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Parish Mission Statement:

Firmly rooted in our Roman Catholic tradition, we the Parish of Our Lady of Fatima are a welcoming, caring and inclusive community of believers.

We seek to bear witness to Christ’s love for all in our lives, in our community, and to our world.

We strive to continue the mission of Jesus through worship and in our educational, spiritual and social justice programs and in our commitment to stewardship.

We are a collaborative, diverse, multicultural parish dedicated to reaching out to all God’s people, especially those in need.

All are welcome in this parish.

 
   

The 2011 Catholic Ministries Appeal Has Begun. Help Us Make Our Annual Goal Again This Year! We Thank You For Your Generosity!
Click on the link below for more information:

2011 Catholic Ministries Appeal

 

 

 

The Parish Assessment & Renewal Report
is available on our Chancery Page

 

 

An important mesage from Fr. Andrew:

The United States of America celebrated Labor Day last Monday. Labor Day may not be a Church holiday, but it could easily be so. On this day, we celebrate the God-given dignity of the ordinary worker as well as the role of labor in the development of the human community. The first Labor Day celebration took place in New York City on September 5, 1882, after proposals made by Peter McGuire, of the Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners, and by Michael Maguire, of the International Association of Machinists. Twelve years later the US Congress made Labor Day a national holiday.

Especially since Pope Leo XIII published his encyclical, Rerum Novarum, in 1891, the Church has always sided with workers, to defend their innate rights as human beings, their right to organize in unions and their right to bargain collectively. The US bishops have also emphasized this role of the Church in a number of excellent documents. Beginning in 1919 with “A Program of Social Reconstruction”, the bishops have consistently tried to apply and make concrete for our country the social teaching of the Church. For many years, they have issued a Labor Day statement that has always touched on some current problems. They have issued a Labor Day Statement for this year, 2011: “Human Costs and Moral Challenges of a Broken Economy”. Please take the time to read this important document.

You can find the document on the web here: http://www.usccb.org/issues-and-action/human-life-and-dignity/labor-employment/labor-day-statement.cfm. You can also download it as a Word document from our Chancery page.

--- Andrew (apc1930@optonline.net)

 

 
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