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January 19, 2023Third Week in Ordinary Time
Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ,
Through this weeks Gospel readings ae are called to acknowledge that discipleship occurs in community. Each and everyone of us are called to bring our unique gifts and talents to share in the work of witnessing to Jesus. Christ calls each and everyone of us to follow him. The question this week is : Will we listen to the call in our own lives? Notice how Jesus calls each of the disciples by name in the gospel readings. He calls us by name as well.
Teaching, proclaiming, and curing summarizes the ministry of Jesus in the Gospels. If Jesus calls us to ‘come after’ then there has to be an acknowledgement that we leave something behind so that we can follow him. First, we need to elevate our understanding of our baptismal calling and increase our understanding of the importance of the love and respect for human dignity.
One of our goals for 2023 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.
As we enter a new year, let us all think of ways in which we can make life easier for ourselves and the parish. One of our parish goals in 2023 is to increase the number of families supporting St Hyacinth using electronic giving. Currently we have 211 families using online giving. You can register for online giving by just simply going to our parish website https://www.sthyacinth.org/online-giving. Thank you for your generosity and support of STHY.
I ask everyone to pray for the young people of our parish who will be going on a Confirmation retreat next weekend January 28th and 29th. 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 all of the Staff and volunteers who will be helping with the retreat.
Finally, 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.
God Bless,
Fr. Reginald Samuels
