We Will Rise Again!

Have You Pledged?
We're still collecting pledges for our Bishop's Annual Appeal which supports the work of the church throughout Long Island and in our parish. To pledge online
CLICK HERE!

Post Valentine Love
Have you visited our interactive “Love Quiz”? It’s based on St. Paul’s letter where he talk about love being “patient and kind, etc.” It’s packed with many spiritual and bible insightsinto the different aspects of love.
Just click here.

Cool Way to Pray
If you’d like to try out a new interactive prayer site online, go to the St. Brigid’s home page and click on the “Church Interactive” link.

Three Actions of Lent
Our lenten tradition involves three things:
(1) Prayer
(2) fasting ("giving up”)
(3) Doing good works.
How have you chosen to live Lent this year?

Away at College?
If you know of a St. Brigid parishioner who is away at college, you can help us stay in touch through our parish’s weekly “letter from home”. Send in their name and e-mail address
just click here.

Today’s Bible Quote
“One does not live on bread alone but every word that comes forth from the mouth of God”
--Matthew 4
Technology Ministry
If you’d like toggle your time and expertise at helping our parish connect its telephone systems or develop its computer networking or work on its website, you can let us know by filling in our
online form

El Salvador Trip
If you’d like to see the parish’s mission trip to
El Salvador online, you can see photos and a travelogue by
clicking here.

Want to e-mail Father Ralph?

Past Columns:
Feb 10: Very Good Now
Feb 3: The Multi Cultural Church
Jan 27: Appealing Words
Jan 20:Our Wonderful School
Jan 13: Changing Times
Jan 6: Farewell Father Augustine

Columns from 2001


		February 17, 2002 We will rise again!
Have You Pledged? We're still collecting pledges for our Bishop's Annual Appeal which supports the work of the church throughout Long Island and in our parish. To pledge online CLICK HERE! Post Valentine Love Have you visited our interactive “Love Quiz”? It’s based on St. Paul’s letter where he talk about love being “patient and kind, etc.” It’s packed with many spiritual and bible insightsinto the different aspects of love. Just click here. Cool Way to Pray If you’d like to try out a new interactive prayer site online, go to the St. Brigid’s home page and click on the “Church Interactive” link. Three Actions of Lent Our lenten tradition involves three things: (1) Prayer (2) fasting ("giving up”) (3) Doing good works. How have you chosen to live Lent this year? Away at College? If you know of a St. Brigid parishioner who is away at college, you can help us stay in touch through our parish’s weekly “letter from home”. Send in their name and e-mail address just click here. Today’s Bible Quote “One does not live on bread alone but every word that comes forth from the mouth of God” --Matthew 4 Technology Ministry If you’d like toggle your time and expertise at helping our parish connect its telephone systems or develop its computer networking or work on its website, you can let us know by filling in our online form El Salvador Trip If you’d like to see the parish’s mission trip to El Salvador online, you can see photos and a travelogue by clicking here. Want to e-mail Father Ralph? Past Columns: Feb 10: Very Good Now Feb 3: The Multi Cultural Church Jan 27: Appealing Words Jan 20:Our Wonderful School Jan 13: Changing Times Jan 6: Farewell Father Augustine Columns from 2001			From the early morning hours on Wednesday to the close of day, thousands of people came to church for ashes. It’s really remarkable that the little smudge we place on our foreheads can draw so many people when many go without the Eucharist on a regular basis. What is it about the power of this sign that moves people? For me it is a sign of hope. Lent is a chance for a new beginning where I can put my own disappointments behind me and become open to the new life that Jesus offers me. I think that we’re all drawn to that newness of life and Ash Wednesday offers us a new way to start over again in our relationship with God and the others in our lives. At the start of Lent we’ve been inviting people to visit the cross outside the church

	and chapel. It is set in the midst of a pile of rubble, not unlike the image of the crosses seen in the midst of the rubble of “ground zero” at the WorldTrade Center. And we’ve invited people to take a stone from that pile and to either carry it with them during Lent or to put it in a place in their home or work. This stone can represent the “rubble” of our lives -- those things that hurt us, oppress us, enslave us, and weigh us down. Lent is a time to pray about these things and to let them go -- to let them be transformed by the power of Jesus’ death and resurrection. At the end of Lent, during Holy Week, we’ll invite people to bring their stones back to church and put it at the place where we’ll display the image of the risen Lordat Easter. This will be a reminder for us that despite the troubles, burdens and destruction in our lives, we will rise again. We will be able to enter more deeply into the transforming mystery that is the death and resurrection of Jesus. If you haven’t had a chance to choose a stone to carry with you, feel free to take one when you can. And knowing that others around us are carrying “rubble” in their lives will call us to pray for our fellow Lenten travellers in a new way.


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