We are in need of ministers to bring communion to individuals at home and in nursing care facilties. Many of our ministers have retired due to age and health issues. Please consider joining this fulfilling ministry. If interested, please contact Mary Fong at 650-494-1660 or fongmt@hotmail.com.
St. Elizabeth Seton School turned its library into offices about a year ago, and the library books need to be catalogued before being installed in other classrooms. Vicki Sullivan is looking for volunteers to help with this project on Mondays and Fridays from 9:30 - 11:30 a.m. Contact her at (650) 740- 0124, or vickisullivan@comcast.net.
In support of offering more opportunities from personal prayer, our parish has been keeping St. Thomas Aquinas Church (451 Waverley Street, Palo Alto) open until 5:00 p.m. In addition to that, each Wednesday, the parish is going to offer Adoration and Benediction from 5:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m., before closing the church for the night, continuing Wednesday, November 28. You are encouraged to stop by and pray and adore Our Lord.
There are many upgrades/repairs needed in our parish. Our most immediate priority are our children from the Saint Elizabeth Seton School. This school run by the Daughters of Charity is at our Saint Albert the Great Church site. It provides education to kids mostly from East Palo Alto. Over the years the Daughters of Charity have done a great job in keeping up with the property, renovations and even building new sections. The next project in cooperation with our parish is to upgrade the entire school’s lighting system so that the kids may have better light and also save money on energy bills. It will be a joint 50/50 effort with the school. The project will initially cost $58,000. We would like to extend the invitation to participate in this project by any kind of donation you may want to offer. The parish is expected to contribute with $29,000/30,000. If this speaks to you please make a donation payable to the parish with a memo note of "SESS lighting" and we will share reports about the progress of this project that will take place during this next Winter Break. Our children will be extremely grateful. God bless you all, thank you!