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Dear Friends, Welcome to my website! |
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January 6, 2007 I had a wonderful surprise last weekend that I want to share with you. I finally met Rob Lash. Who is Rob Lash you ask? A brief story. About four years ago, I served on a Cursillo team with Margie Lash. Marge is a retired nurse from Rochester who for a least a two decades has been involved in the Cursillo Retreat Movement. Over the years, several of my prayer-songs (e.g. The Color Song and Gentle Spirit) have been used both within and outside the Diocese on Cursillo weekends. Marge asked me if I had a personal website to feature my music. I did not. Shortly after, I received an e-mail from Marge's son Rob offering to create and maintain a website for me - "as a gift to his mother." Within a short time www.deaconray.com was on the web. Each week, Rob updates the site after he receives this email. The site includes these comments and a copy of St. Mary's parish bulletin. In all this time, I have never met Rob (who lives and teaches Math in Florida) or even spoken to him on the phone. Our entire communication has been by e-mail. That changed last Sunday, when Rob, Margie and Bob Lash appeared at the 11:00 a.m. Mass at St. Gabriel's in Hammondsport where I was preaching. My life has been filled with incredible blessings. Having someone that I had never met devote untold hours to promote the ministry of someone that he had never met - out of love for his mother - is an example of just how blessed I am. It is also an example of the beautiful ministry quilt that God creates from the varied gifts of his Sons and Daughters. How is God working in your life? Incredible isn't it? Another blessing arrived in Bath on Saturday morning in the form of Franciscan Friar Fr. James Vacco. Fr. James is leading our parish in an Epiphany Retreat which will commence on Sunday afternoon and will continue through Tuesday evening. This week's column introduces this dynamic servant of God to my parishioners. Have a good Epiphany week. Manifest the Light of Christ to your world. Deacon Ray
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Over the years, God has blessed me with many wonderful opportunites to minister. As a Roman Catholic permanent deacon of the Diocese of Rochester, New York, (ordained 1982), I have served in a wide variety of ministries. Whether I am ministering to my parish, hospitals, nursing homes, prisons, travel or retreat groups (e.g. Cursillo, Walk to Emmaus, Koiniania, Pre Cana, Youth) - music has played an important role in opening doors and hearts.
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This website is an extension of that ministry. Here you'll find the lyrics to many of my prayer-songs and, if you like, purchase from a collection of CDs I've recorded. There's also information about tours and pilgrimages that my wife Pat and I occasionally host and links to web sites I've found interesting. |
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I pray that you will enjoy this visit,
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