Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Monday, March 9, 2009
The Aaron Project
The Aaron Project, a Grief Support ministry of St. Joseph’s Catholic Church, presents a 3 part 
Grief Seminar called, Footprints on Our Hearts. Footprints on Our Hearts offers ways to cope with the feelings of grief, guilt, hurt, helplessness, and deep sorrow that one experiences with a loss of a child through miscarriage, stillborn or infant loss. Appropriate for families after their baby dies in the days and weeks that follow to offer encouragement, understanding and hope for the future.
Grief Seminar called, Footprints on Our Hearts. Footprints on Our Hearts offers ways to cope with the feelings of grief, guilt, hurt, helplessness, and deep sorrow that one experiences with a loss of a child through miscarriage, stillborn or infant loss. Appropriate for families after their baby dies in the days and weeks that follow to offer encouragement, understanding and hope for the future.Please plan to attend the next 2 sessions on March 12 and March 26 from 7-8 in St. Joseph’s Conference room.
For more info, questions or RSVP, contact Susan Hayward @ 628-2840.
There will be someone there to translate to Spanish if needed. This class is for friends as well as family of people who have lost a child. It will help you know what to say or do if this happens to someone close to you.
Saturday, March 7, 2009
Love your parish
Our church is the place where we come together as a community to love and praise God. It is the holy place where we gather strength to support one another in the task of living the gospel. It is the place where we comeprivately to enter into intimate conversation with God. In this building many prodigal sons and daughters have met the merciful Lord in the Sacrament of Reconciliation and been welcomed back to our community. In this building tears have been shed by those in pain and grief. Let’s look around our church this morning and treasure it. Respect it as you would your most prized possession and teach that respect to your children. Take ownership, if you see something wrong make sure that the staff knows about it so it can be corrected or go that extra step and help us correct it. When we pass our church, we might take the time to make a brief visit. Let us make our church even more of a holy place by adding our prayers and songs to parish worship and offering our time and talents in the various ministries.
Prayer of intercession
O Blessed Trinity, we thank you for having graced the church with Pope John Paul II and for allowing the tenderness of your fatherly care, the glory of the cross of Christ, and the splendor of the Holy Spirit, to shine through him. Trusting fully in your infinite mercy and in the maternal intercession of Mary, he has given us a living image of Jesus the Good Shepherd, and has shown us that holiness is the necessary measure of ordinary Christian life and is the way of achieving eternal communion with you. Grant us, by his intercession, and according to your will, the graces we implore, hoping that he will soon be numbered among your saints.
Amen.
Official prayer to ask favors through the intercession Pope John Paul II
March Birthdays
The Women of St. Joe’s invite ALL parishioners to celebrate January Birthdays with a Birthday Mass at 8:30AM on Wednesday, March 18, in the Chapel followed by Cake in the Holy Grounds Cafe.
COME CELEBRATE!
English Handbell Festival
Fifth Annual Desert Rings English Handbell Festival, Saturday, April 25, 2009, 7 pm at Central United Protestant Church, 1124 Stevens Dr.,Richland, Washington. Local handbell choirs perform sacred and secular music demonstrating arange of performance styles. All participating choirs will join for three exciting pieces, CROWN HIM WITH MANY CROWNS, WHEN IN OUR MUSIC GOD IS GLORIFIED, and FIESTA CONCAMPANILLAS featuring latin rhythms and castinets.
Admission is free, but freewill offerings are welcome.
For more information contact: Joyce McClanahan, 375-0224, ed.mcclanahan@verizon.net
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