Fr. Hien's Weekly Letter 08/08/2021

My Dear Parishioners of All Saints,
     Blessings from Our Lord and Mother Mary be with you all.  August is here and we are ready to start a new school year for our children,  As you know, children are innocent and precious.  They love to learn and to feel good about themselves, especially their accomplishments.  Every one of us has the responsibility to help them be the best person they can be and to learn the Catholic faith and live it daily.  Let us love them by giving them the gift of God and the best education we can to form them intellectually and spiritually.  So, parents, please register your child/children to attend our Catholic school if you haven't done so yet.  Enrollment is going on now in the school office.  Every parent has two options to enroll their child/children for Catholic education .  Option one is to pay tuition of $4,900 per child to All Saints, $6,850 per student for Kapaun High School.  Option two is to register as members of All Saints with your time, talent and treasure.  You are required to tithe on your family income to our parish.  You must help All Saints pay the bills to educate your child/children, including the bills from Kapaun High School for the students from All Saints.  It would be wrong to take advantage of God's church and His people.  I can't wait to be with your child/children again and to see you all at Holy Mass. 
     Next Sunday, August 15th, is the Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary.  Everyone is invited to join our Bishop Kemme, many priests and the Vietnamese Catholics for a special outdoor procession of the statue of our Lady of La Vang, the Blessed Virgin Mary, around our church.  If you have never been to a procession like this before, you will be very happy that you came.  You will see the love and devotion many people have for Mother Mary.  More likely there will be standing room only because we are expecting  about thousand people at the procession and the Holy Mass.  Of course, lunch will be served to everyone in the halls and in the tents outside.  In the foyer, you can enjoy the shrine of our Lady of La Vang.  We made it from the wood around our church.  It's a stunning image of Our Lady standing on a nicely carved and decorated tree.  Why the tree?  It's because that was where Mary appeared in 1798 to the Vietnamese.  The tree is shaped like the letter S to look like the shape of Vietnam.  All Costs for this special event are being provided by generous donors.  Many people are very generous to us because they love Mother Mary and their Catholic faith so much.  Thanks to all and I hope everyone can join us, Catholics or not, all can come to Jesus and join us in honoring His Mother,
Fr. Hien