Marking Our Space - Making It Our Own - Sept 18, 2022

Our St. Austin parish and school community is off to a new and busy year of activities. Please check our parish website often for updates on events at the parish.

Among the bigger activities at this time is the construction of our new ministry and school building. We anticipate moving into our new facilities next July. That will be the culmination of much hard work and generosity. Please continue to pray for the success of our development project, Beacon of Hope for Generations.

To help memorialize this wonderful development, we hope that on Sunday, October 2, following the 8:45 a.m. and the 11:30 a.m. Masses, we will be able to go out to the construction site for our new ministry home, and parishioners and school families will have the opportunity to write with chalk or crayons on the concrete pillars and floors expressions of congratulations, wishes of success, prayers for safety and prosperity, and other thoughts of good will. All of those sentiments will, of course, be covered up by the construction, but will remain there for future archeologists to find. I hope you will be able to join us and participate.

Please pray for good weather and a nice day. Light refreshments will be served, perhaps in church or maybe in the parish ministry space on the first floor of our garage.

On another note, as you read this I will be participating in a Paulist Pilgrimage to Prague, Budapest, and Oberammergau. I am very much looking forward to it. Know that I will be praying for the continued success of our big development project, and in thanksgiving for all of you who have participated in this by offering your time and talent, your financial contributions, and of course your prayers. And of course I will be back in time for the signing of our construction on October 2.

God Bless,