Palm Sumday 04.07.11

Our seminarians were on hand to serve at the 5:30 p.m. on Palm Sunday. The celebrant of the Mass was Father Dominic.

Keeping up with the Angels

Off to Africa with Catholic Relief Services: Daniel Angel, Christopher Mertens and Robert Angel.

St. Raphael seminarians Bob Angel is in Sierra Leone for eight weeks as part of his training to become a priest. He is working with Catholic Relief Services there. His brother Dan, also a seminarian, will go to Liberia in June on a similar mission. Bob and Dan are publishing a blog, Angels in Africa, to keep friends and family updated on their activities.

In his blog, For His Friends, Bishop Robert Lynch discusses the invitation he extended to the Angel brothers and to Christopher Mertens, of Palm Harbor, a junior at Notre Dame University, to participate in summer internships with Catholic Relief Services.

Fill up the seminarian boxes

These are the boxes you'll find in the St. Joseph Room. Let's fill them up.

By Louise Barrett

Fr. Dominic has asked us to do a special project for our three seminarians – Bob Angel, Dan Angel and Chris McBride.

They are home for Holy Week and we would like to send them back to Seminary after Easter with "goodies" to help them go through their finals which are May 4.

So, the plan is:

Buy a snack when you are shopping this week. There will be boxes in the St. Joseph Room (Meeting Room B) for the Seminarians. (See the photo above.) Please take a moment to drop something off this week to surprise them.

Suggested items: microwave popcorn, bags of cookies, snack crackers, little gift certificates, and anything else you think would be nice for a young man in his twenties.

Boxes will be picked up by 10 a.m. on Monday, April 25.

The case for giving to the Annual Pastoral Appeal

If you've ever doubted the importance of the Diocese of St. Petersburg's Annual Pastoral Appeal, listen to the parents of St. Raphael seminarians.

Photos by Jane Winstead

Seminarians Bob and Dan Angel

Seminarians Chris McBride and Dan Angel