Wednesday is Ash Wednesday the beginning of Lent. Masses for Ash Wednesday will be at 8 am, 12:05pm and 7pm. Ashes will only be distributed at the Masses. Please recall that Ash Wednesday is a day of fast and abstinence for all Catholics. To review all the rules of fast and abstinence please go to our parish website www.stpatrickswareham.org.
All registered parishioners should have received a Lenten mailing this week. The letter included a brochure entitled Lent: the Promise of Prayer, Fasting and Almsgiving. Read the brochure and gain in your knowledge of the purposes of Lent. Also in the mailing was one of our Lenten folders. We ask you to make a donation of 50c every day of Lent for a total of $20. The proceeds of our Lenten Folders will be donated to Food for the Poor to build a house in Haiti or another poor country in Latin America. Each house cost $3,200. Over the last three years we have built a house each year. Join in this fund raiser this year. During the Lenten Season we will add an evening Mass at 7 pm. On Wednesdays Deacon David Murphy will conduct a Communion Service. Plan to attend Stations of the Cross each Friday evening of Lent at 7:30 pm.
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