Here are the Advent penance services scheduled around the diocese received as of press time. Note that many parishes (especially in the Smoky Mountain Deanery) are having, instead of penance services, extended or additional times for confession during Advent:
Chattanooga Deanery
Wednesday, Dec. 4: Holy Spirit, Soddy-Daisy, 7 p.m.
Thursday, Dec. 5: Our Lady of Perpetual Help, Chattanooga, 6:30 p.m.
Thursday, Dec. 5: St. Bridget, Dayton, 6:30 p.m.
Tuesday, Dec. 10: St. Stephen, Chattanooga, 6 p.m.
Friday, Dec. 13: St. Augustine, Signal Mountain, 7 p.m.
Monday, Dec. 16: St. Jude, Chattanooga, 7 p.m.
Tuesday, Dec. 17: St. Thérèse of Lisieux, Cleveland, 7 p.m.
Thursday, Dec. 19: St. Mary, Athens, 7 p.m.
Five Rivers Deanery
Monday, Dec. 2: St. Michael the Archangel, Erwin, 6 p.m.
Wednesday, Dec. 4: St. Anthony of Padua, Mountain City, 6 p.m.
Thursday, Dec. 5: St. Elizabeth, Elizabethton, 6 p.m.
Thursday, Dec. 5: St. Henry, Rogersville, 7 p.m.
Tuesday, Dec. 10: St. Dominic, Kingsport, 7 p.m.
Tuesday, Dec. 10: St. John Paul II, Rutledge, 7 p.m.
Wednesday, Dec. 11: Holy Trinity, Jefferson City, 7 p.m.
Saturday, Dec. 14: Good Shepherd, Newport, 4 p.m.
Tuesday, Dec. 17: Notre Dame, Greeneville, 7 p.m.
Smoky Mountain Deanery
Thursday, Nov. 21: St. John XXIII, Knoxville, 7 p.m.
Tuesday, Dec. 10: St. Joseph the Worker, Madisonville, 7 p.m.
Wednesday, Dec. 18: Holy Cross, Pigeon Forge, 6 p.m.
