Happy New Year, everyone!

I hope you all had a safe and restful holiday season and are as glad as I am to leave 2021 behind us! 

We do have one last challenge to get by with this latest surge, so with God's blessing, I know we will all make it through safely. 

I wanted to let everyone know that we are postponing our January 12th Dominican Family Gathering out of extreme caution with the widespread outbreak. HOPEFULLY, we will pick it up again with the February 7^th meeting.  As disappointing as this is, the leadership team feels it is absolutely the right thing to do. 

We will keep you updated as to the status of next month's meeting later this month, but for now, this is the right thing to do.

HOWEVER! Keep the faith. You still have plenty of opportunities to gather virtually as the Racial Justice, Poverty, and the new Liturgy Committees continue to do their great work virtually.  To get involved with any or all of these groups, reach out to the contacts below to get their latest schedule. 

Racial Justice       Calista Hebert                    calista@herberts.org

Poverty                 Shawna Callaghan            shawna.callaghan@att.n...

Liturgy                 Anna Sklut                         anna.sklut@st-agnes.or...

We will also be scheduling additional opportunities for those that still need to recommit at future gatherings, so keep an eye out for that as well. 

Although we are delayed from meeting in person one more time, that doesn't prevent us from impacting our community.  As Dominic once said,

"A man who governs his passions is master of the world. We must either rule them or be ruled by them. It is better to be the hammer than the anvil."

Let's continue to be the hammer as we do God's work despite the challenges of today!

God Bless, and we will see you again soon!

Greg Schockling