February 26, Ash Wednesday Masses: 6:45 a.m., 8:20 a.m., 7:00 p.m. Noon: Prayer Service with Ashes.
Our February personal care collection is this weekend, February 22nd and 23rd.
“Welcome”/Christ Renews His Parish (CRHP) is a weekend retreat that changes lives and transforms parishes. Come to our next women’s or men’s Welcome Weekend to deepen your faith, form meaningful relationships with people in the parish and improve your prayer life and become a better version of yourself.
Women’s – February 29/March 1, 2020
Questions /Registration, contact Liz Eby at
liz.eby@yahoo.com, 419-351-4395, or Jen Fix at
419-356-2684 or Jerinrose76@aol.com.
Men’s – March 14-15, 2020
Contact: Brandon Kulka at 419-345-4916 or kulkabrandon@gmail.com.
T H E P I V O T A L P L A Y E R S: Discover the figures who shaped the life of the Church and changed the course of civilization. Saints. Scholars Storytellers. Bishop Barron is on a new journey to unlock the truth behind the Catholic Church’s most influential people. Join us for a multi-part film series that illumines five pivotal players, covered over five weeks.
Tuesdays & Wednesdays beginning March 3/4
Tuesdays from 12:30-2:00 p.m.
Wednesdays from 7:00-8:30 p.m.
East Campus Meeting Rooms (Pastors Suite)
Registration requested:
jdenyer@stjoesylvania.org or at the
Parish Office at 419-885-5791.
Led by Monsignor Billian, Father Hudgin, and Joanne Denyer
ANDREW DINNER
March 24, 2020
6:00 p.m.-8:00 p.m.
Saint Joseph Parish
Father Wurzel Family Center
Join Bishop Daniel Thomas, Father Phil Smith and other local priests for dinner, prayer, and an opportunity to learn more about the diocesan priesthood. Participants should be accompanied by their parish priest. This free event is for young men who are high school or college age.
“Wisdom is seeing with God’s eyes.” – Pope Francis. Participants will receive a journal and will meet every week for eight sessions to view a 30-minute video presentation followed by a time of group discussion and fellowship. The cost of the journal is $20.00. Sessions will be held in the East Meeting Rooms on:
Tuesdays from 7:00-8:30 p.m. and
Wednesdays from 9:30-11:00 a.m.,
beginning March 10/11.
Registration is required by March 3 by contacting
jdenyer@stjoesylvania.org
or 419-885-5791.
Wednesday, February 26-Sunday, April 5, 2020 – 40 Days for Life Spring Campaign is a peaceful prayerful campaign which seeks to end abortion through prayer, fasting and peaceful witness outside local abortion facilities.
The campaign, directed by Catholic Charities Office for Life and Justice, is seeking volunteers to pray outside Capital Care Network, for 40 days straight, beginning Ash Wednesday, February 26, 2020. Sign up to pray between 7:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m. at www.40daysforlife.com/toledo.
For more info, contact Peter Range, Director of the Office for Life and Justice, at 419-214-4933 or email prange@toledodiocese.org.
Tuesday Adoration Sign-up! Friday Adoration during Lent! Please see our Parish Website Homepage: stjoesylvania.org. Click on the link for Adoration, then look for the date(s) you wish to attend. We must fill all slots each week for continuous Adoration. Thank you.
Urgent Call to Action: Support School Choice In a diocesan-wide effort to support parents as primary educators and support parents in having options for their children’s education, Bishop Daniel E. Thomas invites the faithful of the Diocese of Toledo to contact your state representatives and senators expressing to them support for educational choice in Ohio. Ohio’s
General Assembly has recently introduced legislation that would effectively eliminate one of Ohio’s schoolchoice programs without securely funding an alternative for families. To learn more about school choice in Ohio, please view this document: https://tinyurl.com/schoolchoice.
Join Deb’s Ministry of Prayer and Hope on Thursday evening, March 5, from 6:00-7:00 p.m. in the Straub Room located in the East Campus school. Our group offers prayers, scripture reflections, sharing, hope and support to those in need. You are not alone! All adult parishioners, their families and caregivers are invited to join us. Please join us during this Lente season, as Jesus suffered on His journey to the cross for us, we too must pick up our crosses and follow in His footsteps. Questions can be called into Laurie Neary, the Parish Nurse, at 419-885-5791 Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday or facilitators Chris Powers at 419-885-1148 or Sue Cutshall at 419-882-4183.
Breakthrough Lent: Youth Group Grades 7-10
GOD’S NOT DEAD
MARCH 3, 2020
MARCH 10, 2020
MARCH 17, 2020
Breakthrough focuses on understanding one’s faith through Movies. The group has fun together. We will watch “God’s Not Dead” for the Lenten session, and we will share a meal! 5:30 to 7:00 p.m. For more information and to sign up, go to singupgenius.com and search under jsupina@ stjoesylvania.org and sign up for Breakthrough Lent, March 3, 10, and 17, 2020.
New Parishioner Breakfast Sunday, March 1, 2020 after the 10:00 a.m. Mass. Please join us for food and fellowship. Pastors Suite Meeting Rooms – East Campus Hosted by our Saint Joseph Parish Welcoming Committee Please RSVP to Amanda Brzuchalski – Development Director –abrzuchalski@stjoesylvania.org or call the parish office at 419-885-5791.
Welcome/Christ Renews His Parish is a parish spiritual renewal process which calls together parishioners in order to experience personal conversion and Christian community in the environment of our parish. This is an overnight retreat (Saturday/Sunday). Women’s – February 29/March 1, 2020 Men’s – March 14-15, 2020.
