 Our New Church At Saint Anne
The Office of the Bishop has announced the Dedication of the new church on February 14th at 4:30pm. Please mark this in your calendar. On Tuesday, Fr. John Tapp, Doug Reatini and Kathy Proefke from the Diocese Office of Worship met with the entire parish staff and the Dedication committee to prepare for this wonderful event. The members of the Office of Worship emphasized it will take a lot of planning and organization. When the church is dedicated it will be the first time that the Eucharist will be celebrated. It will then become a sacred place of worship and not just a building as it is now. It is like a new birth for the building.
Another challenged was completed in building the new church
for Saint Anne parish.
See pictures of the placement of the cupola and cross.
The New Cross for the New Church
On Friday, July 25th at the conclusion of the Saint Anne Novena and during the Mass in Celebration of the Feast of Saints Anne and Joachim,
the New Cross for the New Church was Blessed.
Click on the picture to get a closer look. Click here to see more Pictures from the Feast Celebration.
Update on the Church (08/17/08):
On Tuesday August 12th as we started the new novena to Saint Anne, the
base of the cupola was put in place. By the end of September the final part
will be in place. I visited the artists André & Knapp in Valrico to see
the outline of the new altar, the ambo and the tabernacle table. It is exciting
to see all these being created and worked on.
 This week in front of the altar is our new bronze Baptismal Font gifted by
Bill Richards and family in memory of his wife Elaine Richards. This arrived
from Italy.
 The monstrance arrived from Poland and the generous donor wishes to be
anonymous. There are many more memorial gifts needed especially the
pews. A special book is available after mass and in the office if you are
interested.
TECO is marking and preparing the new lights for the parking lot. They
should be finished by mid September. The front parking lot will be prepared
for paving and hopefully ready to be a car park again by the fall festival.
Our builder, David Hermann told me Sunday December 21st is still good for
the dedication of the new church, so we can celebrate Christmas together in
the new church, as one family. More details will be given as we come closer
to that time.
Click on any image to get a closer look!
Read about "Our New Church in the recent article in Southshore News...
Appealing To The Masses, Published: April 12, 2008
Arials as of March 13, 2008
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