▪ Important information for all parish organizations on bulletin page 10
▪ Summer Youth Group activities More information on bulletin page 7
▪ Join in the engaging Call to Evangelization series More information on bulletin page 10
▪ You’re invited! Mary’s Shelter Annual Soirée More information on bulletin page 11
Fourth of July Mass Schedule: 9am, 12noon, 6pm. Confessions at 6:30pm.
Dear Folks,
This week we say farewell to Fr. Holmes. I keep saying to all who will listen, “I treasure the warmth of the generous heart of Fr. Holmes. The laughs and fraternity that we have shared in the rectory of St. Mary during the past two years. Conversations about Power wagons, and Tom Seaver, and Fran Tarkenton, and the wig of Captain Kirk!! For five years, Fr. Holmes has been a welcoming, humorous, and hard-working part of making this parish such a joy. Thank you Fr. Holmes!
And our children just got through the first week of Summer. Is anyone complaining of boredom yet?
One of the greatest conversions in history occurred because of boredom. St. Ignatius of Loyal was recovering from a cannonball to the leg, and bedridden. He was bored. Requesting romance novels, he was instead given a book of lives of the saints. He discovered a love worth living for. A huge part of that was him noticing that in contemplating the life and glory of the saints, that he was filled with lasting peace. Unlike when he filled his time with earthly pursuits that left him bored and empty afterwards.
Fulton Sheen speaks to this when he said, “You will never be happy if your happiness depends on getting solely what you want. Change the focus. Get a new center. Will what God wills, and your joy no man shall take from you.”
Are you bored? Find the love that will never end in the life of Christ.
pax,
Fr Mosimann
Join us from 3-7pm at Holy Cross Academy this Sunday, June 24, for our Parish Picnic! Food, rides, and all around good fun. This is also Father Holmes’s going away, so please stop by and wish him well at his new assignment in Winchester! All are welcome!
▪ Our Annual Parish Picnic and Father Holmes Farewell, Sunday, June 24 —Find more information on bulletin page 9
▪ Father’s Day Novena will begin this weekend —Find more information on bulletin page 8
▪ Theology on Tap presented by St. Mary Young Adults, Monday, June 18 —Find more information on bulletin 10
▪ Welcome our visiting summer seminarian —Find more information on bulletin page 10
▪ Important information for all parish organizations-Find more information on bulletin 10
▪ Summer Youth Group activities —Find more information on bulletin page 7
▪ You’re invited! Mary’s Shelter Annual Soirée —Find more information on bulletin page 11
▪ Join in the engaging Call to Evangelization series —Find more information on bulletin page 10
▪ July 4 Mass Schedule: 9am, 12noon, & 6pm Confessions to follow 6pm Mass until 8:30pm