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Our Lady of Hope News
Dispensation from the Lenten Obligation to abstain from meat on St. Patrick's Day
Since St. Patrick's Day falls on a Friday this year, Archbishop Blair has formally dispensed those "for whom this is an especially joyful celebration from the Lenten obligation to abstain from meat that day". He encourages you to choose another day on which to transfer the Lenten abstinence.
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Soup and Stations
Every Friday in Lent! Come pray the Stations of the Cross! We will be enjoying a community soup supper in the social center at Immaculate Heart of Mary at 5:45 and praying in the church at 7. Stations will also be prayed at Immaculate Conception in New Hartford at 6.
Easter Collection -- Social Concerns Ministry
The Social Concerns Ministry of Our Lady of Hope will be collecting hams, boxed potatoes, canned vegetables and fruit, corn muffin mix, box cakes and frosting, Easter egg dye kits, candy, snack items, coffee, tea, juice, and Bisquick mix for Easter Baskets to give to at least 40 families with hams. We are also supplying 13 Easter baskets for children in the Fish Shelter. Candy especially chocolate bunnies to Friendly Hands. Fifteen hams only will be given to the Bronc Callahan Foundation and 10 hams/food baskets to Catholic Charities and our families in need we directly serve. We are giving canned pineapples, peas, carrots, beets and dessert items to the Pleasant Valley Food Bank. We are collecting tea, coffee and juice and personal items: shampoo, toothpaste, and deodorant for Hands of Grace. Gift cards for groceries would be appreciated too. Please place items in the red wagon in the front entrance of IHOM or in the bell tower and cooler (hams) of ICC. Please give members of the IHOM ministry outside the church before mass, the hams so they can be placed in the freezers on the weekends of March 18/19 and March 25/26. Baskets will be distributed to families before Palm Sunday. Thank you again for all your kindness and generosity and making our collections so successful.
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Spiritual Adoption Program -- Baby is Two Months
Your baby is making progress developing all of her external features and internal organs. Her brain is functioning at 40 days. Her mother can hear her heartbeat now on an ultrasonic stethoscope. Her milk teeth buds are present at 6 ½ weeks. And it has been reported that a two‐month old baby can suck her thumb. From this moment onward, your spiritually adopted baby grows and refines her body. But everything she needs to survive once she is born is already present by the end of the eighth week.
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Women of Hope and Faith WBS begins January 12th @7pm Social Center IHOM
This is Scripture explained as never before and will transform your view of the one book read at every Holy Mass. Featuring two-time winner of “Best Teacher” at Franciscan University of Steubenville, Dr. John Bergsma.
Yes! There’s a Workbook
· Detailed Lesson Reviews & Summaries
· Scripture passages
· Meditative Prayers
· Review & Discussion Questions for Group or Individual Study
· Ample space to take notes and journal
Contact Missy for information on joining the study and purchasing a workbook @ 860.459.6679
This Lent, in “No Greater Love,” Experience the Unconditional Love Christ Has for You
Each Lent we hear about Jesus’ passion and death, but imagine if you had never heard these stories before. Imagine experiencing them for the very fist time, and realizing that Jesus is a real person who really suffered and died for you so that we can have eternal life.
Beginning at 6:30pm at Trinita on Feb 7th, our parishes will be offering a five-part Bible study program that will help you experience Christ’s Passion and Death as you never have before. In No Greater Love, a Biblical Walk Through Christ’s Passion, we will walk step by step with Jesus through the last hours of His life on His journey from the Garden to His crucifixion on Calvary. And each step along the way, you will experience a deeper understanding and appreciation of Old Testament prophecies, biblical symbolism, historic context, and God’s immeasurable and unconditional love for you—grow closer to Jesus that you ever have before.
For more information or to register, see the Information Table in the Vestibule or contact Ken Foisie at 860-678-7922 or cfn_inc@comcast.net.
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Bereavement Ministry Needs You!
Our Lady of Hope Parish needs compassionate friends who want to offer comfort to help their fellow parishioners who are dealing with overwhelming grief by reaching out to them throughout the first year of their loss, with correspondence and/or phone calls and through ongoing prayers for them and for the repose of the souls of their departed loved ones.
If you’ve experienced the loss of loved ones, you are aware of the pain that takes hold of those left behind. Please prayerfully consider helping to bring hope to our grieving parishioners who are mourning the loss of loved ones who have been called to their new life in heaven, through the resurrection of Jesus.
For more information, or to join our Parish Bereavement Ministry, please contact Connie Burzinske at 860-496-0708, or by email at cburzins@aol.com.
RCIA
The Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults. This faith formation program is available to non-Catholic adults and young adults past the age of reasoning who wish to become members of the Catholic Church, and to Catholic adults and young adults past the age of reasoning who have not yet received the sacraments of First Eucharist and Confirmation. Classes meet on a weekly basis, and can be begun at any time. Contact Father John (860-379-5215) if you are interested. Young adults under the age of 18 must be accompanied by an adult over the age of 18.
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