ADORATION THIS WEEK
There will be No Adoration this week on Friday due to a wedding rehearsal.
TIME OF TRANSITION AT ST. COLUMBA
As was announced last weekend, we have begun a time of transition at St. Columba:
Father Michael McLoughlin, after having served our parish one year as Administrator and six years as Pastor, has been renewed by Cardinal Dolan for a second term of six years as Pastor of St. Columba.
Father Michael Connolly, after serving St. Columba as a newly ordained priest for three years, has been assigned by Cardinal Dolan as Parochial Vicar at St. Martin de Porres Parish in Red Oaks Mill with an additional part-time ministry as Chaplain at Our Lady of Lourdes High School.
Father Walter Genito, after serving at St. Martin de Porres as a newly ordained priest, has been assigned by Cardinal Dolan as Parochial Vicar at St. Columba.
All three assignments are effective on July 1.
Father Connolly’s last full day at St. Columba will be on June 22. He will return to offer a Mass of Thanksgiving on Sunday, June 27 at 12:00 noon. It will be followed by a reception in the school gym. We thank Father Connolly for his outstanding and faithful ministry at St. Columba and promise him our prayers as he begins a new chapter in his priesthood.
We invite all to warmly welcome Father Genito to St. Columba. He is an outstanding young priest. Please offer him your prayerful support and encouragement as he too begins a new chapter in his priesthood. Father Genito will arrive on July 1.
We bid farewell to Father Bob Porpora, Pastor of St. Denis, and Father Pancose Kalist, Pastor of St. Kateri, who have received new assignments as Pastors. We welcome the new Pastor of St. Denis - Father Andrew Carrozza and the new Pastor of St. Kateri - Father Joseph McLafferty. These assignments begin on July 1.
CATHOLIC KIDZ CAMP - SIGN UP NOW!We are excited about our
Parade Around the Our Father Catholic Kids Camp! Ours will be a 5-day Program July 12
th – 16
th, from 8:45 am to 12:00 Noon. Children will also be involved in a Service Project where they will write cards to retired Sisters of the Resurrection and priests of the Archdiocese of NY. Children, Leaders and Volunteers will gather in the mornings for our opening and prayers; they will meet again at the end of the day. There will also be time for Eucharistic Adoration and Mass.
REGISTER NOW - VOLUNTEERS AND CAMPERS!Volunteers - please complete the Form that you will find on the St. Columba Parish Website. There is now a Registration Form on our Web Site for the children entering Kindergarten to grade 4 to attend Catholic Kids Camp. Please note our limit is 150 children; they will be accepted first come first serve.
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