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Friday, April 15/16 - 12:10 pm - Offered for Mike Smoke - Memorial Mass. From the funeral collection.

Saturday, April 16/16 - 4:00 pm - Anticipated Holy Mass. St. Kateri Feast Mass. Offered for Angus Adams - Memorial Mass. From the funeral collection.

Sunday, April 17/16 - 10:00 am - 4th Sunday of Easter. Offered for Wayne R. Cook & deceased family members - Memorial Mass. Requested by Wilma (Cook) Zumpano & Family.

Tuesday, April 19/16 - 6:00 pm - Offered for Daniel Bero Sr. - Memorial Mass. From the funeral collection.

Wednesday, April 20/16 - 10:00 am at Iakhihsohtha Lodge - Offered for Cecelia Cree - 11th Anniv. and Wilbert Bay - 26th Anniv. Requested by the Families.

Thursday, April 21/16 - 12:10 pm. Offered for Larry Richard King - Memorial Birthday. Requested by the Family.

Confirmation Class - next session will be Wednesday, April 20 at 6:00 pm at St. Kateri Center.

First Communion Class - next session will be Thursday, Apr. 21 at 6:00 pm at St. Kateri Center.

The Celebration for the Sacraments of Holy Eucharist/First Communion and Confirmation will be upon us very soon. Therefore, it is vitally important that all registered students continue to attend all classes and masses on the weekends.

Baptism Seminar - next session will be Tues., May 10th, 2016 at 5:30 pm. Please pre-register and provide a copy of the child(ren)’s Birth Certificate.

WELCOME FATHER SANDS!

With joy, St. Regis parish welcomes Father Maurice Henry Sands as main celebrant with Father Jerome Pastores, concelebrant, of this special feastday liturgy in honor of our own Saint Kateri Tekakwitha.

Father Sands is the Executive Director of the U.S. Black and Indian Mission Office, Washington, D.C. He serves also as consultant on Native American Affairs for the Secretariat of Cultural Diversity of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.

A full-blooded Native American belonging to the Ojibway, Ottawa and Potawatomi tribes, Father Sands grew up on Walpole Island (Bkejwanong First Nation), an aboriginal community located in the St. Clair River between Michigan and Ontario. An accountant by training, he holds an MBA from the University of Toronto, Ontario, and a BBA from Eastern Michigan University. He worked in corporate banking before joining the diocesan priesthood.

Father Sands was ordained a priest on May 14, 2005 for the Archdiocese of Detroit. He has served as pastor of St. Alfred Parish in Taylor, Michigan, as a member of the Archdiocese’s Department of Parish Life and Services in the area of Native American and Hispanic Ministries, and as a member of the Board of Directors of the National Tekakwitha Conference.

Our parish is honored to have Father Sands with us as we honor our own Mohawk Saint Kateri Tekakwitha. We take this opportunity to thank him personally for the support which the Bureau of Catholic Missions Office has been providing for many years, through the Diocese of Ogdensburg, for our St. Regis Mission catechetical program at St. Kateri Center in Hogansburg.

GOD BLESS YOU, FATHER SANDS! NIAWEN KOWA!