RCIA (ADULT FAITH FORMATION CLASS) is held on Monday following the evening Mass at 6:00 pm in the rectory. These meetings are for those interested in becoming Catholic or learning more about the Catholic Church.

ADULT FAITH FORMATION TEAM
Many of you have attended one of the programs put on by the Adult Faith Formation Team over the past few months. We hope to continue offering more programs like these to allow members of Saint Columban's to develop better fellowship with their fellow parishioners and grow in the knowledge and understanding of their Catholic Faith.

To help better promote our programs, we have developed a website where you will be able to see information on past programs we've held, learn about and pre-register for upcoming programs, and other information. You can also sign up for email alerts so that when we schedule new events, you will be notified automatically in your email. Please go to www.scolaff.info to learn about the next event and pre-register. Be sure to share this information with those you know and bring a friend to any of the programs!

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BLUE ARMY - WORLD APOSTOLATE OF FATIMA

The prayer cell meets every Wednesday after 8:15 am Mass in the church to pray the rosary. 

In the fall, winter, and spring, a second prayer cell meets every Tuesday at 5:15pm before the 6:00 Mass in the church. It does not meet in the summer.

All are invited. The World Apostolate of Fatima is an international Public Association of the Faithful under the Pontifical Council of the Laity. Members strive to live the Fatima Message. How to live the Fatima Message: Offer up your daily sacrifices for the conversion of sinners (Morning Offering). Pray the Rosary every day. Consecrate yourself to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Wear the Brown Scapular as a sign of your consecration. Practice the Five First Saturday Communion of Reparation.

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CHOIR & MUSIC MINISTRY

PRACTICE - We meet to prepare for special Christmas and Easter Masses. We meet in the red brick building in the music room at 5:00 p.m.

Please contact contact Mary Garr, 660-646-3760, with questions or watch this website for future dates.

Our music ministry of the parish is led by our school music teacher, Mary Garr, and long-time organist, Brenda Lauhoff. So many times we hear the beautiful voices praising God and wonder who is the face behind the voice.

Louise Tate and Brenda Fellhoelter lend their voices to lead us at 5:00 Saturday and 10:00 Sunday Mass, and Marla Laidler gives us her musical ability playing the keyboard. A variety of people have made up the choir in the past, and we hope we haven't left anyone out! Our choir in addition to those mentioned above: Brenda O'Halloran (holidays); Ryan Colter (holidays); Chelsea Wade Ashdown (holidays); Olivia Lauhoff (Christmas); the Holland young men; Daniel Alford (Christmas); Kathy Carlton (Christmas); Jeanine Wheeler (at times); David Martin (at times); and Janet Schreiner (holidays).

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FINANCE

Finance Committee Members: Theresa Kelly, John Marcolla, Frank Schottel, Bob Conrad

WEEKLY OFFERING

May 12
Offertory $8,685
Property Maint. $55
Birthright $225

April Income/Expense

Income $105,528
Expense 72,245
Income over (under) Expense
$33,283

If you did not pick up your 2018 Year End Statements of Charitable Contributions and need one for your tax return, please contact the church office.

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KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS

KNIGHTS NEWS (& Ladies Auxiliary)
The Knights had their monthly meeting May 7 . The following items were discussed:

• Brian Widner became the newest Knight to our council this last Sunday. Welcome Brian!
• It was voted on to sponsor a young man to Boys State this coming summer.
• Our golf tournament will be June 22 this year. Contact Joe or Kevin if you have any questions. Get those teams together.
• The June 3 meeting with the auxiliary will be a fish fry dinner.
• Had Mike Boon been present, he would have won the $500 drawing.

KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS GOLF TOURNAMENT

Held each June at the Green Hills Golf Course (660-646-6669). Our golf tournament will be June 22 in 2019. Contact Joe or Kevin if you have any questions. Get those teams together.

MONTHLY PARISH POT LUCK - Held the first Wednesday of the month at the Knights of Columbus Hall at 6:00 p.m. followed by the Rosary for Vocations at 7:00 p.m. in the church. All parishioners are encouraged to attend. Please bring your own table service and a favorite dish or two to share. Drinks provided.

KNIGHTS HALL RENTAL FEES: $275 for evening and $80 for afternoon rentals (located at 919 Easton Street, Chillicothe, Missouri)

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MARY'S GARDEN

In the Spring, work begins in our beautiful Mary's Garden! The Garden Committee meets to prune, weed, trim, plant, and water the garden. Typically, we work till mid September. We usually have a work day right before the Fall Festival and ask a few men to help trim trees, shrubs, cut back peonies and such larger jobs. Otherwise, our work during summer is weeding, watering, planting and dependant on weather... we don't work if it's over 95 or so or after rain when it's muddy. We do need helpers for pond and mowing that area. We don't work in winter, but someone clears snow. Please join us to keep Mary's Garden looking well kept and beautiful! Thank you!

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PRAYER CHAIN

Please email us with your requests to have us pray for your needs...

If you do not have a need, but would like to be added to our Prayer Chain list to pray for those in need, please email us. You may also call your request in to Alice Van Dyke, 660-646-1487.

PRAYER CHAIN POLICIES: Our church policy, decided by the priest and the parish prayer chain committee when we established the email portion of the chain in 2010, is that we do not publish prayer chain requests on our website, nor do we put them on Facebook, in order to protect the privacy of the individuals. We leave that up to the family members of the people involved. We let the person requesting the prayers, usually a family member or close friend, tell us what information to share. We are careful to pass on to the people who pray only the information or names we are given permission to share. Anyone from the parish is welcome to join our prayer chain and receive the prayer requests either through the telephone tree or through the email group.

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ST. ANN'S ALTAR SOCIETY

The St. Ann's Altar Society meets every 2nd Thursday of each month. All ladies of the parish are invited to join this group.

Salad Luncheon - June Each Year
The annual salad luncheon is held in June each year in the Bishop Hogan gym. The proceeds go to supplies for the church altar and for funeral dinners. In 2019, the date is Thursday, June 6, from 11 to 1, $8.00 in the Bishop Hogan School - Tickets may be purchased at the door; To- go boxes will be available.

This is their only fund raiser of the year. Proceeds are used to buy liturgical supplies for the church, such as hosts, wine, altar candles, vestments and sacred vessels. Without the donations and support from our entire parish, the salad luncheon would not be a success. The weekends of May 18 & 19 and 25 & 26, Altar Society members will have a sign up after each Mass for fruit, vegetable, potato, and pasta salads. deviled eggs and pies. Please take a moment and let them know what you can bring. If you are unable to bring a food item, a monetary donation is welcome - please let them know. If we do not get enough items volunteered those weekends, we will have members call for the items needed. If you will be out of town or see that we called and missed you, please return the call to Kathleen Pfaff, 660-646-6612. We greatly appreciate your support. We serve approx. 400 meals. We have boxes for anyone that needs meals to go. Tickets are $ 8 each and may be purchased from any St. Ann member or Lauhoff Jewelry, Chillicothe Plumbing, the church office, or at the door.

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