40 HOURS OF ADORATION
Potsdam - St. Mary’s, with the support of the Highway to Heaven committee, is hosting 40 Hours of Eucharistic Adoration to pray for vocations to the priesthood and consecrated life.
Date: Oct. 23 starting after 4 p.m. Mass until Benediction Oct. 25 at 8:40 a.m.
Features: There will be Solemn Exposition of the Holy Eucharist. During the 40 Hours Devotion, individuals, families, and groups sign up to spend an hour with Jesus, truly present in the Holy Eucharist. It provides a wonderful opportunity to hear God speaking to your heart, through quiet and community prayers, and unleashes His blessings upon our local Church.
Contact: To sign up for a Holy Hour as an individual, family, or group, contact Beth Bergman at 518.536.2491 or email ebeth.bergman@gmail.com with the subject line "40 Hours." You may also contact Elaina Smith at the Parish Office of St. Mary's in Potsdam at 315.265.9680 or potsdamsec@rcdony.org.  For more information including prayer resources and a history of the 40 Hours devotion, go to www.h2hcontinues.org.  

DISCERNMENT GROUPS
Watertown - Discover your vocation. Strengthen your faith. Walk with brothers.
Date: Oct. 24
Time: 9 a.m.
Place: Holy Family Church
Features: Gather with men ages 18 and above who are seeking to understand God’s call in their lives and explore the possibility of a vocation to the priesthood. Father Carter Pierce will lead the group. Sponsored by the Diocese of Ogdensburg Office of Vocations.
Contact: For more information, call 315-782-1190

FOSTER GRANDPARENT  
Foster Grandparents are role models, mentors and friends to children with exceptional needs. The program provides a way for volunteers age 55 and over to stay active by serving children and youth in their communities. They are placed in a classroom serving with a child or children who are in need of emotional support, development of basic learning skills, friendship, companionship, encouragement, individual attention and unhurried help. The program currently has 40 volunteers and serves more than 100 kids per year. To volunteer in this program, you can live in one of the following counties. Franklin, Essex County, Clinton County, St. Lawrence County or Jefferson County
Contact: Melissa Howard, Volunteer Coordinator at (518) 359-7688 or E-mail: mhoward@cathcharities.org 

SIDEWALK ADVOCATES FOR LIFE 
Experience Sidewalk Advocated for Life’s new virtual basic training 2.0. 
Features: Sidewalk Advocates for Life employs peaceful, prayerful, loving, and law-abiding outreach outside of abortion centers to aid mothers in crisis and connect them with life-affirming resources in the effort to save their preborn children and end abortion. By God’s grace, this effort has witnessed over 9,000 women turn around at abortion centers and CHOOSE LIFE! 
Contact: To get started, YOU’RE INVITED to fill out the brief application at sidewalkadvocates.org/trainingapp. Upon receipt, we’ll be in touch with next steps for accessing the online training.