Dear Parishioners, I’m pleased to announce that we have been able to complete the work on our Marian Hall restrooms. It’s hard to believe that we are approaching 40 years of use in the Marian Hall wing of the main building. With the updates that we have made, the improvements should give us many good years of use. Thank you once again for your patience as we have made these improvements. Our parish penance service is this Wednesday, March 6th at 6:30 p.m. As we have in the past, we have invited priests from the area parishes to help hear confessions. If this is not a convenient time to go to confession, please check the penance service schedule for the parishes in the area that are offering penance services in the next few weeks. We will continue to offer confessions before the Stations on Friday nights until Good Friday and the regular confession time of 11 a.m. on Saturday mornings. For those parishioners who have been here prior to the 2006 renovations to the church and the addition of the office wing and Trinity Chapel, you may remember the different seating arrangements that we had: both pews and individual chairs with kneelers. Our Trinity chapel continues to have kneelers available, but the main church does not. Since my arrival here, a number of both parishioners and visitors have asked when we are going to have kneelers. With the curved pews, it’s not easy for kneelers to be installed. However, we do have one section where it is possible to have kneelers installed: the section by the Holy Family statue. As the Bishop has given his blessing, we will be installing kneelers in that section of the Church. Due to the early deadline for my columns, the kneelers may or may not be here and installed by the time you read this column. In the next few weeks, I will take some time to explain the history and the reason behind having kneelers in churches. The simple answer is that it shows our respect when we are in the presence of God, especially in the Eucharist. Thanks for reading! Fr. Mark