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Photos from the St. Maurice 40th Anniversary events and photos from each of our 4 Pentecost Masses are ready for your viewing! Click the Photo Albums tab under the About Us heading. Then click on the St. Maurice 40th Anniversary June 11 – 13, 2010 Album or the Pentecost May 23, 2010 Album. Don’t forget that you can enlarge the photos by clicking on a picture and enjoy!
St. Maurice’s Anniversary!
This year the family at St. Maurice celebrates its 40th anniversary! At the formal celebration events, the dinner dance, the Masses and the picnic, there was sharing of memories and stories of the laughs and tears and the wonderful things that God has done for us and through us.
Over 300 people shared in the St. Maurice 40th Anniversary Dinner Dance on
Friday, June 11, 2010.
The Church was full and the Indwelling of the Spirit was palpable in the liturgy. On June 13, the preaching and the music stirred the fire in us to empower us for the next forty years.
Father David Russell and Father Sean Mulcahey and Father Roger Holoubek, former and current pastors of St. Maurice and Father Dennis Rausch concelebrated the Liturgy. They were assisted by Deacons Norm Carroll and Frank O’Gorman.
Following the Anniversary Mass the parish picnic gave us an opportunity to play together.
Happy Anniversary, Family!
Pentecost
Pentecost is the feast that celebrates the coming of the Spirit on the followers of Jesus’ Way in Jerusalem. This community was in hiding. It was living in an environment of fear. Yet it gathered and prayed together. It found hope in the shared experiences of seeing the Risen Christ. These men and women trusted in the promise that they would not be left orphans. They awaited anxiously to see what would happen next.
Chapter Two of the Book of Acts tells us what did happen:
When Pentecost day came round, they had all met in one room, when suddenly they heard what sounded like a powerful wind from heaven, the noise of which filled the entire house in which they were sitting; and something appeared to them that seemed like tongues of fire; these separated and came to rest on the head of each of them. They were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak foreign languages as the Spirit gave them the gift of speech.
Now there were devout men living in Jerusalem from every nation under heaven, and at this sound they all assembled, each one bewildered to hear these men speaking his own language. They were amazed and astonished. (Acts 2:1 - 7 New Jerusalem Bible)
What a marvelous scene follows. The devout men hear the same men speaking and yet hear the message in their own language. They search for an explanation and even suggest that the speakers are drunk!
Peter, strengthened and emboldened by his experience of the Holy Spirit, reminds them all of the Jesus who walked among them and did the miracles and portents and signs that God used to commend Jesus to them. Peter concludes in his response to the questioners that Jesus “… has received from the Father the Holy Spirit, who was promised, and what you see and hear is the outpouring of that Spirit”(Acts 2:33-34).
At St. Maurice this is the time that we celebrate the working of the Spirit in us through our liturgy. We are commissioned to serve. We celebrate the Spirit’s movement as wind and fire in us and in the world around us today through our ministries. We celebrate the flames of love that lead us to respond to those whom we serve as they and we are. In our more than 50 ministries we meet Jesus walking among us because what we ”see and hear is the outpouring of that Spirit” (Acts 2:33-34).
The word for wind in Acts has the meaning of wind and breath. God sends the Spirit, his wind to awaken us and shake us and open us. He calls us to service of the other. And in the service of that other we feel His Spirit, his breath, on our face. He creates us anew!
Confirmation at St. Maurice
We celebrated the Outpouring of the Holy Spirit here at St. Maurice. Some of the members of our family were confirmed by Archbishop Favalora on May 29, 2010 at 4:30 PM.
Congratulations to the newly confirmed! May the Spirit touch their lives and ours with the Fire of Love that comes with His indewlling in each of us. Let that fire be the binding force in our Parish as we move into the next ten years.
Do You Know?
Do you know that Pentecost is the birthday of the Church?
We love to celebrate births. Being in the presence of new life is an exhilarating experience. All is possible .
On Pentecost we hear about the birth of Christ’s Body, the Church. Our ancestors in faith the early disciples of Jesus are fearful and not sure of what to do. They gather to pray and into their midst blows the Spirit. They are changed!
They are filled with the Spirit. In Him they receive a new life, a shared life as Jesus’ Body. He touches each ones head in the form of flame. They are exhilarated and begin to share their new life with others.
New life. All is possible.
So it is this Pentecost. We join around the table and share our new lives in ministry to others. The Spirit changes us still.
Happy Birthday, Family!
Do you know that the church celebrates Easter from the Easter Vigil until Pentecost?
We celebrate the resurrection for such a long period because we simply cannot contain our joy in a celebration of one day! In fact, that joy is so strong that it is said that every Sunday is a special continuation of our ongoing celebration of Easter joy.
Do you know that the St. Maurice Hunger Program supports 7 sites in Haiti?
Volunteers have collected a lot of items needed by victims of the earthquakes in Haiti. We want to thank both the volunteers at the container and those who donated the items requested. We were able to fill over 3/4 of the 40′ container. God bless you and the poor thank you.
There is current information about the projects in Haiti. Click on the Haiti feature on the front page.
Important Notice Changes in Location:
Just Faith, Parish Council and Finance Committee meetings will take place at the Resurrection Church Site.
A Good Read!
Meredith Shuster shares a special kind of holiday home coming in In Our Own Words. It adds a special meaning to Welcome Home. It’s a beautiful story. Another great read is Deacon Norm Carroll’s book, Miracles, Messages & Metaphors: Unlocking the Wisdom of the Bible.
Great Photo Albums – Some of Our Best Memories!
Check out our photo albums. New albums are posted frequently.
Pictures of St. Maurice’s 40th Anniversary and of the celebration of Pentecost have been posted.
Albums of the pictures of the Latin Mothers Day Dance, the Hispanic Prayer Group and of the Bold Justice Nehemiah Action on April 22 are available. Photos of the Forever Young Seniors Fashion Show Luncheon highlight the work of this ministry. Read about the walk Down Memory Lane.
Pictures of our young people who experienced First Reconciliation, the men’s club’s Valentine Dance and the Youth Group’s February Omelet Breakfast have been posted in albums. The First Reconciliation album is especially touching!
The Music of the Stable
Click on the choir’s picture. See the choir and learn who the members are. Listen to their music!
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