A Word from Your Pastor - September 21

Dear Parishioners:

St. Timothy Parish is, as parishes go in the Diocese of Columbus, a medium-sized parish.  Having a School, we are also a parish that has so far managed to carry forward the vision for Catholic Education that was present in the first generation of Catholics in our nation, in the person of our first Bishop John Carroll and our first native-born American Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton.  We are once again at a time of creating a vision that will help to sustain us into the future.

We worship together in a church built by our first members and renewed when necessary along the way.  We teach our children and offer them an opportunity for recreation and social activities through a Parish Center and Gym that began as a dream and was accomplished by cooperation among many.  Can you see that the Good Shepherd Who brought us to this point continues to have plans for us as a Parish and a School? 

The Church in our time is being called to take seriously the task of Evangelization through witness of life and a conscious effort to catechize those who have never heard the Gospel and to be renewed by a deepening of catechetical instruction for those who have lived it but have lost the zeal of their first response.  Through welcome, invitation and witness, we prove we are disciples of the Lord by spreading the Gospel in the world today.

Catechetical Sunday reminds us to show our gratitude to those who dedicate their time and energy to catechize in the name of our Parish: teachers in our School and PSR program, the RCIA Team, and the coordinators of the various programs of Adult Education in the ways of Faith.  Parents are the first teachers of their children in the ways of Faith.  All of us need to continue to study and learn what Faith teaches and to follow the wisdom we receive.

All families are invited to renew a commitment to catechesis of their children and a faithful witness of practice of the Faith.  How are you responding to the Spirit’s call to go deeper?