• Ash Wednesday -- March 9, 2011
• Stations of the Cross -- Fridays @ 3:00pm.
• Reconcilliation -- Saturdays @ 3:00pm during Lent
• Lenten Prayer Service with Bennediction -- Saturdays @ 3:30pm during Lent
• St. Joseph's Table --Saturday March 19, 2011
• Parish Reconcilliation Service --Wednesday, March 30, 2011 @ 7:00pm
• Palm Sunday -- April 17, 2011
• Easter Triduum -- Thursday, April 21-Sunday, April 24, 2011
• Easter -- April 24, 2011

The time honored disciplines of Lent, prayer, fasting, and almsgiving can be seen as resolutions to be carried out during Lent. Here are some thoughts to move us to action:

PRAYER
Resolve this Lent to pray. Avoid the excuse that there is no time for prayer. Each of us is called to communicate with God, but each person has his or her own favorite way of praying. Besides communicating with God as individuals, we are also called to communicate with God as a community of faith. That starts in the family and includes the church community.

FASTING
Resolve this Lent to fast. Fasting, going without food or something else for a period of time, is a way to put God first in our lives. Lent is a good time to think about how we serve God and others, either by doing something or by going without something.

ALMSGIVING
Resolve this Lent to remember the needy. We think of fasting as giving something up. Think of almsgiving as giving something back. Giving money to the poor has a long tradition. The early Church took care of the poor, the orphans, and the widows. This Lent, let us think of ways that we can help the poor, not by giving what we no longer want but by giving something that