GLOBAL WARMING RESPONSE: On Sunday, March 25th at 3 pm, St. Peter's parish will host a discussion on global warming, featuring Dr. Christopher Martine, an assistant professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at Plattsburgh State University. Dr. Martine holds a PhD in botany from the University or Connecticut and a master's degree in ecology and evolutionary biology from Rutgers University. The gathering is open to all and will be held in the Emmaus Room. BABY SHOWER FOR BIRTHRIGHT: You are invited to a Baby Shower for Birthright at St. John’s Church Community Center (downstairs, near chapel) on March 24th from 1:00 -3:00 PM sponsored by Our Lady of Guadalupe Youth for Life. Please bring a gift for babies and moms in need: sleepers (0-3 months), night-gowns, receiving blankets, sweater sets (small and new-born), socks, crib sheets, diaper bags, baby powder, baby wipes. There will also be fun and games.  MY OFFERING TO GOD FOR THE FOURTH WEEK OF LENT: I will give a gift to an organization that helps those with disabilities. I will ask God about something that is troubling me. I will comfort someone I know who is sick. I will rejoice in Christ’s power over death. I will rejoice that Christ’s works demonstrate He is God. I’ll thank God that He has a plan that evildoers can change. I will reflect on who Jesus is. CATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICES COLLECTION: This weekend our parish will take up the Catholic Relief Services Collection. Through your support, the Catholic Church in the United States is able to respond to the many needs of persons around the world who experience disease, famine, war, poverty, persecution and injustice. Your gifts bring hope to a suffering humanity. Through the eyes of faith, the starving child, the believer in jail, and the woman without clean water or health care are not issues, but Jesus in Disguise. FAITH BITS FOR FAMILIES: God has planted in every human heart the hunger and longing for the infinite—for nothing less than Himself. Only in God will we find the truth, peace, and happiness for which we never stop searching. Created in God’s image, we are called to know and love the Lord. God can be known with certainty from his works in creation and from the spiritual nature of the human person by the light of natural reason, although there are many difficulties in coming to this knowledge because of humanity’s historical and sinful condition. By our openness to goodness and truth, our experience, our sense of moral goodness, our listening to the voice of conscience, and our desire for happiness, we can discern our spiritual soul and can come to see that this could only have its origin in God. We can speak of God even if our limited language cannot exhaust the mystery of who he is.