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HELPING YOUR PARISH
By now everyone should have received tickets for this year's festival raffle. Some people have already returned theirs so they can be entered into the Early Bird Drawing: Wednesday, July 28th. The second Early Bird Drawing will be: Wednesday, August 18th. If you make your returns early enough, you will have two opportunities to win. I want to remind everyone how important the festival is as a source of income for our parish. Because of this extra boost to our parish budget, we are able to take care of a number of projects-especially those related to caring for our aging buildings. In the past several years, we have done a lot with the parking lot, grounds, and parish facilities. Much more needs to be done on a continuing basis. I say this by way of encouraging your support in selling the raffle tickets for the festival and all the other work that needs to be done to put on a successful Septemberfest. Keep up the good work.
WOULD YOU LIKE A PEW? - With the recent renovation of the Church now completed, we have 20 pews to distribute to any registered parishioner who may want one. The pews are solid oak. If you would like a pew, please call the parish office to reserve one for pick up. We would hope that each parishioner who gets a pew will give a donation to St. Louise. The donation amount we will leave up to you. Pews will be distributed on a first come first serve basis.
Have a faith filled week and remember to model kindness and respect. In your kindness, please remember me in your prayers. - Father Tom
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Welcome back to our refurbished Church! I sincerely hope you like the changes made to our Church building. I want to thank you for your good natured cooperation when we moved our worship space to the "old Church", our present social hall. Everyone it seems enjoyed the experience of coming "closer together" as a community of faith. I know I enjoyed it and will cherish the memories. It was great! I hope you find the changes made to the Church a good improvement. I am happy it is now a more "worthy place" for the celebration of the Holy Eucharist. Let us be grateful to God for this gift to all of us.
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Since Roe vs Wade, over 49 million abortions have been performed. That's 49,000,000 potential Americans who never even had a chance to live. In this period, far too many people, including many Catholics, have allowed themselves to become complacent by emotionally packed rhetoric like "a woman's right to choose." As Americans we are hesitant to take away people's "choices," and we should be. The destruction of human life at any stage, pre born to terminally ill persons, is not a choice the Creator of Life gives us. The legalization of killing is wrong. We must stand up for the principle that killing is incompatible with caring.
As Christians it is within our power to share another vision, a goal. Let us not leave anyone out of life. The goal is for a future for our children marked by an increased respect for all human life and an end to discrimination, intolerance and racism. Please pray and work for this increased respect for all human life.
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Pope Benedict XVI named Bishop Allen Vigneron the new Archbishop of Detroit. He succeeds Cardinal Adam Maida.This is a historic appointment because for the first time in its 175 year old history, the Archdiocese of Detroit will now be led by a native son. Archbishop Vigneron was born in Mt. Clemens and was ordained a priest for the Archdiocese of Detroit in 1975. He and I were studying at the Sacred Heart Seminary College at the same time although he was two classes ahead of me. Most recently he had been serving as the Bishop of Oakland, California.
I have known our new Archbishop for many years and I know he is a very gifted and talented priest well suited for his new responsibilities. Archbishop Vigneron is taking on a very challenging ministry in difficult times. He needs the support and prayers of all the priests and people of the Archdiocese of Detroit. May God grant him many blessings and graces so that he may be a good and loving shepherd for all of us..
I ask you also to pray for Cardinal Maida as he enters into retirement after serving as our Archbishop for the last 18 years. On a personal note, the Cardinal was extremely kind to me through these years and it was my privilege to serve in a variety of ways under his leadership. He always was a good and faithful servant of the Lord. May God grant him a happy and healthy retirement.
Fr. Tom