September 6, 2020
My Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ,
We are scheduled to open our new Early Childhood Education and Youth Center on Tuesday, September 8th. At the time of writing this letter we were going through our inspections for our certificate of occupancy and making all the necessary changes to meet the required code. We are in our final stretch in getting the building ready for our opening day. We are excited to open of our new Early Childhood Education and Youth Center. We registered a total of 71 children for our new Early Childhood program as of last Tuesday.
We celebrated with our third graders their First Communion last weekend and will have another celebration this weekend. We were not able to celebrate it during Easter because of COVID-19. Congratulations to our First Communicants.
Our Religious Education Program begins this fall. To accommodate families who have requested for a remote learning option, we made a decision to reformat our Religious Education Program to Family Faith Formation. We believe that parents are the primary educators of the faith life of their children and Family Faith Formation is a family-based catechetical program that helps children and parents to become stronger in their faith together. We have communicated our new Program to all the families that have registered. If you have not registered and would like to participate in our Religious Education Program, kindly contact our Religious Education Director – Jeffery Foreman at the Parish Office.
We completed our third week of school relatively uneventfully which continues to be good. Please keep our teachers and staff in your prayers. We continue to adjust and make improvements in keeping everyone safe. Our COVID-19 Resource Page can be accessed at https://www.moqschool.org/moq-covid-19-resource-page/.
On September 1st, we celebrated the World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation. Over the course of last week, we planted several new trees on our Parish campus bearing in mind the gift of creation and for us playing a part in caring for God’s creation. We also had the landscaping of our new Early Childhood Education and Youth Center done. I am grateful for all the help we have received over the course of the summer where we made changes of the landscaping of our Parish to make our campus look beautiful.
With all the repairs and replacements that were undertaken on our Parish campus, we are more or less done for the year with exception for the replacement of the air conditioning units of our School. We had originally moved ahead with the replacement of the air conditioning units of our School which was damaged by the hailstorm last year. The reason why we needed to replace the air conditioning units in our school is because of the need to provide fresh air intake. This improves the air quality in our school in light of the pandemic. Unfortunately, because of the delays in the delivery of the air conditioning units, we had to reschedule the installation of the new units till middle October.
We continue to encourage everyone to follow the guidelines as indicated by our local authorities. For those continuing to follow the guidelines, we would like to thank you for doing so. We will continue to fine tune our procedures and provide more details on how everyone is to be seated via email, on our Website and Facebook account.
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.
Please keep in your prayers all those affected by the coronavirus especially – those in the medical profession, those who have lost their jobs, those whose pay checks have been affected by the public event limits, the businesses impacted by the virus and the love ones we can’t visit because of the social distancing that is requested from us.
God’s Blessings,
Fr Marc