Dear parishioners, I mentioned a few items last weekend in the end-of-Mass announcements about which I would follow-up/give more details in the bulletin. One of those items was the renovation of our school gym. As I mentioned, we will not be putting an addition on the building!
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Dear parishioners, As usual, I would like to provide the highlights of our most recent finance council meeting, which reviewed our finances through the end of February. At the end of February, our savings account held a little over $26,000. Second collection accounts. At the end of
Read more →Dear parishioners, Many thanks for your support of the middle-school students in our parish who are planning to attend Damascus Catholic Summer Camp this summer! Damascus is a solidly Catholic program, and they are intentional about cultivating a strong Catholic identity in young people. Throughout the year,
Read more →Dear parishioners, Blessings to all of you as we celebrate this most glorious day of the Resurrection! As was sung in the beautifully worded Easter Proclamation last night at the Easter Vigil: “This is the night, when Christ broke the prison bars of death and rose victorious
Read more →Dear parishioners, As we are now in Holy Week, I would like to remind everyone of our liturgical schedule for this most sacred time of the year. First, we will not be having our usual morning Mass this Tuesday, April 4 because I will be at the
Read more →Dear parishioners, I would like to start by correcting a minor mistake in last weekend’s bulletin. In it, I mentioned that the money we sent to seminarians Eric Kaufman, Kevin McGraw, and Andrew Messer were solely from our January collection, and the additional amount that was added
Read more →Dear parishioners, Many thanks to everyone who donated to our special second collection at the end of February. As we announced, this collection was taken up as a donation to Catholic Charities’ efforts to provide relief for the victims of the recent earthquakes in Turkey and Syria.
Read more →Dear parishioners, As I mentioned last weekend at the end of Mass, please consider joining us for a Lenten afternoon reflection on Sunday, March 12 at the Paulding church. The theme for the reflection is: Making Prayer Come Alive! Speaker Mary Jo Parrish from Kingdom Builders in
Read more →Dear Parishioners, You might remember that last year I celebrated the Sacrament of Confirmation for our then 7th and 8th grade students. This has not been the norm for our parish for a while; we were scheduled to go to Rosary Cathedral in Toledo for this, but
Read more →Dear parishioners, As I mentioned a few weekends ago at Mass, we will not be having our annual rectory open house this year. We usually schedule that on the Sunday after Christmas, but because next Sunday falls on New Year’s Day, we decided to cancel, foreseeing that
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