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.
https://sjtbcc.org/from-ashes-to-glory-a-virtual-lenten-retreat-with-dan-schutte/
Lenten Calendar 2021
Prepare for a fruitful lenten season with these resources
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Stations of the Cross
Catholic Relief Services
"Walk alongside Christ on the journey of his Passion and remember our brothers and sisters both around the world and in our own cities who experience suffering and poverty each day."
Vatican – Meditations from Padua Prison
"The meditations on the Stations of the Cross this year were prepared by the chaplaincy of the "Due Palazzi" House of Detention in Padua. Fourteen people were invited by Pope Francis to meditate on the Passion of our Lord Jesus Christ, bringing it to bear on their own situations. Those invited included five prisoners, a family that was the victim of a murder, the daughter of a man given a life sentence, a prison teacher, a civil magistrate, the mother of a prisoner, a catechist, a volunteer religious brother, a prison guard and a priest who was accused and then finally acquitted after eight years in the justice system. Accompanying Christ on the Way of the Cross, with the raw voices of those who live behind the walls of a prison, is an opportunity to view the great battle between life and death, to discover how the threads of good and evil inevitably intertwine. Contemplating Calvary from behind bars is to believe that an entire life can be played out in a few moments, as happened to the good thief."
Via Cruces en Español
Vía crucis con las Estaciones comentadas e ilustradas
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CRS Rice Bowl
CRS Rice Bowl is the Lenten program of Catholic Relief Services, the official relief and development agency of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. Through CRS Rice Bowl, faith communities in dioceses throughout the United States put their faith into action through prayer, fasting and almsgiving. Lenten alms donated through CRS Rice Bowl support the work of CRS in more than 100 different countries each year. Twenty-five percent of donations to CRS Rice Bowl stay in the local diocese, supporting hunger and poverty alleviation efforts. Since its inception in 1975, CRS Rice Bowl has raised nearly $300 million. Each year, 25% of donations collected in the Seattle Archdiocese remain in the community to assist with food insecurity on a local level. Pregnancy Aid, the Storehouse, and St. Vincent de Paul have all benefited from grants through the CRS Rice Bowl.
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
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:
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- 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.
Faith and Racial Healing Groups Starting Soon
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.
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