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October 5, 2022Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ
In our Gospel this week, it is the Samaritan among the ten leapers who returns to Jesus to give thanks and glory to God. Jesus upholds a Samaritan as the hero within the parable about how to love our neighbor. We have to remember that the Samarians during the time of Jesus were not the best of neighbors to the Jewish community. During our Gospel reading, Jesus tells the healed man who returns to give thanks that his faith has saved him, and he is telling us this week that our faith will save us.
The Gospel readings for the last few weeks have been encouraging all of us to use the faith that God gives to do great things. We are called to walk in faith. We are also called to exercise the faith that we have been given.
Religious Education classes have already started and Registration is still in progress. To register online for Faith Formation classes, go to: https://sthyacinth.org/faith-formation-registration-form.
This weekend we are having The National Collection for the Archdiocese for the Military Services, USA (AMS), was first approved by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops in 2012 and is scheduled to be taken every three years on the Sunday before Veterans Day. The AMS is the only U.S. diocese responsible for providing the pastoral care and services for the men and women who serve in all six branches of the U.S. Armed Forces, enrolled in a U.S. Military Academy, undergoing treatment at any of the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Centers, or who work in civilian jobs for the federal government overseas – and for their families. Thank you for your generosity in supporting AMS.
Next Weekend, we are having our Bi- Annual collection (Second Collection )for our own SVDP society. All the monies collected will go to serving all those in need in our own community. Thank you for your generosity in supporting SVDP.
Our Holy Father, Pope Francis has encouraged the Church to have a special collection the weekend of October 22nd and 23rd for The Society for the propagation of the Faith. This is Holy Father’s Chief missionary arm, providing resources for more than 1150 mission dioceses the world over. The special second collection will go towards the support of the Society for the Propagation of the Faith in their efforts to train some 80,000 seminarians preparing for the priesthood and about 10,000 men and women preparing to serve as religious brothers and sisters.
One of the principal goals of 2022 is to increase the number of people that are contributing to the Church through our electronic giving platform. We have over 1100 registered families here at STHY that maybe giving to our parish in the Sunday collection; however, we don’t have a record of them using their envelopes or electronic giving. You can enroll for online giving through https://www.sthyacinth.org/online-giving .
For our 57th parish anniversary, we are collecting funds for a Statue of St. Hyacinth. 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. Soo far we have collected just over $14,500 toward the statue. Thank you for your generosity.
We have released the FY 2021- 2022 financial statement for the parish. The statements can be found in this week’s bulletin and you can pick up a copy in the narthex of the Church.
God Bless
Fr. Reginald Samuels
