SATURDAY BRINGS BAPTISMAL PREPARATION INSTRUCTIONS, CONFESSIONS, AND SUNDAY VIGIL MASS...........

With summer streaming forward, schools, colleges, and universities, are preparing to start their new academic year.  Both Father Jerry Ryle, and Father Steven Avella, have returned to their respective Catholic university campuses, Sacred Heart University, in Fairfield, Conneticut, and Marquette University, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.  I wish them both well in the coming year of educating and forming our young people for their roles and responsibilities in the 21st Century, and in helping them in developing their faithful witness to God and sharing in the community of believers.  I am profoundly grateful for Steve and Jerry's friendship, fraternity, and fellowship, during the summer months, and in Steve's case this go round, during his sabbatical year, home in Sacramento.  Parishioner Connie Matthews, is this morning's infusion therapy volunteer, and will connect me prior to the beginning of our August Baptismal Instructions class for parents and godparents of newborns to 6 year old children, at 10:30 am.   As in most Catholic parishes, OLOL will have our weekly celebration of the Sacrament of Reconciliation, at 4 pm, followed by our Sunday Vigil Mass, at 5 pm.  Two more parish funerals are also under preparation, one scheduled for next Saturday morning, and the other still pending.  As I have been known for saying for several decades, "Such is life without a wife" !!!!!!!!!!!  Wishing you, wherever you are around the globe on this Saturday August 13, the best of days...........Fr.  Troy