Happy Thirtieth Sunday!

We now approach this final week of October and look forward to next weekend’s special celebrations for the Solemnity of All Saints on November 1st and the Commemoration of All Souls on November 2nd. Normally, All Saints Day is a holy day of obligation, but this year, as it falls on a Saturday, that obligation is dispensed. St. Robert will have the normal Saturday morning Mass schedule for any who would still like to attend the Solemnity. Our Saturday evening and Sunday Masses will celebrate All Souls. I’m particularly excited that November 2nd is a Sunday because it gives all of us an uncommon opportunity to collectively pray for our beloved deceased and to recall that we must join them someday. The 10:30 a.m. Sunday Mass at St. Robert will include a special commemoration in honor of those whose funerals we’ve celebrated this past year.

Our Music Director, Faith Yassick, has been preparing a choral and orchestral Requiem Mass by the composer Gabriel Fauré (†1924) to help us give special worship to God, and I’m grateful for her leadership. We are blessed to have a splendid choir under her direction.

As for our Saints and Scholars campaign, I hope that by this point you’ve received a packet in the mail. Parish databases are never perfectly up to date, so if for some reason you are a parishioner here or attend here and haven’t seen anything yet, please call our parish office and we can rectify the situation.

Thank you to all who have submitted pledges so far! I know it’s something that requires time and prayer to discern, notwithstanding our busy schedules. I myself am slightly behind on this—I still need to officially submit my own pledge. I feel like I’m perpetually behind on everything, ha! Please, if you would, take some time in the next few weeks to consider pledging to this very worthy cause, which plays such a vital and evangelistic role in our Church. We can make a big push for this in November. I’ll keep you updated.

God bless you, and have yourselves a great week!

IFr. Brian