Dear Parishioners, +JMJ Since my arrival at the parish, I have fielded complaints and questions regarding the placement of the tabernacle at our Payne campus. I think it is obvious to anyone attending Mass at that campus that ministers sometime stumble around each other bringing the Eucharist
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Dear Parishioners, +JMJ This week I must start my bulletin letter with some very big news. After some 23 years of service to the parish, Heather Miller is retiring, as of July 1st. I am grateful that Heather has offered her many gifts in service to the
Read more →Dear Parishioners, A number of items are on my mind as I sit down to write this letter: -We had the funeral of Doris Phlipot. When I last met with Doris to anoint her and pray with her and bring Holy Communion to her, she spoke to
Read more →Dear Parishioners, Because I recently began marriage preparation with two couples, I thought it was necessary in the last bulletin to present the marriage preparation program that we will be using. Because that program includes Natural Family Planning, I want to explain NFP a little bit more
Read more →Dear Parishioners, On Thursday, January 16th we had another finance council meeting. The following is a brief summary of what was covered: -We looked over the profit-and-loss statement and balance sheet for the current year-to-date, actual vs. budget. -We reviewed the last school endowment statement with its
Read more →Dear Parishioners, At the beginning of a New Year, I want to write some words about the “New Evangelization” lately being spoken about everywhere in the Catholic world. The New Evangelization was very much discussed at the recent fall meeting of United States Bishops in Baltimore. It
Read more →Dear Parishioners, On November 20th, we had another pastoral council meeting. The following is a summary: -Most of the time was spent considering the Mass times survey that was put together by the Mass times committee. We are so grateful for their work. Both the Mass times
Read more →Dear Parishioners, Here is a smorgasbord of parish activity/news that I am thinking of: -This past week the Paulding campus air conditioning committee met to finalize our decision to ask the Diocese for permission to upgrade the air conditioning system, fixing the problem of loudness, and lack
Read more →Dear Parishioners, +JMJ With this letter I would like to give you a quick synopsis of the most recent Financial Council meeting we had – almost 2 weeks ago now: -We reviewed our initial responses to each of the findings from the diocesan audit. Our responses were
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