WHAT'S HAPPENING?
The Altar Server Schedule is now updated for February.
Discover Subiaco Academy
Subiaco Academy, a Catholic boarding/day college preparatory school for boys grades 7-12, in western Arkansas (east of Ft. Smith), offers the opportunity for prospective students and parents to visit and have a taste of Subiaco life during our Discovery Experience on February 16-18, 2012, or families can schedule a visit at another time, by contacting us at:
1-800-364-7824 or admissions@subi.org.
Discovery Experience is FREE of charge, including
FOOD and ACCOMMODATIONS.
A Lifeline for Troubled
Marriages
Do you know of a marriage in trouble? Are better communication and conflict management skills needed? Retrouvaille is a program designed to help heal and renew troubled and hurting marriages. It is a relationship building program with the main emphasis on communication between husband and wife. Separated and divorced couples are also encouraged to attend. The next Retrouvaille weekends are:
St. John Center, Little Rock, AR: February 10-12, 2012, call 501-835-7537 and Tulsa, OK: February 10-12, 2012,
call 918-695-7010. Or contact www.HelpOurMarriage.org Or the Family Life Office at 501/664-0340, ext. 353 Orregister online at www.retrouvaille.org.
WIDOWED?
DIVORCED?
SEPARATED?
helps those who have lost a loved one through separation, divorce or death. The weekend program helps deal with the natural grief process and offers an opportunity, through God, for dealing with the pain of loss and moving into the future with renewed hope. Our next weekend will be held at St. Scholastica Retreat Center in Fort Smith, February 17—19, 2012. For more information, call Debi Giles, 479-267-6905; Diane Carouthers, 870-265-6322. For more information go to: www.beginningexperience-ar-ok.org
Economy Affects Marriages!
It takes much effort just to make ends meet in our world today. Do you wish you could talk about something besides all the stresses in your life? A Worldwide Marriage Encounter Weekend gives you the time and tools to revitalize romance, deepen communication and nourish the spirituality in your marriage.
The next weekend will be held Feb. 10-12 at Subiaco Abbey. For more information, visit our website at arkansaswwme.org or call Stephen and Elaine Lienhart, 501-312-1119 or e-mail: register@arkansaswwme.org
Calix Society of Central Arkansas Formation Meeting
The Catholic Diocese of Little Rock is sponsoring a new unit of the Calix Society, a national organization founded in 1947 in Minnesota for Alcoholics in recovery and their families to come together for support and spiritual healing. Calix Society of Central Arkansas is not a substitute for AA or Al-Anon but is an amplification of the 11th step which calls for individual spiritual development. The group is Catholic, guided by a chaplain and open to all faiths. All are welcome to attend the monthly meetings including family and friends who are affected. A Mass followed by the Formation meeting is scheduled for Thursday, February 16th from 6 p.m. — 7:30 p.m. at St. John Catholic Center, 2500 North Tyler Street, Little Rock. The evening will begin with a Mass at 6:00 followed by the meeting to elect officers and will be held in the Fletcher Hall building, 1st floor Lafferty Chapel and Music Room respectively. For more information, please call 501-664-0340 x336 or e-mail calix@dolr.org. To learn more about the Calix Society, go to: www.calixsociety.org.
Target Take Charge of Education Program
We receive money from Target REDcard holders who have designated BSS at their charity of choice. If you shopat Target, please log on to Target.com or pick up a credit card (RED card) application at the store. On the application, you can designate Blessed Sacrament School as your school. We receive 1% of all purchases made on that card and it adds up! We currently have 18 people with Target cards. We received $649.79 in August, 2011 and have received at total of $2675.72 since we started the program. Again, spread the word. Once you sign up, just use your Target card to make purchases when you shop at the store. I will keep you updated.
MOTHERHOOD MINISTRY
& PREGNANCY RESOURCE CENTER
Blessed Sacrament Parish shows its belief in and commitment to the sanctity of life in prayer and with donations of clothing and funds to Motherhood Ministry and the Pregnancy Resource Center.
Motherhood Ministry is housed in the old school building on the south entrance nearest to the Parish Hall. Volunteers assist those in need each Wednesday, 9:30 a.m.—2:00 p.m., when expectant mothers may obtain free maternity clothes and free clothing for children, infancy to Size 14. Motherhood provides: free layettes for newborn babies; free baby formula; free diapers; bassinets/baby beds.
Pregnancy Resource Center provides encouragement to expectant mothers to continue their pregnancies; free ultrasounds; free pregnancy tests; and free
parenting classes. Mothers may earn points toward the purchase of baby items with parenting class
attendance.
Please consider offering your tine, talent and.or to either of these ministries. Contact:
Faye Siebert, 932-6566, for Motherhood Ministry
Barb Young, 932-6644, Pregnancy Resource Center
NOTICE—PLEASE READ
When a name has been on this list for 3 months, please call the Prayer Line, 935-7836 or the Parish Office, 932-2529, and update the request.
Rita Siefert, Susan Tindel,
Virginia Oswald, Mary John Braley, Corinne Stipati,
Larry Hunt, Gerald Deveney, James Horman, Rosmary
Fernandez, Betty Runnels, Betty Sloan, Jeanine Virgin,
Bobby Weaver, Tim Veteto, Michelle Veteto, Elizabeth
Penedo, Julio Penedo, Aida Rivera, Nikki Amick, Amanda
Amick, Brad Edgar, Pat Austin, Joseph Haddad, Mickey
Bridger, Gloria & Jay Pilbeam, Wayne Long, Teddy Joe
Wiggington, Jacqueline Zipfel, Larry McKinney, Stan
McKinney, Kathleen Marabondo, Matthew Deveney,
Sarah Orr, Jose Guerra, Rosa Ascura, Shelby Ward, Mike
Daffron, Fred Neumann, Jean Rogers, David Erby, Bill
Morgan, Jeanine Trevathan, Mickey Baugh, Dustin Clouse,
Shirley Creech, Georgette Crawford, Maria Casey,
Dr. George Roberson, Hayden Morrison, Jennifer Benson,
Jayni Blackburn, Eric Guzman, Laura Puello, Antony
Vazquez, Aida Mendez, Matt Kueter, Wilma Lensing,
Monty May, Floyd Dupwe, Doris Fitzgerald, Vanita
Catalina, Margaret Marzewski, Ann Marie Dunham,
Randy Murray, Sr. Paul Oswle, OSB
