We welcome guests and relatives who join us this weekend for First Holy Communion. This is an important day in the lives of our children. We celebrate with them.
Our school May Crowning will take place at 1:30 on Monday afternoon, May 4. This is a beautiful event with our second-graders dressed in their First Communion clothes, our 8th graders dressed in their best, and the whole school gathered to sing beautiful Marian hymns and offer a rosary. Everyone is welcome.
As Fr. Bobby announced last weekend, Bishop Rhoades is assigning him to be pastor of St. Patrick’s Parish in Arcola beginning June 16. He will maintain his role as chaplain at Bishop Dwenger High School. Fr. Bobby has served for three years at St. Charles and he will surely be missed here. We will plan a reception for him on June 14.
Next weekend is Mother’s Day. While many families are considering the right gift or the right restaurant to please their mother, I offer another suggestion. Rather than buying a gift or finding a restaurant, consider coming to Mass with your mother. For a lot of mothers, this would be a greater gift than anything purchased in a store. [And mothers, don’t hesitate to clip this suggestion out of the bulletin and share it with your children!]
A further thought as we approach Mother’s Day: many of us have women in our lives who are not our biological mothers, but who have played a mothering role for us: caring aunts, neighbors, teachers, coaches, or role models. Wouldn’t it be good to remember them also on Mother’s Day?
A group of three nuns, Eucharistic Missionaries of Nazareth, are coming from Spain in late May or early June to serve in the Hispanic parishes in Fort Wayne. They will live in the convent at St. Henry, helping also at St. Patrick, St. Joseph, and in Warsaw. The diocese is currently looking for cars for them. If anyone would like to donate a reliable car, give us a call at St. Charles and we’ll pass the word to the diocese.
I will be leaving Sunday afternoon for Chicago. (Sadly, I will miss the First Communion parties and the May crowning.) You may recall that I am taking classes to learn to be a supervisor for transitional deacons. This is the last of six five-day sessions. I will return Friday afternoon. If all goes well I will return with a certificate stating that I’m ready to supervise a deacon.
