Dear Parish Family,

Happy Feast Day Week, everyone! Our Lady of Perpetual Help’s Feast Day is June 27th. It has become our custom to honor her on the best weekend nearest the actual day. And for me, it is a beautiful sign of life and vibrancy that many families take the time to worship God together and share fellowship at the feast. “Share fellowship and above all worship God,” is how our vision statement concludes, and I dare say that these two activities are some of our favorites!

Thank you for the wonderful outpouring of support for my upcoming bike ride for the Anchor House. With a bulletin blurb and social media, together we have been able to raise over $4,000 dollars. This is quite a testament to your generosity and goodness. Helping unhoused youths and teens is such a needed and worthy cause. Thank you for sharing some of the blessings that God has shared with you! If you would still like to donate, please use the website here, OR send a check made out to “Anchor House Foundation.” I will pass along these checks when we are ready to depart on July 13th.

I have been a bit reflective lately. Praying over my six years as pastor here and what it means for OLPH to be my home, and the place where I can make a difference in the world, by first following our Lord and by inviting you to a life centered on Christ and the Good News. I have been struck by you - by your goodness, and by your resiliency - your persevering faith, hope and love expressed in so many ways. Truly, we are making the invisible God visible through the love we share with others. And I deeply appreciate being on this pilgrim journey with you. We are not a parish of deep pockets or weighty influence, but we are a parish where everyone can strive to follow our Lord and invite others to join us on this narrow road that leads to life. 

So again, thank you, for sharing in this journey with me. And in your goodness to Anchor House, showing me once again that it is our people who make our parish so special as together, we seek to build up the Body of Christ, in our corner of the world.

Blessings & Tailwinds,

Fr. Wilson