The Guadalajara Reporter
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San Andrés Mass
Fr. Basil G. Royston, D. Min., has announced his retirement. He will continue to live at Lakeside and plans to write a couple of books.
In his place, Padre Everardo Sánchez will officiate for the foreign congregation at the 10:30 a.m. English-language Mass.
Sunday Masses in Spanish are scheduled at 7, 8 and 10 a.m., noon, 5, 7 and 8 p.m. San Andrés is at the corner of Ramon Corona and Parroquia, one block from the Ajijic main plaza.
Blas Antonio Castañeda Aguilera, a two-time Mexican chess champion, came to Ajijic’s Lake Chapala Society Saturday, March 9 for an exhibition match at the Huara Chess Club. Castañeda first gave a lecture on chess strategy and tactics to over 40 boys and girls, ranging from 5 to 19 years in age.
By Jacob Atkins
This year, Democrats Abroad Mexico has scheduled its Annual General Meeting (AGM) from March 30 to April 1 at the Hotel Posada La Aldea in San Miguel de Allende.
Everyone is welcome to join the Lake Chapala Jewish Congregation for a hilarious enactment of the Purim story and a delicious vegetarian dinner on Wednesday, March 20, 4 p.m.
Jewish Congregation
Shabbat Torah services are held the first and third Saturday of the month, 10 a.m. and Shabbat evening services and potluck every second and fourth Friday, 6 p.m., at the Lake Chapala Jewish Congregation.
English-speaking parishioners at Ajijic’s San Andrés church were taken by surprise Sunday, March 3 when they arrived for the regular 9 a.m. Mass and found the gates locked.
People power was the driving force behind the latest Operación Amor spay and neuter clinic held March 2 and 3 on the campus of Chapala’s Secundaria Ténica 83.
