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January 24, 2023
Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ,
The Jesus’ sermon on the mount in the Gospel of Matthew starts Jesus preaching to those in the margins of society. The poor, oppressed, the marginalized are listening to how much God loves them. He challenges us all to look beyond our circumstances to recognized that we are favored by God. The word ‘beatitude’ means happy, favored or fortunate. This is why the word ‘beatitude’ is translated ‘blessed’
As we live the beatitudes in our life, the ‘blessed life’; we see how God brings something good out of everything. As long as we have faith, we should know that God is working all things for our good. This is the hope that God gives us and the hope that we are called to share with others.
One of our ongoing parish goals is to increase the number of people using our electronic formats for the dissemination of information from our parish. We have our website: Sthyaicnth.org , which I along with the team, update almost daily with information about the activities that go on in the parish. There is Flocknotes, which is our information delivery service for the parish, in which we email and or text information about the activities of the parish. Go to Flocknote tab on our website and join the group “Parishioners”. We are on Facebook, go and ‘like’ our Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/StHyacinthchurch . Our livestream masses and liturgies can be found on our website, Facebook and Vimeo.
Preparations have started for the 9th Annual Ministries retreat here at St. Hyacinth. The retreat will start on February 25th with Mass and throughout the day there will be several presentations on the Liturgy from guests throughout the Archdiocese. We will have special guest speaker, Dr. Dan Girardot who is the Associate Director of Worship for the Archdiocese of Galveston Houston. We welcome everyone who is involved with our ministries to sign up for this important retreat, especially to develop an understanding as to why Liturgy is the work of the people. Be on the lookout for more details online and in the bulletin.
For 2023, Cardinal DiNardo has assessed our parish DSF goal at $85,000. DSF supports more than 64 ministries and programs that serve the faithful of the Archdiocese and us here at St. Hyacinth. From Catholic chaplains at the hospitals and the Port of Houston, to religious education training for our teachers (who pass on their faith to our children), to outreach to seniors, to youth ministry, to soup kitchens, to Catholic Charities ministry to the poor and disenfranchised, and to training for seminarians, deacons and priests, the DSF provides funding for people and program that serve us all. Go to: https://www.archgh.org/ways-to-give/diocesan-services-fund-dsf/donate-to-dsf/ and give to DSF 2023. Thank you for your generosity.
I ask everyone to pray for the young people of our parish who will be going on a Confirmation retreat this weekend. As this group of young people move closer to celebrating the Confirmation with Bishop Italo in the Spring, lets keep each of these young people in your prayers. And pray for the Staff, Mrs. Pamela Johnson, the Director of Faith Formation and all of the volunteers who will be helping with the retreat.
God Bless,
Fr. Reginald Samuels
