It was great having St. Dominic Youth Group, under the direction of
Betty Alilovic, lead the Stations of the Cross for us on God Friday. It is a
wonderful sign to our parishioners to see our young people involved in
liturgy.
As a parish community, we have welcomed six new members this Easter:
Nicole Lessey, James Date, Nick Eleid, Lisa Blabino, Lindsay Texiera and
Nataliia Kolodenko. On that note, I would like to thank Barabara-Anne Krampart
and Silvio Fernandes for their spiritual guidance and leadership in the
R.C.I.A. program every Wednesday evening since last September. Your dedication
to this program is simply invaluable to me.
All of our ceremonies were wonderful but the Easter Vigil is always the
highlight of the year. We enjoyed a very joyful Easter Vigil and I was very
pleased that so many of you came out to experience it this year. The reception afterwards was very well
attended too and I would like to thank Isabel and Dominic DeFilippis and Alex
Lupton for arranging this party for us.
The church decorations for each liturgy were also very well done and I
would like to thank Trevor and Jennifer Theile for donating the Good Friday
palm decorations and Mike and Jennifer Pirri from the Apple Market for their
generous donation of all the Easter flowers. Thanks also, to Bridie Boyd for
her flower arranging for the Easter Vigil.
As I have said many times before, our musicians enhance all of our
liturgies with their beautiful music! I would like to thank our 10 am choir,
under the direction of Anthony Bastianon and our 12 noon choir, under the
direction of Mark Linsao for their hard work in preparing for these liturgies. As
I said on Easter Sunday, both choirs outdid themselves and I know that we are
all grateful, not only at this time, but every weekend. Their beautiful music
certainly enhances every liturgy here at St. Dominic. I would also like to
thank those young people, home from university for the weekend, who joined our
choir for Taize at the Stations of the Cross on Good Friday. You are always
welcome in the choir whenever you are home.
Last, but not least, let me thank each one of you, the parishioners, not
only for your participation in our Easter Liturgies but for your weekly support
and encouragement by your presence every Sunday. I sincerely hope that you found the Easter
celebrations spiritually beneficial and meaningful. As we continue to celebrate
the Easter season let us continue to be people who are knitted together by the
risen Christ!
Thanks again to all!
Fr. Phil
