Parish Picnic: I hope to see you at this Sunday’s parish picnic from 1 – 5 p.m. on our parish grounds! Thanks to all who made it possible, especially Rob Andreski and the Boosters Club, as well as Parents Teachers Organization and the Knights of Columbus.
Campus Signs: As you come to Church hopefully you notice four new campus signs on our parish grounds. The purpose is for our visitors—especially those who attend funerals and sporting events. The plan to have campus signs has been discussed for many years. We decided to implement this during the “Year of Mercy” with one of our goals being “ways to become a more welcoming parish.”
Capital Campaign: It’s been weeks since I talked about the capital campaign. As we mentioned earlier, the diocese is doing a diocesan-wide capital campaign. We are one of the pilot parishes. I am meeting with the organization who is running it on Wednesday, July 20. I will have much more information in next weekend’s bulletin.
Mission Makeover: Last week was Mission Makeover and they did a tremendous job! I hope you noticed the new flower garden in the lower lot beside one of our school entrances. I really commend the adults on the Mission Makeover team who gave so much time and effort. These include Jan Gravel, Chasity Campbell, Mary Jo Jones, Ray Belanger, Jim and Gretchen Ridley, Sheila Konieczny, and Steve and Tamara Sampson. I would like to especially thank Ray Belanger and Jim Ridley whosupervised the work on the new flower garden. They even took a week’s vacation to make it happen! Thanks to all of you!
Flint Mission Work Camp: Speaking of youth, about 70 high school students from different parishes in our diocese are serving at the Flint Mission Work Camp July 24-29. After working hard all day, they spend time relaxing and then get together for prayer and a reflection in the evening. They asked me to come and talk on the words spoken by our Blessed Mother at the Wedding at Cana: “Do Whatever He Tells You.” I will be giving that reflection on Monday, July 25. Please pray for me.
Hot Spot: I really have no idea what this means, but from my understanding Holy Family Church was one ofthe hot spots for the latest “Pokemon Go” rage. Someone explained to me that they can capture the Pokemon image when they come here. Does that make sense? It doesn’t to me.
John Vinton: Thank you for your support of seminarian John Vinton. I know he really appreciated spending the year at our parish. Speaking of seminarians, if you know of anyone who may be interested in the priesthood, Fr. Gary is attending the discernment dinner with the bishop on Sunday, August 14. Please let him know if you can attend.
Running Club: Fr. Gary ran in the Atwood race on July 16 and did quite well. He finished 13th overall in the 5k race and 16th overall in the 10k race. He also finished in first place in his age group for both races. (I would like to say there were only 16 runners competing, but there were a lot more!) By the way if you are interested in running with others, please come to the Holy Family Running Club. They meet on Wednesdays at 6 p.m. and Saturdays at 9:30 a.m. Please call the school office for more information.
Mr. and Mrs. Lee: Congratulations once again to the newlyweds and our musicians, Dr. Simon Lee and his wife Dr. Sia Lee! They wed on July 15.
A couple of events: This week I will also be attending a Juvenile Diabetes fundraiser for one of our parishioners and then on Friday I will be attending the First Profession Mass for the Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist.
Little humor: At Genesys Hospital I found a paper on a desk in the spiritual care office that made me chuckle a bit. It showed two elderly women and one saying to the other: “My memory really isn’t good Mildred, so I changed my password to ‘incorrect.’ That way when I log in with the wrong password, the computer will tell me…”Your password is incorrect.”
Msgr. Jerry
Saint quote of the week:
In light of the feast of the grandparents of Jesus, Sts Joachim and Anne on July 26, a couple of thoughts on our grandparents from Pope Francis:
“I want to greet all the grandmothers and grandfathers to thank them for their special place in families and for their importance to the new generations. One of the most beautiful things in life, in the family, in our lives, is caressing a child and letting yourself be caressed by a grandfather or a grandmother.”