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The Catholic Courier is holding it's annual Advent Coloring Contest for children ages 3-12 in the Diocese of Rochester.  The contest begins November 6th, and submissions will be accepted via USPS and e-mail until November 27th.  The submitted coloring pages will be posted online and the public will be able to vote for their favorite artwork in each age group starting at noon on December 2nd on the Catholic Courier's webpage.  Prizes will be awarded to the artwork with the most votes in each age group.  For more details, and to print a copy of the coloring page, please visit the Catholic Courier here!  We can't wait to see what all of our creative youth create!  Good luck!

Next weekend we will take up the Collection for the Archdiocese for the Military Services, USA.  Established by St. John Paul II in 1985, the AMS is the only US diocese responsible for providing pastoral care to men and women serving in the US Armed Forces, enrolled at a US Military Academy, being treated as a patient at any of the 153 US Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Centers, or working for the federal government beyond US borders- including those from our own parish and diocese.  AMS priests and deacons serve approximately 1.8 million Catholics.  To learn more about the AMS, go to www.milarch.org/nationalcollection.  As always, thank you for your generosity.

All lectors are asked to please attend one of the following gatherings for prayer, reflection and a practicum with Mary Ann Obark, D.Min.   Wednesday, November 13th: 6:30 pm @ OLQP Saturday, November 16th: 1:00pm @ STM For more information, and to RSVP please contact the parish office or Margaret Ostromecki at 244-3010 or 381-4200.  You can also RSVP via e-mail at: mostromecki@dor.org ​​​​​​​Thank you!

We thank the Most Reverend Salvatore Matano who celebrated Mass and blessed the new courtyard and Marian statue at Our Lady Queen of Peace this past weekend. Additionally, we thank Father Tomasso and Father Brickler who so often lead us in liturgical worship and have become such important members of our community. We also extend a very gracious thank you to the Our Lady Queen of Peace Ensemble and the Saint Thomas More Liturgical Choir who, together, led us in joyful song during Mass and in the courtyard giving praise to God in the words of Hail, Holy Queen. Hail, holy Queen, Mother of mercy, hail, our life, our sweetness, and our hope. To you we cry, the children of Eve; to you we send up our sighs, mourning and weeping in this land of exile. Turn, then, most gracious advocate, your eyes of mercy toward us; lead us home at last and show us the blessed fruit of your womb, Jesus: O clement, O loving, O sweet Virgin Mary.

We are collecting: Canned vegetables Canned fruit Gravy Stuffing mix Cranberry sauce Canned yams Boxed potatoes Pie filling/pie crust mix Muffin mix  We also welcome: Clean useable plastic and paper bags New and gently used reusable grocery shopping bags Financial donations (checks) can be directly sent to St. Andrew's Food Cupboard, 890 Portland, Avenue, Rochester, NY 14621 or call 338-1764 More info: https://sites.google.com/view/standrewsfoodcupboard/   Please return bags to St. Thomas More or Our Lady Queen of Peace by November 17. Parish youth will be delivering them after Masses that day.   Thank you for your generosity!   Thank you to Wegmans for generously providing all of our paperbags! For over 10 years our parishes have supported St. Andrews Food Cupboard Our Thanksgiving collection is given to over 500 families.   Over 300 families are provided more than 1100 meals every month, mostly singles mothers and children.