A Season for Weddings

Each Summer many couples get married, and that is also the case here at St. Joan of Arc in Powell.  Each year our Deacons, Associate Pastor and our Pastor Fr. Raymond Larussa marry many men and women who make a commitment to be together for the rest of their lives.

A wonderful part of my job as an ecclesiastical musician is sitting down with couples to choose music for their Nuptial Mass or service.  Each couple will often have something different in mind, and will differ slightly from one another.  Yet all of the couples are coming together to celebrate the love of God, their love for one another and to be joined in this wonderful Sacrament.

Pray for the couples to be married at St. Joan's this year, those who have been married at St. Joan's in the past, and all married couples.  May their love for one another grow and their love of God be strengthened all the days of their lives.

Music Update

Today was the start of a new event being offered monthly by St. Joan of Arc Parish in Powell, Ohio.  On the fourth Wednesday of each month a priest from St. Joan of Arc will celebrate Holy Mass at the Inn at Olentangy Trail Senior Assisted Residence and our music program will be involved with providing music for the Mass.  Today, Father Jeffrey Tigyer and I, along with two parishioners, went and prayed the Mass along with several residents.

In the future, it is our hope that we can form a small choir to bring with us to sing at these Masses.  If you know anyone who is available during the day and might be interested in praying with these seniors and leading them in song, please contact me for further information.

Catholics are called to be Pro Life and to respect all life.  I can think of no better way to show our seniors that we respect and care for them than offering Holy Mass for those who cannot make the trip to St. Joan of Arc.  In addition, music can lift our hearts and minds to God and edify us – so the gift of music being offered at these Masses is essential.  I thank our Pastor, Father Raymond Larussa, for starting this ministry that will bring the Word of God and the Body of Christ to our friends at the Inn at Olentangy Trail.  Keep their residents, and all senior citizens, in your prayers.

God bless,
Matthew J. Meloche