Father Bob's announcement

The heat is coming! Stay cool everyone, and also be considerate for those who must work outside or have no shelter. Maybe we could carry some extra water around for those we meet?

I am still looking for a person to Coordinate our Religious Education Program. Viable applicants have been lacking. If you have managerial skills and are a good organizer, let me know? Although originally a full time position, this can be negotiated.

This past week the Vatican introduced a new Mass setting. Some reports said a new Mass, but that in not quite accurate. A Mass setting means a set of prayers used for a particular purpose. There are many now, for vocations, for sick persons, for funerals, weddings…this new setting with appropriate readings acknowledges God’s creation of the world and the need to care for it. Once we get the official English translation and there is an appropriate day, we will use it at daily mass (Sunday masses take precedent over almost all).

Happy July 4th Weekend! and welcome to Flocknote.

Over the several years we have been sending out our E-newsletters I have received compliments on it, and also people ask about matters communicated through them. So I know people are reading them. Communication is so essential for our parish. We used Evangelus for those first years and it was a good platform. The Chancery made a move towards Flocknote and wished parishes to also use this. So that is ultimately why we made the switch.

This platform allows for hopefully easier sign-ups for activities as well as prayer requests. So please make use of it. 

 I am working with Snows Women Auxiliary – we will be bringing in the Sacred Heart Icon soon. It will be placed at the back of the church currently where the B&W picture of Jesus is.  We will move that picture to the current parish center. Pope Francis’ last encyclical was about the Sacred Heart of Jesus; I found it very moving and powerful. So I wanted to set up a prayer space for that. Stay tuned for more details.

Happy Father’s Day! We will honor all the Dads, Granddads, God-dads, and mentors this weekend.

I want to remind all that starting the first week in July this E-newsletter will be coming to you on a different platform, Flocknote. Some may already get the diocesan email on this. If you don’t see it, be sure to check spam folders. It will come email and text. ALSO check your spam for Evangelus notices, we get around 170 bounces on emails, telling us they are not getting through.

Reminder that on June 28th, 11am is the Presbyteral Ordination of Deacon Francis Coyne.  This will be at St. Rose of Lima parish. All are invited. If you have never attended an ordination of a priest, it is a great cause to celebrate!

Serious News –  I do appreciate all who take communion to the homebound, sick and to the prisons. However, please know that when taking communion nobody may retain the blessed sacrament in their homes, cars or any other place over night. Once a minister receives the Blessed Sacrament, the minister is to immediately deliver it to the person(s), never going out to eat beforehand. Doing so becomes almost a sacrilege of the blessed sacrament.

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.