July
15, 2007
Celebrating
Kelly
Out
of Action
While the bulletin was going to press, Father Ralph was readmitted to
the hospital with chest pains. It turns out that it wasn't another heart
attack -- just the effects of inflamation from the heart attack. He
expects to be released by the time you read this. Please keep the prayers
coming.
Remembering
the Parish While Traveling
If you’re going to be away this summer, please remember to support
our parish during the summer months. Our bills don’t go away --
just some of our people! And be sure to invite any houseguests to mass
with you when you’re hosting visitors from out of town.
Online Masses
We are now able to stream masses and other events live over the internet
to homebound folks and to relatives who live in other lands. If you’re
interested in this, in this, click
here.
e-mail Father Ralph:
Past Columns:
July
8: I'm so not dead yet
July 1: Worse than Raccoons
June 24:Sommertime
June 17: Celebrating
Fr Cine
June 10: When Nature Turns
June 4:Celebrating Father
Jim
May 27: Praying in Tongues
May 20: Making (up) the
difference
May 13: Loving our Mothers
May 6: About Father George
April 29: Hearing Voices
April 22:Three Stones
April 15: What a week!
April 8: Alleluia! Alleluia!
April 1: Holy Week
March 25: Climate Change
March 18: Take A Step
March 11: Cold Enough for
You?
March 4:Stocking the Shelves
Feb 25: Basket Case
Feb18: Ashes and Desert
Dust
Feb11: Get Ready, Get Set,
REST!
Feb.4: Lent Lurking
Jan.28:Catholic Schools
Week
Jan.21:Crying in Church
Jan.14: Love ahead
Jan.7: So How
Was Your Christmas?
Columns
from 2005
Columns
from 2004
Columns from
2003
Columns from 2002
For
the past five years Kelly Kraemer has been one of our Directors of Religious
Education with special emphasis on First Communion, Special Education
and the early grade levels. This weekend we send her off with God’s
blessings and our love as she begins a new chapter in her life as a member
of the Religious Education staff in another parish.
Kelly has offered her lively and
welcoming presence to countless families and children, many of whom were
entering our Religious Education Program for the first time. Kelly also
became a trainer for the Virtus Program, a program which promotes safety
of our young people by teaching staff, volunteers and parishioners about
ways to evaluate behaviors toward young people and to prevent abuse.
Parents found in Kelly an ally
in raising children in the faith. As a mother and a parishioner, Kelly
could relate to other parents’ concerns and questions and could
advocate for them in areas that went beyond the scope of Religious Education.
This wasn’t unusual because Kelly didn’t consider her role
as a Director of Religious Education a job, but rather a ministry of care
and support for people of all ages.
Today we gather at the 10am Mass
to ask God to bless Kelly on her journey ahead and to thank her for her
ministry among us.
Some have asked if we are going
to replace Kelly with a new director. At this time the current directors
Sister Ann Horn, Socorro Moreno and Meg Westfall have worked to rearrange
their areas of responsibility to cover the areas of Kelly’s ministry.
I’m grateful to their generosity and the supprot of Barbara Budion,
our Religious Education Secretary as we look forward to a new year in
Religious Education in the fall. And as always, I’m most grateful
to the many volunteer catechists who share their faith withour children
and families.
