Annual Report July 2020-June 2021
Summary of Parish Ministries & Services July 1, 2020 to June 30, 2021
LITURGY
We celebrate 10 Sunday Masses and 2 daily Masses every week. Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament
takes place every Tuesday. We have Confessions Saturday mornings. Our priests schedule monthly
visits to local retirement/ nursing homes to say Mass.
Registered families/households: 6,795 Average Sunday Mass Attendance: 6847 Average
weekday Mass Attendance: 320
244 Extraordinary Ministers of Holy Communion
107 Lectors Daily and Sunday Liturgies.
110 Usher volunteers (at 10 Sunday and at Diocesan Liturgies)
80 Altar Servers
83 Funeral Liturgies
205 Infant Baptisms - age 0 to age 6 ½
201 School and Religious Education Children that received 1st Holy Communion67 Sacrament of Matrimony
Our Music Ministry: enhances our Sunday Liturgies with: eight choirs/ ensembles, 325 choir
singers, 25 instrumentalists.
FORMATION
School of Religious Education: English, Spanish,
and Vietnamese bilingual classes were offered for 674 children.
Saint Columban School: Classes from Preschool through 8th grade are offered. There were 250
students enrolled last year. 28 were Preschool age and 27 were in Transitional
Kindergarten. There were no extra curricular activities due to the pandemic.
Confirmation & Youth Activities: 116 students received the Sacrament of Confirmation.
RCIA: 36 people, including children, participated in our Inquiry classes. 23 were
baptized at the Easter Vigil and 13 candidates came into full Communion by
receiving the Sacraments of Confirmation and Eucharist.
Adult Formation: Confirmation formation sessions on Tuesday evenings, Parish
Missions which included English, Spanish and Vietnamese speakers.
SERVICE
The Sick and Elderly are visited by our priests, and Extraordinary Ministers of Holy
Communion who serve local hospitals, nursing homes and residences on a regular basis.
Sacrament of the Anointing of the Sick is administered by our priests to our parishioners. Our
parish priests are assigned duty days and the duty priest takes the call day or night.
We have 5 busy Pastoral Ministries. They are Bereavement, Extraordinary Ministers of Holy Communion to the Sick, Respect Life, St. Vincent de Paul, and our Saturday Lunch Program.
Each Saturday of the year, we provide a nutritious lunch for people in need in our
community. They are also provided with toiletries, clothing and food items to take home when
available. We serve close to 100 men, women and children through the P.I.N. (Persons In Need)
Program.
Use of your envelopes it provides funds for our St. Vincent de Paul Society who provide assistance
with groceries and bread to those in need . Food distribution is done on a monthly basis. We
provide other forms of assistance to those in need such as rent and utilities. We organize the
annual Giving Tree toy collection at the church during Advent and distribute the donated
toys, along with grocery certificates, to families who would otherwise do without at Christmas.
Last year approximately 250 children received toys through this program. This past fiscal
year we have assisted over 1,287 families, 2,530 adults, and 2,497 children.
