FATHER JIM'S JOTS - Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time - July 28, 2024

 St. Elizabeth Catholic Church

Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

July 28, 2024

FATHER JIM'S JOTS

Greetings!!

Last weekend I swapped places with Fr. Dan Brady from St. Michael's in Glen Allen to help with selling raffle tickets for the Jazz Festival.  I am pleased to say that we raised $18,946.85.  Wow! Thank you so much to Fr. Dan and the parishioners of St. Michael's for their support and their tremendous generosity!  Also special thanks to Karen and Andy Yesolitis, Eva Wiznerowicz, Erin Cleary, Beverly Bryant, Richard and Roberta Zelenko and Laura Rossmoore for selling the tickets after the Masses at St. Mikes.

Every year our parish applies for the Home Mission Grant from the Diocesan Office of Propagation of the Faith.  We use this to help with renovations and upkeep of our church building.  Last year, we updated the sound system in the Church and this year we received $5,000 to improve the bathrooms in the Parish Hall.

Every week we are getting closer to our Jazz Festival.  Our festival is our largest and sometimes sole fundraiser for the year, so we need all hands on-deck to make it happen!  We need volunteers for the day of the festival.  Please see the second page of this bulletin on where we need assistance and to sign up!  Lastly, please pray for good weather for the Jazz Festival!

Please mark your calendars for Mass for the Feast of the Assumption.  We will have a Vigil Mass on August 14th at 6 p.m., but no noon Mass that day.

Blessings to you and yours,

Fr. Jim, Pastor

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