FATHER JIM'S JOTS - St. Elizabeth Catholic Church - Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time - July 27, 2025

 St. Elizabeth Catholic Church

Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

July 27, 2025

FATHER JIM'S JOTS 

Greetings,

Special thanks to Liz Wiznerowicz and her team of volunteers who have helped for the past two weeks at Tusome Summer School, hosted at All Saints Catholic School.  The first week there were 27 students; the second week there were 31 students and a total of 51 volunteers over the two weeks.  The students were tutored in reading, English and Math.

A few weeks ago, the American Red Cross did a training in CPR and how to use our new AED Defibrillator.  We purchased the Defibrillator and had the Red Cross training with a Grant from the Catholic Diocese of Richmond.  The following individuals (Sr. Mary Mwangi, Domonique Edwards, Yao Thompson, Denise Letendre, Rosemary Overton, Beverley Bryant, Miranda Wiznerowicz, Katrinia Murray Bledsoe, Rita Hatchett and Aimerance Fariala) from our parish took the training in CPR and how to use the Defibrillator which is now mounted on the wall in a special AED Cabinet near the rear of the church by the statue of St. Joseph.

The Parish Raffle is off to a great start.  Thanks for your help.  We are asking each household to purchase 3 books of tickets, a total of $60.  You can get your raffle tickets at church or in the parish office.  The drawing will be on Homecoming Sunday in November.  For more information, please see this bulletin.

Thank you to everyone for your generosity in our Haiti collections last week.  The collection total was $669.00.

Blessings,

Fr. Jim, Pastor 

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