Please bring your two wrapped gifts, with the angel attached, no later than next Sunday (December 13). You may place your gifts under the Angel Tree in the narthex or drop your gifts off at the parish office. Thank you for your generosity!

All cantors, accompanists, and vocal ensembles are invited to an Advent Music Workshop on Saturday, November 21, from 10 to 11 a.m. The workshop will be held in the music office in the parish hall.

The children's choir rehearses on Tuesday afternoons at 4:15 p.m. in the church. It is open to all students in grades 2-6. Join us as we prepare to sing at the 5 p.m. Christmas Eve Mass.

The adult and children's Christmas choirs have begun rehearsing for Christmas liturgies. The adult choir rehearses on Wednesday evening at 6:30 p.m. in the church. The children's choir rehearses on Tuesday afternoons at 4:15 p.m. in the church.

At the most recent meeting of the St. Ann's Pastoral Council, we identified a need to recruit and train more parishioners to serve in the liturgical ministries of greeter and usher. Both of these ministries of hospitality help to create a warm and friendly environment for our worship together. If you enjoy meeting people and welcoming them to our parish, please call Debbie in the parish office to sign up. As soon as we get a list of names, we will hold a training session for these ministries.

All parishioners are invited to write the names of their deceased relatives and friends in the Book of the Names of the Dead, which will be placed near the baptismal font during all weekend liturgies, and in the chapel throughout the week. Those whose names are inscribed in this book will be remembered in a special way at all of the Masses offered in our parish during the month of November.

Offertory envelopes and a Catholic calendar are available for each family. Please stop by the table in the hallway across for the parish office to pick them up.

In an effort to promote awareness of and prayer on behalf of the need for more young men and women to respond to God's invitation to serve as priests and sisters, a "decommissioned" ciborium will be presented each weekend to a different family in the parish. A sign up sheet for January will be available in the narthex next weekend. Thank you for helping to create a vocations culture in our parish!