Greetings,

I would like to express my gratitude to everyone who helped make our festival last Sunday at St. Mary’s such a wonderful success. What a beautiful day God gave us. It was a day full of fun and fellowship and I really enjoyed myself. There were sightings of Fr. Livingston and Fr. Cloutier. I think the take out for our dinners was just phenomenal in numbers. In fact, it seemed like everyone I talked to just love the pork chops and beef dinners we have at St. Mary’s. Our dinners are very popular in the area and people come from all around to eat at our festival. Sunday was kicked off with the beautiful Sacrifice of the Mass. We proclaimed the gospel and then received our Lord going out and living our faith through the generous giving of our time and energy. We shared our love for each other by building up the kingdom of God in our fellowship and fun while raising money to pay the bills.
I want to give a special thanks to Bill Horsch and Joe Swartzer who both gave many hours to the organization and implementation of the many different needs of making this day so good. I want to say thanks to everyone who helped at the games, with the food, money counting, set up and clean up, those who sold their raffle tickets, those who bought them, and especially to God who I think really enjoyed watching us have fun… Let us take a few moments this next week thanking God for the many gifts He has given to us especially in our family, friends, fellow parishioners and even our clergy. Our Lord is so good to us, let us return His goodness a hundredfold!

Peace, Fr. Tom