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  OLDP Update Easter, April 4th
    
        Happy Easter everyone! We made it through Lent. I hope that it was spiritually productive and enriching for each of you and that we can now all enjoy the Easter Season and celebrate Jesus’ resurrection, which paved the way for our own.
        I have placed the envelopes marked “Spring Fest OLDP Donation” for those who are able, and who wish, to contribute. Since we will not have a Spring Fest, this year, we will not get the needed funds that would usually accompany our big party. Any help we can get will be greatly appreciated, friends, family, businesses, sponsors, etc. Think about what you might have spent or donated and, if you are able, please consider making a donation of whatever you can. The envelopes will be on the table, in the Narthex, and back tables of the Church, for the entire month of April. If we run out of envelopes you may use an ordinary envelope just mark it OLDP Spring Fest donation. Thank you very much.
        Congratulations to the Knights of Columbus for another successful Lent of wonderful fish, shrimp etouffee, crawfish pies, dinners, and more. Thanks to all the Knights and helpers for all their hard work. Thank you to everyone who supported them by coming out and purchasing, and generously tipping. Congratulations, as well, to the Girl Scouts and their helpers, for being out there, along with the Knights, offering sweets and drinks to people coming for the Fish Fry.
        Thank you to everyone who donated palms for our Palm Sunday Masses. Thank you to everyone who came out to help clean and prepare them for set up and distribution.
        Thank you to everyone who donated for our Easter Altar flowers and thank you to the Altar Society and helpers for the beautiful decorations.
        Thank you to everyone who participated in our Holy Week/Triduum Celebrations: Altar Servers, Deacons, Extraordinary Ministers of the Eucharist, Lectors, Musicians, Cantors, and Choir, Office Staff and Volunteers, Eucharistic Adorers, and all who came to each of our celebrations. It was mighty lonely last year with just a few people able to come because of the virus and things being nothing like they were in the past. This year it wasn’t quite back to where we’d like it to be, yet, but it was still light years better than 2020. Thank God and thank you.
        On a personal note: Thank you all so very much for all your prayers during the time that my pinched nerve came back and put me on one of Fr. Frank’s walkers for a couple of weeks. As I write this there is only a very slight residual burning in my right calf and little toe. Your prayers, and the medications, did the trick. God bless you. And a special thank you to our wonderful deacons, here at OLDP, who really stepped up to help me with Masses and Funerals during the past few weeks. I, literally, could not have done it without them!
        The Church Office will be closed on Monday, April 5^th, and reopen on Tuesday, April 6^th at 9:00 a.m.
       
  
  God bless you,
  Fr. Mike