The office is closed today, 2/13/2021 due to snowy conditions for the safety of staff and visitors. Confessions at 4 pm and Mass at 5:30 pm are also cancelled. We plan to celebrate Mass at 9 am and 11:30 tomorrow. We have hired someone to plow the parking lot, but we need someone to shovel the walkway! If you can help, contact the office before 3 pm or send an email to Kathy Wickward. The 11:30 Mass will be live streamed to our Facebook page, just click on the Facebook icon below the video on the home page. We hope to post the recording here on our website shortly thereafter. Stay safe!

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.

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 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.