March 12th

​Dear Friends, 
Thanks to all who made last Saturday’s St. Patrick’s Party and Corned Beef Dinner such a success! It was a great evening with great food, fantastic music and wonderful people coming together. I am especially grateful to members of the committee: Neal Heitz, John O’Brien, Kim Madia, John Downs, Mark Aguilar, John Czubaja, Cindy Kilroy, Pat McGuinness, and to parish staff members Wanda Dybas, Kim Osowiec and Jenny Simental. Also, thanks to the volunteers and all who took out ads in the ad book. The hall was beautifully decorated, which took a lot of work- but the results were outstanding.  
The first of two parish Nights of Mercy will be this Monday, at our Nativity of Our Lord church, from 6 to 8 pm. (the second is at St. Gabriel on March 28). During this time, church will be open for private prayer. The Blessed Sacrament will be exposed in the monstrance on the altar. Also, confessions will be available.  
We are lining up some training for those interested in serving as Extraordinary Ministers of Communion at Mass, Lectors, and Ministers of Care to the homebound. We could use some more people in each of these ministries. Please let me know if you are interested, and I will follow-up with information on the training. 
Finally, I lamented a few weeks ago that the plan for creating elevator access to our church at Nativity was “dead in the water,” after seeing a couple of different estimates for cost. I am pleased to say that a new idea has emerged that just might work for us! Stay tuned; I’ll tell you more about this once I have a better sense of it and after the people investigating it have a better idea of what it would involve. 
 
 
May your week reflect the encounter with Christ