Sts Peter, Mary and Joseph at 1 Main, Hokah, MN 55971 US - The News from St. Peter's Parish
| The News from St. Peter's Parish |
+++++++++++++++++++++++ It’s that time of the year for the annual St. Peter’s Extravaganza. It will be held on April 4th, 2009 at the Hokah Community Center/City Hall. We would appreciate your generous contributions of raffle and auction items to help support the school fundraiser. Tickets are available at the school office, or Security State Bank. Questions please call Tina Ross at 507-894-8037. We hope to see you all there this year. Thank you for support our school through this fundraiser. Sincerely, St. Peter’s School Board
There are students of all ages at St. Peter's who are in need of a faith formation teacher, especially students of the first communion class. Please consider this avenue of sharing your time and talent with your parish and then talk to Fr. Pete, Jo Kochie or David. The pay is very small, but the rewards will be out of this world!!
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Do your Christmas shopping at St. Peter’s!
Apparel orders will be available soon. This year besides the t-shirts and sweatshirts you will be able to order, St. Peter’s bags, knit hats, and sweat pants. Contact Tina Ross or Laura Bergstrom during the week and look for order forms to be available after mass in the coming weeks.
St. Peter’s Calendar Raffle Winners!
November 21st - Cindy Becker/Petersen - $25.00
November 22nd - Andy Graf - $25.00
Thank you for supporting our school through this fundraiser. Sincerely, St. Peter’s School Board
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We would like to sincerely thank all our volunteers and the support from the community in helping to make St. Peter’s roast beef dinner a success. This annual dinner would not be possible with out your help.
2009 Dinners: 1449 Carry-outs
681 sit-downs
2,130 TOTAL
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SCRIP CLIP
Script is available at the school during the week. Please call 894-4375 if you have any questions.
The Winona Diocesan Council of Catholic Women has announced a new communication method for anyone in the Winona Diocese, but especially women age18 and older. The email address, wdccw@dow.org will now be available to answer your CCW questions on topics from legislation, church, community, international, and family concerns as well as organizational concerns of parish women’s groups from a Catholic standpoint. We also have a diocesan priest moderator who can answer specific Catholic questions.
Besides having this address for questions, the Council plans to send out an email-only newsletter from this address entitled “Connecting Catholic Women”. Registration for the email newsletter is confidential and email addresses will not be shared with any other organization.
To receive this newsletter free of charge, please email your subscription request to wdccw@dow.org and include your name, email address and parish affiliation. You can look forward to receiving a confirmation email of the receipt of your FREE subscription.
Steven Lehn is writing about the history of the Catholic Church in Hokah.
On the Hokah web site, there is an ongoing article about Hokah’s Catholic Heritage. The web address is: http://hokah.communityblogs.us/
Please check back as this article is being written in parts and will continue to be posted over the next couple of months. Your family may find it interesting to learn about amazing gifts that were given to build the church and you are sure to find some familiar names. This posting is based on the book; They called Hokah their Home by Carol Walcker.
We are in need of a few volunteers to help in delivering meals to a few seniors in Hokah. If you have extra time around 11AM, we would love to hear from you. This is also a great opportunity for parents who want to work with their children on learning the importance of giving of ones time, to help someone else. The meals get picked up at the coffee shop between 11:00 and 11:15. It takes roughly 20 minutes to deliver. Please call Mike or Carol Moore at 894-4231 or 894-4511.
This program is run through Semcac (Meals on Wheels)