As a community of believers, we are a people who live on our tradition and remember and behold the lives of those who have gone before us in faith. The month of November really calls us to behold and remember in a solemn way.
It’s that time of year when we start thinking about what we will send to St. Vincent Mission in David, Kentucky. For over twenty years, our parish has generously provided gifts for their annual Christmas Store which provides presents to needy families who would otherwise have little or nothing for Christmas.
Every institution has its own vocabulary and the Church is no different in this regard. One word that has really been at the fore in recent times is “mission.”
The time in which we find ourselves is unprecedented. We not only find ourselves in the midst of change with our sense of church, but this is all happening in a time of pandemic that has yielded great and inconvenient changes with restrictions, closures, social distancing and masks.