Year of Faith - 80th Anniversary - Letter to Parishioners

Dear Parishioners,

          For the past eighty years St. Peter’s Parish in Warwick has been a worshipping community of Catholic Faith. This community began as a summer colony in the village of Gaspee Point. Each summer, Fr. Mc Hugh,a priest from St. Paul’s in Edgewood, would celebrate Mass at a wooden altar that was set up under a tent.

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M. Bonneville
Support Needed for Faith-Based Education

Dear Parishioners,

I want to express my thanks to those who attended our Holy Week services in such great numbers. Your presence is a sign of your devotion to Jesus Christ.

This was also the first Holy Week for our new Holy Father, Pope Francis. He continues to give all of us many examples of goodness, humility, and tender pastoral love for the family of God.

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M. Bonneville
Easter, 2013

Dear Parishioners,

Since the announcement by Pope Benedict XVI, that he would resign the office of Bishop of Rome on the 28th of February, people everywhere have awaited the election of a new pope. On March 13 the wait ended. With a feel of spring in the air, after a long winter, we welcomed our new Holy Father, Pope Francis. The name Francis recalls St. Francis Xavier, and St. Francis of Assisi.

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M. Bonneville
Christmas, 2012

Dear Parishioners,

As we celebrate the Father’s gift of love, in the birth of his son Jesus, we are filled with wonder and praise. This gift of love fills the empty places that are in our hearts.

This past year, with its joys and sorrows, its hopes and disappointments, and the many personal hurts that are part of everyday life, has prepared us to accept this love, that St. John, in the prologue of his gospel calls, “grace in place of grace.”

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M. Bonneville
Advent Reflections –

Advent is the time of year when the church invites us to go into the wilderness to prepare a highway for our God.

Like Abraham, we are called to leave the security of everything we know and journey into uncharted territory.We do this with the promise that God will be with us on our adventure, and we know that what we experience along the way depends on our choices and on our relationship with him. In this journey into the wilderness, we can learn about life in a way that would not be possible if we did not venture forth.

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M. Bonneville