No Ordinary Picnic: A Celebration during Ordinary Time

No Ordinary Picnic
A Celebration during Ordinary Time

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 2010, 1-5pm
Maplecrest Park, Maplewood

In the good old summertime, we mark each Sunday with a simple ordinal number unattached to a feast or a season. In fact, the term Ordinary Time refers to that “ordering of Sundays,” and it does not mean that there is nothing at all special about the celebrations during the long period between Trinity Sunday and the First Sunday of Advent. However, in our parish, we have this great tradition of the
Parish Family Picnic during this ordinary time.

Our parish Family Picnic is not just an ordinary picnic because it celebrates, blesses and highlights the community life and ministry shared in our parish. This picnic brings all of us together. It shows just how vital our beloved
St. Joseph Parish Community is – how it is truly a dwelling place of the Holy Spirit and the Body of Christ alive and well in the wider community.

This picnic also encourages more members to get involved in this parishwide experience of the wonders of our faith.

Let this event be a source of affirmation, rededication, hope
and promise.