**ASH WEDNESDAY (February 18): Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of the penitential season of Lent. Masses, and the distribution of ashes, will be offered at 10am (said) and 7pm (sung) on this day.

 

**STATIONS OF THE CROSS AND BENEDICTION (Fridays during Lent): Pray with us each Friday evening during Lent at 7pm with the traditional devotion of Stations of the Cross, concluded with Benediction.

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**SOUP SUPPERS (Fridays during Lent): Preceding each Stations of the Cross and Benediction devotion on the Fridays of Lent is a light soup supper (free of terrestrial meats), a time for fellowship and preparing for prayer. Volunteers are needed to prepare these soup suppers and their accoutrements. Please contact the Clerk of the Kitchen HERE to see how you can help.

 

**2026 BISHOP’S APPEAL: Annual Bishop’s Appeal begins next weekend, February 21-22. This is our opportunity as a Parish to unite with our Ordinariate family to support our shared mission of

evangelization. Our Parish goal is $10,000. In the coming week, please take the time to prayerfully reflect on the gifts that you have been given by God and respond to Bishop Lopes’ appeal as generously as possible. Your participation is essential to the success of the Ordinariate. Please join other Catholics from throughout the Ordinariate in supporting this very important appeal next week. Thank you for your support.

 

**SUPPORT THE SISTERS: Beginning with Ash Wednesday, Ordinariate parishes and communities are undertaking a Lenten campaign of Christian clarity in support of the Benedictine Sisters of the Blessed Virgin Mary.  This is the only religious Order properly established within the Ordinariate itself, having been erected within the Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham in the UK.  The Sisters have well outgrown their rented facilities.  Far from being a simple inconvenience, this also means they cannot accept new vocations or women discerning since there is no place for them to live in the convent.  Their current landlord has restricted certain parts of the building, so creating the monastic rhythm of daily prayer and work has become very difficult.  If they cannot work, they cannot earn the funds necessary to support their life.  Learn more about the Sisters HERE. Rather than flooding the sisters’ with individual donations, the Bishop has asked that we use the THIS LINK (in the menu choose “Sisters of the Blessed Virgin Mary”).