• Wake Up to Living God’s Plan
  
  

  
  The next preaching series will begin March 1-2 and take us through Lent, including a parish mission (see below). The theme is “Wake Up to Living God’s Plan.” During this preaching series we are going to look at the three most important questions we ask in life:

  1. The question of existence: Why am I alive?
  2. The question of significance: Does my life matter?
  3. The question of purpose or intention: Is there a purpose for my life?

  
  We will be following a book entitled “The Purpose Driven Life” by Pastor Rick Warren that I encourage you to purchase and read during Lent. I especially encourage our small groups to read this book together. The new, expanded edition is $12 to $15 online; the old edition is $5 to $10 online. The old edition is good enough to get the main part of the message. To get the most out of the book, the preaching series and Lent I invite you to join one of our small groups or start your own. The book has some great questions and quotes from the Bible that will challenge and inspire you.  There is also a study guide for the book that has lots of great questions and activities including a “spiritual health assessment” to help you figure out how you are doing spiritually. It costs another $7 to $10 but it is a good investment. Pastor Warren has some excellent insights for all of us. Because he is an evangelical Protestant minister, his book is written from a perspective that differs in some key areas from our Catholic faith – and I will point those out to you – but I still encourage you to read the book. So, come and join us during Lent for “forty days of purpose” to understand how you can live out God’s plan for your life. 
  
  Parish Lenten Mission
  We will be having a parish Lenten mission this year on March 11, 12 and 13 – Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday at 7:00 p.m. in the church each night. It will feature a moving testimony by one of our parishioners, preaching, adoration and confessions. It will explore more deeply the theme for Lent: “Wake up to living God’s plan.” Come and discover why you are here in this world.