Dear Brothers and Sisters,

Hopefully, everyone realized that we cancelled our December 9th Parish Hall “Feedback Forum” All Things New meeting with representatives from the diocese due to the heavy snowfall and poor driving conditions that evening. We did try to post the information and contact who we could, but it was a rather late decision and it is not always easy to share those kinds of changes. Again, I hope that everyone who was planning on attending either heard about the change or made the rational decision not to drive through the snowstorm at night with low visibility. I apologize to anyone who may have braved that trek and only found the event canceled when they arrived at the church. If you want to help us be able to contact you in the future should there be major changes or cancellations, please contact your parish office and share your email address and/or phone number to be placed on mailing and text chains.

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Brenda Kresky, Director of Planning at the Diocese of St. Cloud, will be out of the office for much of the back half of December so the next available date that worked to reschedule the parish hall meeting will be January 15th, 6:00 p.m. at St. Kathryn in Ogilvie (weather permitting). Since the date of the meeting has been pushed back on the calendar, that means the time to submit comments or questions prior to the meeting has been extended. If you have not yet sent in your thoughts to the email address for All Things New for our ACC or placed it in the mailboxes inside any of the church locations (or if you would like to send other remarks in addition to ones you have already made), please try to do so before Sunday, January 11th so I can forward everything to Brenda. If you ask in advance, it is more likely your question will be answered and that we can prepare an adequate response. If you try to surprise us with questions for which we do not have the numbers or information in front of us, you might get an unsatisfactory answer of, “I do not know.”
 

I also encourage you to read through the various articles on All Things New that are in the Central Minnesota Catholic Magazine. There are good sources of information there and it helps share the vision and guiding principles of this process. It is also a place where we can get some spiritual and practical guidance on transitions and grieving and hope. If you ever have thoughts for a good story or a suggestion for an article in the magazine, you can always contact the editors of the magazine through their contact information in the magazine or on their website.
 

Peace in Christ,

Father Timothy