Change Is Coming to the Worship Center

Change Is Coming to the Worship Center

The layout for our Worship Center will change on Sunday, November 24 at 4:00 p.m. after the last Mass for the Feast of Christ the King. Ordinary time ends that week and the new liturgical year begins on Sunday, December 1 with the First Sunday of Advent.

We change the setting for worship especially at the turn of a new season to help us all enter into a new season of grace and prayer. Because of our unique environment of moveable seating and platforms, we are more able to include this aspect in our art and environment for prayer. Many other churches can only change the decorations to mark these changes but we can help everyone enter into new seasons in this more dramatic way.

From the beginning of the parish, we took seriously the call from the Vatican Council to recognize that we are a “Pilgrim People” on a journey of faith toward a more permanent home not in this transient world. These periodic movements of our worship space help us to experience this truth. It helps us see ourselves and God in ever-changing ways. We are a people “on the move” like our ancestors in faith who left Egypt for a future that God would
direct. We remember the same command from God to Abraham to leave his home with the promise of something new. And we remember that Jesus told His disciples that they would be His witnesses in Jerusalem, Samaria, and to the ends of the earth. We are a people on the move to a future directed by the Spirit of the living Jesus. Our worship environment helps us experience and understand this reality of our faith.