Special Soul Health XIII: parish re-opening news

Give me Your grace, good Lord, to set the world at nought, to set my mind fast upon You

To think my worst enemies my best friends

To have continually in mind the passion that Christ suffered for me; for His benefits incessantly to give Him thanks.

St. Thomas More, Martyr

1. If you wish to attend mass at St. Thomas More parish this summer, YOU MUST REGISTER BELOW BY WEDNESDAY. NO EXCEPTIONS. Details below. First:

2. Patricia (Trish), our nearly indispensable parish secretary, will be undergoing surgery on Thursday. Please keep her in your prayers. Her recovery time is estimated at 6 weeks. She has been serving our parish daily for 40 years!!

3. Our next and possibly last online mass will be available on our website next weekend. It will be the annual mass of our Patronal Festival, St. Thomas More, Martyr. The special mass intention will be for Fr. George Oakes. It will run approximately 40 minutes; the homily will speak directly to the children in Confirmation prep, who will then be gathering online again next Sunday.

Re-opening our parish

The provincial government has given permission for re-opening churches with a maximum of 50 persons in the building at one time. The Archdiocese has done immense preparation for this moment so that the health and safety of the faithful can be paramount. Thus re-opening our parish will be a complex process, including determining how many weekly masses we will have to satisfy parishioners while strictly respecting the cap of 50 persons. In order to determine this, and for you to register for mass attendance so we don’t exceed the cap, you must fill out the questionnaire by next Wednesday, Feast of The Birth of St. John The Baptist:

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/TZQC6PS


Additionally, in these ways: re-opening for mass, aiming for July 11, turns on your support:

**The parish re-opening committee which has already met twice, has determined that to be compliant the parish requires upwards of 20 volunteers to be present, spread out across different masses. Offer yourself in the questionnaire.

**Once you complete the questionnaire, please call other parishioners you know who do not have internet (over 60% of our parishioners), completing the online questionnaire for them by next Friday.

**Offer in the questionnaire to be one of the volunteers who will then call the remaining parishioners to do the same beginning Saturday.

Let’s by the grace of God work together to re-open our parish!

And commit all this to your prayers:

Have continually in mind the passion that Christ suffered for you; for His benefits incessantly give Him thanks.

St. Thomas More, Pray for us

Fr. Robert+ Pastor, St. Thomas More Parish Verdun