CONCELEBRATING AT ST. MEL'S; JOINED TOGETHER IN COMMEMORATION @ CALVARY CEMETERY; SHARING IN THE FAMILY MEAL AT DENNY'S WITH THE FRIEDRICHS............

William Friedrich, the late father of Permanent Deacon candidate and Presentation parishioner Paul Friedrich, died a year ago.  Commemorating his first anniversary the Friedrich Family, all four generations gathered together this morning for the 8:30 a.m. Mass offered in Bill Friedrich's memory, which I concelebrated with Parochial Vicar Father Joshy Mathew, in St. Mel's Church in Fair Oaks.  Following the Mass, I joined with the family members gathered around the niche at Calvary Cemetery where I GAVE A Prayer of Blessing, while Bill's grandson Nick, led a reading from Scripture reading chosen from the Office for the Dead, and  Bill's daughter Diane, recited a poem she prepared for the commemoration.  Then we recessed to Denny's at Greenback Lane and Sunrise Boulevard, for meal.  I am grateful for the Friedrich Family's invitation to join with them in celebrating the first anniversary of the passing of their Patriarch, and to minister to and with them, in being the People of God we are as Catholic-Christian Disciples............Fr.  Troy