Save the Date for Sunday, October 26th when we will celebrate “Welcome Sunday”.
Invite One Person to Come Back to Mass, with Hospitality to Follow in Sebahar Hall
Last year, Father Keith kicked off this annual celebration by asking parishioners to invite someone back to Mass on Welcome Sunday in October. In his bulletin article, he wrote the following:
“I concluded my homily last weekend by repeating Cardinal Tagle’s challenge to the National Eucharistic Congress: choose one person over this next year to invite back to Mass. We have an average of 748 attendees over the weekend out of a total of 4,777 registered parishioners. If everyone of the 748 regular congregants invited just one person to attend Mass with them, then we could have 1,496. Our participation could grow from 15% to 31.3%! Therefore, please mark your calendars for “Welcome Sunday” to invite your one person back to Mass and enjoy hospitality after the 9am and 11am Masses.”
This year on Welcome Sunday we are excited to host Bishop Hicks who will preside at the 11am Mass to conclude our 25th/60th Anniversary celebrations.
Below you will find a helpful resource entitled, “Walk with One”, from the National Eucharistic Revival. It outlines practical steps as to how to begin to discern an invitation to someone to take a step closer to Jesus and their faith.
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