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On December 10, 1925, Our Lady and the Child Jesus appeared to Sr. Lucia dos Santos, one of the three Fatima visionaries, with an extraordinary request and promise that remains critical for our current times. Join Holy Family as they celebrate the 100th anniversary of when Our Lord and Our Lady asked for the spread of the First Saturday Devotion by coming to learn Sue Vanderscheuren’s talk “The Five First Saturday Devotion & Our Lady’s Peace Plan From Heaven” on Saturday, January 10 at 9:00 am in Holy Family Hall. See how this message and devotion are a part of the hope we have been immersed in during the Jubilee Year of Hope. Learn how to fulfill this heavenly request and about the amazing promise attached to it.

Families are invited to come to Sacred Heart School on Wednesday, January 14 for Holy Family’s Faith & Family Night! The evening will begin with a potluck. Please bring your dishes by 5:30 pm, with dinner beginning at 5:45 pm. Everyone is encouraged to bring a dish to pass. At 6:30 pm, parents can attend the Building Your Domestic Church session focused on “Keeping Faith When Your Kids Push Back – What to do When You Don’t Have the Answers.” Meanwhile, high school students can head into the basement for Bible True or False Trivia, while younger children stay in the gym for games and activities.

Are you already Baptized, and have already received Reconciliation and First Communion in the Catholic Church? Are you wanting to be confirmed in the Catholic faith? Holy Family is offering a seven-week session, using Matthew Kelly’s Four Signs of a Dynamic Catholic, along with small group discussions on varying topics, to learn more about the faith. The group will meet in Holy Family’s St. Agnes Library on Wednesdays, January 14 to February 25 from 6:00 to 8:00 pm. To sign up, please visit hffdl.org/adult-confirmation or contact Sabina Carter at (920) 921-0580 ext. 501.

Reminder that all Confirmation students need to fill out the questionnaire below for the Bishop no later than January 15, 2026. https://form.jotform.com/251326189971162

This year, make a resolution to grow in your faith and relationship with the Lord by registering for one of Holy Family’s Small Groups and Bible Studies. Offered on a variety of topics, these Small Groups and Bible Studies are here to help you learn more about the Catholic Church and to form community with your fellow parishioners. Classes this winter include Discovering Adoration, the Passion and Resurrection of Jesus, Mysteries of the Rosary, and more. Groups will begin meeting in January. To sign up and to register, visit hffdl.org/sm.

Women are invited to a peaceful morning retreat of prayer, Mass, and fellowship at Holy Family’s Women’s Ministry “Sharing Our Journey: A Morning Retreat” on Saturday, January 17 from 7:00 to 10:30 am at Holy Family Church and Hall. The day will include Confession/Adoration, praying the Rosary, Mass with Fr. Fernando, breakfast by our Holy Family’s Men’s Group, and a talk from Holy Family parishioner and Catholic speaker Reese Neumann on the perseverance of faith through her journey of adoption, injuries, and redemptive suffering. To register to volunteer, please visit hffdl.org/women.

At 6:30 pm on Thursday, January 22, learn about the impact of addiction, the importance of breaking the stigma surrounding it, and the resources available to those battling it from FDL County Drug Court Coordinator Jennifer Laning, CSAC, Gratitude Club Manager Ellen Buretta, and others who work with those suffering from the disease. Taking place in Holy Family Hall, the presentation will also include a talk from a parish family who lost a loved one to addiction.

The Holy Family Quilters welcome anyone who would like to make quilts to join them! This fall they have donated 55 twin quilts to St. Vincent de Paul for home visits, The Beacon House, St. Katharine Drexel Homeless Shelter, and the Holy Family Warming Shelter. Thirty-nine lap quilts were given to various nursing homes. If you would like to join the group, they tie off quilts every Tuesday from 8:00 to 10:00 am in the basement at St. Mary Church. For further information, please contact Karen Scheberl at (262) 629-4193.

Holy Family will host “GriefShare,” a 13-week support group and seminar designed to help people rebuild their lives after loss on Mondays, February 2 to April 27 from 4:00 to 5:30 pm in the Holy Family Board Room. You must register but can join the program after the start date. To sign up, please email Deacon Dale Paczkowski at dalep@hffdl.org.

Holy Family will kick off their Parish Mission with Lent-A-Palooza on Sunday, February 15! The entire parish is invited to a potluck in Holy Family Hall from 5:30 to 6:15 pm. After, children in first through fifth grade can stay for Lent-a Palooza, a festival style event, while their parents attend the Mission Talk. Younger kids can stay with a parent. If you’d like to volunteer, please contact Trisha Zimmerman at trishaz@hffdl.org or (920) 921-0580 ext. 503.

Join Holy Family Sunday, February 15-Tuesday, Februray 17 from 6:30 to 8:00 pm for their 2026 Holy Family Catholic Community Pre-Lent Parish Mission “Just Rest, Receiving God’s Renewing Prescence in the Deserts of Your Life (A Study of the Exodus)” featuring Sonja Corbitt. Sonja is a best-selling author, Telly Award-winning broadcaster, and “Catholic Evangelista.”Corbitt will teach us about the spiritual discipline, gift, and promise of rest through the story of the Exodus. Please bring your bibles! Adoration will take place each night from 5:30 to 6:15 pm.

Save the date! November 2-11, 2026, Holy Family Catholic Community and Fr. Ryan Pruess will travel to Greece and Ephesus to follow in the footsteps of Saint Paul and you’re invited! Highlights of trip include visiting Thessaloniki, Central Greece, Athens, Mykonos, Patmos & Ephesus, as well as a Greek Island cruise! As you visit historic sites like Crete, Philippi, and Santorini, you’ll learn about the ministry of Saint Paul and how he converted the Greeks to Christianity.

The cost per person is $4,495. The trip will include round-trip airfare, motorcoach transportation to O’Hare and back, English-speaking tour guides, entrance fees to all spots on the itinerary, porter service at the hotel (per one piece of luggage), five nights of accommodations in first-class hotels in Greece, and three nights aboard the Celestyal Discovery in standard exterior staterooms, and more! The trip will leave on November 2 from Chicago’s O’Hare Airport and return to Chicago on November 11. To reserve your spot, please visit https://www.petersway.com/1404.html

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