Yesterday the parish of St. Joseph celebrated the feast of St. Joseph ^_^ Yes, I keep hearing from everyone that the date is supposed to be the 19th, but since that fell on a Sunday this year the bishops moved the optional celebration to Monday. Well, St. Joseph's parish has had a novena for the past nine days (of course) culminating with a Mass on the 20th with Bishop Emeritus Foley. Although the congregation was a little on the lite side for having the Bishop in town (about 60 people), it was a nice celebration. Granted, there was a combined choir which hadn't practiced all of the songs, which kinda got hairy once or twice. I had two different rythms in my ears once and neither of them were correct, so I just concentrated, belted it out and tried to plough through with anyone else that might have been on the right track. The bishop had quite a few nice things to say about the church's adoptive father. At the end of Mass, before he closed us out he said that he was sure if Joseph was here he would make sure to remember Mary since he was such a humble man and for us all to say a Hail Mary together. Bishop Foley also has a great and strong singing voice during the Eucharistic prayer. He gave us an update on the search for his successor. Basically, they are working on it. We heard how the Nuncio had retired so they had to wait for a new one to be appointed, and how Italian paperwork usually moves pretty slowly in the first place. Hopefully he'll get some reprieve soon, it looked like he was thinking sometime this summer or fall possibly. Just keep the selection in your prayers that Birmingham will receive a strong leader and one who cares about the youth and the future of the church.
Paix du Christ!
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