September 28, 2003
Jesus comes to St Brigid’s
Be
like Jesus: Do Carpentry
We’re looking for some volunteer carpentry help for a few small
projects around our parish buildings. Do you have the time and skill
to share with us? Give Father Ralph a call (or e-mail him) if you can
help.
Synod
Listening Sessions
We’re hosting listening sessions as part of the Diocesan Synod
(a process that involves all the people of our diocese in planning the
future of the church.)
The first one at St. Brigid’s was held last Wednesday.
Upcoming dates include:
Wednesday,October 8: 7:30pm School Chapel
Tuesday, October 14th:
4pm: School Chapel
Sunday, October 26
after 6pm Mass: Chapel
Sunday, November 9
(activities for children will be provided )
After 10am Family Mass
Church Basement
(activities for children will be provided )
Other sessions in languages other than English are still being planned.
I invite and encourage all our parishioners to be part of this unprecedented
opportunity for input into the future of the church on Long Island.
You can read the input from parishes online as it’s posted:
www.drvc.org/synod
Off to College?
Hundreds of our parishioners headed off to college -- either for the
first time or as returning students. At St. Brigid’s we like to
stay in touch through
e-mail “letters from home.”
Once a person has an e-mail address at school (or if he/she uses a personal
address), please let us know what it is so we can include them when
we write.
Here's a handy college link so you
can send this info online.
e-mail Father Ralph:
Past Columns:
Sept 21: The children
will lead us
Sept 14: Triumph of
the Cross
Sept 7: Nine-eleven: Two
Years Later
August 31: Where the
Summer went
August 24: Lessons from
the Blackout
August 17: Here and
There
August 10: Surrender
August 3: Reaping Rewards
July 27: What's your
mission?
July 20: From a Deserted
Place
July 13: Nothing for the
Journey
July 6: God at Home
June 29: Going in Stages
June 22: Sommer in the Summer
June 15: Our Newest Priest
Ordained
June 8: The Feast of Pentecost
June 1: Beyond First Communion
May 24: Felicidades Manuel
May 18: Twenty Years Later
May 11: Bows for Peace
May 4: Upcoming Ordinations
April 27: One Heart One
Mind
April 20: Amazingly Graced
Days
April 13: Ashes to Palms
April 6:
God Embedded
March 30:
Pastoral Visits
March 23:
Turning Tables
March
16: Transfiguring Imagination
March
9: Beasts and Angels
March 2:
Lent and Imagination
Feb 23: Sorrow
Far and Wide
Feb 16: Saints
Feb 9: Columbia Lessons
Feb2: Giving At A Difficult
Time
Jan 26: Penny Power
& Catholic Schools
Jan19: Yet Another
Year
Jan 12: Stealing Jesus
Jan5: The Wise Still Come
From Afar
Columns from 2002
This
weekend Bishop Murphy ordained Jesus* Guadarrama, c.m. as deacon. Deacon
Jesus was born in Ixlahuaca, Mexico and joined the Vincentian Order after
he came to the United States. He has been helping as a seminarian in our
parish for the past year under the guidance of Father George and has been
especially involved with the spanish young-adult group.
We’re happy that Deacon Jesus is going
to be involved in a variety of ministries in our parish. You will get
to meet him at masses throughout the year ahead and he will be celebrating
baptisms and weddings and be involved in other aspects of parish life.
Deacon Jesus will reside in the Vincentian residence in Oyster Bay and
will be with us on weekends and at selected times during the week.
Deacon Jesus notes in his
online biography
“Three things moved me to enter the
Vincentians: the simplicity of their common life; their support for one
another, and their love of the poor. I felt confident with them, because
in I saw the human face of Christ in them. They really enjoy life, and
share the joys, sorrows, and struggles of daily life. Their love of the
poor also moved me very much. Finally, their missionary work makes it
possible for me to be involved in many and varied ministries in my lifetime.
When I crossed the border between Mexico
and the United States, I took a great risk. Now, I feel like I have taken
an even greater risk. I look beyond borders and find the face of Christ
in the poor. The path of Jesus and St. Vincent is now the path I walk.
It is a risk that will lead me into great and wonderful adventures of
love and service.”
Deacon Jesus will be ordained to the priesthood
as a Vincentian Father next year. In the meantime we are grateful for
his ministry among us as our newest deacon and we welcome him with great
joy!
• * His name is pronounced with the Spanish pronunciation:
"hay-soos"
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