This weekend’s Mass in the Grass & Parish and School Picnic is our unofficial kickoff to our Parish’s 125th Anniversary celebrations! In the coming months, we will have many opportunities to gather as a parish family to celebrate and give thanks to God for all the blessings given to this community over the past 125 years. Here are a few things that are planned as we celebrate our Quasquicentennial:
- Sunday, September 22 – Stewardship Awareness Sunday & Stewardship Fair
- Sunday, October 20, 12:00pm Noon – SMOS Church Tour with Peter Hesed
- Saturday, November 16, 4:30pm Mass and following – Feast on Flad
- Sunday, November 24, 10am Mass – Fr. Ken Brown presides
- Sunday, December 1, 2:00pm – Music & Storytelling with Kate Basi
- Sunday, December 8, 10am Mass – Bishop Mark Rivituso presides
- Christmas Eve: Tuesday, December 24, 10:00pm – Archbishop Rozanski presides
- Sunday, January 5, 2:00pm – Organ Recital with David Sinden
- Sunday, January 12, 10am Mass – Fr. Matt O’Toole presides
- Monday, April 28, 6:30pm – SMOS Church Tour with Peter Hesed
- Saturday, May 10, 2:00pm – Bach Society of St. Louis Young Artists Recital
- Saturday, May 10 – Parish & School Dinner Auction
We are especially happy to welcome Archbishop Rozanski to St. Margaret on Christmas Eve, the anniversary of our parish. We look forward to return visits from Bishop Rivituso, Fr. Brown, and Fr. O’Toole. Our Director of Music Emeritus Peter Hesed will lead two Church tours, this fall and next spring, for all of us to take a fresh look at our beautiful worship space. Our Director of Music & Liturgy, Orin Johnson, has arranged a number of concerts over the coming months. And our Fall Feast on Flad and Spring Dinner Auction will celebrate our 125th Anniversary in a special way. You will be hearing more about all these events as they draw near, though you can always mark your calendar now!
Nametag Sundays return next weekend! For the next four weekends, I encourage everyone to wear a nametag when they come to Mass. This will help us get to know one another and learn to love one another even more. We Christians are supposed to love one another, but we can’t love one another unless we know one another, and learning someone’s name is the first step to knowing them! In the weeks to come, I hope that you will meet someone you don’t know and learn a few new names so that our bonds of friendship, care, and love can be strengthened as we celebrate our anniversary year!
