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Thank you St. Thomas for your amazing support at our Tuesday Drives! Together we created 20 Summer Bags for our homebound seniors packed with festive and practical items.  Your generosity was so great that leftover items were shared with our friends at the South End Children's Café!  Thank you so much for sharing sparkles of love to our homebound seniors and our young neighbors across town. Click here for more photos!

St. Thomas the Apostle Church is hosting, on Tuesday, June 27 at 6 pm, this month's installment of the Furthering Your Faith series. Fr. Stephen Yusko will be giving a talk entitled "Pride," which will be followed by a Holy Hour from 7-8 pm. Priests will be available to hear confessions during this time. Furthering Your Faith is a collaboration between parish networks in the Capital Region, offering monthly lectures on a variety of topics germane to Catholic life. Each one-hour talk will be followed by a period of prayer, featuring an hour of Eucharistic Adoration and Benediction. These events are free of charge and open to all ages.

If you are a Mom and have not yet checked out our Catholic Moms Faith and Fellowship Gatherings you don't know what you are missing! The Catholic Moms Faith and Fellowship Group is an organization for Catholic mothers who would like meet other Catholic mothers who share their faith. The group meets for prayer (and Mass on occasion), conversation and refreshments. Babysitting is provided for the children. See more photos here and join their Facebook group and Instagram account to see when the next gathering will be!

Christ the King Church is hosting a Red Cross Blood Drive on June 24. To register, visit redcrossblood.org and use sponsor code churchchristking. There are a lot of great times still available, and if you can, bring a friend! Each donor will receive a Stewarts Ice Cream Shops gift card for a free pint of their delicious ice cream and a $10 e-gift card to a merchant of your choice! Plus, you’ll be automatically entered for a chance to win a backyard theater package. Click here to register.

The Diocese of Albany is hosting the Step Up Men's Conference on Saturday, August 12 from 8:30-5 pm at the Our Lady of Martyrs Shrine in Auriesville. The Step Up Men's Conference will give men the tools needed to grow in holiness in their everyday lives. The event will include presentations from Fr. Larry Richards and Deacon Darrell Miller, Reconciliation, Adoration, Rosary, and 4 pm Mass. The purpose of this event is to grow in our relationship with Christ and establish a plan to bring this energy back to our families and parish families. The early registration cost is $50 per person and includes lunch; College age and younger men are FREE. For more information and to register click here.

The Diocese of Albany in collaboration with Twin Bridges Catholic (a regional young adult group that meets in Clifton Park) will host a Good News & Cold Brews young adult event. June 21st from 7-9 pm at St. Edward the Confessor Church, 569 Clifton Park Center Rd., Clifton Park. Fr. Dan Quinn, Pastor of Blessed Sacrament in Albany, will be presenting on Theology of the Body. Food and beverages will be served. For more information, please contact Tom Cronin at [email protected] or Twin Bridges Catholic at [email protected]

As you may know there was a major fire in our town which resulted in a large number of families being displaced and left, in some cases, homeless. While the Red Cross has assisted those at the Deer Run Apartments, more is needed. The Slingerlands Fire Department is holding a fund raising breakfast to be held on behalf of these folks. The breakfast will be held Sunday, June 18 from 8am to noon at the Slingerlands firehouse, 1520 New Scotland Road. All you can eat breakfast, Adults $ 10.00, Children ages 5-12 $ 5.00, Under age 5 *FREE*

The Dominican Retreat and Conference Center is ofering an evening of refreshment for parish ministers. Making All Things New: Reclaiming the Passion for Ministry will be held June 21 from 6-9pm with presenter Joyce Solimini. In-house $25 (includes dinner) Virtual via Zoom $15, Click here to register

St. Matthew's in Voorheesville is hosting a vendor/craft show on June 10th from 10am - 3pm. The event will happen rain or shine and include arts & crafs, jewelry, home decor, handmade teacher gifs, food, crystals, health and beauty, baked goods, rafles, paintings, vendors, local businesses and much more!