May 2025
 

Please use the following link to complete the assessment for the 2024-25 Religious Education year by Friday, May 30^th. Your responses are crucial in moving forward and planning the best possible program for the parish this fall! Religious Education Assessment link: https://forms.gle/3dRyYR65VkeA42K66. This link is also posted on the RE webpage.

Friday, May 2, 2025

• Graduating High School Seniors will be recognized at the 10:30am Mass Sunday, May 4^th, on a bulletin board at St. Mary Church, in the bulletin, on the parish website and Facebook page. Please have the completed Senior Sunday Form Letter and photo returned no later than today. If you did not receive one, they may be found on the parish website-High School class page or contact the office.

Sunday, May 4, 2025

• Today is the last Religious Education Family Class of the 2024-25 year.  We will kick the morning off with a Potluck Brunch from 9-930am. Please bring something to share such as: breakfast casserole, eggs, bacon/sausage, fruit donuts, muffins, yogurt, etc. Following the brunch there will be a brief class and then some family Games.
• May Crowning will be held today, St. Mary Church at the 10:30 am Mass.  The Second Grade First Communion students will be the honor guard.
• We will recognize our graduating High School Seniors at the 10:30am Mass today.

Sunday, May 11, 2025 – Mother’s Day

• Take some time today to pray the Rosary for your mom and everyone’s mother…Mary.

Tuesday, May 13, 2025

• St. Anne’s CCW Spring Banquet will be held at 5:30pm St. Mary Church Hall (The doors open at pm). This evening there will be a potluck dinner followed by a short talk. The guest speaker will be one of the sisters from the Madona Renewal Center in Freeport. The parish will be collecting diapers, wipes and monetary donations to help the center continue their work. Please bring a suggested dish to pass for the potluck according to you last name: A-J= Dessert, K-Q= Main Dish and R-Z= Salad. This is a great night out to visit with other women of the parish.

Saturday, May 24, 2025 

• The parish Youth Group will be volunteering at the Durand Area Food Pantry today.

Saturday/Sunday, May 24/25, 2025 – Memorial Day Weekend

• Mass times change will happen this weekend! Masses will be held Saturday, 4:30pm at St. Mary, Sunday, 8am at St. Mary and Sunday, 10am at St. Patrick.
• There will be a cemetery blessing this weekend after the 4:30pm Mass at St. Mary and the 10am Mass at St. Patrick.

Wednesday, May 31, 2024

• Registration for the 2024-25 school year was included in the May RE packet or mailed to your home.  Please return the registration form by this date.  The fees will be due no later than July 1^st. Thank you.

CHRISTUS SITAS

Our parish summer program Christus Sitas will be held for students entering 1^st grade through 12^th grade the week of June 16-19, 2025. We will be following the format of Totus Tuus from previous years and holding our own version. There will be individual classes, Mass, Rosary, breakout sessions, recess and on Friday afternoon a fun water day. Additionally, we plan to provide lunch for everyone attending during the day program. Volunteers 18 years and older are needed (college students home for the summer we would love to have you!) to run the day programs (4 volunteers). Deacon Mike will run the evening programs for students entering 7-12^th grades. Stipends are available for the core team positions. A flyer/registration form is attached. Call the office at 815-248-2490 to volunteer or if you have any questions.