June 20, 2021

My Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

There has been a lot of questions regarding who our new Associate Pastor will be given the new Priest assignments that have been released by the Archdiocese.   I was supposed to announce who our new Associate Pastor is last week however I was not informed of who he is at the time of the dateline of this column.  Please stay tuned to our Parish Website or Facebook page and we will announce it as soon as we can.

I will be leading a Pilgrimage to Italy from November 8 to 18, 2021. The Pilgrimage includes visits to Venice, Padua, Florence, Assisi and Rome.  The cost for the Pilgrimage is $3279 per person (based on 2 persons sharing in twin-bedded rooms with private bath).  A detail brochure is available in the Parish Office and in the Church.  If you have any questions, kindly contact me at the Parish Office.

I am grateful for all the many volunteers who have helped make our campus grounds look beautiful.  Last year we started putting more mulch around our campus especially the areas where we are not able to grow any grass and filled areas with landscape rocks.  We have volunteers plant new plants on our planters and have planted 9 new trees around and various new plants around our campus.  We will be reseeding areas of our campus with new grass in the near future.  With all this said, I am looking for a volunteer or several volunteers to head or assist in our Parish Landscape Committee to help make our campus grounds more beautiful.  If this is something you are able to help, kindly contact me at the Parish Office.

As our Church slowly reopens up, we had the ropes removed for half our Church with no social distancing required.  We have the other half of the Church available for those still wanting to social distance. Please note that masks are required for the social distancing section. We are requesting that mask be used when coming forward to receive Communion.  Thank you for kindly working with us.  We will reevaluate these protocols on a week to week basis.

Please note that our Church is open for meetings and groups.  As a reminder, please monitor COVID-19 symptoms.  As always, if you or a family member has a fever, chills, body aches, headache, sore throat, cough, and loss of taste and smell, they should stay home from school or church until symptom free.   We continue to place the health and safety of all members of our school and parish community our top priority.

Please check out our Weekly Updates via email.  If you have not received an email, kindly call our Parish Office and we will add you in our email mailing list.  Thank you again for supporting us during this time. We continue to keep all those affected by this virus in our
prayers.

God’s Blessings,

Fr Marc