My dear parishioners, visitors and friends of St. Ann’s;
This weekend you receive the 2014 official financial statement. As you are reading it, I would like to thank all of you for your faith-commitment and for your generous spiritual and financial contribution to our parish-family. Your generosity is truly a blessing not only for our parish but also for yourselves.
“Whenever I think of you I give thanks to my God, and whenever I pray I give thanks with joy for all of you… I am confident of this, that the One who began a good work in you will continue to complete it until the day of Christ Jesus. It is right that I should think this way about all of you. Because I hold you in my heart”. Philippians 1: 3-4, 6-7).
Through your generosity we are able to:
- pay the debt, the expenses for the parish, the church and the hall,
- support our parish school,
- provide salaries for four staffs-members.
As you can see we have “a small deficit”!
We still have a debt of $ 189,181.76. However I do hope and pray, with your generosity, we will be “debt-free” in the next few years.
The story of our parish is a beautiful story of love for God and for one another. May God bless you abundantly.
Please phone the office if we have any questions regarding our 2014 financial statement.
“In the morning, while it still very dark, Jesus got up and went out to a deserted place, and there he prayed”(Mk 1: 35).
The gospel reading for this 5th Sunday of the Ordinary times tells us that Jesus was busy teaching, healing and caring for the sick. However in the midst of his busy life, he got up early in the morning, went to a deserted place and prayed.
Jesus, by his own example, teaches us how important it is, in the midst of our busy lives, to take times and make times for prayer.
The Mass is the most perfect sacrifice and the most perfect public prayer to offer God to worship Him and to pray for our salvation. So I would like to invite and to encourage all of you faithfully coming to our Sunday masses and fostering a good personal prayer-life for yourself and for your family.
“Prayer is the raising of one’s mind and heart to God or the requesting of good things from God”. (St. John Damascene, CCC # 2590).
“Make sickness itself a prayer” (St. Francis de Sales).
Have a blessed & happy Family Day weekend. Fr. Peter Hoan Nguyen