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SPECIAL MASS EVENTS:

ASCENSION AND ASSUMPTION SOLEMNITIES

• The celebration of the Ascension of our Lord (Ascension Thursday), until further notice in our ecclesiastical province, is celebrated on the Seventh Sunday of Easter.
• Celebrated every year on August 15, the Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary commemorates the death of Mary and her bodily assumption into Heaven, before her body could begin to decay - a foretaste of our own bodily resurrection at the end of time. Because it signifies the Blessed Virgin's passing into eternal life, it is the most important of all Marian feasts and a Holy Day of Obligation.

EUCHARISTIC ADORATION
FIRST FRIDAY ADORATION - Every First Friday of the month, we offer Eucharistic Adoration following the 8:15 a.m. Mass and ending at 5pm. In order that the Eucharist is never left alone when exposed, every time slot needs to have AT LEAST two adorers signed up. That way, when someone can't make their time and cannot find a substitute, someone is still there. The time slots are for 30 minutes, except for the first slot which begins whenever Mass is finished and ends at 9:30. If you would like to sign up for a slot or multiple slots, please contact Kim with your preferred time(s) and a current phone number. Our current Adoration Schedule is available here on the website.

MASS INTENTION POLICY - In keeping with Canon Law: 1) an intention requested for a Mass, must be fulfilled in a year's time of accepting the stipend; 2) the customary stipend amount is $10 per Mass; 3) only one request may be accepted per Mass.

WHY A MONETARY DONATION?
There are a number of rules and canons applying to this to ensure it's done for the right reasons. Historically and firstly a monetary offering or similar was given by the person requesting the Mass said for an intention because this was in part what a priest lived off of (i.e. Eat and drink what is set before you for the laborer deserves his payment. Lk. 10:7). In most places in the world now, it's the parish that receives it not the priest. In order to make sure the practice of receiving a donation per Mass intention wasn't abused, it became the practice that a Mass was said for one intention only so that multiple donations wouldn't be collected and easily consolidated into only having to say one Mass. Secondly and primarily, the giving of something concrete and tangible (in our diocese $10 per Mass intention) represents an offering\contribution of ourself along with the Mass we have requested to be said. This idea of gift and contributing to the worship of God is reflected in the words of Jesus when He says: if you bring your gift to the altar, and there recall that your brother has anything against you, leave your gift there at the altar, go first and be reconciled with your brother, and then come and offer your gift. (Mt. 5:23-24). It also is a means by which a person contributes to furthering the necessary and salvific work of the Church. Symbolically, we also express this notion of giving of ourself and contributing to our worship of God when the priest says at Mass "lift up your hearts," we respond by saying "we lift them up to the Lord."

LOW GLUTEN HOSTS AVAILABLE - If you need to receive a low gluten host for communion, please notify Father before Mass.

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