St. Mary’s Student Spring Retreat
“Finding God’s Will: Seeing Black & White in a World of Grays”
College-age students are invited to get away from everyday struggles to encounter God. We start at 6:30pm Friday, March 19, and end by 12:00pm on Sunday, March 21. Held at Religious Sisters of Mercy in Alma, cost is $25 and includes all meals (but please eat dinner before you arrive Friday). For information, contact Jeremy at priestermeister@gmail.com.
World Youth Day 2011 Pilgrimage—Madrid, Spain!
St. Mary’s will join 1,000,000 Catholic young adults from around the world in Madrid, 15-21 August 2011, to celebrate faith and grow in our love of Christ. Pope Benedict will meet with young adults that week, and celebrate a final Papal Mass on the 21st with an estimated 2,000,000 people. Our pilgrimage will go 2-22 August.
Preparations begin this summer. For info sign up at will.prospero@stmarycmu.org. Brochures with a registration form are in our main entries. For information about World Youth Day:www.madridwyd2011.com.
Women's Purity Group
This group is for college aged women looking for support in living a chaste Christian life meets here Tuesdays at 8pm. Contact Meagan Stechschulte to get involved at stech1ma@cmich.edu or 989-413-2856.
The Sacrament of Reconciliation
In addition to normal reconciliation times, there will be a communal penance service with individual confessions on Tuesday, March 23 at 7:00pm.