Brick parish begins new building project
April 9, 2025 at 12:16 p.m.
St. Dominic Parish, Brick, celebrated the groundbreaking for an upcoming building project March 25. The new addition, which will include a functioning bell tower, gift shop, and coffee house, was celebrated by clergy, parishioners and youth from St. Dominic School in a ceremony which coincided with the Feast of the Annunciation.
Father Brian Woodrow, pastor of St. Dominic Parish, Brick, is joined by parish members for a ceremonial groundbreaking on a new building project for the parish campus. Courtesy photoFor the church and school community, the project is more than a simple construction, but “a response to three sacred calls,” stated Father Brian Woodrow, pastor. Each of these calls represents a facet of the life that each Christian is called to: the invitations to prayer, catechesis and hospitality.
The project is rooted in the community’s devotion to prayer, “as the future bell tower will rise to call hearts to worship, to silence and to God’s presence in our daily lives,” Father Woodrow stated. In addition, the catechetical power will shine forth “as the gift shop will become a place of formation, truth, and evangelization for all who seek to know Christ” and the project will fulfill the call to hospitality as “the coffee house will provide a space of welcome and fellowship, where community and Christ-centered friendship can flourish,” he said.
The ceremony included the ceremonial groundbreaking with a golden shovel emblazoned with the project’s logo and the date of the ceremony. The event was also marked with a performance from the parish’s youth choir.
For the people of the parish, it was fitting that the first step of the historic project took place on the Feast of the Annunciation, Father Woodrow said, adding that “Just as the Angel Gabriel announced God’s plan to Mary, and she responded with her faithful ‘yes,’ we, too, say ‘yes’ to God’s call in our time.”
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St. Dominic Parish, Brick, celebrated the groundbreaking for an upcoming building project March 25. The new addition, which will include a functioning bell tower, gift shop, and coffee house, was celebrated by clergy, parishioners and youth from St. Dominic School in a ceremony which coincided with the Feast of the Annunciation.
Father Brian Woodrow, pastor of St. Dominic Parish, Brick, is joined by parish members for a ceremonial groundbreaking on a new building project for the parish campus. Courtesy photoFor the church and school community, the project is more than a simple construction, but “a response to three sacred calls,” stated Father Brian Woodrow, pastor. Each of these calls represents a facet of the life that each Christian is called to: the invitations to prayer, catechesis and hospitality.
The project is rooted in the community’s devotion to prayer, “as the future bell tower will rise to call hearts to worship, to silence and to God’s presence in our daily lives,” Father Woodrow stated. In addition, the catechetical power will shine forth “as the gift shop will become a place of formation, truth, and evangelization for all who seek to know Christ” and the project will fulfill the call to hospitality as “the coffee house will provide a space of welcome and fellowship, where community and Christ-centered friendship can flourish,” he said.
The ceremony included the ceremonial groundbreaking with a golden shovel emblazoned with the project’s logo and the date of the ceremony. The event was also marked with a performance from the parish’s youth choir.
For the people of the parish, it was fitting that the first step of the historic project took place on the Feast of the Annunciation, Father Woodrow said, adding that “Just as the Angel Gabriel announced God’s plan to Mary, and she responded with her faithful ‘yes,’ we, too, say ‘yes’ to God’s call in our time.”