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April 18, 2024
Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ,
Jesus tells us of himself: “I am the good shepherd.” As our good shepherd, Jesus fights for us and saves us from the jaws of all that would hurt us. In gathering the lost and searching for the sheep that has been scattered, Jesus does the work of the Father who desires that all should be found, loved in the family of God.
For this weekend’s gospel reading, I want to us to focus on the Christ the Good Shepherd Window we have in our Church. This amazing work of art has adorned our Church for over 50 years. What does this window mean to you? I want to thank everyone who has contributed to the Stain Glass Restoration project for St. Hyacinth. We have made our goal of $75,000 for the restoration and preservation of our windows of the Church. Thank you for your generosity and support. The next phase of the restoration project is projected to start this summer.
Next, we are currently providing livestreaming of the Masses here at St. Hyacinth. Please go to our website Sthyacinth.org, St Hyacinth Facebook page or St Hyacinth Viemo.com page to view the current livestream mass. Be on the lookout for the Sunday 8:00 am livestream mass if you are not able to attend Mass because of an illness.
One of our parish goals in 2024 is to increase the number of families supporting St Hyacinth using electronic giving. Currently we have 200 families using electronic giving and hopefully by the end of the year we can have at least 325 families of STHY on Faith Direct. The number of 325 families represents 20% of our parish population of registered parishioners. You can register in less than five minutes by logging sthaycinth.org and going to the online giving page on the website.
However, I do want to address the approximately the over 1000 registered families here at STHY that we have no record of your giving to the Church. We do acknowledge that many are giving to the Church through the weekend collection; however, STHY needs you start moving toward electronic giving. In this way we can account for all those who are a part of the parish that are truly giving and it is an expense of the church for envelopes to be mailed to registered families. We currently spend close to $10K a year on offertory envelopes and if we could use our electronic giving, this would reduce the expense of mailed offertory envelopes dramatically.
Finally, Next Sunday is our parish festival. I want to thank our chairman for the Parish festival Mr. Raul Turner, who has worked very hard to bring our festival back to our community. Next, I want to thank all of our volunteers who have been working hard on this festival as well. Please come out next Sunday and have a great time at the festival. The day will be filled with games , food and prizes.
God Bless,
Fr. Reginald Samuels
