Pantry Partners of St. Catherine’s held its second distribution day last Saturday. While we had to move our site to St. Mary’s School, everyone put forth a tremendous effort to make this a successful and joyful experience for all - organizers, volunteers, and participants.
As I write this on Tuesday, November 8, I know that some of you are still suffering without power. It is my hope and prayer that by the time this goes to print (Thursday) every one of us will be reenergized, in more ways than one. It has been a difficult time for all in Connecticut and, in light of last weekend’s Gospel on being prepared, a time for all in Connecticut state leaders, businesses, and individuals to reassess our state of preparations for a natural (or unnatural) disaster. During the ongoing outage and the cold nights I couldn’t stop hearing in my head the words from the song in the musical Evita, what a state for a State to be in. Indeed.
Scott Muryasz, chair of our parish's Finance Council, and his wife and daughter Debbie and Samantha, joined hundreds of other Catholics in Washington, D.C.’s National Cathedral last weekend as His Eminence, Cardinal Donald Wuerl, archbishop of Washington, invested him as a Knight of Malta. He now joins fellow parishioner Robert O'Hara, who was knighted in New York's St. Patrick Cathedral by New York Archbishop Timothy Dolan in 2009. Hartford Archbishop Henry Mansell sent both their names to the Vatican where they were accepted by the Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI, and invested as Knights in a majestic and ancient ceremony.