From the Pastor's Desk - 3/9/2025

    May God bless you at this holy time of Lent. We have been marked with the ashes of the palms, and now we begin our 40-day journey with Christ. May you have a good, productive, prayerful Lenten season. It is a blessing for us to have this time to deepen our relationship with Christ.

    THANK YOU to our prayer group, Our Lady of Fatima! They give regularly to our parish, but they recently presented me with a rather large check in the amount of $1,500! This will be deposited into our Building Repair fund. I appreciate the financial support this group continues to give to us—and of course for their prayers that they offer up every Friday afternoon!

    Please keep Ascension and Christ the King in your prayers at this time of merger. I know there are many questions. We will be having 2 representatives from the diocese meeting with myself and the 5 people on our parish Transition Team the beginning of April to help us see where we need to be. As of this writing, I am still not sure if I will be here as pastor past July 1. I have made it known that I would prefer to stay on as pastor. I will be 68 this summer, and can technically retire in 2 years; so we will see what the bishop decides. I have to be open to any possible change.

Peace………Fr. Jeff