February 1, 2004
Our Patron Saint
A
Merry Christmas
We’ve finally totalled up the donations to the Christmas
Fund collection for this past Christmas. Our parish (that’s YOU!!)
received $115,000 in donations from parishioners. Thank you so much.
If somehow you forgot to send in a Christmas donation, you can still
help us out, as we’re ten thousand dollars short of our projected
amount. (Why not send in a donation on the occasion of our parish Feast
Day?)
Welcome
Father Henry
Father
Henry Tanto will be staying with us for the next few weeks while Father
George is away in Ecuador. Father is from Cameroon and a member of the
Congregation of Sons of Mary Mother of Mercy. He was ordained in 1987
and has worked in the Umuahia and Aba Dioceses in Nigeria. He’s
currently studying Spirituality and Spiritual Direction at Forham University.)
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:
Jan 25:A View From Inside
Jan 18: Our School
Jan 11: Baptism with Fire
Dec28: Our Holy
Family
Dec 21: Home
For Christmas
Dec14: Meddling
Grace
Other Colums from 2003
Columns from 2002
Since today is the Feast of St. Brigid,
perhaps it would be good to see how much of this saint has “rubbed
off” on us. After all, she is our patron saint and one of the “jobs”
of a patron saint is to help flavor our lives with holiness.
So I’ve put together a checklist of
qualities of her life and let’s see how much our parish (and ourselves)
resemble her example of holiness. Get out your pencils and write on a
scale of one to ten how much our parish and yoursef are like St. Brigid...
1. Was extremly generous to the poor.
2. Was comfortable in sharing faith with others.
3. Had a sense of humor.
4. Brought others to know and accept Jesus.
5. Her special gift was hospitality
6. She prayed regularly and relied on God.
7. She envisioned that heaven would have a lake filled with beer.
8. She welcomed strangers.
9. She fed hungry people.
10. She was good at helping women and men
to develop their spiritual lives.
11. She gave good example.
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See some photos of our St. Brigid Celebration Click Here
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