Parish Picnic 2024: Environmental Emphasis. Please Sign Up!
Bring food to share -- and your own plates, utensils and cups
The 2024 Parish Picnic takes place on Sunday, Sept. 22 at St. Christophorus in Frankfurt's Preungesheim district, where it was held last year.
Mass will start at 12 noon, earlier than at previous picnics, and there will be a special effort to make the event part of the parish's sustainability push.
As in past years, please bring:
(1) a salad and/or dessert
(Meat and drinks will be provided by the parish)
(2) A prize for the tombola/raffle
(Proceeds from the tombola go to the 2024 parish charity, contributing to new solar-power facilities at a Don Bosco school in South Sudan)
NEW THIS YEAR:
In order to make this event more sustainable, we ask all who attend to please BRING YOUR OWN plates, cutlery, cups – the NON-DISPOSABLE kind -- and to please take them back home with you for washing afterward. Also, you will need to supply your own napkins. The parish will not provide paper plates, etc.
Thank you for your help in cutting down on the waste!
*** Please consider bringing an extra plate and cutlery to share with your neighbor, in case they forget. ***
Registration is required so that we know how much food and drinks to order. To register your attendance, please either email the Parish Office at international(a)parish-frankfurt.de (replacing the (a) with the standard @ sign for emails), phone (069) 219 36 500 or use the signup sheets available after Mass during the previous weekends.
Final day for registration: Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2024
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The picnic address:
St. Christophorus Church
An den Drei Steinen 42c
60435 Frankfurt
For those taking public transport, the closest stops are Theobald-Ziegler-Straße on the U5 U-Bahn line, with an 8-minute walk to the venue, or Homburger Landstraße/Marbachweg on Bus M34, with a 9-minute walk.
Note that the service replaces that day's Masses at Holy Cross and St. Mary's.
The organizers also need volunteers to help set up the site; if you can contribute your work, please let them know when signing up.
