Dear Parishioners:
We are moving right along in the Easter Season. Lent has never quite ended since we remain in exile, wandering in the desert, but we do have some prospects of hope on the horizon. The days are beautiful. Masses are taking place and a number of parishioners are participating in them via Facebook and YouTube. We are reaching even beyond our parish in ways that are amazing.
Plans are underway to open the doors of the church, we hope, even before we are able to have public Masses. In a week or two, we will hear from the Diocese what the protocol for that will be. Our hope is to be able to be together again on Pentecost weekend, May 30-31. There will be Coronavirus protocols in place and there will be some restriction on our numbers. Nothing has been set yet, but we do have to anticipate that reality. In the meantime, we are in touch through Facebook, YouTube and Flocknotes.
I remind you that the new schedule of Masses will be in place for our return: 5 PM Saturday, and Sunday 9 AM and 11 AM. Be ready to meet new friends and to share more deeply in St. Timothy’s spirit of welcome.
The New Evangelization calls us to use every means at our disposal to participate in the effort to bring the Gospel home to the whole world. My prayer is that while you have been away, you have been able to draw closer to the Lord and to be ever more aware of how close He is to us.
The Good Shepherd knows us and we are invited to follow Him. He Who Is the Way, the Truth and the Life, will see to it that we arrive at our destination, the green pastures He has prepared for us. We are invited to be servants to one another and to the world, so that the Word of Truth, the Gospel, may be recognized for what it is, the offer of Salvation from the Living God. May we be living stones and cooperate with grace to become the Temple where God may dwell. May the world see in us the Light of the Gospel and the hope of New Life in Christ.
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