Real Love, Real Life!

Hello Parents,

 

This past Sunday we had an amazing guest speaker from Community First/Mobile Loaves & Fishes. There will be an upcoming Street Retreat with them for Spring Break (details coming soon) and the 2nd Thursday of every month we go on a Mobile Loaves & Fishes Truck run, leaving from St. Thomas More at 5pm and returning around 8pm. The next MLF truck run will be Thursday, December 14. Please email me if your child is planning to go.

 

We spoke a lot about how we can encounter Christ in the poor and how we are called to be in unity with them as our brothers and sisters. The greatest poverty on the streets is loneliness, a lack of love. Please take time when you encounter a homeless person to see them as a person. Give a moment to let them share their story with you. You will be amazed to hear about their lives and how they ended up there. It is many times so different than what you would have thought, and it will be your heart that becomes transformed. 

Put love where there is no love and you will find love. St. John of the Cross.

 

 

Confirmation paperwork deadline is being extended to Sunday, December 17.   I will not be at the office on Friday, December 15, so please bring to me before then or to class on the Sunday, 12/17. 

 

We will not be doing the one on one meetings for Confirmation this year. I really had wanted to meet with the all of the families one-on-one but it is not possible with so many Confirmandi and busy school schedules. 

 

That said, many of you have reached out to me privately and I am happy to meet one-on-one anytime, year around, to chat and pray with you as these are such trying and difficult years. So, please feel free to email me to set up a time. It is just no longer a confirmation requirement.

 

If your child plans to attend DCYC retreat on February 2-4 please bring $50 deposit to class this Sunday to hold the spot...we will sell out...thanks! :-)