Father Bob's announcement

Sad note to begin –  it has been in the news that Karen Barreras lost her life in early May. She had been director of Holy Child Day Care, principal at Little Flower School (her home parish) as well as Superintendent of Schools for the Diocese of Reno, and directed the Safe Environment program. This was a shock for all us who knew her and worked with her. Please keep her family in prayer.

Good news –  during the months of June and July we will have a seminarian, Peter Larson, with us. He has finished his first year at Mt. Angel seminary and will be interning at Catholic Charities and also “Shadowing” the priests here to learn more of the life of a diocesan priest in Reno.  Peter was raised in Incline Village, so a local guy!

PARISH PICNIC – is next Sunday, June 8th 11am at Plumas Park. Burgers/Dogs provided, we ask others to bring desserts, sides, or other snacks. It is a great opportunity to connect with others.

School ends later this week (Thursday). It was a great year, with a great staff! I hope that they all find relaxation and rejuvenation over the too short summer vacation.

Starting in July we will be finished with “Evangelus” and will migrate to Flocknote. This is a different communication platofrm the Chancery office uses and wishes for all parishes to migrate onto. As we get closer to the date we will send out more and more info.

Fr. Boby will be taking vacation starting this week. So during the next couple of weeks Friday daily mass will be cancelled.

Personal note – hold me in prayer. I am having some issues with my left eye; unable to focus it very well.  The Docs are on it though!

Good Morning all, it will be a busy weekend here. We will have 2 confirmation celebrations today (so to accommodate the large number of kids and their families) then the normal mass schedule with First Communions.  We did cancel Confessions today because of timing.  Please keep these young persons in prayer.

Monday is Memorial Day, the office will be closed and mass will be at 9am.

Tuesday daily mass at 6:30pm will be for Pope Leo XIV, in thanksgiving; afterwards SWA will host hospitality out front, and there will also be a Confirmation rehearsal for the 3rd celebration of Confirmation on Thursday.

This will also be Lauri Anne Reinhart’s last week as DRE for the parish.  27 years here, which is a LONG time. So grateful for her commitment and efforts for the children of this parish. I first met her when I was a seminarian here in 1999 (and Joseph). I also worked with her when she worked on for the Catechesis of adult ministers for the Chancery.  She will be missed, but she remains as a parishioner here.

Good Saturday Morning to all and Happy Mother’s Day weekend. 

I will be away this coming week to visit with family, so NO mass on Monday Morning.  The following week both Fr. Boby and I will be on retreat with the priests of the diocese, so no daily masses that week. And unfortunately we will be unable to take any emergency calls (will be in Citrus Heights). Do keep all the priest in prayer.

Mark you calendars for June 28, 11am at St Rose of Lima for the Priestly Ordination of Deacon Francis Coyne. Deacon Francis is actually a Reno native, his family attends St. Rose of Lima. 

ALSO, of course, a historic week for the Catholic Church with the selection of Leo XIV. Bishop Mueggenborg requests that we have a mass in celebration of the selection of  a new Pope. So on May 27th, 6:30pm we will have this. Please note your calendars.

The funeral for Marian LaVoy will be on Monday, May 5th at St. Albert the Great parish, 10am.

Congrats to the 13 young persons who were Baptized, Confirmed and Received their First Communion last Saturday:  Gus & Ike Ramont, Graham Streckline, Max & Leo Switlyk, Jordan & Jaylin Winchell, Denali Murry, Baleigh Thompson, Tianna & Jayanna Young.

This coming weekend starts our First Communions. It will be nice and exciting to see these kids receive the Boy and Blood of Jesus! It will also hopefully remind all of us to consider how fortunate we are for this sacrament.

Please, if any parishioners goes into an assisted care center or hospital, let us know or have family inform us. We would like to be able to visit you, but if we don’t know where you are…..  Also those facilities will not call us. It is up to the families.

