Monday Message, February 16, 2026

Patrick Donovan

KNOW

Registration is open for the Diocesan Men’s Retreat on March 14th. Details here.

Registration is open for Ministry Day on March 21st. Details here. Speakers are here. Workshops listed here. Spread the word.

Registration will open this week for Diocesan Youth Day on March 28th. Details here.

If you have adults who lack ONLY Confirmation, send them here.

All Youth Ministry Leaders are invited to two listening sessions in the coming weeks. Read the memo here and email us to RSVP.

Ready for Lent – check out these great resources.

LEAD UPDATE

Thanks to those who noticed that the Sunday Mass packets were incorrect in LEAD. Those have now been updated.

We have a few parishes looking for part-time faith formation coordinators. If you know anyone who is interested, send them to Patrick.

NOT TOO LATE

Thank you all so much for volunteering to share the Artwork Contest with your families. Please ignore the January 31^st deadline, as we have extended it to March 2^nd due to the winter storms. See flyers here and here. Even though Christmas is over, art is a powerful way to share our faith. This contest invites students to use their God-given talents to tell the story of Jesus’ humble birth, becoming little missionaries through their creativity and helping others experience the joy of His love, which is timeless!

REFLECT

Let us pray…

Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet if God wills that it continues… until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid another drawn with the sword… so still it must be said that the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.

With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow and for his orphans, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and a lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.

President Abraham Lincoln
Second Inaugural Address
March 4, 1865

LAUGH

Adult Confirmation

Artwork contest

Men's Retreat

Ministry Day

Youth Day

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