The Fifth Week of Lent
30 March 2023
This Weekend at St Columba's
Parish Workday
This Saturday, 1 April
9.00 am - 1.00 pm
Our pre-Easter parish workday is this Saturday, 1 April 2023 ... no fooling:)

Put on a parish of glove, grab a rake, and bring your time and talent as we prepare for Easter. We'll get started about 9am and wrap up by 1pm, we'll have hot dogs for a light lunch. Come for an hour or stay for the entire time. We need lots of volunteers, as this is our largest workday of the year.
Palm Sunday
2 April 2023
This Sunday begins the week we call 'holy.' Join us for Palm Sunday.

The 8.30 Rite I Mass will include a blessing and distribution of the palms. The 11.00 Mass will include the palm procession from outside and the reading of Matthew's Passion Gospel. *** Sunday school will NOT meet this weekend. ***

>> CLICK HERE for the full Holy Week and Easter Schedule.
Parish News
Maundy Thursday Vigil Watch
Will You Watch With Me One Hour?
  • 6th & 7th April
  • Maundy Thursday, 9pm through Good Friday at 12 noon

Traditionally, the faithful have kept a constant prayer vigil, or "watch," at the Altar of Repose from the conclusion of the Maundy Thursday Mass until the start of the Good Friday Liturgy. 

Recalling Jesus' request of the disciples, "will you stay and watch with me even one hour," we keep a prayer vigil before the Blessed Sacrament. It's an incredibly moving experience and everyone is invited to keep watch. A deputy sheriff is on duty throughout the night as parishioners come and go from 9pm Maundy Thursday through 12 noon on Good Friday. 

You can sign up via the link below or on the poster in the Narthex near the Welcome Center. The online sign up has spaces for 4 volunteers per hour; however there is no maximum limit. If the hour you wish to come is filled, please come anyway.

>> CLICK HERE to sign up to keep watch.
Holy Week and Easter Rota
*** Because Holy Week/Easter fall during Spring Break, we are short acolytes and lectors. We especially need acolytes and thurifers on Maundy Thursday, Easter Vigil and Easter morning. Please use the sign up link below to volunteer. First time volunteers are always welcome and we'll provide training! ***

Click the link below to sign up to serve as lector, chalice bearer, acolyte, subdeacon, and thurifer. New volunteers needed for all ministries and training is provided. If you have any trouble with the online rota, contact the parish office (770) 888-4464 (speak with Daniel or Father Tripp).
Click Here for our full Holy Week and Easter Schedule
A Makeover for Our Parish Website
Our parish website will get an "Easter makeover"! The current website is on an outdated platform that has limited options for design, interaction, and media formats. We have a new website that is ready to go, and we'll switch over after Easter. Because we will be changing the platform behind the website, it will require pulling the current site offline then redirecting our URL to the new site. That process can take 36-48 hours. So after Easter, you may notice the parish website will not load, and you may even get a "404 Website Not Found" error message. That is just temporary and will resolve once the new site is connected and goes online.

We are excited that the new platform will allow greater incorporation of pictures and video clips and will interface more easily with our social media pages, facebook and instagram. Soon we will also migrate our livestream from facebook and imbed it in our own website and mirror it on YouTube. We are so very grateful for the incredible talent and weekly gifts of time from our livestream crew, Scott Rowell, Jason Startt, Dale Bronk, and Aiden Barnard. I know they'd love to have more volunteers - reach out to the folks in the booth any Sunday to learn more.

Of course these kinds of major transitions are never without some glitches, but we are doing everything we can to minimize the downtime and make for a smooth transition. Stay tuned for more updates once our new site goes live!
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