June
12, 2005
Great
News,Annoying News
Bring
a Sweater?
I’m
writing this on Wednesday and I don’t know whether you’ll
need a sweater or a personal fan for church as you’re reading
this. But the reason we’ve had no air conditioning the past couple
of week is that the system is broken and we’re in the midst of
expensive repairs. (See? It’s not true that the pastor was cheap
and saving money by not running the ac!!)
Now that we raised $10,000 for repairs in the school, we’ll need
to find $8,000 for the ac repairs. (No rest for the weary.)
PS -- For those of you reading this online, we
DID get the AC to work by the weekend!
Super
Raffle Winners
Congratulations to the winners in our $10,000 Super Raffle. After coming
down to the last ten tickets to bepulled, the finalists agreed to split
the big prize ten ways. So each of our winners received $1,000 and the
parished received $10,000 -- making us all winners!
The finalists are:
Dominic
Buffalino
Casa Mary Johanna
Ed Lopez and volunteers at the Attic
Lucila Arias
Shari Raduazzo
Emily Shaw
Bill Reilly
Cathy Parenti
Marie Jean
Sr Marie Patrick & School Faculty:
Beth Corallo
Maryanne Hassett
Kit Verrelli
Kaye Wanzer
Carolyn Boettcher
Debra Shannon
Kathy Williams
Doreen McManus
Sharon Schwartz
Thanks to all who contributed to the cause.
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:
June 5: What's Essential
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
The great news is that we celebrated a mass of thanksgiving with the newly-ordained Father Joe Fitzgerald last Sunday at the 11:45 Spanish Mass. Father Joe was with us this past year as a Vincentian Deacon and worked faithfully in ministries among our Hispanic community. He also assisted at mass and preached during weekday masses in the church.
Father Joe (pictured above in green)
will also be back to celebrate the
12:10 Mass on Thursday, June 23rd at the Church. After mass there will
be refreshments and a reception on St. Brigid’s Green.
(If you’d like to help with this, please stop in the office and
let us know.) All are invited to celebrate with Father Joe.
Father Joe’s first assignment
will be in Panama, South America.
Annoying News.... It’s not
the end of the world, but for the last two weeks the web server for St.
Brigid’s was not receiving all
e-mail so if you sent an e-mail to anyone on staff and didn’t get
a reply, it’s probably because we never got it. Then we asked folks
to go online and do the interactive feedback page on the Pastoral Council
parish priorities and the site crashed last Sunday. (Such bad timing.)
But all seems to be working again. So we look forward to your feedback
online or on paper. You can go to:
www.saintbrigid.net/pascoun/pc.html
for details.
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