Cultural Heritage Celebration

Hola! Bonjour! Konnichiwa! Vanakkam! Annyeonghaseyo!  

Urgent: Help Us Prepare for Cultural Heritage Sunday
We need your help now to make Cultural Heritage Sunday a success!
Do you speak another language? Let it be heard during our special Cultural Heritage Mass!
Do you have a dish to share? Contribute to our food sampling celebration by bringing your family's favorite.  ANY type of dish is appreciated. 
Want to participate in another way? We’d love to include you!  We need flag carriers, set up, and clean up help.
Please don’t wait—fill out this form: 

https://sjtw.ccbchurch.com/goto/forms/214/responses/new ; today. 

We’re on a tight timeline and need help to highlight the incredible cultural diversity of SJTW. Together, let’s celebrate that we are all children of God and part of one holy Catholic Church.
Cultural Heritage Sunday is next weekend! Join us on Sunday, January 26th, for a special Mass at 10:30 AM, where we will sing and pray in different languages. Afterward, enjoy a unique food sampling event featuring dishes from around the world!

SJTW celebrated the diversity here in our parish and all over the world as one holy Catholic church. What a great celebration of family as we are all brothers and sisters in Christ. It took many hands to make this celebration a success. A big THANK YOU to all who helped make it happen whether you helped set up, proclaimed readings and prayers during Mass, sung in the choir, carried a flag, helped in the kitchen, cleaned up after, or if you brought a delicious dish to share. It was wonderful to see so many worshiping together and gathering after mass to continue the celebration.   

Feedback on Cultural Heritage Sunday

Just a quick note to tell you that I had chills more than once during Mass this past weekend and no, I am not feeling ill. LOL. Quite the opposite! I felt, and heard, the Spirit in so many beautiful ways thru the creative use of language and rituals. What a tremendous reminder to all of us that we are connected in a web of community. Something that I appreciate being reminded of and I believe can help heal this fractured world we live in.

Thank you for sharing your gifts with our community and all that you do to create such beautiful liturgies.

Blessings to you.

2018


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