Parish Announcements for August 7

1. Youth Faith Formation begins with a Parent Meeting on August 17, and classes begin on August 24. Please register soon because there will be a $25 late fee starting August 11. You can pick up a registration packet in the foyer or download it from the Assumption website, and then bring your completed registration form and money to the Church office. Youth Faith Formation is for students from kindergarten through eighteen years of age. 

2. In conjunction with the three-year National Eucharistic Revival, our Diocese is hosting a diocesan-wide tour of the first-class relics of Blessed Carlo Acutis and St. Manuel Gonzales Garcia. The relics will be displayed in our Parish from Sunday, August 28 until Monday, August 29 -- see the poster (on the bulletin boards or at the top of the announcements page).

3. The Holy Cross Retreat Center is offering a five-part series on coping with divorce and a retreat on The Healing Power of Forgiveness. For more information, please check the parish bulletin boards. 

4. The Monastery of Christ in the Desert raffle tickets are still available in the parish office.

5. St. John’s is selling raffle tickets for a 2022 Toyota Camry after Mass on August 6 & 7. If you are interested, please stop at the table after Mass. 

6. Next weekend we will have a second collection for Catholic Charities of Southern NM. Catholic Charities of Southern New Mexico is called to enact the corporal works of mercy: that the hungry might be fed, the naked clothed, the homeless sheltered, the sick and imprisoned visited, the stranger welcomed, all with the dignity proper to the children of God. Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Las Cruces is the visible expression of the Catholic Church’s solidarity with persons in need.