Father Sharrett, along with Rose Marie Oram, Marie Elliott and Marianne Kane spent the day lugging boxes between buildings, while moving men moved furniture, and computer and telephone specialists wired the new facility.

The charming new office with its user-friendly front porch has three spacious rooms, in addition to a cheerful kitchen, on the first floor, with three rooms on the second floor.  The porch stretches across the front of the new office, with a center door opening into Rose Marie’s bright office on the right, and south side, of the building.  This office is perhaps double the size of the front office in the convent.

To the rear of this room are two doorways.  The one toward the back, or east side of the house, opens into a meeting room similar to the one on the second floor of the convent but, again, larger and more comfortable.  There is plenty of space for the long conference table as well as a small parish library with books and videos you can borrow. 

The other doorway in the rear of the main office leads to a big kitchen and powder room in the hub of the house.

Continuing counter clockwise from the kitchen takes you to a private office where Father Sharrett can meet with parishioners. Father Sharrett, Marie (business manager) and Marianne (director of religious education) have their offices on the second floor.  “We are so happy,” says Marie, speaking for the group.

Once everyone is settled, Father Sharrett plans to have an open house so you can stop in and say hello.

The former occupants had scarcely moved out of the convent on Friday, May 6, when the school librarian, the school principal and a team of helpers from the school arrived to begin transforming the old office into a new school library.  Together, they rolled up their sleeves and got to work sweeping, scrubbing and then painting the walls throughout the building.  The new library has rooms the beautiful colors of the rainbow!

The vacated parish office will be put to good use by the school when the new academic year begins.