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March 4, 2024
Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ:
In this Sunday’s Gospel reading we have one of the most well known and most quoted verses of the bible. “God so loved the world that he gave his only son so that everyone who believes in him might not perish but have eternal life.” During Lent, we enter into a time of purification and penance. We are called to live out the mandate that Jesus has set for us. As he came to give us salvation and redemption, we are called to carry forth his love to bring about the kingdom of God here on Earth.
My Job as Pastor is to encourage you to enter a deeper relationship with God through Jesus Christ. For the season of Lent, I want to encourage you to use FORMED.org in which we have provided the password to every parishioner.
There are two studies on FORMED.org for Lent, that I am challenging everyone to be a part of:
The first study is called: Into the Desert: A Lenten Study On Prayer: Our Lord teaches that prayer is a relationship and a vital necessity. Follow Jesus into the desert this Lent and discover intimacy with God in this video-based study with daily meditations in the participants guide. This series captures the secret to opening our hearts and minds to Scripture as the means to hear from God and then respond in conversation, basking in his presence and resolving to live in and through his love.
The next offering is: A Lent to Remember, a Lenten encounter with Mercy. This series explores the ways God reaches out to each of us with his mercy. Through Christ’s suffering on the cross in the Paschal Mystery and his perpetual reception of his people in the Sacrament of Reconciliation, God makes his love, his very self, present to us in the world. Our parish Password to FORMED.org is 77GVZ3.
For 2024, Cardinal DiNardo has assessed our parish DSF goal at $81,200. DSF supports more than 60 ministries and programs that serve the faithful of the Archdiocese and us here at St. Hyacinth. Envelopes are in the narthex or you can go online and give at : https://www.archgh.org/ways-to-give/diocesan-services-fund-dsf/donate-to-dsf/ Thank you in your generosity in supporting DSF 2024.
With the season of lent, we welcome our Friday Fish Fry sponsored by our Knights of Columbus. Those of you who have attended in the past know that this dinner is not to be missed. Every Friday during Lent, from 5-7p.m., the K of Cs will be serving a delicious fish dinner for your takeout pleasure.
On Fridays as well, we will have Stations of the Cross in the church beginning at 7:00 p.m.
STHY will have our annual Lenten Penance Service on Tuesday March 13th at 7:00 pm in the Religious Education Building Classrooms. We will have multiple priest confessors available for the Sacrament of Reconciliation that night.
Finally, our parish spring will be held on April 28, 2024. You can purchase raffle tickets online https://www.sthyacinth.org/spring-festival-2024-raffle . Save the date for fun, food and prizes!!!!
God Bless,
Fr. Reginald Samuels
