Monday Message, June 5, 2024
KNOW
This afternoon, this memo will be sent to all pastors from the Bishop’s office. It includes changes coming to scheduling and planning for Confirmation after January 1, 2024. Please read the memo carefully.
Carmela will be meeting with anyone who needs assistance with LEAD this Wednesday at 2pm. Follow this link. Stop by and say hello or try to stump our resident LEAD expert.
Save the date for a meeting with Bishop Caggiano and Parish Catechetical Leaders on Saturday, September 16th from 9 am to 2 pm.
Ministry Day is September 30, 2023. If you have requests for workshops or special tracks, send us an email.
The calendar is being updated this week, as are several other pages. Check the website next Monday for the refresh.
See this flyer about a day of service with teens from around the diocese. Brought to you by some innovative leaders in youth ministry, this day is designed to engage young people in acts of service, prayer, and a great time together.
St. Aloysius faith formation team have a generous offer for anyone who is looking for materials:
- Catechist books and students books for Blest are we Faith in Action Grades 1 through 6, separate Family Life Connections books for each grade.
- Teacher’s guides and student materials for Pflaum’s Sacramental prep Together in Jesus First Reconciliation and First Eucharist.
- Signs of Grace Sacramental Prep – Catechist guides, student books, as well the DVD’s for it and for Presence and Forgiven.
Contact Danielle if you are interested.
REFLECT
You know I have sock issues. I do not like it when I put them on and realize later there is a hole (I should turn the light on when I dress, I suppose). This happens because I rarely throw away socks. The ones I have had since the 90s are starting to show their wear.
But now I have another issue.
Lately, I have been buying socks only to have them disappear soon after unwrapping.
The other night, my 15 year old was preparing for an orchestra performance. He is putting on his tux and I ask if he has any dark socks.
“No,” he says, “But I know a guy.”
Excusez-moi?
It turns out the children like the socks I buy. Like the Chips-Ahoy I try to hide.
To get back at them, I learned all the words to “Rolling In The Deep” by Adele and sang it. All. Day. Long.
I tell you this because, like socks and food and wisdom, parents are supposed to share things – beginning with their love of God. Eventually, if we do it well, the children will help themselves to the rituals and practices we have laid before them. They will appropriate the faith which we have offered freely. They will fall in love with Jesus like we have and they will adopt that relationship as their own.
But many of you are already among those who are missing socks, so I suppose you already know how this works.
Have a good week.
LAUGH
