August 31, 2020

Dear brothers and sisters,

Thank you for your participation at the Mass with our Bishop Kevin Vann this pass Sunday.

I must say I was a bit nervous since it is my first time as a priest in charge of a parish to receive the bishop. I truly felt your support seeing you physically present (quite a lot of you) and spiritually livestreaming from your homes.

There was a lot of joy seeing the body of Christ united with the head celebrating the Sacrament of the Eucharist.

Again, thank you for making the visit of the Bishop a especial moment for me. May God bless you and every member of your family.

With great brotherly love,
Fr. Sergio

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August 21, 2020
 
My dear brothers and sisters in Christ,

It has been a month and a half since I arrived at St. Justin Martyr. I have truly felt very welcomed by all of you, knowing that due to this new normal, we have not had the opportunity to see each other personally, or to celebrate together the wonders that God has been doing in our lives.

As many of you know, two weeks ago my family suffered the loss of my brother and this gave us a chance to strengthen our family bonds and appreciate the gift of life. I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for the expression of affection towards me and my family during these past days. May God reward you with physical and spiritual blessings to you and your family. Thank you for showing me much love as a member of the St. Justin Martyr family.

I would also like to give infinite thanks on behalf of Fr. Joe, myself, our parochial vicars: Fr. Nicolas, Fr. Alejandro and our priests in residence Msgr. Kerry and Fr. John for your commitment to the Bishop’s Pastoral Service Appeal. You have generously responded in the midst of this pandemic that has affected the entire world. Nevertheless, your generosity has surpassed the difficulties and we are so very close to completing our annual goal. Our goal is $95,000; we have received $94,677 toward the goal which is 99.7% completed and we have $145,571 in total pledges. May God bless you and that we may be able to complete what has been promised knowing that whatever surpasses the $95,000 will be reimbursed to the parish for our own needs.

Again, a thousand thanks to you. May God bless you always and let us continue to construct and sthrenthen our great St. Justin Martyr family.

Fr. Sergio