Confirmation Retreat: The mandatory Confirmation Retreat is scheduled for Saturday, March 23rd from 9AM-4PM. Permission slips are due on or before February 10th. Permission slips were given out in class, and can be found online. If you have any questions please contact Katie Sukley.  Lunch for the retreat will be provided. If your child has any food allergies please have them bring their lunch and snacks for the day. If you have any questions please contact Katie Sukley. First Communion Reminders:  Banners: The First Communion banner kits have been distributed to all the classes. If your child does not have their kit please stop by the Religious Ed Office to pick one up. Banners are to be completed at home and brought back the night of the First Communion rehearsals. There will be an opportunity to work on your banners during the First Communion Family Retreat. First Communion Retreat: The First Communion Retreat is scheduled for Tuesday, April 2nd from 6-7:30PM. All First Communicants and their parents are invited to attend this retreat. Please bring your banner materials with you, as there will be an opportunity to work on your banners during the retreat. Soup & Stations hosted by Religious Ed & RCIA: On Friday, April 12th from 6-7PM the Religious Ed families as well as our parish RCIA class will be hosting the final week of Soup and Stations! We are asking all of our families to please consider making a meatless soup or mac and cheese to share with the parish for this event.  We are also looking for some volunteers to help serve the soup and assist the children with their Lenten crafts. Thank you!

Soup and Stations—Friday Evening All are welcome in the Hall at 6 pm for a simple soup supper and crafts for the kids. Stations will begin at 7 pm in the Church. Parish Penance Service—April 11 at 7 pm

The Food Pantry is in need of canned tuna, boxed cereal, and canned pasta (ravioli, spaghettios, beefaroni) . The Backpack Program is in need of individual shelf stable milk, single serving pasta (ravioli, spaghettios, beefaroni) single serve oatmeal, and individual mac & cheese. “How can I repay the Lord for all the great good done for me?” (Psalm 116:12)

We are in need of Clorox wipes, box of plastic food gloves, sandwich bags and PILLOWS.  For questions or to volunteer, contact: Margie Reedy, MReedy@stchristopherski.org, Mary Jourdak, MJourdak@stchristopherski.org or Bridgitte Bailey, BBailey@stchristopherski.org

If you would like to volunteer to help with VBS, please fill out this form https://goo.gl/forms/XxiIl1wLXHLtdZN62 VBS will run from June 24th - June 28th from 1-4 pm daily this year. We need volunteers to help run a group, teach stations, help with set-up/clean-up, and help with snack. If you have any questions, please ask Angela (abailey@stchristopherski.org) or JP (jbailey@stchristopherski.org). Volunteer sign up will end on March 24, 2019.

EDGE Night is changing! We will now be meeting on the 2nd and 4th Sundays of the month from 6:00-7:30 PM . We look forward to seeing everyone on March 24th in the Parish Offices ! Make sure you like us on Facebook for all updates.

Next Life Teen meeting is March 24th at 6pm. Come end the weekend right with our youth group! We always have fun and are looking for new students to join us every 2nd and 4th Sunday. Next meeting we will have games and pizza as usual followed by a teen focused Stations of the Cross. This is a very powerful experience you don't want to miss! Come join us and make your Lent more meaningful this year by growing in your faith while having fun at the same time.

Tuesday, April 9 from 6-8 pm in the Parish Hall.

