FATHER JIM'S JOTS - St. Elizabeth Catholic Church - Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time - August 10. 2025

St. Elizabeth Catholic Church

Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

August 10, 2025

 

FATHER JIM'S JOTS

Greetings,

Soon we will be starting OCIA which means "Order of Christian Initiation for Adults."  This program is for adults who either received Baptism, but not the Sacraments of First Holy Communion and Confirmation or who have not received any sacraments including Baptism.  I am pleased that Chris and Beng Metzger will be the lead Catechism instructors for this program.  I will also be teaching several of the OCIA classes on a variety of subjects mostly about the Church and its Sacraments.  Our OCIA group will meet after the 10 am Mass for about 45 min.  The schedule will be shared in the bulletin in a few weeks.  If you are interested in becoming Catholic or receiving the rest of your Sacraments, please join us to learn more about the Church and Catholic Faith this Fall and Spring.  For more information or to get signed up, please contact the Parish Office or Chris Metzger at cmetzger@stelizcc.org.

Jubilee Pilgrimage Information:  To learn more about this event and to register to attend, please see the other page of this bulletin.  We have now invited other parish communities to open up this event to their parishioners.  If you are interested in attending, please sign up as soon as possible.

If you are interested in picking up tickets for our annual raffle, please see me after Mass or reach out to Eva in the Parish Office (evabalkarli@stelizcc.org).  On August 24th, I will be away to help sell our raffle tickets at St. Michael's Catholic Church in Glen Allen.  I will be celebrating all five of their Masses.  In an earlier bulletin, I announced that Bishop Knestout would be visiting for Commonwealth Catholic Charities' groundbreaking on that same Sunday, but that has been rescheduled for September.  More info will be shared in next week's bulletin.

Blessings,

Fr. Jim, Pastor

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