Meeting Notes
St. Kateri Women’s Group
March 12th @ 6:30pm
1. Opening Prayer – Sister Antoinette
2. April 6th & 7th - Clothing Drive for St. Kateri Scholarship Fund.
3. Old Business – Holy Week Food - The group reviewed and made updates on plans for Holy Week started at Feb. meeting. *Mike to put paper on and set up tables and chairs each day.
· Holy Thursday April 18th (Anticipate food for 60 people based on 2018)
Gus and Fr. Gerry will shop at BJs for long lasting grocery items ahead of time, including cases of water
Sister will contact Dave’s about turkeys, turkey breasts, and hams
Rose will contact Diane Gemma about dinner rolls
Marty to provide a cooler and individual butter pats
Colleen to buy red and white mini-carnations for tables
Denise to buy butter, milk and ½ & half for mac n cheese and coffee
Paul to get 2 large bags of ice on Thursday
Parishioners to make desserts, help clean up afterward and help cook during the day Thursday – Rose to make sign-up sheets to count numbers of people eating and helpers for each day
Tentative Assignments for Holy Thursday
Sue J., others who sign up
10AM - ?
Cut up vegetables. Set up oven racks, put in turkeys, note times to come out, set up big pots on stove, sternos, pans etc. Set up plates, utensils, baskets for rolls, dessert area and coffee section. Get out decorations/vases for flowers.
1PM Denise (watch ovens, decorate tables, other set up)
Denise, Rose, Dee, Sue, Paul, Lee, Matt
3PM - 5PM
Cook the potatoes and carrots, mac-n-cheese, mash the potatoes, cut up turkeys. Heat up gravy. Get hams from Sister and cut up. Get everything into the pans w sternos, make coffee, fill coolers with ice and water (or just water if cold from outside).
*Cleanup committee - whoever signed up - Please put flowers in kitchen (will NOT use on Good Friday but will use at Easter Vigil)
· Good Friday April 19th
Santos will make chowder and vegetable soup. THANK YOU!
Leftover rolls and macaroni and cheese will also be served. No dessert.
Decorate tables with crowns of briars - no flowers.
· Easter Vigil April 20th IN ADVANCE - Norma or Sister to order sandwich and salad ingredients, dressing, rolls etc. from Dave’s. Denise will help pick up food if needed.
10AM - ? People who signed up, Lucille
Make sandwiches.
Lucille will make salad.
Leftover dessert will also be served.
Decorate tables with flowers from Holy Thursday.
4. New Business – Fiscal Year ends June 30th - Rose and Sister led the group in asking for suggestions for spending money in the St. Kateri Parish Needs Fund (proceeds from the bazaar, cookbook and ornament sales, etc.) A list of local and parish needs was made, and Rose will bring it up before the Finance Committee. The group decided to also keep some money available for needs from July 1 through November - before the next bazaar season.
5. Closing Prayer - All - for those in the St. Kateri parish family who are sick and suffering.
6. NEXT MEETING April 2nd