STEWARDSHIP SUNDAY

Today the 4 Churches came together for Stewardship Sunday. The afternoon service began with a Penance service, and then carols & time for individual confessions. There was wonderful attendance form Rock Hall, Pinto, & Cassava River, as well as the regulars from Above Rocks.

In his homily, Father Joe shared the Polish custom of the Christmas wafer. Each year his family would share the wafer and ask forgiveness from each other. In Jamaica we used pita bread for our wafer and the blessed bread was distributed to the people with the invitation to go home and share the bread with family, friends, and especially those who we may have hurt or have hurt us and ask and offer forgiveness.

The celebration of the Eucharist cul- minated with a procession of the manger figures to the manger, carried by our own angel contingency from each of the Churches while the Church sang The Virgin Mary Had A Baby Boy.

After the celebration we gathered on the Church parking lot for refreshments and a raffle. On the menu were: chicken foot soup, Juici Patties and Sorrel. And what would a Catholic event be without a raffle? Thanks to our friends at Digicel a 5" TV was claimed by, no other, than our own secretary, Hyacinth Lewis.