From the Pastor
March/04/2010
Thank you sincerely for your participation in, and support of our 43rd Annual Parish Festival. Through
your purchase of raffle tickets, sponsorships, underwriting of the event, and especially donating of your time and service as valuable volunteers, you have helped bring about another successful event for the benefit of our school children.
There were so many people involved that it becomes difficult to thank each individual. People have been coming from great distances as well as our local neighborhood to have a great time enjoying the food, camaraderie and various kinds of entertainment. Though we won’t have the final results for a few weeks (after all the bills have been paid!), suffice it to say that the parish festival has been blessed by the Lord with
fine weather and many good people who help to make it a wonderful success! May God reward you and your families for helping our school!
Our Annual Parish Mission will be observed from next Sunday, March 14th, through Thursday, March 17th. We’re happy to welcome back to our parish Father John Phelps, who spoke to us several weeks ago on behalf of the Redemptorist magazine, “The Ligourian.” Along with a Paulist priest, Father Alex Steinmiller, the two will work as a team to address our spiritual needs, especially based upon the needs assessment you answered for Father Phelps.
Bishop Barbarito returns to our parish next weekend for the diocesan observance of the annual Marriage
Anniversary celebration. Those couples who have been married 25, 40, 50 or more years will renew their commitments at Mass, and then attend a luncheon with the bishop following the ceremony. Congratulations to all of our parishioners who will be celebrating their wedding anniversary! May God bless you with many more happy years together.
This coming week, a busload plus of Catholic men and women will be headed for the state capitol in Tallahassee for “Catholic Days at the Capitol.” There, we will attempt to reach many of our legislators and explain to them our position as Catholics on many of the various pieces of legislation that will come before them for a vote this session. Sometimes we get a better response from those legislators who are not Catholic, compared to those who are “Catholic in name only.” Please pray for the success of our mission.
Steve Dudenhoefer of our Ak’Tenamit (“New Village”) in Guatemala will be coming to our parish on the
weekend of March 20-21 to make his annual appeal for our sister mission school and clinic in the rain forest of Guatemala. The following weekend (that of Palm Sunday), we will take up that second collection with the aim of supporting our mission there. Though we have been inundated with the most worthy of requests to help devastated Haiti in the aftermath of the great earthquake, we don’t want to lose sight of our need also to help the second poorest country in this hemisphere, Guatemala. This summer, our Knights of Columbus (some with their sons) will be taking their annual trek to that mission to assist in building more classrooms due to the rapid growth of the school population in Ak’Tenamit. Accompanying us will be some of the state officers of the 47,000 Knights in Florida, including a recent State Deputy (head knight) of Florida. We even expect to replicate our project in a neighboring area of the country, and help the people there realize the dream of Father Tom Moran, to educate and help keep the people in their own country, developing the talents and resources that they have in abundance, but needing outside assistance to do so. May your response be as generous as it has always been.
Just a reminder for those who are joining me this September on the trip to Germany and Austria, we will
have our preliminary meeting this Monday evening in the Conference Room of the Rectory at 7:00 PM. We still have 6 seats open for the trip. Did I mention that we will be in Munich during their annual Oktoberfest? Auf Wiedersehen! Ja! Ja!
Very Rev. Canon Tom
your purchase of raffle tickets, sponsorships, underwriting of the event, and especially donating of your time and service as valuable volunteers, you have helped bring about another successful event for the benefit of our school children.
There were so many people involved that it becomes difficult to thank each individual. People have been coming from great distances as well as our local neighborhood to have a great time enjoying the food, camaraderie and various kinds of entertainment. Though we won’t have the final results for a few weeks (after all the bills have been paid!), suffice it to say that the parish festival has been blessed by the Lord with
fine weather and many good people who help to make it a wonderful success! May God reward you and your families for helping our school!
Our Annual Parish Mission will be observed from next Sunday, March 14th, through Thursday, March 17th. We’re happy to welcome back to our parish Father John Phelps, who spoke to us several weeks ago on behalf of the Redemptorist magazine, “The Ligourian.” Along with a Paulist priest, Father Alex Steinmiller, the two will work as a team to address our spiritual needs, especially based upon the needs assessment you answered for Father Phelps.
Bishop Barbarito returns to our parish next weekend for the diocesan observance of the annual Marriage
Anniversary celebration. Those couples who have been married 25, 40, 50 or more years will renew their commitments at Mass, and then attend a luncheon with the bishop following the ceremony. Congratulations to all of our parishioners who will be celebrating their wedding anniversary! May God bless you with many more happy years together.
This coming week, a busload plus of Catholic men and women will be headed for the state capitol in Tallahassee for “Catholic Days at the Capitol.” There, we will attempt to reach many of our legislators and explain to them our position as Catholics on many of the various pieces of legislation that will come before them for a vote this session. Sometimes we get a better response from those legislators who are not Catholic, compared to those who are “Catholic in name only.” Please pray for the success of our mission.
Steve Dudenhoefer of our Ak’Tenamit (“New Village”) in Guatemala will be coming to our parish on the
weekend of March 20-21 to make his annual appeal for our sister mission school and clinic in the rain forest of Guatemala. The following weekend (that of Palm Sunday), we will take up that second collection with the aim of supporting our mission there. Though we have been inundated with the most worthy of requests to help devastated Haiti in the aftermath of the great earthquake, we don’t want to lose sight of our need also to help the second poorest country in this hemisphere, Guatemala. This summer, our Knights of Columbus (some with their sons) will be taking their annual trek to that mission to assist in building more classrooms due to the rapid growth of the school population in Ak’Tenamit. Accompanying us will be some of the state officers of the 47,000 Knights in Florida, including a recent State Deputy (head knight) of Florida. We even expect to replicate our project in a neighboring area of the country, and help the people there realize the dream of Father Tom Moran, to educate and help keep the people in their own country, developing the talents and resources that they have in abundance, but needing outside assistance to do so. May your response be as generous as it has always been.
Just a reminder for those who are joining me this September on the trip to Germany and Austria, we will
have our preliminary meeting this Monday evening in the Conference Room of the Rectory at 7:00 PM. We still have 6 seats open for the trip. Did I mention that we will be in Munich during their annual Oktoberfest? Auf Wiedersehen! Ja! Ja!
Very Rev. Canon Tom