Saturday, March 28, 2020
Greetings Holy People:
I hope you all are well! Just a short update today.
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Our parish continues to operate. Most of the staff and pastoral team are working at home. We go to the office only when necessary.
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The Mass for this weekend will be placed on the website sometime this afternoon.
My thanks to all who are making these Masses possible: Jesse Schuler (music), Marlene Stammerann (lector), Jen Koenig (cantor), and Jake Drescher (videographer).
You can access this Mass on the parish homepage at
www.stjohnpaulparish.org
For those who wish, a homily note sheet is attached to this email.
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We will continue to livestream daily Masses. On
Wednesday we are going to attempt to make it a children’s liturgy
by trying to have an interactive homily-the kids will respond in the comment section of the Facebook live feed. We are not sure how it will work, but tune in and have your kids tune in at that time (8:30 a.m.)
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All Divine Mercy Sunday activities
, originally scheduled for the afternoon of April 19
th
have been cancelled
.
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My thanks to all who have mailed in their Sunday offering to the parish
. This week we collected just over $5000. As you might imagine not having a regular Sunday collection for several weeks will probably be difficult to deal with financially. I will be meeting (remotely) with the finance council on Tuesday morning. I’ll share with you our discussion shortly thereafter. In the meantime, if you are not in a financial hardship due to a layoff, reduction in hours, etc. and are able to mail in your Sunday contribution (or contribute on Faith Direct), it is appreciated.
I think that’s everything for today.
God bless you all. Have a great weekend.
Love,
Fr. Tom
