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Holy Ghost Catholic Church 100^th Parish History Book We shall have workshops to develop our centenary celebration. There will be: INTERVIEWS – we need to know your family’s history as it relates to the history of Holy Ghost, now being compiled by Pat Gang. DESCRIPTIVE NARRATIVES – we need to tell you what we’re doing. We need photographs, programs, old bulletins, parish financial reports, newspaper clippings, and letters, movies/audio, and/or videotapes. How did your family get here? A listing of members of our parish who served in Korea, Vietnam, Desert Storm, and in Bosnia, Afghanistan, and Iraq. Do you know a story about someone else’s family, which would be inspirational? The nitty-gritty of the DRIVES that built the old Church in 1908 at 1031 N. Central, the new Church in 1926 at 1041 N. Central, the 1908 old Holy Ghost School; the purchase of the convent building at 114 Hinton Avenue; the building of the Rectory (1912); the new St. Joseph School (1962) and its additions (1987-88 ff). Etc, etc, etc. You can see why we need your help and suggestions. We want our centenary to be the most splendid celebration of the first one hundred years of any parish in our diocese. We have so much for which to be grateful. We need to celebrate this fact. Parts taken from Monsignor Mankel’s letter in the bulletin on March 11, 2007: As you know we are soliciting your input for the parish history book to be published in 2008 on the occasion of the 100^th anniversary of the parish. The questions on the helper sheet go like this: *How did your family come to this parish? *When did they arrive here? *Have you always been Catholic? If not, did you join the Church here or elsewhere? *What is/was your first impression of Holy Ghost? *Who was the first pastor you remember? *Were you/are you a member of one of the parish organizations? (Choir, council, reader, etc.) *Did you go to Holy Ghost School/St. Joseph School? *What is your favorite story from school? From Holy Ghost? *Were you in the Armed Forces? If so, what date and branch of service? Or you can tell your family’s story some other way. We are already seeing how this will help us appreciate the concept of our congregation being the Holy Ghost parish family. Tape recorders are available for your use and we have plenty of tapes, so watch the bulletin for the alphabet letters that are to come on the following Wednesday evening. Bring your stories, maybe you have an altar boy story from when you served, or a story about one of the priest that you remember or just any story you can remember about Holy Ghost Church, bring them and come tell it. The first major event of the centenary will be the celebration of the Pentecost Masses by Bishop Kurtz on Sunday, May 27. As you know, it was on Pentecost Sunday, 1907 that the beginning of Holy Ghost parish was announced by Bishop Thomas Joseph Sebastian Byrne, D.D., the Bishop of Nashville, from the pulpit of our mother church, Immaculate Conception.