I am grateful for many things: for the scientists and researchers who in record time developed such powerful and successful vaccines against the Corona virus. Having read about plagues and pandemics in the past, we are truly blessed to be living now and not several centuries before.
THANK YOU!

I am extremely grateful for all those who have contributed endless hours in our development project; from choosing a broker, to investigating developers, to working on the financing, to hundreds and hundreds of hours put into design, to so many person-hours of packing and moving the school and unpacking and setting up, of cleaning out the accumulated detritus of over a century from our church buildings, to staging a very successful yard sale, to moving the priests to a new rectory, and so many other tasks, almost all of it done with professionalism, good humor and grace.
It was nothing less than miraculous. THANK YOU!

It also showed how dedicated and talented this community is, and how generous our parishioners are, not only with finances, but with time and talent and a lot of sweat equity. And for all of it I am grateful. THANK YOU!

And I am grateful for all of you, for the support and encouragement you continually give the priests and staff here; for the way you join in the prayers, and sing, and make our worship alive and vibrant; for the listening you offer to our homilies and talks, and the thoughtful comments on our
preaching that you give back to the deacons and priests. That is indeed a very great gift. THANK YOU!

So as we celebrate this Thanksgiving at the (hopefully) tail-end of the pandemic, with our beloved school off-campus and three miles away, without our spaces for ministry and activities, with parking options now limited, with demolition beginning all around us, we can nonetheless be both grateful and hopeful, and that is a very good place to be.

Happy Thanksgiving!