precaution during the pandemic please bow your head and the ashes will be sprinkled on your hair.

Ash Wednesday is a holy day of fasting and abstinence for adults ages 18-59. Church law specifies that a fast allows one full meal plus two smaller meals that together would not make a full meal.

If you would like to learn more about Lent and Ash Wednesday, please click here for our Faith Formation newsletter!

We will also have ashes available during office hours (9 am to 3 pm). An Ash Minister will be available to give you ashes.

In Parish Assistance

Justice

Did you know that we have funds set aside for parishioners in need? We want to make sure that we are there for when you might need a bit of support whether it’s for a power bill, housing cost, or other unexpected expense. These funds are available to all our parish families and are confidential. If you find yourself struggling to make ends meet, please let us know. You can call the parish office or let a staff member know and we will make sure to do what we can to help you through this time.

Cast all your worries upon him because he cares for you. 1 Pet 5:7

Faith and Racial Healing Groups Starting Soon

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Do you want to learn how to advocate for racial healing within your family, church, and community? Join us!

Faith & Racial Healing: Embracing Truth, Justice and Restoration is an eight-session program that guides participants in telling the truth about the history of racism in the United States, that we might work toward true reconciliation with God and restoration with one another. Faith and Racial Healing is presented through the lens of the Christian tradition and is the second program in JustFaith Ministries’ racial justice series.

This program consists of eight 2½ hour sessions, including prayer, active listening, and relationship-building. Though Faith and Racial Healing focuses specifically on African Slaves and their descendants, it also opens participants’ eyes to patterns of injustice that affect other people of color as well. As with all JustFaith programs, participants explore how their faith should inform their response to their learning, as well as discern action steps for working toward racial healing in their own communities.

For more information & to sign up, visit tinyurl.com/sjtbracialhealing.

Kathy Wickward

From Ashes to Glory: A Virtual Lenten Retreat with Dan Schutte

Stay at home and make a Lenten retreat on your own time with eighteen music reflection videos by Dan Schutte. Access to the videos will last from Ash Wednesday through Palm Sunday.

At the end of the retreat, you’ll have the option to join a virtual Zoom conversation with Dan and others like yourself who’ve done the retreat.

Registration includes a downloadable retreat workbook/journal to help you reflect on your experience and offer you a place to keep notes if you find that helpful

Registration fee is $100 per person. Registration fees go directly to Dan Schutte Music and do not benefit St. John the Baptist. The link below will take you to the retreat website.