Holy Spirit Parish

Mass Intentions for the week of September 26 
Monday, September 26, 8:15am Mass - Deacon Rick Letto
Tuesday, September 27, 8:15am Mass - Larry & Judy Kluck
Wednesday, September 28, 8:15am Mass - Andy Smrz
Thursday, September 29, 8:15am Mass - Cornelius Bresnan
Friday, September 30, 8:15am Mass - JoAnn Chase
Saturday, October 1, 5pm Mass - Loretta Klesmith
Sunday, October 2, 8am Mass - PCCW
Sunday, October 2, 10:30am Mass - Richard & Sandra Krutza
Sunday, October 2, 6pm Mass - Holy Spirit Parish 

Dear Holy Spirit Parish:                                                      September 25, 2022  
 
 Speak Lord Your Servants Are Listening.

This 2021-2022 year has been one of listening to the Spirit as it leads us from Cultural Catholicism to Intentional Discipleship.  It was the the Spirit in Fr. James Mallon’s visionary work  Divine Renovation that moved our Pastoral Council at their September meeting in 2021 to officially endorse it as our guide to transformation. Through the Divine Renovation organization our parish staff have taken part in trainings and have received on going coaching. We have been encouraged to define for ourselves what a Disciple is and then organize all our pastoral activity around making Disciples.

In addition to speaking through the Divine Renovation community, the Lord spoke loud and clear to us through the Synod process initiated by Pope Francis.  Thirty two groups, of all ages and relationships to the Church, met during Lent to listen to the Spirit speak through each other’s life experiences. With a striking unison that spanned all the groups, a cry for inclusivity was heard.  We long to be a Church where all are truly welcome.

Encouraged by our Divine Renovation coaches, we took the ME25 survey for a first time this spring.  This membership engagement evaluation tool, is giving us a means to actually measure whether our ministries are growing Disciples or not and so make better decisions about where to invest our efforts.

After listening to Fr. Mallon, the Synod participants and the results of the ME25 I have gone fishing.  I have been casting a vision, trying to articulate the core of what the Spirit has been saying, and so engage your heart more deeply in this work of transformation. Simply put, here is that vision. Holy Spirit parish is a community of Disciples of Jesus.  Disciples of Jesus are those who grow to be like him, bearers of redeeming love.  Redeeming love restores dignity and community to those who have lost it.  It is all inclusive. Those transformed by redeeming love become bearers of that love themselves. They become Disciples of Jesus.

In so many ways Holy Spirit parish already is such a community.  As you read in this Annual Report the effects our ministries have had on people’s lives this past year I pray you will be moved to deepen your commitment to this community and its work.

Fr. Steve

     ALPHA IS HERE!

             Thursday, 9.29.22 @ 6:30 PM
                                 Spirit Hall

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