Many, many thanks to all who came out and supported the 96th Annual Saint Rose of Lima Christmas Bazaar – wow 96 years - can you believe it?! It was a great success once again; in fact it was the best ever! It was also a wonderful prelude to the Christmas season. The tally is still being totaled, but the final benefit to the school and parish will be excellent. I wish to express my sincere appreciation and gratitude to all of our chairpersons and volunteers who made this year’s Christmas Bazaar very successful once again. It’s hard to really count up days, weeks and the hours and hours that so many of our people put in to make this such a great event as always. I thank you all and may God bless you!
Congratulations to our Winners!
The winner of the Walt Disney Family Vacation voucher was Kelly McAneny
The Grand Slam 50/50 winners are:
5th prize
- $2181.50 - Joanne Altamuro
4th prize - $2181.50 - Alexis Geyer
3rd prize - $2181.50 - Amy Ezekiel
2nd prize - $2181.50 - Jolene Sparano
1st prize - $ 13,089.00 - Eileen Fisher
Today the Church celebrates the first-ever World Day of the Poor. The World Day of the Poor, which was announced in Pope Francis’s closing letter for the Jubilee of Mercy, is founded on “this whole notion of reciprocity, of sharing with each other of what each other has,”
Looking at the logo above for World Day of the Poor, the essence of the event can be summed up in the design, which portrays two people reaching toward each other - one from a doorway and the other from the outside - with a road in between. The beauty of it is that one doesn’t really know who’s the one asking for assistance and who’s the one giving assistance. Rather we see the reciprocity, the shared essence in be-ing in that the one on the outside realizes that to get in, he’s got to hold that hand out, and the one on the inside realizes that he or she has to go out in order to encounter one another. Everybody has something to share, everybody has something to give, and everybody is poor in some way. The World Day of the Poor gives us an opportunity not only to grow in mercy and charity toward the poor and needy, but to shape our attitude toward them on a daily basis. It’s also based on “our understanding that each of us is poor in some way, and that we need to empty ourselves of certain things so that God’s grace can fill us, God’s mercy can fill us.”
God Bless you,
Father Joseph Byerley
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