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Our parish family congratulates all of those who were confirmed this weekend by Bishop Zurek! As the gifts of the Holy Spirit are fully unleased in your lives, we look forward to seeing the way in which God will help you to continune to grow as missionary disciples of Christ! Congratulations to:  Hannah Backus (Ursula), Avery Chambers (Kateri Tekakwitha), Garrett Chishold (Bernardine of Sienna), Keegan Crabtree (Francis of Assisi), Kerry Garcia (Bartholomew), Tayvea Garcia (Teresa of Calcutta), Myli Hernandez (Catherine of Siena), Veronia Nieto (Cecilia), Adolfo Olvera, Caidynce Peña (Teresa of Avila), Mark Porter, Diego Sanchez, Nicholas Stocker, Conrad Suarez (Michael), Olivia Trask (Scholastica), Emilie Wieck (Kateri Tekakwitha), Benjamin Zotter (Robert), and Meredith Zotter (Ruth)!

There will be no Mass this week, since the priests of the diocese will be gathering this week for a series of study days. We will meet in the parish hall for dinner at 6:30 p.m. After our meal, Rannah Evetts will speak to the high school students about her experiences serving as a missionary in Uganda and intermediate/middle school students will have a discussion about social media. See you there!

If you are planning to have your child baptized sometime in the next few months, please make plans to attend our Baptism Class this Thursday, May 11, at 7 p.m.

Since only three parishioners (Glenn Backus, Bobby Ramirez, and Deb Zermeno) volunteered to serve on the parish council, we will not have an election this year and they will automatically fill the three open spots. Many thanks to Laurie Featherstone and Cruz Luna for their service on the parish council for the past few years.

Congratulations to Hayden Brook McClanahan, son of Sharon and Monte McClanahan, who was baptized at the Easter Vigil last weekend. Congratulations also to Karley Edge, Berkley Robertson, and Isabelle Wheeler who were received into the full communion of the Catholic Church and confirmed at the Easter Vigil. We are so excited to welcome you into our parish family!

At the 11:15 a.m. Mass on Sunday, our second grade students will celebrate their First Communion. A reception for our First Communicants will be held in the parish hall after the 11:15 a.m. Mass.

We will gather on Wednesday evening at 6 p.m. in the church for Mass, followed by a meal prepared by our parish choir. After dinner, our high school and middle school discussion groups will both examine St. John Paul II's Theology of the Body. See you there!

The parish finance council will meet this Tuesday (April 25) at 7 p.m.

Parishioners ages 60+ are invited to join us for a potluck luncheon followed by Bingo on Friday, May 12, at 1 p.m. in the parish hall. Agest 60-69 are asked to bring a meat dish, ages 70-79 should bring a vegetable dish or salad, and ages 80+ may bring either.

Many thanks to everyone who helped make our Holy Week liturgies so beautiful ... our choir and musicians, altar servers, lectors, ushers, Communion ministers, and all the other liturgical ministers! Special thanks to Melissa Clarke for all of her work preparing the sanctuary for our liturgies! Thanks as well to our deacons, the members of our RCIA team, and the catechists who prepared those who were baptized at our Easter Vigil! The word "liturgy" literally means "the work of the people," and we are blessed as a parish community that so many parishioners put so much time and effort into this sacred "work!"

We will gather on Wednesday evening at 6 p.m. in the church for Mass, followed by a great baked spaghetti meal by the Circle of the Holy Family. After dinner, we will celebrate Easter with lots of fun activities! See you there!

Thank you to all of our parishioners who returned your UCA pledge cards last weekend. We have reached almost 75% of our parish's goal ... but we still need pledges to account for the $14,000 we need to raise! If you have not yet completed and returned your UCA pledge card, please do so ASAP. Please place your pledge card in the collection basket or return it to the parish office. Thank you!

Once again, the Ladies of St. Ann's and the Knights of Columbus are providing book scholarships for parishioners who will be graduating from high school and attending a college or university. Scholarship applications are on the glass table in the narthex. The application is also available on our parish website at:  https://stannsofcanyon.org/youth (on the right side of the page, under Forms, Schedules, & More ...). Please note that the scholarship application deadline is this Thursday, April 20.

Parents who would like to have their child baptized in the next few months are welcome to attend a Baptism Preparation Class this Tuesday (April 18) at 7 p.m. in Meeting Room C. Baptisms will only be scheduled when parents have completed this required class.

Please see the list of assignments printed on the insert in this weekend's bulletin. If you are not able to fulfill your assignment, please call the parish office as soon as possible. Please do not find your own substitute this week ... we will find one for you, but please let us know that you need a substitute ASAP. The Holy Week Liturgical Ministry Schedule is also available online at: http://stannsofcanyon.org/documents/2017/4/Easter%20Triduum%20Schedule%20-%202017.pdf

If you would like to schedule a Baptism at one of our weekend Masses during the Easter season, please send an email to the parish office ([email protected]) or call Debbie (655-3302, ext. 0) and provide a list of two or three possible dates and Mass times that would work best for you and your family.

We will have a Communal Penance Service her at St. Ann's on Thursday, April 6, at 7 p.m. Please take advantage of this opportunity to encounter God's extravagant mercy and grace through the Sacrament of Penance during this season of Lent!

We will gather for Mass at 6 p.m. in the church on Wednesday, April 12, followed by a meal and a special Holy Week activity.

Our parish is in need of more persons to serve as Extaordinary Ministers of Communion at our weekend liturgies. If you are a confirmed Catholic and at least 16 years old, please consider volunteering to participate in this ministry! A training session for new Communion ministers will be held on Saturday, April 8, at 10 a.m. in the church. Please call Debbie at the parish office (655-3302, ext. 0) before then to indicate your interest in this ministry and your intention to be present for the training session. Thanks!