I ran part one of this pastor’s column on May 28. In case you missed it, you can find it here https://holyredeemervan.org/pastor-columns/thefatimastory1. At the time I thought I would be able to run the whole four-part series by the end of June, then too many things got in the way, and I was not able to resume it until now. We should be able to finish it out in consecutive Sundays in a row.

I ran this pastor’s column seven years ago on the 100^th anniversary of the apparitions of Fatima (I can’t believe it’s been seven years). It’s a good series of columns that most of you didn’t read seven years ago, and for the rest, a great re-read. 

This Sunday we launch our new combined bulletin for the three communities that make up Columbia River Catholic: Holy Redeemer, St. Thomas Aquinas, and Our Lady Star of the Sea. 

            Instead of producing three different bulletins of roughly twenty-four combined pages, we are now producing one bulletin with roughly twelve pages.  This saves our staff’s time and our resources, and improves our ability to communicate across our three communities.  Now we can see in one place what is important for all of us to know as well as things that are site/community specific.