November 6-7, 2010
Make your plans….our 12th Annual Parish Thanksgiving Dinner is November 22nd!!!
Mark your calendars for a WONDERFUL Corpus Christi tradition that brings our family together in a delicious and delightful way….Monday, November 22nd will be the occasion of our 12th Annual Parish Thanksgiving Dinner and YOU are invited.
For those new amongst us, the way it works is the parish purchases 50 turkeys and we distribute them to our volunteer ‘cookers’ on the weekend of November 20-21. These volunteers return the roasted turkeys on Monday night…and the rest of us bring one of the side dishes, a pot-luck of sorts, just make sure that it is enough to give a decent serving for 12+ people.
Dinner gets underway at 6:00 p.m. and did we mention that it is FREE! Yep, just a really cool opportunity for our Corpus Christi family to come together and give thanks for all the blessings God is bestowing on our community. Mr. Scotty Eisenbart is coordinating services for the dinner, if you would like to be a part of the team, please give him a call at 395-3073. Sign up tables and sheets are now outside after Mass so please sign up to make our Family Thanksgiving bigger and better than ever (and yes, we rented an additional 30 6’-rectangular tables and 300 chairs to help with our crowds!)
1. Assorted potluck food items are requested (sign up lists are the lunch benches). We also need turkey cookers. The parish purchases the turkeys…we just need 50 people to cook them with love …and lots of bacon….and bring them back on Monday, November 22nd. Turkeys will be available for pick up on the weekend of November 20-21 in the parish kitchen.
2. The majority of SET-UP will occur starting at 4:00 p.m. on Sunday, November 21st.. Please note that this is different from previous years…claiming and decorating of tables will NOT occur following the noon Mass!
3. Monday, (November 22nd) the kitchen crew arrives at 4:00 p.m. Turkey carvers, please bring your own favorite knives/equipment.
4. This year….we THINK we finally have enough of our own/+rented tables and chairs, but, it wouldn’t hurt for you to throw a card table and some folding chairs in your trunk.
5. You are invited to bring a wine or beverage and perhaps a holiday loaf of bread that you will be serving at your own family Thanksgiving celebration. Place it near the altar and we will bless them as a way of connecting what we do in the Church with what you do at your home.
6. Our Thanksgiving Dinner gets underway at 6:00 p.m. (remember, the turkeys need to arrive at 4:00 for proper carving) and the evening comes to a close at 8:00 p.m. Disposable aluminum pans are the most suitable for containing your food offerings but if you bring an item in a pot or dish please make sure to mark the container clearly with your name AND phone number….and don’t go home without it!
7. Please bring some canned or packaged (non-perishable) food for donation to The South County Food Bank.
8. As mentioned in previous Bulletins while the chairs will still be emptied from the Grand Hall following the Noon Mass on the 21st and all our tables will be already set-up… THOSE DESIRING one of the INSIDE tables WILL NOT BE ALLOWED IN THE Grand Hall UNTIL 4:00 p.m. AND THEY WILL BE ADMITTED BASED ON A FIRST COME-TICKETED-NUMBER SYSTEM!!!! Following the 12-Noon Mass, as people arrive to await entry, they will be provided a ticketed NUMBER. At 4:00 p.m. those with tickets will be admitted in numeric order. There is no pre-ticketing…this is available on a first-come/first-entrance basis.
People may enter when their number is called….if you wander away or are not ready when your number is called….you forfeit your place in line. Table set-up and decoration for INDOOR tables gets underway at 4:00 p.m. on Sunday, November 21st. (outdoor tables may be claimed/decorated at any time) and throughout the morning/afternoon on Monday, November 22nd. Decorate well and compete for a special prize! (Remember, if you are using a table for 8 or 10, you need to have 8 or 10 people sitting at it…otherwise you will share your table with others…like any good family would!)
