From the Pastor
February/25/2010
We welcome Bishop Barbarito this weekend to our parish to confirm our teens and bring them closer to Christ through the power of the Holy Spirit. We congratulate our confirmati (Latin for ‘those confirmed’), and pray that they will respond to the promptings of the Spirit in their words and actions! May their parents and sponsors continue to exercise their own special responsibilities in seeing to it that these young men and women stay close to the Lord and demonstrate their loyalty to God and His Church as they continue to develop their Faith.
Our big event of the year is here! The 43rd Annual Parish Festival begins this coming weekend, and I trust you’ll join us on at least one of the days. Bring along your family, neighbors and friends. This event has grown over the years and is a fund-raiser solely for the benefit of our parish school. That’s why we need volunteers (young and not so young) to help us make this another success. The $100 ticket raffle can generate
quite a bit of cash for many winners, including the $25,000 Grand prize! One way to offset the cost of a ticket is to “group purchase” a ticket. Several family members or friends can “chip-in” and buy a $100 ticket. Likewise, there will be various raffle tickets available at a lesser cost. On Thursday, the carnival rides area will be open for a “sneak preview.” This does not include the rest of the festival, but it still benefits the school. Come, join the fun and help support our fine parish school!
This coming Saturday is the First Saturday of the month. Each month we gather at the abortion center in West Palm Beach to pray the Rosary and ask Mary’s intercession to change the minds of those who would snuff out the life of the unborn. We begin at 9:00 am, and the location is next to Wendy’s on 45th St. at Village Blvd. You have permission to park at the Wendy’s lot. We look forward to your sacrificing your time and
joining us for an hour in prayer to end the scourge of the sin of abortion in our society. No amount of political posturing will end it without prayer for God’s help.
As predictable for the past several years, the secular media mostly chose to ignore the largest and longest running march in Washington, DC - this year’s March for Life. Though the media decided not to mention it this year, police estimated some 370,000 to 400,000 Pro-Life protestors descended on our nation’s capital to mourn the 37 years of killing innocent and defenseless unborn babies in the womb! Predictably, our nation’s
Chief Executive had nothing to say to these Pro-Life demonstrators, and even left town rather than be reminded each time he looked out his window and saw well over a quarter-of-a-million people voicing their displeasure at his own administration’s lack of respect for unborn human life, that he would have to someday reconcile his conscience with God’s teaching on human life. What a sad commentary on the situation!
Thank you to the Knights of Columbus and the members of our EDGE Middle School program for their help in putting on successful Fish Fry Dinners on Fridays of Lent. These wonderful organizations will split the profits so as to help each of them run the programs that they do.
In this week’s Gospel, we read about Jesus’ Transfiguration and His conversation with Moses and Elijah concerning His exodus to take place in Jerusalem. Our Lenten journey to the renewal of our baptism on Holy Saturday evening and Easter Sunday is meant to be a rather prayerful experience that prefigures our own transfiguration, and helps us enter into and try to understand Christ’s Paschal mystery. It begins with our celebration of Mass and continues with our own transformation, so that we can go out and witness for Christ in our everyday world. As we approach the days of our upcoming Parish Mission and Retreat (March 14-17), we pray that the time we spend during Lent will bring us to a closer glimpse of God’s glory, and prepare us for the day when we will be able to experience Him in the fullness of that glory.
Very Rev. Canon Tom
Our big event of the year is here! The 43rd Annual Parish Festival begins this coming weekend, and I trust you’ll join us on at least one of the days. Bring along your family, neighbors and friends. This event has grown over the years and is a fund-raiser solely for the benefit of our parish school. That’s why we need volunteers (young and not so young) to help us make this another success. The $100 ticket raffle can generate
quite a bit of cash for many winners, including the $25,000 Grand prize! One way to offset the cost of a ticket is to “group purchase” a ticket. Several family members or friends can “chip-in” and buy a $100 ticket. Likewise, there will be various raffle tickets available at a lesser cost. On Thursday, the carnival rides area will be open for a “sneak preview.” This does not include the rest of the festival, but it still benefits the school. Come, join the fun and help support our fine parish school!
This coming Saturday is the First Saturday of the month. Each month we gather at the abortion center in West Palm Beach to pray the Rosary and ask Mary’s intercession to change the minds of those who would snuff out the life of the unborn. We begin at 9:00 am, and the location is next to Wendy’s on 45th St. at Village Blvd. You have permission to park at the Wendy’s lot. We look forward to your sacrificing your time and
joining us for an hour in prayer to end the scourge of the sin of abortion in our society. No amount of political posturing will end it without prayer for God’s help.
As predictable for the past several years, the secular media mostly chose to ignore the largest and longest running march in Washington, DC - this year’s March for Life. Though the media decided not to mention it this year, police estimated some 370,000 to 400,000 Pro-Life protestors descended on our nation’s capital to mourn the 37 years of killing innocent and defenseless unborn babies in the womb! Predictably, our nation’s
Chief Executive had nothing to say to these Pro-Life demonstrators, and even left town rather than be reminded each time he looked out his window and saw well over a quarter-of-a-million people voicing their displeasure at his own administration’s lack of respect for unborn human life, that he would have to someday reconcile his conscience with God’s teaching on human life. What a sad commentary on the situation!
Thank you to the Knights of Columbus and the members of our EDGE Middle School program for their help in putting on successful Fish Fry Dinners on Fridays of Lent. These wonderful organizations will split the profits so as to help each of them run the programs that they do.
In this week’s Gospel, we read about Jesus’ Transfiguration and His conversation with Moses and Elijah concerning His exodus to take place in Jerusalem. Our Lenten journey to the renewal of our baptism on Holy Saturday evening and Easter Sunday is meant to be a rather prayerful experience that prefigures our own transfiguration, and helps us enter into and try to understand Christ’s Paschal mystery. It begins with our celebration of Mass and continues with our own transformation, so that we can go out and witness for Christ in our everyday world. As we approach the days of our upcoming Parish Mission and Retreat (March 14-17), we pray that the time we spend during Lent will bring us to a closer glimpse of God’s glory, and prepare us for the day when we will be able to experience Him in the fullness of that glory.
Very Rev. Canon Tom