Childcare is available. Saints' Cuisine is a new ministry created to encourage fellowship within the church. Small groups of six to eight individuals will meet monthly for four months to share food and fellowship. Groups will be designed with an attempt to bring together a diverse mix of people, and promote an environment where adult participants can get to know one another in a light. Dinners will be held at the various homes of group members.
Participants can help plan the menu and bring a portion of the meal.
Individuals with children are asked to prearrange childcare so they can fully enjoy fellowship with all the members of the group. Saints' Cuisine is being organized by one of the home groups of Holy Cross. Lent Invitation Lent commences with the observance of Ash Wednesday. The penitential rite of the Imposition of Ashes on this day derives from the practice of the early church, whereby sinners were reinstated to the community of faith only after a period of penitence, which included sackcloth and ashes, the traditional symbols of penitence. Services on the First Sunday of Lent often commence with the Great Litany.