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Thank you for supporting this project!

If you have not yet participated, we NEED you. We can meet our $200,000 goal with an additional $4,959.

Kindly complete the Lift High the Cross campaign donor card found in the pews and drop it in the collection basket or mail it to the church office. Projects will not proceed without the money in hand.

3 more households returned their pledges to the parish.

This takes us to 382 households and $187,516. Another $7,525 is coming for a pledged total of $195,041.

Holy Cross Food Pantry
There is a current need for the following items to help fill our pantry shelves:

• Pasta sauce
• Canned vegetables
• Canned fruit
• Mac n Cheese
• Jello/Pudding
• Brownie/Cake mixes
• Instant potatoes
• Toilet paper
• Shampoo
• Toothpaste
• Bath soap

Holiday Food Baskets

With Christmas fast approaching, over the next couple months there will be a need for food donations to fill the Christmas baskets. Items needed for those will be:

• Instant potatoes
• Apple sauce
• Cranberry sauce
• Gravy
• Stuffing
• Canned corn/green beans
• Muffin mix
• Brownie/Cake mixes/Frosting
• Olives/Pickles
• Hot chocolate/Tea
• Anything that would make the holiday meal special

Please remember that we are unable to hand out any food that is past the use by date or opened.

Anyone willing to help make up the baskets or deliver can call Sheila Metzger at 621-8711.

In Need of a File Cabinet
Gina, our Office Manager/Accountant, is in need of a locking 4-Drawer Lateral File Cabinet. If you (or someone you know) have one not in use and would like to donate it to the parish office, please call 663-2244. Please leave your name and phone number and you will get a call back to schedule a date and time, and make arrangements for a way to get it here. parish office, please call 663-2244. Please leave your name and phone number and you will get a call back to schedule a date and time, and make arrangements for a way to get it here.

Outwear Collection
Continue cleaning out your closets!
The Sr Hi teens are collecting outerwear again this year. Collection boxes will be in the parish center foyer from Sunday, November 17 through Sunday, November 24.

Celebration in Honor of Blessed Grimwald

Sunday, November 17 at the 12:00 PM Mass
This year Holy Cross will again celebrate the 24th year of the beatification of Blessed Grimwald Santamaria. Our special Icon depicting Blessed Grimwald will be on display, and there will be a blessing with his relic. A reception will follow the Mass. Please pray that God’s graces will be abundant through Blessed Grimwald’s intercession. To all he was simple, ordinary, and accessible; but he himself marched to a heavenly drum.

Seniors & Friends
SAVE THE DATE!
Thursday, November 21, 1:30-3:00 PM in the Parish Center
We welcome Chet Fery the Bread Man, an amateur bread baker, showing how random acts of kindness can change our lives and create a world community that is caring, supportive and secure.
Questions? Call Mary Jo DiNoto at 663-2244.