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OUR LENT SCHEDULE
- A TIME OF PRAYER, FASTING, AND ALMSGIVING -
Holy Week:
Holy Thursday, April 2: Mass at 7 PM, followed by Adoration in the Garden; office closes at Noon
Good Friday, April 3: Stations at Noon; Liturgy 1-3 PM;
office is closed
Holy Saturday, April 4: Blessing of Food at 10 AM;
Easter Vigil at 7:30 PM (No Mass at 4 PM)
Easter Sunday, April 5: Masses at 8, 9:30 and 11 AM
SPIRITUAL OPPORTUNITIES
- Morning Mass, followed by Rosary: Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday at 9 AM and Friday Lenten Mass at 12:05, followed by homemade soup luncheon
- Traditional Stations of the Cross: Friday evenings at 7 PM
- Our Sunday Lenten study: 1 - 3 PM
- Little Black Book: included in Lenten parish mailing and in church
ALMSGIVING OPTIONS
- Easter Outreach Giving: baskets for kids, food baskets for local families, gift cards for Easter meals, monetary donations
- Right-to-Life/Wee Care: provides assistance to mothers and their young children and newborn babies with monetary donations or new-baby supplies; checks payable to Lifespan
- A Vision for Clean Water: a locally funded non-profit furnishing means for providing safe drinking water and working toilets to some of the poorest regions of the world; checks payable to A Vision for Clean Water
- Kenya Relief: a nonprofit dedicated to transforming lives in Kenya through medical services and supplies, education, and support for orphans and vulnerable children; checks payable to Kenya Relief.
FASTING
- Abstinence is the law of refraining from meat for those of age fourteen and older and is observed on Fridays in Lent.
- Fasting, for those age 14-59, is the act of doing with less. Those fasting may eat one full meal as well as two smaller meals, sufficient to maintain strength (with exceptions to the frail, pregnant, manual laborers).
- Abstinence and fasting are observed on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday.
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EASTER OUTREACH GIVING DETAILS
As part of our Christian Service Outreach, Christ, Our Light! parishioners are invited to take part in our Easter Giving Project. We will be collecting Easter baskets for children, local family food boxes, gift cards, and monetary donations. Our recipients are local parish families and families from Corpus Christi of Detroit, LaCasa Educational Center, MORC (Macomb Oakland Regional Center), St. Damien of Molokai in Pontiac and St. Luke parish in Detroit.
Easter baskets, local family food box tags, and envelopes for gift cards and monetary donations will be available at both church entrances the weekend of February 28 and March 1.
You may participate by:
· Filling an Easter basket with individually wrapped candy, a small toy, puzzle, crayons, stickers, bubbles, colored pencils, and/or a gift card (i.e. McDonalds, Target, movies). Baskets should be covered with clear cellophane wrap. The tag should be visible. Please no unwrapped candy. EASTER BASKETS ARE DUE NO LATER THAN FRIDAY, MARCH 20.
· Adopting a family by providing non-perishable food items using the suggested food item list attached to the EGG TAG.
FOOD BOXES ARE DUE NO LATER THAN FRIDAY, MARCH 20.
· Purchasing a gift card from Meijer, Kroger or Walmart. Please provide the “gift receipt” from the gift card along with it. For the gift card amount, we suggest $25 per family member, although any amount is welcome and appreciated.
GIFT CARDS ARE DUE NO LATER THAN, FRIDAY MARCH 13.
· Making a monetary donation using the Easter Outreach Donation envelope. Envelopes can be dropped off at the Parish Office or placed in the Offertory collection.
If you take an Easter basket or a tag for a local family food box, please take a picture of the tag, in the event it gets lost.
If for some reason you cannot return the items selected by the due date, please contact Elaine Cervera at elaine.cervera@coltroy.org or call her at 248. 649.5510, ext. 105.
We THANK YOU in advance for your continued generosity in supporting these families.
Your Easter Outreach Committee
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SACRAMENT OF CONFESSION
- held here at 3 PM on Saturdays
- to find confessions with different days and times
in our area, visit:
confessionsfinder.org
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YOU’RE INVITED TO PRAY THE ROSARY
with our informal Rosary Group
after our Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday 9 AM
and Friday 12:05 Masses.
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LOVE OF GOD PRAYER GROUP
Tuesday Evenings at 7:30 PM
Come join us for one hour of praise, teaching, and healing prayer.
Questions: call Mary Ellen Buchanan at 586.770.2214.
