Looking back at the weekly messages of Father Paul Counce, first published in The Carpenter, our weekly Parish Bulletin
Published: October 23, 2016
We announced a few weeks ago that a new Parish Pictorial Directory is being prepared. We need for you and your family to come sit for a photograph: the Directory won’t be complete without you! Remember, you’ll not only get a free Directory but also a free family color photo portrait. Other family portraits can be provided as well.
You know, it occurs to me that perhaps some of our parishioners and friends lost photo albums in the Great Flood of 2016. Now might be a good opportunity to make sure you get a new photo of you and your loved ones! In any event, please just go to our Parish website at www.cathedralbr.org and click on the button in the lower left-hand corner to schedule your photo session!
This weekend we’ll be taking a little time at the end of all of the Masses to discuss changes in our Mass schedule. I sense from the many questions being asked – and from my own ambivalence as to what the new Mass schedule should be come 2017 – that we still ought to take the opportunity for such sharing. My consultations with individuals and with the Parish Pastoral Council have not exactly come up with any unanimous recommendations, and when difficult decisions have to be made it’s especially important that everybody has a fair chance to be heard.
What are you doing this Tuesday evening, the 25th? Why don’t you come have dinner here at the Cathedral’s Parish Hall at 6:30 pm? We’re simply having another Pot Luck Supper, which we try to schedule three or four times a year. The Parish provides the main course (I’m thinking of shrimp fettucine and maybe some kind of chicken pasta too, this time) and the soft drinks. YOU provide a starter, or a salad, or a side vegetable, or a dessert, or bread … here’s your chance to impress everybody with your favorite recipe or try out something that looks scrumptious in the cookbook! It’s always a nice opportunity to meet and visit with fellow parishioners. In fact, the smiles and conversations are almost as good as the food! See you here!
Yours in the Lord,
Father Paul
