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Fifth Sunday of Lent
29 March 2009
Dear Friends in Christ,
Four things for your attention:
1. God be praised for the Thirteenth Bishop of Charleston, @ Robert Eric Guglielmone, who was ordained and installed on the Solemnity of the Annunciation, 25 March 2009. The Mass, which lasted more than three hours, was celebrated in our Cathedral Church of St. John the Baptist, and it was a day of great joy for the Church in South Carolina. Bishop Guglielmone, a successor of the Apostles and our new Father in God, is now the chief pastor and high priest of the 115 parishes and missions scattered all over his new diocese. Let us pray for him each day for the grace to lead us all ever more deeply into communion with Christ and His Church. 2. Adult Sunday School will not meet on Palm Sunday or Easter Sunday, but then we will resume on 19 April, the Second Sunday of Easter. Beginning that day, our parishioner Steve Wood will teach a six-week course on “The Message and Mission of St. Paul: A Study in Romans and Galatians.” Steve, who was a Presbyterian minister before coming into full communion with the Church, runs a splendid apostolate called the Family Life Center International which you can learn about by visiting www.familylifecenter.net, and this course on Romans and Galatians is offered in observance of the Year of St. Paul. Please join us Sunday mornings at 9.30 beginning 19 April for a careful study of St. Paul’s letters to the Christians in Rome and Galatia. 3. The presentation on “The Witness of the English Martyrs – Lessons for Our Times” is this Thursday, 2 April, at 6.30 pm in McGrady Hall in the church undercroft. The lecture will be given by Father Benedict Kiely, an Englishman who was ordained at the Catholic Church of St. Thomas of Canterbury and who is now pastor of Blessed Sacrament Church in Stowe, Vermont and the Director of Continuing Education for Priests in the Diocese of Burlington. 4. On Palm Sunday we will observe a normal Sunday schedule of Masses, but during the rest of Holy Week the schedule is unique each day. A full schedule will be posted to each household in the parish along with my Easter letter, and you can always find the schedule on the parish website. Please remember that you can park along the curb on both sides of Hampton Avenue and Washington Street and in the business parking lots across from our campus on both of those streets.Father Newman