Fr. Todd Bulletin Article 11/8/26

Dear St. Mary on the Lake and Sacred Heart,

Next weekend, Nov 14-15, there will be a family with a table selling olive wood items that go to support families in the Holy Land.  While supporting these Christian families they also make great gifts.

I am very excited to announce that we have entered into a partnership with Hallow, the popular prayer and meditation app.  Pictured here is what the App will looks like when you search for it in your app store.  I know many of us have and regularly use this app already.  It has many, many great resources.  I have been using it daily for probably the last two years.  I most regularly use for the Bible in the Year, Catechism in the Year, the Rosary.  

There are several ways this partnership will be a blessing for us:

1.      Help each of us develop and maintain a regular prayer life. 

2.      Give parents resources they can use to pray together as a family.

3.      Content available for kids and teens.  They will be able to make a kids account with Hallow through their parent’s account.

4.      Build community through shared prayers times like Advent and Lenten challenges that we can more easily do together through the shared app.

5.      Create an easy on ramp for people to invite non-practicing Catholic family/friends members or family/friends of different or no faith to be able to join us in times of prayer like the Advent and Lenten challenges.

6.      Provide space for small groups with the parishes to form and communicate easily with one another

7.      An easy way to post prayer intentions that everyone can see

8.      A one-day event from our Hallow parish lead.

9.      We all have cell phones and they can be quite distracting.  I am excited that we will be able to use them for something truly life-giving. 

10.  Our parish page will be free to access by simply signing up with Hallow for a free account.  If you ever wish to subscribe to Hallow to access more content that isn’t for free you will be granted a discount on that subscription through our parish partnership.

 We will have more information coming soon as our shared parish page gets built.  It will be very easy to sign up for and we will have opportunities after Masses to help you get signed up.  It will all kickoff with our Advent prayer challenge.

God Bless,

Fr. Todd