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Dear Friends,
For over 82 years, Our Lady of Lourdes has served the Catholic faithful in Malverne and the surrounding communities. We began with only a few dozen families in the mid-1920's and today we have grown to a parish of over 2,800 registered families.
Our parish family has seen many changes and has many faces. Today we are privileged to serve a community rich in diversity, united in faith, service and fellowship. Our parish continues to be a focus for important events in our lives; here we baptize new members into the community of Faith; here people proclaim their life-long commitment to each other in love; here we celebrate the gift of forgiveness ; here we give comfort and healing to the sick; and here we give thanks for the lives of our brothers and sisters who have completed their baptismal journey to God's loving embrace. Our School and Religious Education programs continue to be beacons of hope in our community, while our parish also ministers to the elderly, the sick, the poor, and all those in need of our help.
I have come to realize that our community of faith is made up of many gifted and talented people who eagerly and generously give of themselves to enable our parish to grow. Whether you have a special talent or gift that you would like to offer or find yourself in need of some assistance, know that you are important to us.
Let us ask the good Lord to continue to bless us and to inspire us through the intercession of Our Lady of Lourdes so that as one family in faith we can continue "to grow in wisdom, age and grace before the Lord".
In Christs' Peace,
Rev. Frank J. Parisi
Pastor