News - October 2023

There are just two months remaining in the year, so it’s time to seriously think about our 2023 tax returns and how we can support our parish in a tax-advantaged way. Certainly, the primary motivation for our charitable contributions to Queen of All Saints Parish is the generous return to God for the great gifts he has given us.

November is a special month for remembering who we are as a people and who we are as a Church. On November 1st,  we gather to celebrate the Solemnity of All Saints – a day which honors the more obscure saints as well as the saints each of us have known. On November 2nd, we observe All Souls’ Day. On this day, we will have a special liturgy for families who have had loved ones buried from our parish, and for those families who have lost loved ones this past year...

Regular readers of this page in our weekly bulletin know that we always present an honest assessment of our parish finances and our goals for our shared future.

Remember how the basilica ceiling looked in 2017? We know that the last few years have been especially trying times for our parish finances from a major capital repair perspective. We were faced with the sudden and unexpected need to replace the basilica ceiling during 2017/2018...

If you stood outside a Roman Catholic church today as people came out after Mass and asked them: "Was that a good Eucharist?" most everyone would answer based on the homily and the music. Most people would answer that it had been a good Eucharist if the homily was interesting and the music lively.

Here is how our parish campus looked in 1955, when all our buildings had been erected except for the new church. Then, as now, all those other buildings were in heavy use as important parts of a healthy and vibrant parish...