St. Bede

A message from the Pastor:

I am pleased to welcome you to the St. Bede’s parish community. We are a diverse community, worshipping and working together for the well-being of all.

As you become acquainted here, I hope that you will see in our members what I see - a group of people who deeply care about the church and strive to be true missionaries to all. I am constantly edified by the goodness of the people in our Church and in our school.

We are proud of what we have to offer.

Thank you for the opportunity to serve you, and may God bless you.



All the best in Christ,
Fr. Seamus J. Farrell, Pastor

 

Mission – Vision Statement
Vision
“Our community in one Lord, Jesus Christ  that acknowledges and embraces the diversity of our parish family.  A Parish leadership that encourages every parishioner, especially our youth, to active discipleship.”
 
Mission Statement
We, the parishioners of St. Bede Parish are a family within the larger community of God’s extended family we call Church, embracing and reflecting all its historical, human and theological experiences.

• Our ‘Cornerstone’ is Jesus Christ.
• Our mission is the fulfillment of the two-fold command of Jesus, love of God and love of neighbor – worship and service.
• These two basic values are so essentially bound together in a union that one is always incomplete without the other.
• These two values give meaning and purpose to our community.
• They are the foundations on which our parish is built, with Jesus as the Cornerstone.
• They explain why we exist as a parish.
• They are our motivation as parish.
• They are our goal and objective as parish.
• They explain our growth as parish.
• They are the two-fold standard, inseparable, by which we can judge and evaluate ourselves as a parish.
• They express the totality of our experiences as a parish.
• They are the essential signs we must follow, as parish, in our journey as people of Faith, of Hope and of Love.
• This is our purpose.