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May 4, 2021Sixth Week of Easter
Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ,
This Sunday’s Gospel reading comes from Jesus’s discourse at the Last Supper in the Gospel of John. Jesus reminds his disciples that his words are not to burden them with excess worries or tasks, but instead are intended for the fullness of their lives and joy. We are all called ‘to go and bear fruit that will remain.” This means that we are called to use our baptismal call bring the good news of Jesus’s life, death and resurrection to our fellow brothers and sisters in order for them to have a closer relationship with God through Jesus Christ.
Next, there is an ongoing need for food items in our greater community. We are asking everyone to bring in donated food items on a regular basis for the St. Vincent De Paul food pantry. The SVD food pantry is always in need of nutritious nonperishable food items. Thank you for your great generosity.
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. The Livestream Mass can be seen through our website page. Be on the lookout for the Sunday 10:00 am livestream mass if you are not able to come to Mass. We are looking for individuals who would like to help the St Hyacinth expand its video ministry program. If you are interested, please email me at [email protected].
One of our parish goals in 2021 is to increase the number of families supporting St Hyacinth using Faith Direct. Currently we have 213 families using Faith Direct 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 pressing the Faith Direct icon and entering our parish code of TX526 or by just simply scanning the QR code found on the poster in the Narthex.
However, I do want to address the approximately the over 1044 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.
The first phase of the Church renovation will be starting in a next few weeks with the replacement of both the heating and cooling systems for the Church and Church complex. The heating system has already failed and is no longer working and the HVAC system is currently failing and needs to be replaced due to its age. This will be a major undertaking to replace our aged system of the parish. The heating and HVAC systems of the Church are interconnected with the Religious Education building soo the work will be extensive.
Furthermore, we have signed a contract with Studio Red Architects who will help guide us on phase two of the renovation of the Church. Studio Red Architects have provided their services to several of our parishes here in the Archdiocese, and I am confident they will be able to lead us in the renovation of our fifthly plus year old church. Thank you for your generosity to St Hyacinth.
Next, please pray for the young people of our parish. We will have several first communion Masses in the Month of May along with the Confirmation Mass on May 25th.
Finally, on behalf of everyone here at St. Hyacinth We want to wish all Mothers of our parish a happy and Blessed Mother’s Day.
God Bless,
Fr. Reginald Samuels
