Thirteenth Week In Ordinary Time

June 21, 2022

by Fr. Reginald Samuels

Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ

Excuses, excuses, excuses are something that we hear constantly, and throughout the Gospel readings this week, Jesus is challenging all the excuses we make in not following him. In the Gospel Jesus just simply states that we will always come up with excuses not to follow him. We are challenged through the gospel life to make it the first priority in our lives to build the kingdom of God.

The Café Catholica summer series is open to all young adults (ages 18-39) and features dynamic speakers, prayer, and socializing. Café Catholica 2022 will be held in person at the Catholic Charismatic Center on four Mondays in July/August starting on July 11. Each night will include Confession at 5:15 p.m., Mass at 6:15 p.m., Dinner at 7:15 p.m., and Talk at 8:15 p.m. This year’s theme is: Real Presence. For more information about this event, go to www.archgh.org/cafecatholica or contact the Office of Young Adult and Campus Ministry at or [email protected] or 713-741-8778.

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.

Next, as you are aware, we have issues with the sound system in the Church. Apparently, there are several chip processors in our system that are not working properly and is causing the system to not produces sounds through the speakers. Over the next few weeks, Prime Systems (Sound System contractor) will be replacing the processing units in our systems. The cost of repairs will be approximately $14,624. Thank you for your generosity in supporting our parish maintenance fund.

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, I would like for the parish to begin a collection 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.

God Bless,
Fr. Reginald Samuels