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Last week, Rosemary Adamski gave a wonderful appeal for the Annual Catholic Appeal. She quoted Mother Teresa, “I am a little pencil in the hand of a loving God, who is sending a love letter to the world.” She asked, "What kind of pencil am I and what is the love letter I am in this world? What kind of message is my life projecting and imprinting?"

To be sure, many in our congregation are not happy with how the Archdiocese has chosen to handle the priest shortage, to say nothing of the parishioner shortage. Nonetheless, here are six reasons to support the appeal:

Last Saturday I attended the Catholic Earth Day Summit at Seattle U. It started with Fr. James Martin’s Ten Messages from Laudato Si’:    A spiritual perspective of ecology is given. . . .

The point is, you don’t have to be one of the Eleven or take Holy Orders to be important to Jesus. You might even think you can run away from him. He loves you anyway and will come for you.