Dear Folks,

Here comes the summer! Our youth have been at Work Camp this week and will be returning the day these bulletins appear in the church! Thank you for your very generous support of the youth ‘big-board’ fundraiser! It is a great help in making possible our record setting group: 45 youth and 25 adult leaders/ contractors! It takes an amazing team led by our fabulous youth minister, Tatiana Beltran! God Bless you!

This Work Camp Team are the first parishioners to get to meet Fr. Lee, as you will see in the picture below!

Also check out the piece on Bill O’Connor! He teaches art at JP2, his children serve Mass, and he is painting the Divine Mercy Image for the adoration chapel! I was a little nervous in commissioning a piece from a parish artist (sorry Bill!), but this is because the relationship means it is harder to pick the best option for the chapel! But, Bill is doing an amazing job, and I am so happy to have a Fredericksburg touch to the artwork!

Thank you for your patience, in that it is taking much longer to get the Adoration Chapel open than hoped! I am trying to do the best job possible, even when that has meant waiting for solutions on artwork and design that have been through multiple iterations. there is a (admittedly nerdy saying) about video games, “A delayed game is eventually good, a rushed game is bad forever.” Hence the delays in really trying to get everything right for our chapel, that I hope will anchor our spiritual lives for generations!

FYI: 4th of July is this Saturday, and because I am loathe to cancel sacraments, yes: we will still have the normally scheduled Saturday confessions and Masses. I know crowds will be smaller, but Jesus always shows up!

pax,

Father John Mosimann