Parish Office hours for Thanksgiving are as follows: Wednesday November 25th, 8:00AM-11:00 AM Thursday November 26th Thanksgiving closed. Friday November 27th closed. Happy Thanksgiving!

Two Advent Prayer Booklets “Little Blue Booklet” & Bishop Robert Barron’s “Advent Gospel Reflections” are available to you for your Advent prayers. Oplatki Christmas Wafers are also available and both are on the Communion Rail beginning this weekend.

No Blessed Sacrament senior meetings until further notice. Please enjoy keeping in touch with your friends. Kathy

If you have not yet turned in your donation for the School Sisters of Notre Dame's Mission Appeal, we have received word that you should not make your checks out to the mission group. Rather, please make your checks payable to Blessed Sacrament (and mark MCP in the memo line) and return to us.  We will send a combined check to the Society for the Propagation of the Faith (SPOF) Office, which facilitates the appeals and disburses the mission funds. If you have already submitted your check, you will receive a letter from SPOF. A reminder that you can also give online directly, via credit card or electronic check at https://spof-mke.givingfuel.com/ssnd-mcp-2020  Thank you!

The Blessed Sacrament Society of St. Vincent de Paul will be collecting new and gently used, clean gloves, hats, caps, mittens, and scarves for our Meal Site program and for our school children. We are in need items for children and adults. Please drop items into the collection barrels at the entrances to the church on the weekends of November 7th & 8th & November 14th & 15th, 2020. Thank you for your generous support!

Veterans, active, retired and those who have paid the supreme sacrifice, will be honored with a special Mass commemorating their service to our country. Everyone is invited to attend this very special event. The Veterans Day Committee is arranging to have a color guard post colors, honor our POW/MIAs and present flags representing each of the five military service categories. The committee is seeking volunteers to form this color guard. (You do not need a military background to assist.) If you are interested in volunteering, please contact: Robert Zolandz at (414) 421-5394.

Due to the rise of Covid19 case in our area we have decided to cancel the movie screening scheduled for October 31st, 2020. We will reschedule at a later time when this pandemic is past us.

Blessed Sacrament Parish has been asked to sponsor / donate to the School Sisters of Notre Dame Province of Africa for this years Missionary Cooperation Plan. Click on the title of this article which is a link to get the the Archdiocese of Milwaukee web site to use the online donation process they have set up for our parish to go directly to this order. See October 18th bulletin for more information on the School Sisters of Notre Dame Province of Africa.

Our tuck-pointing project requires electrical lines to be removed from church, convent, rectory and school to be able to complete this project safely. The children will be off of school. The Parish Office will be closed and no campus activities will be scheduled for these two days this includes cancellation of Daily Mass.

As the cold and flu season approaches always practice good hygiene. If you have any flu/cold symptoms, please remember the following:  Stay home from Mass, there is no sin in that  Do not drink from the cup during Holy Communion  If you normally receive Holy Communion on your tongue, please consider receiving in the hand to avoid the passing of saliva from one mouth to another  Do not shake hands at the Sign of Peace. If you do extend your hand to exchange the Sign and your neighbor does not reciprocate, please assume they are not feeling well and do not wish to pass anything on to you.

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If you have not registered yet and would like your child to attend, please contact Michael Federman at (414) 800-8837

With the Mass counts going up we find we are in need of ushers. Everyone is welcome to this ministry, men or women. If you have been a usher in the past and want to came back to serve thank you. If you feel this could be something you would like to try please contact: Gar Kronhelm 414-800-8834 or gar.kronhelm@blessedsacramentmke.org

The number of people attending Mass is going up. We still have to follow the 25% capacity guidelines in place by the CDC, as well as social distancing and mandatory wearing of masks. With the numbers increasing we may need to begin using the overflow area in Fr. Turner Hall. We will live stream the Mass down there and someone will come down and distribute communion in the hall. Reminder: When in church we need to keep the masks up over both the nose and mouth during the entire Mass. The only exception is for when you take Holy Communion. This is to comply with CDC guidelines and to keep everyone safe.

Due to the resignation of a few members we are looking to replace the members that stepped down. We are not asking for nominations as we normally do because of the pandemic we can not use the normal process. If you are interested in serving on the Parish Council please contact Father Mark.

Please join us for in person Mass at 9:00 am on Monday September 7, 2020 for Labor Day.

The first Wednesday of the month is coming up. This means it’s Blessed Sacrament’s turn to bring desserts to the SVDP meal site. Desserts and baked goods can be dropped off at the rectory on September 2nd from 8:00 am until 3:15 pm. Cupcake holders are in the usher’s room in the back of church or stop by the rectory during our regular business hours.

We will have teacher commissioning and Blessing at our 8:15 am Mass on Tuesday August 25th. Please come pray and support our school faculty as they prepare for this coming school year

Fr. Mark referenced this Novena in his August 16 homily and said it would be available here. If you would like to to view this Novena click the title of this article.

The September 10, 2020 meeting of the Blessed Sacrament Seniors has been canceled due to the continuation of the Coronavirus. The happy news is that Alan "Elvis" Graveen will perform at our September 9, 2021 meeting. Keep your dancing shoes ready! -Kathy