Our Lady Good Counsel



NOTICE TO ALL






ATTENTION ALL MINISTRIES

Due to the up-coming construction, we will need to have your plan and schedule of your activities in advance for the year 2010. We need to have you submit your schedules by December 15, 2009, to the church office, because we will need to submit it to the contractor, so they can plan their schedule. We need to prevent any delays once construction begins. Changes will have to be kept to a minimum, so that we do not interfere with the construction. We will be losing 2 meeting rooms, so we need to be considerate of other ministries that may have to be using the available meeting rooms in the parish center. We need to be sharing during this time. Thank you for your cooperation.

Parish Hall Construction Update

Building permits for construction of the new Parish Hall are still being processed through the City and County Department of Planning and Permitting (DPP). Our blueprints have been with them for review since November of last year for release of the building permits. The Building Committee and our architects are doing everything possible to expedite the process. First reviews of the blueprints are complete and our architects have revised the prints to resolve the DPP's comments. The prints are going through a second review for final approval and authorization to proceed with construction.

The road ahead

  1. The DPP issues the remainder of permits,
  2. Architects finalize the blueprints
  3. Contractors provide their bid to us for review
  4. The Building Committee selects the General Contractor and submits the recommendation to the Diocesan Office for approval
  5. We finalize the contract with the General Contractor
  6. Demolition of the old sacristy and moss rock garage begins

While the DPP continues to process the permits, the six general contractors being considered will be making presentations to the Building Committee. This is just one step in our contractor selection process.

Any further demolition, grading and construction depend on receipt of the building permits from the DPP. Once permits are in hand, we will still need about two months to select and award a contract.

There is one thing for all of us to keep in mind. Once construction begins, parking and traffic flow will be disrupted significantly. The parking lot behind the sacristy will be turned over to the contractors for staging of equipment and materials. The driveway to the school will be closed for periods of time during construction. There will be times when there will be only one entry/exit into the church parking lot and the school grounds. We are working to minimize the inconvenience, but these things can't be helped.

Plenary Indulgence for the Year for Priests

According to a decree made public today and signed by Cardinal James Francis Stafford and Bishop Gianfranco Girotti, O.F.M. Conv., respectively penitentiary major and regent of the Apostolic Penitentiary, Benedict XVI will grant priests and faithful Plenary Indulgence for the occasion of the Year for Priests, which is due to run from 19 June 2009 to 19 June 2010 and has been called in honour of St. Jean Marie Vianney.

The period will begin with the Solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, "a day of priestly sanctification", says the text, when the Pope will celebrate Vespers before the relics of the saint, brought to Rome for the occasion by the bishop of the French diocese of Belley-Ars. The Year will end in St. Peter's Square, in the presence of priests from all over the world "who will renew their faithfulness to Christ and their bonds of fraternity".

The means to obtain the Plenary Indulgence are as follows:

  1. All truly penitent priests who, on any day, devotedly pray Lauds or Vespers before the Blessed Sacrament exposed to public adoration or in the tabernacle, and ... offer themselves with a ready and generous heart for the celebration of the Sacraments, especially the Sacrament of Penance, will be granted Plenary Indulgence, which they can also apply to their deceased confreres, if in accordance with current norms they take Sacramental Confession and the Eucharist and pray in accordance with the intentions of the Supreme Pontiff. Priests are furthermore granted Partial Indulgence, also applicable to deceased confreres, every time they devotedly recite the prayers duly approved to lead a saintly life and to carry out the duties entrusted to them.
  2. All truly penitent Christian faithful who, in church or oratory, devotedly attend Holy Mass and offer prayers to Jesus Christ, supreme and eternal Priest, for the priests of the Church, or perform any good work to sanctify and mould them to His Heart, are granted Plenary Indulgence, on the condition that they have expiated their sins through Sacramental Confession and prayed in accordance with the intentions of the Supreme Pontiff. This may be done on the opening and closing days of the Year of Priests, on the 150th anniversary of the death of St. Jean Marie Vianney, on the first Thursday of the month, or on any other day established by the ordinaries of particular places for the good of the faithful.
  3. The elderly, the sick and all those who for any legitimate reason are unable to leave their homes, may still obtain Plenary Indulgence if, with the soul completely removed from attachment to any form of sin and with the intention of observing, as soon as they can, the usual three conditions, "on the days concerned, they pray for the sanctification of priests and offer their sickness and suffering to God through Mary, Queen of the Apostles".

Partial Indulgence is offered to all faithful each time they pray five Our Father, Ave Maria and Gloria Patri, or any other duly approved prayer "in honour of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, to ask that priests maintain purity and sanctity of life".



 

NOTICE TO ALL

We would like to remind everyone to please help keep our Church clean by placing all music books in its appropriate places. We would also like to remind everyone that no food or drinks are allowed inside the Church . Mahalo for your cooperation.


FROM BISHOP LARRY SILVA

I  have received reports in recent months that certain clergy are representing themselves as Catholic and are offering their services for weddings, blessings, and other ceremonies. They belong to the Celtic Catholic Church, the Old Catholic Church or some other group that uses the name Catholic in its title. They have nothing whatsoever to do with the Roman Catholic Church and do not validly act in its name. If you have any doubt about the legitimacy of a clergyman, please call the Office of Clergy.