I would like to make some comments here regarding the letter you received recently from Bishop Hanefeldt. I am sure some of you were alarmed by it and wondered how this would reflect upon our parish. First, I feel pretty secure in saying that I will not be moved from the parish. I am too close to retirement. That said, let me also say I have no immediate plans for retirement. However, I will soon be 70 and at this age the prospects of my health decline with each passing year. Bishop Hanefeldt mentioned possible new alinements of priest and parishes. I do not anticipate I will be asked to serve another parish, but I suppose it is not impossible. Second, I have been prayerfully pondering this topic, (actually for a long time). What are we to do? We focus on being the Church! Our business is the salvation of souls by the message of the Gospel. We, (the entire Church), have very subtly been taken over by the false belief that ultimately everyone makes it to heaven. So, all we really need is do our best to make this world we now live in as good as possible, be kind, help the unfortunate and take care of the creation. This belief that everyone goes to heaven has a name, Universalism. It’s also false and contrary to the clear statements made by Jesus concerning eternal damnation of the devil, his angels and any human that willfully rejects God through Christ. So, we need to all be about the business Jesus has assigned us, the proclamation of the Gospel, by word of mouth and by how we live. If we do this. God will take care of the rest, including the future of the St. Libory’s parish. Yours in Christ, Fr. Sid.