As we continue to hope for the ability to gather in Eucharistic community, we are reflecting back on the past year for Our Lady of Good Counsel Parish.

• We have answered our Bishop’s calls to increased Eucharistic Adoration, evangelization, and outreach (see our Bishop’s Pastoral Year Letter). 
• In a time of Mass restrictions, we have increased Holy Hours of Eucharistic Adoration to weekly opportunities (and overnight, for the Solemnity of Corpus Christi)!
• Parishioners have participated in up to four Diocesan and parish Alpha faith formation courses and we continue to explore the beautiful Mysteries in The Search.
• Parishioners have continued to feed the hungry, and serve those in need. 
• We welcomed 21 new children of God in Baptism, 8 for first Holy Communion, and 11 candidates for Confirmation.
• We provided good Catholic resources like Formed.org for our parish families, as well as many other learning opportunities through links on the website, helping our primary educators in the Faith in their domestic churches.  Learning the Faith is by living the Faith in Christian witness (refer to Pope Paul VI). 

Marriages and funerals have been limited or rescheduled.  We look forward to welcoming new beginnings in Christian marriage.  And, we look forward to gathering as a community, to grieve our faithful departed with the Communion of Saints.  

In this hopeful time of renewal, let us follow our Bishop’s call to 'come alive in our faith, and proclaim Christ to a world in desperate need of the Hope He promises’ (Bishop Riesbeck, CC’s 2020-2021 Pastoral Letter).