Fr. Hien's Weekly Letter 03/27/2022

My Dear Parishioners,  
     Welcome to Spring.  Please enjoy each day God is giving us with your prayer, fasting and alms giving during this Lent.  Again, no red meat on Fridays during Lent.  Stations of the Cross booklets are available in the back of the church for anyone to use any day and time.  If you would like, you can join our school children as they pray the Stations every Friday at 2:30pm in church.  Don’t forget to attend our Knights of Columbus fish fry on Friday, April 1st starting at 5pm.  Parish penance service will be Sunday, April 10th at 4pm, in church with guest priests.
     DMI (Disciple Maker Index): The DMI survey will be launched diocesan-wide on April 1st.  All Catholics, 18 and older, are asked by our Bishop to take this survey about his/her Catholic way of life in their parish.  It’s an anonymous online survey that takes about 10-15 minutes to complete.  This data will be combined with other parishes in the diocese, to be presented to the conference of Catholic bishops in America.  Of course, I will get to see this information to help me as the pastor.  More details will be coming.
     Heating & Air:  The process has been slower than I expected due to the long demolition and the time needed to figure out more concretely how things should work and the laying out of the transformer, and where the 12 heating units best sit to connect to the current duct work, after the old blower system and pipes were removed.  There will be 12 heating units inside and 12 air units outside and they all will be connected to a special blower system to send the heating or air into the church through the duct works.  The duct is underground running along the walls of the church.  We are working with what we have, and we are moving along.   I love you all, Fr. Hien