HAPPY
EASTER!!! ALLELUIA!!!
Many thanks to all the RCIA team,
musicians, lectors, fellow clergy, liturgical ministers, ushers and all who
attended and participated and made our Lenten and Holy Week celebrations such
beautiful and moving testaments of faith. We have real reason to celebrate, and
thanks to so much hard work and talent from many people here, we had great
celebrations! Thank you!
I also want to THANK all the
volunteers and workers on the Faithful To
Our Mission capital campaign. Thank you especially to all of you who have
put your commitment to St. Austin’s parish into action and have contributed
generously to the campaign. I am very happy to announce that we have reached
our goal of Four Million Dollars! YAY! Much work, planning, phone calling,
visiting and prayer went into reaching this wonderful result and I want to
THANK all who participated in any way.
But we cannot rest on our
laurels. While we have reached our dollar goal, we have not yet had 100%
participation by our parish family. We have been able to dig deep with many
generous gifts to be able to reach our dollar goal. Now we have to go wide to
reach our goal of a high rate of participation by our parishioners. So far, 27%
of our registered households (which could be a family or a single individual)
have made a gift or commitment to our campaign. I am hoping we can do more.
For our campaign to succeed, we
need not only the dollars but real buy-in by the parish. I want a very broad
spectrum of this parish to have some skin in the game, to have ownership and a
genuine sense of involvement in this campaign. I believe this campaign is very
important for the future of our parish, and not just for the construction
issues.
So if you have NOT yet made a
commitment or gift to the Faithful To Our
Mission capital campaign, I ask you PLEASE take a pledge card and envelope
from one of the blue folders in the pews, pray over your response, and then
make a gift to the campaign by returning the card next weekend. You may believe
your contribution is not large enough to make a difference, but it does. And
your participation is even more important. So no matter the amount, please join
us in the Faithful To Our Mission
campaign.
God bless you and Thank you!
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