St. Vincent DePaul Bulletin, Feb. 5-6

LENT IS JUST AROUND THE CORNER and as we prepare we need your help. We are inviting everyone to bring their palms that you received last year on Palm Sunday to SVDP so they may be burned for Ash Wednesday.

ALTAR SERVERS TRAINING will be held on Sundays Feb. 7th, and Feb. 28 immediately following the 9am Mass and Saturday Feb. 20  at 3:30pm before the 5pm Mass. All who are interested please call the Church office at 345-2403 on Tuesdays between 3-5pm. Involving your child in a Ministry of the church is one of the many ways to help them grow in their Faith.  Be sure to sign your child up, so we will know how many to plan for.  

UPCOMING RETREAT OPPORTUNITIES   Can we depend on your being with us?  Jesus is inviting you to enter into His joy by sharing in His Word and blessings.  Join us at:

Christ the King Passionist Retreat Center . www.passionist.org/retreats/christtheking

• For weekend retreats:  Starts Friday Dinner and ends with Sunday Lunch
• For mid-week retreats:  Tuesday Dinner and ends with Thursday Lunch
• Women's Weekend Retreat - March 12 through March 14 
• For Men and Women - Mid-Week - March 23 through March 25
• Men's Weekend Retreat - March 26 through March 28

Register by calling Ginger Peacock - 354-2412     Cost of Retreats:  $175 - however, no one will be refused because of inability to pay.

NEED VOLUNTEERS FOR VOCATION CROSS...... thank you to Fran Mendenhall for taking the Cross for December and Jay and Maryanne Corsauts for taking it in January. Hank and Velma Johnson has offered to take the Cross in February.  There is still a great need  for others to  accept the invitation to sign up - we don't have anyone for the months following February. If you would like to recieve the Vocation Cross into your home for prayer through the upcoming months, please notify Bob or Margie Coffman @ 354-1744  or call the church office @354-2403.

40 DAYS OF LIFE   The Sacramento Spring 2010 40 Days for Life vigil hours are: 7:00 am - 7:00 pm. Mondays through Fridays, starting Feb. 17th, at Pregnancy Consultation Center abortion business, located at 53rd and F Street. Will you come to 53rd and F Street, downtown Sacramento to pray and offer loving assistance to women, so that they are then better able to choose LIFE for their unborn child? There is no greater joy than saving a life. We can't do it without you. We need your prayers and fasting!To participate in the Spring 2010 call Wynette at (916) 955-1577 for more information or check out the web site www.40daysforlife.com

RACHEL'S VINEYARD weekend retreats are a beautiful opportunity for any one who has struggled with the emotional or spiritual pain of an abortion. The retreat is a very specific process designed to help an individual experience the mercy and compassion of God. It is also an opportunity to surface and release repressed feelings of anger, shame, guilt and grief. There are many exercises to help someone grieve the loss of his or her unborn child and to receive and accept God's forgiveness. The retreat concludes  a Memorial Resurrection Service. The weekend will help individuals (men and women) find their soul and transform the pain of the past into love and hope. The next retreat is February 19th & 20th. Contact Debbie Anderson at mailto:projectrachel@diocese-sacramento.org or 916-733-0161 or toll free at 1-888-HOPE790

SHOWERS ON WHEELS

Is an organization providing support for woman in need from Bishop Gallous Maternity Home? They are honoring the mothhers of three set of twins and two single babies all are boys. The shower will be held Saturday, February 12, 2010 at 3:30 pm. Location is

St. Stephen the First Martyr, Extraordinary Form Parish
(5461 44th Street,  
(½ Mile East of Highway 99, Fruitridge Offramp),  
Sacramento, California 95820 Please bring an h'ordeuvre to share, and a baby gift or donation   Contact: Devonne at (916) 990-5713