A letter from Mother General

Respected Mr. Priest and Parish council,

At the conference of our Superior council that took place 6th June of 2008, we observed your letter from April 21st of this year with your plea for our sisters to stay and continue to serve in your parish.
At my recent visit and stay in USA I openly spoke with you
Fr. Christopher about everything. I informed you about a decision from XV regular general meeting of our order, about recall of sisters from this area, because of their aging and illnesses, and because of the lack of those who could replace them. So this isn’t a question of some of our other interests.
We were happy to hear how much our sisters mean to all of you, we are glad that you are respecting them and helping them. Thank you! Thank you also for the offer you gave us with a desire
to keep them there. We are truly sorry that we have to withdraw them from your parish where we started our mercy activities on the North American continent. In the same time we are grateful to Dear God
for their long standing devoted work, with hope that all they sowed,
a love in the human hearts will bring a fruitful harvest.
We hope that you’ll understand mentioned reasons and we wish you a plenty of God’s blessings. Believe that you’ll always be
in the hearts and prayers of those who were working among you.

Sincerely
M.M. Blaga Bancuga
Mother General

We encourage our parishioners to write a letter to
Mother General on behalf of our sisters
So they could remain in our parish.
Contact us for more information:
Ourladyofbistrica@gmail.com

Poštovani gospodine župnice i Župsko vijece,

Na sjednici Vrhovnog vijeca održanoj 6. lipnja 2008. razmotrile smo Vaš dopis od 21. travnja ove godine kojim molite da naše sestre još ostanu djelovovati u Vašoj župi.
Za moga nedavcnog boravka u SAD-u o svemu sam otvoreno razgovarala s Vama o. Christopher, i pri tom sam Vam priopcila odluku XV Glavne redovite skupštine naše Družbe o povlacenju sestara iz tih krajeva a zbog njihove visoke dobi i bolesti, te zbog manjka onih koje bi ih zamijenile. Dakle nisu u pitanju nikakvi drugi naši interesi.
Drago nam je cuti koliko Vam sestre znace, drago nam je što ih poštivate i pomažete.
Hvala Vam! Hvala Vam i za ponudu koju ste nam dali u želji da ih zadržite. Nama je doista žao što ih moramo povuci iz te župe gdje smo zapocele svoje milosrdnicko djelovanje na sjevernoamerickom kontinentu. Ali, u isto vrijeme zahvaljujemo dobrom Bogu za njihov dugogodišnji i požrtvovni rad, u vjeri da ce ono što su s ljubavlju sijale u ljudska srca donijeti obilan rod.
Nadamo se da cete razumjeti navedene razloge i želimo Vam puno Božjeg blagoslova. Budite uvjereni uvijek cete biti u srcima i molitvama onih koje su medu Vama djelovale.

S poštovanjem
M.M. Blaga Bancuga
vrhovna glavarica

Orabrujemo naše župljane da napišu vlastito
Pismo Casnoj Majci - u korist naših sestara
Kako bi nastavile djelovati u našoj župi.
Kontaktirajte nas za više informacija:
Ourladyofbistrica@gmail.com

Dear Members of Our Lady of Bistrica Church

Our 2008 is a year of opportunity for our Parish.
We hope to grow in this New Year in three specific ways:
Improving our Spirituality
Increase Membership
And connect as a parish family

Every year we have our traditional events, such as our Picnic, Octoberfest, Valentines Family Dinner, Turkey Raffle, Bingo and Baked Goods sales.

In 2008 we would like all of our members to enjoy the richness of our Parish Family. We invite all of our members to participate and direct us, to create our events and build our church.

These are exciting times we live in and we can together grow and we hope and pray for the chance to have or Parish Family grow this year that we may be a source of faith, hope and love for all those who wish to join us.

Please take the time to help us grow by offering your talents and time to support and enjoy the events we have come to expect in the future. Let us know how you can help support the events, or if there are a new ideas and changes you would like to see.

Please send us you ideas, suggestions, and support as soon as you can so we could review, and apply them for improvement of our future events, and activities. Please drop your suggestions in the collection, mail it to the parish or leave in the suggestion box in the vestibule. We will be happy to hear from everyone who has an idea that we can use to achieve our goals, improve quality of our events and grow as Parish family.

Parish Council Members are: Father Chris, Sister Clarissa, Mr. Stanley Biernat, Mrs. Linda Biernat, Mrs. Sandy Ciko, Mr. Christopher Duncan, Mrs. Linda Duncan, Mr. Josef Krause, Mr. Stevo Leskarac and Mr. Frank Mathews. President of the Council: Mr. David Petrus, Vice President of the Council: Mr. Frank Grgas, Secretary: Mrs. Linda Biernat.  

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