News from Our Pastor
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Published 6/4/21
As many of you saw or heard earlier this week, we are extremely excited to announce that we have secured new dates for our Annual Family Carnival (August 16-21, 2021). A few months ago, we canceled the traditional June carnival, however, even then we had hope that if the pandemic began to ease we would be able to work towards some backup dates later in the summer. That is quickly becoming a reality….which is why we are playfully calling this the 42 ½ Annual Carnival. This event provides much needed support to our Academy and is very important to our community as a whole, so let’s hope and pray that the current pandemic trends continue so that nothing stands in the way of our having a wonderful week. Be on the lookout though, we are going to be needing lots of volunteers, and I can be very persistent when I need to be….
Also, as you know, sadly, we are going to be saying farewell to Fr. Al and Fr. Marcin at the end of this month (please pray for our incoming priest, the soon to be Fr. RJ Ballacillo this Saturday, June 5th as he is ordained to the Priesthood at St. Mary of the Assumption Cathedral).
The weekend of June 26th and 27th will be Fr. Al and Fr. Marcin’s final one of their assignments here at St. Gregory’s. Fr. Marcin’s last weekend Mass as a presider and homilist will be the 5:00PM on Saturday, June 26th. Fr. Al’s last weekend Mass as presider and homilist will be at 10:30AM on Sunday, June 27th. All three priests will be present for the 12:00PM Mass as we say farewell to them as a gathered parish. Following the 12:00PM Mass we will have a farewell picnic outside the Church, in much the same way that we setup our annual parish picnic. Please join us at Mass and at the picnic to say farewell to these two priests who have served us well, and hopefully we can have a little fun as well while we do so.