Greetings!
 
From the Pastor's Desk
 
Thank you for subscribing to my email newsletters. Some of you have subscribed since April 2012 when we published my first email newsletter. Thank you to Sue Ashmore, our Communications Coordinator, for being my email newsletter editor and graphic artist. She does such a great job! Thanks also to Cathleen Cary, our Director of Marketing, for giving me regular items and events to post in the newsletter. I will encourage Father James Peterson to have an email newsletter once he arrives here at Immaculate Conception, so stay tuned!
 
This is my last weekend as Pastor of Immaculate Conception Church, and I thank you from the bottom of my heart for the last six years that I have been here to serve as your priest. Ever since I announced on Mother’s Day weekend that I have been re-assigned to St. Pascal Baylon Parish in St. Paul beginning July 2, so many of you have spoken or written to me with your grateful messages, warm wishes and prayers. Thank you for all the support you have given to me as your Pastor. It has been a joy for me to serve here and work with you. Thank you also for the wonderful Farewell Reception and Breakfast last Sunday. I am still reading all the cards and notes you gave to me. I am sad to say farewell to you, but I also feel deeply grateful to God for my years here with you. You have blessed my life. I know when Father James Peterson arrives here at the end of July to serve this parish that you will welcome him and make him feel at home. He is a wonderful priest, and he will serve you very well. I trust you will allow Father Peterson’s personality and talents to shine through to this parish and school just as you have allowed my personality and talents to be of service here. I will always keep you in my prayers, and we will always be connected to one another as members of the Body of Christ.
 
God Bless You,
 
Father John Mitchell
Pastor

 
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Trivia Question of the Week

In this upcoming weekend’s Gospel reading from Mark, Chapter 5, Jesus encounters a synagogue official whose daughter is at the point of death. What is the synagogue official’s name?
See the bottom of this newsletter for the answer.
 
Will You Pray for a Priest Each Day?

Prayer Suggestion:  Dear Jesus, hear my prayer on behalf of your priest, Father [N]. Give him a deep faith, a bright and a firm hope. Be his comfort, his joy, and his strength. Amen.

June 29 – Rev. Paul Feela
June 30 – Archbishop Bernard Hebda
July 1 – Pope Francis
July 2 – Rev. James Peterson
July 3 – Rev. Jerome Fehn
July 4 – Rev. Ettore Ferrario
July 5 – Rev. Richard Fichtinger
July 6 – Rev. Brian Fier

 
Answer to the Trivia Question of the Week

Jairus
 
 
God Bless You,
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Father John Mitchell 
 
 
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