Our Lady of Hope Parish
Contact: Ron Thaler
Priority: Community, Faith Formation and Ministry Involvement
Purpose: Engage young families from many cultures in the mission and leadership of the parish by building bridges across the many cultures and generations of the parish.
Method: A triple-pronged strategy to forming out of many communities – one parish. Conduct three interrelated initiatives:
1. establish an Intercultural Advisory Team who will conduct a campaign of community organizing and assess the particular spiritual needs for each cultural group in the parish and develop ways for people from differing cultures to communicate and share faith
2. Conduct strategic programs to gather people, share intercultural expressions of faith and support married couples
3. Equip leaders from culture-specific faith formation and sacramental preparation and leadership for worship (music, welcome, gesture, altar servers, etc.)
Priority: Community, Faith Formation and Ministry Involvement
Purpose: Engage young families from many cultures in the mission and leadership of the parish by building bridges across the many cultures and generations of the parish.
Method: A triple-pronged strategy to forming out of many communities – one parish. Conduct three interrelated initiatives:
1. establish an Intercultural Advisory Team who will conduct a campaign of community organizing and assess the particular spiritual needs for each cultural group in the parish and develop ways for people from differing cultures to communicate and share faith
2. Conduct strategic programs to gather people, share intercultural expressions of faith and support married couples
3. Equip leaders from culture-specific faith formation and sacramental preparation and leadership for worship (music, welcome, gesture, altar servers, etc.)
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This particular song is dedicated to Joel who was a witness of love for God to the parish and who died tragically at a young age.
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March 26th Palm Sunday 2012
Children from many cultures, lands and languages lead the procession waving palms while multicultural choir sings Hosanna - "Have mercy".
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March 12th - Lenten Evening of Prayer and Song
Songs of Praise were shared by four of the five parish choirs. This first effort was enjoyed by 200 parishioners. The pastor captured many of the songs with a new camera. These choirs include:
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January 8th - Feast of the Kings Festival
This celebrations is especially significant for a parish that resembles a global village as much as OLH. This celebration set the stage for gathering people from the many cultures to be represented on an Intercultural Advisory Team which will build bridges across the many cultures of the parish. The Kings Festival was reported by TV channels 2 and 4 and the photographs were included in the Buffalo News on January 9th.
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