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Any children who are new to Altar Serving or in need of a refresher can attend Holy Family’s Altar Server Training from 8:00 to 10:00 am Saturday, January 13 at Holy Family Church, 271 Fourth Street Way. Boys and girls in the 3rd grade or older who are interested in serving for Saturday/Sunday Masses throughout our parish are welcome to attend.

This month, students in middle and high school are invited to join with their peers to play board games, sing karaoke, help others with a service project, and watch a Christmas movie as part of Holy Family’s Youth Group!

All events take place from 6:30 to 8:00 pm at Sacred Heart School. Events are as follows:
December 14: Board Games & Karaoke Night
December 21: Christmas Wreaths Service Project
December 28: Christmas Movie Night

For more information, please contact Eric at the Holy Family Parish Office at (920) 921-0580 ext. 502 or ericr@hffdl.org.

Would you like to learn more about the Catholic Church and your faith and do so within your Catholic community? Then join one—or more—of Holy Family’s Small Groups and Bible Studies beginning this winter! Groups and studies offered include those on the early Church, Bible Basics, Job, St. Paul’s Letter to the Philippians, death, and the Sunday Readings. You can learn more about available classes and register beginning Friday, December 15.

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This Saturday, bring the kids to Holy Family Hall following the 4:00 pm Mass to watch the Christmas classic “A Charlie Brown Christmas” and decorate Christmas cookies! This event is free and all are welcome. No registration is necessary! For more information, contact Eva at ethelen@hffdl.org or (920) 921-0580 ext. 202.

Following the 4:00 pm Saturday Mass, and 8:00 and 10:00 am Sunday Masses at Holy Family Church this weekend you will have the chance to view and purchase photography from Fr. David La Plante while supplies last!

Fr. David will generously donate the proceeds of the sales to Catholic Relief Services and the Holy Family Warming Shelter. The photography will be framed or printed on canvas and available in three sizes, making it a great gift to give this holiday season.

Fr. David will also preside at the 8:00 am Mass on Sunday, December 17. He is excited to return to his home parish and share his work, and Holy Family looks forward to welcoming him!

Fr. Matthew will bring Holy Family’s Advent Priest Talk series to a close this Tuesday from 6:30 to 7:30 pm at Sacred Heart Church when he discusses the virtue of humility and how the Holy Family displayed it. Please join us for the talk and stay after for treats!

Holy Family will offer 12 Hours of Reconciliation from 8:00 am to 8:00 pm on Wednesday, December 20 at Holy Family Church, 271 Fourth Street Way. If you are unable to make that time, priests will also hear confessions from 8:00 am to 8:00 pm Tuesday, December 19 at St. Peter Claver Church, 1439 S. 12th St., Sheboygan.

Christmas is just a few weeks away! To help you prepare to attend Christmas Mass, please view Holy Family’s Mass Schedule below.

Note: the obligation to attend both still Sunday & Christmas Masses stands.

Christmas Eve – Sunday, December 24
Sacred Heart: 4:00 pm; Midnight
St. Mary: 4:00 pm
Holy Family: 4:00 pm; 6:00 to 7:00 pm (Posadas); 7:00 pm (Spanish); 10:30 pm
St. Peter: 4:00 pm
Presentation: 6:00 pm

Christmas Day – Monday, December 25
St. Peter: 8:00 am
St. Mary: 8:00 am
Holy Family: 8:00 am; 10:00 am; 12:00 pm (Spanish)
Sacred Heart: 9:00 am
Presentation: 10:00 am
Our Risen Savior: 10:00 am

Start off the New Year with Holy Family as the parish offers multiple Masses for the Solemnity of the Blessed Virgin Mary Mother of God on Sunday, December 31 and Monday, January 1. Holy Family will offer Mass at 4:00 pm at Sacred Heart Church on Sunday, December 31 in anticipation of the Solemnity, and at 8:00 am at Holy Family Church, 10:00 am at Sacred Heart Church, and at noon in Spanish at Holy Family Church on Monday, January 1 for the Solemnity. Because the Solemnity falls on Monday, January 1, 2024, is not a Holy Day of Obligation. When Holy Days of Obligation fall on a Monday or Saturday, the obligation is lifted.

Calling all mothers, wife’s and busy women! A faith study through Holy Family is starting on Friday mornings from 8:15-9:45 on January 19th – March 22.

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Walking with a Purpose: Seven Priorities that Make Life Work
Lisa Brenninkmeyer understands how it feels when life is stuck on the spin cycle. As a mother of seven, she knows we don’t just need to be told what kind of women we should be. We need some help getting there.

Drawing from her own experience of balancing marriage, motherhood, and work inside and outside the home, Lisa helps you uncover the key to living a busy life with inner calm. What’s the secret? Identifying key priorities, and doing first what matters most.

With humor and wisdom, Lisa will help you:
Stop striving and rest in God’s unconditional love.
– Experience new hope in your marriage.
– Reach your child’s heart.
– Create clarity in a cluttered home.
– Find friendships that go below the surface and satisfy.
– Discover your passion and purpose.

Once in awhile, things may seem as if they’re under control, but we want to walk with purpose regardless of our circumstances. God wants us to daily experience the joy and contentment that comes from knowing we have given our all to what he considers most important. The abundant and purposeful life we were created to live is just around the corner.

Family is now hiring for its Director of Worship position.  Responsible for the liturgical life of the six churches within the parish, the Director of Worship will give particular attention to sacred music in our worship of the Lord. In collaboration with parishioners and the priest team, the Director of Worship will work to maintain the liturgical norms of the parish and to manifest the parish’s vision for the liturgical year and season, as well sacramental celebrations. This person will plan music for all liturgies, coordinate schedules for musicians and liturgical ministers, direct and accompany multiple parish choirs, and lead the music at 2-3 weekend Masses, as well as on Holy Days and holidays. For an expanded job description and application materials, please visit hffdl.org/jobs. Please send a resume and the completed Archdiocese of Milwaukee application to Director of Finance and Human Resources Ellen Kant at ellenk@hffdl.org.

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As the Holy Family Warming Shelter prepares to open in less than two weeks, the parish is in need of your help to serve those without homes in our community. Holy Family is currently seeking volunteers, as well as items to help the shelter’s guests including women and men’s sweatshirts and sweatpants, long underwear, winter jackets, individual Kleenex packs, and men’s deodorant. For a full list of items and for information on how to get involved, please visit hffdl.org/warming-shelter. All donations can be dropped off at the Holy Family Parish Office at 271 Fourth Street Way, Fond du Lac.

Are you searching for meaning in your life and wondering what path God has in mind for you? If you are asking these questions or questions like them, the Catholic way of life awaits you. Join Holy Family’s Rites of Christian Initiation for Adults program, or RCIA. RCIA is a process through which non-baptized men and women enter the Catholic Church. Adults from other faith traditions and those baptized Catholic but not raised Catholic are also welcome. The program will begin this month.

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Calling all Teens! Promote your pro life belief and show off your creativity. And win some CASH in the process. Please see the attached flyer for the Michael J. Wolfe Exhibition sponsored by The Fond du Lac Chapter of WI Right to Life.

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