Next weekend, our Children from the Religious Education Program will be celebrating their First Holy Communion at the Sunday 11:00 a.m. Mass. We wish them well and pray that their parents will continue to encourage them to receive Our Lord as often as possible. Do keep them in prayer, and give them your encouragement when you see them next week.
Next weekend is Mother's Day on Sunday and the Women's Guild and the Knights of Columbus are sponsoring a Mother's Day Breakfast at the Community Center. Please stop by BEFORE coming to the 11:00 a.m. Mass and enjoy a delicious breakfast with your mothers. They will serve from 7a.m. to nearly noon. To keep the one hour fast before communion, you should have eaten by 10:30 a.m. ....since you would not receive the Eucharist until after 11:30a.m.
Today, I will be celebrating my Jubilee Mass at Holy Spirit Church in Fresno at 3:00pm. Thus there will be no Spanish Mass at 12:30pm and the Bass Lake Mass will be a SCAP (Sunday Celebration in the Absence of a Priest). Thank you for understanding.
Next Saturday morning, for those who might be interested, I will be celebrating a Basque Mass at the Borba Ranch in Madera (right on the San Joaquin River and the 99) at 11am. It is our annual Fresno Basque Picnic and all are welcome.
This coming week, two very special priests in our diocese, Monsignor Francis X. Pointek and Father Francis X. Alabart (yes, both are Francis) will be celebrating their 70th Anniversary of Ordained Priesthood. Both are retired and in their nineties. The priests and the bishop will gather with these men on Wednesday morning at St. Francis Church in Bakersfield for a lunch. Pray for these true pioneers of priestly life as they worked hard in many parishes in their lifetimes.
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