May 17, 2015
Seventh Sunday of Easter
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Views From The Pews
Views From The Pews continued
We have some holdovers from last week.
In addition, the Silent Auction during the Fair,
which was primarily supported by parents and
grandparents, raised $19,000. So, here is the school’s…
Literally dozens of you have nice things to
say about our First Communion
celebrations. Here is one of them. Billie says, “I was
blown away. It was just so nice I wanted to cry. It was like
one of the best days of my life.”
“I am delighted your child’s First Communion
was an emotional rush for you. It should be for
everyone.”
We have one complaint about the First Communions.
Anonymous says, “I did not like SoulSpirit at First
Communion. It took away from the sacrament.”
“Thank you for your comment. You have a right
to your opinion, but I totally disagree with it. I believe
SoulSpirit enhanced the sacrament. You should have
been where I was, looking into the faces of the little girls
and boys. They loved it and so did I.”
Several of you ask whether I have a profit figure yet for
Cajun Fest. Alexis adds, “I hope it is a record!!
“I will have the profit figure next week. In the
meantime, I can tell you our sale of sponsorships (the
signs you see on our fence and buildings) set a record.
Thanks to the very hard work of Gary and Kit Payne, we
sold $70,887 of sponsorship.”
Our school principal, Carolyn Levet, gently called me to
task for overlooking in my newsletter thank you article
several extraordinarily important groups who made Cajun
Fest 2015 such a success. Carolyn writes, “I think any
group responsible for contributing $69,168 deserves thanks
and recognition.”
“My bad. Please accept my apologies. Our
school children, their parents, our teachers and school
staff spent six weeks feverishly practicing songs for
performances, collecting money, making auction baskets
and, then working in booths and attending a bunch of
events during the festival.
Here is what they accomplished before the Fair
even opened.
-Weekly Festival Days
$1,227
-Kids Fest Cards
2,865
-T-shirts
8,838
-Raffle Tickets
37,328
SUBTOTAL
$50,168
Continued in next column
GRAND TOTAL
$69,168
Our school did A Herculean job. I am very proud
of its hard work.”
I also have a number of nice compliments for Joan Rooney,
who was our “Lay Witness” during Week Two of
Stewardship Renewal. I believe Audrey captures well
what, in one way or another, everyone said. “Tell Joan
Rooney she was terrific. I was deeply moved by her story.
Because of what she said, I am going to try to be a better
person.”
“Audrey, I was moved also. Joan was terrific.”
Fr. Mike
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