Care for Our Parish Home

It has been so gratifying to see the happy reactions to our new Discipleship Center. Having a new, beautiful building makes one more conscious of the responsibility to take care of it. This is connected with an ongoing issue of unsupervised children on campus. Please be aware that it is OLMC policy that children on campus must be supervised at all times by a parent, guardian, or mature older sibling.

I am overjoyed that so many families in this parish have been generous in receiving children from God. It is a sacrifice that benefits not only the family to which they belong, but it also benefits society and the Church. Part of forming our children in virtue is teaching them respect for property.

The first Sunday after the Discipleship Center was open, several children were playing in the new building without supervision. They were riding the elevator like an amusement park ride. The elevator should only be used for people who need it to move between floors.

We have had incidents of children damaging parish property, including using berries from the bushes and defacing the columns in the courtyard.

Regularly, volunteers have to repair broken hymnal binding because the hymnals are roughly handled, often by children. Also, volunteers spend many hours untying knots that are made with hymnal ribbons and straightening out the envelopes in the pews.

Please take care of our parish home and let us teach our children to respect the property which we share.