My dear friends,
If you were hoping to catch the solar eclipse this past Monday, I hope it was an amazing experience for you! While I know that some of our parishioners headed upstate or to Vermont to experience the total eclipse, some of us camped out in the school parking lot with our glasses to take in the 90% eclipsing of the sun. Praise the Lord for an amazing universe that we have been blessed to live in and experience!
We welcome back Father Thumma this Sunday for the 10:30am and 12 noon Masses! Father participated in the Saint Paul Center for Biblical Theology's Priest Conference in Austin, Texas, this past week.
This Sunday we catch the end of the Emmaus encounter with the Resurrected Jesus in the Gospel of St. Luke. I am always moved by the Emmaus account of our Lord most kindly meeting, enlightening and transforming the dejected disciples, and how Jesus definitively reveals how all of the Law and Prophets of the Old Testament is fulfilled in Him!
Thank you for your increased donations to IHM in the weekly offertory and in such 2nd collections as Repair and Maintenance!
This weekend please be aware that we are trying to get three committed adorers/people who want to pray to spend an hour each in adoration of the Blessed Sacram
ent each week. Hours needed are Mondays 9am and 4pm and Wednesdays at 2pm. Please sign-up through the tablet outside for the Marian Chapel or by clicking here. We are also hoping people will take notice of the Food Drive by Paul Coschignano to support HOPE April 14-21st.
Our parish Girl Scout Troop will be selling Girl Scout cookies after the Masses!
Our Parish Council is looking for nominations for the upcoming parish council elections.
This week we will have our HOPE Food drop-off for the soup kitchen, the Little Sisters of the Poor will come for their periodic begging for the good and holy work they do in serving the elderly and sick poor, and we are getting ready for Midnight Run later in the month.
For those who come to the 9am Family Mass this Sunday, not only do we hope to have the Children's Liturgy in the Lower Church, but at the initiative and generosity of Theresa and Jeffrey Nicholson, there will be Coffee and Donuts only after the 9am!
Next Saturday, April 20th, I look forward to greeting our IHM School Alumni from the 80s, 90s and 00s!
A blessed Easter Season Sunday to you!