Text Box: PASTORAL COUNCIL The Pastoral Council will meet on Monday, October 6th at 8:00 P.M. The minutes of the last meeting have been emailed and the Agenda will soon follow MINISTRY SUNDAY The weekend of October 18th and 19th is Ministry Sunday here at Assumption. We cordially invite everyone to consider the wonderful ways you might use your gifts and skills to serve our parish community. Among our needs are: assisting in our Religious Education programs; proclaiming God’s Word during Mass; bringing the Eucharist to the sick and homebound, assisting at Sunday Eucharist as an Altar Server or Usher; helping with the Homeless Shelter we sponsor and volunteering to be on a parish Committee. These are some of the ways that you might serve God and the parish community. Come! See! Sign Up! Text Box: PASTORAL COUNCIL INSTALLATION The new members of the Pastoral Council - Marianne Bellucci, Kristin Erickson, Alex Gallardo, Mary Macchiarola and Patrick McEntee - will be installed this Sunday, October 5 at the 10:00 A.M. Mass. We ask you to join us in prayer as we welcome these new members of our Council. SAVE THE DATE We are happy to announce that our parish will again sponsor our Annual Pot Luck Supper. This wonderful community event will take place on Sunday, November 2 at 5:30 P.M. in the Church Hall. Our gracious chairperson, this year, is Reena Raggi Denton. More information will soon follow. CHRISTMAS GALA It is not too early to mark your calendars for the 4th Annual Assumption Christmas Gala - “Let There Be Peace on Earth” - which will take place on Saturday, December 6th in the Church Hall. More details will follow Text Box: Twenty - Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time Text Box: BVM Text Box: Assumption Text Box: From the Pastor’s Desk Dear Friends: This past weekend I informed all our parishioners about the major Capital Campaign we must undertake to repair the roofs, the gutters, the steps leading to the Church Hall and the major work needed in our rectory kitchen. As you know, in 2009 our church and rectory buildings will be one hundred years old. As I mentioned, in June, I appointed a Centenary Committee to lead us in this major endeavor. The members of this Committee are: Bob Buckhloz, Jeremy Healy, Mary Kirby, Christopher Owen, Nicholas Rafanello and Gerald Russello. They have met with me many times during the summer in preparing for this endeavor. I ask you to please be generous with your time if they ask to speak with you. Above all, I thank them for their wisdom and time. I wish to also thank you for your continued generosity and support as we venture into this major work. Together let us continue to pray to Mary, our Patroness and Mother, to intercede with her Son so that all that we do here at Assumption may be for the glory of God and for the future of this wonderful parish. Yours in Christ, Rev. Michael A. Carrano