August 13 - 14, 2011
Dear Cathedral Community,
Today, Sunday, August 14, the Cathedral will host a special Evening Prayer and Investiture for the newly designated Monsignori of the Archdiocese. All are welcome to come at 5:00 PM today for this joyful occasion. These priests are: Msgr. Joseph Riedman (actively retired), Msgr. Paul Richart (St. Paul, Sellersburg), Msgr. Tony Volz (St. Barnabas), Msgr. Bill Stumpf (Moderator of the Curia), and the late Msgr. Joe Kern (Posthumously). We congratulate these priests, and ask the Lord’s blessing upon them. Msgr. Kern died before the official letter arrived from Rome. He has served in a very active retirement as Dean of the Terre Haute Deanery and at St. Margaret Mary Parish in Terre Haute.
I am looking forward to my first meeting with the Common Leadership Meeting today, Sunday. I am grateful to our fellow parishioners who serve in the leadership of our parish. May God bestow his wisdom and grace on our gathering.
This past week I attended the Archdiocesan Clergy Personnel Board of which I am currently a member. The Board addresses issues of Clergy assignments throughout the Archdiocese.
From time to time, I would like the opportunity to share information and seek your counsel on matters pertaining to our parish. Given the distance some of you must travel to participate in the parish life, I am instituting brief sessions, “Fifteen Minutes With Father Noah” following the conclusion of both Saturday Evening and Sunday morning liturgies. The first of these will take place next weekend, August 20 and 21, immediately following the conclusion of the liturgy. I invite you simply to stay in church and move forward toward the peninsula at the conclusion of the Recessional Hymn. The topic will be the New Roman Missal. Ed Green will follow up on this same topic the next weekend, August 27 and 28. You have been receiving various Bulletin inserts pertaining to the changes forthcoming in the New Roman Missal. The official date is the First Sunday of Advent. However, we in the Archdiocese have received permission to gradually introduce some of the textual changes earlier this Fall. These brief sessions are to help all of us move smoothly into these changes in the sacred texts of the Mass. I hope your schedule will allow you to attend. These are issues that touch all of us.
Sincerely yours in the Lord,
Father Noah
