The Installation of Woody

Fr. Woody (or just Woody, as you prefer), I personally want to say how delighted I am that you are being installed here at St. Therese. It is wonderful that St. Therese has been assigned a priest who is a pastor for St. T and Immaculate without a job at the Chancery or obligations from his foreign bishop to work on a degree or to fund raise. It is even more wonderful that that priest is you, a believer in the importance of keeping the Vatican II focus on the People of God. A pastor with experience running a school, and a musician to boot! What’s not to like???

To celebrate Woody’s installation during our Stewardship season, let us take some time to look at our personal budgets as a spiritual exercise. I would invite you to look at where you spend your money and where your priorities are and make a financial commitment to St. Therese that reflects your priorities. As you can see from the collections data below, your parish needs your financial support! You can make a pledge here. If you give through Pushpay, please go to the Pushpay app on your phone, choose “recurring” at the bottom of the screen, and edit your recurring gift.

Finally, I would like to make a pitch for daily Mass. Daily Mass will be 5:00 Thursdays beginning November 4. It is a very intimate Mass, usually attended by 2 – 4 parishioners. The homily is a faith-sharing discussion based on Woody’s comments on the readings. Y’all come! There’s plenty good room!

Ministry Opportunities
Do you have expertise with online marketing? The Stewardship Commission is looking to put together a digital outreach team and could need your help! If you can serve, please contact John Russell at jvrussell85@gmail.com.

We also need photographers for parish outreach! If you are good with asking people if you can take their picture, your phone will take care of the rest. Contact Diane at paa@st-therese.cc.

To help run our livestream equipment, contact Nicole at nicoles@st-therese.cc. The livestream is not a nice to-do. It’s a must-do and Nicole needs your help!

Parish Collections
July 1, 2021 – October 28, 2021.…....$109,192
The budget….…                                  .$117,096
Last year at this time….…                  .$109,917