Parish Quotes

We're looking for dioceses with a clear sense of vision for the next five to 10 years, a willingness to make stewardship education a priority for the next three years, and a local leadership willing to support parishes in their effort. - Canon Geoff Jackson

We're going to go over to Lafayette Parish and find out which NISH team is going to show up. Hopefully it's the one that showed up the first four games of the year. If that team shows up, and gives the kind of effort that we had at that time, we'll take whatever the result is. - Rick Hutson

We will work hard, and if they are a little tired for the Leadville race, that'll be fine. - Rob Parish

We will stick out as long as the parish council is sticking out. If they say today, when they are going to pay, we will go back to work today. If they wait until next week to tell us, we will continue until next week. - George Nicholas

We will have brought back about 25,000 people to the parish. We have restaurant owners and store owners who every day thank me for us being open because they're seeing their business picking up dramatically. - Scott Cowen

We were really pleased with the experience, especially considering we didn't have a lot of our big guns. We had a lot of people who got the opportunity to compete. - Rob Parish

We went over to Chalmette one day where they desperately needed help, and we were turned away because some inmates escaped. Who cares? Why should that stop us from going in there? That parish (St. Bernard) estimated there were 7,500 stranded in their homes. Nobody's been able to talk to them, and we get turned away. - Duke Ramey

We want to help our neighbors, but we have to take care of our parish. - Bobby Cortez

We try to bill it as a parish social event, more so than a fundraiser. - Doug Lownik