Your support of your local parish and the Diocese during these difficult times have allowed us to continue to provide spiritual resources to the faith community. As we launch the Christ Our Hope campaign we will be updating you on our progress. Appeal Goal: $2,651,157. As of Aug. 20: $1,620,592.

We pray Thy love will bless, O Lord, each hearth, each home, each festive board, and that Thy peace will come to stay where candles glow Thanksgiving Day. Thank the Almighty for all that He gave in life, for the food that you eat, for the people you greet, for the love in the heart, for that wonderful start. ………Amen

A message from Rev. Deb of the East Craftsbury Presbyterian Church
" This year our church will be making cookies for the Craftsbury/Albany Pop-up Pantry, which serves about 130 households. Our goal is to provide 130 dozen cookies - packaged by the 1/2 dozen - for the holiday distribution. ( We usually bake cookies for the Hardwick Area Food Pantry - you might, too. This year the Hardwick Area Food Pantry is partnering with local bakeries to provide cookies for their holiday baskets. It’s wonderful for them to support local businesses.) Would you like to partner together to provide these 130 dozen cookies? Working together makes the number seem more manageable! We’re asking folks to package them by the 1/2 dozen, in a ziplock bag. They can drop them off at my house before December 16 - I’ll store them in the freezer here. Or they can deliver them to the Pop-Up Pantry - at the Church on the Common December 16, Wednesday evening through Thursday, December 17, 11am. The cookies will be distributed December 17. We’re asking folks NOT to deliver them to the Church on the Common prior to Wednesday, December 16. THANK YOU!"

“Perhaps You Were Born for Such a Time as This.” -Esther 4:14   The situation and circumstances we face today, in the culture and the Church, call for us to move from maintenance to mission.

At every Catholic parish in Vermont, we are called to respond in faith – in new ways, with a new vigor. Many of you have received the Christ Our Hope: Building a Vibrant Church campaign packets in the mail that included a case statement for the campaign with an insert that describes how our parish plans to use the 60% of funds raised. Please prayerfully consider a sacrificial gift that will renew our parishes and move our church from maintenance to mission.

Bishop Coyne is hosting coffee hours to answer questions.
REGISTER: https://www.christourhopevt.org/events
August 31 @ 7:00 PM September 1 @ 7:00 PM
September 9 @ 3:00 PM

To learn more about the campaign visit: www.christourhopevt.org
 

The boxes are back! As you will recall we are conducting a NEW sock drive for the needy. The socks collected will be distributed locally to area schools (in the fall) and charities. Please help us in this worthy endeavor by donating new socks. All types and sizes are needed. Boxes will be placed in the entry ways of St. Norbert’s and St. Michael’s.

MQAS is looking for volunteers who would be available, at a time convenient
for them, to help with shopping or errands for the elderly who, as a COVID-19
precautionary measure, do not wish to go outside of their homes. If interested
please call the rectory, 472-5544.

Please pray for our sick parishioners, family, and friends

Roy McNeil • Helen George • Jerry Mason • Nicole Starbird • Ronald Rich • Florence Martin • Judi Menard • Elmer Sayers • Alan DeLaricheliere • Marie Sholan • Robert Gravel • Jane Bachert • Marilyn Murphy • Philip Murphy • Eva Church • Patricia LeCours • Paul Brochu • Daryl Rich • Mary Smith • Carmeline Williams • Marcel LeBlanc • Elaine Brochu•  Joe Clark • Henriette Garven • Kim Winslow • Frank Fabiani • Henry Richard • Marsha Kallahan • Marc DeLaricheliere • Linda Lussier • Jimmy Sholan • Mary Ainsworth • Marcie Brochu • Bob Belajonas • Richard LeCours • Raymond Messier • Jane Menard