Congratulations on making your 1st Communion!
Sunday, April 24, 2016

  Piper Bunker          Drake Osterhaus    
  Makensie Phelps    Madelyn Hagedorn   
  Melissa Perez         Michael Perez
  Layla Serrano         Owen Logsdon 
  Lillian Lee
  Presley  Heiser                                           
Please keep these children in your prayers.

Holy Communion augments our union with Christ. The principal fruit of receiving the Eucharist in Holy Communion is an intimate union with Christ Jesus. Indeed, the Lord said: “He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me, and I in him.”  Life in Christ has its foundation in the Eucharistic banquet: “As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so he who eats me will live because of me.”
                                              ~from the Catechism of the Catholic Church

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Congratulations to our
Confirmation Class of 2016!

Kylie Cawiezell
Julius Collins
Grayson Heiser
Griffin Leibold
Lauren Keeney
Anton Kordick
Craig Vaughn
David VaLandschoot

Brileigh McCumsey
Ryan McKown
Anna Moritz  
Savannah Quast
Will Sauter
Jonathan Skaja
Kaitlyn Skaja
Owen Stieger

What is Confirmation?

Confirmation brings an increase and deepening of baptismal grace:

•  it roots us more deeply in the divine filiation which makes us cry, “Abba! Father!”
  
• it unites us more firmly to Christ
  
• it increases the gifts of the Holy Spirit in us
  
• it renders our bond with the Church more perfect
  
• it gives us a special strength of the Holy Spirit to spread and defend the faith by word and action as true witnesses of Christ, to confess the name of Christ boldly, and never to be ashamed of the Cross.
  

CCC 1303

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Class Schedule & Events for 2016

Have a great Summer!
   
Registration for 2016-2017
will begin in August.
Stay tuned for details.

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                 St. Alphonsus
   Religious Education Program
Beginning in September, classes meet Wednesday nights from 6:30 PM to 7:45 PM. Classes are available to Pre-school through 8th grade students. For more information about registration or helping out please contact our Director of Religious Education.