A St. Austin Time Capsule - Nov 6, 2022

This Sunday morning, November 6, we gain an hour as we fall back off of Daylight Savings Time. You get an extra hour of sleep this week. Now is also time to get your flu shot if you have not already done so. This is especially important for us Senior Citizens. But no one likes suffering from the flu.

Next Sunday, November 13, following all Masses we will have the slab signing event on our project of our new home. After so many months (years really) of planning, endless meetings, listening, getting all the various parties from the developer, the contractor, the architect, the Diocese, the Paulists, and all parts of the school and parish to agree, we can now see our new ministry and school building taking shape. It is WONDERFUL!

So it is proper and appropriate that we mark it to make it our own. This is not just another commercial development, like so many we see around our area and downtown Austin. This is our new home for ministry, socializing, education, faith formation, and living as an active and dynamic parish and school community. Therefore it is wholly appropriate and entirely proper that we personalize this construction and make it distinctively our own. So I hope that all of you who have been involved in this once-in-a-generation project, either by serving on one of the many committees that prepared and planned for this building, or helped with the moves we had to make out of our previous buildings, or contributed to our successful “Beacon of Hope For Generations” fundraising campaign, or supported us by your prayers, will join us on Sunday, November 13 after all the Masses that day.

There are several options for participation. Some will be able to enter the actual construction site and mark on portions of the floors. You can add a prayer, a good wish, a statement of gratitude, a hope for the future. Others will be able to write a message, and if they wish their name, on cards that will be added to the time capsule that will be buried under the learning steps in the new school. For those unable to attend you can write your statement and name on a 3X5 index card and mail it to the parish, and we will include it in the time capsule.

And there will be refreshments and continued celebration in the ministry center (i.e. garage) after all Masses, I am praying for good weather on Sunday, November 13. But in any case I am certain that we will have a great time, for we have something truly wonderful to celebrate. More than a physical construction, we celebrate the building of our St. Austin parish/school community!

God bless!