St. John Neumann

“Remember the sabbath day—keep it holy. Six days you may labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is a sabbath of the LORD your God.” ~Exodus 20:8-10

Hello everyone.
             Here we are in August, and we can see autumn on the horizon.  School is already in session for some of you, and our Religious Education Program will begin on September 11th.  The sharing and passing on our faith is not only the best gift we can give our children but also the most important.  It is essential for our kids but also vital for the health of our Church! 
            Our Religious Education Ministry is always working to make this important ministry most effective.  To that end we have made a minor change to our Sunday Mass schedule to encourage and facilitate the attendance of ALL our Religious Ed families at our Sunday Liturgy.  So, beginning on the first Sunday of September, Sunday September 4th our Mass schedule will be as follows:
Saturday afternoon 4:00 pm English
Sunday Morning 7:00 am English (Beginning Nov. 1st)
Sunday Morning 9:00 am English 
Sunday Morning 11:30 am Spanish
          Our faith, and it’s development through a vibrant Religious Education Ministry, is not a list of observances, celebrating no real change in our life, but only a list of events we do with little meaning at scheduled times in our life.  We then return to the “more important activities” until the time for the next item on the list.  Faith is growing in relationship with God, through Jesus and with our brothers and sisters.  The Mass, especially our Sunday Liturgy is vital in growing in those relationships.  We hope this minor change in our Mass schedule will encourage “Growing in Our Faith” through the participation at Mass the pinnacle of Catholic prayer and Worship.  
Fr. George Holley