Encouraging the Culture of Encounter with Jesus Christ, His Church, and All People Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, Connected Through Prayer Bishop Perez is hosting a retreat for priests in Assisi, Italy. In honor of our ten year anniversary, my classmates and I are joining him for this great opportunity. And because we will already be in Europe we figured we might as well tag on some vacation time to celebrate with just the five of us, so we are touring through Germany on the Rhine River for a week after the retreat.

Encouraging the Culture of Encounter with Jesus Christ, His Church, and All People Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, The Gift of Priesthood, the Gift of Parish Last week you may have read in the bulletin that on May 16 was my tenth anniversary of Priestly ordination. I thank God for my sharing in the ministerial priesthood of His Son, Jesus, Who is the High Priest offering Himself eternally to the Father. Every vocation to the priesthood is a gift and a mystery.

Encouraging the Culture of Encounter with Jesus Christ, His Church, and All People Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, Happy Mother’s Day! A special thank you to all our mothers. Because they chose life we are here! This weekend at the end of the Masses we will give our mothers a blessing and keep them in our prayers in a particular way. Also in honor of the spiritual motherhood Mary has for all of us, we will have a brief May Crowning prayer service after the 8:15 Mass.

Encouraging the Culture of Encounter with Jesus Christ, His Church, and All People Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, Congratulations to our Confirmandi! Last Tuesday at St. Francis de Sales Parish, Abbot Hoover confirmed some of our parishioners. Aubrey Walker, Rhett Evans, Ben Urdiales, and Thomas Tatum received their preparation along with St. Francis’s candidates. It was a wonderful celebration of God the Holy Spirit as these young people were sealed with the gift of the Holy Spirit.