November 17, 2002
Faith Has Its Awards
Sister
Marcelle
Next Sunday, November 24th we gather to
celebrate and bless Sister Marcelle who has been serving our community
for the past years. There will be a special blessing and presentation
at the 2:30 Haitian Mass followed by a reception in St. Anthony Hall
immediately following the mass. All are invited to come as Sister Marcelle
moves on to a new ministry and as we welcome Sister Bruno to our community.
Donations
Still Needed
A
number of local businesses and organizations have contributed over $10,000
toward our parking lot project. We still need further donations to afford
this project. If your company or organization can help us at this time,
please give a call.
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Cool Way to Pray
If you’d like to try out our interactive prayer site online, go
to the St. Brigid’s home page and click on the “Church
Interactive” link.
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
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Past Columns:
Nov 10: Parking
Lot Update
Nov3: Daughters
of Mary
Oct27: Father
Richard
Oct 20: Changing
Seasons
Oct 13:Technology
Update
Oct 6: Youth Ministers
Sept 29: Who's
Here?
Sept 22: God
the Unfair
Sept 15: The
Joy of Judy
Sept 8: Facing the
Terrible Day
Sep 1: Sharing the
Faith
Aug 25:Empty Shelves
Aug 18: Comemmorating
Sept. 11th
Aug 11: Taking Time
To See
August 4: Moving
Music
July 28:Meet
the Missionaries
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
Each year the diocese presents awards to catechists who have taught in Religious Education program for a significant number of years and this year awards were given to five of our parishioners for their years of service.
Our religious education program continues to be large and complex as we seek to help families in educating 1600 children from different language and cultural backgrounds, as we help to prepare them for sacraments, as we invite them to grow closer to God and the church community. I want to thank all who are part of our religious education program, especially those who have given many years of service, as well as those who are just beginning to teach in this ministry. It is a challenging and rewarding way to share our faith with others.
This week we will confirm close to 200 young people who take a step closer to God and make a deeper commitment to being part of the church. Thank you to all who lead them to this moment. I ask everyone to pray for these candidates that they will be open to the gifts of the Holy Spirit that God will pour into them.
