Greetings in Christ!
My name is Fr. Joseph Krupp and I am blessed and honored to serve as your Pastor at Holy Family and Saint Mark the Evangelist.
I want you to know straight away that I love you. I believe with all my heart that God has called us to walk the road together and I cannot wait to see why.
I know this is tough for you all right now: getting a new pastor and sharing him with another parish. But if I’ve learned anything in my years of loving and serving Jesus, it’s that fear is the enemy. God has called us to this and he will not just get us through, he will bring us great joy and happiness over the years we get to be together. In the words of my mother, “I do not know what the future holds, but I know who holds the future.”
So, I can’t wait to start. I can’t wait to pray Mass with you, to baptize your children, to cry with you at graves, to sit beside you at hospitals, to witness your marriage vows, bless your anniversaries, rejoice with you at God‘s mercy, pop in the school and Religious Ed…all of it and more!
It’s going to be an adjustment for all of us so let’s pray for each other and be patient. I’ve got a lot to learn and I can’t wait to start learning it!
More later, God bless you all.
Fjk