Parish Announcements and Flyers:
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1. The ushers will now take the second collection for Catholic Home Missions. Thank you for all your donations! 2. Tomorrow/Today, for Divine Mercy Sunday, we will have Confession at 2 PM and Adoration at 3 PM, and then we will have a second Adoration with the Assumption Youth Group at 7 PM. See the poster for more information. 3. There will be a Memorial Mass for Pope Francis on Tuesday, April 29 at 5:30 PM at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Heart of Mary in Las Cruces. Fr. Jarek will be attending this Mass. If you would like to accompany him, he has room for a couple of people. Please call the parish office no later than Monday if you are interested in going. Due to the secretary also going to the Mass, the office will be closed at noon on Tuesday and will reopen at 8 AM on Wednesday. 4. If you haven’t turned in your CRS Rice Bowls yet, please bring them to the parish office or place them in the collection. They are due by the weekend of May 4. 5. Starting in May, we will meet at St. Mary’s Grotto for the 7 PM Adoration, where the Catholic Daughters will lead a procession into the church. The Crowning of Mary will be on the last Thursday of the month. 6. Next Sunday, we will celebrate First Holy Communion in the parish. Please pray for the children from our parish and All Saints Catholic School and their families. 7. We will be holding a volunteer meeting for VBS on May 8 at 6:30 PM in the parish hall. If you would like to volunteer, please plan on attending. 8. Please see the poster in the back of the church for information about MatanzaFest, which is put on by a local nonprofit to raise money for education in Chaves County.
1. The Knights of Columbus will hold their annual Easter Egg Hunt tomorrow/today at 2 PM. Bring your kids, up to the age of ten, to the parish hall. 2. There will be no youth group this Sunday so that families can spend time together for Easter. 3. Please return your donations for Catholic Relief Services Rice Bowls in the Sunday Mass collections, send them with your children to Youth Faith Formation classes, or take them to the Church office. You can either bring the cash you have been collecting or write a check to Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary Catholic Church. Please mark your donations for CRS Rice Bowl. Thank you to all who have chosen CRS Rice Bowls for your Lenten almsgiving! 4. We’ll have an extra Mass in the Day Chapel on Wednesday, April 23, at 4 PM, during which a few NMMI cadets will be confirmed. All parishioners are welcome to participate. 5. On Divine Mercy Sunday, April 27, we will have Adoration in the church at 3 PM. 6. Next weekend, we will have the second collection for Catholic Home Missions, which provides funds for a wide range of pastoral services, including evangelization, religious education, and the maintenance of mission parishes, the training of seminarians and lay ministers, and ministry with ethnic groups. Our own diocese benefits from the appeal that is happening in churches throughout the country. Thank you for all your donations!
1. If you ordered candles and essential oils from the Assumption Youth Group, don’t forget to pick them up at the parish office. Thank you for your support! 2. On Tuesday and Wednesday during Holy Week, Fr. Jarek plans to visit our sick parishioners who can’t come to the church. If you know a sick person who needs a home visit, please call the parish office on Monday. 3. We will have the Lenten Reconciliation Service on Monday, April 14 at 6 PM in the church. Thirteen priests will be available to hear confessions. 4. The Holy Week schedule is available on the bulletin boards, on Facebook, and on the parish website. 5. On Good Friday, we will take the collection for the Holy Land. This fund supports the Holy Places, especially for those pastoral, charitable, educational, and social works which the Church supports in the Holy Land for the welfare of our Christian brethren and of the local communities. 6. The Knights of Columbus will hold their annual Easter Egg Hunt on Easter Sunday at 2 PM. Bring your kids up to the age of ten to the parish hall. 7. The parish office will be closed for Good Friday and will open again on the Monday after Easter.
