When starting any new project the first thing to do is pray. When all else fails, the thing to do is to pray. And any other time, it is good to pray.
As we, St. Austin Parish and School, take on a monumental project of demolishing our current facilities (except of course the church!), moving to our garage’s empty retail space and to San Jose parish, and building a new home for our parish and school, we need lots of prayer. This amount of prayer requires organization. We have a new prayer for this major undertaking, which was introduced to the parish a few weeks ago. You will be hearing and praying it frequently over the next few years.
We also have established a Good Shepherd committee to encourage and support our prayer. This committee’s primary purpose is to be attentive to the needs of our community during the various phases of our journey, and to propose events that will help form us on this pilgrimage.
With the demands of many meetings, many decisions, and myriad details to consider in planning such a massive undertaking, it is important that we neglect neither prayer nor the feelings and concerns of our parish/school members. Hopefully the Good Shepherd committee will help us pay attention to all of our members so no one is forgotten.
They also will help encourage us to keep this project in prayer. There is a bulletin board near the St. Joseph altar, where you can take a slip of paper to pray for a particular intention for the coming week. I invite you to please stop by, check out the offerings, and choose one item to pray for during this coming week.
If you think you would like to be a part of this committee, or know of someone who would be good on this committee, please send me an email with your/their name.
Many thanks! God bless!
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