October 5, 2003
Fruits of the Millennium
Parking
Lot
The school parking lot is scheduled to be paved “soon”.
Details to follow as soon as I know them!
Please
Join Us This Week
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.)
This
Wednesday,October 8 at 7:30pm in the School Chapel is the second of
the sessions we’re hosting.
Please make an effort to be present for this very important opportunity
to voice your hopes for the future.
Other upcoming sessions will be:
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.
You can read the input from parishes online as it’s posted:
www.drvc.org/synod
At College?
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 28: Jesus Comes
To St. Brigid's
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
Five years ago when St. Brigid’s started
raising money for an endowment fund to help pay for building repairs and
program development, people were sure the money was going to be needed
-- just not sure what it would be spent on.
After several months of inspection and competative
bidding, the St. Brigid Buildings and Grounds Committee has come up with
a three-year plan which looks at dangerous conditions that need to be
fixed, money-saving upgrades, and projects to make the place look nicer.
The plan is not “set in stone” since new needs may develop in
the next year, but we’re about to spend the first dollars from the
Millennium Fund on some projects and I want to thank everyone who was
part of the Millennium Fund endeavor for making the following possible:
Year One:
Remove dead trees and dead tree limbs
Replace roof on the Convent on Maple Ave
Replace inefficient boiler/broken hotwater
heart in the Convent
Replace broken doors in seven openings at
the School
Repair range hood and ceiling in School Kitchen
Repair faulty wiring in Rectory
Fix Sound System in Code Auditorium
& Chapel
Replace rotting church signs
Replace rotting back door of Parish
Center
Years Two & Three:
Paint interior of Church
Refinish floors and pews in Church
Upgrade electric and provide air
conditioning to Outreach Food Pantry
Replace one of the school boilers
Replace wooden facade of Parish
Center
Replace roof on old convent building
(currently rented to Police Dept)
Boiler upgrade in Parish Center
Refinish floors in Code Auditorium
Repair roadway between church/rectory
Evaluate replacing church boiler
The tree work, roof work on the convent and convent boiler replacement
will begin within the next few weeks.
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