Celebrating 50 Days

Making Room
One of the ways we show love in our homes is to make room for honored guests and beloved family members. That’s what we’ll be doing during the weekends when we celebrate first communions with our children. They are bringing their families and friends to be part of our community for a day and we welcome them with great joy. (Ok, sometimes that means we’ll stand so they can sit or sometimes we’ll sit in a different spot than our “usual” one.)
But that’s the kind of loving family we are!.

Own A Father Augustine Original
Outreach is planning on purchasing a bus to be used for transporting Senior Citizens. To fund this project, we’ve been selling mugs. Did you know that the artwork on the mugs (a drawing of St.Brigid’s church) is the work of Father Augustine. Though he has returned to India, his legacy lives on here. You too can own a “Father Augustine” original -- or share this little work of art with others by including it in an Easter basket or two!

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!

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.

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
“While he was with them at table,
Jesus took bread, said the blessing,
broke it, and gave it to them.
With that their eyes were opened and they recognized him.”
--Luke 24

Technology Ministry
If you’d like to give your time and expertise at helping our parish connect its telephone systems or work on its website, you can let us know by filling in our
online form

Want to e-mail Father Ralph?

Past Columns:
April 7: Where have they put him?
March 31: Alleluia! Alleluia!
March 24: Hardly Hosanna
March 17: Roll The Stone Back
March 10: Here's Mud In Your Eye
March 3: Our Local Drought
Feb 24: Welcoming Bishop Murphy
Feb 17: We Will Rise Again
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


		April 14, 2002 • The Feast of Easter! Celebrating 50 Days
Making Room One of the ways we show love in our homes is to make room for honored guests and beloved family members. That’s what we’ll be doing during the weekends when we celebrate first communions with our children. They are bringing their families and friends to be part of our community for a day and we welcome them with great joy. (Ok, sometimes that means we’ll stand so they can sit or sometimes we’ll sit in a different spot than our “usual” one.) But that’s the kind of loving family we are!. Own A Father Augustine Original Outreach is planning on purchasing a bus to be used for transporting Senior Citizens. To fund this project, we’ve been selling mugs. Did you know that the artwork on the mugs (a drawing of St.Brigid’s church) is the work of Father Augustine. Though he has returned to India, his legacy lives on here. You too can own a “Father Augustine” original -- or share this little work of art with others by including it in an Easter basket or two! 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! 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. 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 “While he was with them at table, Jesus took bread, said the blessing, broke it, and gave it to them. With that their eyes were opened and they recognized him.” --Luke 24 Technology Ministry If you’d like to give your time and expertise at helping our parish connect its telephone systems or work on its website, you can let us know by filling in our online form Want to e-mail Father Ralph? Past Columns: April 7: Where have they put him? March 31: Alleluia! Alleluia! March 24: Hardly Hosanna March 17: Roll The Stone Back March 10: Here's Mud In Your Eye March 3: Our Local Drought Feb 24: Welcoming Bishop Murphy Feb 17: We Will Rise Again 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	When I take a quick poll of Catholics, almost all of them can easily identify that there are 40 days of Lent. Lent has been so much a part of the fabric of Catholic living that people often take great pride (or feel somewhat ashamed) of how they kept Lenten promises. Yet we are not a “Lenten people.” We are an “Easter people”. So when I ask “how many days of Easter are there?”, I’m surprised that the answer doesn’t come back as strongly: “Fifty!”. We can take a clue from what’s happening in our church during the fifty days. The Easter decorations (and aren’t they magnificent here?) stay for fifty days. We bring our children to communion for the first time throughout these fifty days. And on the great fiftieth day of Easter (Pentecost) we celebrate confirmation. The gospels too cannot tell the story of Easter in one Sunday. In fact as we heard on Easter Sunday, there was still much confusion among the apostles who didn’t quite know what to make of the empty tomb. Last week Thomas was still holding out before believing in Jesus’ resurrection. This week it takes some time for the disciples to recognize Jesus on the road. You see, Easter is a season in which our relationship with the Risen Lord evolves. We need to keep coming back, just like the children who come to communion for the first time need to keep coming back next week and the week after and so on. Our relationship with Jesus is just beginning again in a new way each Easter. Our relationship with each other gets a chance to grow in new ways too, just as we hear how the women and men of the early church discovered what it meant to be followers of Jesus after the resurrection. So find some ways to keep the celebration in your own home. Keep out the decorations (even after the candy is gone). Come to mass during Easter weekdays as well as the Sundays of the Easter Season. Write a little Easter note or e-mail to someone you haven’t reached out to in a while -- and don’t be embarrassed that the message is going out after March 31st. After all, Easter is for fifty days! Alleluia!


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