Wow! Last weekend was a powerful way to begin my ministry. Since it was the one-month anniversary of Fr. Paul’s untimely death, I really felt his presence. Being able to relax and meet some people after all of the Masses was very enjoyable for me – and I hope for you also. And I must say that I was so impressed with the participation and prayerful atmosphere at all of the Masses. St. Christopher is certainly a parish that worships well! It is my intention to use this column each week to share my thoughts about the parish with you. I will try to highlight some of the wonderful things that are happening here, as well as discuss various issues that are important to our lives as members of God’s family. One of the things I believe to be important is complete transparency as far as finances in a parish. If we as a staff are to be good stewards of the resources entrusted to us by you, the parishioners, we have to make sure you understand our financial picture as much as possible. For this reason, I have asked our Finance Manager, Brenda Tate, to begin giving you a report each week of the amount received in the offertory the previous week. Naturally we also receive donations by way of Faith Direct, our automatic giving program. These contributions will be reported monthly. As we move forward we will also share some of the ways we use this money, including ordinary things like utilities as well as any extraordinary expenses we may have. Another thing that I believe to be vital in a parish is to acknowledge the ways that people share their time and talent for the good of our community. In order to highlight not only the people but also the different ways of serving our parish, in this bulletin I begin recognizing a “Volunteer of the Week”. Naturally in a parish this size there are countless people who volunteer in a myriad of ways. I hope that by spotlighting some of them, you may be inspired to offer your services to our parish family. And so, I begin with our very first VOLUNTEER OF THE WEEK – Terry Otto Terry has been helping with our liturgical environment for many years. Everyone acknowledges that she has put in countless hours helping ensure that the atmosphere in our church reflects the liturgical season and assists us enter into the proper mood. She also was serving as a Sacristan, setting up for the Sunday Masses to make sure that everything was prepared for our celebrations. She recently decided to step down from coordinating the environment, in order to give others the opportunity to serve the parish. I invite anyone who would like to help form an “Environment Committee” to contact the office and leave your name and contact information. And Terry also assured me she would be happy to be available for consultation with us as we transition to the responsibility to this new committee. She is a great example of the spirit that makes St. Christopher an Amazing Parish, and I thank her for her service and generosity. Have a wonderful week, everyone. May god bless you and your loved ones! Fr. Giuliano

The mandatory Confirmation Retreat is scheduled for Saturday, March 23rd from 9AM-4PM. Permission slips are due on or before February 10th. Permission slips were given out in class, and can be found online. If you have any questions please contact Katie Sukley.  Lunch for the retreat will be provided. If your child has any food allergies please have them bring their lunch and snacks for the day. If you have any questions please contact Katie Sukley.

In lieu of a Lenten Study this year, we invite you to participate through www.formed.org in the variety of resources they have to offer for Lent including daily Lenten reflections and Into the Desert: A Lenten Study on Prayer. For more information please see our website. Formed.org is free for all parishioners, enter code PD2J7Z to sign-up!

Lent 2019 Soup and Stations—Friday Evening All are welcome in the Hall at 6 pm for a simple soup supper and crafts for the kids. Stations will begin at 7 pm in the Church. Parish Penance Service—April 11 at 7 pm

In last weeks Dialog, Sister Effie Caldarola suggested that during Lent we consider a daily “gratitude journal” to write down each day when “God is with you”. Her point is that there are many small (and big) things that we do in the course of the day where we are agents of God on earth. Acknowledge them by writing them down.  Christ gave everything to us / for us...so what do we do in return? The St. Christopher’s OUTREACH Program and Food Bank is one method of paying back! The Backpack Program is in need of individual shelf stable milk and individual mac & cheese. “How can I repay the Lord for all the great good done for me?” (Psalm 116:12)

We are in need of Clorox wipes, box of plastic food gloves, sandwich bags and PILLOWS.  Contact below to donate! For questions or to volunteer, contact: Margie Reedy, MReedy@stchristopherski.org, Mary Jourdak, MJourdak@stchristopherski.org or Bridgitte Bailey, BBailey@stchristopherski.org

If you would like to volunteer to help with VBS, please fill out this form https://goo.gl/forms/XxiIl1wLXHLtdZN62 VBS will run from June 24th - June 28th from 1-4 pm daily this year. We need volunteers to help run a group, teach stations, help with set-up/clean-up, and help with snack. If you have any questions, please ask Angela (abailey@stchristopherski.org) or JP (jbailey@stchristopherski.org). Volunteer sign up will end on March 24, 2019.

The Knights of Columbus is an organization of Catholic men dedicated to the Church and the Community.   For information regarding Membership in the Knights please contact the Membership Director, Jim Klunk at (410) 924-2270 or Grand Knight, Mike McQuillan at (301) 655-8897.   The Ladies Auxiliary of the Knights of Columbus meet the fourth Tuesday of each month at 7:00 pm in the Hall.   For more information, contact Mary Schmitt at (410) 604-1707.

EDGE Night is changing! We will now be meeting on the 2nd and 4th Sundays of the month from 6:00-7:30 PM . We look forward to seeing everyone on March 10th in the Parish Offices for pizza, Family Feud, and fun! Make sure you like us on Facebook for all updates.

Our next Life Teen meeting will be on March 10th from 6-7:30 pm in the church hall.