APRIL 2022
the phi lipian
A P U B L I C AT I O N O F S T . P H I L I P N E R I C AT H O L I C C H U R C H
Meet Parishioner Joanna Gould
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Sharing Her Talents to Serve God
or parishioner Joanna Gould, getting parents and grandparents by living a life involved in parish life at St. Philip Neri of active stewardship. was like second nature. Having such wonderful examples “My grandfather was the organist in of stewardship in her life, Joanna knew his church,” Joanna says. “When I was she wanted to get involved at St. Philip young, he would let my sisters and I sit Neri when they moved. Her son was up in the balcony with him during Mass enrolled in the SPN Preschool at the and let us ring the bells, which we felt time, so she volunteered there, assisting was very special. My own father played with classroom needs. She also joined the organ for his church, and my mother the Christmas choir one year and served was a Eucharistic Minister as well. It’s a as an Extraordinary Minister of Holy special feeling when you attend Mass Communion. Joanna Gould and the music is from your father’s “I volunteered as a Eucharistic hand, and the host is received from your mother’s.” Minister and was able to participate in serving with When she moved here to Fort Mill in 2018 with many Masses — the most memorable one being my her husband, Bill, and their children, Olivia and oldest daughter’s First Holy Communion,” she says. Joseph, and began attending St. Philip Neri, Joanna At the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, Joanna immediately began following in the footsteps of her needed to take a step back from some of her continued on back cover
