Dear Parishioners,
It’s time for our annual Parish Picnic! Please join us after the 11 AM Mass this Sunday for food, fun, and games in the Stanley Centre and on our parish grounds. I hope to see you there.
Time for donuts! Yes, our homemade donuts are back next weekend, on September 15th, for another season. As we have done for the past couple of years, we will have our donut Sundays on the 1st and 3rd Sundays of the month. A special thank you to our donut bakers and volunteers that help to frost the donuts and cleanup after the donuts “disappear.”
I hope that many of you were able to catch our annual financial report that was published in the bulletin last week. If you do have some questions about this, please either contact Al Demars or myself for additional information and clarity on expenses. As we mentioned in this report, as we rebuild the rectory, the insurance has picked up a great deal of the cost. However, this was also our opportunity to take advantage of upgrading an almost 60-year-old convent turned into a rectory building. We are making parts of the rectory more ADA accessible for our priests, especially if we need to house a retired priest at a later time or even a priest that has been injured or has some disabilities. A 1960’s building was never designed for that. Your financial support in the past year is allowing us to do this without asking for additional funding, taking out a loan, or having a parish fundraiser to pay for these improvements. Thank you for your generosity to make this possible. We are definitely seeing a lot of work being done inside and outside. Keep checking in each week to see the latest pictures of where we have been working.
Thanks for reading!
Fr. Mark