Mass Schedule & Locations

NEW CHURCH PROJECT UPDATE

The Project: Well, the church building is down and gone. At the time of this writing preparation is being made for the pouring of the new foundation which is scheduled for May 11th. As we said last week, there is sadness is seeing the building taken down but there is excitement in the anticipation of the new building going up. And speaking of new building going up it is most likely that by the time you are reading this the new choir room section will be up. If you are going away for any time, keep track on our web site, www.saintwilliam.org  , or “friend us” on facebook. (Remember, if you go to our web site, just click on the watercolor of the new church and it will take you to the photos and writings about the project.)

Prayers:  We have been mentioning in our weekly Prayers of the Faithful the people who have been working on our new church building. Please do keep them in your prayers that they might be kept safe from any harm. Our contractor, MWA, and the superintendent they have on our job, Mike Chura, are doing a great job at getting things done very well, very rapidly and very safely. There have been several remarks made about how neat and clean the site looks. That is a good sign, as that is necessary to ensure the safest of working conditions. Also remember the Design and the Construction Committees in your prayers. Decisions are being made and will continue to be made throughout the project and we trust in God’s guidance as we have in the past.

The Second Week of Masses out of our Church Building has gone well as did the first. People, for the most part, have been both understanding and cooperative. Parking continues to be a challenge but with everyone’s cooperation and understanding we are doing well. More will be said on this later.

Saturday evening Masses at Seagate Elementary School: Last Saturday we did some things which helped with the glitches we experienced before. The sound system was much improved and we are working on making it even better. It is on the schedule for this weekend to have speakers in the back area of the hall in order to boost the sound there. Our parish and Sea Gate School have been good neighbors for quite a few years. When the parish was started and before the first church building was completed, the parish celebrated mass at Sea Gate for a while. Here we are building the next church building and they are welcoming us back in and providing us with a place to celebrate again. We are grateful for their help.

Sunday Morning Masses at The Phil: Again, the hospitality and assistance we received from the folks at The Phil could not have been warmer or more helpful. All three masses went very well and with only minor glitches that will happen until we are accustomed to our new surroundings. Times for masses on the weekend are below.

Weekday and Saturday morning masses continue in the Ministry Center. The schedule is below.

Parking: Parking at The Phil needs some attention. We cannot park in areas that are marked as “restricted area” or which have posted “no parking,” or on the grass. We are not on our lot now –where we developed some bad habits - and we need to be respectful of the postings. Please do not park in any spot that is listed as no parking or restricted. We will have members of our tremendous and multi-talented maintenance crew on hand this weekend to help out in that regard. Overflow parking is in the two lots across the street east of The Phil. Parking at Sea Gate School and the Ministry Center on Saturday evenings has been going very well. At the weekday masses it is not the parking so much as the crossing of Seagate Drive should you have to park off campus that is of concern. It is strongly suggested that your crossing be done at the intersection of Seagate Dr. and West Ave. There is a cross walk and light to make it a safe crossing. Some people have asked why the maintenance crew doesn’t offer some assistance in crossing the street but we cannot. We are not prepared to do that and the results might not be desirable at all.

Here are the times and places of liturgies for the entire week:

Monday through Friday: 

8 AM and 12:10 PM in the Ministry Center

Saturday mornings: 

8 AM in the Ministry Center (confessions at 10 AM)

Saturday evenings: 

2:45, 4:30, and 6:15 PM at Sea Gate Elementary School

Sundays: 

7:30, 9:15 and 11 AM at the Philharmonic Center for the Arts

Please note: While we are in this transitional period we will have only one collection at each mass. On weekends when a second collection is called for it will be taken up with the offertory. Please use the envelopes in your packet for the moneys you wish to donate to any of the second collections. Just put them in with the offertory and we will do the sorting. If you do not bring your envelope for these collections we will have some on hand for you to use.

Poor Boxes:  As most of us realize we have not had available the poor boxes which were in our church building. This past week one of the three was placed in the Ministry Center vestibule on the wall just to the right as you enter the hallway leading to the hall/chapel area. St. William parishioners and visitors have always been generous in donating through these boxes. The money collected through them is used by the St. Vincent DePaul Society to assist the poor among us in meeting their basic needs. Please make an effort to find the one poor box we have and donate, or to give directly to St. Vincent DePaul in this effort. This situation is one of the unfortunate things about our being out of “our house” and we need for us all to help overcome it.

You can follow the progress of the project on our web site by going to www.saintwilliam.org and see what is happening. (Remember to click on the watercolor picture of the new church building.) There are still memorial and naming opportunities as far as pews and arcade bays are concerned. If you have called or emailed about these, please be patient, a response is on its way. We are also moving on the pavers which will be a chance for all parishioners to have their family name, or the name of a deceased loved one, placed on one of the pavers that will be the floor of the cloister/arcade of our new church building.

The Capital Campaign: Our latest figures: $10.2M pledged and $9.2 M collected. The Easter collection added $65,000 to our collected amount. Thank you for giving and supporting. Continue to use those pink envelopes and put us over the top!

Diocesan Events

2011 CATHOLIC FAITH APPEAL

		As of October 11th      Our Goal:          $476,000      Pledged:            $189,183      % of Goal:            39.74%      Payments:          $131,337

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