On behalf of our parish community, I would like to extend my sincerest wishes for a peaceful Christmas 2025 and a blessed New Year 2026. For me, New Year’s greetings are not like impossible gifts that we wait for without doing anything, but they are an encouragement to take control of our lives so that they may be better, with God’s help, yes, but not without us. We must take control of our lives, without waiting for our wishes to fall from the sky.

This year has been marked by challenges, notably the project to install air conditioning in our church with all that this project entails, namely the extension of our electrical line from one phase to three phases, the generator, the stained glass doors and windows, and the project to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the parish. These two major projects have filled the life of the parish throughout the year and kept us very busy. We give thanks to God even though they are still in progress.

As for the celebration of the parish’s 50th anniversary, we have postponed it until June 20 and 21, to allow time to complete and finish the project to install air conditioning in the church and to beautify it. It will be the most beautiful gift for this 50th anniversary when all this work is completed. I invite us all to redouble our commitment and determination. Together we will succeed.

We would like to thank all those involved in parish life at every level. Thanks to your generosity and commitment, we are gradually managing to raise the funds needed to achieve our goals. May the Lord reward you a hundredfold! (There is an expression in my language that says: “It is through their determination, together, that termites have built a mound of termite hills.”)

The jubilee year, dedicated to hope, is coming to an end with wonderful achievements and celebrations in our parish every month: youth meetings, the 20th anniversary celebration of Columban Hall, visits to the sick, celebrations for the elderly, pilgrimage in Rome, St Joseph Workers’ 30th anniversary, and more. Of our parishes and patron saint’s day (for which we extend our sincere gratitude to the CPP (Parish Pastoral Council) team, the Haitian community, the finance committee, and all the ministries). Thank you to all of you, parishioners, for your commitment in every way, especially for your patience and tolerance.

At the start of this new year, I wish for each of you to live your lives as active participants and to turn to God, asking him to show us his love. Unity and communion, that is our motto. This is my wish for you, and my prayer to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit for each of us.

Happy New Year!

January 1st 2026

Rev. Fr. Modeste Digwou