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Serving the Church of Phoenix Volume 27, Number 7 • July 21, 2011
Catholics welcome first wave of new priest assignments By Ambria Hammel The Catholic Sun
Fresh faces abound at a number of parishes around the Diocese of Phoenix this summer. Typically each July there’s a transition of priests to different parishes throughout the diocese, both to meet the needs of a parish community or a priest’s desire for new opportnities. There are priests arriving from other dioceses — known as extern priests — and those from religious orders. This month, nine priests began new assignments as pastor or parochial vicar of various parishes. Five more will start their new parish assignment in the coming weeks. “Offering a warm welcome to the new priest of a parish certainly makes him feel more quickly at home there and it enables him to get to know his new flock better,” Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted told The Catholic Sun. “A good shepherd, says the Lord Jesus, knows his sheep and the sheep know him.” He said any efforts to encourage that relationship are positive steps during pastor transitions. Local Catholics have already had time to meet their new parish priests. Fr. Matthew Jacob, a religous order priest of the Disciples of Hope, became parochial vicar at St. Mary Magdalene Parish in Gilbert May 28. He’s the first to hold that position since the parish was established nine years ago this month. Fr. Francisco “Bing” Colasito arrived as an extern priest and parochial vicar at St. Theresa Parish last week. He’s from a young diocese in the Philippines.
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As the Charity and Development Appeal entered its final weeks, leaders from parishes around the Diocese of Phoenix spoke out about how they met their parish goal and the crucial help they’ve received from the appeal. Lucy Lopez, choir director and finance committee secretary at St. Martin de Porres Parish offered a blunt assessment of the importance of CDA funding to a modest parish. “Primarily, it keeps the door open,” Lopez said. “The bottom line is that without the CDA we could not survive.” St. Martin de Porres, Lopez said, is a poor parish in southwest Phoenix. “Laveen has grown now and we have a much bigger population of English-speaking [parishioners] but it is largely Hispanic, mostly blue-collar workers,” Lopez said. “In the past, it was agricultural workers.” Funds the parish receives from the CDA don’t just keep the doors open though — they also keep priests on staff. “It pays our priests’ salary,” Lopez said. “We used to have no priests, but now we are able to have a priest.” The two priests who serve the parish divide their time between St. Martin de Porres, Holy Family Parish and St. Edward Parish, “so they are extremely busy,” she said. The annual appeal surpassed the $8 million mark by the end of June. The months-long effort raises — See PARISHES page 9 ▶
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