The Parish Party for the 15th Anniversary of Father Emmanuel's Ordination will be held at Action Wildlife on this Sunday May 23rd.
The event is now free to all Parishioners.
Tim Flynn is looking for volunteers to help park cars and flip burgers.
If you can help:
Call or text Tim at 860-307-0069 for more details.
He is looking for some volunteers starting around 1pm
Just some notes on out 2021 Plans
We are still helping with distributing bulletins after the Masses.
We continue to reach out to members who cannot make it to the meetings, even if virtual.
We are working on participating in the Year of Consecration to St Joseph. More details to follow.
Remember we are always looking for new members
Members can sign up on line
Can take their Degree Ceremony on line
Family is now invited to Degree Ceremonies
Here is the news for the week of November 15th
St John Paul the Great Academy is planning a "Christmas Is A-Glow" event at Action Wildlife.
This is an event to benefit the school and they are looking for volunteers to sell Christmas trees, Wreaths and other things
They are looking for volunteers to man the hot chocolate booths and more.
As discussed last meeting, the Knights were asked to help move one of the Displays and help with traffic flow.
The details of the move are still being worked on but you can sign up online if you would wish to help in other ways.
The sign up page is here:
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/904084eada92aa1f49-christmas
Unfortunately we got this information too late to sign up for yesterday and today.
I assume they will need help for next week and. I will try and get more information before then.
Here is more information on the event:
https://a5c19d70-dad5-4eff-b68e-5403c6578530.filesusr.com/ugd/628c8d_ab539421b9174177870b4f9e28ce60a1.pdf
If you do not have access to a computer but want to sign up, the only number I see as a general number is - 860-489-4177
We are going to be holding out annual Luminaria Event this year, but due to the pandemic, it will be a little different.
We have already started handing out bags. They are available after most masses at the front of the Churches. This year people will take the bags, fill them out at home and bring them back to the churches after Mass or we will have a drive up collection on Sunday October 18, from 11 - 12 pm in the back of St Francis Church. We hope to do this for each of the weekends until the event.
We cannot collect money or have people handle the markers, so people can leave their donation in the bag(s) when they bring them back.
Instructions can be picked up with the bags. For people who cannot get out to pick up bags, they can email and we can fill the bags out for you and then contact you for the donation.
Hello,
Here is what is happening.
As of this moment, the outdoor Masses at St Francis are over.
The Masses will move indoors as of the weekend of September 19-20
Here is the information
https://www.johnpaulgreatparish.com/masstimes#phase4
Mass Guidelines are here:
https://www.johnpaulgreatparish.com/reopening
The dispensation for attending Mass has been extended to November 28th.
Masses are daily streamed on Facebook so there is more opportunity to take part in your religion besides the other churches that are streaming.
I sometimes spend an hour after Mass, listening to other homilies from Churches around the country.
We are trying to figure out our next meeting. Even though we do not have much we can do, we should be able to do our Luminaria this November and also have a food or coat drive.
Watch your e-mail.
Fraternally
ChrisZ
