On Sunday June 8th we had a little letter-writing table set up outside the church before and after both masses. At this time we are appealing to the Archbishop of Newark, His Excellency Archbishop Myers. Time will tell just what Archbishop Myers may decide to do or not do to help us here in the Diocese of Camden, but we were pleased with the level of participation at St. Mary's.

Bishop Galante likes to disparage us small churches as lacking vibrancy and vitality, but at a roughly 65% participation rate in letter-writing activities, I beg to differ. We came to St. Mary's on Sunday with three boxes of pre-addressed and stamped envelopes (hand-written), 50 in each box. All three boxes were empty by the time we left. There were a handful of envelopes left in the final box, but several of us who were manning the tables hadn't yet written our own letters (recently, anyway), so we we took those for ourselves. We also gave away something in the neighborhood of 10 or more personal stationary-type envelopes, so somewhere in the neighborhood of 160 letters were sent.

It was wonderful to hear just how many people say to us that they'd already written the Archbishop, some of them several times already. Many told us that they would go home and ask every member of their family to write, too.

Here are a couple little pictures I took yesterday. I now realize I should've taken more, especially ones with the little children writing!