St. Ann's Catholic Church

Please pick up your 2019 calendar and contribution envelopes after Mass this weekend from the tables in the narthex. Please find the envelope box with your name on it and take it for use throughout the year ahead. If there is not an envelope box with your name on it, please take a blank box of envelopes at the end of the table and begin using them, and we will record your envelope number.

Please stop by the table in the narthex and sign up if you are an altar server, lector, Communion minister, or usher and will be in town for either Christmas Eve/Day and/or New Year's Eve/Day. Place your name on the list, which ministry (or ministries) you are available for and then check all the Masses at which you might be able to serve. We especially need ministers for Christmas Day and New Year's Day, so if you are available for those liturgies, please be sure to indicate that. Thanks!

All students in grades 5-12 are invited to join us this Wednesday evening. We will gather for Mass in the church at 6 p.m. After Mass, we will enjoy some Santa Fe soup while watching "The Muppet Christmas Carol." This week's gathering will end around 8:15 p.m. See you there!

We are just 2 1/2 months away from our annual Czech Sausage Dinner. We still do not have an official chair for this event, so we need everyone interested in helping to organize this year's dinner to attend a meeting on Thursday, January 3, at 7 p.m. in meeting room C in the parish hall. We will look at a timeline for planning and determine who can serve as chair and committee chairs. We need everyone's help, so please make plans to attend this meeting!

Please make plans to join us at 3 p.m. next Sunday (December 23) as we adorn the church for our celebration of Christmas. Snacks will be served and there will be plenty of work for parishioners of all ages!

We are looking for more babysitters to join us on Sunday mornings during both the 8:30 and 11:15 Masses. Please contact the parish office at 655-3302 if you are interested in assisting with this ministry.

There will be no adult education classes on December 9 or December 16. Adult education will continue beginning in January.

Please stop by the table in the narthex for a variety of Advent resources to use with your family as we prepare for the celebration of Christmas. An Advent calendar for children, a family activity and devotional booklet, and an Advent prayer book for children are available. The Advent issue of "The Word Among Us" is also available.

If you would like to be part of the parish choir for the Christmas season, there is still time to join us for rehearsals. The choir meets on Thursday evenings at 6:30 p.m. There will also be additional rehearsals after the 11:15 a.m. Mass on Sundays. Come and add your voice to our efforts to "make a joyful noise unto the Lord!"

There will be no faith formation classes (pre-K through adult) on the following Sundays:  December 23, December 30, and January 6. Classes resume on Sunday, January 13.