1.Parish Feast Celebrations: The Annual feast of St.Alphonsa and St.Thomas was celebrated with piety and great solemnity on Sunday August 30,2015 in St.Helena Church.The faithful of our parish participated in Holy Mass and thirunal procession and prayed for the mediation of these saints.Photos of the thirunal,procession and cultural programs can be found in our website www.syromalabarct.org.  The presudentis for the Thirunnal were Mr.Richard Abraham Mathirampuzha and Mr.Daniel Anthony Petta. A special thanks to the Presudentis and their families,trustees,parish council members,Family Unit presidents,Cultural Forum co-ordinators,CCD teachers,Men’s forum,Women’s forum and DYA and all those volunteered their time and talents for making this occasion a memorable one.

2.DYA Raffle:We are very grateful to the organizers and participants of the DYA raffle 2015 for making the raffle a great succes.Special thanks to Mr.George Plathottathil and Mr.Joe Kavumpuram for Sponsoring the first and second prizes respectively.We need at least one or more fundraising events every year to realize our dream which is to have a Church that we can call our own.

3.Collection for Canada Mission:The Episcopal Ordination of the new Syro Malabar Exarch will be on September 19,2015 in Mississauga,Canada.Since it is newly formed and has no financial basis or any basic structure it is our responsibility to help our neighboring church. So please be generous as we take a collection this Sunday for the Canada mission.Please write Canada Mission in the memo of your cheque.

4.CCD: This Sunday after Mass CCD teachers will be available to answer any questions and hand out registration forms.If you haven’t already,please do so as soon as possible.This year we are planning to add two more classes for CCD.Classes begin on next Sunday September 13,2015.

5.Parish Council Meeting : We will have our parish council meeting next Sunday September 13.All parish council members please plan to attend.

Wishing you God’s Blessings,

Fr. Joseph Pullikattil
www.syromalabarct.org
Email: info@syromalabarct.org
Phone: 860-325-2383