Dear Friends in Christ,

I hope everyone had a great July 4th weekend. We are now in the full swing of summer and hopefully everyone can get a little time away and enjoy the summer time.

One of the big events for our parish during the summer is our Vacation Bible School (VBS). We had our VBS this past week and it was such a big success. The children had a great time learning about Jesus and having fun while doing it. It was great having so many children on campus (both our VBS participants and all our youth volunteers). I want to thank Annie DiDomenico and all her adult volunteers, youth volunteers as well as all our participants and their families for a great week.

Also, I would like to thank everyone who contributed to the Annual Catholic Appeal (ACA) to date. We have reached our pledged goal which we needed to do by July 31st in order to receive the initial rebate of 5% of our goal. We will be receiving a $2,900 initial rebate and now 100% of every dollar we receive over and above the goal will come to our parish. As of July 3rd, our estimated rebate for the parish is $6,806. In addition to all paid pledges which come in from now until the end of the calendar year, we can still work toward getting an additional 5% rebate if we increase the total number of donors for the ACA to 205. This would be 28 more donors needed as of our last update on July 3rd. So, if you haven’t donated yet to the 2025 Annual Catholic Appeal I ask you to prayerfully consider supporting the appeal, no matter how large the donation – it’s the participation that counts at this point. Thank you again to all those who have supported the ACA and also to those who are considering supporting the ACA.

God Bless,
Father Chris