Help Send our World Youth Day Pilgrims to Madrid (Spain) to See the Pope in 2011.  The Cost of the Brunch is $5/adult and $2 for children under 9!  There will be pancakes, sausages, coffee, tea, fruit, and more in St. Mary’s School!  Please join us for good food and for a great cause!

This Sunday March 21 after the 9 am and 11am masses there will be a Pancake and Sausage Brunch Fundraiser. Funds raised will help Send World Youth Day Pilgrims from St. Mary’s Church to Madrid (Spain) to See the Pope in 2011. The Cost of the Brunch is $5/adult and $2 for children 9 and under! There will be pancakes, sausages, coffee, tea, fruit, and more in St. Mary’s School Auditorium, just next door to the St. Mary’s Church!  Please join us for good food and for a great cause!

           On Sunday January 17th  after the 9 am and 11am masses there will be a Pancake and Sausage Brunch Fundraiser.  Funds raised will help Send World Youth Day Pilgrims from St. Mary’s Church to Madrid (Spain) to See the Pope in 2011.  The Cost of the Brunch is $5/adult and kids are free!  There will be pancakes, sausages, eggs, ham, coffee, tea, muffins, and more in St. Mary’s School Auditorium, just next door to the St. Mary’s Church!  Last time the brunch was so popular that we ran out of sausage, so this time we are buying double the number of sausage!

Thank you to all of the parishioners who attended the pancake brunch to support our youth in their goal to attend the next World Youth Day in Spain.  Also, thank you to those parishioners who volunteered their time in the kitchen and elsewhere to help make this event a success.  Through your generous contribution $688 was raised after expenses were paid for.  This means that almost $70 was raised for each of the 11 youth that attended the brunch.  The cost to attend World Youth Day in Madrid Spain in 2011 with the Peterborough Diocese is approximately $3000 per youth.  Thank you again and we promise that next time we will have so many sausages we won’t know what to do with them!

Our next fundraising event is planned for Sunday, Nov. 29th in St. Mary’s School Auditorium after the 11 am mass.  St. Mary’s Youth will be serving tables at the CWL Harvest Luncheon and Tea and the CWL has agreed to make a generous donation for this service.  Please come and support the CWL and the youth of the parish by attending this event.

Pictures of this event are now online here.

God bless and hope to see you on Nov. 29th!

Brad Waggoner (St. Mary’s Youth Coordinator)

On Sunday November 15th, St. Mary’s Youth will be having a World Youth Day Fundraising Sausage and Pancake Brunch after the 9 and 11am masses. All of the proceeds will go towards our goal to raise $30 000 which will cover approximately half of the cost to send 20 pilgrims to see the Pope at World Youth Day 2011 Madrid Spain. We still need volunteers to help in the kitchen, to sell tickets, and to serve tables.

Please let the office know or email me at bradleywaggoner@trentu.ca if you think you will be able to help in anyway. This is a great cause, great food, and a lot of fun!