AMDG
Dear OSJ Family,
Last Sunday a number of parish youth along with some from the parish PREP program celebrated their First Holy Communion at our 9:30am Mass. It was a beautiful celebration of their faith!
We are very proud of them and their commitment to the Lord! We are also thankful to their parents and guardians for encouraging them to grow in their relationship with Jesus Christ and with God’s people—the Church.
As St. Paul teaches, Is not the cup of blessing which we bless a sharing in the blood of Christ? Is not the bread which we break a sharing in the body of Christ? (1Cor10:16)
Our young people have embraced this teaching and learned well that their communion with the Lord is also a communion with all of us united in our holy faith. What a blessing and a grace!
I want to thank Christine Szczepanowski and Anna D’Angelo and all who helped prepare these young people for their First Communion. Let us please lift up in prayer these young people and their families listed below as they grow in greater communion!
Chase Ahmed – Robert Becker – Oscar Briskin – Samantha Champagne – Connor Cusack
-Xavier Donahue – Kathleen Flanagan – Alejandro Guzman – James Markham
– Vivian Matkowski – Klara Munoz Mazurkiewicz – Fatimah Pandolfo – Julien O’Hanlon
– Grace Porter w Nina Ramunno – Caroline Robb w Caroline Shaw – Ava Stanley
– Gianna Tancredi – Maxwell Van Orden – Liam Walsh-
Congratulations and God bless you!
Fr. Phil Florio, S.J.
