Precious Blood Renewal Center Renovation Project Update

May 3, 2018

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With many months of planning and design, the renovation of Precious Blood Renewal Center is well underway. City permits were received the first of February and construction immediately began. The construction process is moving along quite well, with our anticipated construction completion for early fall and occupancy in mid fall 2018.
The project includes removing the roof, fireplace and the area surrounding, at the center of the existing Stukenborg Mission House. New construction is then inserted, which creates a large gathering area in its place. The new roof line rises to greet the visitor and the ceiling will rise and fall imitating that same movement.  The design is provides adequate space, appropriate adjacencies and accessibility for our guests, programs and events. The new building design provides an architectural reflection of transformation and renewal.
The areas on either side of the new construction insert are being renovated to provide support areas, such as serving area, warming kitchen, offices, storage, toilets, library, spiritual direction rooms and a small gathering area.
The weather will continue to be a potential scheduling factor for another month or so as the new roof and enclosure are completed. The project does include additional parking and site improvement work which also may be affected by weather.
The design team and architects are feeling confident at this time that we will finish to have our grand opening, tentatively the end of October. Once the roof and walls are completed, we will issue a save the date for our grand opening event. The Renewal Center team is working on plans for a creative experience for all. We are hopeful everyone will be able to attend.
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Easter Reflections: May 10, 2018 Thursday of the Sixth Week of Easter Ascension(Traditional)

May 3, 2018

by Sr. Paula Gero, C.PP.S., Dayton
You will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, throughout Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.
An end–and a beginning. Jesus leaves in a definitive way; the disciples understand that they are seeing him on earth for the last time.  But they are not allowed to mourn or to stand around “looking up into heaven”.  They are to begin a new phase of their discipleship; they are to begin the Church.  “Go into the whole world and proclaim the Gospel to every creature.”  Go!
Sometimes you stand, like those disciples, looking up.  You want to see Jesus; you want to be with him. Perhaps you long for consolations you have received in the past.  Like Mary Magdalene, you want to cling to his feet.   But always you have to come back to earth again, where you have your present mission.  You have been commanded to go, to be witnesses to the Gospel to the ends of the earth.   Right now, you must love your neighbors and your enemies, stand up for justice, feed the hungry, reconcile the angry, comfort the bereaved, challenge sinners…spread the kingdom, in whatever form the power of the Holy Spirit takes in you.  Go.  Proclaim.
O God, whose Son today ascended to the heavens as the Apostles looked on, grant, we pray, that in accordance with his promise, we may be worthy for him to live with us always on earth, and we with him in heaven.  (Collect of the Mass)