Website: www.stpatricksparish.org June 2018 Volume VII Issue 4

Saint Patrick Cathol ic Church

850 W. 4th St.

Fallon, NV 89406

775-423-2846

parish@stpatricksparish.org SPCC Happenings

Portuguese Festa Celebrates Historical Event

Queens for the Portuguese Festa were

Faith Myers, Kari Bailey, and Vivian

Gomes. Below left Doris Dwyer and

Bonnie York look over the many auc-

tion items. Below right a few of the

volunteers are shown preparing food in

the kitchen of the parish hall.

The Portuguese community of St. Pat-

rick Catholic Church held its annual

Fallon Portuguese Festa on May 19 and

20 in the parish hall. The event began

Saturday evening with dancing, the

crowning of royalty, and the serving of

linguica, a type of mildly spicy sausage

of Portugal. On Sunday a Portuguese

procession from the West End complex

to St. Patrick Catholic Church took

place before participants attended 11

a.m. Mass. The festa continued after

Mass with traditional sopas served and

an auction of gift baskets, T-shirts and

ball caps from Portugal, and other inter-

esting items displayed in the parish hall.

The Portuguese Festa is celebrated to

honor Queen Isabella who in the 13th

century promised to offer her precious

jewels to pay for food and to give her

crown to the church if her people found

relief from a widespread famine. Ships

arrived with food following nine days of

prayer. The Queen then fulfilled her

promise and proceeded to the church

where she placed her crown on the altar.

The royalty for this year’s Portu-

guese Festa in Fallon were Faith Myers,

Senior Queen; Kari Bailey, Junior

Queen; and Vivian Gomes, Mini Queen

(pictured at left).

The parish hall was filled to near

capacity of St. Patrick’s parishioners,

their guests, and even folks from out-of-

town came to Fallon to join in the week-

end’s festivities.

JULY 4th JULY 7

Ladies Guild Chooses

New Officers

The Ladies Guild of St. Patrick’s re-

cently selected new officers for the

coming year: Gloria Robles, President;

Rose Marie Krenik, Vice President;

and Lorraine Melanson, Secretary.

New members are always welcome to

join the group which meets regularly

on the second Wednesday of every

month at 1 p.m. in the Rose Room.

The Ladies Guild serves the parish

in a variety of ways such as holding

bake sales to raise funds for scholar-

ships awarded in May to women plan-

ning to attend college and meeting oth-

er requirements; operating the religious

goods cabinets located in the Rose

Room of the church building; preparing

desserts for St. Pat’s annual festival;

and hosting one of the Lenten soup

suppers.

If you are interested in becoming a

member of the Ladies Guild, contact

the parish office at 423-2846 and leave

your name and telephone number or

come to one of its monthly meetings.

CORRECTION: In the May issue of the parish newsletter, Deacon Ron Cherry was listed as assisting Father Tony at the First Communion Mass on May 6th. This was an error. Deacon Wayne Crooks assisted. Our apolo-

gies to Deacon Wayne.

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YOUR PARISH COUNCIL Dennis Mills—Chair

Nancy Balash—Vice Chair Andrew Campbell—Secretary

Anne Bloomfield Monica Breitenbach

Alicia Centeno Paul Loop

Lorraine Melanson Jim Shurtliff

YOUR PARISH PASTOR

Father Antonio Quijano, Jr.

YOUR PARISH DEACONS Kurt Carlson, M.D.

Ron Cherry

Wayne Crooks

YOUR PARISH STAFF JoAnn Luiz—Office Manager

Office Secretaries: Ginny Dugan & Judy Price

Colleen Sabatino

MaryAnn Wandvik

Volunteer Office Assistants

Judy Carlson

Volunteer General Assistant

KC Carlson—Custodian

Judy Northrup Religious Education Coordinator

Paul Loop

Youth Coordinator

Vernon Funsch

RCIA Coordinator

Danette Laca

Homebound Ministry

S P R I N G

F E S T I V A L

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2018 CONFIRMANDS—Fourteen youth of St. Patrick’s were confirmed byThe Most Rever-

end Randolph R. Calvo, Bishop of the Diocese of Reno, during 11 a.m. Mass on Sun., May 27,

at the church. Concelebrant was Father Antonio Quijano, Jr., pastor of St. Pat’s, assisted by Dea-

con Ron Cherry. Master of Ceremonies for the Bishop was Gonzalo Castellanos and for St. Pat-

rick’s was Paul Loop. Thanks to all who helped the young people in their faith journey!