Please see the Lent newsletter for more information on Lenten activities in the parishes and for your families.

Holy Week and Easter activities will be included in the April newsletter.

During the month of March we will pause our Knights Give Back donations to focus on charitable donations to an organization of your family's choice. During Lent the parishes have many opportunities to be a service in the community so we encourage you to look in the parish bulletins to find a service opportunity that works for your family.

https://www.corpuschristishiloh.com/

https://stclarechurch.org/

https://stnicholasofallon.org/

We will continue our Knights Give Back - First Friday Donations in April.

Another aspect of our Knights Give Back program is providing meals to those in need at Cosgrove's Kitchen in East St. Louis.

Three times during the school year, the faculty & staff will spend a Saturday morning volunteering at the Soup Kitchen. In addition to the faculty & staff volunteering, a set of three grades will also provide the food items that the faculty & staff prepare and serve.

This time Grades 3rd, 4th & 5th will donate items to make sandwiches, soup, and dessert. Please see the Sign-Up Genius below to sign-up to bring in donations. Donations need to be brought in on Thursday, March 6.

Please review the available slots below and click on the button to sign up. Thank you!

To expand upon this year's theme, Companions on the Journey, we are encouraging students to attend Mass with the various groups who accompany them on their faith journey.

On the weekend of March 8 & 9, attend Mass with your Aladdin Jr. castmates, take a picture together, and share it on social media using the hashtag #CompanionsOnTheJourney.

3 - St. Katherine Drexel

4 - St. Casimir

7 - Sts. Perpetua & Felicity

8 - St. John of God

9 - St. Frances of Rome

14 - St. Matilda

15 - St. Louise de Marillac

17 - St. Patrick

18 - St. Cyril of Jerusalem

19 - St. Joseph

23 - St. Turbius of Mongrovejo

25 - Annunciation of the Lord

25 - St. Dismas

In addition to wearing green and eating Irish food, some ways to celebrate this beloved feast day are:

- Free Activity Page: https://www.reallifeathome.com/st-patricks-day-activity-page/

- Irish & St. Patrick Prayers: https://www.catholicicing.com/saint-patricks-day-prayers/

- Free Activity Pack: https://www.catholicicing.com/st-patrick-pack/

St. Joseph is known as Jesus' "foster father" or "earthly father." When Mary told him that she was pregnant with Jesus, he had questions, but he was patient, took the problem to God in prayer, and listened with an open heart and mind to what God was calling him to do.

St. Joseph is an example of being a hard worker as well as an example of taking life's challenges to God in prayer and responding accordingly.

Fun Fact: St. Joseph does not say anything in the Bible. His holiness is known just by his actions.

Since Joseph worked with his hands consider celebrating his feast day by eating a meal entirely with your hands!

Christ be with me, Christ before me,

Christ behind me, Christ within me,

Christ beneath me, Christ above me,

Christ at my right, Christ at my left,

Christ in the heart of everyone who thinks of me,

Christ in the mouth of every man who speaks to me,

Christ in the eye of every man that sees me,

Christ in the ear of every man that hears me.

Amen.

Mass Schedule at 8:15am

March 5 in the Gym: K-8 (5 - Brandmeyer)

March 11 in the Chapel: 5th-8th (5 - Spain)

March 13 in the Chapel: K-4 (4 - Herrmann)

March 18 in the Chapel: 5th-8th (6 - Dillaplain)

March 20 in the Chapel: K-4 (3 - Starzyk)

March 25 in the Gym: K-8 (3 - Zagorski)

Eucharistic Adoration

March 20 in the Chapel following Mass until 10:15am (Grades K-3 & 8 attending)

• Kindergarten & 1st grades: 9am - 9:15am
• 2nd: 9:15am - 9:30am
• 3rd: 9:30am - 9:45am
• 8th: 9:45am - 10:15 am (Benediction begins at 10:15am)

St. Clare

First Communion

March 9 - Blessing Cup Retreat

April 26 - First Communion Practice

April 26 - First Communion Mass: Option 1 (5:00pm)

April 27 - First Communion Mass: Option 2 (10:30am)

Confirmation

March 2 - 8th Grade Retreat

May 8 - Confirmation Practice

May 9 - Celebration of Confirmation

St. Nicholas

First Reconciliation

March 22 - Celebration of First Reconciliation

First Communion

March 8 - First Communion Retreat

April 25 - First Communion Practice

April 27 - First Communion Mass

Confirmation

March 9 - 8th Grade Retreat

Corpus Christi

First Reconciliation & First Communion

March 2 - First Communion Retreat with Celebration of First Reconciliation (12pm-3:30pm)

April 26 - First Communion Practice (9am)

April 26 - Celebration of First Communion (4:30pm)

Confirmation

March 9 - Rite of Enrollment (9am)

March 22 - Confirmation Retreat (9am-3pm)

May 4 - Celebration of Confirmation (4pm)

Road to Emmaus - Luke 24: 13-35

• “Then they said to each other, “Were not our hearts burning within us while he spoke to us on the way and opened the scripture to us? Then the two recounted what had taken place on the way and how he was made known to them in the breaking of the bread.”
  

Micah 6:8

• “You have been told, O mortal, what is good, and what the Lord requires of you: Only to do justice and to love goodness and to walk humbly with your God.”
  

John 15:15 “I have called you friends.”

“Unity happens when we walk together.” - Pope Francis

“Our hearts are restless until they rest in you.” - St. Augustine of Hippo

“We are to become vessels of God’s compassionate love for others.” - St. Clare of Assisi