Fwd:

Good Students preparing for Confirmation and their Parents and the entire community of people at Sacred Heart, I invite you to travel with our new catechumen, James Jones, to the cathedral as a kind of confirmation field trip on Feb. 10th. He will be beginning his more formal period of preparation for baptism starting with this first Sunday of Lent. Let us join him in this sacred time of beginning. It will be a way to deapen our parish Lenten experience. We would learn so much by going. We could have a tour of the cathedral, meet the Bishop, and see the rite of election. All the adults preparing for Baptism travel from far and wide. It is not Mass but it is a time of prayer and calling. At the 10:30 a.m. Mass at Sacred Heart on that day there will be a little rite of sending of the our Catechumen in the Mass. What is a Catechumen? What is the RCIA? What is the rite of Election? What is a diocese, a Bishop, a Cathedral? All these would come into clearer focus if we can swing going to the rite. There is more information about time and place on the calendar under Masses and Events on http://www.deafcatholic.org/ Let me know if you can go. My office budget has within at this point enough money so that we can rent a bus. There will be many parishes who rent buses and bring big groups for this event and it is quite an exciting thing to see the cathedral so full. Sincerely, Fr. St. Martin