October 29, 2020
DAYLIGHT SAVINGS ENDS THIS WEEKEND!!! - Please
remember that we need to set our clocks back one hour as Daylight Savings Time ends.

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FEAST OF ALL SAINTS – This Sunday, November 1, is the Feast of All Saints: a Holy Day of Obligation. ALL the Masses this weekend (Saturday Vigil and Sunday Morning) will celebrate this Feast Day.

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BOOK OF REMEMBRANCE – Nov. 1 is the Feast of All Saints and Nov. 2
(Monday) is the Feast of All Souls. The long standing tradition in the Church is to pray in a special way for all the deceased throughout the month of November. We will once again have a Book of Remembrance in our church, however, in the pandemic there are some precautions that we need to do. The details of this protocol is in a separate announcement posting. Please read this posting to learn how to enter the name of a loved one in our Book. Because of the virus, we cannot do the “same old thing”. Thank you for your understanding and your cooperation.

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ELECTION DAY, TUESDAY, Nov. 3 – With Election Day approaching, we do
well as a Community of Faith to pray for the electoral process, safe voting, and the protection of our country by our Loving God. On this past Monday, we began praying an Election Novena that was written and posted by the US Bishops. We pray the Novena right after Mass which you can find on our Facebook page. And given the truly unprecedented difficult times in which we live, I have also personally been praying a Novena to St Jude. While the tradition is to pray this Novena 9 days BEFORE the Feast of Sts Simon and Jude (Oct. 28), I began it on the feast of St Jude which will take me up to and just past the election day. Whatever we do for prayer practices, it is so important that we pray to our God to
Bless and Protect our country and our lives.
The Bishops have some excellent material about being a faithful citizen, and their website is: usccb.org