An update on summer events

The summer is winding down, the Iowa State Fair will be kicking off in a little over a week, and we start school in less than a month. When school ends, it seems like so long until it starts up again, but it really does go by pretty fast. Someone once said, in life the days are long, but the weeks are short. That is very true, but there is still a few more weeks of the summer break.

In many ways, the summer has less regularly scheduled activities, but often times, many more one-off activities. This can also make for some hectic and tiring days. Here at the parish, we are still going along with the many different things here. Daily Masses are gaining in attendance which is a wonderful thing. As you probably have noticed, they should have started the work on the north driveway entrance. This will give us another entrance and sidewalk to the north onto Watercrest drive and will change some drop off and pickup traffic patterns. This should be finished by the time school starts. We are getting classrooms ready for school and religious education, and even have gotten some new and different textbooks for the religious education classes. BTW, signups are going on for RE right now. We are expecting 375+ kids in the RE programs and 350 in the school - so many children to prepare for. Aside from the education preparations, we are continuing along with our regular daily things here. We have many weddings this summer and fall, and we are seeing more and more people joining us for our daily Masses, it is wonderful to see.

We also have a special guest here with us this weekend. This weekend, we have Bishop Agyenta here from the Navrongo-Bolgatanga Diocese in Ghana doing a mission talk about the projects his diocese is working on. If you forgot to bring a donation this weekend, you can drop one off at the office, or bring something in next weekend, just make sure that it is labeled so we know who to give it to.

Here at St. Luke’s, just like always, things are just going along. So, this begs the question again, how are you doing in your summer spiritual journey? The busyness of the things of the world are easy to get caught up into. They come at us from all sides, especially if you have children in summer activities. Something that is more of a challenge, is to keep up with the prayer life that will give us strength to get through all those other things. I know that it can be easy to skip prayers or Mass because of all of these other things going on, but when we make that prayer time a priority, it can only help us to be that holy person to help others. During these last few weeks of the summer time, keep praying, keep going to Mass, keep showing your families the importance of prayer in their lives and it will help them to continue to grow in the faith.

God bless,
Fr. Ken