Corpus Christi has come and gone. But our parish is humming with activity. The calendar for next year’s events and ministries has been formulated. Builders have been erecting the new computer classroom so fast that you can drive by in the morning and again in the same afternoon and wonder if you are having an Elder Moment! Now all is quiet and still as we await the windows we need. Mrs. Arecchi is hiring her teachers and staff for 2009-10…and your kids do not want to think about it! The pruned trees in front of the church are resurrecting (‘tis the season). Youth and young adults are preparing for Youth Day 2011 and collecting parking fees at Sts. Peter & Paul’s parking lot. They did a bang up job over the 4th! A Youth Mass is scheduled for July 18th at 5 p.m. Let’s Rock! Catechists are preparing for a day of retreat in late summer. Forlorn little faces ☹ that arrived daily for summer school have changed into smiles. Parishioners are putting on pounds with multiple weekend graduation parties, camp-outs, and barbeques. AFF & RCIA are ‘kinda’ on vacation with eyes on the events of the year ahead. Both choirs still dutifully practice for our weekly Masses. Meetings keep out priests ‘out of mischief’… sometimes more than one daily! The homeless are being fed; the elderly at Crawford Home are being visited; the Outreach is giving to the needy and the Diocesan Capital Campaign is beginning (and needs us). We have celebrated the Feasts of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary with the deepest inner knowledge of the love of Jesus & His Mothers for us. We are in Ordinary Time…a time of growth… green time. The year of St. Paul has ended and we have entered the Year of the Priest…and we are blest to have both Fr. Bert and Fr. Jon. But then again, we are all priests by reason of our Baptism, aren’t we?

Yes, our parish is a busy one. As our daily scripture said recently, “… God loves a cheerful giver…” 2 Cor. Take a look at the faces around you. I see smiling givers. In some cases, as with the Golden Girls AKA the adult choir at St. M’s, I see ‘giggling givers’.

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