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The Vatican has instructed the Catholic Church not anoint people on the forehead with the ashes, but to sprinkle the ashes on the head.

During Lent, Friday masses will be at 5:30 pm. followed by the Stations of the Cross in the Church.  There will not be a morning Mass on Fridays during Lent. 
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Lenten Disciplines of Fasting and Abstinence:

Catholics in good health ages 18-59 are required to fast and to abstain from meat on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday.

Fasting consists of eaing only one meal, with the possibility of two smaller snacks that do not add up to a single full meal.

Catholics age 14 and older are to abstain from meat on all Fridays in Lent.  

Do you want to walk with Jesus on the road to Calvary?  If so, join us starting February 23 for a 6-week study of "No Greater Love," featuring videos with Edward Sri.  The study will be in the multipurpose building from 6:30-8:00 om on Tuesdays during Lent.  Deacon Mike Beauvais will lead the discussion.  Cost for the materials is $20.

If you don't want to come in person, there will be the opportunity to Zoom the presentation.  Please use https://www.saintanthonysfaithformation.org/adult-re to sign up online or call 823-8145 to sign up with the church secretary.  We will practive social distancing and masks are required.  This is a wonderful opportunity to build community while we dive deeper into Lent.  

 EIM In–Person Workshops
Beginning Jan. 1, 2021, new EIM applicants, as well as those with an existing EIM account who have never attended a workshop, must attend an in-person EIM workshop within 60 days of submitting the EIM application to fulfill their compli- ance requirement.  Contact your parish EIM site administrator for the workshop schedule status and to sign up.

All in-person EIM workshops will enforce pandemic safety protocols requiring facemasks, social distancing and hand sanitizing—admission will not be granted to persons without a facemask.

 EIM Online Training
Employees and current volunteers who have an existing EIM account and are due to update their EIM compliance should complete the online EIM training at  austindiocese.org/workshop.  Beginning Jan. 1, 2021, the online EIM training is only 
available or persons who have previously attended an in-person EIM workshop.  New applicants will not receive credit for completing theonline EIM training if it is their initial EIM training.
 

St. Anthony Church parking lots are having issues of misuse for a long time.  There are several occasions we had to deal with vehicles of unknown owners.  

Tow Away Zone signs are already in place at all the entry points.

Parking permits are available in the Parish office.  Parishioners are requested to get the permit stickers from the parish office.  Place the permit sticker at the Back windshield on passenger side (top corner).  Families with more than one vehicle will be issued permits for each vehicle.

Vehicles with parking permit permits can be parked in the church parking lots at anytime of the day or night.

For further guidelines of parking permits, please refer to the 2/14/21 bulletin.  

All the weekday Masses will be in the main church as long as social distancing regulations are in place.  

Weekday Mass Schedule:

Tuesday               5:30 p.m.
Wednesday        7:15 a.m.
Thursday             7:15 a.m.
Friday                   7:15 a.m.
Saturday              5:00 p.m.           Malinowski Center
Sunday                8:00 a.m.
   Main Church
Sunday                10:00 a.m.                 Malinowski Center

Only the  8:00 a.m. Mass on Sunday will be streamed on Facebook.

Confessions

(Face to face, both the priest and the penitent using the mask, keeping social distancing):

Thursdays: 4:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.

Saturdays: 3:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. 

Compassionate and Loving Father, In the face of confusion and concern, impart to us the calm of your Prescence.  In You allow us to find hope and healing.  Be with those who serve the sick and give them Your caring hands.  Be with those who lead and give them Your spirit of wisdom.  Be with those who have fallen ill and give them Your comforting heart.  Wrap Your arms around our world and hold us in Your love.  Allow us at this time of trial to then serve as instruments of that love to all we meet.  We ask this in your name.  

Amen.  

We are in search of old photos of St. Anthony’s Church in the years before the fire.  If you or someone you know has any photos from that time, please bring them by the church office.  We will scan them & hand them right back to you.  The scan only takes a couple of minutes.  Thank you for helping to preserve the history of the church.

Come by the Church Office and take a look at our “Gift Shop”. There are items for the whole family.

We have Rosaries, Crucifixes, Bibles for children and adults, beautiful jewelry, Holy Water bottles and a lot more.
 

The facilities of St. Anthony's Church must be reserved in advance to prevent double booking. This includes the church, the Malinowski Center and rooms in the multi-purpose building. These are used for a variety of functions as part of the Parish and must be reserved ahead of time for any event or meeting and also for setting up before a meeting, decorating or using the kitchen. It is also rented to outside sources for different events during the week and weekends. Please prevent embarrassing double booking by calling the office to make sure the space is available at 979-823-8145. Thank you.

If you are currently a parishioner and any of your or your family's contact information (address/phone number, etc.) on file with us has changed, please call in the changes to 
979-823-8145 or email info@saintanthonys.org so that we can update our records.  You may also go to our website www.saintanthonys.org to update your information.  Thank you.