October 10th, 2004
Heritage Celebration
New
Chalices
The new chalices for the chapel have arrived. We’re still awaiting
the delivery of the ones for the church. We are also getting metal plates
for the hosts. Once the whole order is in, people will have a chance
to memorialize these church vessels . We will engrave the name of a
person onto each of the chalices and plates. Watch for further information
in the weeks ahead.
The silver-color chalices at the chapel match the rest of the liturgical
objects (tabernacle, processional cross, etc.) They are made with a
Celtic design which recalls the Irish heritage of our parish and it’s
patroness, St. Brigid of Kildare.
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College?
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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.
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Past Columns:
October 3: Is it safe?
September 26: Up and coming...
September 19: New Year Resolutions?
September 12:Our New Priests
September 5: Got Two Hours?
August 29: In My Humble
Opinion
August
22nd: Hot Asphalt, Cool Church
August 15: A Big Assumption
August 8: Do It Anyway!
August 1: Parking Lot Joys!
July 25:"Doh!"
July 18: Taking Church Home
July 11: Seven Eleven
July 4th: Independence Day
June 27: God Bless Father
George
June 20: Our New Priests
June13:Missing you
June 6: Farewell Father
Leonard
May 30: Going & Coming
& Going
May 23: P.O.P.S.
May 16:
Celebrating Our
Parish
May 9: Facing the Future
May2: Resurrection Sequel
April 25: Chapel Design
April 18: Oh what a week!
April 11: Easter Life!
April 4: Palms & Passion
March 28: Plenty Good Room
March 21: More Passion
March 14: Reconciliation
March 7: A sequel from Mel?
Feb 29: Come to
Life!
Feb 22:
An Adventure to Life
Feb15: A rose
by another name?
Feb 8: If at first...
Feb 1: Our Patron Saint
Jan 25:A View From Inside
Jan 18: Our School
Jan 11: Baptism with Fire
Colums from 2003
Columns from 2002
This
weekend in October is a festive one. The cooler weather starts to change
the color of the leaves, we get a day off on Monday and we remember our
heritage. Columbus Day is a celebration of Italian Heritage. Hispanics
celebrate “Dia de la Raza” which recognizes the diversity
of latino cultures. (To get a taste of the Hispanic cultures, stop in
Code Auditorium today (Sunday) at 1pm where a festival is set up with
tables from each of the Spanish-speaking countries represented in our
parish.
For those of us who are not Hispanic,
it’s a natural temptation to group all Spanish-speaking people together
as if there is one culture. However Hispanics come from many varied countries.
(We wouldn’t say that Irish and Italians have the same culture because
they’re both “European”. So too there are differences
between Salvadorans and Mexicans, for example.) The Spanish language unifies.
Our common faith certainly unifies. But there is a beautiful diversity.
We’re also celebrating the
second anniversary of our Spanish young Adult Group this weekend. This
is a group founded by Father George and a group of young people in our
parish. Young Adults meet each Sunday and reflect on a spiritual theme.
They’ve formed a musical group. They are involved in works of service
and charity. They celebrated their second anniversary with a special mass
and a party on Saturday night. We are so happy that St. Brigid’s
can be a “home” for the young men and women of our parish.
Many of them have left their families behind in their countries and are
living here without any family. So we are the family they can feel safe
with.
Finally you may have noticed the
carnival rides in the school parking lot. I’ve been asked which
parish group is running the feast. This festival is being run by the carnival
company itself and some proceeds go to St. Brigid/Our Lady of Hope school.
So we get much appreciated funds and people get to have a fun time to
celebrate our heritage weekend.
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