The Gospel for this past Tuesday was Jesus urging his disciples (and now us) to ask "the master of the harvest to send out laborers for his harvest" (Mth 9:38). While in these post-Vatican II days, it is appropriate to speak of all the baptized as being "laborers" who bring people to know love, and serve Jesus Christ and be happy with him forever in heaven (as the Baltimore Catechism taught most of us), many have traditionally seen this passage as Jesus' call for us to pray for vocations to the priesthood and religious life. In our diocese, your prayers and those of others have helped in leading a significant number of men to commit thenselves to the Lord to priesthood for service of our diocese. In addition, our parish has a wonderful history and a growing reputation of supporting our seminarians in the practical need of finances to form them in all the ways that prepare them to serve God's people in the priesthood (and those who don't finish as potential lay leaders of the Catholic faith or as permanent deacons). While, sadly, over the last 10-12 years we have lost some of our most generous contributors to our seminarians through death or moving away, some new parishioners and others have joined the effort and helped our fundraising amount at our Taste of Faith evening to stay consistent and not drop much, if at all. I pray such will be the case this year as I urge all of you to consider joining us to see and talk with many of our current seminarians (as 18 of them are expected to join us) and hear from at least one of them who will speak to everyone present, as well as hear about our seminarians fromour vocation director Fr Hebert. Additionally, during the evening, we will hear from our bishop, Anthony Taylor and from one of our young priests, Fr Joseph de Orbegozo, (who is one of many who has benefitted from our support) who will share some relfections about his early priesthood which includes his current position as Rector of the Cathedral of St Andrew as well as an instructor of our seminarians in philosophy at our diocesan "House of Formation". Add to all this a delicious meal (see bulltin announcement to get the menu) from Chef Johnna and a raffle for gallons of my homemade ice cream, and I believe attendees will leave satisfied in more ways than one, especially all who give (hopefully generously) that night to the effort to form laborers for the Lord's harvest. Please note if you cannot join us that evening for whatever reason, we welcome your contribution to this effort by making your check out to Knights of Columbus (putting on the meo line "semnarians") and place it  in the collection or mail it (if possible before the July 28 event) as we like to present a check for the total amount of money collected to Bishop Taylor and Fr Hebert righ before our event concludes!