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Dear Friends at Saint Mary’s Immaculate Conception Parish and Saint Frances Cabrini Parish:  Praised be Jesus Christ! “Shelter in Place” continues.   One thing I have noticed as these weeks of radically adjusted lifestyles have dragged along for all of us is that, for me anyway, all the days of the week run together.  Much of the time I am not really able to tell in an instant if I am making my way through a Tuesday, a Friday, etc, etc.  When so many of our activities that typically revolve around consistent scheduled events are removed or canceled, indeed it makes it difficult to mark time. 

Dear Friends:   Praised be Jesus Christ! Repair work has been progressing on the Saint Frances Cabrini campus in the past few weeks.  Maintenance staff are considered essential workers under the State shut down provisions, the campus is free of activity at the moment which offers a rare opportunity to move quickly on some projects, and we did have some monies set aside for this work heading into our current situation of limited operations. 

Dear Friends at Saint Frances Cabrini Parish and Saint Mary’s Immaculate Conception Parish:  Praised be Jesus Christ! A Blessed and Joyous Easter to all of you! We are of course all very accustomed to typical Easter routines and rituals that are painfully and strangely absent this year.  There is sadness in this fact that one cannot help but acknowledge, even on what could be called the birthday of joy itself.  How does one make sense of it all?

Dear parishioners at saint Frances Cabrini and Immaculate Conception parishes, I hope and pray these lines find you well, considering what our country and indeed our world are going through these days as we face together the challenges of the current pandemic.