Father Timothy Grassi, former Pastor of the Catholic community in Tucker County, will be returning on Sunday, June 14 to celebrate his Silver Jubilee as a priest.
The parishioners from St. Thomas Aquinas in Thomas and Our Lady of Mercy in Parsons, along with all in the community are warmly invited to attend the Solemn High Mass of Thanksgiving at 11 a.m. in Thomas. All of the community are encouraged to come and extend their greetings, well-wishes, and congratulations to Father Grassi until 2:30 p.m.
Of his twenty-five years as a faithful shepherd, Father Grassi was blessed to have spent seventeen years here in Tucker County, (2004-2021) a place he often referred to as “God’s Holy Mountains”. It was here that he labored tirelessly for the souls God entrusted to him.
The entire community welcomed him warmly. It did not take long for both his Catholic parishioners as well as those of other faiths to realize what a “gift” God had given them. All were drawn to Father’s warm simplicity, his genuine humility, and his self-giving love of others. He became “Father Tim” to everyone (drawn by that warm smile).
But it was primarily his deep Love of JESUS as evidenced in his priestly ministry that drew others to him. His early dawn prayers (walking at Blackwater Park or up and down the streets of Thomas) was his time with God, preparing him for the day’s work among the sheep.
Father Tim loves being a “priest” – praying the Holy Mass his priceless gift. And now, he returns here to share this gift with his Tucker County family once more.
May God bless him abundantly with many more years of service to the people of God wherever that path takes him.
“Thou are a priest forever in the order of Melchizedek.”
Ps 110:4