A recent natural disaster has recently affected our brothers and sisters in Christ. A massive earthquake and tropical storm that hit Haiti has created widespread destruction. We are asking you to respond with the Catholic community across the United States to a special emergency collection on September 18-19. Catholic Relief Services is the official international relief agency of the U.S. Catholic Church and is already responding to urgent needs for shelter, water, and food of those affected by this disaster. Checks should be made…

Gina Shaughnessy, our parish representative from LPi, is working on updating our bulletin ads for the upcoming year. We hope that parishioners who have a business will consider sponsoring an ad on the back of the bulletin, since the revenue from the ads is what makes the bulletin possible, at no cost to the parish. Also, if you know of any other business in the community that would like to support the parish, please let them know about this opportunity.…

The most notable completed project has been the installation of the air conditioning system. It was up and running as of July 9. Since this system was running efficiently, we were able to return our rental unit. Now that the rental unit is returned, we are starting on our last major project under the “Gifts from the Heart” campaign. This is the driveway and drainage between the rectory, office and church area. This should be completed by the end of August.…