Dear Parishioners, +JMJ Here are some pastoral initiatives we’ve been discussing for our parish: First, for quite some time now we’ve envisioned creating a consistent venue into which we could invite non-Catholics, or Catholics who are somewhat on the fringes, perhaps not practicing… Invite them to
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Dear Parishioners, +JMJ First off, a couple of our extraordinary eucharistic distributors at the Antwerp campus encountered some significant circumstances that prevent them from taking Holy Communion to our shut-ins from that campus. If there is anybody out there willing to be trained, please come forward.
Read more →Dear Parishioners, +JMJ At our Pastoral Leadership Team meetings we use a template that helps us consider all aspects of parish life under major headings, such as “Sunday experience”, “outreach/evangelism”, “finances”, “buildings”, etc. At one of our recent meetings we talked a fair amount about “faith
Read more →Dear Parishioners, +JMJ We had a finance council meeting this past week, and with this bulletin letter I really want to focus primarily on what is happening with school finances – i.e., the vision. This is
Read more →Dear Parishioners +JMJ This week a small team of parishioners had our first official session of V Encuentro (Spanish for “Fifth Encounter”). V Encuentro is a national program of outreach to Hispanics. It is called the “fifth” encounter, because ever since the early 1970s, there were
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