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Our Festival: It’s A Family Affair!
If you attend Transfiguration of the Lord, St. Mary’s Chapel Festival you’ll understand. It’s not about the funds generated to help support our parish, but our Festival in Kirby is much, much more. It’s about community, fellowship, being together, helping each other and having fun! Young and old work side by side. When it comes to giving to the Lord there is not a better way!
It takes many people to run a festival. A happy group of good cooks in the kitchen cooperate to provide pork chop and chicken dinners, along with homemade noodle soup, potato salad, desserts and more. Many hours are spent getting donations for the raffle tickets and thanks to so many generous donors, lots of prizes are awarded. The workers, who set up tents, bingo tables, the beer garden and more, as well as those who run the operation throughout the event, deserve a huge "Thank You." There are even skilled electricians to assure the lights are shining brightly as the fun continues past sun down.
For 2008, the fun started early on Saturday evening with food, music, dancing and a popular corn toss contest of skill. It appears Transfiguration’s festival is no longer just a Sunday affair. Success with this extended event can continue only when everyone pitches in to help with this now 2-day popular gathering.
Every person in the festival crowd, as well as the participants really gets into the lip sync contest. These natural entertainers with their practiced, musical presentations have the spirited crowd on their feet yelling. Time and again, the applause is thunderous for these performing “stars” of the festival.
Of coarse all of this would not be possible with out the dynamic co-ordination of all the holy, human helpers by chairpersons Ryan and Joanna Wright. All the faithful people who attend every year are certainly appreciated, too!
Get connected with your brothers and sisters in faith by helping with the parish festival. Get your name on the volunteer list by contacting Joanna or Ryan Wright (419-273-3395) or Kathleen Doresam (kathleen17374@gmail.com | 419-458-2300).
Festival Trivia: Kirby’s festival was started many years ago by faithful ancestors of St. Mary’s Catholic Church and is always scheduled the first Sunday of August. As calendar days yearly rotate, many times this hallowed festival has fallen upon the Feast Day of the Transfiguration of Our Lord:
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August 6, Transfiguration Feast Day features the blessing of grapes, as well as other fruits and vegetables. Grapes change to wine and in the final transfiguration, become our Savior’s precious blood. The county’s agricultural heritage lends itself to transfiguration: Seeds mature into plants and become the precious grain harvest of the farmer, thanks to fertile soil and God’s blessings of rain and powerful sunshine. Harvested wheat is milled, blended, kneaded and baked into bread which, through the miracle of Transubstantiation, becomes the Precious Body of Christ.
Scriptural passages which describe Jesus’ Transfiguration are in the following:
Matthew 17:1-9, Mark 9:2-8, Luke 9:28-36, 2-Peter 1:16-18, and John 1:14).
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