Monday Message, April 28, 2025

KNOW

Resources for the Legacy of Pope Francis continue to be updated. Please take a look at all the resources here.

We will see you at Notre Dame in Easton for the Evangelization Summit for all faith formation leaders and their pastors on Thursday, May 1, 2025, from noon to 3 pm. If you have not yet responded, please email Carmela.

The new Diocesan Consent and Release language was approved late Friday. Could you give us a day or two to build the forms online, complete the translations, and make them available? We will review them at our next Parish Leader Check In on May 6, 2025.

On May 16 and 17, we will host a workshop (one each day) on the new OCIA process and how the diocese will implement any changes. Please spread the word to everyone in your parish who welcomes new people into the Church. I’ve included more information here.

We hope to complete the 2025-2026 Calendar by next Tuesday’s check-in.

REFLECT

As the Cardinals gather in Rome, let us pray for the election of our new leader:

O God, eternal shepherd,
who govern your flock with unfailing care,
grant in your boundless fatherly love
a pastor for your Church
who will please you by his holiness
and to us show watchful care.
Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son,
who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
God, for ever and ever. Amen.

Excerpt from the English translation of The Roman Missal © 2010 International Commission on English in the Liturgy Corporation. 

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