Dear Folks,

Service Dogs and Health! A couple of weeks I asked you to contact me if you bring a service dog to Mass, because we have a parishioner with serious health issues such that being in the church at the same time as a dog can send her into anaphylactic shock. Yikes! Having now talked with three folks who regularly bring service dogs, I am prepared to ask your cooperation with this ‘policy.’

Let’s keep the 7pm Saturday, 7am Sunday, and 8:30am Sunday Masses dog free. This will allow three options to be able to attend Mass without serious threat to survival. I will work with the ushers, to have a plan should someone show up with a service dog at one of those Masses, to ask their cooperation, and inform the family.

This is much like the care we have for one-another by not bringing peanut butter sandwiches to Mass! There is much that we can do to care and welcome the whole family to the Holy Mass!

pax,

Father John Mosimann