11:00AM Sunday Mass
Our first foray beyond 30 miles, Ft Collins being a tad under 80 miles per Google Maps. Had to take advantage of the fantastic weather ... and it was a good time as any to meet up with MrK for lunch (Restaurant 415 in South Mason St, Ft Collins.)
We made it up to Ft Collins in very good time which, even after killing some time in a coffee shop, got us to Church on time (counter to our tradition.)
The celebrant was covering for the parish's priest who apparently was away on some emergency. He was assisted by a young man who was 11 days shy of being ordained a priest. As with the other pre-dominantly Hispanic congregation church (St Patrick Oratory), the guitar was the musical instrument of choice.
During the Homily the priest explained his accent ... turns out he is Polish from Krakow ... although he has been based in a southern Ft Collins parish the past few years. At the close of the Mass, he invited the young men of the Holy Family Parish who wanted to learn how to be good men, to come over sometime next week to his parish - a keg of free beer was his enticement!
The congregation has a lot of young families with lots of little kids ... a lot of them greeting this or that aunt or uncle or grandpa or grandma.
We ranked Holy Family Parish #4 to-date, right behind last week's St Joseph Catholic Parish.
Holy Family Church's website (http://www.holyfamilyftcollins.org/) - unfortunately the site doesn't provide the church's history. Here's their Mission Statement:
Our loving and caring God, we, the parishioners of Holy Family Church, a bilingual and bicultural community, commit ourselves to fidelity in the teachings of Jesus Christ through the living of the Gospel. Jesus, help us to respect all cultures, to welcome with love and compassion people of other countries. Holy Spirit, inspire us to be creative in responding to the needs of our parishioners, especially the Hispanic-Mexican population, imitating Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, the Holy Family, so that we may be a united faith community.
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