Common Cup Ministry is collecting donations for their 2022 Back to School Drive! Join us in giving every child the opportunity to succeed! Donations can be made through August 5th! Our parish is asked to collect the following items:

• 20 backpacks
• 50 #2pencils – 24 CT
• 100 large Pink Erasers
• 35 Prang Watercolors
• Cash Donations

Common Cup Ministry thanks you for your support! If you have additional questions, please visit :  https://www.common-cup.org/back-to-school-drive. Thank you!

Exciting News! Christmas at Vacation Bible School is coming May 31^st through June 3^rd!  Come live the joy of the birth of Jesus with a week of celebrations!

If you have a child 4 years or older, we invite you to join us during this special time in Christ!  Vacation Bible School will take place Tuesday through Thursday from 5:30 to 7:00 pm. The cost is $30 per family. Registration is now open, so please be sure to sign-up early! You can return your registration form to Jen Eckstein after weekly Mass!

We are also looking for volunteers to help us sign up parents; middle school (entering 7th grade) and high school students are highly encouraged to join!  If you have any questions, please contact Jed Eckstein at [email protected]. We look forward to having you with us! Thank you!

St. Anastasia and St. Boniface church invite you to join us for Easter Triduum beginning this Thursday! Holy Week and Easter weekend have always been very special and sacred times for our church. As we end the Lenten season, we look forward to gathering with our church family to celebrate Easter weekend and the resurrection of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Blessings to you!

Easter Triduum and Easter Sunday Schedule: 

Holy Thursday

 April 14: 5 pm – St. Boniface | 7 pm – St. Anastasia

Good Friday

April 15: 3 pm – St. Anastasia | 5 pm – St. Anastasia -Stations of the Cross | 7 pm – St. Boniface

 Holy Saturday (Easter Vigil)

April 16: 8 pm – St. Anastasia

 Easter Sunday

 April 17: 7 & 11 am -St. Anastasia | 9am – St. Boniface

“He is not here; for He is risen, as He said. Come, see the place where the Lord lay.”

 

-Matthew 28:6

 

Please join us in person for Holy Week ! St. Anastasia and St. Boniface welcome you to fellowship with us during this special time of new beginning as we celebrate the end of the Lenten season and Easter weekend! We look forward to gathering with you as we worship together and sing songs of praise! All are welcome to attend!

Holy Week Schedule:

Palm Sunday
April 9 &10 | Weekend Schedule

Holy Thursday Mass
April 14th | 5 PM St. Boniface | 7 PM St. Anastasia

Good Friday Service
April 15th |3 PM St. Anastasia | 7 PM ST. Boniface

Stations of the Cross
April 15th | 5 PM

Easter Vigil Mass
April 16th | 8 PM St. Anastasia

Easter Sunday Mass
April 17th
7AM & 11AM St. Anastasia | 9AM St. Boniface

“ Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.”

 

1 Peter 1:3

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As we enter this beautiful season of Lent, our prayer is that your walk with Christ will be strengthened and renewed. As followers of Christ, we must continue to be more like him and allow his light to shine through us. During this time, let us also continue to pray that He will bring peace to this world, and the hearts of so many who need to feel his unconditional love.

Lenten is a season of celebration, it’s a season of love, and it’s a season of new beginning. It is a blessing to gather together for another year with our St. Anastasia church family to welcome the Lenten season!

ANNOUNCEMENTS & UPCOMING EVENTS

Mass and Stations of the Cross will be offered on Wednesdays and Fridays during the Lenten season with a simple meal to follow.

On Wednesdays, Into His Likeness will be offered and on Fridays, Seven Deadly Sins/Seven Lively Virtues will be offered for an Adult Education opportunity after Mass. Descriptions are found below.

Into His Likeness

In the ancient disciple-rabbi relationship, the disciple would follow the rabbi so closely that he would be covered in the dust kicked up from his rabbi’s feet. Thousands of years later, though we walk on roads of pavement and not dust, we are still called to be disciples—to follow our Rabbi, Jesus Christ, so closely that we are covered with his life, changed, and made new.

But this transformation in Christ doesn’t happen overnight. In this series, Edward Sri reminds us of two basic truths: First, (A) The truth of our human condition: we are full of many weaknesses, wounds, and sins. And second, (B) The truth of our high calling—we are called to be perfected in God’s love and transformed in Christ. Living as a disciple is all about the process of getting from A to B.

Seven Deadly Sins

Join Bishop Robert Barron for this engaging presentation concerning the seven deadly sins, those great spiritual blocks that inhibit our flourishing in relationship with God and one another. Based on Dante’s writings, the seven deadly sins correspond to the seven stories of Dante’s Mt. Purgatory. Pride, envy, anger, sloth, gluttony, avarice and lust are all presented as patterns of dysfunction within us that lead to unhappiness.

However, Bishop Barron shows us how to counteract these seven sinful patterns through a conscious process of opposition, which are the “seven lively virtues.” The seven lively virtues offer antidotes to each sin and help set us on the right path to healing and happiness.

We wait in hope for the Lord; he is our help and our shield. In him our hearts rejoice, for we trust in his holy name. May your unfailing love be with us, Lord, even as we put our hope in you. Psalm 33:20-22