• Holy Day of Obligation - Feast of the Immaculate Conception
    Holy Day of Obligation - Feast of the Immaculate Conception
    December 7, 2024
    This year, the Feast of the Immaculate Conception is a holy day of obligation. Click here to see Mass schedule for upcoming Masses!
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  • Help Wanted
    Help Wanted
    November 30, 2024
    St. Mary School in Alexandria is looking for temporary administrative help in the school/church office. If you have a heart for children and want to serve the Church, this might be just what you are looking for! Click here for more details!
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  • Midnight Mass Christmas Choir
    Midnight Mass Christmas Choir
    November 30, 2024
    This year, the Christmas Midnight Mass for the Anderson parishes will be held at St. Ambrose. There will be a combined choir for this celebration. Practices will be held on December 15 and 22 at 10:45 am, immediately following the morning Mass at St. Ambrose. Join us! You do not have to have sung in a choir before or know how to read music in order to participate.
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  • Parish Offices Closed 11/28 - 11/29/24
    November 24, 2024
    All of our parish offices will remain closed on Thanksgiving Day and the Friday after.
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  • Thanksgiving Day and Day After Thanksgiving Masses
    November 24, 2024
    There will be special Mass times for Thanksgiving Day and the day after Thanksgiving. There will be NO Adoration, Confessions, or 7 PM Mass at St. Mary Anderson on Thanksgiving Day. Click here for more details!
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  • Christmas Decoration Sale - St. Vincent de Paul
    November 23, 2024
    The Anderson St. Vincent de Paul Society has new out-of-the-box Christmas decorations for sale! Come to our warehouse on Tuesdays Nov. 26, Dec. 3, and Dec. 10 from 11:00 to 3:00 to see the items and make an offer.
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  • Volunteers Needed for St. Mary Alexandria Thanksgiving Dinner
    Volunteers Needed for St. Mary Alexandria Thanksgiving Dinner
    November 23, 2024
    The St. Mary's Thanksgiving Community Dinner is seeking volunteers to help with this wonderful event. Volunteers will be needed on 11/27 and/or 11/28.
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  • Gibault Christmas Toy Drive: 11/9 – 12/12
    November 17, 2024
    This Christmas season let’s spread joy and love to children in need! The Knights of Columbus are collecting new, unwrapped gift items to benefit the Children of Gibault who might not otherwise receive gifts this Christmas. Click here for more details on how you can help!
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  • Worldwide Marriage Encounter Weekend 4/25 - 4/27/25
    Worldwide Marriage Encounter Weekend 4/25 - 4/27/25
    November 17, 2024
    Looking for a new way to let your spouse know you love them in the midst of your jobs, car-pooling the kids, and trying to keep up with your house, pool, and yard? Tell him or her they’re still Number 1 in your life . . . share a Worldwide Marriage Encounter Weekend with each other. Click here for more details!
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  • October 2024 Food Pantry Statistics
    October 2024 Food Pantry Statistics
    November 14, 2024
    As of the end of October, this year we have served 4,443 people from the pantry, and 5,385 people from our twice-a-month drive-through! Click here for more details on this month's food pantry news!
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  • Soup Kitchen - Ingredients Needed
    Soup Kitchen - Ingredients Needed
    November 9, 2024
    One of our soup kitchen teams will be serving chili soup, cheese and crackers, and fruit at the Christian Center on Wednesday, November 27, 2024, from 4:15 PM - -6:00 PM In order for us to make the soup, we invite anyone who wishes to help to bring any of the items we need to church and place it in the soup kitchen collection baskets during the weekend Masses on November 16 and 17. Click here for details!
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  • Recycle Weekend Recap
    Recycle Weekend Recap
    November 9, 2024
    We had a great response to Recycle Weekend, which took place on October 26-27 in all three of the parishes in our Anderson-Alexandria Pastorate. In all, we collected over 1,000 pounds of aluminum and other metal cans, and received almost $450 for the cans. Click here for more details!
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  • Police Officer Visit for Drug-free Kids
    Police Officer Visit for Drug-free Kids
    November 9, 2024
    During Red Ribbon Week, Holy Cross School invited Detective Brian Gehrke from the Anderson Police Department to speak with our G2-G8 students about the dangers of vaping, drugs, pills, and other addictive substances.
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  • Holy Cross School - August and September Day of Service
    November 9, 2024
    For our August Day of Service, Holy Cross School collected 214 boxes of macaroni and cheese for the St. Mary Food Pantry. Great job, students, families, and staff! On September 18, the students, staff, and families of Holy Cross School donated 520 bars of bath soap to the Anderson St. Vincent de Paul Society
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  • Youth Faith and Leadership Retreat
    Youth Faith and Leadership Retreat
    November 9, 2024
    St. Mary School’s 6th, 7th, and 8th graders experienced their annual Jr. High Faith and Leadership Retreat from Oct. 30th to Nov. 1st at Camp Rancho Framasa in southern Indiana.
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  • First Reconciliation and First Communion - St. Mary, Alexandria
    First Reconciliation and First Communion - St. Mary, Alexandria
    November 9, 2024
    Parents and guardians of second-grade students interested in the sacraments of First Reconciliation and First Communion for their children are invited to the first meeting of a three-part series of sessions on First Reconciliation. Click here for more details!
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  • New Library Materials
    New Library Materials
    November 9, 2024
    The St. Mary Alexandria parish lending library in the narthex now offers several new children's books. Click here for more details and happy reading!
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  • Ready for a Deal?
    November 9, 2024
    Next weekend, November 9 and 10, the Anderson St. Vincent de Paul Society will be selling raffle tickets after the Masses in lieu of their usual monthly Mass collection. Tickets are $5 each or 5 for $20.
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  • National Vocation Awareness Week 11/3 - 11/9
    November 3, 2024
    Celebrated November 3-9, 2024, this is an annual weeklong celebration of the Catholic Church in the United States dedicated to promoting vocations to the priesthood, diaconate, and consecrated life through prayer and education and renewing our prayers and support for those who are considering one of these particular vocations.
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  • Knights of Columbus Dinners Suspended
    October 31, 2024
    The Knights of Columbus is sad to announce that we have to suspend all our dinners until further notice. Click here for more details.
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