Christmas People,

I hope you are still enjoying the Christmas Season.  It started with the great Mass of Christ's Birth on the 25th and now continues all the way to the Epiphany.  I hope we keep celebrating for the entire time!  What a pity to miss out on all the joy the Church directs us to have for these weeks.

There are many things developing in these last few days.  We are going to try to finallize things for the trip to World Youth Day this Monday.  Four of us from Boston will represent you all before the Pope and the young Catholics of the World.  We can't wait to meet the young deaf catholic communities of the world!  We are also working with BC TV to have their popular rosary program captioned.  Say a prayer that we get this to work.  Ghislain has been welcomed well by you all and will fly back on the 4th.  It has been great to have him here.  Not only have I enjoyed his preaching but I have been happy to have his advice as I work to serve you.

This Feast of the Holy Family of Jesus, Mary and Joseph, this Sunday that is, it is my hope to try to pray more of the prayers from the middle.  I got some good feedback that it would make sense to pray from there.  I agree.  I wasn't leading the prayers from the chair at the beginning for any particular reason.  It is so good to get feedback.  Please keep it coming.

It has been great to have Shawn our seminarian with us.  I hope that you see his interview on the website as well as Deacon Ghislains.

Confirmation Class continues to go well.  We invite you to come and visit sometime if you are interested.  You can sit with the parents to see what class is like. We welcome Tyler our newest student

We also have good news about our help of Fr. Joseph Kadavil from India.  I am going to visit him today to get the details of how we can send him money to support his school for the deaf in India.  The confirmation students has the chance to interview him last Sunday.  They were very interested.  One comment was interesting.  One of the students said that his school sounded just like the one in India.  One difference was daily prayer.  In India they have Mass every morning and Rosary every night.

If you would like to contribute directly you can do so through the address:

Our Lady's Peace Home for the Blind and Deaf
Enathu P.O.
Adoor (via), Kerala-691526
India

Make Checks payable:

Fr. Joseph Kadavil


Sincerely in Christ,

Fr. St. Martin