What is an Isaiah Parish Mission?  Isaiah Parish Missions have been called ‘new-fashioned’ parish missions. Each of four mission sessions includes prayer, scripture, music, and preaching.  The mission provides an opportunity for spiritual renewal and a time to reflect and pray.

          The “Blessed and Broken Mission” explores the four major parts of the Mass. The mission will give you the opportunity for a deeper understanding and renewal of your own faith.  It provides a wonderful opportunity for you to introduce your friends and family to the dynamics of a living, personal faith.

          The Parish Mission begins on Sunday evening, March 20.  There will be an evening presentation on Monday and Tuesday evenings.  The Parish Mission will conclude with a Eucharistic celebration on Wednesday evening.  The team will also offer presentations on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday following the 12:10 Eucharist.  A simple lunch will be served.

More on the presentors:

The Parish Mission will be led by Rose Marie and Richard Lombard.  Rose Marie Lombard has been an Isaiah presenter for over 20 years.  She has been a parish visitor, a parish outreach coordinator, a director of religious education and, for many years, a wedding coordinator at a university interfaith chapel. Deacon Dick Lombard has been a campus minister, hospice chaplain and parish deacon.  He holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in theology.  He has been an Isaiah presenter for fifteen years.

          The Lombards have been active in social justice and ecumenical ministry in this country and in the Caribbean.  They founded a medical clinic in Trinidad, an organization which distributed surplus medical supplies and equipment to various Caribbean countries and a hospice in their home town of Rochester, NY.  They have three children and seven grandchildren. 

          In 2006 Rose Marie and Deacon Dick assumed leadership of Isaiah Ministries, the national preaching ministry that has presented missions in over 1,200 Catholic parishes.  In addition to their Isaiah and parish duties they continue to offer their own parish missions as well as retreats and days of recollection.