Monday Message, May 13, 2024
KNOW
We have a Parish Leader Check In tomorrow at 11 am. The link is here.
If you have not yet received an invitation and/or ticket to the Mass of Thanksgiving on June 1, 2024 at Fairfield University and you would like to attend, please email Carmela.
Save these dates please:
- Saturday morning, June 8, 2024 – Morning prayer, brunch, and concert as a thank you to parish catechetical leaders, youth ministers, catechists, and volunteers. This will take place at the Catholic Center and feature Tony Melendez. Tony will also be in Bridgeport, Norwalk, and Stratford that weekend.
- Saturday, August 24, 2024 – Workshop for all those who have anything to do with RCIA in your parish.
- Saturday, September 14, 2024 – Fall Forum with Bishop Caggiano.
- Friday, September 27, 2024 – Day of Prayer and Laughter for all administrative staff featuring Chris Padgett.
- Wednesday, October 23, 2024 – Meeting with all catechetical leaders and pastors to discuss Catechesis of the Good Shepherd.
- Thursday, January 16, 2024 – Catechetical Summit with Bishop Caggiano, Sr. Johanna Paruch, and all catechists.
The grant application for 2024 Vacation Bible School/Camp is not live. You can access it here. Deadline is May 15, 2025.
Understanding the Directory, Part II, has now been assigned in LEAD. If you did not join the group and lost the link, please contact Carmela.
Our webinar series continues this Thursday for the gender identity document. You can register here. All pastoral leaders really should sign up.
REFLECT
Just in case you have been under a rock lately, this is the week of calm before the many events that will occur from May 19-June 1.
Pentecost, the birthday of the Church is Sunday. Our Diocesan Eucharistic Procession begins in Bridgeport at Blessed Sacrament Church on Pentecost Sunday, May 19, 2024 at noon. After that, processions will move through towns of Fairfield, Ridgefield, Norwalk, Darien, Stamford and Greenwich. See below for a full breakdown of where the procession will be and when.
The Diocesan Eucharistic Processions will culminate in a Mass of Thanksgiving at Fairfield University on the Eve of Corpus Christi, Saturday, June 1, 2024. The upcoming Eucharistic Procession throughout the Diocese is an historic invitation to celebrate the gift of the Eucharist in our lives. It will be a time of celebration, communal witness, spiritual renewal, and encounter with the Lord.
How can you help? First, pray for the success and the thousands that will gather for these events. Pray for open minds, open hearts, conversion of souls, peace along the route – whatever you think will help spread the Spirit – pray for that.
Then, join in whatever you are able to join in. Even if it is simply standing along the route or volunteering at your parish. A national procession is odd sort of thing. It doesn’t happen every day (or every year) and I think all of us can agree that this country needs God right now. The world needs a Savior. Let us join together and let the Spirit move us to be better, speak more kindly, love one another, and be the hands of feet of our Risen Lord.
LAUGH
