This week: Photos from the Parish Picnic, the Benefit for Life, a Staff Profile on Maria House, our receptionist extraordinaire and a QUESTIONNAIRE.
When asked what her primary responsibilities are she responds enthusiastically that her job is to welcome people, to make them aware that they are valued and wanted here. She noted that she has had the benefit of an extended family but that many do not. She wants everyone she encounters, in person, in the office, and on the telephone, to feel like they are being treated like a member of a caring extended family, our parish! She is very successful at communicating exactly that!
Staff Profile: Maria House, Receptionist
(above) has ministered as the “welcoming face” of our Lady of Lourdes since 2007.When asked what her primary responsibilities are she responds enthusiastically that her job is to welcome people, to make them aware that they are valued and wanted here. She noted that she has had the benefit of an extended family but that many do not. She wants everyone she encounters, in person, in the office, and on the telephone, to feel like they are being treated like a member of a caring extended family, our parish! She is very successful at communicating exactly that!
Her official duties are to:
· Receive visitors and connect them with the appropriate members of the staff and parish
· Answer the parish telephone
· Register new families
· Coordinate baptisms (schedule and maintain records)
· Write the weekly Mass announcements and intercessory prayers
· Schedule Mass intentions
Her unofficial duties include listening and coordinating the Cookies For The Troops ministry.
Maria was born in Raleigh and attended Sacred Heart Cathedral School and Cardinal Gibbons High School.
She worked as an assistant in a local psychology practice then married Michael in 1975. They have three children.
Maria and Michael opened the Casa Carbone Restaurant in 1984. Maria has cut back on her hours there but still makes all the desserts for the restaurant on Wednesday and Saturday.
She made her Cursillo many years ago and is still an active member of a follow-on Cursillo prayer group.
She loves music (having played the guitar). She enjoys reading and daily devotionals.
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It's so easy to become numbed to the awareness of how big a deal this problem is and the need to personally support the pro-life movement with time, talent and treasure. Thank you to all the parishioners from OLL and other parishes working in the Pro-life, Birthchoice, Project Gabriel, Project Rachel and Family Honor ministries for your service and helping us remember!
To help, contact Bob and Kathy Klein, blk4jmj@gmail.com, 919-815-3237.
2018 Benefit for Life
and were again reminded of the cruelty and devastation caused by abortions. Heard a courageous young woman describe the pain and suffering she personally experienced as a very young woman from abortions and the difficulty recovering from the realization of what she had done ...until she came to grips with the healing Jesus Christ offered her. Now she tells her story for the sake of other women and their unborn babies.... that are not fetuses or blobs, but unborn babies!It's so easy to become numbed to the awareness of how big a deal this problem is and the need to personally support the pro-life movement with time, talent and treasure. Thank you to all the parishioners from OLL and other parishes working in the Pro-life, Birthchoice, Project Gabriel, Project Rachel and Family Honor ministries for your service and helping us remember!
To help, contact Bob and Kathy Klein, blk4jmj@gmail.com, 919-815-3237.
(Above) Bishop Zarama and Yvonne Florczak-Seemen, the Keynote Speaker.
(Below) A few photos of OLL Parishioners at the event.
(Below) A few photos of OLL Parishioners at the event.
(above) The Young Adult group that meets at OLL on Sundays between 4pm and 6pm was in attendance also. For info contact Kelly Soares at sucush@yahoo.com.
Parish Picnic Photos
The focus of the New Evangelization calls all Catholics to be evangelized
and then go forth to evangelize. (US Conference of Catholic Bishops)