WELCOME
Dear Parishioner: This Website has been put together to facilitate a better understanding of our parish mission and structures and to enable parishioners to come into contact with each other. I hope that as you read it you will find the information helpful. The Parish Council has chosen to identify ourselves as "A Parish with a Family Perspective." We define family as an intimate community of persons bound together by blood, marriage, or adoption, for the whole of life. In our Catholic tradition, the family proceeds from marriage-an intimate, exclusive, permanent, and faithful partnership of husband and wife. The family is therefore not a collection of individuals, but a living and developing system whose members are essentially interconnected. This, therefore, includes the single, married, divorced, separated, and widowed persons. The challenge in our society comes from the fact that diversity in structure, economic status, special needs, ethnic and religious heritages and the influence of societal trends affect the roles and activities of families today. Partnerships, therefore, need to be formed between families and institutions that share family responsibilities. This is what religions and parishes are all about. We want to support family life in all its variations. We look forward to growing in faith together. Sincerely, Rev. Patrick D. Ryan, Pastor	"A Parish with a Family Perspective"
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