Monday, May 21, 2018

Fr. Chuck's Column, May 20, 2018


First of all, on behalf of Fr. Dick Sparks and myself, THANK YOU to all who stopped by after Mass last weekend and congratulated us on our 40th Ordination Anniversary. We both are most grateful for your well wishes. THANKS!
Secondly, I hope you have noticed the new light fixture and black metal cross on the top of our tower. It is very impressive, and we hope to have it lit soon.
By the time you read this, the Paulists should have two more newly ordained priests: Fr. Michael Hennessey, CSP and Fr. Ryan Casey, CSP. You may remember Fr. Casey, who spent the summer of 2014 with us. Congratulations to them both, and please continue to pray for vocations to the priesthood and religious life, especially to the Paulists.
We were hoping to celebrate the blessing and dedication of all the work on the renovation of our exterior, the new Holy Family Room and Nursery, and the new accessible entrance lobby and bathrooms. However, like a lot of construction projects around this town, we have had DELAYS. So on May 27 we will not yet have wall panels and flooring in the entrance lobby. Therefore, the blessing and dedication is POSTPONED. It is now set for Sunday, July 8. Please pray we bring this construction project to a happy and beautiful conclusion.
Moving right along, on Wednesday and Thursday of the following week, May 30 and 31, our Development Committee has two full days scheduled to interview the respondents to our request for proposal (RFP) for the mixed-use development of our campus. We expect at least four solid proposals. After that, at the end of the month, we should have a much clearer and better sense if such a project is at all feasible, and if so, what it may actually look like. So please keep the Development Committee in your prayers!
And mark your calendars for a Parish Mission to be given by Fr. Steven Bell, CSP, beginning at all Masses on the weekend of Oct. 20-21 and continuing the evenings of Oct. 22-24. I am sure this will be a stirring (and well attended) event!


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