We will also broadcast the Triduum services on Facebook. They will be: Holy Thursday: 5:30 pm Good Friday: 3:00 pm Easter Vigil: 8:30 pm Easter Sunday: 7:00 am
I just had a conversation with the Bishop, so we’re making it official now for the sake of planning with your family: our Confirmation on April 17th is postponed. We can’t reschedule right now until we see when this all is going to resolve. Thank you for your patience, Fr. Brian
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A Call to Prayer: Pope Francis has invited all Christians of various Confessions to join together in praying the Our Father on March 25, 2020, at Noon. Let us unite together in Christ during these difficult times.
Please sign up for Flocknote to enable better communication as we work to deal with the coronavirus outbreak. Flocknote is an email and text-based communication system designed for parishes. Text "Newcastle" to 84576 to sign up or use the form on the homepage. We promise not to sell your information, and we promise not to send you too many messages! -Fr. Brian
I’ll be offering audio reflections on the daily Mass readings during this time of the coronavirus, feel free to listen to them here on the website. I recommend reading through the readings HERE first, and then listening to the recording. - Fr. Brian
While our public masses are suspended, please consider watching a livestreamed or recorded mass every Sunday (or even daily!). On TV, K2 Television out of Casper broadcasts a Mass every Sunday at 9 am offered by one of our Wyoming priests, and EWTN broadcasts Mass daily (check their schedule). Online, my top recommendations are EWTN or St. John Cantius. The EWTN website offers recordings of their masses, and St. John Cantius, a beautiful parish in Chicago, offers livestreams or recordings of their masses and prayers throughout the day. -Fr. Brian
My brothers and sisters, we are living in a challenging time, but I believe that the better we work together, the sooner we will conquer this crisis and put it behind us. To help contain the spread of COVID-19, the following policies are being put in place for the time being: -Corpus Christi will remain open during the day for private prayer. Please maintain at least six feet between yourself and anyone else in there. I have bottles of Holy Water for you to take home, and Stations of the Cross booklets are available if you want to pray the Stations privately. -Since St. Paul’s and St. Anthony’s are ordinarily locked during the week anyway, I would ask that those churches remain locked until further notice. Because the spaces are so small, it is not wise to be in them with another person at all. -Mass and the other Sacraments are suspended until further notice. We need to see how much this virus spreads. -Baptism, Confession, Anointing of the Sick and Viaticum, that is, communion, may be administered only in danger of death or in extreme illness. -Funeral liturgies are to be postponed. At most, we can have a very small graveside service at this time. -Religious education, men’s and women’s groups, prayer groups, etc, are all suspended. -The church buildings are not to be used for any meetings or gatherings at this time. -I am publishing a daily reflection on our website, and a Sunday reflection will be posted to the website and also broadcast on AM 1240 KASL at 7 am. As you know, this situation continues to change rapidly, so these policies will be revisited as necessary. Please reach out if you have any questions. I assure you, all these sacrifices break my heart, but I sincerely believe them to be necessary. I want to urge you to think beyond yourself, and to see these restrictions as an act of solidarity. I’m really thinking about this as a pro-life issue. It’s not about you and whether or not you can survive this virus. It’s not about whether you’re willing to take the risk and go to Mass anyway. It’s about who you might unwittingly pass this virus on to who can’t survive it. Each of us are being called to make sacrifices so that others, people we will probably never meet, can live. This is the heart of the pro-life movement.
Knights of Columbus Scholarship packets will be available at the church office. Packets are due to the church office by Sunday, April 26th. For questions, contact Matthew Gorman at (505) 948-8364.
If you want to begin being an Extraordinary Minister of Holy Communion, please call Kay at Corpus Christi (746-4219) by Wednesday, March 18th so that you can receive the proper permission from the Bishop. If you are already an EMHC, we assume you want to continue and we will be sure the Bishop extends the proper permission to you as well. Thank you. Fr. Brian
After consulting with Governor Gordon, the Wyoming Department of Health, and other leaders of faith-based organizations in Wyoming, all masses will be temporarily suspended in the Diocese of Cheyenne beginning Tuesday, March 17. Further directives will follow this week regarding other parish activities. While the celebration of the Eucharist is the source and summit of our parish life, the need to protect public health is paramount at this time. Please keep all of the sick in your prayers, especially those effected by Covid-19. We will be evaluating each week the appropriate time for masses to resume.
If you want to begin being an Extraordinary Minister of Holy Communion, please call Kay at Corpus Christi (746-4219) by Wednesday, March 18th so that you can receive the proper permission from the Bishop. If you are already an EMHC, we assume you want to continue and we will be sure the Bishop extends the proper permission to you as well. Thank you. Fr. Brian
For each day of Lent, “give up” a non-perishable item to benefit the B.R.E.A.D. office. One item each day for forty days = 40 items! All non-perishable items (canned goods, pasta, crackers, etc) and personal items (toothbrushes, toothpaste, soap, etc) can be donated to the BREAD office at 627 Pine St. from 9:30 AM -1:00 PM Monday – Thursday. Contact BREAD at 746-3542 for additional information or questions.
Retrouvaille (pronounced retro-vi with a long i) is designed to help troubled marriages regain their health. It helps spouses uncover or re-awaken the love, trust and commitment that originally brought them together. The program is highly successful in saving hurting mariages, even bringing reconciliation to couples who have already separated or divorced. For confidential information about or to register for the program beginning with a weekend on March 27-29, 2020 call (303) 317-5111 or email: retrouvaille.co@gmail.com or visit the website at www.HelpOurMarriage.com
For each day of Lent, “give up” a non-perishable item to benefit the B.R.E.A.D. office. One item each day for forty days = 40 items! All non-perishable items (canned goods, pasta, crackers, etc) and personal items (toothbrushes, toothpaste, soap, etc) can be donated to the BREAD office at 627 Pine St. from 9:30 AM -1:00 PM Monday – Thursday. Contact BREAD at 746-3542 for additional information or questions.
Fr. Brian Hess will be giving a Retreat - Living Decisively - on Saturday, March 21, 2020 from 9:00 AM to 2:00 PM at the Black Hills State University Newman Center in Spearfish, South Dakota. RSVP to (307) 660-4175. Details are included in the bulletin insert.