Dear Holy Spirit,

When I was assigned at St. Justin Parish, I was introduced to the city’s “spring cleaning.” Every year, during springtime, the City of Santa Clara encourages its residents to clean up their houses and dispose of items that are no longer needed. The people look forward to this opportunity to clean out the garage, closets – basically the whole house, make changes, and perhaps create room for something new.

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President’s Day Closure

The Parish office will be closed on Monday, February 19th in observance of President’s Day. Our normal operating hours will resume on Tuesday, February 20th.

Stations of the Cross

We invite you to join us on Fridays during Lent to pray the Stations of the Cross in the Church, beginning at 7pm.

Second Collection

Next weekend, February 24-25, there will be a second collection for Aid to the Church in Central and Eastern Europe. Through the generosity of Catholics in the United States, last year 329 grants were awarded to help rebuild churches, support seminary education and minister to the unique spiritual needs of families and young people. Thank you for your support.

Supporting our Mission Together

Thank you to everyone who has already answered the request to participate in the 2024 Annual Diocesan Appeal. Your gift is received with great humility, thanks, and gratitude. To date, we have received $90,244 in gifts or pledges from 114 families. Your support makes a difference!

If you have not yet responded, we want and need your participation. Pledge forms can be found in the church, or you can go to the diocesan ADA website by clicking here or use the QR code supplied here.

Lenten Speaker Series

The Lenten Speaker Series and Soup Suppers will take place on the Thursdays Feb 22-March 21.

We have invited some wonderful presenters to help make this a prayerful Lenten Journey together.

Lenten Speaker Series - Session 1

The first session in our Lenten Speaker Series is this upcoming Thursday, February 22nd at 6pm. Fr. Chi Ngo, SJ will be facilitating the discussion on "A Lenten Journey with Christ."

To learn more about Fr. Chi Ngo, SJ, please click here.

To RSVP to the Lenten Speaker Series, please click here.

Crab Feed - Thank You!

We had a great time at the Crab Feed on Saturday night! It was an excellent opportunity for our community to come together and enjoy delicious food, dancing and prizes. The youth servers were a big hit, and everyone had a great time.

Thank you to everyone who helped make this event happen.

Hope & Healing - Grief Group

If you have experienced the loss of a loved one, then please join us Feb. 8th for a new Hope & Healing Grief Consolation Group. It is a cross-parish 6-week series on bereavement care to foster healing through scripture, contemplative prayer, and small group faith sharing.

It will be held on Thursday evenings, from Feb. 8 – Mar. 14, from 7:00-8:30pm. To register, please contact Merry Reardon, Pastoral Care Director, at: merry.reardon@dsj.org, or 408-997-5112.

Nicaragua Mission Trip 2024

JUNTOS for More Than Ten Years

Check out this video from Holy Spirit’s Nicaragua mission trip in 2014! TEN YEARS! You may notice there are two people in the video who have not aged, Row David and John Bland. We can’t promise the fountain of youth, but the impact of this trip on the people of Nicaragua and the people of Holy Spirit Parish cannot be adequately expressed. As countless returning missionaries have shared, you can’t explain it, you just have to feel it. The last two years, our missionaries have worked on bringing water to communities in Nicaragua. Here’s one more video from two years ago about the Amigos for Christ water projects.

Did you miss last week’s information meeting but still want to join us? Awesome!

Visit the Mission Trip Webpage to learn more or email hs.amigos@yahoo.com.

Ready to sign up? Fantastic!

Online Registration for the 2024 Holy Spirit Mission trip to Nicaragua is now open HERE! 

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CRS Rice Bowls

The pillars of Lent: prayer, fasting and almsgiving. This Lent, Holy Spirit is participating in the Catholic Relief Services Rice Bowl program, an opportunity for us to give alms that will change the lives of people around the world. You can pick up your Rice Bowl at the doors. Create the bowl and give as generously as you can.

