Join the Healing Ministry of Jesus by visiting our Catholic patients, offering the Eucharist, praying with them and encouraging them. You will work alongside staff chaplains to increase the spiritual well-being of our patients in the community. Click here for more details!
The pastorate Soup Kitchen Ministry is looking for new volunteers to prepare soup for the Christian Center and Women's Shelter in Anderson. Click here for details!
Severe weather is forecast for Sunday, January 5, throughout Indiana. While Masses in the Pastorate will not be canceled, please use your discretion when deciding whether to attend. If attending Mass would be dangerous, the obligation to participate does not apply. You can attend the Saturday Masses at 4:00 pm at St. Mary Anderson or 4:30 pm at St. Mary Alexandria, or livestream the Mass via the Pastorate website. Eucharistic Adoration will be shortened, concluding at 12:00 Noon on Sunday. Please stay safe and let us pray for each other.
Each January, the Merciful H.E.L.P. Center from Our Lady of Mt. Carmel parish in Carmel, Indiana, hosts CommUNITY Care Day at Holy Cross School in Anderson. This event supports hundreds of Madison County families with food, school supplies, and more. For 2025, it will be held on January 11th, and volunteers are essential for its success. Click here to learn more and to sign up!
St. Ambrose Church is in need of a Sacristan who can not only do the normal Mass duties but can also assist with laundering the altar linens, setting up for a funeral, and providing the church office with candle, host, and wine inventories. Please call the parish office at 765-644-5956 if you might be interested.
FORMED is a Catholic online streaming service with content in both English and Spanish. Our pastorate offers the service for FREE to all individuals and families in all three parishes and both pastorate schools.
All parishioners and students are encouraged to help clean before we change our church
environment for Christmas. Use the checklist in the Narthex to select a task to complete
at a time that works for you. Then, mark the item as completed on the checklist. Please see the
notice in the Narthex for more details. Thanks for helping us prepare the way for the Lord!
Please make sure to place your Angel Tree gifts, unwrapped, under the tree by Dec. 15th at the latest. These gifts will bless the families of St. Mary School and the Summerville and Alex Care Center residents.
Volunteers are needed at St. Ambrose for the annual washing of the church pews and deep cleaning of the church for Christmas. Click here for more details!
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!
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.
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!
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.
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!
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!