June 6, 2021
My Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ,
I pray you had a Blessed Memorial Day when we remember all the men and women who died while serving our Country.
On the 3rd and 4th of June, our Parish and School office staff will be heading to the Benedictine Retreat Center in Schuyler for a retreat. Please keep us in your prayers as we continue to grow spiritually so that we can assist our Parish continue to be a place where faith is grown and shared.
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 in 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 our Parish Landscape Committee to help make our campus grounds more beautiful. If this is something you are able to help with, kindly contact me at the Parish Office.
Last week I mentioned in my Pastor’s Column the several projects that will be going on in our campus which include the playground for our new Pre School, replacing the concrete for our Entrance Plaza and while doing that installing a pergola, a water feature as well as new lighting that not only provides more areas for gatherings but also fosters a welcoming environment. We will also replace part of the driveway asphalt that leads to our Entrance Plaza with concrete.
Another project that will happen this summer is the first stage of replacing the heating water piping in our school with a new variable volume terminal unit and a heating water coil in each classroom which connects to the existing ductwork. This would also include new temperature controls for the room and provide an extension of the heating water piping from the lower-level mechanical room to each coil. This new system will be installed in the east wing of the lower level of our school.
We will also begin the relocation of the Tabernacle that will make both the Tabernacle visible and accessible from the Church and a lunar insert for the Blessed Sacrament to be exposed at the opposite side of the Tabernacle in the Blessed Sacrament Chapel. The lunar insert for the tabernacle which has to be custom made has been ordered. As soon as the lunar arrives, we will begin the relocation.
To further improve our communication through our Parish, we will be installing four Digital Signage Displays in our narthex in July.
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 masks 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