1.            Faith & Family Programming: January 6, 2015 - First Tuesday
Want you and your family to learn more about the Catholic faith in the New Year?  If so do not forget about our Faith and Family Programming.
 
6:30 Blue Knights @ Gym + Little Flowers @ Gym + Young Disciples @ Gym + Chosen (Confirmation Class) @ Gym + Confirmation Parent Mtg @ Gym  + 7:00 Pillars of the Faith @ Rectory
 
2.            Parish Potluck Dinner
I hope to see everyone present at our parish potluck dinner Sunday night from 4PM to 6:30PM.  See the home page of the website for more information.
 
3.            Parish Website
Our parish website recently went through a minor upgrade and update.  Please take some time to check it out.  It is my hope that each parish organization in the New Year will use the parish website more as a way of getting information out to the parish and of recruiting new members.  
 
4.            Saint Louis Life Teen’s Luke 18 is coming.
Saint Louis Life Teen, the multi-parish youth program located at DuBourg High School is hosting its first Luke 18 over President’s Day Weekend.  We are in need of High School Teens to help run the retreat.  We are also in need of young adults to act as core team members and chaperones.  Finally we are in need of people willing to act as sleep houses for the weekend.  A sleep house is a house where 8-12 teens will come and crash on the floor on Friday and Saturday nights from 10PM-7AM.  All they will need is one large room to lay out their sleeping bags.  If you are interested in volunteering in any way please contact Lauren 314.288.8873 - lauren@saintlouislifeteen.org.
 
5.            Advent Goals continued…
There is still time to donate to the Haiti mission.  See Father Tom Pastorius for more information.  Also please feel free to continue dropping your Mass intentions in collection basket.  We will make sure that they are collected and we will add them to our own prayer intentions as a parish staff as well.  Please also note that there is a prayer box in the back of Church near the confessional where one may place prayer intentions as well.
 
6.            Gratitude
A word of gratitude to all who helped our Christmas celebrations be so great.  The choir and bell choir were awesome and the Church looked beautiful. 
 
7.            Potluck Dinner
I hope to see everyone present at our parish potluck dinner tonight.
 
8.            Church un-decorating day.
If you could spare an hour or so on Sunday January 11 ^th around 12noon, we would greatly appreciate your help as we put our Christmas decorations away for another year.
 
9.            Gift Certificates
If you spend a $100 dollars on groceries at Shop and Save, the parish could be earning 10% of that without costing you an extra dime.  If you just take the time to make the sacrifice to buy certificates in the back of Church after Mass or from the parish office. 
 
10.          Fr. Pastorius’s website
Don’t forget to check out Fr. Pastorius’s website: www.mayjesuschristbepraised.com for many wonderful and insightful thoughts about the Catholic faith.