Greetings in Christ all! A blessed and holy Easter Season to you and yours. I want to start off with some sad news. I received a call from Bishop Earl that Fr. Bill Wegher is being reassigned to serve as Sacramental Minister to the Catholic Churches in Durand and Gaines. The good news is that […]
Greetings in Christ, all! We continue to get wonderful follow-up questions from the State of the Parish letter as well as our building project. I’d like to use this time to get after some of those. First, I’ve been asked why we are pushing the building project on if money is so tight? It’s a […]
Greetings in Christ! Well, we have had the town hall meetings and revealed the new plans for our church and I am so very blessed by the excitement that seems to be accompanying these plans. I was asked a lot of questions about why I changed the plans and what my priorities were in changing […]
Greetings in Christ! I’m excited to send you all this update on our parish financial status and building project. Since I arrived here last year, I’ve been learning all I can about this vast and amazing enterprise that is our parish community. The good news is easy: collections are trending up, registrations are up and […]
He is Risen! He is Risen Indeed! That’s how my Mom greeted all of us every Easter Morning that I can think of. It was a tradition of sorts that as a kid, I never really thought of much but, now that she is gone, I think of it every Easter. It is the core […]
Greetings in Christ! I want to start right off with a building project update. Let’s review. In 2016, Holy Family raised $4.1 million for the Diocesan Fundraiser Witness to Hope. Of that $4.1, we received $2.7. Out of that $2.7, a plan was created to restore the Church, introducing much-needed practical elements to our building […]
So, these last weeks of Lent, I have been walking us through the Seven Deadly Sins and the corresponding virtues that our God gives us in the fight to be holy. We’ve covered Pride, Sloth, Wrath, Gluttony and Greed. Now, we’ve come to Lust and the virtue of purity. As you can imagine, I’m going […]
Greetings in Christ, all! We are at the midway point in our Lenten Season and this is my reminder to us all to never give up, to start over as often as we need to and to challenge ourselves to make sure we are giving our all during this glorious season, this Spiritual Boot Camp. […]
Greetings in Christ! I am overjoyed to share with you a sort of timeline for our Church renovation project. As you may recall, we were given a plan for a $4.8 million renovation in 2017, but realized that we would not able to get that amount. So, we redesigned the plan in order to try […]
Greetings in Christ, all! It is our first Sunday of Lent and I want to do something with you that I do every year at whatever parish I have been serving. Basically, it’s a little bit of what I call “Liturgical House Cleaning.” What is this House Cleaning? A little bit of a guide to […]