“Every gift you give helps a child thrive, brings hope to a family and rebuilds a community.” (CRS)

Thank you.

Reverse Collection Announcement!

Hello Holy Spirit parishioners, please allow us to introduce ourselves. Our names are Anthony Andary and Ryan Koehler. We are both juniors at Bellarmine College Preparatory and alumni of Holy Spirit School.

We are excited to bring back the annual Reverse Collection for Sacred Heart. We invite you to take a slip detailing the needs of Sacred Heart from the collection basket. Slips will be distributed the weekend of February 17th-18th. These essential items will be distributed to members of our community. Your donations will be collected at Holy Spirit in drop-off bins from February 24th through March 3rd and delivered directly to

Sacred Heart.

Sacred Heart provides many daily essentials to its customers. Items in high demand include pop-top cans of food, disposable diapers (sizes 4, 5, and 6), men’s underwear and socks (new, sizes L, XL), and Adult diapers.

The Reverse Collection can be a Lenten family experience. During Lent, we examine ourselves and our hearts so we can follow Christ more closely. God has blessed us with so much and it is our Christian responsibility to care for others. We ask that you prayerfully consider participating in the Reverse Collection.

As we all know, there are thousands of homeless men, women, and children in Santa Clara County, and Sacred Heart offers them non-cooking bags of food that contain pop-top cans and produce, as well as bagged lunches. Many homeless walk constantly to keep moving and avoid loitering, and Sacred Heart provides clean, dry socks to make their days easier.

Sacred Heart also helps families with young children. Diapers and baby formula are expensive, and customers often cannot afford to purchase these items for their children.

Please remember these needs when you are shopping this week, and thank you for caring for those in our community.

Texas Mission Trip

Please pray for our 35 parishioners who will be spending next week on mission to San Augustine, Texas. We thank them for answering the call to serve:

Ella Aguerria, Izzy Aguerria, Marco Aning, Mason Aning, Jason Barba, Ozzie Barba, Cole Battcher, Aaron Cummings, Carson Cummings, Row David, Annie Elliott, Olivia Elliott, Kekoa Flechtner, Kris Flechtner, McKinley Kaefer, Grace Ladd, Henry Lattie, Jean Lattie, Marco Lillo Roman, Roman Lillo-Chaisson, Eddy Munguia, Grace Plunkett, Karen Plunkett, Makena Plunkett, Val Plunkett, Caden Stream, Logan Stream, Tricia Stream, Dan Turner, Jack Turner, Thomas Turner, Jill Youn, Lucas Youn, Gavin Zawalski, Kyle Zawalski.

Edge Middle School Ministry

Our next Edge night will be on Wednesday, February 28th at 7:00pm. All middle school youth are invited to attend.

HS Music Playlist

Holy Spirit's Music Ministry has been searching for ways to streamline access to the music we provide at every liturgical celebration. For about a year now, we have been adding music onto a YouTube playlist and sharing it every week to help music ministers prepare and listen leading up to our liturgies. Now, we’re extending that access to you! The playlist is updated every week with the first 6 songs at the top of the playlist showing the music we prepare at our liturgical celebrations. Since this project started, the playlist is now approaching 200 videos! So, if you’re in need of another music outlet while at work or for personal leisure, the HS Music playlist is now an option so you can listen to the songs that fill up our worship space every week!

You can access this playlist by clicking here.

Faith Formation



There is no Faith formation on Sunday/Monday February 18/19 due to Presidents’ Day Holiday.

Dine-Out Fundraiser

Join us for a Dine-out Fundraiser on Wednesday, February 28^th between 11:00 am and 12:00 pm at Lazy Dog Restaurant on Almaden Expressway and 15% of your total bill will be donated to HSS! Must present flyer to be eligible for donation. Click link to download Lazy Dog Dine-Out Fundraiser Flyer. Thank you for your support!

Holy Spirit School Auction

Saturday, March 9, 2024, at 6 PM

Villa Ragusa, Campbell, CA Purchase tickets here.