June
5, 2005
What’s
Essential
Sharing
Technical Help
Over
the past few months we’ve received donations of used computers
from a few companies and some individuals. The task ahead of us is to
inspect these machines and prepare the “good ones” for use
and to discern which have “seen their day”.
There are many people in our parish with thekind of knowledge that would
help us out.
If you, or someone you know, has the knowledge and time to help us inventory
our stock of used computers, please e-mail Father Ralph and he’ll
give you a tour of the job ahead.
shepherd@saintbrigid.net
We’re also still looking for camera operators for the 5pm Saturday
masses at St. Brigid’s. If you’re in 8th grade or older
and you’re skilled in video games, this is the perfect opportunity
for you to share your time and talent too.
Catholic
Ministries Appeal
I’ve pledged. Have you?
You can pledge online here!
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:
May 29: Setting Priorities
May 22: Painting Project
May 15: We are the Church
May 8:Mother of the Church
May 1: On Life and Death
April 24: Habemus Papam
April 17: The Spirit Abounds
April 10: Two men on a journey
April 3: He's baaack!
March 27th: Not the best
news...yet
March 20th: What are You
Doing For Easter?
March 13th: The Stench
March 6: To Tell or Not
To Tell
February 27: Dry Mouth Dry
Soul
February 20: Good to Be
Here
February 13: And he was
hungry?
Ash Wednesday '05
February 6: Ashes Already?
January 23: Catholic Schools
Week
January 16: Continued Charity
January 9: Migration
January 2:All is bright?
Columns from 2004
Columns from 2003
Columns from 2002
Last
week I invited you to consider what were the priorities for St. Brigid’s
Parish. Our Pastoral Council had been reflecting on our parish life and
had come up with eight priorities that they believe are important to our
parish life, I promised this week to share with you their priority list.
But it’s essential to know
whether this representative group of parishioners has clearly discerned
our priorities and the only way we knew to find out is to ask everyone
to look at the list and give some feedback.
First, is there anything missing from the list? Then, what do you like
about this list of priorities? Would you change anything? (The order of
priorities? The wording?) Would you take anything off the list?
This is a very important exercise
because in the months ahead we will be developing strategies to further
live out the parish priorities and if we’re about to put energy
and effort into growing, it’s essential that we’re growing
in the right direction.
So, please take some time to give
us feedback. You can do it quickly and easily
by clicking here
Your input will help our council and our staff to be responsive to the
hopes and needs of our whole parish community.
Whether you’ve just come
to our parish or whether you’ve been here for generations, we value
your input. And I’d like to ask you to do a favor: Could you ask
three other people to read the priorities and give some feedback? You
can clip the page from today’s bulletin and show it to others or
if you use e-mail, you can e-mail them our special priorities link and
ask them to visit it.
Just send them this
link in your e-mail: "http://www.saintbrigid.net/pascoun/pc.html"
I want to thank the members of
our council who are working so hard to help forge the future of our parish
and I thank you for your input.
You are Person
