PRAZY, LAZY, GRAZY, DAY OF REST ON THIS LAST DAY OF AUGUST...........

I AM IN NEED OF A DRIVER THIS FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 2, AT 9:15 A.M., TO GO TO MY LAB DRAWS AND THEN FOLLOW-UP APPOINTMENT WITH DR. MCMONAGLE, AT THE TOWN AND COUNTRY MEDICAL COMPLEX ON NORTH SUNRISE AVENUE, JUST BEYOND DOUGLAS BOULEVARD IN ROSEVILLE.  MY ESTIMATED RETURN TIME TO OLOL PARISH RECTORY BEING 11:30 A.M.  IF YOU ARE AVAILABLE TO PROVIDE ME WITH TRANSPORTATION TO AND FROM THESE MEDICAL APPOINTMENTS,  PLEASE CONTACT ME BY  BLOG, E-MAIL, OR PHONE, BY 9 P.M. THURSDAY NIGHT...........fr.tdp   troydavidpowers.blogspot.com  troypow@yahoo.com   925-5313.


Concluding the first two thirds of Calendar Year 2011,  on this Wednesday August 31, and gearing up for the start of Parish Year 2011-2012, which opens in just twelve days from now, after celebrating the 8 a.m. Mass, I made this, my official weekly day off, a day of total rest.  For me, the words, "day off", have been a relative term as each week of the year thus far, has been interwined with my amputation, hospitalization, rehabilitation, convalescent, and post transplant assessment.  Having completed my 2nd annual kidney transplant last week at the Mayo Clinic Arizona, in the record setting temperatures of the Phoenix desert over four days; I returned to four full days or resurging parish activity, so that today was truly catch up day with my body, in what I describe as a, "prazy, lazy, grazy", way :  Praying, Sleeping / Resting, and Eating, !!!...........Tomorrow brings the deadline for submission of the Annual Financial Report of the Parish, to the Diocese, which is complete except for the financial details from the one parish ministry, that has yet to provide me as Pastor, nor the Parish Finance Council, canonical entity, appointed and empowered with pastoral and temporal oversight over the Parish Budget, and all monies raised, disbursed, or held, by Church ministries in OLOL Parish.  The deadline will be met, and the unnecessary, tug of war over proper and rightful authority and oversight for Parish Life, will be resolved, as I carry out the pastoral, administrative, and prophetic, responsibilities of serving and leading the common good of OLOL Community of Believers, despite the islands of individuality and cliques that crop up, unless the required policies and practices of parish life are met by all our members...........With Prayer And Praise To God, For Keeping Me And The People Of God Entrusted To My Patoral Servant Leadership And Care,   Fr.  Troy