My Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ,
The Catholic Daughters at Mary Our Queen will be hosting their holiday sale this weekend. This is their major fundraiser that supports their activities. Thank you for your generosity.
Next Sunday, November 22nd, the Tanzania Sister Parish will be hosting their Annual Fundraiser after the 11am Mass at Mary Our Queen. At this event, the committee will provide their Annual Update on the dormitory building project in addition to what else is going on with our Sister Parish in Ligera. Mary Our Queen has partnered with St. Peter the Apostle parish near Songea, Tanzania in the southern part of that country. The overall purpose of this ministry is to provide friendship and solidarity with the parishioners, while simultaneously sharing our gifts with each other. The goal is for Mary Our Queen parish to grow deeper in faith as we respond to the call of the Gospel to welcome the stranger and be one in Christ. Since our partnership began, Mary Our Queen has built and sponsored a Vocational Training Center. For more information on our Sister Parish, visit our website https://moqchurch.org/tanzania/
In addition to our Sister Parish in Tanzania, St John Vianney, through the Knights of Columbus at St John Vianney have supported and helped build Our Flower of Hope School in Haiti. A breakfast fundraiser was held at St John Vianney a few weeks ago. We thank you for your support. For more information on Our Flower of Hope School, kindly visit our website https://sjvomaha.org/haiti/
On the Feast of St Jude – October 28, Fr Reiser blessed the Icon of St Jude that he had written. The Icon is currently on display in front of the Ambo at St John Vianney. We would like to thank Fr Reiser for writing this Icon and presenting it to St John Vianney. St Jude is the patron saint for the impossible. Fr Reiser is also writing another Icon for St John Vianney. This will be an Icon of St John Vianney. Both Icons will have a piece of cloth that is embedded in the Icons that has touched the relic of both St Jude and St John Vianney.
Since having my foot surgery, I became more aware of the challenges of moving around the altar area. Over the last few months, I have been working with Bob Soukup in coming up with some ideas on how to make our Sanctuary area more handicapped accessible at Mary Our Queen. He and his team at Carlson West Povondra Architects are currently working on some designs to present to us. I am hoping with your support, that we will be able to address this need.
When we purchased the house by the preschool two years ago, we did not do much apart from tearing down the house and creating a couple of play spaces for our preschoolers as we did not have a concrete plan for the use of the space. Over the last few months, in talking to our Director of our Early Education Program, we have identified some playground equipment (play system and swing set) that we can purchase and install that will meet the needs of our preschoolers. We are also looking for an alternative for the rubber mulch that we currently use for our preschool. However, the cost of installing a poured rubber surface similar to the one installed in our school playground would be significantly higher (roughly 4 to 5 times the cost of using rubber mulch). We are still working on budgeting for the preschool playground and hopefully we can install it during the summer and have it ready for the new school year.
More updates to follow. Have a Blessed Week.
Fr Marc
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