Sunday, April 14th: Spring Train Trip to Chicago’s fabulous St John Cantius and assisting at Solemn Mass there

https://www.cantius.org/ https://www.instagram.com/sjcantius_official/

If you book now tickets are $36 round trip the later you wait the higher the price goes up and the less availability seats will be.  https://www.amtrak.com/home

On Sunday, April 14:

8:30am Departure from Princeton, Illinois. PCT

10:30am arrival Chicago Union Station. CHI

30min walk from Union Station to St. John Cantius. Where we can have lunch in the parish hall. BYOB.

12:30 p.m. — High Mass: 1962 Missal

After Mass we can church hop in the immediate areas and admire all the architecture designs Chicago has to offer

Private msg Andrew Palmer if you are interested

Return trip from Union Station 5:55pm
Arrival at Princeton, Illinois 7:43pm

We will meet up at 7am at Thunder-bay Grill and carpool to the train station

Please share this with your friends beyond our community. (Unfortunately, Fr Young will not be able to accompany the group on this excursion. He will be minding the store back in Iowa instead)

10 March, The Fourth Sunday of Lent: Laetare! it’s Rose Sunday

Davenport, Holy Family: 9:30 Slaying Dragons study in Parish Administrative Office conference room; Confession 10:25; Rosary 10:35, High Mass 11:00; Holy Face devotion, Fellowship Meal afterwards

Iowa City, St Patrick: 2:05 Rosary, 2:30 Low Mass with hymns, Slaying Dragons book study 15 minutes after Mass in Social Hall

https://extraordinaryform.org/propers/Lent4th.pdf

ACTION ITEM For Iowa Homeschooling Families parents and supporters: Unfriendly rule changes are being considered by the State of Iowa

A homeschooling parent from our community informs me that:

“I wanted to make you aware of the situation with the Iowa Dept of Ed that’s trying to change rules for homeschooling, making it oppressive for us. It feels like [we’re being targeted for retaliation] prolly b/c Gov Reynolds went hard on the AEA & also with the passing of the Students First Act. Neither of these even affected us homeschoolers, but… homeschoolers [can tend to] make public schools look bad!

Please pray! Tomorrow is the day of hearings! We have contacted all reps & senators though I was told by them (who were completely unaware of this!) it’s not up as a bill or law just a sneaky rule change!”

Please pray!

Our State Representative, Luana Stoltenberg is on our side, had the following to say, and has provided these links, urging us to call and make our voices heard.

“I talked with several Representatives this morning about those rules for homeschoolers. I was told to write them through the link I sent you guys. Find everyone you can to write.
There are several meetings with the BOE because they are the ones that wrote the language on the rules. Thanks.”

So, if you feel so inclined, here is where to do that, at the bottom of this link:

https://rules.iowa.gov/Notice/Details/7587C

Homeschool Iowa has teamed up with the Homeschool Legal Defense Association with these suggestions:

Chapter 31 Rules