Twenty - Ninth Week In Ordinary Time - St Hyacinth Catholic Church

October 11, 2022

by Fr. Reginald Samuels

Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ

In the Gospel this week, Jesus reminds his disciples of the importance of praying without becoming weary. We need to ask for God’s healing and peace for the time in which we have grown weary in prayer and discipleship.

Pope Francis reminds us that to pray without ceasing is to be aware of the needs of our brothers and sisters in the world. We are all call to work for unity and justice and we articulate our prayer and work through our very lives. By putting some else’s needs before our needs we grow in our relationship with Jesus. Pope Francis once said that “ we pray for the hungry and then you feed them. This is how prayer works” we are called not only to pray for the needs of others, but to provide for the needs of others.

This 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 22^nd and 23^rd 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 .

Speaking of Stewardship, we have our stewardship weekend coming up October 29^th ant 30^th.As part of Stewardship weekend, there will be a ministry fair in Guyot Hall. All the ministries of the parish will be present to answer questions in regard to their roles in the Church. We as everyone to be open to joining a ministry here at St. Hyacinth.

For our 57^th 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.

Finally, November is right around the corner. First, The Feast of All Saints is a Holy Day of Obligation, we will celebrate three especial Mass: Monday October 31^st at 7:00pm, Tuesday at 8:00am and 7:00pm.

There will be a special Luminaria Mass for All Souls Day Wednesday November 2^nd at the 7:00 pm Mass.

God Bless
Fr. Reginald Samuels