July 28, 2002
Meet the Missionaries
Famous
Missionaries Who Stuck Around
Did
you know that St. Anthony of Padua wasn’t Italian? He was Portuguese.
And St. Patrick wasn’t Irish, but rather a Roman citizen? The list
goes on and on. Yet they stayed in their new homes and were soon recognized
as saints. Why not take the name of one of these missionaries and pray
for him/her during the weeks ahead -- we probably have some brand new
saints here:
Sister Sylvia - Panama
Ms. Laura Garcia- Mexico
Ms. Nidia Vasquez- Costa Rica
Fr. Emilio Melchor- Venezuela
Fr.Guillermo Nimatuj- Guaemalat
Fr WilliamBenavides-
Costa Rica
Fr. Irving Ramayo- Mexico
Seminarian Jose Alberto Contreras- Dominican Republic
Seminarian Marion Poncette- Haiti.
Lease
vs. Buy
When putting in the new phone system, we had to face the fact that we’ve
run out of money for the summer. So we’re temporarily leasing the
equipment until we can buy it outright. Do you know of any foundation
or grant that could help us out?
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.
Today’s Bible Quote
"The kingdom of heaven is like a treasure buried in a field, which
a person finds and hides again, and out of joy goes and sells all that
he has and buys that field. "
-Matthew 13
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:
July 21: Press
One Now
July 14: Having
Our Say
July 6: One
Nation Under God
June 30: Anointing
the Sick
June 23: Giving Thanks
to God
June 16: Father's
Day
June 9: Fall Mass
Schedule
June 2: Summer Plans
May 26: Spreading
the Faith
May 19: Passing Grace
May 12: Changing
Times
May 5: Reason for Hope
April 28: Changing
Ministry
April 21: The Poor Are Hurt
Again
April 14: Celebrating
50 Days
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
Have you ever wanted to meet REAL missionaries? We’ve got a chance to do just that this coming weekend. Priests, seminarians, sisters and lay women from Mexico, Guatemala, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Venezuela and Costa Rica will be arriving at St. Brigid’s as part of an Island-wide Mission. Our parish is gathering next Saturday night (August 3rd) at 4pm in the chapel of the school to offer them a brief welcome before
they go off to different houses of parishioners who will host them for the week.
You may already have met Seminarian Augusto
Cortez, C.M and Fr. Arturo Kolinsky, C.M. (pictured above) who have been
living with us for the month of July and who have been very busy this
past week preparing teams of local missionaries to go throughout the Spanish-speaking
neighborhoods to visit with families to invite them to next week’s
mission. After one night of visiting, several neighborhood masses were
celebrated, followed by another night of visiting and then another night
of neighborhood masses. It’s an incredible outreach of our parish
family to celebrate the life of our faith right in the midst of where
people live.
Now come the missionaries from different countries. They’ll be here
to learn what it’s like when people from their lands come here to
the United States. How does the church in North Ameica respond to this
immigration? How do we minister and invite immigrants to minister? What
are the gifts of the church in the United States and how do we value the
gifts of the church in Central and South America as it is integrated here?
But in addition to learning about the church in our community, the missionaries
will share the gospel in a variety of ways...in the early morning with
those who are day laborers waiting for jobs...with the Spanish-speaking
youth of our parish.. visiting the Spanish-speaking sick and homebound
people in our parish...holding evening mission meetings through the neighborhoods.
Please pray for the missionaries. And stop
by with your family on Saturday to say “hello”. You don’t
have to speak Spanish! There’ll be folks there to translate and make
the welcome comfortable for you. These priests and sisters will be very
touched by your presence.
