The Dedication Mass of SJN's new worship space and lower level meeting rooms is just five eight weeks away! PLEASE mark the 3rd 24th of June on your calendars. We need to pack the new church... and the plaza... and join Archbishop Gregory Bishop Luis Zaramain blessing our new place of worship and praise.
There will be lots to do in the next five eight weeks. Please be ready to say "yes" when the call is made, for volunteers to assist in the celebration. More about all of this during the month of May.
With the new worship space and lower level meeting rooms, we will begin all kinds of new traditions at SJN. One of these is all about walking! I am asking every parishioner (and family) that is able, to do your best to park your car as far away from the new church as possible! This will leave the closer parking places for those members of the parish family with some health issue that limits their mobility. So, please see the Sunday Mass as a time of exercise and prayer, by parking behind the school and walking briskly to the new house of God! This little act, of thinking about other's needs... a good preparation for Mass! The SJN way (the Way of the Lord)... thinking always of the neighbor in need.
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Hope you noticed the new handicap access curb cut, between the breezeway and front doors of the school. A member of our Respect Life ministry suggested the need for a new curb cut, since the original access lane is often "flooded" with water drainage (or ice, in winter). The new "curb cut" is on the highest part of the parking lot. Let's hope it stays high and dry for those parishioners needing that access to the parish and religious education offices.
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I hope you are enjoying our booklet, The Gifts of Art and Architecture. It was a work of love for all of us that put the booklet together. The gifts of art and architecture will be obvious to all, once we are praying in the new worship space. Please remember to lift up in prayer the parishioners that have sacrificed a portion of their income, to make this first phase of our Building a Legacy of Faith project a near reality!
The booklet is meant to be something of a teaching tool and a keep-safe. It is also hoped that this booklet will allow the parish to raise additional dollars, to complete all we need to complete in this first phase of the BLF project: the new worship space and meeting rooms. Please consider sponsoring one or more of the items contained in the booklet, as a memorial for a departed loved one or as a gift of thanksgiving, for the blessings experienced in life.
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Next weekend's Sunday liturgies, you will have the opportunity to meet Frs. Theodore Book, Thad Rudd, Joseph Morris, Guillermo Cordoba and Luke Ballman. These friends of mine will preside over the liturgies of SJN. I will be away for the weekend, at the Archdiocesan retreat and camp experience known as Toni's Camp. As many of you already know, Toni's camp is a weekend dedicated to those disciples that live with a variety of intellectual, emotional and physical disabilities. We spend three days together, basking in God's absolute love for each and every person there. A bunch of teens will join me at Toni's Camp, along with some of our adult parishioners. All of us have been bitten by "the Jesus bug"... giving away the gifts received, all for love! I'll see all on Mother's Day weekend!
Msgr. David Talley
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