Fourteenth Week in Ordinary Time

June 28, 2022

by Fr. Reginald Samuels

Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ

        This weeks gospel message speaks of the seventy- two being sent out on a mission of evangelization. Jesus sends the disciples out in pairs, indicating that he expects a reliance on each other and the relation of the two share together. We do not do ministry alone. Our work in evangelization is a collaborative effort.

One of our parish goals in 2022 is to increase the number of families supporting St Hyacinth using Faith Direct. Currently we have 211 families using online giving. As you have seen in the bulletin weekly, summer time is a time in which donations decline in the parish.   You can register for online giving by just simply going to our parish website Sthyacinth.org.

This year we will celebrate the 57^th anniversary of the founding of St Hyacinth. For this year’s celebration, the weekend of August 20^th - 21^st. there will be a time of prayer, remembrance, and celebration. There will be giveaways, and fun throughout the weekend culminating with the raffle of wonderful prizes. Soo, please mark your calendars for this wonderful celebration .

For the parish anniversary, we will have a silent auction. We are in need of gift cards for the various gift baskets that will be auctioned off. I am asking everyone if they could donate a $25- $50 gift card from their favorite store so that we can add them to the gift baskets that will go up for auction. Thank you for your generosity in helping us celebrate our parish anniversary. Just place the gift cards in the donation basket when you attend mass on Sunday.

For our parish anniversary, We have begun collecting funds for a Statue of St. Hyacinth. We should have a representation of our patron saint in our Church, and we are the only Catholic Church named after St Hyacinth in the United States that does not have a statue of our patron saint. A four-foot custom-made linden wood and painted statue of St Hyacinth will cost approximately $18K. (The handmade statue would have St. Hyacinth holding a monstrance and a little statue of a Madonna with Child). We have placed a special donation box is in the Narthex as well as a picture of the statue. You can give online at https://sthyacinth.org/statue-of-st-hyacinth as well. Thank you for your support in precuring a statue for our Church.

Preparation and registration has begun for the Archdiocesan Youth Conference (AYC) which gathers participants from all over the local Church. AYC is the largest evangelizing event for older adolescents that the Archdiocese hosts annually. The youth conference will be held at the Hilton Americas Hotel on July 29-31, 2022. For more information and to access the registration packets, Contact Tim Colbert at [email protected] if you have any questions. To offset the cost of attending AYC, for the youth of our parish ,We are having a Bingo night on July 16^th . Please come and have fun and support the youth of our parish.

Finally, the parish office will be closed on Monday for the observance of July 4^th. Please have a safe Independence Day celebration.

God Bless,
Fr. Reginald Samuels