Pastor's Corner

May 22

My Dear Friends,

This Monday we welcome Padre Alex González, the associate pastor of our sister parish, San Francisco de Asís Parish in Reitoca, FM, Honduras. I am anxious for you to meet him and for him to learn something about us first-hand. I’ll be bringing him to all of the weekend Masses. Padre Alex, 33 years old, was ordained a priest of the Archdiocese of Tegucigalpa in January of this year. Before his ordination, he worked with the former pastor, Padre Ivis, for about a year.

This Tuesday we will celebrate the Sacrament of Confirmation at the new sanctuary of St. Brendan the Navigator in Shallotte. Congratulations to all our St. Mary Confirmandi! I hope you become more involved in parish life. Because St. Mary Parish has over 70 ministries, you should easily find a niche in which you can serve Christ by serving others.

St. Mary School very much enjoyed having students visiting from the Foreign Languages Magnet School in Chernigov, Ukraine. Hopefully some of our St. Mary students will be able to visit that school next academic year. Foreign travel is a very important thing for Americans as we tend to think we’re the center of the universe. It’s always good to learn that there are other ways of thinking and living, and that other people also have good ideas. Foreign travel makes us also appreciate just how much we have in this country, and this leads, hopefully, to thankfulness and generosity towards those in need.

I hope you have gotten to read the piece on St. Mary Parish in this month’s NC Catholics.

Sincerely yours in Christ,
- Father Bob