5/22/2020

Public Mass
Public Mass will resume starting on Wednesday, May 27 at 8:15 am in the worship space following Archdiocesan guidelines.  A letter with more details and how Mass will look during this time can be found in your mailboxes in the coming days. If you have any questions about safety and the new protocols, please call the office, we'd be glad to answer them.

Highlights of the letter:
· Masses limited to 1/4 capacity, designated seating marked to allow social distancing
· Communion distributed following Mass
· Dispensation is still in effect, those over 65, high risk or uncomfortable attending are encouraged to stay home and to watch Mass while continue Spiritual Communions
· For everyone’s safety the following will be discontinued: congregational singing, holding hands, passing of the offertory basket (drop box by holy water font), no precious blood offered, no social gathering in the building, no drinking water fountains  available
· Enter main doors only, hand sanitizer available (please bring your own if you have it), mask wearing encouraged (optional), please use the restrooms at home before attending
· Sanitizing crew ready to clean used surfaces between Masses

Please view the letter below from the Bishops' click here

5/9/2020

Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ,
 
I have some difficult news to share.  Archbishop Hebda has asked me to take a new assignment as pastor of Guardian Angels in Chaska beginning July 1^st.  I have agreed to do so knowing that it is, indeed, the will of God.  I wish there was an easy way to part company and say goodbye, but there never really is, especially when it has been such a joy to serve you.  Believe me, the tears have flowed as I have become aware that this would be the course that God would be leading me to take and so soon.  Yet that joy does enable me to say a great thanks to all of you who have come to church and have worked with me to make Saint Henry’s a great place to go to church, serve our neighbor and learn our faith together.  I have had the time of my life here!
Our time together will be short now and with the restrictions due to the virus, we will have to be quite creative in acknowledging together in some social way, the great things that God has done during the nine years that I have been here.  Thank you Lord!  But we will find ways to do that, even with the restrictions.  I am confident of that.  Perhaps God is calling us to a more spiritual communion now and to a greater “yes” to God as we part, and as you welcome the new pastor, and as I go to serve the people in Chaska.
You will always be in my heart and I love you all.  I really mean that.
 
Father Tony VanderLoop
Gratefully, your pastor

5/11/2020

Dear Friends,
 
The new pastor of The Church of Saint Henry, effective July 1^st, will be Father Patrick Barnes who will be coming from Saint Nicholas in New Market.  More about Father Barnes will be forthcoming in the days to come.  May God bless him and keep him as your future new pastor!
 
Father Tony