Coffee & Donuts - Join us for coffee and donuts in the Social Hall following the 10am Mass this morning. 

St Jude Devotion - Wednesday Evening - Our monthly St Jude devotion is this Wednesday evening.

• 6:00pm Adoration
• 7:00pm Low Mass with Hymns & Sermon
• St. Jude Novena and veneration of Relic following Mass 

Holy Land Presentation - Today - After the 10am Mass today Fr. Franco will give a presentation in the social hall on the Holy Land.  This will include photos and descriptions of the places he visited during his December pilgrimage. 

Stations of the Cross - Stations of the Cross are every Friday of Lent.

• 5:00pm - Simple Adoration
• 6:00pm - Stations of the Cross
• 6:30pm - Low Mass

Additional Confessions for Lent - Confessions will be heard from 12 noon to 1pm every Tuesday and Wednesday of Lent.

Men’s Retreat - Our men’s Lenten Retreat is this coming Saturday.  Thank you to those who have volunteered to make our women’s and men’s Lenten Retreats possible for the nearly 70 participants.

Tomorrow - Feast of St Joseph - Chorister Sung Mass - On Monday, March 19, there will be a 7pm Sung Mass for the feast of St. Joseph.  This Mass will be sung by our Choristers who have put several weeks of work into preparing for the Mass.  Come to honor St. Joseph, and also to support our children’s noble work to learn Gregorian Chant and other sacred music!

 Annual Lenten Appeal - ledge cards for the Bishop’s Lenten Appeal are in the back of the Church on the piano.  The community must cover this amount.  Anything in excess remains with Mater Dei.  Thank you for your generosity!

• Goal: $12,100.
• Currently Pledged: $7,207

 Save the Dates:

• Friday, March 16: 1st Confessions after both Masses
• Tuesday, April 24, 7pm: 100th Anniversary Mass w/ Bishop Gainer
• Sunday, May 6: May Crowning between Masses
• Sunday, May 13: 1st Communions at 10am Mass
• Friday, June 15, 2018: High School Graduation Mass,7pm
• July 30—August 3: Children’s Chant Camp

Woman’s Care Center - Children’s Books - The Woman’s Care Center in York is currently in need of children’s books, both new and used in good condition, for infants through age 5.  If you have books you would like to donate or purchase, please place them in the bins marked “Woman’s Care Center” in the church foyer.  The bins will  be there until Easter Sunday.  Contact Therese Mansell for questions & more information at pafigureskater@gmail.com

 Young Adult Group - Friday Evening - The YAG (ages 18-35) will meet in the social hall after Mass this Friday evening for food, games and socializing.  For information contact fr.franco@materdeipa.com

Charitable Bequests - Many of the Church’s most helpful gifts come from the estates of generous donors.  As we at Mater Dei look ahead to our future challenges we ask you to please remember Mater Dei in your will or living trust.  Contact Fr Eichman with any questions.

Holy Week Schedule 2018:

Palm Sunday

• 8:00am Low Mass (Palms will not be available)
• 10:00am Solemn Blessing of Palms and Procession. Solemn Mass.  (No Confessions)

Holy  Thursday

• 7:00pm Solemn Mass (No Confessions)
• Adoration until Midnight (Confessions during adoration)

Good Friday

• 3:00pm Solemn Liturgy (No Confessions)
• 7:00pm Stations of the Cross (Confessions during Stations)

Holy Saturday

• 10:00pm Solemn Liturgy (No Confessions)

Easter Sunday

• 8:00am Low Mass
• 10:00am Solemn High Mass (No Confessions)

There will be the traditional Holy Thursday devotion of having adoration of the Blessed Sacrament from after Mass until Midnight.  This is the day Our Lord suffered in the Garden after the Last Supper when He asked His disciples to watch and pray with Him.  At midnight the Blessed Sacrament is removed from the church to represent Our Lord’s arrest and imprisonment.

Prayer of St. Thomas Aquinas For Purity

Dear Jesus, I know that every perfect gift and especially that of chastity depends on the power of your Providence.  Without you, a mere creature can do nothing.  Therefore, I beg you to defend by your grace the chastity and purity of my body and soul.  And if I have ever imagined or sensed anything that can stain my chastity and purity, blot it out, Supreme Lord of my powers, that I may advance with a pure heart in your love and service, offering myself on the most pure altar of your divinity all the days of my life.  Amen.