Twenty - First Week in Ordinary Time - St Hyacinth Catholic Church

August 22, 2023

by Fr. Reginald Samuels

Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ

I want to thank everyone for making our 58^th parish anniversary, a wonderful experience. This past weekend was full of fun and fellowship. I hope you all took time to celebrate the life of our parish.

I want to start off thanking Ms. Teresa Reynolds, and her team for taking charge and putting together the wonderful items for our silent auction. $5109 was raised from the silent auction. Thank you all for your generosity. I want to thank all the parish organizations who donated their time and baskets for our parish celebrations. I want to thank the Men’s and Women’s ACTS community, Catholic Daughters, St. Vincent DePaul society, Knights of Columbus and all the other organizations who have played an important part our parish celebrations.

Next, I want to thank Mrs. Palmella Pitman, our director of Liturgy and Music for planning and implementing our Day of Reflection along with Deacon Charles Pitman with his help with the liturgy for the Day of reflection. I want to thank Mrs. Pamela Johnson, Our director of Faith Formation along with our Bookkeeper Mrs. Elena Rodriguez, our Parish Secretary Mrs. Mary Jo Howell, our Maintenance Personnel Chris Hoehn along with a host of volunteers who made the Luncheon special.

Religious Education classes will be starting on September 10^th and now is the time to start thinking about the upcoming religious Education school year. Registration is currently in progress. To register online for Faith Formation classes, go to: https://sthyacinth.org/faith-formation-registration-form.

Remember as well that when you are registering your child for Religious Education classes you can also sign-up yourself to be a catechist or aide. We need a number of catechists to teach our children, from the littlest ones in the early grades on through middle school and high school. We’ll train you and give you all the support you need. The Faith Formation staff is happy to answer questions and get you involved.

One of the principal goals of 2023 is to increase the number of people that are contributing to the Church through our electronic giving platform. We have over 1000 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 .

In celebration of our parish 58th anniversary, this year’s parish project, the entire community of St Hyacinth is being asked to provide support for the renovation and restoration of the two main stain glass windows of the Church. To support this project, please go to https://sthyacinth.org/stain-glass-renovation-project to donate. We hope to raise $75,000 for the renovation and restoration of our Holy Spirit Window and Christ the Good Shepherd window. As of my writing for the bulletin, we have collected over $7159 for the restoration of the stain glass window project. Thank you for your generosity.

Parish Update:
This week, will start laying down the plumbing for the new building and pouring concrete. The permitting process continues for the reconstruction of the religious education building. There are several permits that have been submitted by the contractors and the permits should be approved shortly. Once the rest of the permits have been issued, Construction will start with the new building.

God Bless,
Fr. Reginald Samuels