St Mary's Church, Swormville

Due to the Easter holiday, we have decided to extend the deadline to purchase tickets for St. Mary's Spring for Success Auction Gala to April 14th. Please join us! Details at springforsuccess.com.

Easter Vigil-8:15 pm Saturday (tonight) Easter Sunday Masses- church - 7:30 am, 9:30 am, 11:30 am chapel - 9:30 am, 11:30 am

Good Friday Schedule – 9:00 am: Morning Prayer (chapel) Noon: Stations of the Cross (church) 3:00 pm: Good Friday of the Lord’s Passion (church) 7:00 pm: Seven Last Words of Christ (church)

St. Mary's will livestream tonight's Holy Thursday Mass of the Lord's Supper at 7 PM and Good Friday of the Lord's Passion at 3 PM on Friday.

Holy Thursday of the Triduum: 7:00pm Mass of the Lord’s Supper in church Procession to the chapel for the Reposition of the Blessed Sacrament 8pm – 11pm Adoration (chapel)

Don't delay! Download today!​ We will use the St. Mary Swormville App to notify users of important updates leading up to and during Online Bidding for the Spring for Success Auction! it's simple - download, set St. Mary's Church as your default feed, and enable notifications. Now you can easily receive live feed notifications, toggle easily between church and school feeds, and quickly link to the weekly bulletin and parish website's resources.

All are invited to join us for a fun night of fellowship, wonderful food, bidding, and dancing. We have an early deadline due to the Easter holiday so please order your tickets by Monday! Price is $125 per person. All proceeds benefit our St. Mary's Swormville Faith Community. Click on this link to order today! https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSddyg2OfkaxKeu20NaDx5whR3o6gu1R0aFU7XIvRR4Xtn9EdQ/viewform

Pope Francis Urges the Faithful to Renew the Consecration of Ukraine and Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary on March 25th, the one year anniversary of his consecration to Mary of the Church, humanity and especially Ukraine and Russia. Please pray for peace with the Consecration to the Immaculate Heart of Mary Prayer: https://5il.co/1r7ta

Have you downloaded our new St. Mary Swormville app yet?

Turn your dinner into dollars for St. Mary’s by ordering from Pesci’s ONLINE at https://www.toasttab.com/pescis-pizza-8065-main-st/v3/ for pick-up or delivery through March 18, 2023. Pesci’s will donate 20% of your online order total (including eGift Cards!) back to St. Mary School HSA. This promotion is not valid for in-store or orders by phone. Send eGift cards to family and friends too! Put St. Mary’s in the message. Order as many times as you like during the promotion!!! Please share with family, friends, and neighbors. AT CHECKOUT ENTER PROMO CODE: SMSHSA

The St. Mary’s Forever Young Group will be meeting on Wednesday, March 15 at 7pm in the Parish Center. Historian Greg Kinal will share his collection of award winning photographs. All senior parishioners are welcome to attend. Refreshments will be served. A paper or soap product donation for the parish food pantry is greatly appreciated. Questions? Call Pat at 716-335-847

TUITION ASSISTANCE for Private Grammar Schools Now Available. The BISON Children Scholarship Fund provides tuition assistance to economically eligible children in grades K-8. New families can now apply for scholarships for the 2023-24 school year. To start the process, families can complete a pre-application form online at http://bisonfund.com/our-scholarships. If selected in our lottery drawing, the scholarships can be used at any private grammar school in WNY. The deadline to apply is March 15. The average scholarship is $1,560 and the maximum award is $2,500. For more information, contact Cindy at 716-854-0869, ext. 1 or cmcdonald@bisonfund.com.

Children of St. Mary's Parish turned in their First Eucharist preparation workbooks at this weekend's Masses and received a blessing. Next, they will have a Eucharistic Spirit Day to prepare for receipt of the First Holy Communion.

Bishop Mike has given commutation from the practice of abstaining from meat on Friday, March 17th for St. Patrick's Day. Use this link to read his full letter: https://5il.co/1qicj

Come and spend some time in the Holy Presence of Jesus. Exposition and Reconciliation will continue until 7 pm Mass tonight.

Be reconciled!

Attention, Christ Renews Alumni: If you haven’t been receiving Email updates about the Christ Renews Retreats and you would like to be added to the Christ Renews Welcome email list – Send a message to: ChristRenewsWelcome@gmail.com We will be happy to add you to the list.

There is room for a few more women who would like to renew their faith life at the Women's Christ Renews Welcome Retreat next weekend (March 11-12). Register by this Tuesday, 3/7 with this form: https://form.jotform.com/230405968498065

As we begin our Lenten journey, please read and consider this message from Bishop Michael Fisher: https://5il.co/1pnnr

During Lent, St. Mary's Church will have wooden blocks available in both the church and chapel on which you are invited to write an intention, concern, or simply a name and then place it in the framed cross. We need Jesus, we cannot do it on our own. Let Jesus help you to bear your cross.