Breakfast with Santa has been cancelled. Those who bought tickets will receive refunds. Thank you to our parent volunteers for their great effort to plan and coordinate the event, which had been scheduled for Dec. 3, and thank you to all of the parent-volunteers who responded to the request for help with a pledge to decorate, clean up, and provide service on the day of the event. Breakfast with Santa is a big operation, and we just weren't ready in a few key areas. We are working on planning Christmas activities during the school day, in partnership with parent volunteers, on the afternoon of Friday, Dec. 16. More on that to come.
The Parish Office will be closed Thursday, November 24, and Friday, November 25, and will reopen Monday, November 28, at 9 a.m. There will be only one Mass on Thanksgiving Day at 9 a.m. and no Adoration. Friday Masses will be 7:30 a.m. and 9 a.m. Our weekend Masses will be 5 p.m. Saturday and 7:30 a.m., 9:00 a.m. and 11:30 a.m. on Sunday.
The SJB 8th grade class is raising money to support the 8th Grade Graduation Activities. Wreaths, mini-Christmas Trees and centerpieces are being sold through the Mickman Brothers GiftItForward.com website. Please go to GiftItForward.com and place you order by December 8 using fundraising code: STJOHNMD005. Thank you for your support.
This year parishioners will be able to enter the names of those who have died in the Book of Remembrance online beginning November 1. Starting November 1, visit our SJB website, www.sjbssparish.org, and click on Book of Remembrance. Please enter individually the names of the deceased to be remembered.