PARENTS OF CONFIRMATION KIDS: Your FFE paperwork MUST be submitted by May 8th; otherwise the celebration for your child may be delayed until we have that paperwork. (many others have completed it)

Heads up:  May 11-16 I will be out of town to visit with my family (its been a bit). Then the week afterwards, Fr. Boby and I join all the priests of the diocese for our annual retreat. That week there will not be any daily masses.

Happy Easter!

Congratulations to those who were Baptized last weekend: Stephanie, Riley & Ryan Remien, John Sturtz and Bella Champagne.

Congrats to those formally received into the Catholic Church:  Greg Remien, Ashley Rife & Keenan LittleJohn.

Congrats to those completing the Sacraments of Initiation: Jessica Ferguson & Don Bernard III.

This Saturday we will celebrate the Baptism of 13 children!

Next weekend begins our series of First Communions. We will have over 70 young persons celebrating their first reception of communion at Masses throughout all of May.

Thanks to all those Lectors, EM’s, sacristans, singers, altar servers, decorators, Deacon Dave, Fr. Boby who helped to make our celebration of Easter Sunday and Triduum go so smoothly. It is a tremendous amount of work, especially mentally. So glad to have celebrated it all. I wish though more people had attended Holy Thursday, Good Friday and Easter Vigil–these are not really optional days but are meant to be celebrated by the whole church fully and completely.

That being said, the Easter Sunday Masses were nicely attended:  8am 530 total; 10am 630 total; & 12pm 220.

Happy Easter (starting tonight). Our Vigil will start at 8pm during which we celebrate the Lord’s Resurrection through the Baptisms of two adults and two young persons, as well as receiving into the church formally several others, then celebrating their confirmations and first reception of Eucharist. If you have never attended the Vigil, try it. It is an amazing ceremony (longer than normal).

We will be decorating the church for Easter at 10am this morning. Come by and help if you can, as we also need to get the Chapel set up too.

Easter Sunday will be full, so please be patient with everyone. Do your best to NOT save seats, but have everyone arrive at the same time. It helps.

Communion to the Sick and Homebound – if you are already performing this ministry, I would like you to attend a training for the new ministers on Weds. April 23rd at 5:30pm. This way everyone will be on the same page. If anyone would still like to sign up for this ministry, please come to this training as well.

Easter Egg hunt tomorrow!!  After the 11am mass in Plumas Park.

We will be decorating for Palm Sunday this morning at 10am, if anyone wants to help.

For the Triduum and Easter Sunday Masses look below. Also just to remind everyone, confessions can NOT be heard on Good Friday or Holy Saturday; and that on Good Friday, it is a day of strict fast. So for all healthy adults – one full meal, 2 lesser meals, no snacks, no meat.

The funeral mass for Fr. John Corona will be May 9, at St. Galls in Gardnerville. The mass will start at 11am

Last week ended crazy…fire alarm alert at 5am, check security cams, nothing..but dressed and went over to check. Then burglary alarms went off on the way. Got there, all kinds of noises as the fire department set it all off. Turns out some kind of glitch in the system. Then Saturday morning became aware of a little minor vandalism, but security cams did not catch anything (except raccoons).

This coming Thursday is the annual Chrism Mass. It is held at St. Rose  of Lima, 5:30pm. All are invited and encouraged to attend. The Bishop blesses the Oils for the upcoming year, the priests renew their promises, and this year too we accept into the diocese formally Deacon Francis Coyne.

It appears that Fr. John Corona’s Mass of the Resurrection will be May 9 (St Teresa of Avila, in Carson City). That would have been his 92 birthday.

FFE’s, or Family Faith Encounters are certain events within the parish that Students in the Confirmation program need to attend with their parents to get credit. They replace the idea of service hours, so as to inspire families to talk about their faith more openly. When we have events that qualify as a FFE, we indicate it as such; but such events are meant for the whole parish. This is all part of the Diocese of Reno’s plan as Confirmation is moved to 7th grade.

Finally, it is with a degree of sadness that I announce that Dr. Lauri Anne Reinhart has submitted her letter of resignation as Director of Religious Education. She will be retiring as of May 30. She will remain in the parish as this is her home. Please join with me in thanking her for 27 years of ministry and work in our parish and diocese.