Join Bishop James S. Wall and the Catholic Peoples
Foundation as we celebrate Mardi Gras 2010 at
Red Rock State Park in Gallup on February 13
(includes dinner, dancing, and carnival games).
Tickets are $50/person and all proceeds go to the
Diocese of Gallup Building and Renovation fund
For more information and to purchase your tickets
today, please visit: www.catholicpeoplesfoundation.com

During Lent.  Stations of the Cross will be held at St John Vianney Parish, on Fridays beginning
February 19,2010 at 6 pm. After the Stations, there will be a special
Lenten Series featuring Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen in 30 – minute Video in the Hall.
Hot Chocolate and hot cider will be served during a brief discussion after
the video.

The next pre-baptism class will be on Saturday February 27 at 6:30 p.m. in the Family Center. If anyone plans to attend this class, they need to call the Sacred Heart Office at (505)722-6644. Classes are held the last Saturday of the month with Baptisms being held on the Last Sunday of the Month after the 11:00 a.m. Mass.  Reminder there will be no baptisms until Easter Sunday; there are no baptisms during lent.

Over the course of the year, we as a parish participate in about ten “Special Collections” taken up nationally by the American Catholic Church.  Besides these, the Diocese of Gallup sponsors two annual collections – one for the education of our future priests (taken on Pentecost Sunday) and the other for the retirement fund for diocesan priests (usually held in September).  Finally, from time to time the parish will take up an “emergency collection” for some worthy and urgent cause.  The Cathedral parishioners have always been generous in supporting these varied collections.

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Last Monday, January 18, the Catholic Church and many Orthodox and Protestant churches throughout the world began the 2010 observance of the “Week of Prayer for Christian Unity.”  The observance will conclude this Monday, January 25, with the celebration of the Feast of the Conversion of St. Paul.  During this week each year Christians pray that God’s Spirit will be poured out upon all of the followers of Jesus Christ, effecting an ever deepening and widening commitment in our efforts to come together as fellow Christians – in humility, mutual respect and love.

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