GA Parish News: July 2020

Parish Newsletter July 2020

Message From Father King

Dear Parishioners,

In the center of the new Catholic Telegraph was a pastoral letter written by Archbishop Dennis Schnurr in anticipation of the 200th anniversary of the Archdiocese of Cincinnati. The title of this pastoral letter is “Radiate Christ.”

The Archbishop writes, “These two words summarize God the Father’s hope for humanity on this earth. The words contain both a reality and a mission: the reality of the person of Jesus Christ as the Savior of all people and the mission of each Christian to participate in the Son’s redemption of the world."

One of the many ways that we as the Guardian Angels Family fulfill that mission is through our participation in the Catholic Ministries Appeal-the CMA. I just want to thank you on behalf of the retired priests, the seminarians, Catholic Social Services, St. Rita’s School for the Deaf, college campus ministries, hospital and prison chaplains and all those to whom you radiate Christ’s love, presence, compassion and care through your most generous gifts to the CMA. You are blessing so many lives of our sisters and brothers by bringing the light of Christ to them, by Radiating Christ to them. For the first time, our parish has contributed over $100,000. That is so amazing! You are so amazing! And to think this is only one of the many, many ways that you, the parishioners of Guardian Angels Parish Radiate Christ. For our GA Family that is tradition, but I wanted to say Thank You for Radiating Christ, for being the amazing parish that you are and for bringing God’s love to so many. You truly are God’s Guardian Angels.

Thank You,

Fr. Tom

Air Conditioning Out In The Church

We want to make our parishioners aware that the AC in the church has gone out. The main blower in the system is damaged; since this is an old system, getting the replacement part may be an issue. We are working on obtaining the part needed but if that is not possible, we may need to replace the entire unit. We expect the AC to be out 4-6 weeks. Since this comes as we head into the heat of summer, we would like to remind you that watching Mass through our YouTube and Facebook live stream continues to be an option. We stream the Sunday 10am Mass, which can also be played back on either channel at a later time.

GA YouTube Channel

GA Facebook Page

Thank you to our entire Guardian Angels Family who came together to support our parish's largest fundraising event, even if we couldn't come together for an actual festival. We do not have final numbers yet, but thanks to you, it appears our AngelsFest Bid-N-Buy and Major Awards were very successful! We will release the final numbers when they are available; they'll also be published in the Annual Report, which is typically released at the end of the summer.

We'd also like to thank our Festival Planning Committee and the Bid-N-Buy Committee for their work on the auction and raffle and to our sponsors who continue to support our parish.

Festival Planning Committee

George Barry

Mark Dulle

Marianne Glassmeyer

Terry Glassmeyer

Jim Froehlich

Kay Froehlich

Jim Hay

Chris Haynes

Angela Kramer

Bill Luttmer

Marianne Metz

Carrie Piehowicz

John Piehowicz

Wes Richmond

Carolyn Schwettman

Tiffany Strah

Michele Thomas

Bid-N-Buy Committee

(Chairs) Kay and Jim Froehlich

Amy Armstrong-Smith

Sabina Hutchinson

Anne Keefe

Sarah Losee

Bonnie Morgan

Lisa Myers

Carrie Piehowicz

John Piehowicz

Patty Romeo

Tiffany Strah

Casey Timko

Gold Sponsors

Red Sponsors

EME Fence Co. Inc.

Geo Rohde & Son Funeral Home

Pediatric Dentistry of Anderson

Turner Barbershop LLC

We would also like to thank Patriot Signage who prints our yard signs each year!

Make An Online Offertory Donation

We are very grateful for those families who have continued their offertory giving during these times that we cannot gather as we would like to because of Covid-19 to celebrate Mass. We've received many envelopes in the mail and have had a number of new online donation accounts set up. If you are interested in establishing a one-time or recurring gift through our online platform, just click the button below.

Click Here to Setup An Online Offertory Donation

Other News

AmazonSmile is Now Available Through the Amazon App

Anyone using the AmazonSmile feature to benefit Guardian Angels Church can now do so through the Amazon App! If you shop on Amazon, you can sign-up to have a portion of your purchase come back to Guardian Angels. Now when you make purchases through the AmazonSmile app OR page, and have GA selected as your beneficiary, the AmazonSmile Foundation will donate 0.5% of the purchase price of eligible products back to GA.

To make the adjustments in the app, follow the directions below.

From there, just follow the directions to turn on AmazonSmile and start shopping.

Resources Available on FORMED.org

If you are looking for different ways to build your faith, there are a number of free resources available to our parishioners through Formed.org.

Just click here to access the site.

If you are new to the website:

click on sign-up
Choose I belong to a Parish or Organization
Search Guardian Angels Parish (make sure you select the one on Beechmont in Cincinnati)
Then create your own account

Stay Connected with GA on Social Media

Stay up-to-date with all things GA by following us on social media.

Guardian Angels is active on several social media channels, including Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

Facebook serves as our primary social channel to keep parishioners informed about upcoming events, news, and other information regarding our school and parish. If you want to make sure you see information posted through the Guardian Angels page, please make sure you go to our Facebook page , click Following (just under the cover photo), and then choose See First. This way anything we share will still be seen in your newsfeed.

You can also follow us through our Twitter page .

And new this year: we've just launched an Instagram account !

You will also be able to find links to our social media channels at the bottom of every parish newsletter.

Have News to Share?

If you are part of a parish organization and have news you would like to share with our community, please email Tiffany Strah. To be included in next month's newsletter, your information must be received by the last Monday of this month.