From Your Parish Office

"If you can't sleep, try counting your blessings."

Children's Bible School will be held TONIGHT in the undercroft from 6:00 - 7:30 PM and is offered to children age 3 (potty trained) to 8 years old. Come join us!

St. John School Eleventh Annual Art Show - Mark your calendars! The art show will be held Wednesday, May 14thfrom 4:00 - 7:00 pm at The Cardome Center. If you haven't attended this before, make it a point to come and see how creative our St. John School students are! Of course, they have an excellent teacher, Mrs. Mary Napier - thank you Mrs. Napier for inspiring our students!

Are you using your Kroger cards? Don't forget to use your Kroger gift card everytime you purchase groceries, gas or prescriptions at Kroger. For all purchase made with your Kroger card, Kroger donates 4% of ALL purchases back to us! And, it doesn't cost you anything! Just remember to use your card! Also reload you card as needed to cover your purchases for the week, month or whenever you shop at Kroger!

Our own Father Linh will be participating in a celebrity chef cook-off, and will test his culinary skills against those of several other priests from our Diocese.

Catholic Charities "A Divine Affair" - is an evening of music, games of chance, live and silent auctions, and fun. Our own Father Linh will be participating in a celebrity chef cook-off, and will test his culinary skills against those of several other priests from our Diocese. You will have a chance to enjoy each priest's appetizer recipe, and vote for your favorite.

To learn more about the cook-off and the dishes our priests will present, you can read the press release at:

http://www.catholiccharitieslexington.org//news/adivineaffair.html. Tickets are $75 per person or reserve a table for eight for $1,200. Tickets can be purchased online at: http://www.catholiccharitieslexington.org/adivineaffair.html or you can contact the parish office. Alternately, you can contact Cindy Mitchell at 859-253-1993 ext. 213, email cmitchell@cdlex.org. All monies raised will go to support the important work that Catholic Charities does in our community.

Mark your calendars for:

• Men's Breakfast, Saturday, May 10th at 7:00 AM at Galvin's Restaurant

• Linked 2 Youth Golf Tourney, Saturday, May 10th at 8:30 AM at Cherry Blossom Golf Course

• First Communion CCD Students Saturday, May 10th at 6:30 PM Mass

• Mother's Day May Crowning, Sunday, May 11th at 10:30 AM Mass

• St. John School Art Show Wednesday, May 14th from 4:00 to 7:00 PM at the Cardome Center.

• First Communion Spanish Community, Sunday, May 18th at 12:30 PM Mass

• A Divine Affair, Friday, June 6th at 7:00 PM at the Carrick House in Lexington.

Mother's Day: This Sunday at the 10:30 AM Mass, we will hold our annual May Crowning to pay tribute to everyone's Mother, the Blessed Virgin Mary. If you want to know more about this Marian Devotion, click here. In addition, we found an excellent tribute to Mothers from "Catholic Online." Click here to read.

Finally, a prayer for all Mothers:

God our Creator, we pray: for new mothers, coming to terms with new responsibility;

for expectant mothers, wondering and waiting;

for those who are tired, stressed or depressed;

for those who struggle to balance the tasks of work and family;

for those who are unable to feed their children due to poverty;

for those whose children have physical, mental or emotional disabilities;

for those who have children they do not want;

for those who raise children on their own;

for those who have lost a child;

for those who care for the children of others;

for those whose children have left home;

and for those whose desire to be a mother has not been fulfilled.

Bless all mothers, that their love may be deep and tender, and that they may lead their children to know and do what is good, living not for themselves alone, but for God and for others. Amen.

Happy Mother's Day from Fr. Linh and the entire parish & school staff!